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On Thursday, October 6, 1977, the Kansas City Royals faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 2 of the 1977 ALCS.
Kansas City had stole Game 1 of the ALCS at Yankee Stadium, defeating New York 7-2 thanks to scoring two runs in each of the first three innings.
For Game 2, Yankee's manager Billy Martin would start rookie Ron Guidry on the mound in hopes to even the series before heading back to Kansas City.
This audio recording of Game 2 of the series is from the WMCA Radio broadcast featuring announcers Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bill White, Mel Allen, and John Sterling.
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Good evening everyone, and welcome to our second pre-game show.
Obviously before the second game of what might be a five-game series, it might be a four-game series.
The Kansas City wins tonight. Mel Allen, the specter of a three-game series, remains. Tonight becomes, and it will change every day, the most important game that Yankees have played all year long.
They will have dropped both games at home, they will play the remaining three in Kansas City, and they will face the best pitcher of the Royals, Dennis Leonard, in a very spacious ballpark tomorrow night.
The 20th game, it might be tough to beat in his own ballpark, as John just indicated. You know, John, through the years, and I don't mean to be cynical about this, because after all, it was a great thrill to be able to participate in the World Series, just as a broadcaster.
But nonetheless, you figure baseball is a game of percentage, you play 154 games, or did it one time, and then it was extended to 162 games.
You go through that entire season, and that's what it used to be, to determine a penant winner. And that somehow seemed to be more important to me than winning a world championship for this reason.
It all boiled down in a World Series to who happened to be the hottest in a particular week in winning the best four out of seven. And one time, the history of baseball was the best five out of nine.
That was long before I got around here, but I guess from the other side of the coin, that's part of the game. I suppose in many sports, that's like boxing, it's like belly con against the Joe Lewis.
Con had the fight all ramped up, but he decided he'd like to finish in a flourish, and so he opened up and tried to knock Lewis out, and he was out boxing, Joe.
That's all Joe needs, is that one punch, and he won the fight. But people expected Lewis to do it.
But here, I'm reminded John, and jump in here, for example, an individual like Lake Gill Hodges. In the World Series, he didn't get a hit against the Yankees.
Most people listening in who remember that series, or who have read about it, know that masses were said for Hodges, those were rooting for the Dodgers.
But he went hitless in that entire series. Yet he came back the following year and they couldn't get him out of it. Well, over 400.
The thing is, everything depends on that one week, and yet you played 162 games before that to get into a playoff to determine whether or not you can get into a World Series.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm just not in favor of playoffs in any case.
You know, I think that's why I mention it's so silly for us to pick, or anyone to pick, what's going to happen in a five-game series, or even a seven-game series,
especially a five-game series, which is so short, because anything can happen.
And I mentioned the very first game before the Yankees game. I mentioned two things that don't figure to happen.
right center field, and we discuss why that didn't happen in the first game.
You know what interested me, Mel, we're going to do this program. We're going to be here until 8 o'clock before the Yankee broadcast at Sierra, and the program is sold.
And we're going to try to give people who are in their cars right now going to the game or at home, ready to listen to the game, and their appetite is wetted.
Some of the great fun in sports is getting ready for the game.
And we're going to talk, but it's very tough, though, and I know that we won't do it to overanalyze.
I mean, after all, how many things can you say about yesterday's game? There were barely any controversial plays.
And then you know, someone said in the newspaper, that once the – your first year batter score 2 runs, and you have 6 runs inside of 3 innings,
The third game of the series, Hasloth started that one, and Kansas City got three runs off
Doc Ellis.
And the first inning with the ball game turned out not to have been over.
The Yankees came back to win it.
So it just depends how you feel about writing a story or talking about it.
Well, you know what I was going to say.
I was kind of intrigued, maybe, the wrong word.
I'm going to be amused, too, because I'm sometimes cynical about sports.
But I read all three New York papers.
Now, I didn't read the New York Star Ledger.
I didn't read Newsday, and I usually read those newspapers.
I read the three New York papers, and everyone wrote the game like, it's gone.
It's over.
The Yankees lost.
They played their worst ball of the year.
I wanted my head against the wall.
Did people think Kansas City couldn't win?
They led the big leagues with 102 wins.
When you look at their lineup, every guy in their lineup is either fast or a good hitter
or a good defensive player.
Their pitching staff is nine deep.
Some of their players, Cowins, Brett, Otis, the platoon, left fielders, Poquette and Zeb,
are both fast and good hitters and good defensive.
It is a hell of a team.
It is an outstanding team.
Of course, we'll have to admit that in this area, Kansas City did not get as much exposure
to the individuals on the team and therefore the team as they would have had they represented
New York.
Or even, let's say, the Boston Red Sox, because the Yankees' Red Sox arrived us, or had there
been the same people out of the banner of the Mets, but it is your job, it's my job, and
we've had occasion to follow all the teams.
And we talked to people about their teams when we don't have a chance to see them.
I've had a chance to see a lot of the other teams more frequently this year because of
a certain show that we were doing.
And so a lot of the highlights of many of their games.
And of course, Kansas City didn't surprise me at all in winning yesterday, or even if
they'd lost.
It could have gone either way.
My point is, I agree with you thoroughly.
There's a team that's got everything.
And if they've been put it all together in this given week, it wouldn't surprise me at
all to see them sweep the Yankees in three games.
You see, you take a guy like Collins.
Everybody's talking.
And all of a sudden, I read a couple of papers, gee, I wonder how many votes he might get
now for MVP.
I wonder had he been considered for it.
Well, he'd been considered for it long before that ball game yesterday.
Is that right?
You know, it's interesting.
I read something about the Dodger Phillies, and I honestly, Mel, I shook my head.
You could heard everything rattle around in there.
Someone wrote in one of the three newspapers now that just when Los Angeles fans were
about ready to root for the Rams, the Dodger season was over.
The Dodgers won yesterday.
Well, did they think that in other words, that it was ordained from heaven that the
Dodgers were going to win the first game and win the second and maybe lose the third and
win the fourth?
You have to win three games.
And someone asked Garvey after the first game lost, is tomorrow a must game?
He said, well, not unless it's a two out of three series.
Well, anyway.
You know, the old, the best line of all is a guy interviewed at this time of his life,
the great spanks, Dwayne Thomas, before the Dallas Super Bowl win.
Thomas hadn't played great in that win, but and said to him, Dwayne, you're going to play
in the Super Bowl.
Do you consider that the ultimate game?
And Thomas said, did they going to play it next year?
He said, yeah, he said, I guess not.
That's right.
Beautiful line.
But anyway, we're going to get into the pitching matchups, which really do favor the X tonight,
but and we'll try to look at things.
But the more you analyze Mel, the more all this analysis is pure Balderdash and Poppy
Cock because if Potec would draw a walk and McRae would hit a home run, there goes the
things off should River steal or should you play hit and right when they hit the ball
over the fence and score two, four, six runs quick, there isn't any strategy anymore.
Is this can you get those runs back?
But it's playing catch up ball.
Yeah, which is and you don't and you can't run it really takes your game away.
And that's what Kansas City did yesterday.
And it was a it was frankly a very, very easy win.
Let me say this.
My feelings about Kansas City would be the same if they lost 15 nothing yesterday.
I'm not saying those things about Kansas City because they won the game.
They just happened to win that game.
You know, God didn't have it.
He hurt his army won't pitch anymore.
They get the home runs, counts made the plays in right field.
But there are no accidents in baseball.
In fact, baseball is by far and Mel Island knows this far better than I do having gone
through so many seasons.
25, 30 seasons as a major league announcer going 154 games a year.
Well, there are no accidents in baseball.
Baseball is the truest season, isn't it?
That's right.
It's a you know, we always say it's a game of percentage, a game of inches and all that
sort of thing, but it actually is in the long run.
Again percentage wise, the better team will win.
I remember once the Yankees fighting for a pennant, but it happened at a proper stage
of the season that they lost the nine in a row.
Well, generally you can't afford to lose nine in a row.
However, they had the good fortune to have won 18 in a row before that so the record
for the month was 18 and nine.
But if you lose nine in a row the last 10 days of the year and you're fighting for
first place, you know, it's just when it happens.
I remember that.
I remember a friend of mine, Dodger fan, teasing me about that.
And I said to him, well, they won 18 in a row.
They were twice as good as they are bad.
Because that was in 53.
I don't think they had any problems that years I recall they had tremendous ballclub.
What do you take?
I remember after you and I were talking yesterday on my way home, I happened to think about a
short series.
Yankees against the Cardinals in 1942 happened to come across my mind.
Because the Yankees won the first game and they had, you know, fellows like Ruffing and
Gomez, a great team all the way around and lo and behold the Cardinals also with a good
team as far as that's concerned, they swept the next four.
But it all turned on one play in the second game.
Ninth inning Yankees had a chance to come back and tie.
Tuck Steenback was sent in to run.
I think for Bill Dickey who just singled.
In any case there was another base hit and he was on his way to third base.
He rounded second and headed for third by way of left field and slaughtered through him
out.
Anyway, he broke the back of the rally.
Cardinals then won the ball game and came on to Yankees Stadium and won three more in
a row.
So, you know, the next year the Yankees came right back and beat the Cardinals.
So there you are.
As I said, we don't want to certainly overanalyze, the only thing is that you don't have your
chance in the series to show you're a good ball club if you lose two or three games in
a row.
That takes care of the series and the Yankees lose the game tonight.
Their chance is really a very slim because again based on, you know, they can win three
games in a row and they can win on Friday.
They could win on Saturday, they could win on Sunday, but as Mel was saying, it really
is the percentage.
If you take a ball club as good as Kansas City is and as good as they are in home, as
bad as Yankees have played on the carpet in Kansas City, the percentage doesn't figure
they'd win three in a row.
Now, you can recall two of your great World Series announcing Jobs Eyes clinging to every
pitch in 52 and in 58 when the Yankees had to win two in the rival ball parks to close
up the series.
They beat the Dodgers in six and seven in Evansfield, they beat the Braves six and seven in Milwaukee.
That was the best series, the most exciting series.
As a matter of fact, they had to win three in a row.
I think it only had been done once before and again, it took a great play in the last
game of the Yankee Stadium to keep the Braves from beating the Yankees two straight World
Series.
Elston Howard was playing right field that day.
He wanted more, another right hand hit on the lineup and he made a catch, a diving catch
of a low liners, sinking liners, just like a fellow diving into a pool without water.
That stopped the Braves rally, just one play like that.
The Yankees held on, they won and so they were down three games to one.
Now this makes it three games to two.
Now they go back to Milwaukee, they got Spahn and Burdette and Fred Ainey decided well,
they got the adjunct, give Spahn, Burdette an extra day's rest.
This is before they left to go back to Milwaukee.
This was the last game the Yankee Stadium I talked about.
I think he threw, Bob Rush, they formed a big tall guy because he had an overhand delivery
and that's when you could sit in the bleachers, the hot day white shirts and that ball was
coming right out of those shirts and that was a good thinking in the part of Fred Ainey
but this changed the momentum around and I do believe the momentum in any sport.
The Yankees got out there to Milwaukee and guys like Bob Terley who generally on the
wild side, Ryan Duren certainly on the wild side, they were throwing nothing but strikes.
Now figure it out, why in a world series, here guys, boom, boom, boom, strike, strike,
strike, strike.
And you can have the reverse of that, like we said a while ago guys, they're great hitters
but they happen to be in a slump during a series.
That's the story.
The first of those two games in Milwaukee, the Yankees were down, Terley came in early
to relieve where it started, maybe in Larson didn't pitch well.
Terley pitched maybe from the third inning on or so and Duren came in and I'm so worried
that the Brady's going to score the series.
They went to the 10th and the Yankees did score and then somebody hit a humpback line,
it looked like it was going to score the run but McNugle went back and said, I've made
the catch and I, whoo, next game was tied and the Yankees broke it up with a rally,
the coming day was Skyron's home run.
Howard got the big hit then, Yogi doubled with two out and Howard hit one up the middle
for the winning run.
I think Skyron, that was a home run I think I alluded to yesterday in discussing some
point, we were talking about base running and about how a runner, who was a great player,
oh Patek, we were talking about him, how he can annoy a pitcher to the point that he loses
concentration on the hitter and this is what happened with the mantle up, with Skyron up,
the mantle was wearing the pitchers so much, he laid one in there and Skyron put it up
in the left center field seats.
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Now Mel and I are going to be back in a moment to talk about the game itself and the only
reason I haven't done it thus far is you know you can talk games to death but the games
are played between the lines but we'll have a look anyway at Hasler and certainly at
Ron Guidry and we'll get back right after this.
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Amel, Ron Guidry has to pitch well, and I guess if you're looking at Guidry, I guess
you have to look at the very, very first inning, we made this point about Gullit before, and
I guess we can make it about Guidry. Guidry has the only bad habit, he's had a fabulous
year in there, the only bad habit he's had is true of most young hard throwing pitches
who tend to overthrow in order to throw harder, and he doesn't have to overthrow.
No, he's got good power as it is.
And then when you overthrow, usually the ball is going to be high out of the strikes.
That has been, in fact I think that was his trouble last start. He was trying to be too
powerful, and as John just said, his natural velocity is sufficient to overpower most hitters.
But when you try to give it that little extra, particularly the outset of a game, you start
out wild, and when you do that, then you start to press, and when you start to press, then
you're not relaxed. I always love that expression, John, relaxed tension. The two words of course
are imposed on one another, and there are meanings, but in the world of sports they
always tell you, you have to be tense enough to be alert, to be ready, and yet relaxed
enough to be able to execute according to your ability.
When you mention the relative youth of Ron Guidry, he's I think 26.
Pictures are the latest to mature, generally speaking. Once in a while you get a young
ster that's quite mature, but pictures, they become pictures instead of throwers when they
get to be around 28, 29, even 30, because then they learn how to set a hitter up instead
of just relying on raw speed or just the raw ability. And through this season, I think
that Guidry, who is now 26, he had some spectacular games out at Syracuse the last year, but I
think the thing that interests me more than anything else, John, is the possibility of
a dramatic story. Ron Guidry, ready to be cut, looked awful in spring training, and yet
somebody said, let's keep him, let's see what he does, and they did, and it turned out to
be just about the best picture that Yankees had all year because of injuries to Bigger
Rowan, Hunter, and Gullit.
There's a very good story that when you've been around sports as long as we have it,
one may think that the story tends to be apocryphal. I don't know if it is or not, but he said
Guidry had a terrible spring, and allegedly Billy Warren came to one day and said, look,
tell me who you can get out. I will pitch you against him, so you get someone out. But
as you say, they kept Guidry around, and then with the injuries, and in no time at all,
people soon discovered, hey, his starts are very good. He at first had trouble finishing,
and he did not have that trouble from the latter part of the summer on. There's no problem
tonight. Tonight is 55, 60 degrees, great pitchers weather. They just don't get tired.
I would say if Guidry has a good, it's a great test right away for both sides. Freddie
Patek, I'm sure will lead off, and it worked for Herzog yesterday. Gullit was wild. I didn't
come near the strike zone, and Patek has got to go up, and I'm sure Herzog is going to
say, Freddie, take a couple of pitches. Let's see if he's going to get the ball over the
plate. I'm sure Guidry is going to concentrate and gain the ball over the plate. Patek is
not exactly liable to hurt him with a long ball. I would say if Guidry has a pretty strong
first two innings, he's going to be in very good shape.
I agree with you. That's why I'm anxious to see exactly what Billy Martin's starting
lineup is going to be tonight. I always like to go along. Maybe that's not quite a good
way to put it. I mean, I always appreciated the philosophy behind making up a lineup that
most managers have. Naturally, you've got to have the horses. Let's take the Chicago
White Sox in one given year. The leadoff man was Luis Apericio. Let's say he is somewhat
like Patek today. Luis was fast. He stole a lot of bases, but who hit second? A guy named
Nellie Fox, a left-hand hitter, made contact. He could bunt. He could bunt toward third.
He could drag down toward first. He could spray the ball around over third, short, second,
first. Struck out maybe a dozen, 15 times a year. Tough man to get out. The additional
aspect of being a left-hand hitter gave Apericio that extra step because the catcher, he has
to move back just a little bit so he can look at that runner. Although you steal on the
pitcher most of the time, 90% or better, he still is that much further behind the plate.
Then when he has to throw, I've seen Fox and many others who are currently playing. They
sort of lean over in front of that catcher and he's ready to throw so they block him
a little bit. Yesterday we had Greg Nettles hitting second. Greg is a power hitter. He's
not what you would call normally a number two hitter, but I can understand it from the
standpoint of wanting perhaps to get off to a quick lead. Also, with McCray, who goes
to the right side batting him back off Ponteck. If Ponteck gets on base, you have to hold
him on. That opens up a big hole for a guy like McCray. Nettles is a pull-hitter. He
wasn't able to pull yesterday, but if Rivers gets on base, he was on base all the time
yesterday, the thinking I would think is that Nettles is going to be able to pull a ball.
If he hits a ground wall, it may go through because the first baseman is holding the runner
on. I think that's why the Braves for years used to use Eddie Matthews batting second
at times, which we would say, why would you use Matthews? A guy who had over 500 home
runs batting second. They had a lot of power in the line of, as did the Yankees, but if
he hits a ground wall, it's got a great chance to go through if someone's on base.
I want you to talk for a minute about Andy Hassler because you have his pitching line.
We're going to do that in a minute. Andy Hassler is the Royal's gamble pitcher. You're
not as much of a gamble cause they won the first game because the Royal's have a lot
of options at their disposal. We'll talk about Andy Hassler in just a moment. It is 16 minutes
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Well Mel, tonight the Royals, since they won, can line up their Kansas City pitchers Dennis
London and Jim Colburn who are right handers and if they need a fifth game starter, if
there is a fifth game, Paul Splittoff I know will come back. So tonight they're going with
the left hand pitcher Andy Hasler who was pitched against the Yankees before and has
pitched fairly well. Now before we go any further, he is backed up by four or five pitchers.
I won't, I'm not going to go through their stats but if Kansas City stays close in the
middle innings or early innings, Whitey Herzog has two left handers to pitch, Steve Munguri
and Larry Gura and three right handers to pitch, Doug Bird, Mark Lottel and Marty Patton
and he can alternate them depending on which part of the Yankee lineup is going on. If
the game is a slug oddly enough, if the game is a slugfest, if it's one of those eight,
seven, ten, nine games where you have to use a lot of people and no one's effective, Kansas
City has much more pitching depth than the Yankees, much more and they would ironically
enough, even though the Yankees have the power, ironically enough Kansas City would stand
at better stead. So I would think that Herzog would like four or five innings out of Hasler,
keep it close to one, three, two, one way or the other and then he can use different
early pitches depending on who's coming up. Now what kind of a year did Hasler have?
Just before I give you his stats for the year, just to back up what you said, in winning
102 games they have five men in double digit figures in the win column.
And I want to add something, during, I know you'll agree with me, except for Bob Grimm
one year and Turley one year, his young year, in the 50s when the Yankees won a pen at every
year and 54 they didn't win but they won 103 games, they won a pen at every year in the
50s now except 54 and 59. That was true of the Yankees. They didn't have 20 game winners.
That game from Joe McCarthy, he always had four good starters but he liked to give them
rest here and there. Instead of starting at every fourth day, he'd make sure they each
got rests of the starting four. So he had a lot of guys, like an Adley Donald, 12 and
nothing I think, one year but a lot of guys won 15 games, 16 games, 14 games and then
he always had a couple of good guys, the Bo Penner, Righty and the Lefty and those pitchers
who were the number five, six and seven pitchers who were spot starters, they also became the
long relief men when needed just as you pointed out a little bit ago. Hassler this year did
not have an outstanding earned run average but then you have to analyze that and try
to examine it to see how important it is, just like a 330 hitter. When did he get his
hits for the productive and not, he had an earned run average of 4.20 but he won nine
games, lost six, made 29 appearances, 27 of them were starts, he only completed three
games but again to back up what you said, Whitey Herzog had men on the bullpen to bring
them in when Hassler started to fade a little bit. He pitched one shot out, he worked a
total of 156 in third innings, allowed 166 hits, gave up 88 runs, 73 earned, only seven
homers, 75 walks and 83 strikeouts so he does have a tendency obviously there toward wildness
but the left handed pitching and being tall he's six foot five, again is to neutralize
the Yankees a long ball power just but Spitzhorter did yesterday. How many innings did he pitch?
He pitched 156 in the third and he struck out 83 which is not a great ratio but obviously
he can strike out some batters. The one statistic which I think is revealing is the one you
hit on, they would like you to have two to one strikeouts to walks and his was even and
that's not good, that means he was striking out five or six guys a game and also many
was walking by five or six guys a game and that would get you in trouble. So if you can
look to Hassler at the beginning of the game, again if you want a little analysis to go
on and you can see if it works or not, maybe we're all wrong, you can look for the Yankees
maybe to take a couple of pitches because that also depends on the guys, Rivers never
takes any pitch, you can't walk, you can throw the ball behind him, it wouldn't walk him
but nettles will take pitchers and vanilla would take pitchers.
You also have this situation, you know John, there are certain pitchers that are good against
certain kinds of ball clubs just as there are certain hitters can hit certain types
of pitchers. All Eddie Lopat had to do was throw his glove out there on the field and
who the Evers had played for the Detroit Tigers and later it was an administrative official
for the Indians. We always kidded about Lopat being Evers' cousin. Hoot could go up there,
blind folded and get three or four hits off Lopat, you know, and it could be the reverse
of that. He picked you up at the airport, huh? Yeah. Well, Hassler may be one of those
followers who's motion and whose style of pitching is not the kind the Yankees particularly
like to face because of the nature, the balance of their ball club. Just like yesterday with
Sprint or two tall left handers, almost the same kind of motion, same type pitching. Again,
I have to say, as it was written about in a couple of papers I read today, but we were
aware but yesterday in watching the ball game, the Yankees got one scratch hit, I think,
out of their real power. Big guys, right? Big guys. And this is what Whitey Herzog is
figuring on tonight. And if it doesn't, if Hassler doesn't come through, as a matter
of fact, he made his Major League debut against the Yankees and he did well against them and
his first start against them at the Yankee Stadium. He did well for a number of innings
but then had to have relief later on. Well, I'm sure that Herzog right now would take
four innings of the score being even or one run apart. He just doesn't want to be down
three-nothing or four-nothing because if Gidry gets past the first couple innings, you have
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Now I'm going to put you on the spot because we've talked about what Herzog would like
out of Hasler and it is somewhat presumptive of us because as you know, who knows what's
going to happen in a baseball game. Andy Hasler will go out and put you on his shutout and
that's happened before and will always happen. Now we presume that that Gidry will put you
very strong game. The Yankees have to hope it, but Mel, the Yankees cannot wait. They
can't afford to wait. If they don't win this game, they can say some brave things about
going to Kansas City winning three in a row, but their prospects are bleak. Who does Billy
Martin bring in? How quickly does he relieve Gidry when the Yankees fall behind by a run
or two or three? And that is putting you on the spot. I know because the Yankees have
very few betchers. That's the whole point. You're not putting me on the spot with that
and if you did, I couldn't be put on the spot by a more knowledgeable and nicer guy. How
about that? That would get off alright. Okay. But they just don't have anybody. That is
to say you eliminate Holtzman, Clay, he's not experienced enough. Figueroa and Torres,
they're hoping that they'll be ready to start and have a reason for starting them in Kansas
City. But I guess he'll have to run Lyle in there as quick as possible and then hope
for the best. That's probably where you're going to have to do it. That's probably, you
know, Tidger, a bit seven innings yesterday. Right. And I guess that's exactly what you'd
have to do. If it's three-two and the fourth inning and maybe Kansas City is up three-two
and they've got the bases loaded one out and a hit or two is going to blow up in that
game, I guess you'd have to come in with Lyle and Holtzman Lyle is going to pitch four or
five strong innings for him. Trying to piece a little bit together. See, it's unlike the
Dodgers and the Phillies because they have a day off for traveling. And so they have
that, the pitchers have a day of rest, but here there is no day off for traveling, which
is important. That's the one thing that can truly alter the game tonight is if Gidry is
behind in the game and runs in trouble early because Lyle is probably the only Yankee pitch.
That's ridiculous to say, but it's true that they can bring in, we'll get back with the
final word on the Yankees and Royals tonight right after this.
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Okay, we have to skedaddle. Mel, I'll see you along the third base coaching lines and
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Don't be surprised if you see me in there in relief tonight.
No, I know you've been warming up your arm.
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Good evening everybody. This is Frank Messer on the New York Yankee Pre Game Show just
before game number two of the American League playoffs. Well, the Kansas City Royals gave
the Yankees more than they could handle yesterday afternoon. The Yankees will try to come back
tonight with Ron Guidry on the mound, Andy Hasler, a left-hander will pitch for Kansas
City Royals. What about the opening game of the playoffs? What can we expect tonight?
I'm going to put that question to a gentleman I've admired in this game of baseball for
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Cookie Rollhouse 16 years in the major leagues. You've announced your retirement after the
series or the World Series of Kansas City is over. Let's call upon your 16 years in the
major leagues and look at yesterday's ball game and also the night's game. What was the
big factor yesterday? I was surprised at the power of the Royal Show. Well this year compared
to last year the Kansas City Royals had a lot of younger players last year with a lot of
inexperience. And I believe that the haters that we have in our ball club have come through
what we call the period of experience and the knowledge of the game. You know and Charlie
Laugh has helped them. First last year they learned and make them learn how to walk and
then this year they finally started running. By that I mean by the kids are learning how
to hit the ball and then Charlie this year and the organization believe that they had
to hit for more power. They knew how to hit then and then what picture to look for to
try to go for the long ball. After the first game over here of course and that small series
anything can happen. I think the key point was Gullit yesterday of course wasn't in one
of his best days. He was behind all the haters all the time. It happened to Freddy Patek
walking the first inning and then helping my play after he got behind him with two strikes
and finally hit a home run and we got ahead in the first inning. And the long ball was
the key of the ball game. You know our talents hit another home run and then John Mayberry
hit another one. Freddy Patek came with two men on bases and hit it all with two outs.
And I think that this ball club have meant two or more from last year compared to this
year and I think that winning the first game of course is a big step towards the championship.
Although Yankee have a tremendous ball club they've been known as the beginning of the
season in 77 when they lost five or six games straight they came back and finally won their
division. It's not going to be easy I think it's going to be very interesting. Cookie
Rohans did you guys have an idea yesterday that Don Gullit was hurting that his arm
shoulder was sore. No we shouldn't. You know he had pitched two games against the Kansas
Hater Royals this year and it pitched very well. He did both games. He's a man that
had experience in this kind of series and a well serious pitcher and he's a money pitcher.
And I think the advantage which he didn't show us in the last two times that he pitched
against us was his control. Before he was a head of the haters all the time and he didn't
give us too much opportunities. I think he hurt himself yesterday by walking a lot of
guys and I think this is what hurt him. I was surprised about two things. Potec in the
leadoff spot and the fact that Freddie went up there and was looking for a walk. He's
usually a very aggressive hitter. He walks very seldom. He knows a small guy. Well why
do you have to talk to us before the game. And of course I think maybe the ace idea I
think he's playing it to the press was that they know Freddie gets five four. He know that
Gullard is a high ball hitter. I mean I'm sorry and chances for him to get on base was a lot
better than having somebody else did enough and he paid off that way. Freddie walked the
first time up and looked a lot of pitches from him and I think most of our haters did and
they got ahead of him and it's like everything else. If a pitcher gets ahead of a hitter he's
got the advantage. If a hitter gets ahead of the pitcher he's got the advantage and they
paid off for us. My guest on the Yankee pre-game show tonight is veteran and fielder
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Your pitcher yesterday, Cookie Rojas, Paul Splitoff was able to handle the Yankee left hand hitters
very well. Nettles, Chambla's and so on. Now what about Andy Hasler tonight? Did he go to school
on yesterday's ball game? Will he pitch the same type of game that Splitoff put yesterday? Well
locked. Andy's capable of doing that. I think he has a tremendous fast ball and runs all over
the place and he's got good breaking pitches. The only thing that kept Hasler right up to be
a successful pitcher is his control. So I believe that if he has his control tonight he can beat
anybody in baseball and only the Yankees. Now if he's behind the hitters all the time and then he
can really get hurt like it's happened a couple of times to him but he does have the ability. He
has good breaking ball, a good fast ball. He turns the ball over and has a good change of the key
to him and I will be that if he can stay ahead of the hitters then he'll be alright. One thing that
surprised me again going back to yesterday's ball game. Late in the game the Yankee hitters were
swinging at the first pitch for the most part. They weren't waiting Splitoff out. Now will they have
to wait Hasler out tonight? Well as you know when you get six round lead like we did yesterday
the Yankee hitters were split off throughout the ball game. He could challenge a hitter more. He
didn't have to be afraid about the long ball and that's an advantage. If you score first and
early and your pitch you all have to do you know it's just a throw strikes and hope that their defense
can do the job and that's what baseball is all about. The only play that you can defense in baseball
is a walk. That's the one that's going to hurt you all the long run. Ron Gidry, pitcher tonight for the Yankee
in Cookie Rollhouse. Just a word or two your thoughts about Ron Gidry. What perhaps scouting
report you might have on him. I'll tell you that I say that Gidry is one of the best left-handed
pitchers there is in baseball today. His pitch against us he has one of the most overfiring
fast balls in the league. He's got a good breaking ball and what I like about him is his guts. He
goes down and challenges you and he says here it is hit if you can. His voice is tremendous
and he never loses his control of his person and I think that he's one of the best pitchers there is
in the league. No question about that. Cookie Rollhouse may I say this a great career on your part
the best of luck in whatever you pursue in the future. Appreciate that very much. I hope to stay
in baseball and I think I hope to die in baseball. Cookie Rollhouse you've given us all a lot of great
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From Yankee Stadium in New York. Here is New York Yankee baseball and the second game of
the American League championship series. The Yankees and the Kansas City Royals. And our
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Now it's time for baseball and the second game of the playoffs. The Yankees are down by a
game having lost yesterday afternoon 7 to 1 to the rather 7 to 2 to the Kansas City Royals. Tonight
Ron Gidry will be on the mound for the Yankees and left hander Andy Hasler will pitch for Kansas City.
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The city of Leningvijl playing shotstop Freddie Patek. He was two for four yesterday. A key
double to drive in two runs. The designated hitter and number two batter is Hal McCree.
He went one for five is one hit a two run.
He's a great player.
John Mayberry will hit sixth and play first base. Mayberry also homered in the Royals
attack yesterday. Joe Zeb will be in left field in bat seven catching and hitting eighth
Darrell Porter and playing second base and batting ninth Frank White.
The winner Andy Hasler with a record on the year of nine wins and six losses will pitch
for Kansas City. For the New York Yankees Mickey Rivers will lead up and play center field.
He was three for four yesterday. Greg Nuttles will be a third base in bat second.
Damon Munson who accounted for the two Yankee runs with a two run homer will catch in bat
third. Reggie Jackson will be in right field and hit fourth. The left field are a number
of hitters. Luke and Ella. Cliff Johnson is the designated hitter batting sixth. Chris
Chambers will be at first base and hit seven. What a round off at second base batting eighth
and playing shortstop for the Yankees and batting ninth. Bucky Dan on the mound Ron
Goodry who won 16 and lost seven during the regular season. The umpires for the night's
ball game at home plate Russ gets at first base Jim McKinnon at second base Marty Springsteen
at third base. Nick Remigan in left field Bill Deegan and in right field Jerry Newdecker.
Goodry has completed his warm up throws. Fred Pontek a right hand batter steps in and we're
ready for baseball here at Yankee Stadium. Pontek was two for four yesterday. One of his two
hits a key two run double the wind up in the first pitch of the game is over but low and
we're underway as Goodry started Pontek off with a breaking ball. Goodry has the sign
comes in with a fast ball for a strike letter high on the inside runner it's one and one.
The Yankees defense pot deck up the middle of the outfield spread. Temperature at game
time 61 degrees and Pontek looks at strike two calls. One ball and two strikes to Pontek.
Hal McCrae is on deck a must game for the Yankees wind up by Goodry the pitch bouncing
ball slowly to shot charging that he has he throws he's out and there's one away.
Pontek is out on a slow boxer to buggy that and the batter will be Hal McCrae McCrae the
second at a dinner a right hand batter after Pontek walked on four pitches in the first
inning yesterday afternoon. Hal McCrae slammed a home run to get the Royals a two nothing
lead a lead they never relinquished going on to win the ball game by a final score of
seven to two Yankee infield up the middle the outfield spread the pitch misses outside
ball one. Lupinella is in left Mickey Rivers and center Reggie Jackson in right the wind
up by Goodry the slender left hander deals. It's one and one.
Greg Knudels at third base. Bucky dead at shot stop. Lily Randolph at second Chris
Chambliss at first with Thurman Munson catching. Here's the one one pitch to McCrae.
Breaking ball misses and the counters two and one. Munson turns around to play down by
a russ gets on that call. Two balls and a strike.
Goodry rocks and offers high. No question about that one and the count is three and one.
On the coaching lines for the Royals Chuck Hiller at third Steve Boros at first three
one pitch bow back on a big swing by McCrae three and two. One out nobody on no score
here in the top half of the first inning. Ron Goodry straight as a ramrod takes the
sign from Munson the three two pitch fouled in the upper deck on the first base side
and the count holds at three balls and two strikes. Goodry posted an earned run average
of 2.82 during the regular season and he comes in high ball poor. He loses how McCrae
on a walk. The batter will be George Brett the third baseman. Brett went 0 for 5 yesterday.
Here's a left hand hitter. This is Goodry's first start in ALCS competition. He made an
appearance in last year's playoffs as a pinch runner after being used in relief and six of
his first seven appearances this year. Ron has since made 24 consecutive starts left hand
or the runner goes the pitch has taken a month's install a good draw and he is safe as he
kicks the ball away from Buckington. Now McCrae steals second the throw had him beat but he
knocked the ball away on the slide into Buckington and is safe at second and now Billy Martin
is coming out. Billy Martin is coming out to discuss the play with second base umpire
Marty Springstand. It was a good throw from Cleven Munson but in going in McCrae evidently
just kicked the ball away and knocked it away from Buckington. There will not be a stolen
base given a error will be charged to Buckington at the shortstop. An error is charged to
Buckington as in the opinion of the official score and on second thought an excellent
ruling. Cleven Munson's throw was just about perfect at the second base and had McCrae beaten
but Buckington could not handle it. The ball was kicked away and an error is charged to Yankee
shortstop Bucky Depp. So McCrae is at second with one out a count of one and oh on Brett
and the pitches one on and foul back one ball and one strike. Brett during the regular season
batted 3 12. Last year he won the American League batting title on the final day of the
season edging out his teammate Hal McCrae who is roosted right now down at second base.
The on deck batter is Al Collins. One one pitch foul back just below us. One Goodry last pitched
on Friday losing to the Detroit Tigers five to two here at Yankee Stadium. The loss broke
an eight game winning streak for Ronnie. He won 11 of his last 14 decisions this year
and since the all star break Goodry one cannon lost only two. He deals Brett swings it's
a fly ball deep center back those rivers. He's under it now. Quick makes the catch McCrae
is tagged heading for third and he makes it standing up two down two outs McCrae at second
and the batter will be Al Collins Royals right the other one three for four yesterday afternoon
including a solo home run. He is a right hand batter. Lucky that shades him over toward
the end of the season. The outfield spreads out again during the regular season Goodry
struck out a hundred seventy six man in two hundred eleven innings pitch. He walked but
he's still on the line. He goes to the full wide. Oh one pitches. No balls two strikes
on Al Collins. Now McCrae leads off at third. Goodry has the side the full line. Oh two
pitches. Get on the ground. Outside of first. Right off the end of the bat. And the count
holds nothing in two. Goodry posted an earned run average of two point eighty two during
the regular season. That was fourth best in the American League behind Frank Tanana bird
seven and Nolan Ryan. It was the second best earned run average among left handers. Time
is called by the plate umpire Russ gets. Goodry tied with Dennis Leonard and Bert Blylaven
for second in the league in shutouts with five. His winning percentage of six ninety six
was fourth in the league. The O2 deal. Check swing it's high ball and two strikes. Amos
Otis is waiting on deck. No score runner at third and two outs here on the top of the
first. Chalkiller the third base coach goes out to talk to the base runner Hal McCrae
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for four and almost had a home run. It was taken away from him on a great catch by the
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the line at third base. Astler into the wind up the big left handers pitch sliced foul
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Ray Nuttles is on deck and then Thurman Munson for the Yankees here in the first no score.
Astler winds the left handers pitch inside breaking ball two and one. Astler stands
six five he weighs two fifteen he is twenty five years old on native of Texas City Texas.
The Royals got him midway through the seventy six season from the California Angels. He
was the fourth man in the Royals starting rotation during most of this past season
winning nine losing six and posting an end run average of four point twenty and 156
innings pitch he walked seventy five and struck out eighty three men. Two and two on
Mickey and the other two on the left handers pitch. He was the fourth man in the
first half of the season and he struck out eighty three man. Two and two on Mickey Rivers.
Brett has moved back to the edge of the grass at third base. Astler winds and here's the
pitch swing and a foul off the catcher Porter. Mickey Rivers went for a high pitch.
Fouled it off Porter the catcher seems to be all right. Defensively the Royals go with
the ball to the left and left field. Amos Otis is in center and Al Collins in right
the infield George Brett at third Fred Patek at short. Frank White at second John Mayberry
at first with Darrell Porter catching to do the Mickey bouncing ball slowly George
short. Patek got a first base he's out. Good quick play by Freddie Patek to throw out
Mickey Rivers and we'll step out for a station break on the New York Yankee home of
the WMCA Strauss Communications in New York. This is Mel Allen. Emery goes to the places
everyone else goes to as well as the places no one else goes to. Emery the Air Force in
Air Prait. Greg Nuttles bats for the Yankees and the first pitch from Hastler to the left
field. The ball occurred. Nuttles went 0 for 4 yesterday. Greg batted 255 on the season
with 37 homers and 107 runs batted in. Porter goes out to talk to Andy Hastler. The season
Hastler established personal highs in several categories. Nine wins 29 appearances 27 starts
with 83 strikeouts. He was more effective during the first half of the year than he was
over the last half going 6 and 2 at the All-Star break. He deals one and out of Nuttles. Low
inside ball two. Nuttles came to bat four times yesterday. Flight out to left once popped
a third line to the shortstop and popped to the shortstop. They bunch him up the middle
of the outfield shaded toward right. To O'Deal. Swung on and popped high in the air to shuttle
right. Back goes Frank White the second baseman settling. Unread and makes the catch. When
took that ball back to Frank White's right but he stayed with it. Two down and Thurman
Munson will step in. Munson had a third inning home run yesterday going one for four for
the afternoon. Right hand hitter during the season Munson batted 308 he drove in 100 runs.
He had 18 homers. They're fairly close together and even the batter's box. Passlers pitch
to him. Fastball swung on in this strike one. Thurman Munson is hit safely in all six American
League championship games in which he has appeared going 11 for 23. The 0-1 delivery.
They sit in the left field. Running the ball down Joe Zeb Munson big turn at first puts
on the brakes and scurries back as the throw comes in from the left fielders. So Munson
is on the batter will be Reggie Jackson. That is the first hit of the ball game. Reggie
Jackson was over four yesterday struck out his first trip. Plied to left pop to second
and pop to the shortstop. Mayberry will hold Munson on the pitch to Jackson taken inside
for a ball. One ball in those strikes. Reggie batted 286 for the regular season. He had
32 homers and led the Yankees with 110 runs batted in. One O deal inside ball two. Two
balls no strikes. Bobby Cox at first base and Dick Hauser at third on the coaching lines
for the Yankees. Munson walks off his lead from first base. Mayberry holding the corner.
Hassellor sets and the pitch to Jackson breaking ball misses. Jackson steps out and looks for
a sign from Hauser. Now the three and old pitch swung on and it back ended by the third baseman
Brett long throw and he is out at first base. They let Jackson go on three and only hit
one right off the end of the bat on a late swing. Good play by the third baseman Brett
to throw him out at the end of one inning. It's the Yankees nothing Kansas City nothing.
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Otis will lead off for Kansas City. This program is authorized by the New York Yankee
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games including selection of the announcers with the approval of the Yankees and this
station. Amos Otis a right hand batter at 251 during the season. It's the first pitch
and he had a right field. Reggie Jackson is there and makes a one hand catch one out.
John Mayberry will step in. Mayberry was one for three yesterday drove in two runs with
a home run left hand hitter with power. The regular season Mayberry hit two thirty.
But he had twenty three home runs tied for the team lead and he drove in eighty two runs.
The first pitch is hit high in the air to shuttle right back to second baseman Randolph
and he makes the catch. He got Mayberry right in on the hands hand cut him on the swing
and he set a weak pop up out of the shuttle right. So there are two down the batter will
be Joe Zeb the left field here. Zeb was all for four yesterday. He batted 297 during the
season and he got a five five times with 58 hits including two homers and twenty three
runs batted in Ron Goodry on his slender shoulders rest the future of the Yankees in this championship
series. He kicks and deals a fast ball is over strike one.
One strike pitch fast and low. Goodry had to be the Yankees biggest surprise the season.
Terrible spring training barely made the club started the season in the bullpen wound
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Lou Penella leads off the bottom half of the second inning for the Yankees. Lou was one
for four yesterday. Solid single his first time up. Right hand batter. Penella hit 3-30
during the regular year. He taught the 300 mark for the fourth time in his career. They
play as a poll hitter on the infield. Now Penella steps out as Hasler takes too much time.
In 1969 playing for the then Kansas City A's Lou Penella was rookie of the year.
It's like the owner of the Kansas City Royals Ewing Kaufman getting on Penella a little bit
from his box seat near the third base dugout. Now the pitch to Lou straight across the middle
of the plate strike one. Penella last year was runner up as comeback player of the year
following an offseason due to an injury. Oh one delivery. Bowled out of play on the first
base side back in the stands. Looks like we'll have a bigger crowd tonight than we had yesterday
afternoon when fifty four thousand nine hundred thirty paid to see the first game of the championship
series. Beautiful evening here in New York. Temperature at game time was sixty one degrees.
Hasler winds the O2 pitch. Download a Penella. Freddie Pontiac is well over in the hole at
the top of the plate. He's got a shot stop. Frank White shades towards second. Neither he plays
very wide of the line at first and Brett guards behind the bag at third. The right fielder
Cowan's fairly shallow against Penella. Otis and Zeb straight away to pitch. Swung on shot to short
played on the second half by Pontiac. He guns at the first base in time. One out here in the bottom
of the plate. Now clip Johnson will step in. Johnson the designated header had two hits
yesterday. Single left center and single left in between he fly to right and fly to left.
Strong right hand hitter who batted two ninety six during the season. Overall he had twenty
three runs twelve. Ten as a Houston Astro. Johnson crowds the plate. Normally they try to pitch
him inside and jam him. That one breaks right over the heart of the plate strike what is
called. Johnson hurt his ankle sliding into second base yesterday but he stayed in the ballgame
and of course is starting tonight as the designated hitter. Hasler works slowly now winds 0 1 pitch
get on about to the second base by Frank White near the bag throws the first in time to get
Johnson to down. And now Chris Chandler's Chandler's went one for three in yesterday's
game. He also reached on a walk. Chandler's is hit safely in all six American League championship
games in which he has appeared going 12 for twenty four left hand hitter slightly closed
down. Hasler's first pitch to him inside gets away from the catcher Porter ball on. Porter
stares out at his pitcher Hasler and Andy wants an exchange of baseballs. Porter gets
another one from the plate on by a rust gets no score here in the bottom half of the second
base. Neither team has had a genuine threat the Royals had a runner third with two outs
in the first inning at Al Cowan struck out the Yankees have had only one base runner
Thurman Monson in the first two single one out pitch bow back to the left side one ball
of one strike. I'm Frank Messer along with a scooter Bill Rosino and Bill White at Yankee
moving on to Kansas City following the ball game tonight to bring you all the action tomorrow
night starting at eight ten one one pitch bowled again toward the seats on the third base side
a ball and two strikes on Chris Chandler's and Darrell Porter goes out to the mound to
talk to Andy Hasler. Hasler made four starts against the Yankees this past year he won
one and lost three but puts better than his record would show his earn run average in those
four games was 2.76 he winds the one to pitch check swing at its low and outside two balls
and two strikes. Darrell Porter requested an appeal by the third base umpire Nick Bremengan
who backed up the call saying yes ball to two and two when he ran off on deck to to the
chambliss swing and a miss tried to stop it and could not that retires the side and order
the first strikeout for Hasler at the end of two the Yankees nothing the Royals nothing
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ballgame here at Yankee Stadium and Darrell Porter the catcher will lead off for the Kansas
City Royals Porter was one for two in yesterday afternoon's ballgame he walked his first two
times up scored a run and grounded out the first and single to center field he's a left
hand header he batted 275 during the season with 16 home runs and 60 runs batted in you'll
be followed by Frank White and then Fred Patek.
Goodry so far has walked one and struck out two men he has not allowed a base hit the left
hander winds and the pitch to Porter breaking ball outside ball one they play Porter straight
up the middle on the infield with Mickey Rivers a couple of steps toward right blue
Panela straight away fairly shallow and left the pitches high two balls and no strikes Reggie
Jackson plays straight away and right and now Panela takes two steps to his left and comes
in a step in left field to pitch foul back and that'll be in the upper deck the Royals
obtained Darrell Porter from the Milwaukee Brewers gave them a solid job behind the plate
to one deal basketball inside ball three Porter appeared in 130 games this year.
Goodry rocks and fires three and one and he walked in ball four was down low the second
walk given up by Goodry all the Royals have the lead off man on Frank White their number
nine hitter coming up and we'll see if manager Whitey Herzog goes for the sacrifice to try
to set the table for the top of the batting order.
White is a good but he went one four four yesterday right hand hitter he sacrificed
eleven times during the regular season second high on the ball club he gives no indication
as he takes a strike White steps out looks down at third base coach Chuck Miller Fred
Pottack is on deck Chambliss holding Porter ran off in debt squeezed up the middle of
double play depth the outfield is spread out the old one pitch swung on broken bat
pop and a shallow left that may drop and does for the base it but not a grabs a bare handed
throws to third cut by debt runners on the corners.
Lou Penella charged in front of Mickey Rivers grabbed that ball bare handed to make the throw
toward third base could have been an easier throw for the left hand throwing rivers but
Penella grabbed the ball fired on and debt cut it off.
All the Royals have runners on the corners on a broken bat single by Frank White their first hit
of the ball game.
All the Royals now have a genuine threat and the Yankees will play for the double play and
give up the run if necessary.
Randolph and that are back.
Andres pitched a Pottack grounded foul at third base.
Pottack grounded out to depth his first time up.
Porter at third Frank White at first.
Chuck Miller the coach at third talks to Porter.
No balls and a strike on Pottack.
We'll watch the runners they hold the pitches taken low for a ball.
They're going to bounce and dug it up out of the dirt one ball and one strike.
Hal McCrae is on deck.
No score here in the top of the third.
Porter at third Frank White at first.
Chambliss of course holding White on runners hold the pitches fouled out of play in the first base crowd.
Back into the upper deck a ball and two strikes on Pottack.
Good read plants the left foot looks down for the side Pottack is outside the batter's box.
Now moves back in.
And the one and two pitch will be coming here it is lined up towards center field Mickey Rivers has it.
Porter is tagged here he comes here comes the throw home it will not be in time.
The ball was caught in fairly shallow center field by Mickey Rivers.
Darrell Porter tagging a third scores after the catch and the Royals lead one to nothing.
Frank White held it first a sacrifice fly to run but it in for Pottack his third RBI of the series.
I believe the Yankees may make an appeal call to third base.
We'll see nettles is standing near the bag and now nettles will wait for the ball to be put in play.
Good read will step on the rubber then step off and the Yankees will make the appeal call to third base.
Good read looks back there and sees nettles the right the left foot is on the slab.
Now he goes through the motion steps off turns throws to third safe.
He did not leave too soon.
So the Royals lead by a score of one to nothing.
Good call by the Yankee bench and the Yankee players to make the appeal Porter got off the bag in a hurry but now throw to first base no play on white.
But it's ruled by third base umpire Nick Bremigan that he did not leave too soon.
How McCrae the batter throw to first safe McCrae walked in the first inning set sail for second base.
Once and throw beat him there McCrae.
Well he gave Bucky that a karate chop and knock in the ball away and he was safe.
He takes a strike.
An error was charged to Bucky Dan and McCrae was ruled as a caught stealing technicality of the scoring rules.
McCrae then tagged up and went to third on Brett's fly ball to center but died there when Colin struck out.
White draws a throw to first and gets back.
The Royals lead one to nothing here in the top of the third.
Frank White at first one away.
Good reset.
White goes pitch out months and throw to second base and he is out at second.
Bucky Dan took a short half throw from Fairland Munson and Frank White is thrown out stealing two to six.
There are now two outs.
He's gone down to the bottom one strike on Hal McCrae.
Frank White stole 23 bases during the regular season but he has gone down here.
One one to McCrae.
Low two balls in a strike.
The runner is George Brett the third baseman.
Goodry takes the side and left hander winds and deals.
Swung on and fouled off the middle of Munson.
Two balls and two strikes.
Played on by Russ Getz gets out the whisk room.
Two outs the bases empty.
The Royals have a run in the bank.
Goodry looks into Munson.
Left hander winds to two pitch fouled out of play in the upper deck and wheel pause for station identification on the New York Yankee home of champions radio network.
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The ball is swung on and missed strike three and the side is retired.
The Royals get one run on one hit.
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The brand of leads off as we go to the Yankee half of the third inning.
Randolph a right hand batter with two seventy four during the season.
Well they had a double the show for four trips yesterday.
Last time I'll be granted into a double play that was almost a triple play on a ground ball to third base.
Right hand hitter.
They play him up the middle on the infield.
The outfield is spread out with Collins shuttle and right is there deep and left.
A pitch from Asler.
Fast ball is low ball one.
Bucky Dent is on deck and then Mickey Rivers here in the Yankee third.
South Plainby.
Hasler into the line.
One O deal breaking ball is inside.
Two balls and no strikes.
The Royals are leading one to nothing.
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Asler pumps and deals.
Three balls and no strikes to what he ran off.
Now Hasler wants to do baseball and gets it.
Coach Elston Howard just paced from the home plate end of the Yankee dugout down to the first base end.
The windout three O pitch taken for a strike three and one.
Hasler is ready.
Three one delivery strike two is called.
Granda broke for first it is called back three balls two strikes.
The ball game from the home plate end of the Yankee dugout on the steps three to pitch to Randolph.
Chopper to third base second half played by Brett throws to first in time.
Randolph is up one away here in the bottom half of the third the batter will be shot stop Bucky Dent.
That will over three yesterday.
Last time he was due up Roy White batted for him and grotted up.
Bucky down to right hand hitter he batted 247 during the regular season.
And the first pitch is on the way high ball one Brett the third baseman plays him in at the edge of the grass.
Potts actually is a step or two toward the hole the outfield spread out shallow and right with a center field rotor shaded toward right field.
The wind up in the one hole pitch strike called one ball one strike.
Hasler got a breaking ball over.
Only mine has a few words to say from the dugout steps the one one pitch to death bowled into the third base dugout.
Wicked shot right into the royal dugout and Royals honor Ewing Kaufman up out of his box seed leaning over to see if anybody in his dugout was hurt.
And he checked the TV monitor in the next booth.
Count them off.
They're all there.
No towels being waved.
No flags.
Then steps out.
Time is called.
Now the one to pitch way outside from Hasler two balls and two strikes.
Hasler works slowly now has the side pitches ground ball to third Brett shot hops it throws the first in time and there are two out.
George Brett has come up with his third assist in the ball game and second in a row.
The batter will be Mickey Rivers.
Mickey at three twenty six over the regular season a career high.
Last year he was third in voting for the most valuable player in the league the pitch.
Inside ball one.
Rivers also had a career high 12 home runs.
This nineteen seventy seven season the one old pitch joins one on and foul back.
Hasler accepts it.
Your baseball strolls around the pitchers mound.
The Royals are leading one to nothing here in the bottom half of the third two outs and nobody on Hasler so far as at the Yankees hitting the ball on the ground.
Only one ball has been hit in the air.
Bragg nettles pop up the one one pitch breaking ball is low two balls in a strike.
There have been six ground balls.
The one pop up and one strikeout the Yankees have one base at a single by Thurmondson.
To one delivery to Rivers bouncing ball to the first base side mayberry has underhand flip to the pitcher.
Hasler he's out on a close play.
Rivers dances Hasler down the first base line as they collided at the bag.
No harm is done.
The Yankees are retired in order at the end of three innings.
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We got to the fourth inning here at Yankee Stadium.
The Royals lead one to nothing and in with a play by play ladies and gentlemen here is Bill White.
Alright Frank Messer and George Brett who made a couple of pretty good plays.
Bottom the third will lead off of the Royals here in the top of the fourth.
It'll be Brett Alcowins and then Amos Otis against Ron Guidry.
Yankee set up the Brett straight away.
Brett's a left handed batter and a good hitter.
It's 3-12 on the year for the Royals.
Guidry's first pitch.
Too high ball one.
Brett went up and up one time this ball game.
He's fly the rivers in center field looking for his first base hit in the 1977 American League championship series.
The basketball hit on the ground. Randolph backhand throws on the first base.
Good play by Willie Randolph going to his right backhanding the ball and getting Brett at first base.
That'll bring on Alcowins.
Cowins a right handed batter has been up one struck out.
He liked Brett hit 3-12 with the Royals on the year.
Cowins a little more productive. 23 home runs. 112 runs batted in.
Also had a productive night last night against Yankee. He went 3-4.
Hit a solo home run and scored two runs.
Cowins has good power. First pitch to Cowins.
Current balls a strike.
Royals lead 1-0 in the top of the fourth. One out and nobody on.
Each team with just one base hit. The Yankees have committed the only air in the ball game.
Goodreads one strike. Pitches are called. Strike two. No balls and two strikes on Alcowins.
On deck is Amazotus.
Now Cowins backs out. Gets back here.
Goodread reading signs from Mutson. Still looking. Time is called now as Cowins backs out again.
There's some bugs flying around around home plate.
Now Cowins sets. Goodreads ready. The two strike pitch.
Fastball is fouled back. Cowins remains. No balls. Two strikes.
Goodread gets a new ball. Doesn't bother to rub it up. Nor does he bother to go the rising bag. Doesn't use it too often.
Now the two strike pitch to Cowins.
Curve balls hung on and missed. Cowins goes down swinging for the second time in the ball game.
And for Ron Goodread his fourth strikeout. And there are two outs.
Now the ball is going to bring on Amazotus. The center fielder for the Royals. He's been up once. Guy to Reggie Jackson in right field.
Otis was held endless last night. He went over four over one. Here he's over five in the series.
Last night Hal McCrae did some damage with the two run home run. Freddie Potex more damage with the two run double.
John Mayberry had a two run home run. Alcowins in a singleton.
And this takes outside ball one. Royals one last night. Seven to two to take a one to nothing lead in the American League championship series.
Yankees are going to come back in this one. They're down one nothing. Playing the top of the fourth with two outs. Nobody on.
Fastball is one on a missed biotist. Pitch one and one.
Here's John Mayberry. Tuckiller coaching third base for the Royals. Steve Borrell is at first. Here's a one one pitch to Otis.
Swung on and missed. One and two.
Kidry has a good live fastball tonight. Good dipping slider. Hard curve ball. He has walked two so far in the ball game and struck out four.
He walked Porter leading off the third inning and that hurt him because Porter eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Freddie Potex.
One and two on Otis.
Kidry rocks and the one two pitch. Swung on. Fill the right center field after it is. Mickey Rivers still going once it down.
Mickey Rivers along running the right center field made the catch in front of the three eighty five foot sign and the side has retired.
Three up and three down at the end of three and a half. The Royals won the Yankees. Nothing.
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it'll be nettles Mutson and
then Reggie Jackson against
Andy Hasler in the bottom of the
fourth when seems to be blowing
the right field here at the
Yankee Stadium flags blowing that
way has their first pitch to
nettles one on a missed nettles
on the air hit 37 home runs for
the Yankees let him in home runs
he drove in 107 runs second to
Reggie Jackson 110 and just above
there Mutson 100 and Mutson's on
deck here's Hasler's one strike
pitch to nettles outside it's
one and one Royals one run on one
base hit the Yankees no runs on one
base hit has for taking a long
time to get the ball out of the
way and the one one pitch swung
on the right center field after
the Zotas on the warning track
makes a catch and there's one
away nettles hit the ball hard
Amazon is probably probably
plays as deep as that of field as
anybody in baseball any other
centerfielder and it's hard to
get a ball over his head to keep
it in the ballpark one out
of the way Mutson got a breaking
ball low and then drill it for
single the left field in the
first inning for the Yankees only
base hit in the ballgame.
Thurman wants Russ gets home
played on par look at that baseball
and gets will give it back to
Hasler Royals set up straight
away for Thurman Mutson.
You've got bread at third pot
deck at short white playing at
second may bury it first
Joe Zebb and left famous Otison
center Al Cowan's out and right
quarter flashing signs for
Hasler and here's the first pitch
to Mutson to low ball one
sinker tailing down and away
kneeling on deck as Reggie
Jackson Dick Hauser the Yankee
third base coach and Bobby Cox at
first they have had almost no
action the one over Mutson
swung on and missed one and what
Yankees have had just one baseman
that was Mutson in the first
inning he singled with two outs
and Reggie Jackson swinging on a
three old pitch check to swing
and he bounced out George Brett
to the first baseman John Mayberry
here's a one one two Mutson
and he's going to get the
first base hit in the first
inning here's a one one two Mutson
fouled back change up high and away
Mutson got on top of it and fouled
it straight back ball bounced up
for Darrell Porter in foul
territory that's a ball and two
strikes on Mutson
Hasler despite having a losing
record against the Yankees he only
got a one one two Mutson
and he's still pitches well
against the Yankees doesn't give
up too many runs one to a swung
on and missed got him with the
curveball Mutson goes down
swinging second strikeout for
Hasler and their two outs that
will bring on Reggie Jackson
Yankees beat Hasler this year
and he's got seven six runs per
ballgame
Hasler just happened to run up
against better pitchers when he
faced the Yankees first pitch to
Jackson curve in their first
strike Reggie looking for his
first base hit of the championship
series
Jackson was over for last night
yesterday ballgame starting
around three fifteen three twenty
ending late evening
and time is called Jackson
backs off
on deck is Lupinella
Hasler taking plenty of time now
the one strike pitch
called strike to a fastball
got the outside corner
no balls two strikes
royal infield playing
Jackson to pull on the left
side of the infield the right side
the second baseman Frank White
and the first baseman John Mayberry
playing him straight away
outfield also playing straight
away
Jackson backs out and
time is called
now Reggie gets back yet
here's the oh two pitch to Jackson
curve is high one and two
Royals one Yankees nothing
bottom half before then
little different ballgame
from last night's ballgame
one to Jackson
swung on fouled off
upper deck left side
last night by the fourth inning
eight runs had been scored six of
them by the Royals two of them by
the Yankees
has to get some new ball
and the one to
to Jackson
swung on fouled off that'll make
it out of play no chance for
George Brett as he watched it sales
back in the seats
behind third base
still one and two on Jackson
Reggie
about a two eighty six
on the year for the Yankees
one to pitch outside
kicks off the glove of Darrell
Porter and it skips back to the
screen two and two
thirty two home runs a hundred and
ten runs batted in for Jackson
he really came on
short stretch there near the end of
the year on a lot of big ballgames
for the Yankees
not only with home runs but with
base it's
here's a two to Jackson
outside ball three breaking
balls gets by Porter again and
picks up against the screen behind
home plate
count is full three and two
and the Hasler working carefully
to Reggie Jackson
you have to count no balls two
strikes then started nibbling
and he's missed three times
where Jackson's fouled off a couple
on deck loop and
here's Hasler's payoff pitch
swung on hit the left field
Joseph digging for the line
still coming
on the run and makes a catch
and falls down Joseph
caught the ball and slid down
out of our side down there wait on
the umpire to see if he caught that ball
yes he did and the
side is retired for the Yankees
in the fourth three up and three down
and at the end of four the Royals
won the Yankees nothing
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Big John Mayberry will lead off
with the Royals against Ron get
her in the top of the fifth Royals
leave the Yankees one to nothing
and then the left handed batter then
Joseph and Darryl Porter
that bats right handed Porter left
Mayberry did not have a good year
average wise for the Royals
big fella found some of his power
again hit 23 home runs Joe
and a home run last night
a two run shot against
Dick Tidwell the third inning
so he'll lead off against Ron
get during the top of the fifth
here's good resource pitch
Mayberry swings and doesn't
get a breaking ball
no balls in a strike
good result one pitch to Mayberry
he checks the swing
it's a strike anyway Slider got
the outside corner no balls and two
strikes
Mayberry has had three seasons
with the Royals in which he's driven
in 100 runs bounces this one the
Chambliss little toss to get
recovering they've got Mayberry
there's one away
very Joe been 100 runs for the
Royals in 72 73 also 100
and in 1975 he drove
in 106
last year despite batting
232 he drove in 95
this year batted
230 and drove in
2002 here's Joe Zepp
Goodre's truck Zepp out in the second
I think so Zepp is over one
a right handed hitter
pitch to Zepp he checks the swing
takes it low ball one
Royals lead one to nothing in the fifth
inning one out and nobody on
Goodre with the 1 0 pitch to Zepp
swung on and fouled off in the
right side it's one and one
Yankees have nettles a third
Bucky done playing shortstop really
ran off at second Chambliss playing
at first Lupinala playing
left Mickey Rivers straight away
in center and Reggie Jackson out
in right field here's a 1 1 to
Zepp swung on hit the right field
Jackson backing up
on the warning track waiting makes
a catch two outs that'll bring
on Darrell Porter Porter
scored the only run in the ball
game so far when
Goodre walked him leading off the
third Porter went to third on a
broken bat single in the left
center by Frank White and scored
on a sacrifice fly by Freddie
Patek Yankees appeal to play at
third base thinking perhaps Porter
might have left too soon but
third base umpire Nick Remigan
watching the play all the way
said that he did not leave too
soon pops this one up on the
first base side Chambliss
coming in much and over there the
Yankee dugout and neither one
will get it bounces on top of the
Yankee dugout and back of the
seats one strike on Porter
even get real with there the
Yankee dugout trying to get that
foul ball Jackson playing deep
and right fastball is high one
and one and one and one and
point was played in its final
point when you made it age
we were going deep and right
fastball is high one in one
River straightaway and center not
too deep than Pennylla
straightaway and left On one
pitch to Porter misses outside
two and two.
Mixes up his pitch as well.
He's got a good fastball.
A slider that sinks and tails away from left handers.
Good hard curveball.
Plus he's developed a lot of confidence over the year.
Here's Gidry's two to pitch to Porter.
Curveball lying to Willie Randolph
and he makes the play easily and the side is retired.
Three up three down.
At the end of four and a half,
the Royals lead the Yankees one to nothing.
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York Yankee home of champions radio network.
WMCA Strauss Communications in New York.
This is Mal Alvin.
If you think of Reggie Jackson home run travels far.
Emery travels over 250,000 miles a day.
Emery the Air Force and Air freight.
Lou Penella will lead off against Andy Hasler playing the
bottom of the fifth in the Royals leading the Yankees one
to another.
It'll be Penella Cliff Johnson and then Chris
Chambliss who's been up once bounced ashore.
Here's Hasler's first pitch to Penella.
Bowled back.
Lou batted 3 30 on the air for the Yankees.
He likes to swing against left handed pitchers feels that's not
much work.
He hit them all well this year batting 3 30 playing left field
playing a little right field.
Also the Yankee designated hitter and pitch hitting also
Lou Penella did it all for the Yankees in 77 trying to get
something started here in the bottom of the fifth takes
outside one and one change up got away from that.
Thank you fans get a little impatient here getting late.
I've only got one base hit.
Fastball is full foul fast Yankee third base coach Dick
Hauser kicks back on the field and the guy on firing down the
left field foul line Bill Deegan picks it up and puts it in
his pocket one and two on Penella.
Now Lou decides to take a walk.
That's only that stung his hand a bit.
Now he stands in Lou hits from a closed stance feet not too far
apart.
Here's a one to pitch swung on sliced foul back in the
seats off the right side and the count remains one ball and two
strikes on Penella last night Lou went one for four he
chased Cowan up against the wall and right field last night
Cowan's made a good grab on his long drive.
Here's a one to pitch the Penella fastball bounce the second
Frank White to his left digs it up throws on the first have got
Penella and there's one away.
That'll bring on Cliff Johnson the designated hitter.
Cliff went to before last night he's over one tonight.
Keep saying last night where said ballgame started at three
that's what is that evening yesterday.
Johnson standing and time is called now Porter is going to talk
to Andy Hasler.
He's the ballgame starting at two o'clock they start on 315 330.
Now pot that comes in the shortstop wants to talk to
Hasler.
Of course pot that wants to know whether or not Porter is
changing signs.
Pot that can light like to know now pot that yelling over to
white they must have changed signs.
Maybe they think the Yankees have somebody out in center
field with some glasses on swinging a miss by Johnson.
The word about Gene Michael relaying the signs down to the
Yankee bench with his walkie talkie of course all Michael
does is when the Yankees run defense he tells him where to
set the outfielders up one strike to Johnson's filed back
going to Royals ahead one to nothing bottom of the fifth one
out nobody on count no balls two strikes on Cliff Johnson
has to watch the baseball and we'll get one from West Gets
on deck as Chris Chambliss doesn't look like there's an empty
seat here at Yankee Stadium.
They had fifty four thousand nine hundred and thirty last night
and I'm sure they're going to have more than that tonight
like Pete Morris tells me there's some standing room
here.
He'll do to high one ball two strikes on Johnson.
They call it SRO Johnson standing right on top of the play
that playing him deep and left.
He's got a lot of time.
Now he rocks and the one two pitch swung on and popped up
behind the plate coming back as Porter still coming near the
screen and misses the ball.
Porter misjudged the ball as the wind took it to his right
as he was coming back towards us and Cliff Johnson has life
and they'll call that a no play.
Hi Jim Ogle here a long time rider with the Newark Star
ledger now retired living down in Pompano Pompano Florida.
He's my official score and Ogle called it a no play.
Jim also takes care of the Yankee Alumni Association does a
good job there.
Now time is called as Johnson backs off and I something's
wrong with Cliff's eyes.
He wants a trainer to come on.
He wants a towel and here comes Jean Monaghan with a towel
and making sure that's all he wants.
Russ gets over there with him.
Johnson working hard swinging in the back doesn't have to put on
any leather tonight.
A lot of visitors are both Pam Boucher is here again.
This Boucher with the Yankees in the public relations department.
Now Johnson settles in backs out again.
Now he's ready.
A ball and two strikes on Cliff and a pitch.
Swung on.
Check swing line foul.
Down the left field line still wanted to Johnson's bat went out
toward the mound and that's what picked it up and gave it to him.
The Yankees off tried much of the ball game only three balls have been
hit in the air.
Nettles popping to a second base in the first flying to center field
in the fourth and Jackson flying to left field ending the fourth inning.
Everything else has either been a strikeout and Hasler has two of those
or ground ball except for months and single back in the first.
A ground ball put out for Andy Asper in this ball game.
Johnson still having trouble.
And now they're bringing out a handkerchief for Cliff Johnson.
He's got some allergies.
I don't know.
He's got him here when he gets in Canada City it'll be worse.
One of the highest pollen counts in the world in that Missouri.
Here's the one to the Johnson swung on it deep to center field going back as
he's up against the wall and it's gone.
John is just tied this ball game up and went up a drive to deep center field
over the four seventeen mark and up against the stand.
He's got ground.
And now he's got a little vision here at Yankee Stadium for Cliff Johnson
and the get around to put for Cliff Johnson and for his getting around
triple Cliff Johnson receives getting his certificate look for the purchase of
getting premium and flip comes up and docks is after the crowd again.
Now maybe channels on as per towel and make a way.
Now Johnson not waited has learned build it into center field for a home run
and we've got a one one tie here in the bottom of the fifth.
As Chambliss is waiting to hit against Andy Hasler.
The only three-page hit in this ball game won by the Royals two by the Yankees.
Now Chambliss stands and he's been up once and struck out.
Here's Hasler's first pitch to Chambliss.
The ball bounce slowly towards second charge by White digs it out underhand throw the
got Chambliss White didn't bother to take the ball out of the glove just flipped
it underhand it to John Mayberry for the second out.
That'll bring on Willie Randolph.
Hasler has been up once bounced a third.
And as Hasler starts up Randolph backs out in time is called.
Little gap for Randolph left center field Joe Zeb left field of playing straight away.
He's in a couple of steps toward right.
Randolph takes outside ball one.
George Brett the third baseman playing Randolph even with the bag only doesn't bump that off.
Hasler rocks and the one old pitch to Randolph swung on.
Randolph takes a big turn around first the zip gets the ball over the head of the cutoff man
and White the second baseman backs up and holding it first base is Willie Randolph.
Oh he's beginning to get to Andy Hasler here in the fifth inning.
Randolph on at first base two outs that'll bring on Bucky Dent.
Bucky's been up once he bounced a third.
All right handed it.
Bucky over for the series so far looking for his first base hit.
Hasler sets.
Checks Randolph pitch to Dent line foul outside third base.
Bucky gets out in front of a change up.
No balls in one strike.
The Yankees fans in the Yankees coming to life here in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
Big flip Johnson got him on their feet by hitting a long home run into center field tying the ball game up at 1 1.
Chambliss bounces second for out number two Randolph drilled one to left first single so he's on at first base
and has a big lead there.
He's dead backs out again as after takes too much time.
Hasler bending forward looking for a son.
Now he's straight and goes to first base and Randolph.
They're going to call the ball.
Hasler did not step forward first base and the first base umpire Jim McKean called the ball.
Now George Brett the third base.
The ball to Hasler.
During the season left handed pitchers can get away with that move.
They step toward home and throw the first umpire being a little more conservative and a little more concerned about that move during the American League championship playoffs.
And also a block was called on Steve Feralten in the open of the national league championship playoffs.
Randolph box the second base and here's the one strike pitch down a bucky death outside one and one right hander Mark Littell gets up and starts losing up in the Royals.
And out comes Galen Cisco now the pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals.
So Cisco out talking to Andy Hasler giving Littell a little more time to get loose.
He's not going to take Hasler out still talking to him.
Now Cisco spins you'll go back to the Royal dugout.
One ball one strike on bucky death.
Randolph down at second two outs and this horse tied one one in the bottom of the fifth pitch to Dennis Lowell two and one on deck is Mickey Rivers.
Or this Yankee crowd really with it tonight.
They want the Yankees to tie this series up at one game a piece to one pitch the bucky death outside three balls in a strong.
Littell throwing hard down the Royal bullpen.
He's in a hurry.
Hasler bends.
Now he's straight checks Randolph at second three one pitch to death.
Swung on Luke the left after his.
He got jam broke his bat loop one down the left field line that Joe Zett could not get to with two outs.
Willie Randolph was off and running he scored easily and the Yankees have taken a two to one lead over the Kansas City Royals in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
So bucky dead picking up his first base into the series is on a first base two outs and the batter will be Mickey Rivers.
Every time the Yankee score runs and fans out at right field throw confetti down on the field so we're waiting now for the Yankee grounds crew to pick that up.
Of course you would not like that to happen because it takes long enough to play a ball game anyway.
It just lays a ball game another two or three minutes.
The ball game is now on the field and the Yankee grounds are on the field.
All the day three has been cleared off the field and Mickey Rivers now stepping in.
Mickey has bounced the short and bounce the first close play at first base as Hasler just beat him to the back on a throw from John Mayberry.
The Rivers all for two tonight.
The Yankee takes outside ball one way in a third base George Brett way in on the grass.
Mayberry has to hold in at first.
Bucky is often asked to call it as the steal a base next pitch to Rivers one on and it's one and one on deck is Greg nettles.
Yankees have picked up two runs on three bases here in the fifth.
Rivers takes low two and one big play in the ball game so far.
The ball called on Andy Hasler allowing Randolph to move from first to second and he scored on the looping single down the left field line by Bucky.
Two one pitch to Rivers swung on and missed.
Got a piece of it and it's held by Darrell Porter two and two.
Mickey try to check his wing on a high fastball.
Hasler taking a lot of time now the left hander sets to two pitch curveball hit slowly toward short charge by Potec flips on the second base and they get the four
pitch curveball hit on Bucky and the side has retired but the Yankees come up with two runs on three bases.
They need a man on base.
At the end of five Yankees two the Royals one.
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Well, top of the sixth coming up and the Yankees lead the Royals now by a score of two to one and Fred Frank White will lead off
for the Royals against Ron Gidry.
It'll be White Patek and then Hal McCrae against the left hander.
Yankees coming back with two runs in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
Fonella bounce star leading the inning off then Johnson.
After stopping the ball game three or four times to wipe his brow finally hit a long home run in the center field.
Tying the ball game up one of these chambers bounced out for the second off.
Willy Randolph single was bought the second base and scored on a single by a bucky dent.
The Yankees are carrying a two to one lead into the sixth inning.
And here's the first pitch to Frank White.
Swings and misses.
White's been up one single to left field in this ball game.
That's right in it.
Nettles closes in a third base form.
White has good speed.
Yankee outfield playing him straight away.
Gidry rocks and the one strike pitch swung on bounce foul outside third two strikes.
Yankees have two runs on four bases.
Soroyal is one run on just one base.
One error in the ball game that charged a bucky dent when Hal McCrae ripped the throw months not of his hand.
Curve is fouled back up against the screen.
Still two strikes on White.
Frank was one for four last time.
One for one today.
Two strike pitch swung on and missed.
Stuck him out.
Fifth strike off Iran.
Gidry and there's one away.
That'll bring on Freddie Patek.
The little shortstop is bounced a third and driven in the royal run with a sacrifice fly to center field.
Patek is a right handed battered moving on deck is Hal McCrae.
First pitch to Patek.
Get in the air right center after it is Rivers and Jackson.
That ball is up against the wall.
Patek around first digging for second.
He holds there as the throw comes in the bucky dent.
Ball found the gap between Rivers and Reggie Jackson hit at the base of the wall and Patek held its second base with a double.
Patek second double the series.
He's down there with one away in the batters.
Hal McCrae.
Now he's down there.
He's down there.
McCrae has walked and struck out.
He's over one.
That wind is blowing from right from left toward right flags blown toward right field.
Ball hit out that way will be helped of course.
Now Goodry will have to keep an eye on Freddie Patek.
Patek stole 53 bases during the regular season for the Kansas City Royals.
McCrae takes down low ball one.
Billy Martin on the top step of the Yankee dugout telling Buckethead to make sure to keep an eye on Freddie Patek.
The one over to McCrae is high.
Two balls no strikes.
Yankee's lead two to one sixth inning.
Patek down at second base one away.
Goodry set.
Set check spot.
Two old pitch.
Two and one on McCrae.
Patek takes a walking lead off second base.
Two one pitch.
McRae is off the ball into the Royal dugout on the third base side.
It's two and two.
McCrae got the Royals off and running last night with a two run home runoff Don Gallant in the first inning.
That was the only it he got but that was a big one.
Royals one last night seven to two.
Here's a two to pitch to McCrae.
Kerr ball is sliced foul into the upper deck off the right side.
Still two and two.
Goodry gets new ball then scored looking for side.
Randolph John to keep Patek close at second.
Patek takes the ball and the pitch outside and high three and two.
Goodry trying to keep the ball away from McCrae and McCrae stands back off the plate.
Goodry sets.
Pay off pitch.
Ball four outside and McCrae walks.
Patek runs at first and second one away in the batter is George Brett.
Brett has fly to center field bounce to second he's 0 for two in the left handed batter.
Good speed on the basis for the Royals Patek off second McCrae off first.
Goodry sets and deals.
Kerr ball is a called strike.
Yankee in field back looking for two.
Outfield playing straight away.
The one strike pitch too high with a breaking ball it's one and one.
Parkie Lyle gets up in the Yankee ball pen and starts throwing.
Now Goodry sets.
The one one pitch to Brett Kerr ball called strike two on the outside corner one and two.
On deck Al Cowell.
Goodry now backs off.
Now he steps on the rubber looks for a side gets he's at the belt.
One two pitch to Brett Kerr ball bouncing out of the third to second for one and McCrae takes and our Patek is going to try to score and he will score.
The ball game is tied. McCrae knocked Randolph down through a rolling block on him and while Randolph was on the ground Patek scored from third base.
And the ball game is tied one one.
Now Billy Martin not arguing with second base umpire Marty Spring said he's saying that McCrae came out of the baseline and actually was out of the baseline when he knocked Randolph down after Randolph had put stuff at second base.
And Martin Spring said I'd argue with the scores tied to two.
They get the force at second base five four actually nettles had a lot of trouble getting that ball out of his glove had he gotten out right away the Yankees might have had a chance to turn a double play.
Randolph stood in there at second base and how McCrae threw a rolling block on him.
And knocked him behind second and then McCrae simply became entangled with Randolph and while they're on the ground Patek alertly scored from second base.
So Brett is on it first. They're two outs and the scores tie. The batter will be Al Cowan.
Now Martin has finished his discussion with Marty Spring said and Billy jogs back to the Yankee dugout.
Let's take 15 seconds for station identification on the New York Yankee home of champions radio network.
WMCA Strauss communications in New York. This is Mel Allen.
Emery doesn't discriminate against packages because of their size, weight or destination.
Emery the Air Force and Air Prey.
Here's Al Cowan. He's been up twice struck out both times.
Scores tied Yankees two Royals two in the top of the sixth.
Bish to Cowan's curve boy in the center field.
Mickey Rivers moving back. He's waiting and makes a catch and the side is retired.
Royals tied up with a run on one base hit. They leave a man on base.
At the end of five and a half to score the Yankees two in the Royals two.
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Oh Greg Nettles will lead off against Andy Astler playing the bottom half of sixth, setting the scores tied.
The Yankees two in the Kansas City Royals two.
Royals doing it on some tough base running by Hal McCrae. Winner in bold over will he ran off, he came entangled with Randolph and Freddie Pottek scored all the way for second base to tie the ball game up.
Nettles has popped the second flight to center. He's 0-for-2 against Andy Astler.
Here's Astler's first pitch to Nettles. Fastball is swung on and missed.
Catfish Hunter throwing on the Yankee bullpen and right-hander Mark Littell throwing for the Royals.
Astler winds and the one strike pitch.
Nettles went too far on a breaking ball. No balls, two strikes.
On deck is Thurman Munson.
And the two strike pitch.
Outside one and two.
Left side of the Royal infield playing Nettles to pull. That's Brett the third baseman and Pottek the shortstop. The right side playing straight away.
One two pitch. Swung on, fouled straight back.
Yankees have two runs on four hits. The Royals have two runs on two basets.
Sixth inning 2-2.
One two to Nettles.
Low and in the dirt.
Nettles is the third base.
Nettles wins on two basets. Sixth inning 2-2. One two to Nettles. Low and in the dirt. Two balls, two strikes.
Russ gets his back set ball, flips it out and gives Porter a new ball to throw out to Astler.
Two balls, two strikes on Nettles.
Here's a 2-2 pitch. Swung on and pulled foul outside first base.
Now Russ gets a new supply ball from the Yankee Fat Boy.
A lot of balls being fouled off this ball game. Normally you go through about four dozen baseballs in a ball game.
Here's a 2-2 to Nettles.
Swung on and pulled foul outside first base.
Here's a 2-2 to Nettles. Swung on and missed. Nettles goes after a high fastball out of the strike zone. One away.
Third strikeout for Randy Astler.
That'll bring on Mutson who is single and struck out. Thurman is one for two.
Thurman taking his time getting set in the batter's box. Infield straightens up form, so does the outfield.
Here's Astler's first pitch to Mutson. Curveball misses outside ball one.
Thurman batted 308 for the Yankees. Jobin on it runs for the third straight year.
Astler's 1-0 pitch. Swung on and missed. Curveball breaking down on Nettles 1-1.
Lettell will stop working in the bullpen. He's watching the action. Hunter is still throwing for the Yankees.
Boy, Gidry's pitching. Hunter just getting some work in. 1-1 to Mutson. Outside fastball 2-1.
Gidry's given up just two base hits.
Now Mutson backs out.
Astler with a 2-1 to Thurman. High and away ball three.
Not time is called. Darrell Porter, the catcher. Not talking to his pitcher.
On deck is Reggie Jackson.
And the Astler looking for some. Still looking. And finally shakes his head.
Now he nods and deals a 3-1. Swung on line. Base hit. Left center field for Mutson.
Thurman around first base and he's going to try. No, he stops.
Mutson was going to try for two and took a big turn there but changed his mind and went back to first base.
So Mutson's on it first. One away. And the batter is Reggie Jackson.
Thurman picking up his second base hit in the ball game in the Yankees fifth.
Jackson is still looking for his first. He's 0-2 in this ball game.
Reggie was 0-4 last night so he's about to. Astler sets and a pitch. Swung on and fouled off.
Mutson is now 15-30. 13-30. Thank you, Pam.
And American League Championship Playoff Series. That's over two years. That's well over 400.
Thurman some kind of clutch player. One strike pitch to Jackson. Inside it's one-on-one.
Had a great World Series last year for the Yankees. Just overshadowed by Johnny Bitch.
In fact, I don't even know if he were overshadowed by Bitch. Here's a one-one.
Swung on and missed. A ball and two strikes on Jackson. On deck is Lou Pinella.
Scores tied. Yankees two royals two playing the bottom half of sixth inning.
Mutson with a short lead off first base. He's checked by Astler and the 1-2 to Jackson.
He checks. Swing takes it down low at 2-2.
Royals with their in-field back looking for 2-2 except for Mayberry. He's holding Mutson at first base.
Astler once again takes a lot of time. Now he sets. 2-2 pitch to Jackson.
Her ball is inside. Three balls, two strikes.
Well, the count three and two will Martin run Mutson or we let him stay at first base.
Jackson strikes out quite a bit. Sometimes that dictates what a manager will do in this situation.
Let's see. Astler sets. Checked Mutson. Mutson's going. Pitch is in and near.
Shallow center coming on is Amazota backing up as Frank White and the second base but White makes a catch.
Mutson goes back to first base. Two outs to batter now is Lou Pinella.
Pinella is over two in this ballgame against Astler. He's bounced a short, bounced a second.
Now White, Herzog bounces out of the Kansas City Royal dugout. He's walking out to the mound. He wants a right-hander.
He wants a pitching change. Mark Letell. You know, Andy Astler has certainly pitched well against Yankees. Yankees beat him.
They've beaten Astler seven out of eight times. But Astler has given up less than three runs per ballgame to the Yankees.
And he'll leave here and he has no chance of winning this ballgame. Of course, he's quite fortunate that the Royals tied in last inning
as Alba Gray made a heads-up play tumbling over at Willier-Andoff and Potec score from the second base and tied up.
If it were not for that, Astler would have a chance to lose this ballgame. But the new pitcher. And he's Mark Letell.
And Letell is making his way to the mound.
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So Astler leaves and right-hander Mark Letell is now pitching for the Kansas City Royals. Yankees have a runner at first base.
They're two outs and the score is tied 2-2.
Recapped to scoring for you. The Royals got off first after Porter walked in the third inning. Frank White looped the single in the shallow left center.
Breaking his bat, Porter going to third. Then Freddy Potec and a line drive to Mickey Rivers in center.
And Porter tagged up and scored. And the Royals led 1-0. Yankees picked up two runs in the fifth inning after Penella bounced out.
Cliff Johnson hit a long home run to center. Field of Tide and won a piece. Then Champlers bounced out.
When he ran off, lined a single to the left field. He was balked to second base by Andy Hassler and scored on a single to left field by Bucky Dent.
That made it 2-1 Yankees. Then in the top of the inning, the Royals tied it.
After White struck out, Freddy Potec doubled. Al McCrae walked. And when George Brett bounced one to Lettuce,
Lettuce had a little trouble getting the ball out of his glove. What's the second base for the force on McCrae? And McCrae just bowled over.
Now, will he ran off and stayed with Randolph? And Potec alertly scored all the way from second base to tied it to a piece.
So that's where we are with two outs. Dent on it first, Mutson on it first base. And the batter is Lou Penella.
And the pitch to Penella. Swung on. Base hit past Brett. Mutson digging around second base. You'll go to third.
And the throw will be in at second. And Mutson goes in at third base at Brett. And Brett gets out of the way.
Now Brett Mutson talking over third. Mutson and Yankee team captain. He says, I gotta lead the way. And he's telling Brett to stay out of my way.
So the Yankees outrunners at first and third. Two outs to batters. Cliff Johnson. Cliff Johnson is bouncing second and hit a home run.
Solo home run back in the fifth inning. Lou Penella on it first. There Mutson on it third. Two outs. Four tied. Two, two in the sixth inning.
Pitch to Johnson. And he moves back from the fastball it's up and in. On deck is Chris Chambliss. A left hander, Steve Mingori.
And a right hander, Marty Patton getting loose for the Royals. Here's a set by Letell. The one over Johnson.
The inside, curve ball got the inside corner one and one. Cliff packed off that breaking ball. Yankees with the go ahead run down at third base.
Pitch to Johnson. Taking a short lead off first. Two outs. Now time is called. One and one on Johnson.
Letell at the belt. The one one pitch.
Line left field. That is a fair ball. Mutson scores. Penella going to third. And Johnson will go on to second base with a stand up double in the Yankees. Now it hit three to two.
And he hung it on the inside corner. Johnson backed off and lined it to left field. Mutson scored easily. Penella went to third.
And Johnson down at second with a double. Yankees now lead at three to two. And the batter is Chris Chambliss. And on deck is Willie Randall.
And the Royals are going to have to decide what to do to Chambliss. Do they pitch to him or do they put him on? Looks like they want to put him on. They load the bases up.
They don't know how they want to do it. A little pot check. That started and he just picked up an object and threw it out.
They're going to pitch to the Yankee ball boy. Royals are going to put Chambliss on the load the bases. There's ball one outside. They're going to pitch to Willie Randall. Yankees have three runs on seven bases.
And the Royals two runs on two bases against Ron Guidry. Key game for the Yankees and the Royals. Yankees need to tie the series in one game apiece. And the Royals need it because they'd like to go back to Kansas City with a two loving advantage.
They have ball four to Chambliss. And the bases are loaded. Bases loaded two outs for Willie Randall. Randall has bounced a third, singled and scored. Lettel sets.
And the Chambliss is going to pitch to Willie Randall. Her ball is too high ball one. Now Darrell Porter calls time. He's going on talking to Mark Lettel.
And the Chambliss is set by the right hander and the 1 0 pitch to Randall. No, that's a strike. On the knees. Willie didn't like the call. He backs out. And it's one and one. One ball and one strike to Randall. Bases loaded two outs.
And the Chambliss is at the belt. The 1 1 pitch. Swung on and missed. The third ball. A ball and two strikes.
And the Chambliss is at the third base. Flip Johnson down at second. Chris Chambliss at first. As Lettel sets. The 1 2 to Randall. Swung on. It right to Brett. He's going to score.
Swung in the second base is Willie Randall. And the Yankees no lead five to two. We'll wait on a scoring decision on that smash through George Brett.
Look what that ball was away from Randall. We went on and got it and hit a smash through the legs of George Brett scoring two runs. And we're still waiting on the official scores ruling.
And with runners at second and third two outs Yankees leading five to the batters. Bucky did.
An error charge the third base with George Brett. So Randall cannot get any runs battered in. Runs count on the board. The Yankees lead at five to here's that.
Lettel sets deals to death and it's outside ball one. Here by third base with George Brett. Let's send two rounds. One old fouled back in out of play. It's one and one.
We're away. Here's our wet and got starter Andy Hasler.
With much not at first base and two outs.
Lettel gave up a single to Penella. Run scoring double to Johnson. Did. Tried to hold up and did hold up. Two balls in one strike. Then Chambers was intentionally passed and Randall drilled one through the legs of George Brett.
Scoring two more runs and the Yankees lead at five to the count two balls in the strike on Bucky. They sit here might break this ball game open. Lettel sets and the two won the death swung on and missed two and two dead Joe.
Then I run his last time up with a single left field.
Now let's tell us at the bell to two pitch low ball three on deck is Mickey Rivers and if the tell doesn't get that you know that her sorrow brought to the bullpen bring on me and go to pitch the rivers. Now let's tell sets.
They are pitched to death swung on popped up right side Frank White the second baseman back enough. He's there makes a catch and the side is retired. But the Yankees pick up three big runs in the bottom half of six inning and at the end of six the Yankees lead the Royals five to two.
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Well at the end of six at the Yankees five runs on seven base sets the Royals two runs on two base sets and here to take you over the next reading to scooter Phil Rizzuto.
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Oh we got fifty six thousand how many two three oh well that's a big crowd that's got to be a new record standing room only and the Yankees treating their loyal fans to a big three run inning.
Bill White just gave me the sign for station break so we'll pause for station identification on the New York Yankees home of champions radio network WMCA Strauss communications in New York.
This is Mel Allen if Yankee pitchers want to see someone with a really great delivery they ought to call Emory Emory the Air Force and Air Prait.
Here we go. Top of the seventh Yankees leading five to two the Royals who are losing confidence all day yesterday and all last night giving out stories to the paper how much better they are than the Yankees.
Right now they're taking a back seat to the bombers as Amos Otis steps in.
Otis is looking for his first base set of the series he's flying to right and flying to center and Gidry's pitch is high ball one is Otis blocked the bun.
We're in the top of the seventh even Keith Morris is excited tonight. Very usually very cool calm and collected as Mr. Morris but.
Oh man I by getting the higher than this I'll start flying over Yankee Stadium.
The pitch is low and Otis moving around a lot in the batter's box it's two and oh they want to take a look at that ball.
The basket looks at it flips it back to Gidry. It'll be Otis Mayberry and Zep.
Otis makes everybody wait out there look at Billy Martin yelling at Otis get in the batter's box.
Oh that Billy he can't sit still and I don't blame him this a big big ball game the two pitch right down the middle strike call Otis looking right at Martin now as Martin's yelling at him.
Oh they're staring daggers at each other.
Otis keeps stepping out stepping back in two balls in a strike run Gidry winds the pitch line to center Mickey Rivers right there and make makes the catch.
That's what the Yankees were doing last night hitting the ball on the nose but right at somebody who's excited.
No this is boy I'd tell you just like last year the playoffs was so much more exciting than the World Series.
I can say that goes the Yankees lost four in a row to Cincinnati.
Big John Mayberry popped the second bounce to first getting a little cool here at the stadium.
As Gidry winds the pitch to Mayberry check to swing is down low ball one.
They have put the infrared lamps on here but the heat doesn't come down to where we're sitting.
Bart Lucci gets it and whoever's sitting above Jim Ogle sitting above him and he's getting a heat.
Jim Ogle paying us a visit from Florida swing and a miss one on one.
Jim who followed the Yankees for so many years one of their biggest boosters has retired from the Newark Star Ledger moved to Florida but can't stay away.
Gets in your blood.
One one pitch broken bat line a dead leaps got it.
Oh Yankees can't do anything wrong now that bat broke almost in half and the Bannon out Joe Zeb that spells ZDB.
He has struck out fly to right.
Two men are out.
Nobody on Yankees lead by two.
There's a fastball in their strike one call.
This run Gidry all year long has been saving the Yankees.
The ball upstairs and out of play the pitch strike three call.
One Gidry chalks up is six strike out of the ball game three up three down at the end of six and a half the Yankees five and the Royals two.
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I we get ready for the bottom of the seventh inning the Yankees in front five to two.
And Mickey Rivers will lead it off for the Yankees.
Mick has not had a base at tonight he was three before last night he's bounced ashore twice and bounced to first.
George Brett moves way in a third.
Mix about due to hit a ball or more chop right over his head Yankees sent eight men to the plate last inning to score three runs.
A big error by George Brett pitch to Mickey he fouled it just below a strike one.
These Yankee fans have been very patient.
One strike pitch fouled him back of the plate nothing in two.
On deck Greg Nettles.
Nobody out nobody on bottom of the seventh.
The kick high and it's one ball two strikes.
The tail winds high inside two and two.
Let's say the Littell brush Cliff Johnson back and Cliff who has been the key man for the Yankees tonight.
Single to drive in a run high fly center field aim a soda cruising under it he'll one handed and does one out.
Now Greg Nettles Greg looking for his first base hit of the playoffs was over four yesterday.
Oh for three tonight tonight he has popped a second line to deep right center and struck out.
Pitch to Nettles a curve a little high ball one.
Well always about the seventh inning have a lot of excitement in the stands swing and a miss couldn't check it.
You know whenever the Red Sox are here playing the Yankees has a lot going on in the stands and now the Royals will be the same way.
There's going to be some rivalry through the years.
Check swing grounds at a first may bury up where they will make the play unassisted.
And Greg has really been off stride.
He's trying to check a swing lot of half swings to out and Thurman Munson who started the big rally for the Yankees last inning.
Thurman is two for three tonight. He has hit in every playoff game the same as Freddie Patek.
Both years Chris Chambliss can do it if he gets a hit his next time up.
He's hitting every game but this one.
Pitch to Thurman swing and a miss strike one.
He's going to get a little bit of a tell. Two out nobody on basketball line a left center and that's in for a base hit.
Hold us over there backhand that was going to try for second.
But he slid head first and Patek tags him out.
He's going to get months and trying to stretch it. I thought for a moment that Thurman was going to barrel in and knock Patek into the left field seats but he went head first.
So for the Yankees no runs they hit no errors nobody left at the end of seven the Yankees five in the Royals two.
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All right Ron Goodry a little late getting out to the mound so he's still warming up.
No other games to report on there's a day off for travel in the National League playoffs.
They're tired at one apiece Philadelphia in Los Angeles and it looks like we're going to have a pinch hitter.
Let's see who number 12 is.
Who's number 12.
Who.
Would you spell out for me please.
A T H A N.
Dan Watten.
John.
I thought you told me done.
There it is on the back of that sheet right there.
It's John.
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Sounded like done.
So John Watten making his first appearance.
Ron Goodry.
Ready to pitch.
He's batting for Darrell Porter Porter had walked and scored and line the second base.
But Whitey Herzog now looking for some right hand hitters.
Frank White is on deck.
He takes the deep breath.
The pitch to Watten is in their strike one call.
Hi outside one on one.
We're in the top of the eighth inning.
Yankees trying even up.
I had one on one.
The American League playoffs.
Swing and a miss a good fastball that tailed away from Watten.
One ball two strikes.
Big right hand batter.
Here's a pitch struck him out.
He blew that fastball right by him.
Right guard number seven.
Ron Goodry right on target.
He's averaged a little over seven strikeouts for nine innings this year.
Frank White has singled to help build a run in the third and then struck out in the fifth.
One out nobody on pitch to Whitey strike one called.
On deck Freddie Patek.
Goodry's next pitch foul upstairs and out of play.
Nothing in two.
Goodry walks back on the grass and back of the mound.
Frank White behind on the count no balls two strikes.
Wind up by Goodry and the pitch popped up shallow right field.
Jackson moves in and one hands it.
Order the nonchalant that one two away.
And now Freddie Patek he's bounced the short hit a sacrifice fly to his drive in a run and doubled and scored another run.
Patek has hit in every game in the playoffs for Kansas City last year in this year.
Two out nobody on pitch by Goodry high ball one.
On deck Hal McRae.
Foul back to the screen.
One ball one strike.
Time called.
While Patek gets set in the box.
Goodry takes the deep breath.
Patek gets in delivers foul back and out of play.
One ball two strikes.
Eddie Goodry is throwing as hard right now as he was in the first inning.
Amazing where this kid gets his stamina and speed.
He weighs about 150 pounds.
One two pitch high fly straight away center Mickey Rivers cruising in under it.
Makes the catch in a one two three inning.
Nothing across at the end of seven and a half Yankees five in the Royals two.
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And the first batter will be Reggie Jackson.
The third fly to left and pop the second.
The other Yankees are coming through the clutch hits by Cliff Johnson a tremendous home run in the center field
and a single to give the Yankees their go ahead run and then the error by Brett lead in two more.
I let tells pitch to Jackson curve over strike one call.
It'll be Jackson Penella and Johnson.
One strike pitch in their strike to Jackson was bailing out and a breaking pitch came over.
Yankees have done a great job on George Brett to lead the league in batting last year and this year finished at 3 12.
He's looking for his first base out of the series.
The two strike pitch powled back on the screen he tried to slip the fastball by Reggie.
All right nothing in to the count wind up and outside one ball two strikes.
Nobody out nobody on bottom of the eighth Yanks in front five to the tail kicks delivers its low two and two.
Outfield really deep on Reggie in all fields left center and right.
The tail gets the sign and the pitch line drive base hit right field.
So Jackson gets his first hit of the playoffs very opportune moment leading off the bottom of the eighth.
That's the third hit off the tail.
Lou Penella the better Lou is bounced a short bounce the second single a left and score.
He got a clutch two out single in the sixth inning to keep the Yankee rally alive.
My time is called as a ball is thrown off the field by Freddie Patek Penella the better nobody out Jackson at first.
Mayberry holding a mind Yankee is leading five to bottom of the eighth stretch by Lattell throw the first base Reggie back easily.
I tell you why he heard Zog made himself out to be a genius in yesterday's game but I think tonight he pulled a big booboo when he took Hasler out when he did.
There goes Jackson swinging a missed road a second Jackson safe.
Holy cow that Jackson has got the most unbelievable stolen base record that leg in all he steals another base.
Jackson was only thrown out three times all year and now Penella went down to talk with Dick Hauser.
One strike Jackson is amazing when he steals he picks the time and something in back of Amos Otis and center field Reggie Jackson playing with a bad leg.
He's that second with nobody out.
See if Penella now was in a good right field hitter whether he's going to hit or a punt he's hitting and it's inside.
He was trying to go to right but it's one on one.
The tell now will try and pitch Lew inside so he can't hit the ball to the right side.
But Penella was a great student of hitting.
The stretch by the right ender and the pitch he's tried to go to right boy I tell you he ran up on the ball just try to slap at the right but missed it.
And it's a ball and two strikes.
Nobody out.
Jackson leading away.
The tell comes down slowly the pitch to Penella fly ball at deep center.
That'll get Jackson over he's tagging Otis under it makes the catch throw the third base not nearly in time.
Jackson's slide didn't have to.
So Reggie does his job Penella does his job and the Yankees have another running with scoring position for big clip Johnson.
That is not a sacrificed life but a good play by Penella.
And here is Johnson.
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Johnson.
Driven in two runs and scored two.
And the infield is in.
His double was off let tell.
In the sixth inning.
Jackson leads off third.
It's the Johnson's.
What a cut he had but he missed.
He was going for downtown.
Not really downtown that's uptown.
Downtown is in back a home plate.
He was going for the upper Bronx.
What a cut he had at that one on deck Chris Chambliss only one out.
Johnson really did a job just Friday is home run.
He's got a good job.
Dabbing at his eyes making hassle of weight.
I think the weight got to him.
The tell pitching from a stretch position checking Jackson.
Swing and a foul tip held by Watten and look he swung so hard he ended halfway down the first bases momentum.
It's 0 and 2.
Johnson limping back.
He does have that bad right ankle.
Little knee bend.
Johnson's an excellent actor.
Looking for a little sympathy from let tell.
Lipping around.
He might get it too.
Nothing in two on clip.
The tell looks in for the sign.
Steps off the rubber.
And the crowd booze.
No balls two strikes one out.
Yanks in front five to bottom of the eighth Jackson leading off third.
Pitch the chance almost a wild pitch good backhand grab by Watten.
Reason that's a tough name for me to say Watten.
He's missing a letter.
And they'll.
Get ready again.
Yankee crowd.
Standing ovation for striking out.
And now the big meeting on the mound with Chandler's up again last time up with men on.
They walk Chandler's intentionally and then Randolph hit the ground of that Brett booted allowing two runs to score.
And everybody remembers the dramatic confrontation between let tell and Chandler son of a gun they're going to walk him again.
When Chandler's hit that dramatic home run to win the pennant for the Yankees but they're going to give him another intentional walk.
Kansas City pitchers have been stingy with their walks.
Squidward walked only one man that was Chandler's in the ninth inning of the first game yesterday they took him out and Chandler's the only man to walk in this game.
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All right Willie Randolph who hit that hot shot that went right through the legs of George Brett Willie is single and bounce the third.
It's time that Whitey Herzog has tried to use strategy is backed by it on the night.
Big base hit.
That has driven in a big run in this game.
The pitch we need to miss one on one.
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One strike on Buckington pitch to Buckington foul upstairs and out of play two balls two strikes two out two men on Yankees leading six to two.
We're in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Mark Littell in relief of Andy Hasler the pitch foul that'll be back and out of play.
Another beautiful game against the Yankees.
And the play down by Russ gets wants a more baseball still two and two on Buckington.
And by Littell the pitch outside three and two so Chambliss and Randolph will be off and running three and two and two out.
Yankees were held at just one hit to the first four and a third innings.
Now have 10 base hits.
And the game is half but two the stretch the runners go the pitch low ball for the bases to load it.
And here comes why the Hertzog will make another brilliant move.
And Hertzog wants a left hander to pitch to Mickey Rivers.
And nothing like he has done tonight has been right.
So Littell leaves.
And we'll see who the left hander is coming on.
To recap this game for you the Royals scored first in the third inning when Darryl Porter walked Frank White had a broken bat single.
The shallow left center that advanced Porter the third and he scored on a sacrifice fly by pot.
And the Yankees went ahead two to nothing.
When Cliff Johnson with one out in the bottom of the fifth home in the deep center field bleachers with two out Randolph single.
Then single Randolph went to second on a book and scored on Bucky then single Yankees led two to one.
The Royals tied it up in the top of the sixth.
When after one out pretty pot deck doubled McRae walked in on the ground ball by Brett to nettles.
McRae hit willing Randolph and drove him almost in the left field.
And a run scored as Randolph was on the ground with the ball on the ground next door.
But then the Yankees bounced back with three big runs in the bottom of the sixth.
A one out single by Munson a two out single by Penella a double by Johnson on intentional walk to Chambliss and a big error by George Brett.
And now in this inning the Yankees have scored they lead six to two.
Steve Mingori the left hander is on and he will pitch to Mickey Rivers.
And if he serves Mickey one of those sidearm curves Mickey's going to slap it right down the left field line.
So Mingori is loosening up the bases of fully Yankees.
I'll tell you in the fifth sixth and here in the eighth inning the Yankees sending a lot of men up to the plate.
They sent six men of the plate in the fifth when they scored two they sent eight men of the plate in the sixth when they scored three.
And this is the seventh man to come to the plate here in the eighth inning.
Mickey's over for tonight's bounce to short bounce to first hit and or force play and fly to center.
And now about that Rod Carola the twins he hit 439 during the final month and was named the player of the month.
The only man ever win that on a twice in one year.
All right Rivers the battle with two out in the bases loaded Brett still playing in at third.
Kirby tried to slap it to left field and missed it. Wotman holds time and goes out to talk to Mingori.
On deck is Greg Nuttles still talking out on the mound.
Now Watson turns around puts the mask back on and comes back Yankees leading 6-2 here in the bottom of the eighth.
Mingori the glove on his knee comes down to the belt.
Curve it's inside one on one.
Mickey's trying to hit that ball to left field.
Mingori doesn't want to get that curve in on Mickey but both of them have been inside.
He gets a one away from the plate.
Mickey will serve it out there like a tennis player on a backhand shot.
Fastball outside to one. You've got to come over that plate if he walks Mickey another run will come across.
Bases of fully Yankees.
Chambliss at third.
Randolph at second.
Dent over at first.
Stretch by Mingori.
The curve is fouled just below as it's two and two.
Mingori goes to the rising bag.
Looks in for the sign.
Now comes set and the pitch curves swung at and missed right three.
So Mingori does his job but the Yankees pick up another run on a few bases.
Three men left at the end of eight. The Yankees six in the Royals two.
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Well on the scoreboard tonight's attendance fifty six thousand two hundred and thirty.
The total is for the two games a hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and sixty.
And it says the Yankees thank the greatest fans in the world.
And they certainly are proving it tonight.
They have all year. Paul Blair has moved into play right field for the Yankees.
As we go into the top of the ninth it'll be McCray Brett and Collins.
McCray has been a thorn in the side of the Yankees using a few of Eddie Stanky's old tricks.
To knock the ball out of the glove of first bucky dent and then Willie Randolph.
McCray has walked twice and struck out once.
Gidry Wines.
Swing in a miss at a curve strike one.
That said the Yankees will not soon forget the two plays that McCray pulled down at second base.
Rest assured.
The next pitch by Gidry just a little low one on one.
Top of the ninth the Yankees lead six to two.
The one one pitch swing and a miss strike two.
And Gidry has seven strikeouts he's allowed just two base hits and two runs.
He has walked three.
The one two pitch a little bit high two and two.
Now the two two delivery.
Oh man that was close I don't know where it was but it was called ball three.
Months and months and nowhere it was.
McCray got a break there.
Three and two.
And the pitch.
Popped up but I believe it'll be out of play.
Chambliss will not be able to reach it.
Now it's back about six rows.
Still three and two on McCray.
Sparky Lyle is up in the Yankee bullpen just in case.
The payoff pitch.
Bouncing a shot.
Dent in big hop throw to first they got him.
All right McCray went after a bad ball that time it was out of the strike zone.
Would have had a base on balls.
George Brett looking for his first hit in the playoffs.
He's fly to center bounce to second bounce to third.
One out nobody on.
Pitch to Brett strike one.
And the batting out of the batting.
He's got a lot of fans cheering below us.
Line as the first hit for Brett a line drive in the left field.
In his ninth at bat in the playoffs Brett gets his first hit.
With one out here in the top of the ninth.
And about an hour Al Collins Collins has struck out twice and fly to center.
Al Collins who had a big game yesterday with three base hits one of the Mahoma has been shut out.
Yankees lead six two here in the top of the ninth.
And a curve is over strike one call.
How is asking for time.
And Munson saying that Collins is out of the batter's box.
Russ gets measuring with the bat.
Making the line now and Collins was standing out of the batter's box.
Out of boy.
Fairman got to play this game according to the rules you know.
All happened a double day.
No what he was doing when he made the rules.
Munson moves up a bit on the plate now that Collins moved up.
And he's got three sets and the pitch swing and a strike two.
And now Russ gets will clean off home plate.
Nothing into the count.
Well Munson has given Collins a little bit to think about worry about his stance.
The two strike pitch.
Powell just got a piece of it barely fouled it off to stay alive.
One man out in the top of the ninth Yankees leading six to Chambler's playing in back of the runner at first.
Good to be comes to the belt the pitch fouled back and out of play.
It's a good way to come up with a few broken fingers trying to catch a foul ball against the wall.
All right Collins stepped out of the batter's box he's back in.
Goodry gets a sign from Munson and the pitch he reached out a ball about a foot outside the strike zone and fouled it down the right field line.
And again Russ gets once a new baseball.
Nothing into the count.
Goodry the pitch.
Oh we just barely fouled it off the end of the bat to stay alive again.
Goodry throwing some good pitches to Collins.
Goodry has not wasted a pitch on Collins.
Collins won't let him waste a pitch.
Time is called as a hat is on the ground out in right field recovered by the right field umpire Jerry Newdecker.
Picks it up flips it in the stands.
All right we're ready to go again one out top of the ninth the angst in front six two red at first.
And the pitch it high and deep to left field Penelope's got room though on the warning track makes the catch.
So the world now a little frustrated this is what happened to the Yankees last night all their long drives and line drives were caught.
And it's happening in Kansas City tonight.
Another ball game.
Different breaks.
Two out here's Amos Otis.
He's flying to right and fly to center twice.
He's out in the top of the ninth.
Red at first.
Stretch by Goodry.
And it's high and outside ball one.
John Maybury.
The one old pitch.
Fly deep the center but rivers with plenty of room to cross on their feet.
Mickey makes the catch in the ball game is over.
Oh they are mobbing Goodry what a job by the young left hand and no runs they hit no errors a man left.
The final score the Yankees six in the Royals two.
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Well the totals in the ball game for the victorious Yankees six runs ten hits one error for the Royals two runs on just three hits in one error.
The winning pitcher of course Ron Gidrie who went all the way and as we've said so many times he has been the stopper and the lifesaver for the Yankees all year.
The losing pitcher Andy Hasler pitched another fine ball game but he was the victim of Mark Littell coming on and giving up the run and two more runs after that the error by George Brett.
The big header for the Yankees in the ball game Cliff Johnson with a tremendous home run a deep center field and a double he drove in two runs and scored two.
Will he Randolph had a couple of base hit scored a run and drove in a run.
But he didn't drove in a run and two other runs scored on the error by Brett.
We'll be back with more in the game right after this.
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Well the playoffs all evened up same as the National League the Phillies in the Dodgers one on one the Yankees in the Royals one on one.
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The Yankees coming back to win a big big ballgame as they've done all year long.
Well this is Phil Risotto along with Frank Messer and Bill White saying so long from Yankees stadium in New York once again the final score the Yankees six in the Royals two.
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There's so many things you can say. This was a terrific game, an interesting game obviously all from the Yankees standpoint.
First of all the series is tied. The Yankees won 6-2. It's a 2 out of 3 series for the American League Championship.
It's all played in Kansas City. The Royals have the edge but the Yankees certainly can win 2 out of 3 and the Yankees have 3 starting pitcher set.
Torres, Figueroa and Tidro they're going to have to go at least 6 innings or so and then Sparky could relieve every day.
I don't know where we begin. I guess we've got to begin with a guy who's been the stopper all year long for the Yankees, Ron Guidry.
Not only does he throw the ball so hard but he has good control and tonight against a team that is a marvelous hitting ball club.
That has power, lefty hitting, righty hitting and the guys who hit for great averages.
A team that scored as many runs as the Yankees this year. He held them to 3 hits and 2 of those were by their 2 bunch of Judy hitters, Freddie Potec and Frank White.
It's sort of the same story but in reverse. They stopped the Yankee power yesterday and tonight Guidry stopped their big man except for the one hit that Collins got in the 9th inning.
Well, they did stop. Brett, right. They did stop him completely. It's interesting about how Kansas City obviously wants to play.
We're going to recap the game very quickly. The Royals had a stolen base in the first inning when McCrae got on and actually he wasn't a stolen base.
He munched and threw him out but he kicked the ball out of a dense hand.
The Yankee and Ruzito remember that from World Series?
I'll tell you what, Phillip Francis remembers that. Not too aptly either. But there was an example where they ran.
The reason I bring this up is because you can analyze these things to death but it depends upon execution as to whether or not you have a chance to go into your strains or weaknesses.
In the third inning when Kansas City broke the scoreless tie, by the way, Andy Hassel fished a hell of a game.
He did.
Exactly what they wanted him to do.
Right.
But in the third inning, Porter walked and the left-handers keep on walking Porter who has pretty good eye.
And then Frank White got one of the three Kansas City hits. I handled it. So that wasn't exactly a very strong hit.
Well, the loop runs the center.
Porter, who isn't fast at all, went all the way to third. Challenged the X and there was no playmate on him.
And then a line drive to Centipheal to Rivers in really relatively short Centipheal and Rivers threw very badly to the plate.
And Porter again, without great speed, tagged up and scored.
And later on the game...
I'll turn up just one second as you're detailing this game.
It's one of the things that you and I talked about yesterday as an overriding factor in this entire series.
And that is you can run on the Yankee outfielders, but you can't run on the Kansas City outfielders.
But really, I wanted to recap the game for people who tune in to the game.
But I recap with a point.
The point is, which I'll get now, I don't have to do it at the end dramatically,
but the point is that the Royals really wanted to run.
Every chance they had, they ran.
But you know what, as we said yesterday, you can't run if you don't get on base.
You can't steal first base.
And Kansas City's running game was stopped because Goodrie didn't allow anyone to get on base.
And so they can talk all the way.
You want about the Yankees having poor throwing in the outfield, which they do.
And Munson now and then having problems throwing runners out of second base.
Sometimes he doesn't have problems, by the way.
It doesn't matter if the pitching is good.
And Goodrie's pitching was so strong, Kansas City not only couldn't run, they couldn't get on base.
The Yankees made it 2-1 in the last of the fifth, and Hassler was pitching so well.
Hassler comes over the top with the hard-breaking stuff, and his pitches really kind of act like a sinker.
And he had Cliff Johnson foul popped out.
Whereas the first big play of this American League Championship series, Darrell Porter came back,
overran the ball, reached back, and went out of his glove, and Johnson had a life.
And you almost felt that when Johnson had a life, something was going to happen.
There was one out, no one on the fifth.
If he got Johnson out, he had the left-handed chambliss.
It looked like the Yankees were going to be out in the fifth inning without a run-down.
One nothing at the end of five.
But Porter dropped the ball.
That could have been the turning point of the game.
There were so many things that happened tonight that could have been turning points.
And certainly that was one in a whimsical sort of way.
I think of, I think back to Johnson getting something in his eye.
And it could have been a home run.
He's trying to wipe away or wipe it in.
But have you ever seen things happen like that?
You knew, you almost felt in your bones as soon as Porter let that ball sail away from him.
When you give a batter a new life, he generally comes through by getting a base hit.
Reminds me of the time when Barrow dropped the third out on Ted Williams in the ninth inning.
Of course they were ahead, I think it was eight to nothing.
But a no-hitter was in the balance there.
But he got him out on the foul on the very next pitch from having Reynolds.
But go ahead, I've interrupted your review.
The point that you knew, you felt something happen, Mell and I watched the game in two different places.
I just wanted to feel the same feeling.
And Cliff Johnson really hit home run.
He hit a line drive to center field that wasn't close.
It banged off the black pitting area.
The old wall behind the new fence.
The interesting thing to me was that you could see him hoping and hoping and hoping.
I think of the scores, one nothing Kansas City at this point.
As he got to first base, went on an after-you-rounded first base, his fist finding went up into the area.
So that ball bang up against it.
What a homer.
Now here's a let's stop for a minute now, or assessment.
First of all, let me break the station.
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Real people radio and Mell and I be with you till midnight with the post-game rehash.
We have things to talk about tonight, not just because the Yankees won, but there was some flavor in the game.
And maybe a little bad blood being incurred between the two teams.
Johnson at the home run, it was tied at one.
I must stop for a minute now.
You have known so many players in your life.
You have seen this so far off in the night.
Go back a year.
The Houston Astros, I knew Tal Smith very well here in New York.
So I've kind of followed his progress in Houston.
The Houston Astros determined that Cliff Johnson was going to catch for.
They had Bob Watson at first base.
There's no D.H. in the National League.
And Johnson the year before had come up after a great year with Denver in the Pacific Coast League.
He had great power.
And they ran crazy on Johnson.
And the word went out and the word is fatal in baseball.
Boy, you get labeled there.
It's like being labeled a criminal in society.
They ran Johnson crazy.
Now who knows, maybe the pitches.
We don't see the Houston games often enough.
Johnson got off to a slow start.
And by mid-season or so, Houston got off to a bad start.
They put Johnson on the bench and kept him there.
And here's a guy who's not young, came up late, languishing on the bench and had a reputation that there's only one place you could play in first base.
And of course Bob Watson's playing first base for Houston.
So this year, in mid-season, not being used, or in June, the Yankees make a deal to bring in Johnson.
And now he's starring.
56,000 people giving him a standing O.
He is a pre-agent.
There's got to be a lot of teams that will be interested in this guy who if he played every day for it, probably hit 30-35 home runs.
He has caught very well for the Yankees.
And he's got to be the happiest guy.
His life absolutely changed.
He did a 180 in the span of being dealt.
Now, is that, and that happened so often?
I have to just add one other little touch because you never know about being nice to people, let us say.
Gabe Paul, who's general manager, had Houston briefly.
Right.
When you mentioned Tal Smith, I think he followed Gabe, didn't he?
Right.
So there was a connection that eventually led to Johnson coming to New York.
Very much, well, of course, when Gabe got here to New York, he needed an assistant.
And he brought in Tal Smith from Houston.
Tal Smith a couple of years here before graduating general manager.
And that's how deals are made.
And I'll be damned if Johnson hasn't just turned his life around.
He had a great season as a D.H. and playing giving Chambliss an occasional rest during the year and months and back to play.
And I do, but since we won't, I was going to fill in for Barry Gray tonight.
We won't have time.
And if I was going to do Barry, sure, we would have taken calls.
But because people are always willing to or trying to knock, it'd be very easy if the Aggies lost for my first call as they always do.
They always find the guy on the bench who hasn't played.
Why didn't you play so-and-so?
I could be a guy who's averaged 120 for his 20-year career.
Why did they play so-and-so?
Well, Billy Martin took out Roy White pretty popularly Yankee to put Penella and Lef to D.H. Johnson against the Lefty.
And Penella had a base hit yesterday and was robbed of a home run or at least an extra base hit.
Johnson had a base hit yesterday and today Johnson had two big hits, including the home run.
And Johnson and Penella had back-to-back hits off Lattell to break open the game.
So I think that point should be made about Billy Martin because he'd hear about it if the reverse.
I wonder if Cliff Johnson won't play in Kansas City.
Anyway, after Johnson's home run, the next break in the game came when Randolph got a base hit and Hassler balked him to second.
And that was a big balk because Dent then hit a kind of a fly ball single that Joe Zeb got a bad break on.
And the Yankees led 2-1.
And then Kansas City tied it up in the 6-mell, again, just scratching a run against Guidry with one out,
Pontek doubled to right center field.
It was a good hit. It was a line drive. It was that first decent hit of the game.
Hal McCrae walked and then Brett hit a double play ball to Nettles.
And I got to ask your opinion, does Nettles juggle the ball in this ball?
Right, right.
He didn't get it out right away.
That led to what you were going to talk about in your opinion.
Now, he throws the second base now for those who didn't tune in. McCrae did what runners do normally,
and that's go into the second base from heavily, but McCrae threw a great block, knocked Randolph down.
And as Randolph's on the ground, Pontek is so quick, ran around third and scored and tied the game at 2.
Now, what were your thoughts on that?
On the play, it may have seemed that McCrae went out of his way.
A lot of people, obviously, Billy Martin came out to argue,
but often a manager will come out to argue just for the sake of keeping this club hyped up.
But he actually hit him right near the back, but he threw such a beautiful football block,
he took him a few feet off. In fact, he went to the player at A&M.
I'm just curious. I know he went to the player at A&M.
I'm wondering if he didn't play some football down there. He had to, but he didn't hit him out of the baseline, so to speak.
He didn't go for Randolph.
Randolph actually was right at the back, having taken a somewhat belated throw because Nettles had just juggled the ball just long enough.
And though he got the force out just as he was ready to pivot, he went into him with the obvious idea of taking him so completely out of the play to prevent the double play.
But having thrown such a beautiful block and knocked him down at the ground,
Patek, who's a great runner, and Barry Lert along with the third base coach, just kept on going because Randolph just couldn't get up.
He couldn't have thrown the ball at a great beat.
I agree with you because he hit him right at the back. He didn't go out of his way.
Now sometimes when you see a guy go way out of his way, way out to the right side,
at the Yankees, long before Charlie Finley ever thought of it, because Casey Stingel has a great team in the 50s.
They used to have a designated runner who did play football in Nebraska, and Bob Servi is also a good hitter.
But very often Bob Servi would be sent into the first base just to break up a double play, right?
They would use Bob for two things. One to intimidate an infielder to break up a double play.
And the other, in the case of another player trying to break up a double play, and going out of his way to start a fight.
And I remember one situation out in St. Louis happened to be Clint Courtney, who really has got a great sense of humor.
I think he's passed away last year, so. But Clint had been traded away, and he actually said when he came up to the plate,
I'm going to get me somebody because McDougal, on the top of the 10th inning, coming home, didn't slide,
but threw a block into Courtney and made him drop the ball and gave the Yankees the leading run.
Courtney leads off last 10th inning, hits the right field screen, Bauer plays the rebound perfectly.
Courtney had no chance, even a little block had no chance of making a double out of it.
But Courtney just kept on going because he said, I'm going to get me somebody.
And he went for Rizzuto, who was taking the relay out on the grass beyond second base, and he spiked Bill up above me.
And could have spiked him up around the face or something like that. But anyway, two Yankees finally got a hold of him,
pulled his arms back and big Bob served, just hauled off and smacked him right in the middle of the face.
I have to laugh at it now because it didn't do any damage of a serious nature to Courtney, but that's another reason they use Bob serve.
Yeah, yeah, I will remember.
Well, we have you two in the six and before we get to the last of the six, as they say in a radio, here is, we'll leave you two to...
You only talk about the cricket shops, I want Mel to throw in some good words for the cricket shops.
Fine. As a matter of fact, I've been telling a lot of the folks about the cricket shop, Long Island's five towns most complete men's and boys' shop,
and you'll find it at 112 Spruce Street in Cedarhurst, and I've been talking about it, I guess, for over a year.
The president of the cricket shop is a loyal Yankee fan named Dick Conn, and he told us the other day he had the greatest year ever last year,
and is beating all figures so far this year. As he says, it's like old times, baseball, the Yankees, in the playoffs and the cricket shop.
Seriously, the cricket shop offers you a buying experience like no other men's and boys' shop, three levels of all the most creative fashions for men and boys at affordable prices.
They have an exceptional shoe salon and tuxedo sales and rental department, too, and the cricket shop has just introduced Trezame.
Trezame. Trezame. Pistrami, Trezame. I got it right that time.
Trezame, a fabulous ladies boutique for the unusual and ultimate in fabric and design for the chic woman.
And right now, the cricket shop also has a playoff special on bested corduroy suits, originally $110, now priced at just $84.90.
So how about going on down to the cricket shop at 112 Spruce Street in Cedarhurst, take the whole family, and tell them that John Sterling and Mel Allen sent you, will you?
We'll appreciate that.
Yeah, now, as far as managerial strategy is concerned, and I tell my audience all the time, it's something I loved, Mel, all the years you did the Yankees.
You always were managing. I mean, you were second guessing people, but I mean, you were giving your thoughts well.
Now, as they said in the pinch, here, really, but here, I thought Hasler was tiring, or I thought he just was running out of steam because he was getting the ball up.
And he doesn't have that kind of stuff.
He doesn't have stuff like Gidry, he can get the ball up. And what I'm going to say eventually is I really agreed with Whitey Herzog, and Herzog is going to be knocked badly in the newspapers tomorrow.
And I'd love to disagree with those writers. He might have chosen the wrong relief pitcher since he's got quite a few.
But anyway, in the last of the six inning, it's tied at two. Muntzen's on first base, I think he got a base hit.
And with one out, Nettles struck out on a high pitch, and Muntzen got a base hit. Jackson was up and Hasler got Jackson out.
So I think he achieved the purpose. And I said to myself, well, I'll be surprised if Herzog, now that the lefties are through, they had two big writers coming up and Aaron and Johnson,
I would have go for a right-hander in the bullpen. And Mel, that's what he did. And you know that Herzog is going to be knocked heavily.
He took out Hasler and he brought in Mark Lutel.
Well, you know, just before you go further at that point, you go back just an inning, two-thirds before that, in the fourth inning, and this is what a manager often will look at.
Nettles, while he went out, hit the ball very close to the center field, right center field fence, and Otis caught it.
And after Muntzen looked at the third strike, then Jackson belted one at almost, came very close to going out. So you could see that where over the first three innings,
Hasler was making him hit on the ground quite a lot. All of a sudden, they were hitting that ball deeper and deeper and deeper.
And then in the fifth inning, is when Johnson hit that home run, then came a couple of base hits, the ball came in the base hit. And so then in the sixth inning, again, there was a base hit.
So he saw that the ball was rising, he was tiring, as you say, and I think it was a good move on this point.
Yeah, I really do. Now, I'm sure that in Kansas City, they're going to say, ah, Doug Burd's been his top man, he should have brought in Bird then instead of Lutel, or he should have written him in Gloria.
But he brought in Lutel, and Lutel didn't have it, and here are the two guys that Martin put in his lineup, and Ella hit a line drive single.
And that Muntzen went around the third on the base, even though it was ahead of him to left field.
And then Johnson hit a line drive, doubled on the left field line, and Johnson get a run from there then, and one going away.
And the Yankees led three to two, and second and third and two out, Chambliss, they gave Chambliss an intentional pass.
The left hand hit it, it bring up Randolph, and again, I thought that was a good move by Herzog.
But the next batter up, Randolph.
That's always Chambliss who hit the home run off with Lutel at one last year's game.
The second and third, though, he set up a fours on a base, and you set up a right hand hit it like Randolph, and Willie's a good hit.
He's not as good a hitter as Chambliss, and Randolph had a hard ground ball, which went through Brett's legs, and that was the game.
It made it five-two, and that was the game, and I'm sure that move is going to be heavily criticized, and I thought it was a good move.
I don't see how anybody knows a little bit about baseball. I don't claim to know all about it, so I don't want anybody to misunderstand me.
But I think that was a perfect move on the part of any manager in that spot to put Chambliss on.
And bring him Lutel, too.
And bring him Lutel.
So that's the question, that's what's going to be a question.
And you know what? Since Hasler will never, in the history of this world, throw a pitch in this game from two outs in the sixth inning on, no one will ever know.
So it's a very easy thing to say, well, Hasler has some problems, and he was getting them out. There was two outs in the fan-on.
Anyway, it really didn't matter, because Giddy was that good.
After the base hit by Patek in the sixth inning, he gave a base hit to White in the third, a base hit to Patek in the sixth, he didn't give up a hit in the seventh and eighth, and the ninth inning, a harmless single to Brett.
And that was at the Yankees' go-to-another run in the eighth inning, which Reggie Jackson set up on a single and a steal, and moving over to third to red, I've got a base hit.
And it was six to two, and Mel, the Yankees have done what they absolutely had to do. I mean, no question. They absolutely had to win the game.
No question about that.
And now they've won it, and now it's a three-game series in Kansas City, and the National League is a three-game series in Philadelphia.
We'll try to look ahead and talk, well, we have about 14 more minutes, so we'll have a chance to look ahead and talk about Kansas City, and then the three games that will be played, or the two out of three games that will be played in Kansas City in just a moment.
Right now, this word for the cricket shot from Mel.
Before I do that, John and I underscore something that you've been talking about up to now. The Royals, as you pointed out, were trying to run on the Yankees.
No matter what position, they were trying to steal on Munson. And they were trying, in other words, to intimidate him again tonight early, and in that third inning, there was an important play.
When Mac Gray was the hitter, and you had men on base, and Munson called for a pitch out of Mac Gray and caught a runner stealing.
Remember that? That was a key play early.
Yes, it was, and that was after they scored the run.
And he called for the pitch out of the right shot. By the way, that man, Al, played with Munson.
He was going to do the ball on the ground.
Right, and then got the short off and put the tag on.
And you folks, you make quite a play too, and a good play by going out to do something I'm going to ask you to.
You know, some of the greatest Yankee fans are kids. They know every player, every number of each uniform, and you usually know the batting order, starting pitchers of the teams that they root for.
Well, the cricket shop in fashionable C. DeHurst specializes in youngsters.
They dedicate themselves to making all of you young men out there look right and feel good about it.
The Cricket Boy Shop offers one of the largest selections of suits, sports jackets, outerwear, shirts, and jeans. Everything you can think of.
I think the largest selection all of New York. They have top brands.
I'm coming from such young men's designers as Pierre Cardin, Yves Saint Laurent, John Weitz, Mighty Mac, Robert Bruce, and many others.
And right now, the president of the cricket shop, Dick Kahn, is offering a sensational Yankee playoff special for boys.
All dungarees are discounted an incredible 50%.
So I'd suggest you go on down to the cricket boy shop located at 112 Spruce Street in C. DeHurst, Long Island. All durations are free, and Huskies and Slims are available too.
By the way, they're open Wednesdays and Fridays till 9.30 p.m.
And when you do go, be sure to tell them that John Sterling and Mel Allen sent you. Thank you.
Johnny?
All right, Mel. We have about 11 minutes left or so. The Yankees in this must game.
And I'll tell you what, I was getting a little apprehensive when it was 1-0 in the fifth and Hassler was getting him out.
When Johnson popped up a look of those two outs, and you start, whenever a team is leading, or whenever the other team isn't hitting, you start thinking one team is, can't be beaten.
He'd retired 11 in a row over a stretch in there.
And as you said, there was ground ball, ground ball, ground ball, and the left hand hitters weren't threatening them at all.
And then that all changed, and now the Yankees look like they're the superior team. If you don't hit, you can't win.
Pitching is the name of the game.
Really is.
Now, the Yankees go into Kansas City with Torres and Figueroa and probably Tidro on Sunday.
I say probably they may need Tidro to just step in early.
If they lose tomorrow, they'll need them all in the next day.
That's right. Unless they're saving him for the junior prom, they lose Friday.
You find it interesting to see Hunter loosening up tonight?
Yeah, I think he was throwing for that purpose to find out, can he pitch it all? Can he give them two winnings?
Because they're going to need a guy, if they run into trouble early, to pitch the third or fourth or the fifth before a while, can come in the sixth or seventh.
I wonder, I really wonder about Gidry. You know, it's a very, as you know, very cool night.
I don't know what the temperature is, but I bet the temperature isn't above 50 degrees.
And I wonder how much it took out of Gidry. I mean, the arm can only take so much.
I wonder if he could come back and pitch Sunday.
Well, if the adrenaline flows, as it generally does in this sort of thing, it might help him somewhat.
But, as you know, John, his case history, so to speak, has been that of going along brilliantly, per say, six innings, and then starting to fade a bit.
But with the cool of weather, and the fact that I don't know how many pitches he had to throw, but he was giving it everything he had.
After all, it's only 26 years of age, and I think that now what's going to really happen, he'll just tell whoever goes out there, just give me everything you've got for as long as you can, and I'll bring somebody in.
Right. So Billy has to have Tidio with the ready, if Torres or Figueroa, and or Figueroa, run into trouble early.
And whereas Whitey Herzog has his pitching set, a splitter-off will pitch if there's a fifth game with three days rest, obviously.
Leonard and Colburn go on the next two days. And, you know, everyone going into a game, every announcer, for some reason, wants to go back to records, history, tradition, etc.
to give them a background. And you know what? The game tomorrow in both Philadelphia and Kansas City doesn't depend on, won't be influenced by anything that's ever happened before.
Because if you look at it on the surface, Philadelphia and Kansas City should win because they happen to play great in their home park.
And I'm sure everyone's saying, hey, you know, why can't they win two out of three? You mean that you don't think they're going to win two out of three, but I don't know why anyone would think that would happen.
No one knows what's going to happen in the next three games, and the Yankees may be one pitch or short because they don't have that one or two extra guys in the bullpen.
Well, here's the case in point tonight. Hasler, as we had talked before the ballgame did on the way, does have a background of lack of control.
But yet tonight he had control. And so how do you know what's going to happen? No one knows. If we didn't know, you and I would be millionaires by tomorrow night, wouldn't we? We could have to send again.
I tell you, I told it to a caller a few days ago when he was asking me about the outcome and for predictions, I said, if I knew, boy, I'd hawk everything I've got, you know, and then retire.
All right. How about Penella and Johnson? Here's another thorny problem that Martin has to rest with. And I'm going to take you back. I am going to take you back very quickly here.
Okay.
I know you'll remember this. Casey Stengel was, he wasn't the first of anything. Everything has been done all throughout life. But Stengel, seeing how McGraw managed when he was a giant many years ago, certainly developed to a fine art,
he was a big player in the tuning because he had so many good ball players. He had what was called the Yankee Irregular surrounding Maddo and Barrett. And in the 56 series, when the Dodgers would pitch a left hander, he'd play Howard and Lovefield and Scarring at first.
And in the last game, when he got to the seventh game, the game that cooks pitched, Stengel, you know, visited by someone from another planet in the morning, decided to go with his two right hand hitters in Ebbetsfield against the right hand pitcher.
I think the reason for that was, well, I'm sure that what the reason was, it's easier to hit one out of, it was easier to hit one out of Ebbetsfield into the left field seats than it was over that high wall in right field.
And that was, he played percentages right to the hilt. In fact, he would send up Enos Slaughter to bat against a bench hit against a left hand pitcher and everybody said, why did you do that?
Well, he played with that fellow out there in St. Louis long enough to know the left hander could hit a left hander. Interpreting Stengel, that fellow out in St. Louis was a museum.
Right, they saw all his left handers.
Everybody was running right to the notes and he'd say, gee, they didn't wait long enough for me to finish. He said, there is one type of left hander I won't throw him up there against. And that's the guy that throws a real good sidearm left hander. I won't pinch it against him.
So he had everything down to a very fine arm.
For those who don't, and sometimes you have to go back because everyone doesn't go back like we do in the recall of these great Yankee World Series games. In that seventh game, although they didn't need it, it was the game and very at the 2-2 run homers in the first and third.
And Don Nucum slugged the parking attendant as he was leaving.
He had one off his right here and another one low outside. I don't blame you for being angry.
But Howard hit a home run to right field of all places, which he did. Now Howard and Scarrant had to learn to hit to right field because of Yankee Stadium.
They had good power to right center.
Right, later in the game Scarrant hit a Grand Slam home run. So there was Casey. Anyway, the reason I bring that up is Martin has to decide, do I put in Roy White in left field, which then makes him D.H. either Penella or Cliff Johnson?
Or do I leave it with Penella and Cliff Johnson who are really hot bats?
I'll tell you, this is going to displease a good friend of mine, Roy White, and a good friend of yours. But I would like to bet that I wouldn't like to bet at all. I don't know what that means.
But in short series, you go with hot hitters, don't you? And I would kind of expect Penella and Johnson to both play.
I would too. The only thing that might enter my mind at this point is to try and start out with as good a defense as you can at the outset.
And if you maybe get ahead a little bit, or if you don't get ahead, or you're staying even, you've got something to throw in there in the sense of power.
It's one of those things that, you know, we could sit here and talk about that all night.
I know that Joe McCarthy, when I first started out, said, forget murderers, or what we went on as defense. Stangle the same way. Any good manager on 10, that's what you went on.
Before Mel talks about the cricket shop, I do want to say one thing. It's fun when you see a team play, you know, in Kansas City, we don't see the Royals play all that much, and I haven't seen them play since August.
And I'll tell you, who's impressed me in the two games. Now we're going to see him for at least two more, maybe three more games. And that's Frank White.
He is a marvelous fielding second baseman. And they've improved a lot since White became their second baseman.
Well, we have a couple minutes to go, and before we continue, here's Mel for the cricket shop.
The cricket shop. Long Island's great place to go shopping. A few men and boys.
The most complete men's and boys' shop at 112 Spruce Street in Cedarhurst.
I've been talking about it for a long while. The president is Dick Conn, he's a great Yankee fan, and he's celebrating these fabulous playoff specials.
Pierre Cardin wool blend baseball jackets, regularly $80, now just $40. Pierre Cardin wool blend toggle coats with hoods, regularly $110.
They are playoff priced at only $55, and bested corduroy suits, regularly $110, and now just $84.90.
It's just like old times, baseball, the Yankees, and the cricket shop. And as Dick Conn says, all number one.
The cricket shop offers a buying experience like no other men's and boys' shop.
You'll find three levels of all the most creative fashions, including an exceptional shoe salon and Tuxedo Reynolds and Sales Department.
So how about going on down to the cricket shop at 112 Spruce Street in fashionable Cedarhurst.
Take the entire family and tell them that John Sterling and Mel Allen sent you.
We'll certainly appreciate it, and I know Dick Conn will.
John? Okay, tomorrow afternoon the Phillies and Dodgers, Bird Hooten will pitch for the Dodgers, and the young right-handed Larry Christensen will 19 games this year.
He really throws hard. We'll pitch for the Fills, and tomorrow night the Yankees will go with Mike Torres, and Kansas City will pitch their number one pitcher, right-hander Dennis Lundett.
We're going to do something a little different after the 7 o'clock news tomorrow night.
We'll begin our pre-game show. I'll be in New York and Mel will be in Miami, where he's going to do hurricane football on Saturday.
Who are you playing Saturday? Kansas.
Ah-ha. I have a big eight.
All right. And so we will see you after the 7 o'clock news, approximately about 7.15, I would guess, and if the phone lines are working and there's no hurricane.
You're going to be in way two.
Yeah, we'll be all over this, but we'll be in Baltimore on Saturday.
So Mel, I can congratulate you on a big Wednesday night, and we'll talk to you from Miami. Have a good trip tomorrow, and we'll talk to you tomorrow evening.
Thank you very much, John. It's always a pleasure working with you. I hope you folks will drop us a note and let us know a little bit about what you might like us to talk about.
Right.
If you don't like what we have been talking about, let us hope that this series continues through the back of your head.
See you tomorrow right after the 7 o'clock news, as John Sterling. Have a good night.