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On Friday, October 7th, 1977, the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Philadelphia Phillies at
Veterans Stadium for Game 3 of the 1977 NLCS. Los Angeles bounced back in Game 2 with a
7-1 victory over the Phillies, tying the series at one game apiece. The series headed to
Philadelphia for Game 3 at Veterans Stadium. This audio recording is from the radio broadcast
featuring announcers Ralph Keiner and Jerry Coleman.
Right hand batter and the next pitch is popped up into a shallow center field. Moving up
in the ball is Gary Maddux, an outstanding center fielder, and he makes the play. And
the interesting thing about that is that Maddux running to that ball was not limping. He missed
the first games of the series because of an injury to his knee. So Maddux is not limping.
Apparently he is all right and they can certainly use his speed. The Lopes flies out to center
field. That'll bring up Bill Russell, who's had two hits and nine times up so far in the
series. Russell a right hand batter. And Christensen with his first delivery. It's too low for a
ball. Christensen won his first major league game against the New York Mets. At that time
was a different pitcher than he is now. He took a lot of time on the net now and now he
works very quickly. He comes back with a fastball. It's fouled back out of play. Lopes for the
283. Bill Russell at 278. Russell with four home runs. 51 runs batted in. And now the
next delivery and it's lying right at the second baseman. Haken by Ted Sizemore. Two
men away. Well, Turner, have you noticed how so often with young pitchers who delay their
pitching on the mound that one of the standard procedures is to try to get them to speed it
up and it seems to help a lot of them. Really has helped Christensen. He had a record of
19 and six and he certainly has speeded up his delivery. Now the batter coming up is
Reggie Smith. He's two for eight in the series. Reggie with a fine here hitting 307 with 32
home runs. 87 RBI. He takes a called strike. Christensen had a record of no wins and two
losses against the Dodgers this year and the next delivery is grounded foul. Took something
off the pitch. A good change up and Smith out in front grounding the ball off to the
right side. And the first game of the season series with the Phillies and Dodgers, Christensen
was really jumped on by the Dodgers and was a losing pitcher. Pitch high a fastball. They
knocked him out of the box with seven runs on seven hits after one and two thirds in
the Reggie Smith and Ron Say had back to back homers in the first inning to get things going
against Christensen. That was back on May the sixth. Now a slow change up. It is just
out of the strike zone and the count at two balls and two strikes. Smith has a reputation
around the league of having trouble with off speed pitching but not much. So Christensen
tall in the mound and his next delivery to Smith. It is hung on a net, a fastball and
Reggie Smith has struck out a one, two, three inning for Larry Christensen and the score
at the end of one half inning hits the Dodgers. Nothing in the Phillies coming up. Well this
is a pivotal game for both teams of course. They are tied up one and if you lose this
game you really have your back to the wall. There is no tomorrow. You have to win on the
following day. So both these teams know this very well. I like Dodgers Stadium where the
first two games were played. The ball carries very well at Veterans Stadium. The ground
balls move quickly on the astroturf and a lot of the Phillies players hit the ball on
the ground quite a bit so that should help them a little bit. It will also be sharply
cooler and it is sharply cooler in front of all of you as was mentioned overcast. Every
so often a little bit of sunshine will come through. The temperature will stay around
60 throughout most of the ball game. A wicked cross body block by Kansas City's Hal McRae
sparked the New York Yankees to rally behind the pitching of Ryan Didri on Thursday night
and even the American League Championship series at a game apiece with a 6-2 win over
the Royals. The American League series moving back to the artificial turf in Kansas City
on Friday with a good chance of rain tonight.
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of Major League Baseball is prohibited. Here at Veterans Stadium we might mention that
there is a wet strip behind the shortstop and in front of the left fielder running about
150 feet long and maybe 40 feet wide. If the ball is hit there it may be a factor. The
ground gets very slippery in those wet areas. There are some wet sections in right field
but the infield is completely dry and the action continues now with Bert Hooten on the
mound and Ralph Keiner to call it for you. And the Philadelphia Philly partisan crowd
starting to whoop it up. There's a difference in the crowd. Dodgers send in the crowd more
to date. They do cheer when their home team comes through. The two Grand Slam home runs
hit by the Dodgers were certainly received by the fans with as much enthusiasm and applause
of any group of people gathered together. But here you'll find the Philadelphia Philly
fans keep it up constantly. It's a noisy, noisy stadium. Veterans Stadium that seats
over 58,000. Bert Hooten with a record of 12-7. 0-2 against the Dodgers. 2.62 ERA. Born
in Greenville, Texas. Was in All-America at the University of Texas. As a pitcher he throws
a knuckle curve and he developed that while trying to learn how to throw a knuckleball.
He never could master the knuckleball and ended up with a knuckle curve which reacts
a little bit like a knuckleball. It breaks down and sometimes it breaks down and in and
sometimes down and out. Very tough pitch to hit and especially if it's kept low. Hooten
had 153 strikeouts in the regular season and he starts his windup and the first pitch is
chopped out to the mound. It is taken by Hooten right on top of the mound and McGride who
had been 4-9 in the series has thrown out. Knuckle curve and bounce and Hooten now looking
up and he had some trouble with the sun on that ground ball. Shades of Billy Low, Ralph
Keiner. That sun is low in the sky and when that bounced at him you can see him fighting
the sun. It was a one hopper. You go back to the old Brooklyn Dodger days of Billy Low
who complained he lost the ground ball and the sun. Nobody would believe him but he can
be done if the ball is chopped high enough and we're on artificial turf and now we're
going to have time called as Ron Say goes to the sunglasses. We have sun here at Philadelphia
breaking through the overcast. Field dimensions are 330 down each line. 371 in left center
field and right center field. 408 in center field and the fence 12 feet high. Artificial
turf and it's fast. Throw one man away and one pitch and Larry Bowe the batter. Larry
is switch hitter batting from the left hand side. McGride hit 316 in the regular season.
Bowe hits 280 and the first pitch is taking a called strike. The ball popping out of the
glove of Bill Yeager. Steve Garvey at first base. David Lopes at second base. The short
stop Bill Russell. Third baseman Ron Say. In the outfield and left field Dusty Baker.
Rick Mundy in center field and Reggie Smith in right and oh a bunch of ball and is hit
by the ball but he's hit while in the batter's box so he is not out and they're checking
out to see whether or not it was in the box or not but no argument on the play so evidence
Steve Yeager is satisfied that the call was right. Bowe has that exceptional speed. The
infield has to shorten up on him. And now Hootin into the wind up and the pitch back
is hit hard but right at Bill Russell the short stop as he moves to his left he comes
up with the ball and the throw to first base for the out. Two men up and two men down.
That will bring up the big favorite here in Philadelphia. It's Mike Smith. Smith hits
38 home runs in the course of the season. 101 RBI has had an average of 274. So far in
the series he's won for nine. Prior to this year Smith led the national league in home
runs three consecutive years. The year before this year he led the major leagues with 38.
George Foster the leading hitter in home runs in the major leagues with 52 this year. Also
in runs batted him with 149. So Smith in the batter's box and here's Hootin's wind
up and pitch. And he misses with a fastball all in inside. Lifetime Hootin has won nine
and lost eleven to the Philadelphia Phillies. Last year he had a record of eleven and fifteen
with a 3.25 ERA. And now the pitch back has popped up. A high pop up in the shallow center
field backtracking as David Oakes is back into the shallow outfield area in center and
he makes the catch and the Phillies go down in order. And the score at the end of one
of the series is the Phillies nothing and the Dodgers nothing. More about that American
League game that was played the second game of the series on Thursday. We mentioned before
a wicked cross body block by KC's Hal McRae got the Yankees really up. They went on to
win that ball game behind Ron Gidrey 62. Squib Johnson the D.H. obtained in a midseason
waiver deal from the Houston Astros tied up the game at 1-1 with a mammoth home run in
the fifth inning. It was Johnson again the sixth flashing a line drive into left field
with a 2-2 tie and triggered a three way three run rally. Veteran Stadium at Philadelphia
a place where baseball has taken over and part of the growing demand for tickets here
at Veteran Stadium forced them to take a big part of the scoreboard down. They had two
huge scoreboards in center field. One has been removed. They used to have the ball and strikes
and other features on it and some of the color that they would perform during the game. And
now they have the single scoreboard in right center field. But that opened up a few thousand
seats in dead center for the fans who poured in here to the tune of 2,700,000 an all time
Philadelphia record and that record only exceeded by the 2,955,000 by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
So to talk about baseball fever in Los Angeles and Philadelphia the folks here in town know
all about it. We might mention too watching young Larry Christensen in that first inning
only 23 years old looked like a total professional got his balls over in the right place and
one of the things Ralph Hanna that struck me when I looked at Larry Christensen and
blinked I thought it was Don Larson out there. A no wind up right hander about the same size
with that good fastball and good breaking curve. Don Larson the only man to pitch a perfect
game in World Series history and the only man to pitch a no hitter as a matter of fact.
And he did it while pitching for the Yankees against the Dodgers. So Larry Christensen now
taking his warm up pitches for the Phillies. Richie Ebner at first base the second baseman
Jed Sizemore shortstop Larry Vos third baseman Mike Schmidt in left field Greg Luzinski in
center field Gary Manix and Mike McBride at right. The catcher Bob Boone and Christensen
now has completed his warm up pitches. First two games of this series drew 111,944 55,968
in the first game and five more in the second. And we've got an outstanding crowd here again
today. Shadow has extended now from home plate out to just about the front edge of the pitcher's
mound still an advantage for the pitcher. And the first batter will be Ron Say and the
first pitch to the Penguin is called a strike. Say is three for seven with a grand slam home
run in this series the first man to do it in National League playoff history. They batted
two forty one in the regular season with 30 home runs 110 RBI. He takes another called
strike. So Christensen out in front and as Jerry pointed out he's in good command right
now. And the right hander pitch a slider just outside and the count of one and two. Christensen
is not what you would call a strikeout pitcher in the regular season he had 118 and 219 innings.
And the right hander with that short windup the pitch back to the plate is a fastball
just inside down around the knees. The count of two balls and two strikes he won 15 of his
last 16 decisions and won his last seven straight. Finished with a close of 15 and a 16. And at
two to the pitch to say hit hard to Mike Smith the human vacuum cleaner at third base and
he picked it up and throws the first base for the out. So forward a roll for Larry Christensen
and the batter coming up will be Steve Garvey Garvey three for seven so far in the series
with one run battered in the regular season. Steve batted two ninety seven with 33 home
runs at the new Dodger record for a team playing in Los Angeles. He also drove in 115. Garvey
closed strongly hitting in 15 of his last 19 ballgames about four fifty one over that
period. He looks at the call. Christensen at Veterans Stadium has a record of 10 and
two for this year. Of course the Phillies are tough to beat no matter whether Jerry Kuhlman
would be on the mound in this ballpark. They've got some record Ralph no question about that.
They have a record of 16 wins and 21 losses and they lost their first five. Now a fifth
grounded foul and they counted strike two. They batted two ninety five here in the stadium
and it is a hitters ballpark at home run Haven. Philadelphia led the National League in team
batting average at two seventy nine. So Garvey with a two strike count against Steven Christensen
into the lineup. Here's the pitch a line drive to center a base hit the first one of the
ballgame. So Garvey gets his fourth hit in eight times up and that'll bring up Dusty
Baker who was the hero of the Dodger win two days ago in Dodger Stadium with a grand slam
home run Baker two for seven in the series with four runs batted in. Baker batted two
ninety one in the regular season with 30 home runs and eighty six runs batted in and some
drama put on by Dusty Baker the last game of the season. There's a Pittsburgh all strike
three other Dodgers have hit three 30 home runs or more in the regular season. No team
had ever had four players to do so. Baker took until his last time up the last day of
the season to hit his 30th to make it an all time record. Fastball foul back out of play.
So it's a two strike count and Christensen out in front all the way through the early
part of this ballgame. Made 35 starts in the regular season did not appear in relief and
the right hander leans in looking for the signs from his catcher Bob Boone. Garvey bluffs
the running and Christensen sees he make a move towards second and backs off the pitching
rubber. Now he sets up again. Garvey might have been going stopped just at the last second
when he saw Christensen was not going to move. Now the pitch and it's hit to left center
field a long fly ball could be extra bases it will be extra bases it's off the wall.
Garvey goes to third the ball bobbled by Maddox off of the wall. Garvey's team waved in the
throw by the infielder to the plate it's not in time and Garvey scores although the plate
was blocked by Boone and Boone disagrees with the call by umpire Harry Wendell staff. Ball
bobbled off the wall and Steve Garvey a former football player crashing into Boone at home
plate. There's no question Ralph that when Gary Maddox bobbled the ball and he might
be just a little bit nervous you've got to remember this is his first game in championship
play and when that ball got away from him Garvey who just made it in under the gun of
the throw by Larry Bowe on the relay would have been an easy out had he tried it otherwise.
He got in I guess under the tag it was a very close play Garvey was going to hold up at
second he was not sure that ball was going to be off of the wall and he almost fell down
as he stumbled around second. So the Dodgers have drawn first blood as Baker gets a run
battered in his fifth in the series he is the leader so far in the series in RBI's and
now the batter will be Rick Bundy. Bundy won for four in the series a left hand batter
and here's the pitch is swung on a miss. Maddox is considered to be the best fielding center
fielder in the national league but he bobbled that ball off of the wall just momentarily
enough to allow Garvey to be called safe at home and it was a tough call at home and here's
the pitch back a change up in the count one ball and one strike. Bundy batted 229 in the
regular season with 15 home runs and he hits a high fly ball to center field Maddox backpedaling
is under tagging up a second as Baker Maddox makes the catch Baker does not go as Maddox
fires over the third the throw was off line but it carried all the way to in front of
Mike Smith where it was cut out by Larry Ball Ballers sort of the plate to Boone was a good
throw and Boone had the plate blocked and on the replay on television it looked like he
actually did have it blocked but sometimes the angle is off. So now two men away a runner
still at second base and the batter will be the catcher Steve Yeager. Yeager won for seven
in this series batted 256 in the regular season with 16 home runs and 55 RBI's his best year.
He is an outstanding defensive catcher Dodgers leading 1-0 and Christensen whirls around and
moves the runner Baker back to second base no one covering Sizemore had made a move to
the bag but then stopped. So Christensen looks in again goes to the set position this time
Sizemore over by the bag no throw the pitch the plate line to right center fielder base
hit going over to field of this McBride coming in the score as Baker and the Dodgers lead
something as they jump to the early lead. Good base hit by Steve Yeager coming with two men
out in front of the pitcher you don't often see batter get a good hit in that spot because
the pitchers usually are extremely careful but a good two out base hit in front of the
pitcher Bird Hooten and Hooten is a 164 hitter. Christensen had command of his pitches very
well in the first inning and to the first batter on the second here but he's been getting
up and they're starting to take their toll Garvey single a Baker double a long fly by
Monday and then a single by Yeager on a curve ball and hung in his eyes. Hooten is a right
hand batter and Christensen working to him with his first pitch and gets a strike with
a slider over the outside corner. I think you're going to hear a lot of comment and see a lot
of pictures on the call at home plate on Steve Garvey. It'll be discussed especially here
in Philadelphia there's one down the left field line it's extra bases. Yeager going
around second on the third. Luzinski waste board. Grafted with a bare hand a throw now
into Smith and here comes Yeager trying to score and this time Yeager is out. Yeager
did not like the call. Loeb after restraining he grabs him around the shoulder pushes him
away from home plate on fire. Harry Wendelstad. Relay coming into Mike Smith the third baseman
and his throw to the plate in time for the out. Now Steve Garvey is talking to Wendelstad
takes his position moving out to first base. So two controversial calls at home plate for
Harry Wendelstad in the inning two runs on four hits one man left and the score at the
end of one and a half innings it's the Dodgers two and the Phillies nothing. Ray Floyd
struggle off a death threat a mutual challenge of Serino Ballesteros Friday to reach the
36 hole final of the $225,000 world match play golf championships at Virginia Water
England. Floyd accompanied by two police officers in the final holes of the semifinal match
and his opponent two and one now will compete for the $52,500 first prize Saturday with
Australian Graham Marsh who slammed his U.S. manufacturer Hale Irwin seven and six. Organizers
said they provided Floyd with protection following a telephone death threat to the 35 U.O. Pro
from Fort Bragg North Carolina. Floyd refused to comment that showed no sign of stress as
he blazed a blistering birdie trail over Wentworth tree lined 6,969 yard par 73 Burma Road course
thus matching 11 birdies and an eagle in 35 holes. Ballesteros who ousted title favorite
Tom Watson five and four on Thursday stretch Floyd all the way. Well we had things change
here in a hurry Larry Christensen in the first inning sailed through the Dodgers one two
three but in the second he started to get his pitches up. He gave up that single to
Steve Garvey the double to Dusty Baker the ball bobbled by Maddox Garvey coming around
to score. Mundy hit a deep fly to center field then Steve Yeager singled in a run and Burt
Hooten doubled down the left field line. Yeager tried to score and this time the relay that
went from the left fielder to Mike Schmidt at third to the catcher Bob Boone caught Yeager
score again. Yeager did not like the call but as it turns out right now we've gone through
an inning and a half and the Dodgers right now on top two to nothing. Moving to the bottom
of the second Lazinski Hebner and Maddox as Burt Hooten gets ready and now let's move
over to Ralph Keiner. All right Jerry Coleman and the sun a little bit behind the clouds
now which will aid the defensive ball players it'll take the glare away. Most of the players
still with their sunglasses on in case it becomes glary again Hooten taking his one
lead pitches. Took some time to come out to the mound as he was the man that was on base
as he hit the double down the left field corner. For the Philadelphia Phillies the lead off
batter will be the Bull, Greg Lazinski two for seven in this series a two run home run
for two runs batted in. Great favorite here in Philadelphia Lazinski batting three oh nine
for the year with thirty nine home runs a hundred thirty runs batted in and the first
pitch is a ball. Now ready and the pitch back of Lazinski hit by the third baseman Ron Chay
in the left field for a base hit and the Phillies have their first man on all fielded by Baker
in left field and brought back in the infield in Philadelphia with a runner first to no
one out. That'll bring up Richie Hebner. Hebner is two for five in this series. In the regular
season he batted two eighty five with eighteen home runs sixty two runs batted in. Played
out as option while with the Pittsburgh Pots and was signed as a free agent by Philadelphia.
Moved from third base to first and Hebner a left hand batter a dangerous left hand batter
and Hooten's first pitch a curve ball hit right at the second baseman should be two.
Loops over to Russell he dropped the ball and the act of throwing. Russell dropped the
ball and the act of throwing so the out is affected at second base. He was trying to
get it away in a hurry hoping for the double play and fortunately he did have possession
of the ball as far as the Dodger fans are concerned. That was a case of the shortstop
not bending his back to go after the ball. He stayed straight up and reached down and
his arms were about at the extremity and the ball just drifted off as he tried to grab
it. You got to get down in and after and go with it. Russell of course had two errors
in the first game that allowed four and earned runs and the Phillies won that game by a margin
of seven to two. Now the batter will be Gary Mannix batting for the first time in the series
he takes the first pitch he calls strike and that's an oddity. Mannix is really a first
ball hitter. Right hand batter batting two ninety three for the season and he leans back
to the fastball is in under the chin one ball and one strike. Mannix had fourteen home runs
seventy four runs batted in did not play in the first two games because of an injury to
a knee. And Burt Hooten from the stretch and the pitch back is swung on a miss and the
knuckle curve ball it's one and two. Hooten is throwing well he finished up the year well
he won his last three decisions one of them a one nothing shut out. He's called happy
by Tom Lasota because he doesn't look that way. And at one to the pitch the Manic swung
on a miss. Good fastball his first strikeout and that'll bring up Bob Boone Boone one for
four in the series. Boone had two eighty four in the regular year with eleven home runs
and sixty seven RBI's a right hand batter. The son of Ray Boone a major league ball player
and a good one. Ron Reid throwing in the bullpen for the Phillies earlier Brewster warm Brewster
had been throwing. And here's the pitch that is outside a slider missing one ball no strikes.
Boone batting seventh in the batting order so the bullpen is activated in case Danny
Ozark the manager wants to go to a pinch hitter the Dodgers leading two nothing. And the pitch
back at the knees a called strike. One ball one strike. Hooten working quickly shortly
the first base by Richie Hebner and the pitch to Boone is lobbed in the left center of base
hit. Coming over Monday a fielded out one hot. Hebner goes to second base and holds there.
So now the Phillies have runners at first and second with two men out of Nevada coming
up at 10. Well the first two games of the series a lot of hitting. And the first game
both sides had nine hits in the second game both sides had nine hits. And out of the in
numerology first three games including the Yankee Kansas City game both sides had nine
hits. So the first three games of the World Championship series every team had nine hits.
And every winning team scored seven runs. And here's the pitch to Ted Sizemore taking
low and outside a ball. Sizemore one for seven in this series. About a two eighty one in the
regular season with four home runs and forty seven runs batted in. Game time temperature
was fifty nine degrees. It's not too bad a day. Hit back to Sizemore a ball and a count
at two at all. Winners at first and second base two men out bottom half of the second.
Bert Houdon on the mound and the right hander's next pitch is low and it's ball three. Three
balls no strikes. Larry Christensen is in the on deck circle he's a good hitting pitcher
and three home runs this year with a grand slammer. Be interesting to see if the bases
are loaded whether or not they would let Christensen stay in the ball game and there's ball four
and Houdon has lost his first batter and walked him on four pitches. Bases are loaded and
Christensen is going to bat. He had a grand slam home run earlier. That wasn't counted
as an intentional walk but Houdon had to be pitching around Sizemore to go after Christensen
even with Christensen's home run. Now Christensen still is a pitcher and he's still got an average
of one thirty nine but he has the ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark. He is
a big hitter as far as the pitcher's concerned and now Houdon into the wind up. Here's the
pitch and he comes in with a knuckle curve. It's a called strike. Big spot on the ball
game for the Dodgers and Bert Houdon. Probably one of many as the excitement here is at its
peak and now the pitch back a big swing and a miss it's strike two. Christensen is hit
six home runs in his major league career. And a two strike. The pitch by Houdon. The knuckle
curve ball it's two low. One ball and two strikes. Richie Hebner the runner at third
base. Bob Boone at second base. Ed Sizemore at first. There's a Philly's threatened. First
threat of the ball game for Philadelphia. Now the pitch and it's rounded foul. Billy
Demar is the third base coach for the Phillies. Picks it up. Checks it out and keeps the ball
in play as he talks at the bird. Tony Taylor the coach at first base. He's one of the most
popular Philadelphia Phillies ever. One ball and two strikes. The signs are out. The wind
up and here's the pitch and it's a ball and Bert Houdon was on his way to the dugout.
He thought it was strike three. Oh the count now at two and two. It was close. Gary Wendell
at the home plate umpire has really been in this ball game. Two calls at home. One going
against the Dodgers and one going for the Dodgers. Or vice-versa. And now those he steps
off the mound and he is taking some time as he tries to get his composure back. He thought
that was strike three and it would have been a big strikeout. Base is loaded. Davey Lopes
in the top and Bert Houdon. This is his first championship series. He started his career
with a cut and then went to the Dodgers. Now the crowd here warming up and Houdon looks
around. Goes into the wind up. Here's the two-two pitch and it's inside. It's ball three.
Went to the breaking ball and now a full count of three and two and that's a tough pitch to miss on.
Two and two the important pitch. Now the runners will be going with the wind up or possibly
Houdon will not wind up. But the runners will be going. So listen to this crowd here. Houdon
will work from the set position. They are really trying to get the Bert Houdon. Houdon
is going to wind up. Here's the pitch. It is low and ball four and the walk forces it
to run. Tommy Lasorda, the manager of the Dodgers, now going out the mound. He wants
to calm his pitcher down if he is upset. Houdon certainly thought he had a strikeout. It was
called a ball and then he went on to walk the pitcher to force it to run. So the Dodgers
lead touch the two-to-one and the batter coming up will be Batesman-Bride. The base is still
loaded. Ralph Keiner, I don't know when I have ever seen a crowd get involved in a game
as this one has. I know you went through the early days of the amazing New York Mets where
they reacted very raucously and loudly there. But I don't think I have ever seen this kind
of a situation in a deliberate attempt to upset the pitcher. Well now the Philly fans
are really old-time baseball fans. The Phillies go back before the 1900s. Mike Garman is now
throwing in the bullpen for the Dodgers and Harry Wendelstad coming out the mound. He
wants to get this game going. Phillies in 1950 won the National League Championship.
They were beaten in the World Series 4-1. In 1950 they won the National League Championship,
lost to the Yankees 4-0. Last year they won the National League Eastern Division Championship
and lost to Cincinnati 3-0. And Tom Lacoda now back to the bench and Baker-Bride stepping
in. McBride one, make that 4 for 10 in this series. Left hand batter, good speed. Houdon
working for the lineup. Here's the pitch and at 2-0 curve ball. Knuckle curve ball just
below the base. Rick Rodin is also throwing in the bullpen for the Dodgers. The Dodgers
started during the regular season. Dodgers leading 2-1. The Phillies with the bases loaded.
Two men after and it's about a half of the second inning. And now Houdon into the lineup.
Here's the pitch and again he's long. Again the knuckle curve, two balls, no start. Once
again the signs go down and Houdon into the lineup. The 2-0 pitch. It has swung on and
fouled back. And that time Houdon coming back with a back wall. It was a pretty good pitch
to hit but McBride did not make contact. Not enough to get it going the other way and he
fouled it back. Other guy had two balls and one strike. And this crowd trying to intimidate
the pitcher, Burt Houdon. And Houdon into the lineup. The next pitch is low and inside it's
ball three. Three balls and one strike and now Houdon holds out both hands as to say
where was it? Houdon certainly unhappy with Harry Wendell's pass. Don LaForta when he
walked back to the bench made a detour near the mound and was talking with Wendell's pass.
Now three balls and one strike. The crowd standing up, yelling, screaming, here's the
pitch, it's swung on and fouled back again. And again that pitch was a good fastball.
Letterhive might have been out of the strike zone. They might be getting to bake McBride
now Ralph. Well one thing for sure you can hear it. You can hear it in North Philly, South
Philly, maybe even in Camden. And again it's 3-2 this crowd trying to intimidate the pitcher.
The runners go and the pitch is ball four and the ball game is tied. Three walks in
a row and the ball game tied at 2-2 and Burt Houdon has walked two batters with a base
is loaded. This has to be one of the most remarkable circumstances that I have ever
seen from a crowd standpoint trying to intimidate the pitcher and it's working. Well you have
about 58,000 people in this ball park. I don't know how many are Philadelphia Philly fans
but it might be close to 50 and they are making themselves heard. Now the batter coming up
is Larry Bore. Bore grounded out his first batter. Left hand batter. And Burt Houdon
into the wind up here. It's a 50's high with this. Fastball too high for ball one. Bore
now backing out of the batter's box. Now Bore back in. Tough man to pitch to. He has a small
track going. And the one hole pitch to Bore is high and outside at ball two. Two balls
and no track. Well a veteran under any circumstance has a tough time in the championship playoff
but anybody under this circumstance has to be put under tremendous pressure. The next
pitch is low. And at ball three. Three balls no track. And the crowd here enjoying the
effect that they are having on this ball game. There is no doubt about it. And at three all.
Here is the pitch. Houdon gets the ball. And Bore didn't like the call. That was a borderline
pitch over the outside corner. It's an ace and Bore was unhappy with the call. That puts
it at three balls and one track. And this might have been an easy day for Winnilshad.
The next pitch back. Ball four. Bore wants the roll and again Houdon goes with outstretched
hands. Where was it? And that is all for Burt Houdon as the Phillies take the lead by a score
of three to two. And you have to say that Burt Houdon was certainly unhappy with Harry
Winnilshad intimidated by the crowd. And he leaves the ball game giving up three runs
so far on just two hits. He walked four and he holds his hands up to Winnilshad as he
walks off in guts. Ralph Kiner this has to be one of the most unusual circumstances I've
ever seen in a baseball game in my life. A pitch miss as far as Burt Houdon was concerned
when Larry Christensen was up there as activated for a successive walk and as for the young
right hander from Texas Burt Houdon out of the ball game. And while we're waiting for
the relief pitcher Rick Roden to come in here's a brief update from CBS News. Just in from
Lexington, Kentucky, Texas roared down the stretch to overtake favorite Cole Comfort
today to win the first heat of the $100,000 Kentucky fraternity. That's the final leg
of Trotting's Triple Crown with a career best 157.35. That was at the Red Mile. Texas driven
by veteran Billy Herman was in eighth place in the 10 horse field down the back stretch
before making his move going into the head of the stretch and overtaking Cole Comfort
at the wire to win by a length. Cole Comfort, a nine to five Cole favorite in the 85th
fraternity, finished second with very with long shot Sloman and Jergy Hanover third and
fourth respectively. Now the second heat, the best of three race, is scheduled to go
at any moment and we'll have something on that as soon as we get word over the wire.
Texas' second choice of the batters at eight to five paid 520, 260, and 240 for his victory.
Rick Roden, a tall right hander who at one time suffered from osteomyelitis and has a
deformed right leg is coming on the pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Roden taking it
up from Bird Hooten during the season. Roden was 16 and 10, a 3.75 earned run average and
was a starting pitcher. Roden during the regular season started 31 games and did not come in
in relief at any time. He completed fourth. So this in effect is Roden's first chance
as a relief pitcher. Roden, a young man out of Florida, had to fight osteomyelitis as
a youngster, fought his way back and became the Dodgers' number one draft choice back
in June of 1971. So he'll be coming on and he's got himself a lot of trouble. The bases
are loaded. Larry Christensen at third base, Blake McBride at second and Larry Boa at first.
So let's pause five seconds right now for station identification. This is the CBS Radio
Network. This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
STN, the bell's on.
Rick Roden warming up for Bird Hooten in an unprecedented show of a fan reaction, the
likes of which I've never seen in baseball. I've seen it in basketball, I've seen it in
football, but I have never seen the fans react as they did to Bird Hooten and actually force
them out of the ball game. Let's go back to the draft time and it will not stop now. It
will be up to Rick Roden to battle the fans and also take on Mike Smith. Smith pops up
to second his first time up, batting for the second time, the ninth man to bat in this
inning. As the Phillies have taken the lead by a score of three to two. All three runs
going on, watch the force in the man from third.
And the young Rick Roden with a record of 16-10, looks in for the sign, pass and goes
for the windup. And the crowd starts up again, the first pitch is popped up. Playable for
the catcher Steve Yeager, he is under it. And he makes the catch and the sign is retired.
So one pitch by Roden and the sign retired, something that Bird Hooten could not do. In
the inning, three runs score on just two hits. There were four walks, nowhere than three
men left on. And the score at the end of two, the Phillies three and the Dodgers two.
Here at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, we've got quite a ballgame going through two
innings, five runs across the plate. If you just missed it, in the second, the Dodgers
got on the board with one away Steve Garvey single, Dusty Baker doubled him home. After
two down, Yeager hit a single to right field, bringing in Baker and there was quite a play
at the plate when Yeager tried to score on Bird Hooten's double. And then on the second
inning, a remarkable show by the Philadelphia fans, an unusual display after Lesinski's
single, Richie Hebner fourth was in to get second, Maddox struck out. And then with two
down, it all began, a single by Boone, Sizemore walked. And then Larry Christensen on what
Bird Hooten thought was a strikeout was still alive. He drew a walk for one run, another
walk to Bake McBride with a fan's delirious and a following walk to Larry Bowe forcing
in the third run. And that was all for Bird Hooten. And I don't know whether to say it
was the Dodgers two and the fans three here in Philadelphia, but that's the way it stands.
I have to believe, Jerry, that fans have to get credit for something in that circumstance.
The Dodgers, very good in their home park, but nothing like the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Phillies have won 16, lost 21 here this year. And that's after losing their first
five ball games. They had a streak of winning 16 in a row and you could probably hear why.
For Al Favre, we're waiting for Christensen to warm up right now. How would you relate
this to the Mets fans back in those early 60s when there was a lot of things going on
at Shea Stadium? Close, but I don't believe anything quite as much as I've seen here today.
And also I was going to ask you the same question, playing in World Series games in
Ebbets Field, because the Ebbets Field fans were also very exuberant. Ebbets Field was
like a morgue compared to this, believe me. They were a few of them you could hear across
the field. But in general, the World Series at Ebbets Field, even though it was a hot
set of baseball, was not like this. I've never seen this before. And we keep talking about
it, but what it really did, it put the Phillies ahead and forced the starting pitcher, the
Dodger starting pitcher out of the ball game. You know at Ebbets Field they had a character
called Hilda Chester who had a bell, a cowbell that she used to ring. You wouldn't have
heard that cowbell here ever with this kind of a noise.
Well, Larry Christensen taking his time coming out to the mound, and he'll be taking on Davy
Lopes, Phil Russell, and Reggie Smith as his first three batters, and the Dodgers behind
for the first time. This is what you might call a home stadium advantage. There's no
question about it. These Philadelphia Phillies fans are not to be denied. Last year the Cincinnati
Reds took the Phillies down three straights. But the Philadelphia Phillies fans, we set
a record this year coming out to watch ball games, some 2,700,070 strong and paid customers,
out to see their Phillies in a World Championship World Series. Davy Lopes flying out to center
field his first time up. He's had three hits and ten times up, batting 300 so far in this
series. Dodgers have out hit the Phillies 4-2, and the Czechs swing ground ball hit out
to Richie Hebner at first base, and Lopes is out on one fifth. That'll bring up Bill Russell.
Russell lined out to the second baseman, Seismore, his first time up. He'll have had two hits
and ten times up. This is the third game of the series. Christensen was reached for some
strong bases in the second inning. He starts off with a slider that's in the dirt, back
handed out of the dirt by Bob Boone. And the right hander back, and the next pitch is popped
up in the air. The ball in foul territory, Mike Schmidt over by the coaches, box is under,
then he makes the catch. So two quick outs. That'll bring up Reggie Schmidt. Reggie struck
out his first time up. Christensen, after throwing a couple of changeups, got him with
a fastball up around the letter. Smith batting two for nine in this series. Batting from
the left hand side, an outstanding foot shitter. He was voted the most valuable player on the
Dodgers squad this year, and the first pitch to Smith, a changeup that swung on a missed
strike one. Dodgers jumped off to a seven and one half game lead in April. Biggest lead
after one month of the season by a team. And they had a 14 game lead by July 31st. Next
pitch is fouled away and the count strikes two. So once again Christensen settling down
into a good groove as far as he's concerned.
Ladies and gentlemen, temporarily we have lost the audio portion of the program coming
from veteran stadium over CBS. And we'll give you a running account as we watch it on the
TV monitor. A swinging strike and going down swinging is Reggie Smith. So they go out one,
two, three in the top half of the third inning. So after two and a half, the Dodgers lead
Dodgers by a score of three, two. So Christensen gets loped. Roslyn Smith in order, winding
up, striking out Reggie Smith, a swinging strike, and the audio is back with us and
we'll be going back to veteran stadium with it for the home third in just a few moments.
Dave Parker, George Foster, and Greg Lazinski, three muscular outfielders, were overwhelming
selections Friday on UPI's 1977 National League All-Star team. Parker led the league with a
3.38 average at 21 homers, knocking eight runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the
only unanimous choice of 25 sports writers who participated in the UPI's annual survey.
Foster had a 3.20, the 52 homers, 149 RBIs, for the Cincinnati Reds received 24 of a possible
25 votes, while Lazinski, whose offensive performance was 309, batting average, 39 homers,
130 RBIs for the third half, his Phillies received 23. The trio formed perhaps the hardest-hitting,
most productive, mythical outfield in national league history. We'll check the other positions
next time we have a break.
We're going into the third inning and Rick Roden, who came on to put out the fire with
the bases loaded by popping up Mike Schmidt, is on there now to start off the bottom of
the third inning with Lazinski, Hebner, and Maddux coming on. Looking ahead to tomorrow's
ballgame, which will start at 8.07 Eastern Daylight Time, it'll be Tommy John and Steve
Crowden, the two left-handers, and a repeat performance of that first ballgame, neither
of whom were the winning or losing pitchers. The loser in that first game was the reliever,
Elisa Sosa, for the Dodgers, and Tug McGraw got the win. So you can look ahead at that
one for tomorrow and we'll see how this one goes right now. Lazinski coming on and Ralph
Hiner back to tell you all about it. Okay, Greg Lazinski, who is single in the second
to get it going for the Philadelphia Phillies, batting for the second time. Rick Roden on
the mound, batting, I guess, Roden for the first time, and Lazinski takes a high-pass
ball of ball. Roden won two and lost none against the Phillies in the regular season
as a starting pitcher. He did not relieve all year. Within 31 games as a starter, won 16
and lost 10. And the right-hander back and he gets a strike over the outside corner.
One ball and one strike. Lazinski second in the National League and runs about it in the
postures 149. Lazinski had 130. And the big right-hander batter fouls off the next pitch
in the count at one ball and two strikes.
One ball and two strikes and the shadows again starting to extend out as the sun tries to
break through and overcast sky. Temperature right around 60 degrees at game time. And
here's the next pitch, a breaking ball, two balls, and the count at two balls and two
strikes.
Dodgers play Lazinski as a full hitter and they also playing fairly deep.
Now the windup and two-two pitch and a high outside ball, three. Three balls, two strikes.
With the bases loaded, Roden came into the ball game in the second under the most fine
of circumstances and he got his first man out in one-fifth, Mike Smith. Right here,
three and two to Lazinski and here's the fifth. And it's all four. And the base on balls
have become the major factor in this ball game. That is the fifth base on balls,
hit by a Dodgers fifth pitcher.
So Lazinski is on and Richie Hebner is coming out.
If you're down to Ozarks, the manager on a spot like this, you've got to be telling
your players, look it, take one pitch, make them throw a strike. Make them go down the
line. Here's a fellow at bat but doesn't take many. Richie Hebner, he ran it into a fourth
play his first time out. Roden working from the set position for the first time and here's
the pitch. And it's in the air to center field. Coming up on the ball is Mundy now accelerating
as he moves in a little bit quicker as he slightly misjudged the ball but he got two
up with the glasses down. Big guide against the sun and Hebner is out.
That'll bring up Gary Maddux who also is a first ball hitter. Maddux was stuck out his
first time out and that was his first appearance in the season. He missed the first two games
because of an injured knee.
Maddux the right hand batter.
Garvey playing off the bag at first. Two or three steps as Lazinski does not figure the
run except he has had one stolen base in the series in the regular season he had three.
And the first pitch by Roden. It is rounded to the third baseman's say. He throws the
second in time. The relay on the first base is not in time and Maddux who can really motor
down that line beats the attempt at the double play. And when he hit that ball it broke the
bat in half and the head of the bat went about 120 feet into foul territory down the left
of your line.
So Lazinski forced the second a fast man replacing him on at first and Gary Maddux no matter
coming up will be Bob Boone.
I've commented on that before Ralph Keiner. I don't believe they're putting the same
wood in the bats they did a generation ago. I've seen that happen time and time again
and only in the last three or four years.
I think you're right. It's a different baseball and a different bat.
But they're both round so it's still a tough game to play and here's the throw the first base
Maddux back. Maddux had 22 out of 28 stolen bases this year.
Give you a round bat and a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
Again a throw to first base and again Maddux is back.
First base on fire Bruce Fromer.
Ed Williams said hitting a baseball is the single hardest thing to do in any sport.
Now the pitch and Boone pops in the shallow center field Rick Mundy coming up on the ball.
He's there and he makes the catch and the side retards.
No runs a walk and one man left on him to score.
At the end of three it's the Philadelphia Phillies three and the Los Angeles Dodgers two.
The rest of the All-Star team picked for the Irishman League.
Also brought in the club besides the three hitters we mentioned a while ago were catcher Ted Simmons
of the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Steve Garvey of the LA Dodgers.
Second baseman Joe Morgan of the Reds shortstop Gary Templeton the Cardinals
and third baseman Mike Schmidt of the Phillies.
Steve Carlton the late leading winner with 23 victories for the Phillies.
And Tom Steve of the Reds who finished the year with a mark of 21-6
were named the starting pitchers with Bruce Sudo the Cubs the Lopsided choice as the lead pitcher.
Remember fans CBS radio sports will bring you the World Series over most of these stations
starting October the 11th that's next Tuesday wherever you are wherever you go.
Follow the World Series with radio over most of the CBS radio network stations.
At Veterans Field here in Philadelphia the sun has just about reached second base.
The outfielders in right left and center field will be the ones that will be under the gun
as far as fly balls are concerned.
The infielders are out of the action now as far as any sun problems are concerned
and as far as hitting it pretty much is leveled off.
The biggest and the most difficult time of the day for a batter is when that shadow is midway between home plate and the mound.
You seem as though you're looking into a glaring sun, a ball is hard to pick up
although here at Veterans Stadium they have a delightful background where there is no problem with fans.
On the mound right now taking his warm up tosses is Larry Christensen who had one difficult inning
that was the second.
They gave up four base hits and two runs.
He had a runner thrown out at the plate that helped him.
He managed to get the first three batters one, two, three in the first and the third inning.
So now he's coming back again to the men that gave him trouble.
Say, Garvey, Baker, Mundy, Yeager and of course who's in the ball game
and the pitcher in there will be Rick Roden who is not a bad hitting pitcher himself.
Okay the action will be continuing shortly now as Ron Say gets ready
followed by Steve Garvey and a spring in Ralph Keiner once again.
Okay Jerry Coleman, Parky Anderson who participated as manager in the past two playoff games
championship playoff games and was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds over the past two years
as the world's campingship Cincinnati Reds.
But talking to Danny Ozark about playoff games and he said playoff games are like having a heart attack.
You know you're having it and you can't do anything about it.
Ozark said I found that out.
And last year's playoff now it's time for Tom Lasota to find it out
and right now with this crowd here I'm sure Tom Lasota is seeing and hearing something he has never seen before.
Ron Say coming up, Ron grunted out the third his first time up, right hand batter, strong right hand batter
and Christian some of his first pitch and he throws the curveball for a called strike.
They have three for eight so far in this series.
Dodgers have out hit the Phillies four to two with the Phillies that picked up five walks.
The next pitch is out of the strike zone. One ball and one strike.
The ball game is being watched by the governor of Pennsylvania, Milton Schaap
as well as about 58,000 people and a pitch in the dirt backhanded out of the dirt by Boone
and they count two balls and one strike.
They were that dramatic grand slam home run at the time of the first game
but it will not be remembered too long I don't believe because the Dodgers lost.
Next pitch is taken low and it's ball three.
Dusty Baker had a grand slam home run in the second game for the Dodgers.
That will be remembered because the Dodgers won that ball game.
One of our scores seven to one.
And the next pitch to say is swung on and fouled back out of play.
So a four count of three and two.
Right to the right reminds you that tomorrow's game will see Tommy John pitching for the Dodgers
against Steve Carlton will be on the air Eastern Daylight Time at eight oh seven.
American League has their game tonight at eight oh seven Eastern Daylight Time.
They'll be playing in Kansas City the Yankees there and then on Saturday they'll play before the National League.
Sunday they'll be playing at one oh seven Eastern Daylight Time.
And the next pitch is lined the left center field off and running is Maddox.
He can't get to it it bounces off his glove.
Faye will try for two the throw by Maddox is not in time and Faye goes in with a double.
Harry Maddox the center fielder tried to make that a brilliant catch but he couldn't quite get to it
and he knocked it down in a half off and the ball rolled away.
So say he is on a second base and the batter coming up will be Steve Garvey.
Warren Brewster is warming up on the bullpen.
Right hander for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Dodgers picking up their fifth hit.
And they have the potential time run the second base with no one out.
Garvey singled and scored in the second.
Four for eight in this series.
Faye taking some extra time to get the dirt out of his belt buckle and inside of his pants.
As he made a belly slide into second base although the play was not close as the throw was off line.
Little reaction by the Potterson crowd here in Philadelphia.
And Christensen sets up here is the pitch and Garvey takes it high and inside.
He looked like he was trying to hit behind the runner going out toward right field but he did not swing.
Garvey an excellent team man.
Now Christensen with his next pitch and again Garvey looks as though he is trying to hit behind the runner
but Christensen with a good pitch on the inside corner.
A tough pitch to hit to right field and Garvey took it.
One ball one strike.
And the right hander ready.
Here is the pitch and Garvey takes it high and outside.
It's ball two.
Two balls one strike.
Larry Christensen from Everett Washington.
Twenty-three years of age and now his next pitch and Garvey fouls it back out of play.
Counted two balls and two strikes.
Garvey led the club and runs about it in during the regular season.
At one fifteen.
And now the pitch is grounded slowly out to the shortstop ball who goes across the diving after feeling the ball for a play at first.
The ball hits two easily for any play at third and same moves over the third base.
So the potential time run is at third with one man out in Dusty Baker the batter.
Dusty doubled in the left center field his first time up to drive and a run.
Baker with five runs better than the series he's had three hits in eight times up.
Kelly's bring their infield in for a play at the plate and Christensen working from the set position and a first pitch to sit down the right field line.
It might be trouble coming up the ball as McBride he had trouble seeing it and then after a spurt at the last minute he could not catch up to it and dropped in foul territory.
You know Ralph the way Danny Ozark has been using his bullpen the minute that Christensen has been in trouble with a man on he's had that bullpen going.
Which makes me wonder if Christensen even though he had that great record at the end of the year may be as sharp as he wants to be.
It may be that Bob Boone the catcher has said something to his manager to have somebody ready just in case.
Well the Phillies have that good depth in the bullpen they've had great success with it so they use it a lot.
Oh and Brewster now throwing in the bullpen for the Philadelphia Phillies they have Brewster, Reed, Garver, McGraw.
One strike count as Christensen goes to the set here's the pitch and it is taken inside.
Baker's got in the swing and held up in time one ball and one strike.
I'm saying the runner at third base Christensen ready and the pitch to Baker's swung on and fouled back out of play.
Good fastball foul off one and two.
One of the interesting highlights about young Larry Christensen is that when he first came up he dripped the ball too tightly and he threw darts.
His ball didn't move he's holding it much more loosely now and getting more effect from the fastball.
And in one two the pitch to Baker a breaking ball just ball on the count two balls and two strikes.
Christensen had only one shutout in the regular season with five complete games while winning 19 and losing six and what a finish.
The second and third in the regular season and the second and third in the regular season.
And the last 16 of his last 16 decisions went on the far side and he won his last seven straight.
And a 2-2 the pitch to Dusty Baker lying but fouled on the left field line.
So the count remains at two balls and two strikes.
He struck out 118 in the regular season he gave up 21 home runs.
There was a lot of controversy about whether Christensen should have started the second game instead of this one.
And again he sets up for 2-2 and here it comes and it's lost it into shallow right center field it'll be a base hit.
All bouncing around and a bride had to jump to catch it.
Holding up a third was say to be sure that it would be a base hit and then he comes in the store.
The throw of them by McBride is not in time.
So Baker gets his sixth run better than the series and he has tied up the ball game as he singles in the right center field.
A little lob in there and they score some third.
So it's now a tie game at three and the batter coming up will be Rick Mundy.
Rogers have their sixth base hit.
Phillies have only two but they have five walks to go with a two base hit.
Three of the walks came with a base as little as a four-sin three runs.
Burt Houten on them out of the time and I would have to say that the crowd certainly had a lot to do with the walks as they really brought the roof down.
So Baker at first base Christensen checks in and here's the pitch and it's lined down the left field line but it's serving foul and it is out of play.
All deep in the left field corner foul by 10 or 15 feet.
And the crowd here unhappy with Annie Ozark. I think they would like to see a pitching change.
Philadelphia Philly fans are deep in the baseball and they manage.
The base hit that Dusty Baker got I think is a classic difference between artificial surface and natural field because you have to lay back.
That ball bounce is too far in front of you. It's over your head and it goes for an inside the park home run and that's kept Baker McBride just far enough back.
And it gave Baker a chance, I mean say a chance to score.
Now the pitch back to Monday line by the first baseman almost this Baker he had to hold for a second.
He goes to second base and holds there McBride feels the ball and gets it back in.
So Monday with a hard single the right field and the crowd now clamoring for the removal of the pitcher Larry Christensen.
And here comes the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies Danny Ozark.
The manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and he has made the sign and that is all for Larry Christensen.
Larry working through three and one third inning so far charged with three runs on a total of seven base hits.
He struck out two and walked none and Warren Brewster the new pitcher of the ballgame and Christensen a 19 game winner with six losses goes off the mound.
And you get the hand here from the partisan crowd.
Brewster coming in the ballgame had a record of seven wins and two losses with three saves.
And in the regular season Brewster appeared in 46 games all in relief.
Spells his name B-R-U-S-S T-A-R.
So Brewster coming in the ballgame in place of Larry Christensen and he'll be working to see Jager the catcher.
The only pitcher to really master the other team as far in the first three games here in the National Championship Playoff Series was Don Sutton although he picked a nine hitter.
The other night he allowed the Phillies only one run he went all the way for the complete game victory.
The first game Tommy John and Steve Carlin started but they all they go to the roof.
And in this game we have already had both starting pitchers out of the ballgame.
Bert Hooten lasted only an inning and two thirds giving up a couple of hits and three runs.
And the three runs were walked in on a base on balls as Hooten was forced into four successive walks.
That could be a World Series record.
Larry Christensen has gone three and a third giving up seven hits.
Three runs so far he could be charged with two more, struck out a couple but he did not walk them in.
And now we've got a new one in there Warren Brewster who is also a first repeat pitcher in this championship series.
No other pitcher has been in two ballgames and now Brewster becomes the first.
Brewster worked two innings in a ballgame won by the Dodgers seven to one the second game of the series.
He gave up one run on two hits and struck out two.
Brewster was born in Oakland, California.
He lives in Napa, California.
The home of all that great California wine.
Or not all of it but some of it anyway.
He was the Phillies fourth selection in the secondary phase of the 1974 draft.
He was signed by a former major leaguer, Eddie Bachman.
Started pitching minor league ball in 1974.
He was a graduate of Napa Junior College.
He attended Fresno State for many years and one of the members of Fresno State, Tom Siever.
Along with many others as a matter of fact they have turned out quite a few outstanding ball players.
First pitch is off of the glove of Bob Boone, a fastball and the runners move up on the fastball.
Pitch was an inside fastball and popping out of the glove of Boone and the runners move on over.
So that could be a big play in the ballgame as Dusty Baker goes to third and Rick Mundy on down to second.
First base is now open. We'll see whether or not they'll be pitching.
To Steve Yeager, the pitcher Rick Roden is due up next.
No action in the bullpen for the Dodgers.
High ballgame at three and the infield is in and the next pitch is outside.
They're going to walk in.
Walk to set up a possible double play and the pitch outside for ball three.
Roden's a pretty good hitter.
It's 2-31 with three home runs in the regular season and 12 runs batted in.
It's not going to be an easy task for Booster as the next pitch is outside for an intentional walk.
That's the first walk for the Dodgers in the ballgame and the Phillies have had five.
Rick Roden, the right hand batter, the Dodger infield back for two and the first pitch is swung on to miss to strike one.
Roden batted 300 for the Dodgers last year.
Outstanding Dodger hitting pitches with Don Drysdale at a 300 year one.
Pitch is next outside and the count of one ball and one strike.
Walter Johnson was one of the greatest hitting pitchers.
The best home run hitter for a pitcher was Rick Farrell.
What's Farrell?
Pardon me, the brother of Rick who had 38 in a single year.
There's a drive in the right center field at Mike's score run.
Baker comes over to catch it coming in to try and score.
Baker here comes a throw at 10-time and a tag is made by Boone.
Baker tries to bowl him over and that is the second man throwing out of the plate by the Philadelphia Phillies.
And it retires to tie.
A standing ovation for Bob Boone as Baker's throw from right center field was extremely accurate.
In the inning, one run on three hits and two men left on base.
And the score at the end of three and a half innings is the Dodgers three and the Phillies three.
Dale Earnhardt toured the Charlotte Motor Speedway at 154.630 miles per hour Friday
to lead six Chevrolet drivers in the final qualifying for Sunday's $250,000 National 500 NASCAR race at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Earnhardt will start his Chevrolet in the 36th spot in the 41-car field.
Other qualifiers in order were Butch Hartman, Roland Walatka, Jimmy Means, Cecil Gordon, and Tick Scott.
So far in the ball game here at Veterans Stadium.
It's all even at three as we go to the last half of the fourth inning, but the Dodgers have come a proper at-home plate.
In the second inning, Steve Yeager was cut down trying to score on a play that went from Lozinski to Schmidt to the catcher Boone.
And then here in this inning, a line drive out to the right fielder, Baik McBride, who one-hopped it into Boone again,
who made, I thought, a spectacular grab, a one-handed tag with his catching glove.
And he nailed Baker trying to commit from third base.
So the Dodgers have had two men nailed at the plate, and one did just get in under the slide, and that was Steve Garvey.
So they've had a lot of action at home plate, and Harry Wendlestep, the home plate umpire, will be happy to get out of the hot seat after today's ball game.
He's had some work before and we're only in the fourth inning.
He has really been involved in this ball game, three decisions at home, and also he was in the middle of the walk by Bert Hooten,
and Hooten thought for sure that he had struck out the pitcher and was out of the inning when the ball was called a ball,
and he had to continue to pitch, and he went on the walk Larry Christensen had forced in the run.
He went on the walk Baik McBride had forced in the run.
He went on the walk Larry Ball that forced into the uh, forced in the run.
Ron Reed is now throwing in the bullpen for the Philadelphia Phillies as Rick Roden completes his warm-up pitch.
It's Thasmore to lead off. Tommy Hutton is in the on deck circle.
So Brewster used for just a short period.
Appears to be going out of the ball game and the Phillies will go to their strong hard-flying right-hander Ron Reed.
Thasmore walked his first time up on four pitches.
That got it going for the Philadelphia Phillies and Thasmore batting for the first time against Rick Roden and the pitch is two in the tie for ball one.
Dodgers about hit the Phillies seven to two but walks count.
Frankie Pritch the old manager used to say oh those bases are on balls.
And a pitch for a track it's one and one.
And Thasmore tries to bun it at the Goodman-Lopes, talking bare hands.
It throws the first base in time to Garvey in a fine play by Davy Lopes.
Thasmore did his job but the Dodgers anticipating the play and Lopes coming in from a shallow position with great speed to bare hand the ball.
He had to hurry and he did make the play.
So Thasmore bunts out and that'll bring up Tommy Hutton.
Hutton the one-time member of the Dodger organization was traded away.
The Dodgers had enough first basemen at that time.
Hutton in the regular season hit at 3-0-9.
He had two home runs, 11 runs about an end.
All for two in this series and he takes the first pitch to call a strike.
Hutton was a pinch hitter in the second game and lined out the left field.
In the first game he went in defensively and batted once and did not have a base hit.
The next pitch by Roden is in the dirt and it bounces away one ball and one strike.
High ball game at three.
Bottom half of the fourth inning and Rick Roden's next pitch, fastball that's outside.
Two balls, one strike.
Now the signs are out and the next delivery on the way and it's popped up on the third base side.
Moving back as Ron Faye, he's being run off the play by the shortstop Bill Ruckel.
Ruckel puts it away for two men away.
That'll bring up Jake McGride. McGride has walked the fourth in the run.
McGride is in the second of the series.
Then of course he gets the hand for the fine crow that cut down.
Leslie Baker trying to score the go-ahead run and the top of the fourth inning.
McGride four for ten, batting 400 in this championship series.
LCS they call it, League Championship Series.
And Roden into the windup and here's the pitch to McGride, a hard ground ball right at Ruckel at shortstop.
He feels it on the artificial turf and lobs it over the first base where it's taken by Garvey in the side, retired and ordered.
And the score at the end of four, the Dodgers three and the Phillies three.
More auto racing news, British Formula One driver,
Ian Ashley was flown to a hospital with his legs and wrists broken today after his racing car became airborne
and qualifying for the Grand Prix of Canada colliding with a folding setup for an unmanned trackside television camera.
Ashley was struck or stuck in the car for 45 minutes before he was taken to the track hospital
from where he was flown by helicopter to Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.
He was conscious and in stable condition.
The two pitching staff, Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
When the Phillies started to get in trouble they went to their bullpen.
Warren Brewster came in for only two-thirds of an inning and now another man from the bullpen, Ron Reed,
moving in to pitch the fifth inning against Los Angeles.
When the Dodgers got into trouble early for long relief they went to one of their starters, Rick Rodin.
The Dodger bullpen has not been as effective as Tommy Lasorda would like and therefore he has talked about using both Rodin and Doug Rowe,
a left-hander in the bullpen and now Rodin is in that ballgame. We'll have to see how it develops.
We've gone through four, we're all even.
Dodgers three runs, seven hits, no errors. Phillies three runs, two hits and no errors.
Now let's bring in Ralph Tanner.
Okay, Jerry Coleman. Reed had a record of seven wins and five losses in a regular season with 15 saves.
He had an urban average of 2.76 and he was in 60 ballgames.
In this series he has appeared once before, he went two innings, gave up no runs on two hits while striking out two and walking one.
And Reed will be working to the second baseman, Davey Lopes.
Lopes three through 11 in this series, 0 for 2 in this ballgame.
And Reed, who throws a good change up along with a sidearm fastball and a slider and curve, starts off with an overhand fastball.
It's time for ball one. Throws the ball from all around.
A basketball player at Notre Dame also played with the Detroit Pistons. And the next pitch is swung on a miss, it's one and one.
The crowd has quieted down since that rock at second inning.
And the next pitch is hit hard to the shortstop Larry Boy. He gets in front of it, slingshots the ball to first base and Davey Lopes to quick out.
It's Bill Russell coming up. Russell lined the second and fouled out his two times up.
Bill with two hits and 11 times up.
The wind is no factor in this ballgame and it seldom is in this stadium. It's an enclosed circular stadium.
And the first pitch to Russell, a called strike.
3.30 down each line, 3.71 in the power alleys and four away in the straightaway center field. The fence is 12 feet high.
And it's artificial serve. Next pitch is lobbed out and back a third and coming hard as Luzinski lets it drop in front of him as he plays the safety hop.
And going in the second base with a double is Bill Russell.
Luzinski, and we've got artificial serve here, afraid to take the chance of trying to come in and shoot through it and if he misjudges it on a shoot through if it gets by it's got to be inside the park.
It's a whole new ballgame when you play on artificial serve.
Fences were lower here in the early days of Veterans Stadium. They raised the fences at 12 feet hoping to keep the ball in play.
When the ball would go to the outfield they would bounce over the fence where grounds rules doubled and they would lose three base hits.
Now the first pitch to Reggie Smith who is 0 for 2 is taken for her ball. Reggie 2 for 10 in the series.
And the pitch back to the left hand batter, the change up but it's out of the strike zone. Two balls and no strikes.
Dodgers with eight hits, the Phillies have had two and the game is tied at three.
Reggie's next pitch is swung on a miss and a fastball miss that time, two balls and one strike.
Reggie steps out of the batter's box.
Now gets back in, holds the bat very high.
Came to the Dodgers from the St. Louis Cardinals.
And the next pitch is hit foul into the stands on the left field side so they counted two balls and two strikes.
Reggie batted 3-0-7 in the regular season with 32 home runs and 87 RBI.
A versatile person who flies his own airplane, gourmet cook, does about anything he wants to.
Now at 2-2, reads next pitch. Fastball high and inside and they count full now. Three balls, two strikes. The on deck batter runs six.
Smith started his career with a Boston Red Sox.
Has one of the great arms in baseball history.
Three and two they count, here's the pitch and it's a check swing one.
Reggie Smith is called out by home plate umpire Harry Wendelstadt.
Miss checks to see whether or not it was a swinging strike or a call strike.
That's again an account of Earthly and that's the third time Reggie has gone back to the bench with a bat in his hand.
First strike out for Reed and with two men out the batter will be Ron Say.
They had a double as last time up. He's one for two.
Right hand batter.
And the first pitch at fastball high, ball one.
They're giving credits on the message board for all the media coverage radio and TV wise and it'll take about 20 minutes to get all the names up there.
This thing is really being covered. They swing at the next pitch at fastball, one ball, one strike.
High ball game at three. The Dodgers with a runner at second base, Bill Russell there.
Two men away were in the top of the fifth inning.
And the pitch it is fouled back out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
The Dodgers led two nothing after one and a half innings. The Phillies led three to two after two.
And the Dodgers tied it up with a run in the fourth.
Next pitch to say is up five.
And they count two balls and two strikes.
Once again the signs are out and a two-two. The pitch by Reed.
They check the swing and foul the ball off on the first base side.
Grounded out to the right side.
And it remains a two balls and two strikes.
Ron Reed started his career as a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves.
In 1969 he won his high in the Major Leagues 18 as Atlanta became the Western Division champions and lost to the Mets.
And a swing and a miss and say it's stuck out and that ends the inning.
Reed getting his first two strike out to the ball game.
Four times one hit. A man left his second in the score at the end of four and a half innings.
The Dodgers three and the Phillies three.
Well this is a ball game that belongs now to the relief pitchers.
Larry Christensen, Warren Brewster and Ron Reed have been in there for Philadelphia and for the Dodgers.
Bert Hooten and Rick Rodin.
And for those of you who may have missed the histronics in that second inning with Bert Hooten on the mound for the Dodgers.
He was sailing right along. Gave up a single to Greg Lazinski but he got Hevner forcing Lazinski a second.
Then he struck out Gary Maddux and then a single to Bob Boone and then it all started.
He walked Ted Sizemore loading the bases.
Larry Christensen the pitcher came on and on a questionable call it seemed upset.
He walked off the mound and started talking to himself and for some reason this seemed to activate the fans here at Bethlen Stadium in Philadelphia.
Because Christensen amid the roaring of the crowd drew a base on balls to drive in one run.
Then following walks to McBride and Boa and suddenly the Phillies had moved ahead three to two.
The Dodgers have since tied it and that's where we stand right now.
So right here in Bethlen Stadium in Philadelphia as the evening starts to come into its own.
The game started with the sun shining brightly but the lights are starting to take some effect and as we move into the twilight.
Not necessarily to take you to the twilight zone but to take you through the ball game here's Jerry Coleman.
Okay Ralph Keiner, Larry Boa, Mike Schmidt and Greg Lazinski are coming on the Phillies although they have three runs.
And the game is tied at three a piece have only a couple of base hits.
Lazinski and Boone singles in the second inning have been hit.
Rick Roden relief of Bird Hooten now on the mound for the Dodgers and the tall right handers ready with the first one.
It's on the way to Boa fouled off strike one.
Larry Boa bounced the short and drew a base on balls and it was his walk that forced Bird Hooten out of the ball game.
And brought in Roden who retired the side on one pitch to Mike Schmidt.
A dramatic ball game thus far a key ball game. Tomorrow it's Carle-Den and John.
Boa started a bunt pulls his bat away and takes it low and outside one ball one strike.
Ron Say is very tight at third base looking for the possible bunt.
Bill Russell a shortstop. Dave Lopes at second. Steve Garvey at first all very shallow.
Boa with good speed waiting and the pitch on the way by Roden is outside.
Two balls and a strike.
The outfield shading to the left side Dusty Baker left field.
Rick Mundy in center. Reggie Smith in right.
A huge gazing hole in right center.
Here's a 2-1 pitch to Boa. Pops it up and comes back into the stands out of play.
Two balls two strikes.
Boa had four home runs this year matching his entire major league output the first seven years.
Has a total of eight now.
Boa waiting. Roden checking him out.
Boa is two for nine in the action.
Waits for the next one and pops it foul again.
That's over the Dodger dugout into the crowd.
The count stays two balls and two strikes.
Phillies after Boa will send up their big guns Mike Schmidt and Greg Lazinski.
Yeager the Dodger catcher has the sign down.
Roden is reading him he's into the lineup.
The right hander's 2-2 pitch to Boa.
Great play on a backhanded grab by the shortstop Bill Russell.
That looked like it was headed for left field.
Russell dashing into the hole backhanded it and hauled it in for an outstanding play.
Boa's out of there on a live drive to the shortstop.
Bill Russell came up with a dandy.
Boa's gone one away fifth and that'll bring on Mike Schmidt.
Schmidt has not been the hitter in this playoff series that he was a year ago.
He has won 4-11 overall.
Mike from the right side waits and the fastball almost hit him as he backs away for ball one.
Schmidt with a total of 38 home runs.
Three years prior to this he led the National League in homers but this year George Foster with 52 took it away.
The next pitch on the way to Schmidt is inside.
Two balls and no strikes.
Schmidt in the playoff last year against Cincinnati was the one shining light for Philadelphia.
He batted 308.
Right now he is struggling trying to come up with some hits.
Three-three tie, bottom of the fifth as Schmidt takes low and inside and Roden has gone three balls and no strikes.
Veteran Stadium Philadelphia.
Cloudy overcast day now.
It started that way then the sun came out and now the clouds are appearing again.
A 3-0 delivery and it's good for a strike.
Three and one.
Three balls, one strike, one down.
Ron Reid for Philadelphia.
Rick Roden for the Dodgers are the pitchers of record.
Both starters out of the ball game.
The 3-1 pitch on the way to Schmidt and it's inside ball four.
That's the second walk given up by Roden.
He is not allowed a base hit but he has walked two men.
He walked Lazinski in the third and now opening up with one down here in the fifth inning.
He walks Mike Schmidt.
Lazinski who has one for one a single and a base on ball.
The ball put the fills on the board of Dodgers Stadium with a booming home run in the first inning.
He's in there right now and the throw is taken outside.
A snap throw by Yeager to first and Schmidt gets back.
Schmidt stole 15 bases this year.
He's got good speed.
Possibly one of the greatest big athletes going in baseball today.
He can do it all.
He can run, he can throw, he can field, he can hit and hit for power.
Schmidt on a first base.
Garvey holding against him.
Infield swung way off to the left.
Lopes swell toward second as Lazinski waits.
Here's Roden's delivery and it's in there.
One ball, one strike, a hard slide.
I got the outside corner.
Schmidt with 15 stolen bases this year is on a first base.
He was cut down eight times.
A one-one count as Roden steps back off the rubber.
Check the run at first.
Dodgers three runs, eight hits.
The Phillies three runs and two hits.
Here's the pitch to Lazinski and it's nine inside.
Two balls and a strike.
Roden is ready again.
He checks Schmidt at first.
Lazinski waiting and a pitch on the way to Gregg is fouled back.
Another slider.
He got a piece of that one.
Two balls and two strikes.
It looks like Elias Sosa is throwing in the Dodger bullpen now with Roden
having given up a walk to Mike Schmidt.
Although Roden has not given up a base hit.
In this ball game it is such a critical ball game to both teams at both managers.
Tommy Lasorda of the Dodgers, Danny Ozark of the Phillies,
are at hair trigger when it comes to their pitches.
The first moment they get into trouble they try another man.
Roden, a long look at Jaeger.
Fans, you can hear them starting to come.
And now Roden steps back off the rubber.
It was a situation something like this in the second inning that forced Bird hooting out
and the fans are starting to come to life again.
The 2-2 pitch has popped up.
Third baseman Ron Say in foul territory is under it and grabs it for the second out.
Roden did not succumb to the fans here on that pitch.
He nails Greg Lozinski a big out.
Now Richie Hebner, left-hand batter, is going to hit.
Hebner bounced the second base.
He flied to center field.
He's going to 0-2 and he has scored a run.
Hebner overall in the series is 2-7.
When Dave Cash played out his option and went on his way to Montreal,
Hebner came over from Pittsburgh and ended up at first base
and then the Phillies managed a trade for Ted Sizemore from the Dodgers.
And of course Sizemore batting on the eighth spot in this lineup today
and going against his old teammates.
3-3 tie, last of the fifth, 2 down, Hebner waiting.
Roden, a long set and the delivery to Hebner.
Ted high at a right field but not deep.
Reggie Smith drifting in.
He's under and he has it for the final out here in the fifth inning.
No run, no hits, no errors.
A man left.
We've gone through five.
It's the Dodgers, three runs, eight hits.
The Phillies, three runs, two hits.
With relations between the two clubs strained because of Thursday evening's hard slot incident,
second base, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals sent their top right-handers to the mound
Friday night in the third game of the American League playoffs,
Mike Torres, the choice of Billy Martin of the Yankees to start,
who even the series at one game apiece with that victory on Thursday,
while Dennis Leonard, the manager of Whitey Herzog, takes the start for the Royals.
They began in Kansas City with heavy rain falling for more than 12 hours,
but the rain stopped in the early afternoon.
The grounds crew had the artificial surface at Royal Stadium in perfect condition.
If the game will begin, we won't know that for a few hours yet.
Overcast skies right now, temperatures in the 50s, 80 percent chance of rain.
So that's the story of that one.
The story of our game is all tied up after 5-3-3, both starting pitchers and now the shower
or in the dugout or watching in the shower room on television.
What time of year are you often here, baseball fans, saying, wait till next year?
And while your favorite team is planning for 1978, you should too by ordering season tickets.
Now is the time when the best locations are available for your family or business.
So if you missed any of baseball's excitement this past season, act now and ensure choice seats for all of the fun of 1978.
You'll find yourself saying, I just can't wait till next year.
Proceeding has been brought to you on behalf of Major League Baseball.
Well, it's been a strange game.
It's the Dodgers three and the Phillies and their fans three.
The Phillies fans certainly into the act as they got in and teared their team onto a leading position.
Right now we're going back to the action and once again Jerry Coleman.
Steve Garvey, Dusty Baker, Rick Mundy coming on against the giant right-hander Ron Reid who goes in at 6-6
and Garvey's first swing at a fastball is missed for strike one.
Garvey, right-hand batter, one for two in this ball game and four for nine overall.
The next one by Reid, a breaking ball in the dirt.
Outfield, well over to the left side, Luzinski on left, Maddox in center, Tate McBride in right field.
The infield is deep at all spots.
Here's Reid again and the delivery foul back.
A ball and two strikes. Mike Schmidt, the third baseman.
Shortstop Larry Boat, Ted Sizemore at second, Rich Hebner at first and Bob Boone doing the catching.
Reid is the third Philly pitcher in relief of Warren Brewster who picked it up for Larry Christensen.
Garvey waits and the one-two delivery just off the corner.
Reid thought he had it, the plate on fire didn't give it to him.
Two balls, two strikes.
Steve Garvey, the only man to play at every Dodger ball game this year.
Waits for another, the two-two pitchers chopped to the shortstop.
Two big hops, Bowe gets a big bill out of it.
A quick throw to first and Garvey's gone, six to three.
Today's paid attendance, 63,719.
That may set a new record. We're going to check it up.
It's right up there. If it isn't a new record, it's the second highest all-time here at Veteran Stadium.
Dusty Baker is moving in. He has doubled and singled.
Score to run has driven in two.
Right-handed hitter against the right-handed Reid and the delivery.
Hit high to center field. That'll be a routine play for Gary Maddux.
Maddux is holding his ground and has it for the second out.
So Reid goes through the first two batters in the sixth inning, two up and two down.
All right, here's Rick Mundy stepping in.
Mundy flies to center field and single to right.
And on the board, a welcome to CBS Radio Network broadcasters Ralph Keiner and Jerry Coleman.
And we're certainly delighted to be here.
This 63,719 falls a couple hundred short of a new all-time record.
It's the second highest ever.
They pitch to Rick Mundy, the first one by Ron Reid, low, ball one.
One and oh, two outs, nobody on, top of the sixth inning, a 3-3 tie.
This is the game that both clubs figure they have to win.
The one-oh delivery to Mundy. Swung on a miss, one ball, one strike.
Rick Mundy has had some severe back problems, but talking to him before the game today, he said,
I am 100 percent.
And Mundy so far in the action has not done too badly.
Got two hits and six trips in the two games that he's played.
A man hitter, a veteran, started with the Kansas City Athletics and on to the Cubs and now here with the Dodgers.
The 1-1 pitch and Mundy takes it for strike two.
And the Dodger bullpen is going full bore right now.
Charlie Huff, a knuckle baller, and a curve balling Doug Rau from the left side starting to throw.
The 1-2 pitch to Mundy, fouled off and just off to the right of our booth.
And my microphone just went dead.
If my microphone didn't go dead, my earplugs certainly did. I can't hear a thing.
All right, Rick Mundy now is out there.
The count of all the two strikes, two down.
Here's Reeve's delivery and the 1-2 pitch is taken outside.
Two balls, two strikes. Jim Gilliam coaching at first base.
And Preston Gomez, a former manager for the San Diego Ponders and the Houston Ashos at third.
The 2-2 delivery on the move and it's outside making three balls and two strikes.
Three and two the count.
Two down, nobody on. Mundy trying to give the Dodgers a start here in the sixth inning.
Behind him the catcher Steve Yeager.
The next pitch to Mundy is high for ball four and down to first base goes Rick Mundy.
So Mundy on with two down here in the sixth inning and the catcher Steve Yeager getting ready to move in.
The next hitter is the following hitter behind Yeager.
Gene Garber, slow curveballing right-hander throwing in the Philadelphia bullpen.
Behind Garber they still have Tug McGraw if they need him so the filly is very rich in bullpen depth.
Yeager in the ball game is single and had an intentional walk.
Throw to first base, Mundy is back and the throw to first almost got by Hebner.
If you missed it today's pay-to-ten at 63,719.
Another throw to first and Mundy is back again.
All right Rick Mundy with the lead maybe about eight feet off edging up towards second base.
Yeager waiting at the plate, a dangerous batter.
He's not an average hitter but he can hit the long ball every now and then.
Another throw to first and Mundy gets back again.
It's a 3-3 tie. We are in the top of the sixth inning.
Dodgers are batting here at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
Ron Reed throws the first again fourth time he's gone over there.
Put pause five seconds for station identification. This is the CBS Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
All right Reed with the set delivers ground ball to third deep in the corner.
The play by Smith to second, they got him.
An outstanding play by Mike Smith right on the line deep at third base.
Nails Mundy at second base.
That one's five to four if you're keeping book with us.
No runs, no hits and a man left after five and a half.
Dodgers three, Philadelphia three.
University of Colorado hopes its rare appearance among the top ten rankings can become a habit.
Looks to improve its record on Saturday by stopping Oklahoma State's Terry Miller.
Colorado coach Bill Mallory believes that Miller is the fondest running back in the nation.
Miller leads the nation's rushers right now with just over 160 yard average in four games.
He has carried 104 times for 637 yards and six touchdowns.
Miller's Oklahoma State's low offensive threat though, situation reflected in their two and two record this season.
Seventh ranked USC by the way will whisk its unbeaten record against once beaten number eight Alabama this weekend.
Second ranked Michigan will visit old rival Michigan State.
Number three Oklahoma faces number four Texas and sixth ranked Ohio State takes on Purdue in a big ten battle.
Other game, seventh ranked Nebraska tackles Kansas State, their big favorites there.
And number ten California tackles Washington State.
Pedro Barbon, the Cincinnati Reds eighth release pitcher, pleaded innocent Friday to two assault charges,
was ordered to appear in court again next Tuesday for a preliminary hearing.
Barbon's lawyer John J. Kelly Jr. entered innocent pleas on behalf of Barbon at Friday's arraignment in Cincinnati
before Hamilton County criminal court judge Robert Blackmore.
Barbon stood silently while the lawyer entered the pleas.
Barbon released on his own recoginance pending Tuesday's 9 a.m. preliminary hearing,
later refused to comment to news reporters.
Also Kelly noted Barbon was under contract to pitch winter ball and today hope further court session would be delayed
so Barbon could immediately return to his Dominican Republic home.
Barbon must remain for the preliminary hearing.
I'd like to remind you that the American League playoff game will be on tonight at 8.07 Eastern Daylight Time with Ed Martin
along with Ernie Harwell, Yankees against Kansas City in Kansas City.
And then tomorrow afternoon the American League game will be at 1.07 Eastern Daylight Time
and will be on the air Saturday night at 8.07.
It'll be Tommy John against Steve Carlton in that ball game tomorrow night.
We're all set to go. It's the bottom half of the sixth.
It's a tie ball game at three and coming back in for the play-by-play, Jerry Combs.
And Gary Maddux, Bob Boone, and Ted Sizemore going up against Rick Rhoade who has done a brilliant job for the Dodgers.
He has gone three in the third innings, has not given up a hit, and has walked two.
The first pitch to Maddux right at the Adam's apple misses inside ball one.
Gary Maddux in the ball game struck out and he bounced to third.
Maddux is one of the men that the Phillies like to get on. He's got that big speed. He can run.
Wide spread stance from the right side waiting, chokes up about an inch and hits one to center field straight away.
Rick Mundy will have no trouble with this. He's under it, grabs it, and we've got one going here in the bottom of the sixth.
Gary Maddux on a fairly routine fly ball. The center field is out of there for the first out on the bottom of the sixth.
And now Bob Boone steps in the catcher. Boone single and fly to center.
Gene Garber, the right-hander, continues in the Philly bullpen.
Behind Boone at Sizemore and then Reed.
Reed will fall in the event that he gets up to hit in this inning.
They first pitch to Boone, one on a miss, strike one.
He's three runs, eight hits. The Phillies three runs and only two hits.
Roden again checking out his catcher, Yeager, and the pitch on the way to Bob Boone.
It's right in there on the corner. No balls and two strikes.
Bob, a native of San Diego and the son of a great hitting shortstop third baseman for Cleveland and Detroit, Ray Boone,
and now scouts for the Boston Red Sox.
The two-strike pitch to Bob is low and inside. Ball one, strike two.
It's going to be the toughest thing in the world to follow your father, who was a great major league hitter.
Ray Boone could hit that ball, did it for many years in the American League, over a dozen.
And now Bob following in his footsteps. The one-two pitch to Bob, a hard drive center field base hit.
Bob Boone comes up with a first hit off of Roden and only the third for the Phillies in the ballgame.
Tim McCarver has moved into the on-deck circle, so he'll be batting for Ron Reid, provided Sizemore doesn't pop into a double play.
A 3-3 tie. We're in the last half of the sixth inning. Rick Roden blowing on his hand.
In this type of weather, they'll allow you to do that.
Normally, you cannot do it. You have to have permission from the umpires.
A first pitch on the way to Sizemore. It's one-on-a-miss, strike one.
Ted walked and scored a run in the second inning.
Then he tried to bunt for a base hit, pushing it out toward second, and Lopes made a fine play to get him.
Sizemore, a little guy, formally with the Dodgers, waiting.
Here's Roden's delivery to Ted. It's chopped away on the left side.
No balls and two strikes.
Lance Rotson, a left-hander, throwing down on the Dodger bullpen, along with another left-hander, Doug Rowe.
So Rowe, a more experienced pitcher, one of those cutie kind of guys who try to get you an off-speed stuff and set you up for a fast ball.
It isn't all that fast, but looks better than it is.
And Rotson, not a bad throwing left-hander, but a rookie.
Three-three tie, sixth inning. Phillies have a runner at first base.
Sizemore apparently broke his bat and is going to get another one, and he comes out to take his shot.
Roden now checks out his catcher, Steve Yeager.
Elias Dose now gets up in the Dodger bullpen. They got half the staff throwing down there.
Here's the two-strike, fix the size more, low and outside, and a good play by Yeager on a ball that was almost a wild pitch.
Yeager is one of the few catchers who loves his work. He loves exactly what he's doing.
He likes to catch. He likes the body contact. He likes the hard work.
He likes to put on the so-called tools of ignorance.
And believe me, if you can catch and you can throw a Yeager can, you've got a job in the big leagues for 15 years.
A ball and two strikes. Boone, who is not an overly fast man on a first base, waiting.
Here's Roden's pitch on the way to size more low this time. Two balls and two strikes.
Tony Taylor dancing around at first base. He's the coach for the Phillies, yelling out to Bob Boone.
Two balls, two strikes, one out.
In a spot like this, some managers will try the hit and run. Let's see what the Phillies do.
Sizemore waiting, and the throw goes to first base. Roden looking for something.
Garvey holding against Boone. The infield playing very shallow.
Sizemore is not a fast man, nor is Boone, but you've got to come in, especially if that man may be going.
Two balls, two strikes, one down. Roden ready again.
The pitch to Sizemore is top back on a play into the seat. We're going to go at it again. Two balls and two strikes.
Sizemore, a one-time rookie of the year, played only one year for the Dodgers before being traded off to the St. Louis Cardinals for Richie Allen.
Later, the Dodgers got him back and traded him to the Phillies.
So Sizemore has had a checkered career from a standpoint of continuity with one club, but he's a fine ball player, a heady ball player who knows what to do.
All right, Roden is again ready. Here's the pitch to Sizemore. Luke Fowl on the right side. That'll reach the seats. No chance for Smith to get to it.
Lance Rotson and Ilya Sosa throwing down on the Dodger bullpen.
And Barry Foote, a reserve catcher for the Phillies, is warming up on the bullpen.
Could be that if there's a move made here, it could be a flip flop by Danny Ozark. We'll have to see how the dust settles.
But right now, Sizemore, for the count of two balls, two strikes, he's got a runner at first base and one down, bottom of the sixth, a 3-3 tie.
Here's the pitch. Chopped away Fowl and Sizemore and Roden having some battle out there.
Well, Roden got the ball and bounced it on the astroturf like it was a basketball and said, hey, let me try another one.
Baseballs are built to specification, but they're not all the same. And more than likely, a pitcher will get a ball that just doesn't have that feel.
Maybe the seam doesn't feel right. Maybe it feels heavy in his hand and he'll say, hey, let's try another one until he gets one that he's satisfied with.
The pitcher can ask for a new ball. The hitter can ask for the umpire to look at the ball, but not for a new one unless the umpire throws it out.
All right, the Philly fans coming to life again. Sizemore awaits. Here's the pitch by Roden. Ground ball to third and great play by Sze.
The throw to first, not in time. Great hit.
Real good backhand play by Ron Sze as he went far to his right side to backhanded in foul territory. His momentum was taking him away from the field.
He threw over to first base. It was not a hard throw. One out throw to first and Sizemore beat it out.
So now the Phillies are going to the bench as they have runners at first and second and one man out. Here's a bat in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Left hand hitting Kim McCarver is coming on. McCarver this year batted three twenty and has a pinch hitter nine for thirty six, which is an even two fifty batting average with a home run of nine RBI.
A very valuable man.
And those Philly fans again, I'm sure you can hear them in the background starting to come to life.
McCarver waits. Here's a pitch filed away. Strike one. McCarver, who is Steve Carlin's special catcher, caught the first ball game and he went one for three with a walk.
A single and a run score. Left hand batter, the tie breaking run, a second base and the person of Bob Boone, Ted Sizemore at first base. A three three tie, last half of the sixth inning.
Here's a pitch to McCarver, a tie for a ball, one ball and one strike.
Kim McCarver, one time St. Louis Cardinals star catcher in their payday. The days of Bob Gibson and company.
Has that front foot to right but almost on top of the plate. He's waiting. Roden is ready. Here's the delivery as the runners move up and a tie.
Two balls, one strike.
Rick Roden now running into a little bit of a rival that fell here. He walked one man in the third inning, got out of it with no trouble. He walked a man in the fifth.
Got out of it with no trouble but he has fallen behind hitters here in the sixth inning and has given up back to back singles.
Two balls and one strike to Tim McCarver.
Bob Boone at second base, Ted Sizemore at first. And now time has fallen.
As the fans here at Vetsland Stadium start that crescendo, he just stepped off the rubber.
There they go again.
The 2-1 pitch is high.
Three balls, one strike.
There are 63,719 fans all apparently rooting for the Phillies.
Here's Roden.
And the 3-1 delivery. Foul back a full count.
If Roden can overcome this route, he may quiet these people. But until they do, they're going to keep going.
The Philadelphia Phillies fan is a very long-waiting fan. They are looking for their first championship ever in baseball.
They have never been able to win a championship in 1915. They were defeated in the World Series 4-1.
In 1950, they were defeated 4-0 by the Yankees. And last year in the championship series, they were defeated by the Cincinnati Reds 3-0.
We've got a 3-2 count. Runners at first and second in one away.
McCarver batting for Ron Reid is waiting. Here is Roden.
The pitch fouled away and we're going to do it one more time.
Danny Ozark with Bob Boone at second base and Sizemore at first did not have his men going.
Behind McCarver, the left-hand hitting, Bake McBride.
Absolutely remarkable display here by Philadelphia fans.
Three balls, two strikes. Roden again, touch. McCarver waits. There go the runners.
The ball is hit foul on the right side and that's out of reach to Reggie Smith.
The ball wasn't hit far enough to be of any danger and it's been fair. Smith with a clutter with ease.
But it was full foul, maybe 25 feet or so into the seats in right field.
So the count remains three balls and two strikes and Danny Ozark shifted gears that time and he started Boone and Sizemore.
And now Boone is going to have a chat with Billy Demars, the third base coach.
Well, you've got to wonder, do they miss the sign the first time or the second time?
Whatever, Boone wants to know exactly what's going on from Billy Demars, the third base coach.
We have a quick conversation. Dave Lopes is walking in to talk to Rick Roden.
Lance Rodson, the left-hander. Elias Sota, the right-hander, continue to throw in the Dodger bullpen.
A dramatic part of the ball game. Dodger three to Philly speed.
Roden checking out his catcher, Yeager. McCarver waits.
An attempt to pick off does not come to life. Roden turned around to throw the second.
Russell trying to creep in behind Boone, but Roden didn't throw the ball, just stepped off the rubber and held on to it.
Now Sizemore with a big lead at first. Boone off the second again. McCarver at the plate.
There they go. Here's the three-two pitch hit high in the air to right field.
An easy play for Smith. The runners retreat in a hurry as Reggie Smith grabs this for the second out.
Good job by Roden. Three and two and three pitches with a count of three balls and two strikes in the strike zone.
The first two found off and he got the third one over and a fly ball for an at the right field.
Rick Roden is still a very young pitcher. Roden, 24 years old on May the 16th, is only in his second full year as a bigleger.
He's had about two and a half years in the big leagues and believe me, he's got some ice water in him.
He came on on the second inning when Burt Houghton was forced out and got Mike Schmidt on one pitch.
And in trying circumstances has nailed pimp hitter Kim McCarver. Now here's Baked McBride.
Two down. Runners at first and second. Bottom of the sixth. Three-three tie. McBride from the left side has gone 0-2 in the game.
And here's the pitch. Inside ball of one. McBride who wears a full beard.
He was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals for Tommy Underwood. It's been a big trade for both ball clubs. The Phillies are delighted with it.
Roden now looking into this catcher. Sizemore at first. Blue in at second. Drifting off.
The 1-0 pitch to McBride. Hit on the ground at second. Grabbed by Lopes to play the short. At second base it's Russell. He's got it.
And that takes care of the Philadelphia Phillies in here in the sixth inning as Baked McBride forces Ted Sizemore at second base.
For the Phillies, no runs. A couple of base hits and two men left. We go to the seventh. It's all even. Dodgers three. Philadelphia three.
Al McGray, one of the key players in the Kansas City Royals, will be inducted into the Florida A&M University Sports Hall of Fame November 18th.
McGray played baseball for the Rattlers in 1964 and 65, hitting 364 and 353 with 16 homers his first year and 19 his second.
Other members of the FAMU Hall of Fame include tennis star Althea Gibson, former professional football players Bob Hayes and Willie Gallimore, and Jay Gaither.
Well in the regular season these two teams played 12 times and each team won six games and each team won in their home area, winning four and losing two.
And the first two games of the series split so this ballgame died at three so it couldn't be more even.
And it's been an exciting series so far in this ballgame, a wild ballgame, as far as the improvement of the fans in the stands have had a great influence on what has taken place.
In the second inning, after Greg Luzinski had singled the left field, Richie Hebner ground it into a foresprey, Hebner at first base and Luzinski out.
Then with two men out, Bob Boone singles the center fielder for the runners at first and second.
Ted Sizemore walked in four pitches to load the bases and then Larry Christensen came up and the crowd got into it and they just started to roar.
Bert Hootin on the mound at the time, walked Larry Christensen on a free-two pitch after he thought he had him struck out.
He did not like the call by Harry Lindelstad, the home plate umpire. Then he walked Bates McBride and followed with a walk to Larry Ball, a fourth in free run.
So he's leading by that time by a score of three to two after the Dodgers had scored in the second, scoring twice and singles by Garvey, a double by Dusty Baker and a single by Steve Baker and a double by Bert Hootin.
But then the Dodgers tied it up with a run on the top of the fourth inning to make it a three-three ballgame, a double by Ron Say and he was driven in by Dusty Baker.
So we're going down to the top of the seventh, a new pitch in the ballgame for the Philadelphia Phillies and here to tell you about it, Jerry Coleman.
Okay, the five-foot, ten-inch right-hander Gene Garber comes on and he was in that winning game, won by the Phillies seven to five over the Dodgers in the first one.
He went one and a third innings, did not give up a hit or a run.
Over the season, pitched in 64 ballgames and the first man that he's going to face, Ed Goodson.
He's pinch hitting for Rick Rodin, so Goodson is up there from the left side, he takes strike one.
Next one on the way to Goodson, swung on a miss, strike two, so Garber, who pulls that string nicely, has moved well ahead of Ed Goodson.
Goodson has been used sparingly by the Dodgers, primarily as a pinch hitter.
The two-strike pitch coming up, a chopper toward the second baseman, Sizemore, who is way back, comes in and makes the underhand toss to Hevner and Goodson is out of there.
That play goes four to three.
Goodson was acquired along with Dusty Baker from the Atlanta Braves.
So Goodson's out and that'll bring on the lead man, Davey Lopes.
And this is the guy in a game like this, you try to keep off the bases.
He led the National League and stolen bases the last couple of years.
This year, he had 47 of them.
His overall high, 77 two years ago.
Dave Lopes, right-hand batter, three-three tie, seventh inning.
Garber's pitch to Lopes, sinker low and inside ball one.
Lopes from the right side choking up and Garber delivers a curve that got the corner, one ball, one strike.
Doug Rowe, left-hander throwing for the Dodgers in the bullpen right now.
Here's Lopes and he takes it away outside for two balls and one strike.
They spread the infield on them, Bowe in the hole at shortstop, Sizemore moves over into the hole at second and deep.
Right on that line at third base is Schmidt.
The 2-1 pitch to Lopes, the chopper to the shortstop.
Bowe had him played perfectly and Lopes is out of there six to three.
Two up and two down, seventh inning.
Now Bill Russell the batter.
Russell lined the second base, topped up the third and doubled with one out of the fifth inning.
But right after that Ron Reed struck out Smith and Say to get out of that inning with no further problems.
Bill Russell waiting and the first pitch to Bill.
Right down there's strike one.
Russell's off the end of the bat, maybe two or three inches.
Bill was a dependable hitter and is very tough on the clutch.
The next one by Garber, in the dirt off the bat of Russell apparently.
Looks like a foul tip and it goes no ball, two strikes.
All right, Garber's ready and Russell takes outside.
The board has one and two.
The last pitch before this one hit the dirt, apparently hitting the tip of Russell's bat and bouncing away from the catcher.
Now the one-two pitch on the way, sidearm curveball, chopped to the third baseman.
Mike Schmidt over to first just in time and he's got him.
So Garber has been outstanding in relief.
One, two, three here in the seventh inning.
We go to the last of the seventh, Dodgers three, Philadelphia three.
Getting back to that Hal McRae story, we mentioned one of key players on the Royals team.
They're hoping to play tonight at Kansas City at the Reims holdup against the Yankees in game three all tied up 1-1.
He will be entering the Florida A&M University Sports Hall the same November the 18th.
We mentioned some of the people will also be going.
We briefly mentioned Jake Gaither.
He's a legendary football coach who compiled a 203-36 record while coaching the Rattlers.
Costa Kettles, McRae's baseball coach at FAMU, said he saw the Kansas City star in spring training about a year ago.
McRae's attitude toward baseball, he said, hasn't changed.
He still loves baseball.
It was number one to him then and still is now.
He always has been a fine young man.
Kettles also an assistant football coach.
Watched McRae on television Wednesday evening break up a double play.
Knocking the ball out of the hands of Yankee second baseman Willie Randolph.
The play grew the rage of New York manager Billy Martin who accused McRae of interference.
Well the attendance here today, 63,719, the second largest crowd ever at Veterans Stadium.
First two games drew 111,941.
So the total attendance for the first three games, 175,660.
So it has been a well observed pregame series so far.
And now the Philadelphia Phillies making a bid as they come to bat here in the bottom of the seventh inning.
And a new pitcher in for the Dodgers, Doug Rowe with a record of 14-8, a 3.44 earned run average.
He did not appear in relief all season long.
Rick Rode, going out of the ball game, did not relieve all season long.
Had a record of 16-10.
And in this ball game in his first relief appearance, he worked four and a third.
And he's giving up no runs on just two base hits.
So Doug Rowe, a left hander in the game and coming back to call the play-by-play, Jerry Coleman.
You know Ralph, when you think about a relief pitcher, you think of a guy who can throw the ball hard.
And Gene Garber and Doug Rowe are just the opposite of that.
They're cuties. They move the ball around.
Doug Rowe coming on.
All right, the left hand pitcher going up against the switch hitting Lara Boa batting from the right side.
Boa is 0-2 in the ball game.
We're in the bottom of the seventh all even at three.
Doug Rowe is ready and a pitch on the way to Boa.
It's in the dirt. A curve ball low for ball one.
Dodgers three runs, eight hits. The Phillies three runs, four hits.
Dodgers got two in the first and one in the fourth.
The Phillies got all of theirs in the second inning on four consecutive walks by Burt Huston.
The 1-0 pitch now to Boa is popped up in the infield calling forward as Dave Lopes.
Second baseman drips under and puts it away for the first out of the seventh.
So we have one gone as Mike Schmidt comes in.
Schmidt a right hand batter with big power.
38 home runs this year.
In the series though is having a struggle.
He has won for 11 with a base on ball.
A 3-3 tie, the big gun. Schmidt at the plate in the on deck circle, Greg Lozinski.
A first pitch to Schmidt is a breaking ball low and inside, ball one.
Doug Rowe tries to set you up with that slow curve ball then he'll slip the fastball by it.
Now Rowe checks his catcher. Outfield swung out to the left
and Schmidt takes a change up on the outside corner for a strike.
A year ago Doug Rowe had an average of 2.57.
In fact he went into the final game of the year with a chance to win the ERA and fell to pieces and lost it.
Here's the 1-1 pitch. Schmidt chops it to third.
Stay right on the line. A throw across the diamond. Schmidt has gone 5-3.
And Greg Lozinski steps in two down, nobody on last half of the seventh.
Lozinski, right hand hitter up against the left handed Rowe who has handled Bowe and Schmidt with ease.
Here's the first pitch to the Bowe, swung on a missed strike one.
The Phillies have not really played much with that bat today, they've got four hits.
But all of their runs, as we mentioned earlier, came in the second on four consecutive walks by the starter Bert Hooten.
A one strike pitch to Greg is outside. One ball, one strike.
Outfield, infield swung way off and the infield way back at all three spots, second, short and third.
First baseman Garvey about straight away. The 1-1 pitch to Greg, he went after the change up and missed it.
A ball and two strikes. Elias Sosa, right hander throwing in the Dodger bullpen.
The Phillies have one more big bullpen star to come in if they need them.
Todd McGraw, left hander. Dodgers are using starting pitchers in their bullpen with the exception of Sosa.
They got four and a third brilliant innings from Rick Roden. Now they're getting one from Doug Rowe.
And there's a foul at the plate off the bat of Leszczynski. The count stays at a ball and two strikes.
Now Rowe walks around. He's out of Texas. Very trim athlete.
Schekz Jager. They pitch on the way, low and in the dirt. Two balls and two strikes.
Rowe this year won 14 ball games and lost eight.
The winningest pitcher for the Dodgers was an unlikely choice if you talked about it before the season started.
Tommy John who was coming off of arm surgery a couple years ago and won only 10 games a year ago.
He went on to win 20 this year and Steve Farrell will battle again tomorrow night.
Here's a 2-2 pitch to Leszczynski and he struck him out. He zipped the fastball right by and Leszczynski does down swinging.
The Phillies are out of there one, two, three. We've gone through seven innings. Dodgers three, Phillies three.
Well, Tom Lesot in his first year as manager of the Dodgers has done quite a job.
He was in the Dodger organization what it seemed like forever. He once had a team that lost seven in a row.
And then they had a turnaround and went on to be the champions. And he asked his wife, was asked by his wife how he did it.
And he said, well, I said we lost the seven straight games and our team came in with their heads down.
And I said, get your heads up. Don't ever let me see you with your heads down.
How do you know that the 1927 Yankees once lost nine in a row then went on to become the world's champions and maybe the greatest team ever?
And then with that in mind Lesota seemed on to win.
After listening to this, Mr. Lesota said, Tom, did the Yankees really lose nine in a row in 1927?
And Tom replied, how should I know? I was only one year old at the time.
Well, that's the kind of a manager that Tom Lesota is. He says, I'm just the luckiest man in the world.
I'm a first year manager, a beat up third string pitcher and the son of an Italian immigrant. And I got this kind of a team.
We're going out of the top of the eighth, the Phillies tied up with the Dodgers at 3-3.
A big crowd on hand. The Dodgers led 2-0 after one and a half. The Phillies led 3-2 after two.
The Dodgers tied it in the fourth and they have not put a run on the scoreboard since.
So here in the top of the eighth inning, the Dodgers coming up and once again, Jerry Coleman.
You know, Ralph, I enjoyed the story about Tommy Lesota and the 1927 Yankees losing nine in a row.
And there's one that you can really talk about even later than that.
In 1953, the Yankees won 18 straight and then turned around and lost nine in a row.
That's hard to do when you think about it.
Baseball is a game that you really don't know a lot about. It's a game of inches.
And it was a matter of a fraction of an inch as far as bird hooting the starting pitcher is concerned.
So here's a guy who has been shackled all afternoon for the Dodgers, but he's a man you've got to be careful with.
It's Reggie Smith. He has struck out three times in three trips.
And Garber's first pitch, hard ground ball to second. Sizemore has it and Smith is out of there.
So Garber once again gets his man, the play going 4-3.
Ron says the batter bounced a third, doubled and he struck out.
Gene Garber is one of those fellows who had to work hard to get where he got.
He started with the Pittsburgh Pirates, on to the Kansas City A's, then to the Phillies in 74 and make that the Kansas City Royals.
And he has really struggled to get where he got and he's become one of the best relief pitchers in baseball.
The first pitch to say is outside for ball one. Outfield swung way off to the left.
The say awaits the next one. Ground ball to third, Smith over there on the line, a long throw. He's got it.
Mike Smith once again shows that he can do it all.
So say is out. He hit a blistering ground ball. Smith actually caught the ball in foul territory.
And that long throw across the diamond had to carry about 130 feet. It was on the money.
Say is cut down for the second out. And in the eighth inning the Dodgers have two down, nobody on with Steve Garvey stepping in.
Garvey won for three in this ball game. He has four for ten in the series.
They asked Garvey to go for power this year. He did. 33 home runs, 115 RBIs.
He led the club, but he sacrificed his regular season of 200 base hits, something he's had the last three years before this one.
He didn't get to the 200 base hit department this year.
Garvey came up with 192 hits, so he fell eight shy.
The first pitch is fouled off by Steve for strike one.
Garber to Garvey outside, one ball, one strike. Two down, nobody on. Eighth inning, 3-3 tie.
And this is the kind of a ball game where any little thing can turn it around.
Here's the 1-1 pitch, and now Garvey steps out and asks for time and he gets it from the plate umpire Harry Wendelstadt.
Here's the 1-1 pitch to Steve, swung on a miss by Garvey for strike two, a ball and two strikes.
Garvey was the first Dodger ever to have three consecutive years of 200 base hits.
Now the one ball, two strikes pitch to Garvey. Ground ball, shortstop bow a little bit to his left, easy play and he's got him at first.
So once again, Gene Garber has been brilliant requiring the Dodgers in order in the eighth.
After seven and a half, Dodgers three, the Phillies three.
Boston Celtics convinced that veteran Dave Bing can help them this season, trimmed backcourt players Mike Dabney and Bill Langlo on Friday bringing their roster to 13 players.
Dabney, a former Rutgers star from East Orange, New Jersey, had been a free agent.
While Langlo, a fifth round draft choice, University of Virginia, was the Celtics' fifth round choice.
The fair had been battling to fill a fourth guard spot on the squad until Boston signed Bing last week.
The 24-year-old Bing, who left the Washington Bullets because he was not being played in key situations, scored 14 points against his former team Thursday in the Celtics' 118 to 115 loss.
The Celtics now two and two in exhibition play heading into a Saturday evening game against the Knicks in New York.
Must make two more roster cuts before they open the regular season, October 19th in San Antonio.
Again, we have nothing official yet on the Yankee at Royals game tonight.
A lot of rain, 80% chance of rain.
They are trying to square off in the third game with a best of five.
After Ron Guidry pitched the Yankees to a 6-2 win of the Royals last night, Mike Torres expected to go for the Yankees against the 20-game winner Dennis Leonard.
It started raining, as we said earlier, on Thursday night in Kansas City. Forecasters now say the rains will continue into the evening hours before dwindling late in the evening, but not in time for the start of the ballgame.
Eight teams so far in this game have had 10 men on base. The Dodgers had three runs on eight hits and two walks.
The Phillies have had three runs, four hits, and six walks in the ballgame.
Rawa has left the game after retiring three in a row. He pitched to Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski, and I'm wondering the reason why he was brought in was that he has that ball to turn over a screwball that is tough for a right-hand batter.
Rawa left-hand pitcher just affixed to Schmidt and Luzinski. He got them both out, and now it's Elias Sosa coming in the ballgame, a right-hander that worked the Richie Hebner, Gary Maddox, and Bob Boone.
And once again, here's Jerry Coleman. And Elias Sosa, the man who was the victim of the first game loss by the Dodgers in that game, he went two and gave up three hits, a couple of runs, and that final run came in when he balked it in.
So Elias Sosa is coming on against Richie Hebner, Gary Maddox, and Bob Boone. Sosa becomes the fourth Dodger pitcher and the eighth overall in the ballgame.
The Phillies have used four, the Dodgers now have four of them in there. Richie Hebner, bounce the second, fly the center, and fly the right field.
Sosa from the Dominican Republic, a right-hander, six-two, and he's ready with the first one. Here it is, Hebner, hooks it, foul.
He got out in front of a slider and pulled it about 30 feet foul on the line, strike one.
Dodgers three runs, eight hits, no errors. The Phillies three runs, four hits, and no errors.
Reggie Smith, well over toward the line and right field, as Hebner waits. Here's the pitch by Sosa, and it's outside. One ball, one strike.
Hebner will take almost a completely wide-open stance against the left-hander, against the right-hander, he'll close it a great deal more.
The one-one pitch. Hebner hits it hard to right field, way back there, it's up, off the wall. Hebner is racing for second, and he's got a double.
Well, there was no doubt about the ball being an extra base hit. The doubt was whether or not it would stay in the ballpark as far as the Dodgers are concerned, and it hit off of the wall.
Reggie Smith, Smith fielded the ball perfectly out there and threw it into second base, but over the head of the second baseman, and Hebner joined him with a double.
And that could be the break in the ballgame as far as the Phillies are concerned. They've got a man at second base, nobody out, and that represents the potential winning run.
Gary Maddux, who struck out and bounced the third and flied to center, is coming in, and now Red Adams, the pitching coach for the Dodgers, is on his way to the mound.
Lance Rotson is throwing in the bullpen.
Now Red Adams and Steve Yeager are having a chat out there.
Mike Garman is out there as well. Lance Rotson and Mike Garman. Mike Garman, the right-hander, Rotson, the left-hander.
And you have to believe that if they use Rotson, it'll be in a select situation against a left-hand hitter if one comes along.
All right, Gary Maddux now. His job is to get the runner to third base any way that he can. Let's see what happens.
Elias Doster at the set. Maddux waits and hits it to the right side of base hit. Here comes Webner. The throw to the plate. No good, and into the Dodger dugout.
The Phillies have taken the lead, and over at third base is Gary Maddux with nobody out, and Bob Boone is moving in.
It was the speed of Maddux that got him to third. He got the base that he was going to, which was second, and an extra base after it when the ball went in the dugout.
And you take it from the time the ball leaves the outfielder's hand. So Maddux has passed first base, went Smith through the ball wildly into the dugout.
It's four to three Philadelphia, bottom of the eighth. Both are kicked with the infield in, and there's a pitch out. It's outside, ball one.
That sometimes can be a very tough play for the umpire. It's when the outfielder releases the ball that the runner will be awarded bases.
And Maddux with good speed on a low hit ball, very slow hit ball on the right field, had passed first base when Smith released the ball. It went into the dugout, so Maddux got second, the base he was going to, and one additional base.
One away. Bob Boone the batter, nobody out. Four to three Philadelphia, eighth inning. A ground ball to say it's third. Maddux is frozen right there. The throw is wide!
An error by Longstay! Bob Boone down to second base on a throwing error by Longstay!
Two cross of the errors by the Dodgers defense, normally an outstanding defense, and the Philadelphia Phillies getting an extra run and now leading by a score of five to three, and the runners still in scoring position with no one out.
That was a routine play, and say simply Miss Garvey threw it over his head by five feet. So Bob Boone down to second, and now here's Ted Thiesmorer coming on. Still nobody out. Phillies lead by two.
They pitch to Thiesmorer, he squares the bunk, takes it for a strike. A breaking ball, he tried to duck under, thought it might have been high. So the Phillies have broken it wide open here in the eighth inning. They lead it five to three.
Elias Sosa gave up a double to Hebner. A single to Maddux, a throwing error by the right fielder got Maddux to third, and now an error by the third baseman. That ball inside, inside more takes than one and one.
In the first ball game won by the Phillies seven to five, the Phillies got four unearned runs and one came in on a box. And in this ball game here, errors have certainly helped the cause. Not only that, those four successive walks by Burt Houghton were disastrous.
The one-one pitch to Thiesmorer chopped away left side.
As the ball goes raw, left-hander continues to throw in the bullpen for Philadelphia. Gene Garber is the following hitter behind Thiesmorer.
Thiesmorer's walk, tried to bun a ball for a base hit, was thrown out by Lopes and then had an infield single.
Thiesmorer's bun, a second base with the lead. Thiesmorer's waiting. Here is Sosa's delivery. And it's fouled off his foot and he's got, oh that hurts. I can feel it from here.
Ralph, did you do that much? Some hitters do it all the time, some never do it. How about you?
No, I didn't. And I know one that did it an awful lot, Vic Wurzer, who was an outstanding home run hitter. He used to have to wear a little protective shin guard down there to protect his front foot.
Well in his latter years, Ted Williams had the same problem. He wore that little, sort of the bottom end of the catcher's shin guard to protect that right foot in his case.
Alright, Thiesmorer now is trying to get the effects of that foul off that left foot to go away.
I had a roommate, George Metkovich, Catfish Metkovich, and we were out at a swimming pool one time and someone said, George, you sure got fine looking feet. And he said, yours would look as bad as mine if you fouled as many balls off your feet as I did.
He wasn't a bad hitter. He came over to the White Sox later and had some pretty good years.
Alright, Thiesmorer's back in there. They count as a ball and two strikes. Nobody out. Two runs across. Bob Boone at second base. 5-3 Philadelphia last half of the eighth inning.
So, the right hander's ready. He's at the set. Here's the pitch and Thiesmorer drills one. One hop to third. Say has it. The throw this time is good and holding at second base is Bob Boone. Bob Boone has to hold at second as Thiesmorer hits a one hop for the third baseman, Ron Say.
The play goes 5-3. Now Gene Garber is going to come up and do his thing.
And Garber's getting a standing ovation by the fans here at the veteran's stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Garber is an excellent relief hitter, but not much of a hitter. He has gone 0-10 for the year. Looking for his first hit of 77.
Infield, shallow. The outfield the same. Say tight at third. Garber at first. Boone drifting off at second base. One down. And Garber squares the bun and he does, but it's foul on the third base side.
Well, if you just tuned in, we went into the bottom of the eighth inning tied at three. Sosa came in for the Dodgers. He served up a booming double off the wall to Richie Hebner. Gary Maddux hit a low single into right field. The ball was thrown away by the right fielder.
Maddux all the way to third. Hebner into score. And now Garber squares the bun. It's on the right side. Sosa has to make the play to first and the sacrifice is good. So the sacrifice, 1-3.
Garber gets Boone over to third base with two down and that'll bring on the top of the order, Bakes McBride. Right after Maddux went to third base on a throwing error by the right fielder, Reggie Smith, Bob Boone hit a routine ground ball to third and stay through it away for the second run.
And now Tommy LaStorda goes out there and that's all for Elias Sosa.
Left-hander Lance Roxton is coming on.
So Roxton making his first appearance in this series.
Coming in there and he'll be going up against the left-hander hitting Bakes McBride. Ralph, just want to take a minute now to remind you fans that there's lots more baseball excitement for you on most of these stations.
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Left-hander Lance Roxton in possibly one of the most exciting games we've had in the series, although we certainly had a downy in that first game that's coming on.
He's a young man out of Potsville, Pennsylvania not too far from here. 6'1", 205 pounder. A rookie left-hander stepping in there and in his rookie year he went 4-1 with a 4.29 earned run average.
Roxton did not start a ball game, appeared in 25 games in relief and this is number 26 of 1977 for the Dodgers.
Now Lance Roxton going up against the left-hand hitting Baik McBride as manager Tommy Lasorda goes for the percentages. Let's see how it develops.
At third base you've got Baboon and if you're in that infield for the Dodgers and Baik McBride is up there, you've got to be ready for the possibility of a bunt.
McBride from the left side, Roxton is ready and the pitch is low, ball one.
Phillies 5, Dodgers 3, last of the eighth inning. McBride today is 0-3, 4-12 in the series.
They 1-0 pitch and he takes it outside, two balls no strikes. Roxton was 1-1 against the Phillies this year.
Rautezhan, Lance Roxton, they 2-0 pitch and McBride fouls back on the screen, two balls and a strike.
A double and a couple of key errors have activated the Phillies although the base hit by Gary Maddux got Hebner in clean but it was after that that the errors started to develop.
Here's a 2-1 pitch, a chopper, throw the shortstop, stay in front of, bare hands with a thrill, in time, an eyelash play at first base.
McBride is out of there 5-3, the Phillies pick up two runs on a couple of hits, two errors and a man left.
We go to the ninth inning, Philadelphia 5, Los Angeles 3.
World Driving Champion, Nicky Lara, disregarded the Pleased Friday of Ferrari team manager, Roberto Nassetti, refused to reverse his decision to skip Sunday's Grand Prix of Canada Auto Race.
Nassetti said that I tried to talk him into racing, he just didn't want to race, there was absolutely no reason for him not to race.
The Austrian driver telephoned his decision to the Ferrari factory on Friday morning.
Lara who has been feuding with Ferrari since the Austrian announced he had switched to Brabham in 1978, squinched the World Championship last Sunday when he finished fourth in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York.
Lara said earlier this week he would withdraw if he was not satisfied with his car's preparation after qualifying sessions at Mossport, Ontario, Friday and Saturday.
But the Ferrari team's announcement Friday said Lara decided to quit after spending the night considering his position.
Lara thought it was not at the track and could not be contacted for comment.
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All the Dodgers are down to their last three outs as Dusty Baker's the lead off and here to take you along the way, Jerry Coleman.
And the moment of truth for both the Phillies and the Dodgers.
This is the key ball game and the best three of five.
The winner of this will go into the final two needing only one of those two.
Dusty Baker, Rick Mundy and Steve Gag are going up against Gene Garber who in two efforts has retired ten Dodgers in order.
Eight of them have been on ground balls and two strikeouts.
He has been letter perfect and now Dusty Baker who has two for three steps in.
Garber's first pitch curve ball, one on a miss, strike one.
Phillies five runs, six hits, no errors.
The Dodgers three runs, eight hits and two errors.
Garber winds again and the delivery and Baker files it away for strike two.
Dusty Baker trying to get the Dodgers back into this ball game tomorrow night at Steve Carlin and Tommy John in a repeat of the first game starting pitchers.
Now time is called as the ball loose in right field area and the right field umpire Bob Engel goes out and picks it up.
Tug McGraw throwing in the bullpen for Philadelphia.
Garber came on on the seventh, retired the side in order in the seventh and eighth.
There's a foul away. This one over toward the box that has Peter O'Malley, the Dodger president in it.
These cannot be happy moments for him.
No ball, two strikes, nobody out.
Baker, Mundy, Yeager, three hitters to go against Garber in the night.
A chop and a third, Schmidt on a half hop, gets the short hop, makes the play, he's got him.
An excellent reaction play by Mike Schmidt.
On a tough hop, he came in and short hopped it and man I'll tell you he made the big play to get that first out and that's the one they wanted.
Now here is Rick Mundy stepping in, a singled walk fly to center field.
Garber has had seven outs all to the infield.
Nobody's hit the ball in the air yet.
A brilliant job by the right hander.
There's a sinker low to Rick Mundy, ball one.
Now Bob Boone goes out to have a chat with his pitcher.
They kind of have a split defense on Mundy.
The outfield goes to the left side, the infield to the right side.
They figure if he hits the ball in the air it will go to left center.
On the ground it will be pulled to the right side and Sizemore, the second baseman, is about six to eight feet behind the imaginary line that would normally dictate the outfield grass.
Garber, a little guy out of Pennsylvania, pitching brilliantly.
Into the wind up.
The 1-0 pitch to Mundy, ground ball to second, Sizemore, hits on it, two outs.
So Ralph Keiner, I don't know what more he could ask for than a pitching exhibition by Gene Garber.
It's been unbelievable as Vic D'Avalio comes in, the out of basket Steve Yeager.
No question about Garber having command right here and of course it's down to one.
Vic D'Avalio who was brought in from the Mexican league who finished up the season with the Dodgers has the only hope of keeping it going right now.
The Dodgers are down to their final outback, left hand hitting Vic D'Avalio, swings it to first round, misses, right one.
D'Avalio has been in the Mexican league the last three years, a veteran near 40 years of age.
He was a big star in the American league with Chicago and Cleveland for many years.
There's a dribbler hits to the second baseman and no chance for Sizemore to make a play and on it first base with a single is D'Avalio.
D'Avalio laying down a beautiful bunch single in front of Ted Sizemore comes up with a first hit off of Garber since coming on in this ball game.
And now Manny Moda, considered by many to be one of the finest pinch hitters ever with a lifetime batting average of over 300 is up there.
Moda coming on, he'll be batting for Lance Roxton.
So D'Avalio with a bunch single keeps it going for the Dodgers.
All right, Manny Moda, right hand batter.
Moda and his first appearance in the series, about at 395 this year.
Waits for the first one and this one is on the corner first strike.
Moda as a pinch hitter was 14 for 36.
D'Avalio at first, two down.
Had a pinch hit home run in the last game of the season for the Dodgers, his first is 1975.
Moda swings at Mitchell's strike two.
The drama continues here at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
No ball, two strikes.
Here's the pitch to Moda.
The left field, going back is Luzinski near the wall.
And he didn't catch it, it's off the wall.
Runners are second and third.
The ball gets away from Sizemore.
One runner's in and the time run is at third.
Oh man, oh man, can you believe it?
Luzinski trapped the ball against the wall and caught it when it came down.
The left field umpire Paul Pryor said no catch.
How do you like that Ralph Carter?
Ball was in his glove, bounced out of the glove, hit against the wall and then Luzinski caught it.
And Paul Pryor on the play said it was off of the wall and it will be an extra base hit.
The ball got away and a run scored and now the time run is at third base.
And the batter coming up is Davy Lopes.
The Dodgers are battling back.
There was a double for Moda.
I'm sure that the left fielder Luzinski will be hung with an error on the play.
The time run at third, two down.
A pitch coming out there and it's off the ground.
It's yet to ball up.
He makes the play.
He scores the first.
A tie ball game.
What a play.
Schmidt had been the human vacuum cleaner at third all through the ball game making spectacular plays.
The ball was off of his glove.
Ball quickly got to it.
The throw to first base by Ball was close.
The safe call was made by first base umpire Bruce Bromance.
And then the argument started because the time run crossed on the safe call.
It's now a five to five ball game.
Hevner, the first baseman, kicked his cap about 15 feet away.
He had to be restrained.
He is still in the ball game.
And out there arguing is Danny Ozark.
But the ball game has been tied up here at the top of the ninth inning.
It's five-five a comeback for the Dodgers.
And really a comeback on the air this time of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Let's pause five seconds for station identification.
This is the CBS Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Turf.
They gave a base hit to Davy Lopes when he tied it up.
And there's the throw to first.
It just by the first baseman.
And Lopes representing the go-ahead runners at second.
The Phillies are falling apart.
Charge and error to the pitcher.
Gene Garber on an attempt to kick off of Davy Lopes.
And if he can stay with it, don't go away.
We're just getting underway.
It's all even at five.
On the ball hit by Modup, it went as a base hit.
The ball hit by Lopes went as a base hit.
An error charged to the second baseman.
So the Dodgers have one error.
And now another error charged to the pitcher.
Second error for the Dodgers.
And the go-ahead runner at second base with Bill Russell stepping in.
Bill chops one foul for strike one.
A dramatic comeback by the Dodgers here at veteran stadium in a game
where they appear to be buried and dead.
Five-five tie.
And Gene Garber has been touched up for a couple of runs here on the top of the ninth.
Here's the pitch by Russell.
It's low and outside.
One ball, one strike, two outs.
Lopes with that tie-breaking run at second base.
Lopes will get credit for the hit and the RBI on that run that scored when Moda came in from third.
And the next one to Russell is low.
So Bill Russell now with a count of two balls and one strike.
Two balls, one strike, two outs.
Dodgers trying to pull it out here in the ninth inning.
Here's Garber's 2-1 delivery.
And Russell throws the bat and Garber has to jump it on a ball that's fouled on the left side.
Russell, in an effort to stay alive in one of those slow-hanging curve balls,
lets the bat go and almost got Garber.
Just got all the officials going in this inning.
With two men out, D'Avalito beat out a bunt for a base hit.
And then Moda hit one off the top of the glove and the wall and never scored as a two-base hit.
The throw got away from the second baseman there, charged there, and on the play,
D'Avalito came in to score so no run batted in.
And then a base hit by Lopes to drive in the second run to giant,
and Lopes going to second on the air by the pickoff on the pitcher.
Okay, Russell waits.
Here's the pitch.
A chopper, third base side foul again.
So take away that RBI from Manny Moda on the double off the glove and the wall of Greg Lozinski.
All of this with two outs, a 5-5 tie.
And Garber now checks his catcher once again, Jaeger.
There goes Lopes for third.
He puts it up the middle and the Dodgers are going ahead.
The Dodgers take the lead 6-5 as Lopes was moving and Russell flaps it up the middle
for a go-ahead single, a fourth consecutive hit off of Gene Garber.
The Dodgers now lead at 6-5 in the ninth inning.
Reggie Smith is stepping in.
Garber now going after Smith who has struck out three times and bounced a second.
There's a foul away by Smith for strike one.
Just like that, the Dodgers with three runs in the top of the ninth inning have taken it away
and they lead at 6-5.
LA, six runs, 12-bit.
Philly, five runs, sixes.
But the Phils have one more at bat.
Here's Garber's delivery and Smith fouls it away.
Strike two, no ball, two strikes.
Two right-handers, knuckle baller Charlie Huff and the curve baller Mike Garman throwing
in the bullpen for Los Angeles.
One of them will be on to pitch against the Phillies in the ninth.
And looking ahead to the Phillies, it'll be Boa, Schmidt, and Lozinski.
Here's the two-strike pitch and it's fouled away and there goes the bats
flying down the first base side.
Wow, that's about the fourth bat.
The bats are going farther than the base hits.
I don't know about you, Jerry Coleman, but with this kind of baseball, even my palms are sweaty.
You can understand that this was a dramatic ninth inning for the Dodgers.
They came in trailing five to three and the first two men, Baker and Mundy, went down meekly.
Then a bunch single by D'Avileo, a double by Manimoda, an error by the second baseman.
D'Avileo come in, Amoda went to third, an infield hit by Dave Lopes, tied it up.
A single by Russell as Lopes went to second on the error on an attempt to pick off.
And the Dodgers are leading it six to five.
There's a foul back again by Reggie Smith and the Cows stays at nothing and two.
So Bill Russell with a clutch single up the middle when Lopes was heading for third,
got him in with ease.
The Dodgers lead it six to five.
A dramatic ball game, sensational ball game.
Here's Smith waiting, Garver delivers a chopper right back to Garver.
He makes the underhand cross to first and the Dodgers are out of there.
The play goes one to three.
But Los Angeles three runs on four base hits, two devastating Dodger filliers and a man left.
We go to the bottom of the ninth inning.
It'll be the Dodgers six and the Phillies five.
If the American League playoffs go to a decisive fifth game,
the New York Yankees may have to use one of their baseball top money pitchers, Jim Catfish Hunter.
Hunter eight and four in postseason competition during his illustrious career has been bothered by a hernia
and has not pitched in the game since September 10th.
However, he threw in the bullpen before Thursday night's game in New York and was satisfied with the results.
Said, Hunter, I threw about 15 minutes and felt pretty good.
I'm sure I could pitch, but I don't know if Billy Martin has any plans for me.
I heard you did give me some discomfort, but nothing like it did before.
Martin has remained noncommittal about a possible fifth game starter, but would not rule out the Catfish.
Says Martin, I'm just playing it day to day.
He threw well yesterday. That's a good sign.
But I'll have to wait and see what develops.
Hunter was only 99 this year for the 4.71 earned run average, but he's always performed well in the playoffs.
In the World Series, he is four and three in the playoffs, including a 1-1 record against the Royals last year, 4-1 in the World Series.
Going now to the Phillies time at bat, and they're down to their last three outs.
It was the Dodgers in the top of the ninth inning, trailing by a score of three to five and coming up with three to go in front, six to five.
And now it's Philadelphia coming up.
A new pitcher in the ballgame for the Dodgers and coming back in for the play-by-play, Jerry Coleman.
Mike Garman is coming on here, pitcher number six for Los Angeles.
Bert Hooten started, Rick Roden, Doug Rau, Elias Sosa, Lance Roxton, and now Mike Garman will try to come in and hold the Phillies.
Dodgers six runs, 12 hits. Philadelphia five runs, and six hits.
And Larry Bola stepping in.
Bola is 0-3 in the ballgame today, 2-12 in the series.
A first pitch to the switch hitting shortstop is right in there, strike one.
Mike Garman, right-hander making a second appearance.
He pitched a third of an inning in the first game.
Fires high and Bola takes it high. One ball, one strike.
Garman started with a ball and red socks, on with the St. Louis Cardinals, the Chicago White Sox, and now with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Wines and here's the delivery. The 1-1 pitch is popped up to the shortstop. Bill Russell camping under this, waiting for it.
He's got it, one away.
So Larry Bola, one out, bottom of the ninth inning.
Dodgers six, Phillies five, and now the power starts to head up there.
Mike Schmidt and behind him, Greg Lazinski.
Schmidt with 38 home runs, Lazinski 39, and Garman has got to be thinking about that.
A dramatic comeback by the Dodgers with two outs and trailing by two.
They got three runs, they lead by a single marker right now, last of the night.
The first pitch to Schmidt is inside ball one.
Schmidt has gone 0-3 in the ball game. He had a base on balls. He has won for 12.
Garman, the right-hander, ready again, and the 1-0 pitch has hit the center field, high and in the air, routine play.
Out there is Glenn Burke, who's taken over for Rick Munday, and we have two down.
So now the Phillies are down to their final out.
Glenn Burke has taken over in center field for Rick Munday.
And behind the plate, I believe we have Jerry Grote in there for Steve Yeager.
So a couple of defensive changes.
If you're keeping book with us, to keep your record straight, Grote behind the plate, Burke in center field.
Greg Lazinski, the only thing standing between Philadelphia and a defeat.
Dodgers leading 6-5. Here's the pitch to Lazinski, and it hit him.
High and on the shoulder, and I'm not sure just how badly, but apparently he's shaking it off.
Well, I can tell you, it's fun like that, Ralph Tiner, but the pitcher does not want to hit the batter.
That's tying run at first base.
So now the potential tying run is first, and has that first base, and Richie Hebner coming up.
It was Hebner that got a rally started in the eighth inning with a double off the wall in right center field.
It saw the Phillies take the lead by a score of 5-3.
And it looks like the Phillies have the ball game ramped up, but the Dodgers came back with two men out.
And started the rally to go in front 6-5 on a bunt base hit by Vic D'Avilio.
Now we have a pinch runner coming in for Greg Lazinski, and now again, Jerry Coleman.
Jerry Martin has gone in to run for Lazinski. Martin, a faster man, as Danny Ozark has got to have some offense here.
And he must have a faster man at first base than Lazinski. So Jerry Martin is out there.
Richie Hebner stepping in.
The Phillies with two down have the tying run at first. It's Hebner from the left side is waiting.
Garmin first hit to Hebner. It's the first and the ball game is over.
Grabbed by Steve Garvey. He caught the ball and jumped on first with an emphatic pounding of the bag.
And that's it. This ball game is history. The final score, Dodgers 6-5.