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On Sunday, October 9th, 1977, the New York Yankees faced the Kansas City Royals at Royal Stadium for Game 5 of the 1977 ALCS.
The series was tied at two games apiece. The Royals had stolen Game 2 in New York, and the Yankees counteracted with a big win in Kansas City facing elimination in Game 4.
For this fifth and final game, Royals manager Whitey Herzog sent Game 1 winner Paul Splittorf back to the mound.
Billy Martin counteracted with starter Ron Guidry, who was the winning pitcher in Game 2.
This audio recording is from the New York WMCA radio broadcast featuring announcers Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bill White, Mel Allen, and Bert Knapp.
WMCA, Real People Radio.
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Well, good evening everyone. For those of you who were up at about 11.30 on Friday night, heard me talking to myself here at WMCA and trying to get a clear line through to Miami, Florida where Mel Allen was.
We signed off that if the Yankees didn't win tomorrow, Saturday, I told Mel I was seeing all the old familiar places, wherever that is, wherever they are.
And he said, yeah, he said that the Yankees are going to have to find the winning recipe in Kansas City so that they had not done with any regularity the past few years.
And I allowed as to how I thought that, figure O had a little bit edge of agor and Mel agreed. And anyway, as you know, the Yankees did win and this is it.
This is the fifth and final game. It is the same. Two teams in the fifth and final game as last year. History repeats itself last year at Yankee Stadium.
Chris Chambliss, homeward in the last of the ninth and the Yankees beat Kansas City. I don't know what's going to happen tonight.
Mel, we have a lot of things to talk about. Usually I come in and do these shows with you and I say, you know, we're going to have to analyze.
How can you ever analyze? But tonight there really are a lot of things to do. And one thing I'm going to do tonight, which I'll tell you at the very top of the show, is I'm going to second guess.
I'm going to have a chance to second guess. I really am. Hey, did we say, let me ask you a question, Miss Engineer. Did we say that the John Sterling Bell Allen pregame show was brought to you by, we did.
Okay. So we've taken care of that. And it is 717. I could have answered that question because I was in there involved in reading some news reports about the weather, believe it or not, because I couldn't find anything else to read.
And I suddenly heard that and I came running into the studio.
I'm glad you did. Tonight it's Paul Splittoff of Kansas City and Ron Guidry for the Yanks. And I guess Mel, that maybe you ought to begin by perhaps allaying some fears of Yankee fans about Guidry, because he's pitching with two days rest.
This is not abnormal at all for playoff or World Series competition. You'll be able to perhaps speak a little more since you were on the scene. In some of the instances I'm going to bring about, one occurs in 1957 when Milwaukee Braves were in unknown quantity.
And they started three pitchers. But as the series got down, they found that Lou Bredet was pitching best form. So they came to the seventh game and Bredet had pitched the fifth game and shut out the Yankees one to nothing.
He had won an earlier game in the series and so they came back with Lou Bredet with two days rest. And I slept outside the stadium. As a matter of fact, to get into the bleachers.
I think Bredet did too. Unfortunately, at the time, unfortunately for you, you were broadcasting the game on television. And Bredet finished his shutout again. But the point I'm making is that it's not abnormal and it wasn't in Bredet's case.
So he won three games that year. Of course, he wasn't the first pitcher to win three games in a World Series. It hasn't happened too often. I wasn't around this time either, John, just to go back to a previous generation or so.
But it just cost my mind, believe it or not, this summer at Cooperstown. I went up to see the induction of the Hall of Famers, one of whom was from my university. He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1920.
I'm talking about Joe Sewell. His last three years in the Major League were spent with the Yankees. They traded him over to New York from Cleveland. And the interesting story about that. He was voted in by the Veterans Committee of the Hall of Fame.
But a Yankee pitcher named, he was a submarine pitcher, Carl Mays, inadvertently threw a pitch that beamed Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman and killed him.
And of course, that's one of the historic things in baseball. And so they hurriedly called up this young University of Alabama graduate named Joe Sewell, who was getting some minor league experience down in New Orleans, called him up, played shortstop.
They won the penalty on a trist speaker. He was the shortstop when Bill Wamsgans made the only unassisted triple play in the history of a World Series.
To hear him tell about, he was standing around when that happened. He was in the 1932 World Series of the Yankees when Babe Ruth, allegedly pointed against Charlie Root to the center field, beaches and hit the home run.
Although that's rather apocryphal, according to Joe McCarthy, who was managing the Yankees then after having managed the Cubs.
He's asking an answer, a question, and he gets way off in the left field, but I'm coming back. Stanley Kovalevsky, anyway, won three games for the Indians in that World Series.
I wasn't going to accuse you of being there either.
No.
It has happened before Harry Burkine did it, of course. But I'm just talking about people coming back with two days of rest.
That's done often in a series because you do it within, say, a week. Sometimes you don't have a day off with traveling. Sometimes you do. Speck Shays a rookie started the seventh game in 1947.
He volunteered because of the Yankee pitching short, so he didn't last long. But still, he made a third start.
In 1965, Sandy Kovacs pitched the last day of the season against Philadelphia in the second game of Doubleheader. The Dodgers didn't want to use them, but they lost the first game.
They went a race with the Giants and with the Pirates down the last day of the season. So they had to start Kovacs in the second game of the Doubleheader.
Then the first day of the World Series fell on a Jewish holiday, and Kovacs was a very religious person, would not pitch on that Jewish holiday.
So they started Drivesdale. For those who are baseball fans, they know this anyway, so we should explain from the non-basable fans,
World Series falls with the regularity so that you can, with a day off, a travel pitch, one, four, and seven. You can pitch those games.
They came down to the seventh game, and Alston had a decision. Does he pitch a guy named Don Drivesdale with three days rest or Kovacs with two?
I was doing a show in Baltimore, Mel, and you know this writer who's rather a surpic individual. I asked him this question. His name is Neil Eskridge, the writer.
He said, well, you know, he said about whether or not they're going to pitch Kovacs. He said, you know, the other guy doesn't exactly have a broken arm.
But Alston did pitch Kovacs with two days rest rather than Drivesdale and Kovacs went on and beat Minnesota.
And that is going to, you're going to love this night, because I was standing on the platform in Baltimore trying to get a train today.
You obviously stood in a runway trying to get a plane out of Miami in the ring. And I thought to myself, you know, I haven't second-guessed all year,
fans second-guessed all the time, leads to arguments on the talk show. This time tonight, I'm going to second-guess, I'm going to second-guess both managers,
because I think they really need second-guessing. Now, we're going to get back with some of Mel's thoughts on the issues I'm going to bring up.
Remember the Yanks and Royals, it's the final game of the year for one team. One team is going home losing...
It's like a one-game World Series.
Absolutely. And boy, let me tell you something, there's much more pressure tonight than there will be in the World Series.
Because if you lose this game, no one knows you are there. If you lose the World Series, you get paid very well and you've got that natural national spotlight.
And believe me, it's much tougher to lose the championship series than lose the play of the World Series. No one will know you're there.
Anyway, it's 24 after 7, we'll be going to Kansas City at 8 o'clock and Mel and I'll be back right after this.
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Okay, now anyway, I'm standing on this railroad station and waiting for the train to come in.
It was raining like crazy in Baltimore as I guess it did just about everywhere else in the east.
I thought about the game today, Bell, and I thought about the show that we're going to do, both shows we're going to do.
It's kind of exciting. A final game, one game.
And here are my second guesses. First, let me second guess why they're Herzog, okay?
I got a story to tell you. I can almost read your mind.
You see, I can look at you now. Like you said, when you were in New York, Baltimore, and I was in Florida getting each of us getting ready to do football games,
it's hard to talk to one another or to anyone in conversation without being able to see each other's faces.
But I do have a story to tell you. Go ahead.
I'm not going to go into the long traditions or histories of this because everything in baseball is history and tradition.
Also, not only do fans second guess as they do on my show all the time, but players second guess their manager.
I've never been associated with a manager or coach, including some of the best. Al Arbor and hockey, Gene Shoe and Red Holzman,
Kevin Lockery and basketball, Earl Weaver and baseball, down Shule in football without that guy being second guessed by his players behind his back.
And, however, I think this is a first guess and not a second guess.
Kansas City Royals, Whitey Herzog decided to pitch two left-handers in Yankee Stadium against the Yankees.
One of them, Paul Spodoff, pitched great. The other one, Andy Haslop, pitched very, very good.
But it isn't that they didn't pitch well. Mel, it's that Dennis Leonard didn't pitch till game three, so he can come back on one day's rest.
And he is their number one best pitcher. And the only thing I can think of is Casey Stengel in 1960, and I talked about it Friday night.
You remember it. He had it in his mind because Ford had only pitched half a year and he hadn't had his greatest year not to pitch him till the third game in New York,
even though Pittsburgh's four of his field was just as big as Yankee Stadium. And it cost him dearly because he had four pitched three and six.
And then in the World Series, your top pitcher pitches one, four and seven, your second pitcher, two and five, your next pitcher, three and six.
And Stengel's line was, we won't win the seventh game unless they're three days of rain. Of course, they scored nine runs, but lost it 10-9.
And I really believe.
The year of Manus Rasky.
That's right. Here is a blatant second guess. But I really thought at the time that I would have started Dennis Leonard, not that Spodoff didn't pitch well,
and not that Haslop didn't pitch well. Gour did not pitch well, and the White pitched him.
But just so Leonard could pitch, if you pitch one, you can pitch five. Now, what are your thoughts on that? I'm going to get to Gidry in a moment.
Well, quite obviously, everybody's been riding here, and most of us, you and I, in fact, talked about it.
Everybody who was able to, particularly the first third of the season, threw left-handers against the Yankees because the Yankees' long ball power was all left-handed.
Left-handed hitters, Jackson and Nettles, Chambliss. And of course, while not in the category of a long ball hitter, still a guy that you want to keep off the bases,
Mickey Rivers, a left-hand batter, they haven't been able to keep him off the bases too well up until now.
But whatever happens tonight is, of course, a different night. But that was the reason most people throw left-handers against the Yankees to neutralize their power.
And they have been a team, somewhat like some of the old Yankee teams, who went to the beginnings this year, instead of playing like they did last year.
Getting Rivers on, let us say, as an example, sacrificing him or moving him over, playing hit-and-run, stealing the bases, doing everything.
For example, Kansas City has been doing this year, utilizing their speed, making contact. And although I don't have my statistics with me for the year,
yet the teams were fairly even in total strikeouts. And I was surprised when I happened to check on that since I saw you last.
They're not too far off from one another in that department. Yet your long ball hitters do strike out more often than the fellows who are spray hitters,
or go for the doubles and triples. And this is something that Kansas City specialized in.
But I think that's, Whitey Herzog is a gambler, so is Belly Martin.
And Whitey Herzog decided he'd go along with the left-handers who seemed to have done so well against New York, particularly over the first third of the season.
It wasn't until after they got Johnson and then started putting Penala in there that they started turning the figures around and began to win against left-handers rather consistently.
But I'm sure that's what was in his mind. But I don't know why he hasn't pitched Coburn for now.
Well, honestly, I would have pitched a split-off in Leonard in the stadium, but Leonard in game one, he's my best pitcher.
And I certainly would have pitched Coburn. Just bring up to mind a great line, get out of the 1960 series, I remember.
And you, I know, were there. It was a spring training game in 1961, the Anks and Pirates.
And I don't know if it was in Fort Myers or St. Petersburg.
But as you remember in the World Series, the Anki started Dittmore twice and he got clubbed.
Pirates started Bob Fren twice. He got murdered.
And that day they both pitched in this exhibition game after the game, not too well. And Pirates said, I don't know why they keep pitching Dittmore against us.
He's, what are they going to learn? He said, then again, when are we going to learn not to pitch a friend against them?
I thought of that because Nettles is second guessing Herzog saying, why are they keep pitching Gura against us, you know?
Well, last year they knocked Gura out in a couple of ball games in the playoffs. He hasn't had success against them.
They keep bringing up the fact he wants revenge against Martin because Martin didn't treat him right.
A ball player is a professional. He's out to make a living and this revenge bit to me, I don't go for it in particular.
Sure, it could be a little something that might make the adrenaline flow a little bit better.
But a man has personal pride in performance. And whether you like a guy, whether you don't like him, you've got to play golf with him.
I remember a rizzuto played golf of win one afternoon, which is typical.
Let's say the next night, Phil comes up bleeding off and wins first pitch, almost took his head off.
Phil said, hey, what's the matter? Well, I can't say over there, but when you yelled at him, but anyway, wound up, we're not playing golf now.
The quick story I wanted to tell you, the fellas did color with me on the game Saturday, Miami against Kansas.
Instead of paying attention, talking about, you know, before we went on the air getting things ready, you know how you do before you hit the air, especially in the football game.
He happened to be a graduate of Kansas. And right next door to us at the Orange Bowl was the staff that broadcast the University of Kansas football games out of Kansas City.
And this is a fellow has been broadcasting a few years. It was doing a color with me. He leans out. He knows all the people, you know, from Kansas City.
He said, gee, can you beat that? That hurts. I guess because he played with the Yankees started that year just because you want to see the Yankees win.
I thought I'd fall out of the booth about the man was, you know, kidding. Honestly, this is exactly what he said.
And the answer he got, of course, the fellas sort of agreed with him at, but in the sense of second guessing, Herzog, they didn't go that far as if to say Herzog deliberately did it so the Yankees could win.
I just, I looked at him and said, you got to be kidding. He said, no, he said, what other reason could there be for him in starting the Euro?
Well, I'll tell you what, if a guy really feels that he has to be put away in a home. I mean, that's, I'd say that's the height of irrational thinking.
I just didn't believe it was on my mind for about the whole first half.
Now, let me second guess, Billy Martin. First of all, let me get back. You mentioned the thing that's written up in newspapers, but that's a newspaper thing.
It's written to fill all, you know, we know this Mel, usually during the season, whether it's hockey, basketball or baseball, not football, since that's once a week, but the other sports.
One writer is assigned by the newspaper and he writes a story of the game. It is a game story.
Now running.
Right. Now, running account.
During, during big games, big series or do or in World Series or playoff, they then assign one or two other writers and one covers the other teams clubhouse.
The other writes a gossip notes and quotes thing and they have to fill up their columns. That's how these, these are the other stories, the feature stories.
One guy does the game story. The other guy does the feature story or two feature stories.
And that's a feature story by Gore and Martin. He played it. Well, they've all been around. Everybody's played with everyone else.
And if Gura to win the fourth game of a best of five championship series to propel his team into the playoffs needed the revenge motive, then, then he's, he's in a lot of trouble.
He's got big, he's got big problems. You go out to win cause you go out to win.
And by the way, if Gura was pitching for the WMCA, no star softball team was out of the mound, wouldn't he try to win? We mean he's going to go out there to look lousy.
No one ever goes out to embarrass himself.
I always put it this way. Take the manager or the coach of a football team or any other sport. Take him alone.
He is selfish enough just as you and I want to make a living or anyone listening in. He wants to win.
Right.
He's going to throw what he thinks is the very best under the circumstances that might help him win. There are certain little refinements that do exist.
Now he might not have thrown Gura against a nuthaball club that didn't have the same balance as the Yankees.
But against the Yankees, he thought that was his thing. He thought the left hander would be the type of pitcher to throw against him.
And I think it's a good second guess and I have. Now, Billy Martin, I haven't second guessed all year long and the answer is not when you second guess a manager or a coach.
The answer isn't that they somehow don't even know this or don't want to win as much as you do. The answer lies in simply what they perceive to be the right strategy.
I think there's a question I have to ask Mel, which I will. And depending on your answer, we'll find out how good a second guess mine is.
But mine is really a first guess. If those who listen to my show avidly will remember that I raised this before the playoff series began.
By the way, Pablo Guzman is here tonight. We interrupted his program and he had a question on Mel.
They want to answer about who holds the record for home runs. Some guy called him and said my friend wasn't sure if it was the Reds or the Giants.
You mean team home run?
Team home run. Giants and Reggie to 221. And in what had to be your most fun year, I would think it was your most fun year.
Maybe 49 was the most fun year, but 1961 had to be maybe your most fun year, was it?
You mean the M&M boys?
Yeah, was it? Was that the great year?
Remember the play on Broadway, Dial M for Murder? It was a perfect thing for an answer to grab to use as we came with Clashay.
Dial M for Murder, Manlyne Maris. No, it wasn't the greatest fun. Of course, I don't want to get into that now because we have other things to talk about.
I think 49 had to be because the Yankees were one game behind. Well, in a sense, it's relevant because here they were one game behind Kansas City with two to play.
And that was the situation in 1949 for the penalty. Only they were at home and against the Red Sox behind two games, two to go.
They were behind 4-0-0 on Saturday, which was Joe DiMaggio's day, I remember, and a little sidebar.
His mother was here. He had lost his father. She was wearing black. Playing the Red Sox, Joe McCarthy managing the Red Sox.
Dom is in the dugout. I was MCing at home plate. This was not in the script guidelines, so I got an idea and I said, well, if I get fired for this, I'll just get fired for it.
It seemed like such a natural. Here is Joe out at home plate to commit and all that. They were going to give his mother flowers.
And I just decided what a perfect setup. And I called Joe McCarthy out to home plate. I called Dom DiMaggio out to home plate.
They weren't aware of it. Now, what needed all of a sudden, you know, I would wing something, I'd live it.
I'm going to make a beautiful picture, a historic picture, actually, and it was as it turned out. Sometimes you do something's right.
They were standing there. Joe had played under McCarthy. Here was Dom DiMaggio's brother who had robbed him of many a base hit.
They'd fought one another on the field of play. And I called his mother out.
I had one of the attendants bring her out to home plate. And Joe always tells this story even to the day.
She came up to home plate accompanied by the attendant and then she pulled away from him as she approached home plate and walked right by Joe,
whose day it was, and walked over and kissed Dominic. Because she'd already seen Joe, you see, but Joe loves to tell the stories.
Here it is my day. Yankee Stadium fell. She walks right by me and hugs Dom. But anyway, the game starts and the Yankees fall behind,
four to nothing. They battled back, tied the score at four all.
Then Dell hits a homer in the eighth inning. The Yankees win at five-four. They go into Sunday and, of course, they win the ball game.
Five to three. Rizzotto got a triple in the first inning. Henrik got him home with a ground ball. And that was the only run.
Ellis Kinder pitching against Big Ration to the last of the eighth inning. The Yankees got four and the Red Sox got three in the ninth.
But it was a team that just refused to give up. And we did, you and I did talk about this.
While the Yankees are thin in pitching, we said, are they going to come back and at least go to the fifth game?
If you remember, we said, well, they're a team that does have tradition behind them.
Though they, most of them, weren't part of that tradition I speak of. Yet, by being on the team, they naturally are exposed to it
and have had it drilled into them by Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner.
And I knew that they wouldn't quit and they would try as hard as they could. But here we are on the last day of the regular season
because the playoff is part of that. And so it's a similar situation.
But do you remember what happened in 1948, just the year before, talking about second guessing?
When the Red Sox tied Cleveland on the last day after knocking the Yankees out of the penalty on Saturday, and they had the only playoff in the history of the American League on Monday,
and Lou Boudreau starts the left-hander at Fenway Park. Do you remember whom the Red Sox started?
I can't. I remember the background after all that. It started with a G.
Jenny Galehouse.
Jenny Galehouse. And everybody in the world jumped on Joe McCarthy.
By the way, in case people are wondering, my Nana told me about that.
Jenny Galehouse is an old right-hander, but it worked for Connie Mack with Howard Emke going back when my nanny told me about that one.
But that was against the Cubs, I think, in 1929.
Actually, Bearden really was probably the great... You know, these stories are remembered by baseball fans.
That's why they are recited by Rote, people say to me, too.
And we're not talking about Kyle, Rote.
I'll walk out of the studio now. I'll walk out now.
How do you know that? What a memory it is in that at all. Any great baseball fan, someone who loves baseball, could recite those things.
Because Bearden was a rookie and was a left-hander.
And with the Yankees.
Yes, way back.
And when Boudreau made that announcement, the Cleveland Clubhouse, the story goes that he said,
if any of you people want to argue with me, looking to his older players, because he had a lot of older players,
he was like the same age as his players, Keltoner and Gordon and such, he said,
argue with me, is anyone think is wrong to start Bearden, a left-hander in Fenway Park?
And they said, hey, you know, you got into the playoff after 154 games, we'll stick with you.
Well, Boudreau also had two home runs to help win.
Right, and one of them was in a very first inning.
Well, it goes along with pitching.
You know, again, that was 49, you're talking about 48, nothing has changed.
That's why baseball is so great.
Here it is 77.
It's just the names of change, the same arguments, the same fights, the same jealousies,
the same problems, again, paid a lot more money, but the same complaining,
the same second guessing behind the manager's back, and it will always go on.
And by the way, you know, you talk about 49, Joe McCarthy had managed the Yankees,
and it got acrimonious at the very end.
You would return from the service and were announced, and again, I don't know if you were there then,
were you there when it got very bitter at the very end?
46.
Okay, and now when he came back a couple years...
Larry's failing, he...
But when he came back a couple years later in 49, you think he wanted to beat the Yankees?
Of course he did.
Of course he did. So it hasn't changed anyway.
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Now, before the playoff series began, and Martin announced that Gullit and Gidry would be his first two pitches in that automail,
we talked about it on the show, the talk show with some of the callers, and I made this point,
and so that's why I don't think it's really a second guess. I think this really is a first guess.
I said the only reason that you should start Gullit is that you want him to pitch two games, Game 1 and Game 5,
because the Game 1 pitcher in a 3 out of 5 series with no day off is the only pitcher who's able to come back with his normal allotment of rest,
and Gullit has had arm trouble every year he's been in the big leagues since 1970 with the Reds,
when he broken his an 18-year-old, and he's had serious arm trouble during the year.
And Gidry, I felt, was the number one pitcher, although Gullit had been down the stretch and was pitching great in September,
which probably influenced Martin more than anything else. Your best pitcher, Gullit, let him get you out to 1-0 lead, then come back with Gidry.
But I have to admit, I'll second guess, because I think Gidry was the number one pitcher during the year,
and I don't know if Gullit could have come back even with three days rest, such were the problems that he had with his arm,
and anyway, it's gotten to the point now where Gidry pitched as well as he did, and by the way, I think there's more pressure on Game 2 pitcher if you don't win Game 1.
Sure there is.
Now, now, if you want to talk pressure, this is the season in one game and you pitch Gidry,
and I think that's a worthwhile second guess. What I'm saying is that they should have started Gidry in the first game so they'd have him rested for Game 5.
Well, after you had said that, I thought about that for a little while. As a matter of fact, on my way home, and by the time, long before I'd gotten home,
I certainly came around to your way of thinking. Gidry had been physically sound all year, and Gullit had not, and as you just pointed out,
he's had a history of getting hurt, and we never know how deeply a fellow may be injured, the extent of his injury, or his ailment.
All of a sudden, we thought that Hunter was going to be completely out of the picture, but here he is suddenly warming up a little bit,
and then we got another report on what the trouble with him actually was. It was a different report than the original one.
So, you know what managers and coaches do? They sometimes try to play, either play down or play up an injury to get the psychological edge on somebody else,
and even being with a ball club, you sometimes would be given sort of a wrong answer and a matter of degree.
But, didn't Gullit start for Cincinnati in 75? I believe he started a second game, didn't he? First or second game, but I could check that in a hurry.
But in any case, I agree with you. Picture sound this picture first, in case you have to keep coming back with him, and certainly when you add to the physical soundness,
the fact that he has become your best picture.
Okay, that's really what I'm saying. Really what I'm saying is, Herzog should have started with Leonard in game one so he could have pitched him twice,
and the same goes for Billy Martin and Ron Guidry. And by the way, here's nothing to contemplate if you will.
You know, a lot has been made in the newspapers that New York has lost Tom Siever and Joe Namath and Julia Serving and now Walt Frazier.
But, you know, the names remain the same, but the abilities change, Mel.
And at the beginning of this year, if I had said to you, or anyone else, any baseball fan, you, Bob Fischel, Marty Appel, anyone we know, okay, Joe Reichler, anyone we know, okay,
it's six months from now, it's game five in Kansas City. Who's going to be your picture? Someone has said Hunter, Hulsman, Doc Ellis, Figueroa, Don Gullit,
and then after the deal was made, Mike Torres. And the picture is Ron Guidry. A couple years ago, Catfish signed that contract,
and he was interviewed by everyone in the world. I mean, there wasn't anyone who didn't interview him, including Network News commentators and Network News anchorman, okay.
And he was the Catfish, and now he's another guy. And that's how people are in life. People don't recognize.
Just another guy shagging flies, pepper, playing pepper, shagging flies during batting practice, and Ron Guidry, people would have known Ron Guidry from that wall over there, and he is the...
Except his parents and relatives.
And he is the last game pitcher, and that's some honor. That is an unbelievable honor. One thing we said Friday, he worked.
You know, we said that there's the terrible cliché, there's no tomorrow. You've got to bring all your people in. Tidra will come in early. Lyle will come in early.
And Billy Martin did that, and Lyle came through the... I did not see the game, I won't lie about it. I was doing a football game, but he had a bit of a fag with this game.
He did. My game happened to be Saturday night, so I watched the game. He pitched one of his... It was one of his strongest efforts.
He went over five innings, I think five and two-thirds innings, and his control was excellent. And of course, his big pitch is that slider.
It's one of those situations. You can know what's coming, whether it be baseball or football or whatever. So long as you execute your play, perfectly, there's nothing much the other team can do about it.
And he was throwing his pitches where he wanted. Great location. The ball was snapping off, and when he threw his fastball, he had that extra on it.
And everything was just great, but you've seen Lyle here and there. Any great pitcher, have a day when nothing works. The ball flattens out. It doesn't move.
And this is the chance you take.
Sure. And a lot of people going into tonight's game who worry about the acts, I don't know who's going to win, and there isn't anyone in the world who knows who's going to win, including people like Billy Martin and Whitey Herzog.
They hope for the best. Gidry may go out and pitch fabulously. He may not. The same is true of Splitoff. One thing, though, that I kind of laugh a little about, because there hasn't been this kind of a game in the series.
There hasn't been a 10-9 game where eight pitchers are used. A lot of people say, well, but Kansas City will have in the bullpen and ready to go. Jim Colborne, Marty Patton, Steve Mngoury, Markle-Tale, Doug Byrd.
Well, they fortified their chances with all those pitches, but it won't help them because this series has proved that if your starting pitcher doesn't do it, it doesn't matter who you bring in.
Yesterday was a good example. Marty Patton pitched well, but the game was already gone by the time Goury came in, and the same goes for Lyle the other night. The game was out of Torres hands by the time that Lyle came in, et cetera.
Well, we'll get some final thoughts on this when we return to our...
Just before you do that, I remember Gullet started his first game last year. Here I'm trying to think of two years ago. He started opener last year and the second game here before last.
Go ahead. I just want to get it straight.
Yeah, but he's never come back. And remember in the series a couple of years ago, and they had all the rain, and Anderson kept saying, well, I don't think I'll bring him back. I don't want to hurt his career.
And what he was really saying was that he doesn't have the kind of arm that comes back that responds. And does Gidry? No one knows because he's never pitched for two days' rest before.
In fact, most times he's pitched with four days' rest, but he only has to pitch well for five innings or so. And you know that Lyle and Tidjo and Torres will come in.
So the Yankees have four pretty good pitchers tonight. And Kansas City has six, seven good pitches, but if Spodoff doesn't do the job, even a three-to-one lead could be enough for the Yankees to have and to win this game.
And of course, the winner goes to the World Series.
In case anybody comes out about a space, John, got it open last year for Cincinnati against New York. We'll get back with more right after this.
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Good evening everybody, this is Frank Messer on the New York Yankee Pregame Show just before the final game of the 1977 American League Championship Series.
As you know the series tied up two wins a piece. The winner tonight goes on to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, the loser of the night will of course have to start thinking about next year.
What about the first four games of the series? What about tonight's ball game? I'm going to put those questions to Yankee outfielder Paul Blair when I come back in just one minute.
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My guest tonight on the New York Yankee pregame show is a man who has appeared now in six championship series, four World Series Yankee outfielder Paul Blair and Paul before we go any further I make note of the fact that you are starting tonight out in right field.
Yes, I am Frank. It's a surprise to me and you know I just hope I can do the job tonight and help us win a ball game.
Paul Blair, let's talk about the first four games of this series. They've all donated Kansas City one and the Yankees then Kansas City then the Yankees.
So, so far in the two years of playoffs between the Yankees and Kansas City Royals no team has won two games in a row.
Well, that's you know something I've never even paid any attention to but so far this series it seems to me like we have won the games that we had to win.
That second game in New York we had to win yesterday and you know I like to think to hear again we have to win and I think we're going to go out and do the job because everybody knows what's at stake.
You know there's no more tomorrow so I think everybody's ready and I hope we can put together a real consistent ball game today and win this thing and go into the World Series.
Paul Blair, what about the first four games? Any pivotal plays in the games, the Yankees have won? Anything that's any one or two things that have happened to sort of turn this club around?
Well, I would like to think that the incident with Hal McCrae and Willie Randolph kind of lit a fire in us and I noticed after he did that to Willie the team got a little more inspiration.
They got a little bitter about you know the chief shot that he did take. You know I don't mind good hard aggressive plan but that was a chief shot because you know he threw a body block at Willie and you know you can slide hard without trying to hurt somebody as you know McCrae did.
But I think that lit a fire in us and you know now we're back here and we want to win just to show them that we are a better ball club.
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Bob Blair would seem to me that the Yankee right hand hitters have been carrying the ball club in the games.
They have won Thurman Munson with some key RBIs and from the lower part of the batting order, Bucky Nett and Willie Randolph not to leave out Cliff Johnson and Lupinella.
Well this is the thing, because they've thrown and this will be the fourth left hand in this whole series and if the right hand hitters didn't come through we would have been in a lot of trouble.
Because it is a little tougher for a left hand to hit a right hand pitcher even though Chris and Nettles they did it all year.
But you know in a situation like this I'm sure that they're trying, this is hard, maybe as hard as anybody else.
Even Nettles have came through with a couple of key base hits to help us win ball games.
But right now if the right hand didn't come through we were going to be in a lot of trouble but we still need those left handed bats. We need that power.
And right now if Mickey, you know when he gets thrown I think the club really goes and both games we won.
He's been a pivotal part and as long as he does his job and the rest of us can chip in a little bit here and there I think we can beat this ball club.
Alright Paul Blair what about the pitching tonight? Paul split off a left hander making his second start of the series against the Yankees.
He won the first game and he's sort of been a jinx pitcher against the Yankees.
Well that's been true too but here again I think we might can overcome this today because we're going to put a couple more right handers in there.
So far in my career I've hit a split off pretty well. I'm not saying that I'll hit him tonight but I will be swinging at him.
I just hope to think if we don't make mistakes I think we can beat this ball club.
If we can play good sound defense I think we'll beat him easy because so far the two games that they won we made little mental mistakes
and a couple errors that threw us right out of the ball game and if we don't do that I think we'll beat him.
Alright let's look at the Yankee pitcher Ron Gittery's coming back up to two days rest pitching an excellent ball game to win game number two of this series.
Well I think Gittery even though it's just two days rest he's going to be pumped up.
You know it's time for him. You know you hate to say he's going out for personal glory but I don't think this is the thing.
I think that he knows the job he has to do and he's got so much confidence in himself and I think this year has really proven and made Ron Gittery
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I think that emotions may run a little bit higher with a youngster like Gittery out there on the mound.
He's 27 years old but you almost think of him as a rookie. He is not but this is the first big year he's had.
How much will emotions play in the ball game tonight?
Well if it doesn't get carried too far I think emotions are going to be a big factor in this.
Whoever is going to want it the most and I think right now this ball club really wants it the most.
I'm sure Gittery wants it because it will really establish himself as a clutch pitcher and this is what everybody wants to feel.
They can do the job in the clutch and Gittery is going to be out there and I'm sure he's going to be pumped up and I'm sure everybody else on the ball club is going to be pumped up.
I do believe we're going to give them a good game. I certainly hope we run them out of the ball park and don't give them any kind of shot but it will probably be a tight game but I think we're going to win it.
And if everybody on the ball club feels the way Paul Blair does I'm sure the Yankees will win it.
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Thanks for that Frank.
I'm Frank Musser and I'll stay tuned for New York Yankee baseball.
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Tonight the final game of the 1977 American League Championship Series.
The New York Yankee is facing the Kansas City Royals with the series all evened up two to two.
Good evening everybody. This is Frank Messer along with Phil Rosito and Bill White at Royal Stadium in Kansas City.
As we look down on this beautiful playing field Yankee manager Billy Martin and Royals manager Whitey Herzog are at home plate with the umpires exchanging lineup cards.
Ron Goodry will be on the mound tonight for the New York Yankees and Latander Paul Splitoff will be on the mound for the Kansas City Royals.
Both managers have made drastic changes in their lineups for tonight's deciding ball game.
And I'll be back with the lineups and all the play by play from Kansas City in just two minutes.
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The New York Yankee batting order, Nicky Rivers will lead off and play center field, Willie Randolph will be at second base in bat second, seven months in catches and hits third, Lou Panella will be the clean up header and play left field, Cliff Johnson the designated header will bat fifth,
Greg Metals will be at third base in bat sixth, Chris Chambliss at first base batting seventh, in right field and batting eighth, Paul Blair and at shot stop batting ninth, Bucky Dent, pitching for the Yankees, Ron Guidry, one and oh in the championship series, 16 and seven on the regular season.
For the Kansas City Royals, Fred Pontek will be in the lead off spot at shot stop, Hal McCray will play left field in bat second, George Brett at third base hitting third, Al Cowins is the clean up header playing right field, batting fifth and playing center field, Amos Otis, John Wathen will be at first base and bat sixth, the designated header batting seventh, Cookie Rojas,
batting eighth and catching, Darrell Porter and at second base batting ninth, Frank White. The Royals have only two left hand hitters in the lineup, George Brett at third base and Darrell Porter the catcher.
The surprises of course, Paul Blair in right field in place of Reggie Jackson who will not start tonight's ball game. And for the Royals the big surprise, the designated hitter, the veteran Cookie Rojas who may be playing his last game as a baseball player.
Mickey Rivers is set to lead off against Paul Splitar. Splitar on the year one sixteen and lost six, Dar left hand, rid of a wind up and here we go, the first pitch of the ball game is bounced foul past third base coach Dick Hauser.
No balls and a strike on Mickey Rivers as he tried to slap the ball past the third baseman, George Brett and slapped it foul.
Pontiac and White at shot and second play him straight up the middle, the outfield is spread out shadow and left, the wind to kick the pitch he bumps out at misses, the drippers strike two.
Mickey Drive the running bump did not make contact, no balls and two strikes.
The left field of the Royals is Hal McCray, the center fielder Amosotus and the right fielder Al Collins. John Wathen replacing John Mayberry as the first baseman.
Darrell Porter gives Split off the side, the left hand a rocks over the slab, kicks and deals, Rivers takes high and tight, one ball two strikes.
Rivers in the playoffs has seven hits at eighteen at bats, one run batted in.
Left hand hitter moves up toward the front part of the batter's box, the wind up by Split off the one two pitch, he swings and misses.
What a blue run by him and there's one away. And now Woody Randolph, the Yankee second baseman.
Randolph a right hand hitter, four for fifteen in the series with one run batted in.
Woody straight away in the batter's box and Split off's first pitch to him, breaking ball misses.
Again Pottack and White are straight up the middle, the outfield is spread with the left fielder McCray, shaded a couple of steps more towards center than he was for Mickey Rivers.
Brett is backed off at third, the pitch coming, taken for a strike over the inside corner one and one.
Thurman Munson is the on deck hitter and this is it, this game winds up the regular season of 1977.
From here it's either next year or the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. One one delivery, foul back and out of play on the right side into the crowd and talk about a crowd.
This appears to be the largest crowd of the three games out here in Kansas City. Not a vacant seat anywhere in this ballpark.
It's been a beautiful day in KC, the night is no different, one two pitch, breaking ball a bit low, Porter thought that might have been a strike.
Two balls and two strikes on Woody Randolph. Split off rocks back, two two delivery, bouncing ball towards short, Pottack has it, the throw to first base in time.
Randolph is out two down. Now Yankee catcher and captain Thurman Munson. Munson has had a good playoff series, five hits in 16 drips and four runs butted in.
One of Munson's five hits, a two run homer. Accounting for the Yankees only runs in the opening game of the championship series.
Well the pattern held last year and so far this year, neither of these teams has ever won two games in a row in the championship series.
The Yankees will have to break that pattern tonight if they want to win the penalty.
Thurman Munson on the season batted three oh eight, drove in a hundred runs. The pitch swung on and fouled over toward the Yankee dugout off the hand of Billy Martin on the top steps.
He knocks it down, picks it up, crosses it over the dugout roof to a youngster. No balls and a strike on Thurman Munson.
Lou Penella is on deck. The umpires tonight, Nick Bremigan calling balls and strikes. Bill Deegan at first base, Jerry Newdecker at second, Marty Springstead at third.
The oh and one pitch to Munson. Get on the ground to deep short. Pottec back ends at long draw to first base and he's out at first base. An excellent play by Pottec. A good strong throw by the five foot four inch shot stop.
And the Yankees are required in order. At the end of one half inning, the Yankees nothing under Royals are coming to back.
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Now we go to the bottom half of the first inning and the question how well will Ron Goodry pitch in this ballgame.
Today is rest from his last start. Ronnie is making his second start of the ALCS. He started the second game in New York and beat Andy Hasler 62. Goodry won nine innings in the ballgame gave up only three hits.
A double the pot back singles to George Brett and Frank White. He walked three men and he struck out seven over the course of the season. Goodry won 16 and lost seven with an end run average of 2.82.
Fred Patek leads off the Royals leading hitter in championship play and he hits the first pitch on the ground as short bucking net is up with it goes down to first base and Patek is out one away.
And that is what Goodry needs in this ballgame. A lot of first ball hitting by the Royals to save the arm. Get as much out of it as possible.
How McCrae the batter the left fielder for the Royals. The right hand hitter as was project McCrae is five for 14 with two runs batted in in the series.
Goodry Wines slender youngster deals a strike letter high McCrae spins around it looks at playing umpire Nick Brumigan patrolling left field on the foul lines Russ gets and Jim McKean is the umpire out in right field.
Goodry pops high kicks and deals in the dirt dug up by Munson one and one Yankees have Lou Penella in left field Mickey Rivers and center Paul Blair replacing Reggie Jackson in right.
The story on that when we get a chance now the one one pitch with one out it is low ball to on the infield Greg nettles who played must have yesterday's ball game with a spell of dizziness after a collision at second base in the first inning.
To one deal foul back got him in on the hands a good pitch from Goodry to and to lucky dad as it shuts off Willie Randolph is at second and Chris Chambliss at first German Munson catching.
Two balls two strikes on right hand hitting McCrae George Brett is on deck. Goodry has the sign the wind up for the two to pitch at its foul back on the screen.
Paul Blair in right field in place of Reggie Jackson for two reasons tonight. One the Kansas City Royals pitcher Paul Split off Reggie Jackson two for 15 against Paul Split off.
The other reason defense Reggie having trouble defensively on the artificial surface to two pitch high. It is three and two on Hal McRae.
That and Randolph playing up the middle metals is back down very deep at third base the outfield with rivers shaded toward right three to delivery powled out of play on the right side headed toward the upper deck.
McCrae can hit it always he can pull the ball down the left field line he can punch the ball down the right field line with power. He had two ninety eight over the regular season twenty one homers ninety two runs better than fifty four to base it.
Goodry kicks and offers McCrae fouls another one back in the crowd on the right side. We mentioned a beautiful day here in Kansas City bright sunshine not a cloud in the sky as the game started tonight the temperature was 60 degrees.
The wind is out of the south at twelve miles per hour slanting toward the left field corner. It could be strong enough to be a factor in the ball game three and two pitch again to McCrae.
Here it is at another foul out of play on the right side. All is back in the upper deck.
Ron Goodry finished off the regular season winning eight of his last nine games. He lost his final start. The pitch line and played on a hop by Bucky that drove the first base is not in time.
Now McCrae beats out an infield hit digging hard down the line. Now the Royals have their most aggressive base runner on at first base.
McCrae involved in two incidents at second base one in which he knocked the ball out of the hands of shot stop Bucky that the other in which he put a rolling block on second baseman Willie Randolph both players protested by the Yankees to no avail McCrae is aboard Brett the batter the third
baseman is five for seven in the series with a run batted in red hit three twelve twenty two homers eighty eight ribbies over the season left hand hitter deep in the batter's box feet fairly close together.
Rivers is shortened up in straightaway center the pitch swung on and fouled off months and shin guards.
Lou Pinella kicking around something out there in the artificial turf and left Lou pretty much straightaway and so is right fielder Paul Blair.
Brett looks down a third base coach. Chuckler for a sign Steve Borel's coaches down at first base for the Royals. Chambliss holding McCrae on the look over there by Gidry and the old one pitch fast ball is low and the counters one and one to George Brett one ball one strike one out.
Gidry comes back the pitch bouncing ball.
The foul ball foul ball just foul signal given immediately by Bill Deegan the first base umpire no argument from coach Steve Borel George Brett little discredited very very close. Chambliss could not get to it. The ball was just foul by inches.
Brett will come back and pick up a one ball two strike not the undecadre Al Collins.
The Royals won the first game of the series seven to two the Yankees came back to win the second six to two the Royals won the third game six to two and the Yankees won yesterday six to four.
So now we're down to the fifth and final game and everything rests on the outcome of this one the pitch to Brett. Just this must have been low months and held it there for a second look by played on by our Brennan and its two balls and two strikes.
The ball is passed to the ball and he walks off a short lead at first now stretches it out a bit both people in the dirt part of the sliding bit at first to to the Brett lined up to a right center field.
Mickey Rivers is after it can he get it and he cannot the ball is passed him all the way to the wall and one will score. The play is around 30 he's coming home.
He's on his way to third Randolph's relay he's safe at third base George Brett and Greg Nettles got a fight at third Ron Getery is it on the fight. So is Chuck Hiller both benches empty.
Everybody is on the field. Brett and Nettles Brett went in hard to nettles both bullpen crews are charging in the benches have emptied on May Lee down around third base.
Now it has to all intents and purposes been broken up. And now the peacemaker Cliff Johnson the last man to go out from the Yankee bench.
He is the man that could go out there and break it up single handedly cooler heads prevail and they get Ron Getery away from the gray Darrell Porter is being led away.
Ron Getery had jumped right in and you don't want to see that happen. Your pitcher your number one pitcher must not be injured in something like this.
The umpires are restoring order.
Ron has scored Brett was safe at third base and what after Nettles he went in hard. He hit metals the punches started flying. And now cooler heads have prevailed Billy Martin in conference with one of the umpires.
And now the players are being separated.
Still a big huddle with the managers. Whitey hers off.
The umpires all six umpires.
Restoring order.
And now the bullpen crews are back in the air.
And we have had the first battle in American League championship play.
The Yankee bench man walk back toward the Yankee dugout.
Brett will be stationed at third.
Lou Penella the Yankee left fielder now complaining about something to one of the umpires.
Penella is told to get back into left field a free base hit for George Bratt a run driven in the Royals lead one to nothing.
Brett drilled the ball to right center field. Mickey Rivers going to his left made a bid for the ball went over his head into the wall.
Order has been restored. We'll pause right now for station identification on the New York Yankee home of champions radio network WMCA Strauss communications in New York.
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Good read taking a few warm up throws now as Al Collins will step in bread at third only one out and one runners home for Kansas City. The Royals are leading by a score of one to nothing.
George Brad went in hard to nettles.
Right hand running right fielding. Collins is three for 15 with three runs better than in the series. The Yankees will pull the infield in and Collins wants the baseball exam and before he steps into the batter's box.
Prennigin takes a look at it gives it back to Munson.
Munson sends it back to Goodread.
The outfield spreads out on Collins. Penella deep and left. The infield is in tight. Nettles is the deep man on the infield.
Goodread will work from the stretch and set position. The left handers pitch breaking ball for a strike.
No balls in the strike on Al Collins.
Amos Otis is on deck.
Collins over the course of the season hit 3 12. 23 runs better than or 23 homers. 112 RBS. He swings and he misses for strike two. No balls and two strikes.
Goodread bends for the sign. Collins has stepped out. Time is being no point.
Chuck Miller the third base coach has simply decided George breath the running and the own two picks bouncing ball to Nettles.
The run will score. Nettles filled a first in time. Collins is out. Brett scores and the Royals lead to nothing.
Five shuffle off the carpet. No chance for Nettles to make the play at the plate. The only play had was first base and it was close over there.
So on RBI for Collins his fourth of the series. There are two outs. Nobody on the batter Amos Otis.
Otis the center fielder right hand.
He is one for 13 in the series that one base hit a two run pinch hit.
The average 15 home runs 71 runs but it in and 29 stolen bases in eight seasons as a Royale.
At an off year this season for average batting 251 he did hit 17 home runs and drove in 78 runs.
Back off the outfield is bunched the pitch he wants foul off the third base side.
Mala plays the alley in left center ball Blair in right center giving both foul lines to Amos Otis.
Lucky Dan shades him over in the hole at shortstop while he ran off a couple of steps toward second base.
Nettles is deep but not guarding the line. Jambles backed off and wide at first.
Now Nettles takes a step toward the foul line as Goodry waits for Otis to step in.
He's better John Waffin.
There's the line by Goodry the 0 1 pitch. He bunch again this time down the third base line.
Goodry up with the throws to first base hit.
Amos Otis but it foul then but it fair this time. He got the ball in the dirt in front of home plate to take the back spin off of it.
The third base line. Goodry fielded the ball cleanly through the first base but not in time.
Base hit number three and the batter will be John Waffin who has replaced John Mayberry at first base.
We learned after the ball game yesterday that John Mayberry was playing despite a spell of dizziness.
We're told brought on by a pain reducing medicine.
The pitch to Waffin is high. Ball one. Waffin a right hand hitter. Oh for four in the series.
Over the season he batted three twenty eight. Two home runs. Twenty one runs batted in.
Jambles holding on the base runner Amos Otis. Throw over there. No play.
The Royals lead to nothing. You're in the bottom half of the first.
Outfield is spread out for the right hand hitting Waffin. The infield up the middle.
Goodry throws the first base a lob shot.
Goodry over the season in two hundred eleven innings struck out a hundred seventy six men.
Throwes again to first no play. He walked but sixty five.
Otis again takes his lead. Right foot on the carpet left foot on the dirt.
He bluffs going the pitches fouled out of play on the right side. One ball and one strike.
Two outs. Otis at first a ball and a strike on right hand hitting John Waffin.
And the pitch swing and a miss on a fastball strike two.
One ball two strikes. Goodry takes the sign with the gloves hand on the right knee.
Now straightens up drops the hands Otis goes the pitches swung on and missed strike three.
The side is retired but the Royals pick up two runs on three hits. They leave a man at the end of one.
Goody throw the Aggies nothing.
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We move to the second inning. The Yankees are down by two loop and I will lead off to be followed by Cliff Johnson and Greg Nuttles.
Ponella is five for sixteen with two runs better than in the series during the season he had three thirty twelve homers forty five RBI's right hand hitter and the first pitch to him from split off is inside ball one Bobby Cox the first base coach for the Yankees
and the second pitch by the encouragement down to Ponella Dick House are coaching it's there split off one the left hander kicks and deals and gets a strike.
That field spreads out for Ponella the infield plays him to Paul and Ponella wants the baseball exam and McRamegan looks at it leaves it in play one ball and one strike and the pitch to Ponella
is going to the left center field that'll be in for the base that is going quickly to cut it off. Ponella is on his way to second throw the second base and he is safe at second base it as Ponella hustles it on down to second base
and he's made a good play cutting the ball off in the gap in left center field but he's thrilled his second was not in time and Ponella is in with a double Yankees first hit of the ball game Ponella's sixth hit of the series
and he's got a good one. Cliff Johnson the Yankees designated hitter Johnson five for 13 with two runs but it in Cliff Johnson went one for three against split off in the opening game of the series.
And now it's time to get out request time. Now we're ready. Ponella leads at second base they play Johnson the pole and the pitch is low in ball one.
He's got him behind the bag at third base pot that deep and well over in the hole at shot stop center field or other shades just a bit to it left a gap in right center field for Cliff Johnson split off one and no pitch to him.
And now it is called breaking ball on the inside part of the plate one ball and one strike Johnson batted 296 during the season for the Yankees with 12 homers 31 runs batted in.
And now it's time for the Yankees with 12 home runs for the Houston Astros before the Yankees obtained him on June 15 split off drops the hands below the belt the kick the pitch swing.
And now it's time for the breaking ball one ball and two strikes on Cliff Johnson.
Ponella turns around to check the outfield keeps his eye on Frank White who's trying to shorten up his lead at second base nothing pot take and do his way over in the hole one to pitch to Johnson.
Coming forward Collins the right fielder he calls and makes the catch. Ponella makes him throw and ducks back to second base Johnson is out on a fly ball to the right fielder Collins one away and the batter is great.
And now it's time for the Red Bulls three for 16 with one run batted in on the series he led the Yankees and home runs during the regular season with thirty seven he drove in 100 and seven runs
The Yankee left hand hitters with the exception of Rivers have not had a good championship series.
Spladoff's pitch, slain and missed that one.
Rivers has had seven hits. Nettles has had three. Chris Chandlers has had the one. Reggie Jackson not playing tonight has had the one.
The 0-1 delivery. Bouncing ball is hit towards second. Frank White is up with it. Makes his throw to Waffin at first in time, but on a move to third there were two out.
And now for Chris Chandlers. At the end of the season, Chandlers was not swinging well and it's held over through the championship series so far.
But he's the man who was the hero last year winning the deciding game, game number five with that dramatic ninth inning lead off home run.
The Royals have to be thinking about that. They swing him well around on the right side defensively with a shortstop pot-tack almost behind second.
Panela leads from third, the pitch to Chris low and outside a fast ball. One ball and no strikes.
Panela really joined with the third base umpire. The pitch is cut on in this. One ball, one strike.
Panela having words that appears with Marty Springstead. Umpiring at third.
The pitch is cut by Split off the pitch. Sliced foul into the crowd down on the left field side. One ball, two strikes on Chris Chandlers.
Panela walks off his lead in foul territory. The Royals are leading 2-0 here in the top half of the second.
One, two, delivery. Bouncing ball through the shortstop pot-tack from near second base. He throws on the retired aside.
The Yankees no runs, a base hit, a man left and out the end of one and a half the scores. Kansas City 2 and the Yankees nothing.
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We'll lead off the bottom half of the second for Kansas City. Rohan has announced his retirement as a player as of the end of the 1977 season and he gets a standing ovation from many of the fans here in Kansas City.
He's been an outstanding player.
Over his career, he will continue in baseball in a coaching capacity but not with the Royals. Gidry's first pitch to the right hand hitter is high, ball one.
Rohan is making his first appearance in this year's championship series. Over the season he batted 250, no home runs, 10 RBIs.
Fastball is over and the strike is called one-on-one on Rohan.
And the next pitch just missed the outside part of the plate. And again, Munson thought that might have been a strike.
A lot of conversations going on. Steve Bors and the first base umpire Bill Deegan.
Two-one pitch to Rohan. Hit in the air toward left center field. Panella going hard and he makes the catch and holds on. Panella made a diving catch, hit the ground and held on as that ball was sinking.
He got there and Rohas is retired on a good play by Lufanella. That brings up left hand hitting Darrell Porter, the catcher, 4 for 11 in the series, no runs batted in.
He batted 275, he had 16 homers and had 60 runs batted in. Over the regular season for Kansas City, quite an acquisition. For the Royals the first pitch join.
Checks swing, pitches low for a ball.
The left handers box, feet close together. Idry Wines, the left handers pitch, breaking ball is up high. Two balls and no strikes. The Royals are leading two to nothing.
In field hit by Hal McCrae at triple by George Brett and the ground out by Cowan is getting the two runs in. Porter takes a rip and fouls it down. Two balls and a strike.
He weren't with us in the first inning as Brett tripled over Rivers Head in right center field. He went in hard to third base, hit nettles and the fight broke out. It did not last long.
He was in the first run. Ball three. Had to play for low, three and one on Porter. Idry pumps, three-one offering. Line one hop off the glove. A grand off out of the right center field.
Porter is on, makes his turn, stops and comes back as the thrill comes in from Paul Blair. That is a basic. Sinking line drive came up on a hard hop, kicked away from what he ran off.
And Porter is on with the Royals fourth hit of the game. One on, one on and Frank White the batter.
Right hand hitting second baseman batting ninth in the order. Four for 14 in this series with two runs batted in. White batted 245. He had five home runs, drove in 50 during the season.
And he takes a strike as he left the bunch. Frank White was the top fielding second baseman in the American League this year. Fielding 989.
Darrell Porter with his fifth hit of the series down at first base. Short lead. Idry looks at him and the pitch. White hits a fly ball to the left. That is deep. But back goes Penella. Backpedaling makes a one hand catch on the wanting track.
Penella fires back in towards second base as Porter retreats to first. White is out. Two down. It brings up the shot stop. Fred Pate. Pate routed out to Bucky Depp in the first inning. Right hand hitter.
He is now seven for 14 in the series with five runs batted in. Idry deals on the outside corner strike one. Mickey Rivers has shaded a stepper two toward left field.
Penella straight away in left ball Blair guarding the alley and right center on the right hand hitting Patek. The old one pitch join. Bowl back on the screen strike two.
Patek had a good year average wise. He batted 262. He led the American League and stolen bases with 53. He's had an excellent championship series.
Idry off the set position checks Porter the pitch to Patek. Popped up on the behind the plate. Back comes Munson may have a play and does near the screen to retire to side. No runs at base at the man is left and at the end of two the score is Kansas City two the Yankees nothing.
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Paul Blair will lead off with the Yankees. He's been to bat just one time in the series and he has one base hit. Over the season he batted 262 four home runs 25 runs batted in. Blair a veteran of six championship series now and four World Series.
Right hand hitter feet close fairly deep in the batter's box. He has always hit split off well in his career the pitch to him is lying but foul into the seats down in left field. Blair really got around on it folded foul.
Blair starting in place of Reggie Jackson. Jackson has never hit split off well. Blair has always been a good hitter against the Lattanner.
The old one pitch. He has it on the ground sharply the third dug up though by Brett the throw to first is high. He is out.
But he came down on the back ahead of Blair. One way. With a good play there handling a bad throw from the third baseman Brett. Now shots got bucky down. Bucky is 2 4 11 in this series with two runs batted in the right hand hitter.
Brett shortens up at third on him,
plays him even with the bag.
Lucky takes a breaking ball low.
Then batted 247 during the regular campaign,
eight homers, 49 runs batted in.
Split off next pitch.
Last ball fouled back.
One and one.
The Royals lead to nothing.
We're in the top half of the third inning.
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people around the lobby all day asking if tickets were available.
They were not.
One-one pitch.
Slow breaking ball is over.
Strike two.
Split off into the line.
Big kick.
And the pitch hits his bat.
Power ball.
Pitch was high and inside.
Bucky Dent tried to get out of the way of it.
It hit his bat.
Power straight down behind the plate.
Cattle to the ball and two strikes.
Split off lifetime against the Yankees.
Has won 11 and lost five.
He has always pitched well against the New York club.
One-two pitch to Dent.
Fast ball is low.
And the count is two and two.
And we tell you the breeze here in Kansas City blowing toward the left field corner.
At 12 miles an hour.
The two-two pitch hit in the air to shuttle right.
Collins had him played perfectly and makes the catch.
Two off.
That will bring up the top of the order.
Mickey Rivell.
The quick struck out in the first inning.
Rivers is the Yankees leading header in the series with now seven for nineteen.
Left hand hitter brat down the line at third the first pitch.
Low outside ball one.
And the one O deal.
Line up the middle base set.
Frank White the second baseman made a bid to his right could not reach it and Rivers is on.
Mickey's eighth hit of the series will pause for station identification.
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What a round off the batter Frank Musser along with Bill Rosito and Bill White in Kansas City and the pitch to round off his low a breaking ball from split off ball one.
Randolph granted after the shot stop pot tag his first time up.
The one O pitch bounce foul outside a third flag down by coach Dick Hauser.
Hauser looks it over rubs it up and tosses it back to split off.
Mickey Rivers moves back to first base.
The Royals are leading two to nothing top half of the third two outs Rivers on.
The ball is out of gives Mickey a look.
He is going the pitches taken for a ball throw to second base high.
He's safe stolen base Rivers almost over slid the bag.
Frank White took the throw a high throw from the catcher Darrell Porter Rivers had it beaten anyway and almost over slid Frank White double tagging.
But Rivers kept his foot on the bag.
The other third out is two balls and a strike on what he ran off.
That is the Yankees second stolen base of the series.
They have not had a man thrown out.
The other theft Reggie Jackson.
One strikeout on Willie Randolph out in the number two spot in the order tonight.
Splilloff drops the hands.
Here's the pitch breaking ball is over strike ball.
He picked something off of Ellen just walked it over the plate.
Randolph steps out.
He's in the house.
No one tells one.
Now he's in and ready.
Split off just dropped the hands no stretch to kick the pitch.
It is low ball three.
Pull count three and two on Randolph.
The outfield is spread out with the right fielder.
Cowan shallow.
The back soft deep at second base both on the edge of what would be the outfield grass.
Three to pitch to Randolph.
It is ball for Randolph is on on the first walk given up by Splilloff.
The Yankees have two on with two gone and German Munson the batter.
Munson routed out to Patek it short who made an outstanding play to throw him out in the first inning.
Patek went deep in the hole back into the ball and got Munson in a close play at first.
Patek will play Munson deep.
Brett is backed off at third.
The outfield stays spread out.
Now Munson wants the baseball looked at and Brummington calls for it.
The Empire crosses it back to Splilloff.
Splilloff beat the Yankees seven to two in the opening game of this championship series.
Worked in two games out of the bullpen last year against the Yankees.
Here's pitched to Munson ball one.
It was outside Porter grabs the outside pitch pulls it back into strike zone but it doesn't pull anybody.
One ball and no strikes.
The Royals lead to nothing.
Rivers at second ran off at first and the one over Munson lined out of the right field.
That's going to be a base hit played on one hop by Collins.
Here comes Rivers headed for the plate a throw up the third baseline from Collins.
The Yankees have a run.
Randolph stops at second base and Munson has driven in his fifth run of the championship series.
It is now a two to one ball game.
Munson in a line drive to right field.
Collins played the ball in a hurry fired back in his throw was up the third baseline.
Porter got to it and Randolph had to hold at second base.
So it's a two to one ball game and now with Lupinala stepping in Galen Cisco the pitching coach for the Royals walks out to the mound.
Right hander is throwing out in the Kansas City bullpen.
Could very well be Jim Colborn.
That's what appears to be.
Now the announcement is made it is Doug Bird who is throwing in the bullpen a right hander.
Munson wants to talk to first base umpire Bill Deegan about something so time is called on a first base.
Galen Cisco leaves the mound.
Penella steps in.
Penella doubled to left center field his first time up.
Penella now has six hits in the series.
But Johnson is on deck.
Split off pitches foul back strike one.
Bobby Cox now talks to Munson down at first.
The Royals to the Yankees one here on the top of the third Randolph at second months and at first a one strike pitch to Lupinala with two outs.
Here it is inside one ball one strike.
The outfield is very much spread out against Penella.
In field shades of a couple of steps to the left side.
Penella getting some dirt on his hands.
I stepped out of the batter's box now he moves back in.
Randolph and Munson take their lead.
And the one one pitch line foul into the seats on the right side.
Two ball and two strikes on Lupinala.
Johnson is in the on deck circle.
Split off looks for his son.
Drops the hands no stretch.
Here's the pitch upstairs to balls two strikes.
The Yankees win this ball game the World Series will start Tuesday night in New York at the Royals win it the World Series will start Tuesday night here in Kansas City.
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And the Yankees are retired one run two hits two man left.
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Hal McRae leads off the bottom half of the third. Right hand header beat out an infield hit to shortstop his first trip and scored.
He hits one deep toward the left field corner. That's going to be trouble.
Canola can't get to it. One hops off the wall.
Canola plays the car and Hal McRae is in with a double.
A two base hit for Hal McRae. A shot into the left field corner off Goodreads.
For McRae, his sixth hit and third double of the series. His seventh hit and third double.
A two base hit for two in this game. Now George Brett, who tripled the right center field in the first inning to drive in a run and later scored.
Left hand header takes a low fastball. Ball one.
And activity will start in the Yankee bullpen.
One-hole pitch. Powered by Mike Torres who started to throw in the Yankee bullpen. Big right hander warming up.
Blair in right field plays Brett in the alley in right center.
Rivers is shaded to the left. Canola is shaded towards center. They give Brett both corners.
Try to cut off the extra base in the alley. Now Rivers is straightened up in center.
The pitch is rolling inside. The counters two balls and no strikes on George Brett.
Al Collins is on deck. In the first inning with one out McRae beat out an infield hit.
Brett doubled over Rivers head in the right center.
And later scored on a ground out. He swings chops one. George first.
Chandler has it. Gidrie over the cover. Takes the throw in time. Brett is out.
On the play. McRae moves to third. So Brett has done his job.
He has moved Hal McRae over to third base. There is only one out. And the batter Al Collins.
And Billy Martin is on his way out to the mound.
He's on with his hands in his hip pockets. Crosses the foul line. He calls Thurman Munson out.
The Royals have a runner at third. Only one out and they are leading two to one.
After the Royals got their two runs in the first inning the Yankees came back here in the top half of the third.
With two out. Mickey Rivers who makes things happen. Single the center field. He stole second.
And the Yankees ran off. Walked in Thurman Munson. Lined a base hit in the right field.
Getting Rivers home with the Yankees run. Now played on by Nick Brunigan.
Will go out to break up the mound conference. Billy Martin turns around.
And now starts jogging back to at the Yankee dugout down the third base line.
The right hand batter has driven in four runs in the series. With three base hits in 16 drips.
Now Munson out again to talk to Ron Gidry. Mike Torres is throwing in the Yankee bullpen.
The Yankees will bring the infield in with a runner at third and one away.
The outfield is spread out with Panela deep and left. Where not too deep in right field.
Gidry works off the set position and the pitch. The Cowins is lined to left. That will be a base hit.
In comes McCray with run number three and the Kansas City Royals lead three to one.
And that will be all for Ron Gidry. Now Cowins gets his second RBI this ballgame.
He gets his fourth hit of the series. A solid line shot to left field.
And now with Amos Otis and John Waffin both right hand hitters and following them Cookie Rojas.
Billy Martin is out to pull Gidry in favor of Mike Torres.
Right now the new Yankee pitcher Mike Torres is making his way to the mound.
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Now Porter also had two hits off of him.
First man he works to coming into this game Amos Otis who had a bunch single in the first inning.
Otis did not face Torres in that ballgame.
So Mike Torres on after Ron Goodry goes only two and one third innings. Goodry is charged with three runs.
He allowed six bases. He did not walk anybody and he struck out one man.
Mike Torres 6 5 2 10 came to the Yankees early this season from the Oakland A's in the trade for Doc Ellis Marty Perez and Larry Murray.
He was the top winner on the Yankee staff with 17 victories during the season.
He won seven consecutive complete games in late July and early to mid August on sliding with the Yankees run to the top.
Torres certainly contributed this year and will try now to stop the Kansas City Royals working here in relief.
Amos Otis will step in against him.
Torres overall this year won 17 and lost 13 in 35 starts he had 17 complete games and two shutouts.
Right hand hitting Amos Otis with talents at first one out the Royals are leading three to one here in the bottom half of the third inning.
Torres stretches high into the belt checks the runner of the left shoulder throws the first safe high throws sale.
And the Chambliss had to reach up for it. Rivers straight away inside against Amos Otis.
That and Randolph lay up the middle.
Nettles is back down the third.
Chambliss holding Collins on Torres pitch swing and a miss strike one.
Amos Otis not starting the game Torres started as a pitcher for the Yankees was bad Amos Otis had never hit Torres that well.
That was from Whitey Herzard.
Otis did not get a start when Torres went out Otis was employed as a pinch hitter against Sparky Lyle and double.
Nettles checks the runner at first and the pitch strike two call the fast ball at O and two.
Kansas City leads three to one. Collins at first one away.
And the ball is now offering high and tight one ball and two strikes.
There are Yankee fans here in Kansas City but it is a predominantly Kansas City Royal crowd.
As Torres stretches time is called by the plate on fire Nick Remigan.
Allons walks off his lead again at first and the one two pitch to Otis foul back.
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Well back in the seats and that makes the upper deck.
Now Thurman Munson walks out of the mound attract the Mike Torres and Torres looking down at the mound
and may be having a little trouble with it.
He's looking around around and comes back.
One ball two strikes on Otis.
Don's at first one away. The sat here is the pitch swing and a miss struck him out.
Torres fans Otis threw it to down.
Now John Waffin who was struck out by Goodry to end the first inning.
Waffin is a right hand batter playing for John Mayberry.
We are told suffered a reaction from a pain killing medicine that he took for a two-fake.
Developed busyness in yesterday's game had to leave.
Waffin right hand hitter.
Torres pitch going outside ball on breaking off.
Torres stretches checks counts at first the pitch strike call the Waffin got the outside corner one and one.
Cookie Rojas is on deck.
The stretch by Torres to look to first one one pitch a pitch out when it was not going it's two balls in a strike.
Waffin calls for the pitch out now Munson looks over to Billy Mugman the Yankee dugout.
Billy up on the top steps gives Munson a sign.
Collins is going the pitches one out and fouled back.
They had to hit and run on and Waffin fouled it back so Collins will turn around and come back to first.
Waffin strikes on Waffin.
Waffin is stepped out now back in.
Torres stretches checks counts with a look to pitch to Waffin struck him out slinging a miss and that retires the side.
But the Royals pick up one run on two hits they leave a man and at the end of three innings of play the score is Kansas City three and the Yankees one.
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We go to the fourth inning ladies and gentlemen in with the play by play here is Bill White.
All right Frank Messon Cliff Johnson will lead off with a New York Yankees here in the top of the fourth the Royals lead three to one.
First pitch to Johnson he backs off a fastball that's inside.
Cliff has been up one time in the ballgame so far he flies to Al Cowans in right field.
Johnson five or fourteen in the series so far. Here's a line by Split Orphan the pitch curveball is fouled back.
It's one and one. The Royals have three runs on six base hits in this ballgame the Yankees one run on three.
The Royal runs have been driven in by George Brett Al Cowans.
In fact Cowans has two runs batted in in this ballgame and a total of five in the series he protect and Mutson all have five runs batted in.
Johnson backs off a fastball inside two and one.
There are Mutson of course has driven in the Yankee run.
Long way to go in the ballgame six more at bats for the Yankees and the Royals two one to Johnson.
He checks the swing takes it on the inside corner two and two.
That call Johnson took a little walk out of the batter's box.
He says something out of home plate on fire Nick Brumigan as he settles back in the box.
Split Orphan winds and the two to pitch to Johnson curveball is bounced foul back to the screen count remains two and two.
The ball is gone with a lot of breaking balls so far this ballgame especially to Cliff Johnson and also to Willie Randolph.
Johnson out of the box.
He stands in stands right up on the plate.
Here's Split Orphan with the two to delivery.
The ball is fouled back to two and two.
And Cliff got a piece of it.
George breaded third for the Royals ready pot that playing shortstop actually playing out in shallow left field.
Frank White the second baseman and John Woffin playing first base in place of John Mayberry.
Here's a two to pitch to Johnson.
Swung on and line fouled into the seats out left field.
John Mayberry by the way was bothered by a sore tooth yesterday.
Took a couple of pain killing pills and had a bad day and today he had that tooth extracted.
He's not in the ball game.
Just rolling jaw.
Here's a two to now to Johnson.
Swung on and pulled fouled again outside third.
This one made Dick Houser get out of the way and the count remains two and two.
Royal outfield has how McCray and left Amos Otis in center playing a deep center field and Al Cowan's out in right field.
Two balls two strikes on Cliff Johnson.
He'll be followed by Greg Nettles and then Chris Chambliss.
Put the orphan in the wind up and the two to pitch curve is outside three and two.
When blowing toward left here at Royal Stadium yesterday was blowing a gale toward right.
Here's a payoff pitch to Johnson.
Curve ball line fouled into the seats left side and Johnson might have broken his back.
Yes he has broken his back.
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Don't play down by Nick Brimigan that went over and he's trying to hurry John Snupp.
Cliff went and got his bat and then went to the on deck circle and picked up some pine tar.
Brimigan wants him in the batter's box.
Count three to nobody out Johnson leading off fourth inning for the Yankees.
The ball goes ahead by a score of three to one.
The dwarf in the wind up and the payoff pitch.
Swung on it to left field McCray going back into the corner still back up against the wall and it's up against the wall and bounces back in and Johnson goes in the second base.
That ball hit that reigning on top of the wall between the fence and the wall and stayed up there then bounced back in.
And when it got to look like it might have been a home run but it hit the railing and bounced back in and Johnson seemed in the second base with a double.
I think that wind really helped the ball then McCray went back like he thought he had a chance.
He kept back pedaling finally got up against the wall there.
The ball hit off the top of the wall.
There's a railing running around the wall from the 3 30 mark down the line to the Yankee bullpen.
And the same thing is down the right field corner.
So Johnson is double leading off here's nettles.
Pitch to Gray swung on and missed.
For Cliff Johnson that's his sixth base hit and 15 times up.
And feel playing nettles to pull his job here is to get Johnson to third base or hold pops it up on the left side of the end field.
George Brett the third baseman in foul territory makes it catch.
One away Johnson still down at second base not a bring on Chris Campbell.
The ball game so far has been up once bounced a short royal play him to pull pot that the shortstop was up behind second base.
Swung on bounced a short has a big up throws on the Woffin and they've got Campbell on the play.
The batter is Paul Blair the right fielder.
Blair has been up three times in this area so far.
Got a single up the middle yesterday after he went into the ball game in the ninth inning to play defense for Reggie Jackson getting a start here.
And this final game.
George Brett the third baseman through Blair out his first time up.
The ball strike on the outside corner on deck is Bucky did Royals leading three to one Yankees have a runner at third base with two outs in the top half before the inning.
The ball runs tough with three points and the one strike pitch inside one ball one strike left Johnson just missing a home run by about three feet.
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Mike Torres, hot warming up as we get ready to go into the bottom half of the fourth inning
at Royal Stadium.
The Royals leading the A&K's five score three to one.
Little note on Torres, he's making his first relief appearance since August 14th of 1974.
Back in that year, Mike Torres was with the Montreal Expos and he made that relief appearance
against the Atlanta Braves.
Of course, this is the final game of his five game series and it will be the final game of
the season for one of these two clubs, so everybody's got to get ready.
Cookie Rojas stands in against Mike Torres and Cookie takes outside ball one.
Rojas has been up once and Lupin Alamedo fine diving catch of his line drive in left center
field in the second inning.
Rojas takes the strike, it's one and one.
Rojas a surprise starter as a designated hitter tonight.
One-one pitch up the middle through, they hit.
Rivers gets the ball back in and Rojas goes his first base.
First hit against Mike Torres, he struck out the first too many-faced, relieving Ron
Gidwin in the third inning, struck out Otis and Wathen.
Rojas on his first base, nobody else but batter Darrell Porter the catcher.
He's been up once single to right center.
Porter has hit well against Yankees in this series and also during the year he's five
or twelve in a series.
Rojas off first base, he is not a threat to steer.
Pitch supporter is high and away ball one.
They hit by Rojas, the seventh hit in this ball game for the Kansas City Royals.
Now Torres is at the belt, the one-one pitch, high and away ball two.
Mike Torres behind in the count, Darrell Porter two balls and no strikes.
Now Mike is at the belt, two-one pitch, swung on it in the center, field, Rivers going back, still going.
And that ball is cut by Mickey Rivers up against the wall.
Rojas all the way down to second base has to hustle back to first.
Mickey Rivers making use of every inch of his height as he went to the wall and straight away center field,
got their lead high upon the wall and made the catch.
Got to give Rivers a five-seven stars, even the partisan royal fans have to clap for that catch.
Good running grab by Mickey Rivers.
There's one away.
That'll bring on Frank White, the second baseman.
White's been up once, flies to the left.
Now Mickey Rivers saved at least one run with that running catch in straight away center.
White's a right-handed batter.
Torres sets and the pitch.
Two high, ball one.
Ron Goodry started the ball game for the Yankees.
He went two and one third innings.
Gave up three runs on six base hits.
The 1-0, White takes in there, called strike hits one and one.
Goodry had pretty good control, he didn't walk anybody and he only struck out one.
Little tough to come back with just two days' rest.
Now Torres sets, one-one pitched away, curve ball is high, two and one.
Royals three Yankees, one bottom half before the inning.
Cookie Rojas at first base for the Royals and one away.
Yankees sets their infield up, looking for two.
Offfield shades White toward right.
Time is called now Torres wants a tie-shoot string.
Nettles is the third baseman for the Yankees,
then to shortstop Randall playing a second and Chandler is holding Rojas at first.
Chuck Hiller, a coach, is third base for the Royals.
Steve Morales is the first base coach.
Torres with a new ball.
Checks Rojas, two-two pitch, clung on and missed.
Mike Torres threw a fastball by Frank White.
So White strikes off for the second, second out.
That's the third strikeout for Torres.
And that'll bring on Freddie Potec at shortstop.
Potec has had a good series with the Royals.
He's seven for fifteen with five runs batted in.
Right hander batted.
Now Torres sets and the pitch to Potec.
Two high ball one.
Torres working quickly.
The one-oh pitch.
Two high ball two.
On deck is Hal McCrae.
Now Torres is ready.
And Rojas is going. The pitch is taking a strike and no throw.
Cookie Rojas as soon as Torres got to the belt took off.
Mike Torres had already made up his mind to come home and instead of stepping off,
he threw, got it in for a strike.
It was taken by Potec.
No throw down to second base.
Rojas is stolen the base.
He's down there with two outs to count two balls and a strike on Freddie Potec.
The pitch.
Lines to right field. Blair is after it on the run and can't get to it.
Ball slides foul down the right field line.
Ball Blair couldn't get to it.
Close down the right side.
Oh it's two and two on Freddie Potec.
Rojas back at second base and Potec comes back to the plate.
Blair now moves a little closer to the right field line for Freddie Potec.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs.
Freddie Potec number two at bat and a runner down at second base.
The pitch.
Outside ball three.
Three balls and two strikes.
Royals ahead three to one and pressuring the Yankees and Mike Torres in the bottom half of the fourth inning.
Torres does not like the first time for much.
Now he's ready and the three to pitch.
Swung on top of the nettles at third base.
He's got it.
Long for the first test in time and the side has retired.
Potec bounces on five to three.
No run to face it and the man left.
At the end of four the Royals three the Yankees one.
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Oh Mike Torres pitched himself out of trouble in the bottom of the fourth and we're going to the top half of the fifth inning at Royal Stadium.
But the Royals leading the Yankees by score three to one and Fucky Dent will lead off against Paul Splitdoor.
Dent's been up one time against Splitdoor but this ball game fly to right field so he's 0 for one two for twelve in the series.
Those two base hits have been productive he's driven into runs.
It'll be Bucky Dent Mickey Rivers and then Willie Randolph against Paul Splitdoor here in the top of the fifth left handers first pitches line base at Centerfield for Bucky Dent.
Over quickly Amazotus and right away Doug Bird gets up in the Kansas City bullpen and the right hander will start throwing.
The matter now is Mickey Rivers who was struck out and single up the middle stolen a base and scored the Yankee run.
Driven in by Thurman Mutson in the third inning.
Mickey's having a fine series eight base hits in 20 times up.
Brett closes in a third base for Rivers.
Woffin has to hold a dent at first base as Splitdoor sets and a pitch.
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Splitdoor set the belt and the old one pitched to Rivers.
Swung on a high bouncer toward first base.
Splitdoor has it underhand.
Woffin and they just get Rivers at first base.
Black Rivers might have stepped on Woffin's foot.
Moving into second base is Bucky Dent.
He put out one to three. One away Dent now down at second base and the batter is Willie Randolph.
Randolph has bounced a short walk in the ball game so far he's over one.
Splitdoor has been throwing Randolph a lot of curve balls.
Paul's breaking down and in on Willie Randolph.
Wynn still blowing toward left here at Royal Stadium. Not hard.
Not like it blew out toward right yesterday.
Pitch to Randolph.
Curve ball is low ball one.
Royals have three runs on seven base hits.
The Yankees one run on five base hits playing the fifth inning.
Splitdoor sets the 1-0 to Randolph.
Curve ball bounced a short. Potec is there.
Gobbles it up throws on the first.
They've got Randolph.
Dent had to hold at second base.
Two outs.
And the batter is Thurman Mutson.
And this is going to be a conference between home plate and the pitchers mound between Paul Splitdoor
and his catcher Darrell Porter. Mutson drove in the Yankee round the only run scored by the Yankees
in this ball game in the third inning with a single to right field.
Thurman's fifth run batted into the series and his sixth base hit.
He's six for 18.
And as usual Mutson wants to look at the baseball.
On the air Thurman batted 308 for the Yankees at 18 home runs and drove in 100 runs.
Two outs. Dent down at second.
Mutson taking plenty of time getting set in the batter's box.
Now he's ready. And Splitdoor sets the pitch to Mutson.
He checks his wing takes it down low ball one.
The umpires for this ball game Nick Brimigan is behind the plate.
Bill Deegan at first Jerry Newdecker at second and Marty Spring said a third base.
Russ gets down the left field foul line and Jim McKean down the right field foul line.
Dent with a short lead off second base.
Now he takes another step. The one over to Mutson.
Thurman hit on the ground the second base. Frank White digs it out.
Thurman's on the first to get Mutson and the side is retired.
The run's on one base hit and a man left on base.
At the end of four and a half innings of play. The Royals three, the Yankees one.
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Bottom of the fifth and the Royals will send in Hal McRae, George Breton and then Al Cowan against Mike Torres.
Torres has pitched strong baseball so far.
He's faced six men, struck out three of them.
McRae is two for two in the ballgame, a single and a double and he scored two runs.
He now has seven base hits and 16 times at bat against the Yankees in the series.
Torres deals high ball one.
Mike right back, fastball lined and grabbed by Willi Randolph.
Well even when they get McRae out he hits the ball hard.
McRae lining the Yankees second base with Willi Randolph for the first down in the bottom of the fifth.
The batter now is George Breton, the third base. He's tripled in a run, scored a run and also bounced the first.
Breton's one for two in the ballgame.
Left-handed hitter takes high and away, ball one.
Torres winds and the 1-0 pitch. High and away again, two balls, no strikes.
Torres gone a pitch, Bret away and high to try to get the fly ball.
Two-0 pitch, a pen and back to him out of there, three balls and no strikes.
Standing on deck is Al Cowan, the right fielder.
Three-0 pitch to Bret. He backs away from fastball up and in, ball four.
So Bret walks on four pitches and that'll bring on Al Cowan.
Cowan's has driven in two runs in this ballgame with a bounce out and a single.
He has a total of five in the series.
Four base hits, 17 times that bad against the Yankees.
Yankees straighten up for Cowan, claims straight away and field back looking for two.
There goes Bret, pitches high, throw the second and he put it on Bret for the out.
Willie Rand putting the tag on George Bret, good throw from Munson.
So Bret has cut down two to four, two outs.
The pitch was a strike on Al Cowan.
The Royals have now stolen four bases and they've been caught three times in the series.
Yankees are two for two against Royal Catching and that's of course Darrell Porter.
The one strike pitch to Cowan, breaking ball outside, one and one.
Missed with a slider high.
Torres Wines and the one-one pitch, fastball is high two and one.
Yankees in the sixth inning will have Finella, Cliff Johnson and Greg Nettles against Paul Splittor.
Royals ahead three to one, fifth inning.
Here's a two-one pitch to Cowan.
Swung on, foul tipped held by Munson it's two and two.
The Royals pushing Al Cowan for the most valuable player award.
Of course the writers have already voted on that award so whatever Cowan's or Rivers or Munson or Jackson or Nettles doing this series doesn't count.
Foul back.
The writers supposedly have already made their decision.
Two and two on Cowan's.
Royce Rod-Carrou's name has been mentioned also in the most valuable player award.
Goating.
Jim Rice from the Boston Red Sox, Butch Hopson.
Two-two pitch.
Slow bouncer, pass and knocked down Victor Pone and save at first base.
Paul was just out over the head of Torres.
Willie Randolph went in and grabbed the ball, threw it to Chambliss and Cowan's is called safe at first base.
Billy Martin now out arguing.
Al Cowan picks up his second infield hit.
Paul just got over the glove of Mike Torres going toward Randolph at second base.
Willie scooped the ball, threw it the same motion and Cowan's was called safe.
Martin still arguing with first base umpire Bill Deegan.
Chambliss had bumped Deegan a bit and so had Mike Torres.
So Cowan's on at first base, two outs.
And when Martin finishes arguing with Bill Deegan, Amos Otis will be the batter.
So Martin jogs back to the Yankee dugout and on the way as a few words for the home plate umpire Nick Premigan.
And the first inning struck out in the third.
Two men out.
Royals leading three to one.
Yankees play Otis straight away.
Mike Torres at the belt and the pitch swung on and missed.
No balls in one strike.
Whitey Herzog does not normally use Amos Otis against Mike Torres or against Bert Bleilever or Nolan Ryan.
One strike pitch, swung on, bounced up the middle.
It might go through the Randolph is there, throw the first, scooped up by Chambliss and have got Otis.
Played by Chris Chambliss. No runs, one head, no errors.
One man left on base.
At the end of five, the score.
The Royals three, the Yankees one.
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Now, Lou Pinello will lead off the Yankees in the sixth inning.
Royals lead three to one.
Royals have three runs on eight bases.
The Yankees one run on five.
Waiting off the Yankees, the last spieler.
Lou Pinello's had a fine series, not only with the bat but with the glove.
He's really done a pretty good job.
Doubled in the second inning but was left stranded.
Bounced the third in the third.
So Pinello's one for two in this ball game.
Six for 18 in the series with two runs bad at it.
It'll be Lou Pinello, Cliff Johnson and then Greg Nettles against Paul Splittor in the sixth inning.
Here's Splittor's first pitch to Pinello.
Swung on and fouled back.
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Two strike pitch now.
Swung on and fouled back.
0-2.
Pinello uncharacteristically trying to hit a home run.
Here's a two strike pitch to Pinello.
Inside.
Splittor one ball two strikes.
And the Yankees are going to be a little bit more aggressive.
Here's a one two to Pinello.
Swung on it in the air to right field.
Cowan's going back.
He's got plenty of time.
Back fiddling.
And he makes the catch.
One away.
That'll bring on the designated hitter for the Yankees.
Cliff Johnson.
Johnson has applied to right field and double.
Double on top of the wall in left field.
The ball hit on top of the wall.
Bounced up against a mesh railing.
And came back on the field.
Johnson one for two in the ball game.
Six for fifteen in the series.
Pitch to Johnson outside ball one.
Splittor winds and the one oh pitch.
Inside a curveball two balls and no strikes.
Red playing deep at third base and pot tag playing Johnson to pull a shortstop and.
Way deep.
Got a step or two on what would be the outfield grass.
White to second baseman shading Johnson over near the bad and deep.
Two oh pitch curveball is high ball three on deck is Greg Nettles.
No action in the Royal Bullpen.
The Royals lead three to one in the sixth inning.
Splittor rocks and the three oh pitch.
Low ball for Johnson walks on four pitches.
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Here's a pitch to Greg Nettles.
Wings and doesn't get a fastball.
No balls in the truck.
Time is being called by the umpire coming in from right field Jim McKean.
McKean cannot get anybody's attention.
Now he sets the splittor fan the pitch outside it's one and one.
Now McKean is yelling toward the second base umpire Jerry Newdecker trying to get his attention.
And time is finally called.
Object loose out in right field.
Some kids glove it looks like.
Throwing back in the seats.
Count is one ball and one strike on that'll say that happened with Don money on a bases load at home in Milwaukee.
I think it was Jim McKean with the umpire.
Nettles takes low two and one McKean had called time.
Money at a grand slam home run didn't count.
Had to play it over Yankees won the ball game.
Two balls one strike on that'll go through out.
Johnson on at first base the Royals leading three to one in the sixth inning.
Splittor sets.
The pitch to Nettles.
Swung on and missed.
Breaking ball it's two and two.
Woffin playing behind Johnson at first base two to pitch.
Swung on and fouled.
Nettles goes down swinging for the second out.
Going to second strike out for Paul Splittor.
That'll bring on Chris Chambliss.
The Yankee first baseman.
Chambliss has been up twice bounced out both times.
Shortstop ready pot deck.
Pot deck plays Chambliss will almost behind second base.
A lot of formation because the second base and white plays him straight away.
Chambliss takes the curve for a strike.
Chambliss won for 15 in the series so far.
Splittor sets.
The one strike pitch outside a curve ball it's one and one.
But the last 10 days of the season Chambliss started into a mini slump.
Lost his timing and it's carried over into the series.
The one one pitch.
Swung on it on the ground the second Frank White digs it out he'll play at the first base.
And the side is retired.
No run. No hit to walk and a man left on base.
We're going to the bottom of the sixth.
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On the bottom of the sixth year Royals stadium the Royals lead the Yankees by a score of three to one and we're going to get a pinch at her for John Woffin.
Pete LeCocca left handed batter will battle off and lead off against Mike Torres and LeCocco will probably stay in the ballgame and go play first base.
John Mayberry who normally plays first base with the Royals had a two pull today and his job was rolling and with the pain killing the pills you had to take.
Of course also took him yesterday with the two then and he made an error.
He's not playing LeCocco takes a strike on the inside corner.
This is LeCocco's first appearance in the American League Championship series backs off of basketball inside one and one.
LeCocco gets just about everything the other way Yankee Flames straight away both in the infield and the outfield.
Torres winds in the one one pitch gets foul up her deck left side one ball and two strikes.
Royals picked up two runs against Ron Gidry in the bottom of the first Yankees picked up a run their only run in the ballgame in the top of the third Royals came back right back in the bottom third with one more.
That's what's the next one off down the left field line.
Down remains a ball and two strikes.
Three one Royals six minutes.
One two pitch.
And missed LeCocco goes down swinging.
There's one away.
That's the fourth strikeout from Mike Torres.
Torres game in the ball game in the third inning.
Pinch hitting or actually relieving relieving Ron Gidry.
Chuck out the first too many faced Otis and Woffin.
Here's Kokey Rojas one for two in the ball game.
Kokey swings and doesn't get a slider.
No balls in the strike.
Rojas the right handed batter the one strike pitch low one in one.
Rojas is already announced is in pitch and to retire after this season.
This is it for him 16 years a big league baseball.
One one pitch takes a strike which slide or letter high on the outside corner one and two.
Kokey's been around the Philadelphia Phillies has sent Snotty Reds the same
with Cardinals and Dodgers one to swung on bounce to short charge by dead nice hop
throws on the first base of God Rojas two outs.
That'll bring on Darrell Porter the catcher Porter is single to right center
and he drove Rivers all the way back to the wall and straight away center field
Rivers had to leave high off the wall the raw board of at least a double Darrell Porter one for two
Porter left handed batter on deck is Frank White Royals ahead three to one sixth inning.
On top of the seventh the Yankees will have Blair Denton Rivers against Paul Clitor.
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and makes the catch in deep left center field and this side has retired three up and three down at the end of sixth to score.
The Royal Three the Yankees one.
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At the end of six inning here Royal Stadium the Royals lead the Yankees three to one they have three runs on eight base hits.
The Yankees one run on five against Paul Splitor and here to see if we can't do something about that to scooter Phil Rizzuto.
All right William Paul Blair bounce the third pops a second and at first Pete LaCotte who pinched
for John Watton Splitor pitch right one call.
I think Splitor is going harder now in the last two innings than he did through the first five innings.
Three to one the Royals lead.
Deep to left but it's going to curve foul that would have been plenty far enough to have been a home run.
Look at Blair he knew he just missed it boy I said he got a slider just got a little bit out in front of it way back into the left field seats.
Three beginnings to go for the Yankees only trail by two but they need some base runners and split off once another sign Blair steps out.
It'll be Blair Dent and Rivers.
The O2 pitch curve bounce the third Brett waits for the hop fires the first in time.
Good gun by George Brett at third base one away.
Now Bucky Dent fly the right single center.
Split off kicks curve down low ball one. Split off is allowed five hits walk to struck out two and just one run.
The pitch to Bucky that curve is in one on one.
The low two and one left hand a wine fastball hit in the air to right field counts is right there.
Now Mickey Rivers make a struck out single stolen a base and scored and bounced out.
Richard at first base.
That was a big play in the ballgame.
Dent had let off with a single Mickey hit a Baltimore chop that almost got over split off head.
To Mickey low ball one.
The ball with the bag at first and Brett laying in as he normally does against Rivers.
The one pitch foul down the left field line ball and two strikes.
Beautiful day here and another beautiful night.
The kick and the pitch ground ball at Frank White he's got it.
The first in time to get Rivers and the Yankees are down in order at the end of six and a half or three Yankees one.
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All right, we're going to the bottom of the seven stands the city fans are going bananas.
The ball game is not over yet.
Right.
White has played the left and struck out.
I think a lot of people sound like me tomorrow where they've been yelling for the through these first seven innings.
It's the white ground ball of third nettles knocked it down.
They got him.
Oh man, that nettles really hounded that ball.
Beautiful play by Greg on a hard shot that bounced off his chest.
One away his pot deck bounce the short foul of the catcher and thrown out on a fine play by Greg nettles.
Pot deck has it in every game but this one in every playoff game he's participated in last year in this year ball one.
No pitch strike call one on one.
One one pitch line to right field deep player backing up and makes the catch.
They've held the pot deck and toe and now Hal McRae and he has been a tough out in the last couple of games.
He's single and scored in the first double and scored in the third and lined up to Willie Randolph.
Two out nobody on three to one the Royal's lead.
McRae tough man to defense against high ball one steps into the pitch and go to right.
Pull the ball as he pulled that double down the left field line.
Rounder in the hole base.
His third base hit of the ball game.
That'll go for a second and they got him.
He is out McRae trying to look at Lou Penelope saying what do you think you're playing with kids.
He had him up by 10 feet.
Good play by Penelope is really hustling.
He threw the ball a bucky dental was confused turned around still at plenty of time that's egg McRae.
No runs ahead.
No errors.
Nobody left at the end of seven.
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All right Yankees got to get something going here they trailed three to one of the top of the eighth Willie Randolph bounce the short twice and walk.
Split off pitch strike on the outside corner.
It'll be Randolph Monson and Penella.
They have had only five hits or split off.
Curved as a base hit Willie Randolph starts off the top of the eighth with a single center.
And now the Yankees have the men coming up that they want.
Monson Penella and Johnson.
German has driven in the one Yankee run with a clutch two out singles.
Monson at his best under pressure.
He's robbed of a base hit and a fine play by Patek in the first single right in the third and bounce the second and the fifth and here comes Whitey Herzog.
Mingori and Bird Mingori the left hander and Bird the right hander are up in the bullpen.
Normally when Whitey Herzog comes out he makes a change but let's see.
The Yankees split off and Gidry were told to throw as hard as they could and go as long as they could.
Everybody would be ready in the bullpen.
And they want Doug Bird.
I like that I said to the last time that Whitey Herzog took out a pitcher was pitching well it cost them.
And now they're out and the Hasler, Warden Bird and the Yankees went on to win the ball game.
So let's see if history repeats.
Right now we'll take a quick break.
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Well Doug Bird has come in and I said it had split off but it's another beautiful ball game.
He went seven innings plus one batter here in the eighth allowed six hits.
He walked only two, he struck out only two and has allowed just the one run so far.
Randolph is at first base with nobody out.
He will be split off responsibility and Doug Bird comes on.
Bird is making his third appearance of these playoffs.
He's only worked in inning in two-thirds allowing two hits and no runs.
And he'll be facing Munson, Vanilla and Johnson and we just might see Reggie Jackson is swinging a bat and a dugout come up and pinch hit for somebody.
I tell you that would be a fitting ending to a very unusual season if Reggie would pinch hit and hit one out.
That would be beautiful.
All right, Thurman Munson getting ready outside the batter's box.
Bird has completed his warm-up and as per usual Munson wants to look at that ball and Bremengan keeps it in play.
So Munson got one ball thrown out out of four looks.
Randolph at first, nobody out.
Yankees trailing three to one in the top of the eighth.
Stretched by Bird, pitched to Munson down low ball one.
Thurman taking plenty of time.
Bird to the belt, the pitch is winging in the midst.
One-on-one.
Wheatley-Cock holding first against Randolph.
Outfield straight away in deep on Munson.
Quick throw to First-Willie-Bach.
Bird sets and the pitch is winging in the midst.
Good slide of that time by Bird, one ball, two strikes.
Every once in a while, Doug Bird will quick pitch your batter.
He does not, he did it on that pitch.
He does not come to a complete set.
He struck him out.
He jammed Munson with a fastball.
Good strikeout for Doug Bird.
And now Lou Penella.
And coming out on deck is Reggie Jackson.
Looks like he'll bat for Cliff Johnson.
Penella has doubled, bounced the third and fly to right.
One man out in the top of the eighth.
Yankees trailing three to one.
Willie Randolph let off the inning with a base hit at first base.
Throw to First-Willie-Jumps-Bach.
Bird sets and the pitch is a base hit to center field.
Randolph's going to go to third base, yes he is.
He kind of hesitated and then went it.
Now the Yankees have run as at first and third.
And now he's going out and Reggie Jackson is coming up to bat.
Holy cow, wouldn't this be something?
Reggie Jackson who did not start tonight and took it.
Like a man, I said, he said he took a lot of guts by Billy Martin to make that kind of a call.
Take him out.
But he did it and he's resigned to it.
Now he's up as a pinch hitter.
Run as at first and third and the Royals leading three to one.
The bird gets the sign.
Here's the stretch and the pitch down low ball one on Dick Greg Nettles.
The Nellad first, Randolph at third.
Jackson now getting set in the box.
Bird sets and the pitch.
Power back, he had a good cut and found it back off the mask and onto the screen.
The bird gets the sign.
The pitch, power back, he had his pitch that time and just got under it.
One ball, two strikes.
Drop spot for Jackson.
Run as lead at the corners.
Bird sets.
There's one hit to center field, it'll get a run in.
Otis coming on, he can't get it.
It's a base hit and a run score.
Otis was fooled on that ball.
Jackson comes through with a clutch single.
Stopping at second pin, that was a sinking line drive that Jackson hit in.
Here comes Whitey Herzog.
I told you the last time that Herzog came out to take Andy Hesler out,
who was pitching a beautiful ball game, it turned around and the Yankees won it.
And now the Yankees right back in this ball game is three to two.
Run as that first and second only one out.
And it looks like the left hand of Mingori is coming on.
I said what a tough spot for Reggie Jackson and he came through it.
Beautiful, beautiful clutch base hit.
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All right, Steve Mingori has come on.
Greg Nettles is scheduled to be the batter.
Now anything can happen in a short series.
Billy Martin as you know, rested Reggie Jackson.
And now with the left hand of Mingori coming up and Nettles having his problems in this series,
we'll see what Billy Martin is going to do.
No, no, no.
Greg is coming out.
In this game, Nettles has bounced the second, fouled the third and struck out.
But Nettles has come through with so many clutch bases all year.
Yankees have Penella at second, Jackson at first,
and Greg Nettles will be the batter.
Three to two, the Royals are leading only one out.
Yankees have had three bases here in the eighth inning.
One off split off, two off bird.
And Nettles now will really have to guard that plate.
Just dunk that ball, hit one off the end or break the bat,
get one over the infield, who'll take anything.
Or a home run, yeah, that wouldn't be bad.
All right, Jackson off first, Penella off second.
One man out of the Royals leading three to two in the top of the eighth.
Stretch by Mingori.
The curve almost hits Nettles.
So Greg tried to get hit with that one, just missed his right shoulder.
Mark Littel is up in the Royals bullpen and on deck is Chris Chambliss.
That bring back memories.
The kick and the pitch popped up, but it's going to go in the stands out of play.
LeCocque looking at it, it goes back over the Royals, dug out, it's one-on-one.
LeCocque goes to the Rosin bag.
Jackson leads off first, Penella off second.
Luth got to get a pretty good jump because they sit best and good throwing outfield,
swing and a miss at a side-on curve.
Greg really fooled with that pitch.
It's one ball, two strikes.
And I mean, Gori looks in for the sign, comes to the belt and the pitch.
Deep to right field, but Cowan's is back there.
Penella did not tag, now he goes back, it's too late.
Penella put a tag and easily gone a third as that full-fault Cowan's center back to the
warning track in front of the bullpen in deep right field.
And now Chris Chambliss.
Boy, I'd said if Nettles got under that another eighth of an inch,
and that would have been way back in the bullpen.
And now Chris Chambliss, Chris is really overdue.
And I would just love to see him stroke one of the opposite field.
He has had one hit in 16 at bats in his playoff series,
looking for his first run batted in.
And what a play by Frank White.
He throws the second.
He's toppled that ball.
And the Jackson is arguing, Potsack has hurt as Jackson went into him hard.
It looked like Potsack bobbled that ball, but a great play by Frank White as he dove to his right.
Smothered the ball on a short hop and flipped to Potsack for the out.
And Potsack is down as Jackson went into him hard.
And it really looked like Potsack had bobbled the ball, but the umpire called him out.
That has to be the clutch play of the series right there.
Frank White, unbelievable diving backhand grab,
and then flipped to Potsack for the fourth play on Jackson.
Remenders play by Frank White.
Chris Chambliss just can't believe it.
He hit that ball as hard as he could hit it.
Potsack now up, and he's being helped off the field.
Yankees pick up a run, three hits, no errors, two men left.
Big hand for Potsack, and now at the end of 7 1 1 1 1,
innings is the Royal 3 and the Yankees 2.
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Alright, we're going into the bottom of the eighth inning on a disputed call at second base.
When it really looked like Potec had bobbled the ball as Jackson hit him hard,
it's the Royals three, the Yankees two,
and George Brett will lead it off.
He has dribbled, driven in a run and scored, bounced the first and won.
Mike Charest's first pitch is a curved low ball one.
Look ahead to the top of the ninth schedule, batters, Blair, Dent,
and Rivers is a foul out of play, one-on-one.
Next pitch, a bouncing ball is shot, Dent has it, fires the first one away.
That'll bring up Al Cowan, who has bounced the third single a left at an infield hit.
He's driven in two runs tonight, going right down to the wire.
This final game of the playoffs to see who gets in the World Series,
and it's not over yet by a long shot.
The Royals scored two in the first, with alert defensive play, they would not have scored any,
they scored one in the third, Yankees picked up one in the third, one in the eighth.
Pitch to Cowan's low ball one.
The kick and the pitch strike call one-on-one, Cowan took it, but it hit the outside corner.
And on deck, Amos Otis.
Cowan's got three hits in the first game, then the Yankees held him hitless until his second time up tonight.
Line drive left center, Rivers digging and makes the catch.
Man was that ball tag, that looked like a base hit that just took off.
Mickey Rivers made the play two out.
And now Amos Otis.
Otis had a bust single struck out and bounced out to second base.
Two out, nobody on in the bottom of the eighth, there's nobody leaving this ball box.
With a game like this, Pitch to Otis, high ball one.
This crowd is yelling themselves hoarse tonight. The 1-0 delivery, strike call one-on-one.
One ball, one strike, two out.
Otis taking a long time getting ready.
The kick and the pitch strike two call, one ball, two strikes.
Ready for the 1-2 delivery. Here it is, low it's 2-2.
Two balls, two strikes, two out. The kick, the pitch, oh, he just missed the outside corner.
3-2.
Three balls, two strikes, two out, nobody on bottom of the eighth, Royals in front three to two.
Pitch by Tauri, both four.
And half the watch Otis. That's only the second wall given up by Tauris.
Badapeep LaCocque will pinch it for John Wappen in the sixth and struck out.
Billy Martin's coming out.
And it looks like he's going to bring Sparky Lyle in.
We're waiting to see he has not signaled as yet.
Tauri's tying his shoelace out there.
Billy has not made a move yet.
And he's going to let Tauri stay in.
I'd say the mic has really been thrown that ball tonight.
So LaCocque steps in.
Two out, Otis at first. Billy went out to remind Tauris
who did not pay too much attention to Cookie Rojas back in the fourth
and Cookie stole a base.
Stretch by Tauris. There goes, they run a pitch out. Throw to second.
And he stays.
The throw was in the dirt. Randolph caught it, came up with the glove,
and by the time he came down, it tagged him on a pitch out, Otis steals second base.
Once the throw was a one hop at a Randolph, that was a ball to LaCocque.
And they're moving the outfield around towards left and left center.
Tauri is to the belt. The pitch foul and he's trying to hit to left field.
Strike one on LaCocque, one on one.
And the pitch down low, two and one.
Two men are out.
Stretch by Mike. Pitch low is three and one.
Cookie Rojas.
Royals leading three to two on the bottom of the eighth.
Three one pitch. Strike ball.
Three and two kind of a delayed strike ball by the plate umpire.
Full count.
Tauri is ready for big payoff pitch.
Here it is and he's, holy cow, he must have just missed with that one.
Here comes Billy Martin.
And he wants pocky lyle.
So that's going to be all for Mike Tauri and Mike pitched beautifully.
He pitched one, two, three, four.
In two thirds. Five and a third innings.
He allowed just three bases.
Walk three struck out four has not allowed any runs and pocky lyle will come on.
And the batter is Cookie Rojas.
Rojas has lined hard to left single, stole a base and then bounced a short.
There it is. And he run.
Gidry started this game.
And in the first inning, the Royals picked up two runs on three hits.
One of them a bunch single which didn't mean anything but ground ball to pocky dents.
Pocky had trouble getting it out of his glove, getting a good grip.
McRae beat it out and then Brett hit a line drive that Mickey Rivers kind of missed.
George went for a triple and slid in the third.
A big fight between Nettles and Brett.
Both teams erupted and were out in the field scuffling around.
And then Brett, when order was restored, scored on a high ball of more chop by Al Cowan.
Royals picked up another run in the third inning on a double by McRae.
A ground up by Brett that sent McRae to third where he scored on Al Cowan's single.
That was all a scoring for the Royals.
Yankees picked up a run in the third with two-out Rivers single, stole second.
Randolph walked and Munson lined a single right to drive in Rivers.
And they scored their second run in the eighth, a single by Randolph,
single by Penelope and a single by Jackson Pinchettie.
But then a great play by Frank White on the disputed call at second.
And Reggie Jackson said Pottek bobbled a ball when Reggie slid on Omaha
and Pottek had to be helped off the field.
But the umpire didn't change his calls.
Falkie's ready and Rojas will be stepping in.
All right, Otis at second, LaCocque at first.
And Cookie Rojas-Tabata, Falkie Lyall who was outstanding in last night's relief job.
He kicks, delivers, swing and a foul, strike one.
Falkie looking around at his defense, gets back on the rubber now, gets the sign from Munson.
And the pitch to Rojas, high one-on-one.
Ready for the one-one pitch.
And here it is, foul back and out of play.
Upstairs, one ball, two strikes.
Falkie doesn't like the feel of that ball.
Gets another one.
Walks in back of the mound, get a little rise in.
Big short a backer, looks the ball from his glove to his pitching hand, gets the sign from Munson.
And the pitch, struck on Maud, how do you like that Falkie Lyall?
He is unbelievable.
No runs, no hits, no errors, two men left at the end of eight.
It's the Royal 3 and the Yankees 2.
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Well, Dennis Lennon now who came on and beat the Yankees here at Royal Stadium in a starting role.
He pitched the full nine innings allowing just four hits and two runs as Camargo to do the pitching.
Whitey Herzog sending the right hander out there at the stadium.
He pitched nine innings and that on can't rebound that quickly.
He'll be working to Paul Blair and then Roy White is on deck as a pinch hitter for Bucky Dent.
And then Mickey Ribbon.
So Paul Blair has bounced the third twice and popped the second.
Lennon the right hander.
We're in the top of the ninth Yankees trail by a run. That's low ball one.
Dennis Lennon winds.
Blair went after a pitch out of the strike zone would have been two and all, but Paul was guessing and looking to hit one out of here.
A little over anxious.
And then the Yankee bench players getting up walking around.
One one pitch fastball fouled back on the screen. Strike two.
One ball two strikes.
And then the third.
Three Yankees two in the top of the ninth.
will not be able to reach it.
And it's still a ball and two
strikes.
Tension all the way through this
ballgame has been unbelievable.
Again the one to press he held
it to and to.
The job to hold up on that kind
of a pitch to ball to strike
nobody out nobody on top of the
ninth.
He's need to run the tie.
The pitch fastball foul that'll
be out of play back into the
seats.
When it doesn't like the feel of
that ball gets a new one from Nick
Bremigan.
Roy White is on deck.
All right the wind up by Linus
pitch is lying to set a field
and that ball is going to drop
in for a base hit.
Holy cow ball Blair hung in
there as well as I've seen him
hang in there all year off a
tough right hand pitcher.
And now Roy White's going to get
down and talk to Dick Houser for
these Yankees out there.
Never say that.
White has got his instructions
from Houser who got him from
Martin.
Roy White has been about five
times in the series with two base
hits.
And both of them have been
doubled on deck Mickey Rivers
with Willie Randolph to follow
the ball.
Brett is in a third.
La Cac holding first against
Paul Blair.
Which throw to first base.
Blair is back.
There's a banner hanging over
the fence near the bullpen they
want to pull back.
And they do.
All right.
Nobody out.
Paul Blair with a big clutch
single leading off the top of
the ninth.
White digging into the plate
here's the stretch by Leonard
pitch to White is outside ball
one.
Roy had not squared around a
bunch.
Mark Lutel and Larry Gora right
hander and a left hander are up
in the Royals bullpen Blair
leading off first Leonard wheels
and throws the first Blair is
back.
Nobody out another quick throw
and Blair is back.
Boy that was a good move that
time by Leonard Blair getting a
good lead in case of a ground
ball he wants to break up a
possible double play.
It's the Roy outside drop by
Porter no advances to a nothing
and now Leonard wants still
another baseball.
Two balls no strikes nobody out
Blair with a good lead at first
but he's got to be careful.
Leonard has that good move.
He comes down to the belt a
pitch to Roy high ball three
three and nothing and now
Porter called time and goes out
to talk with Dennis Leonard.
Anky players getting fidgety
down in the dugout.
Herman Munson loosening up his
leg.
Mickey Rivers goes down to
change bats comes out on deck
three balls no strikes on Roy
White Leonard sets and the pitch
strike ball three and one.
The Yankees play a little hit
and run here or something to
stretch by Leonard.
No Blair does not go swing.
All right a full count on Roy
White.
Leonard had missed the plate with
three straight pitches came in
with two strikes.
There goes Blair fouled back on
the screen Blair had some jump
I'd said it but of course Roy
White with two strikes on him
had to protect the plate.
So Roy stays alive and the Yankees
stay alive still nobody out and
the Yankees trailing by a run.
Leonard nods his head at the
sign.
Quick throw to first Blair jumps
Leonard had stepped on the mound
and stepped off almost stumbled
he comes set.
Blair is going fouled back and
out of play.
Boom man.
Tension is unbelievable.
Both teams battling to get in a
world series.
The biggest prize in baseball is
to get in the series.
Why so many times the playoffs
are much more exciting than the
world series.
I player with a good lead again.
Leonard said he's going again to
pitch both four.
Holy cow Roy White with a great
eye.
Runners that first and second
nobody out here comes Whitey
Herzog.
While Whitey Herzog is walking
out to the mound we'll pause for
station identification.
WMCA Strauss Communications in
New York.
This is Mel Allen.
Emery goes to play in the
places everyone else goes to as
well as the places no one else
goes to.
Emery the Air Force and Air
Prey.
Well Whitey Herzog has really
been over managing in this ball
game.
First he took split off out of
his pitch.
In a tremendous game put in Doug
Bird.
They cream bird for two bases
and a run.
Then he started this inning
with Dennis Leonard who had
pitched nine full innings just a
couple of days ago.
Leonard couldn't do it as Blair
Singleton Whitewalk.
Now he's bringing in Larry Goura
and Goura was cream pretty hard
by the Yankees in the game he
started.
Which was yesterday.
Larry Goura.
So Goura is out there and Mickey
Rivers will be the batter and
Mickey had four bases in
yesterday's game he's one for
four in this game with a stolen
base and a run scored.
And following Rivers is Rand
off and Monson with the
first base in the game.
And then he's going to play
Rivers is Rand off and Monson with
the Royals leading three to two
and the top of the ninth inning
and everything riding on this
last inning.
162 game schedule about thirty
five games in spring training.
The fifth playoff game.
And all for that pot of gold at
the end of the rainbow the World
Series.
Goura still taking his warm up
pitches.
Yankees with an outstanding
chance right here to other
fastest men on base and their
fastest men definitely at bat
Mickey Rivers players at second
white is at first.
I've had more coffee tonight.
This game goes in extra innings
Gene Michael's going to have to
finish on the air for me because
my voice was shot when I got
here.
All right Mickey Rivers steps
in with player had second and
white at first LaCocca is in at
third.
Look at this weird defensive
alignment.
Holy cow pot tech is playing
third base and Mickey Rivers
started a bunch takes it high
ball one.
I tell you this is quite a
defense and now how's this going
to talk with River because on
this play if Rivers Buster third
Brett's going to grab a turn
around throw to pot tech they'll
force Blair white the second
baseman is standing about two
steps from second base.
Pot Tech is closer to third than
he is to second when they let
Mickey swing away there's no
way they're going to double
Rivers up for sure.
Three to two the Royals lead
why never saw a defensive
alignment like this.
Here's a stretch.
Mickey swings and misses he went
after a bad pitch one on one.
That's it.
Herzog's got that infield so
confused they don't know what
they're doing out there.
The clock looks in at the bench
white looks in at the bench
stretch by Gore and Mickey runs
up the Bunt takes it low to him
one.
Oh I tell you you've got a bunch
at first base if he wants the
third they got a fourth easy at
third base and now how's it
yells Mickey Rivers out of the
box and says.
Swing away make don't but now
that might be a decoy.
We'll wait and see.
Larry Gore comes to the belt and
the pressure swings and files it
back on the screen.
And now Brett wants to know
what to do.
Pot Tech goes back to his normal
position.
I said you Mickey had a lot of
things going for him there that
weird defensive alignment.
A ground ball anyplace but he
had a ground ball anyplace but
right at Brett Blair leads his
second white leads at first two
and two on Mickey Rivers.
He's just got to get a piece of
it at a slow ground ball the
pitch and he gets a base at the
right field.
There's going to score.
What's going to go to third only
how Mickey Rivers come through
with that clutch.
Holy cow I got to say it again
the ball game is tied three
apper NIKE
But Mickey Rivers comes through with a clutch single a right field driving in Paul Blair.
That run is charged to Dennis Leonard who could be the losing pitcher in this game.
The Yankees have runners at first and third and Willie Randolph will be the batter.
And we got another pitcher coming on and we said that both clubs would have everybody in the bullpen
and Whitey Herzog's going to try and use them all tonight.
Let's see who's can anybody know who this is.
Mark Littell.
You know I don't even have room to put him down on my store.
Mark Littell.
One two three four this is the sixth royal pitcher of the night.
Hey Bart Lutzi you got any music you can play back in the studio give me a minute rest.
Well Gene Michael anything you'd like to say on the air.
Well if you want to sing now forget that.
This is unbelievable.
I want to talk about a team that did not give up all year under the most adverse conditions.
Press radio television.
Ball players fighting.
To come up win their divisional title to be the tough red sox and ballamore club.
Battles royals down to the last game.
Coming into the eighth inning trailing by two they picked up one in the eighth one of the
ninth the scores tied and now they got one of that first and third with nobody out.
We're not conceding the game to the Yankees but to be able to come back
with a partisan crowd rooting on every pitch they are very quiet right now I can tell you that.
And again the Yankees nothing but speed out there whiter third rivers that person ran off the
batter and the infield is playing halfway which gives the Yankees another advantage.
So Mark Luttrell comes to the belt checking the runners the pitch to Rolly Randolph high ball
one on Dick Thurman Munson Reggie Jackson doing some cheerleading on the bench boarded he
got a clutch pinch hit single Luttrell steps off the rubber Randolph steps out of the box.
Stretched by Luttrell and the pitch low on a way almost a wild pitch it's doing nothing.
Suddenly all the pressure is on the royals as the Yankees had nine innings of constant pressure
on them three free the score stretch by Luttrell and the first ball is in their strike ball two months.
All right rivers off first wide off third
Luttrell checking them these steps back off the mound worried about Mickey Rivers over there.
All right Willie Randolph back in the batter's box as Luttrell sets
and the pitch outside and high three and one.
Oh Billy Martin with a lot of options right now nobody out he could send rivers on a hit and run
he could let Randolph take Randolph swing away
three balls one strike nobody out Luttrell to the belt and the pitch and that'll get him in deep
the center field Rivers is going to tag up and all way back on the warning track Otis catches
it white scores easily Rivers easily in a second the Yankees lead four to three look at that Yankee bench
going bananas Willie Randolph hit one four hundred feet that Otis had to go back to the track and catch
and the Yankees are out in front and that run by the way is charged to Dennis Leonard so he is
the pitcher of record right now and the batter is Thurman Munson Munson is one for four with a
single and a run batted in and it looks like they're gonna are they gonna put them on wait a minute
Porter is saying something to Luttrell with Rivers he's saying watch Rivers at second base that's
what he's saying he'll pick your pockets you know keep an eye on him man he got the second before
white cross on plate all right the stretch by Luttrell and the pitch to Munson bouncing ball
a short Rivers goes what that's grow to first low but scooped up by LaTox Munson is out Rivers is
at third there are two away and now Lou Pinella Lou has doubled single bounce the third fly to right
one more run would look beautiful on my lineup card
Mickey Rivers at third I don't believe I've ever seen Mickey try and steal home
for Gail and Cisco is coming out now remember Reggie Jackson went in for clip Johnson so Jackson
remained the designated hitter and Reggie is on deck Gail and Cisco talking with George Brett
Darrell Porter and Mark Luttrell and now Dick has it comes in to talk with Lou Pinella
modern meetings going on all over this ballpark Jerry Walker and Gene Michael
having a big meeting at the bottom of the night everybody goes back
and Lou Pinella throws his gum away as he usually does when he comes up to bat
and Luttrell will pitch from a stretch position to keep an eye on Rivers
is two out two runs in the Yankees late four to three
stretch by Luttrell
and the pitch to Pinella bouncing ball towards the hole Brett one handed to his left
throw the first half and throw all he's down he threw it six feet over the Cogshead River scores
and there's that run I wanted and the Yankees lead five to three and my voices come back I can't
believe it an error by George Brett and going to second base is Lou Pinella and the Yankees are
out I can't believe my voice is back the Yankees are out front five to three that run is charged to
Larry Gore and suddenly a lot of silence here at Royal State Reggie Jackson who got one of the
biggest hits of the year for him and the Yankees when he pinched it in the eighth to driving the
runners up there and they'll add second which Sir Reggie swings and fouls it off strike one
on deck Greg Nettles
Yankees have scored three times here in the top of the ninth
they lead five to three Luttrell kicks delivers a ground ball and white to his left pass it
throws Jackson out Reggie hit the ball well but the Yankees pick up three runs on two bases
one big error one man left at the end of eight and a half the Yankees five in the Royal Street
all right we're going to the bottom of the ninth inning the scheduled batters are Darryl Porter
Frank White and Freddie Patek and on the mound is Farky Lyles
Farky has pitched to one man in this game and struck him out that was cookie Rojas
Darryl Porter has singled
by deep to center Micky Rivers made a great play on him and flying to left
Farky Lyles
I had left hand hitting Darryl Porter is in there Lyles in the wind up his pitch popped up on the
left side Fred Stanley who took over for Bucky Dan is out and makes the catch and it's one out
the chicken kind of sneaked in there lucky dent was pinch hit four and so Stanley went out to play
short one out and there goes the helmet out of the dugout I think it's why the Hurzad helmet
Frank White that's why the left struck out bounced the third
the wind up by Lyles and the pitch is right in there strike one ball
that whole Yankee benches up Lyles winds again
and the swing in a miss like two Yankees five Royal scree we're in the bottom of the ninth inning
White taking a little time now he's back in
Farky Kits delivers lined up base hit the center field
one Micky Rivers that was a tricky play by Micky it looked like he wanted White to think he had
lost the ball fired it in so Farky Lyles had gotten two quick strikes on Frank White
and you've got to slide her up a little bit ready protect bounces short foul to the catcher bounce
the third fly to right time is called
Yankees lead by two
good drawing Gulliter up in the Yankee bullpen is a swing in a miss by pot thick strike one
and that's where spark he's got to keep that slider he does it 95 percent of the time once in a while
the old hand one is he did the white
miles sets again the kick and the pitch swinging a miss strike two nothing in two on little freddy
pot deck gambler's holding first against Frank White
stretched by sparky the kick the pitch bouncing ball of third nettles goes to second one
back to first double play and a full game is over and the Yankees are in the world series
flip Johnson lost issue and they are all over sparky lyles you talked about a comeback this
has got to be one of the greatest comebacks in all of baseball history and by the way for you
Yankee fans reserve bleachers seats for games one and two of the world series will go on sale
tomorrow morning at the Yankee stadium advanced ticket I'm not even on oh I'm on from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. four tickets each limit four per game perc
person I mean this I'm in a state of shock here the Yankees came back from first a two nothing deficit then a three one deficit
to win the ball game unbelievable finish the Yankees win it five to three and once again the Royals
are beaten by the Yankees in the playoffs look at this Butterfield and Michael shaking hands
oh I got a shake hands with the stick I wanted said that's one of the greatest thrill I've ever
had in baseball really unbelievable what are we gonna do
yeah let's go into a commercial going to the commercial back there while I regain my wits
oh the score yes the final score the Yankees five and the Royals three
well we are back here very very wide ballpark but in that Yankee clubhouse right now the ball players
and deservedly so are going wild I'd say to this club you've got to give Billy Martin
if he doesn't get manager of the year I'll be greatly surprised I know Earl Weaver's going to get a lot of votes
but if they know what Billy Martin had to go through this year and these ball players who
finally put it all together put aside all their differences all their petty bickering
played as a team for that last month of the season and then this playoffs and a comeback in a game
like this that meant so much three to one deficit scoring a run in the eighth and three in the ninth
to win it five to three and really I got to say Whitey Herzog did a great job all year up till
tonight when he over managed so break but they can only be one winner gotta be a loser in the
Yankees of the winners so that's it I want to thank all you fans who've listened so faithfully
all year long this might be the last time you hear the old scooter on the Yankee broadcast
but for Frank Messer Bill White and Dan Bartolucci this is Bill Rosetto saying the final score
the Yankees five and the Royals three the executive producers of New York Yankee baseball
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