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Los Angeles Dodgers faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday, October 18, 1977.
Tommy Lasorda's Dodgers had a big win in Game 5 at home to avoid elimination after Billy Martin's Yankees won two close games in Los Angeles in Games 3 and 4.
In this Game 6, the Dodgers sent Game 2 winner Bert Hootendt to the mound to face the Yankees Game 3 winner Mike Torres.
This audio recording is from the radio broadcast featuring announcers Bill White and Wynne Elliott.
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All the stages set for the sixth game of this World Series and the best of four out of seven, only three teams have won the World Series after being down three to one in games.
And the Dodgers were just that down three to one to the Yankees. They won in Los Angeles and now they are one down to the Yankees as the sixth game is coming up.
The teams that have scored first in this series have won four of the five games and they have won the last four straight.
And the Dodgers, if you're interested in numbers, have never lost a World Series in an odd numbered year. They won in 1959, 1963 and 1965.
And here tonight it's going to be Bert Hootendt on the mound for the Dodgers hoping to keep their hopes alive.
Hootendt pitched nine innings in a winning ball game earlier in the series and he allowed only one run on five hits while striking out eight and walking one.
Hootendt in the regular season had a record of 12 wins and seven losses and going for the Yankees, Mike Torres, Mike with a record of 17 and 13 in the regular season
and he also pitched a complete game, a winning effort for the Yankees.
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All the New York Yankees had a press conference earlier this afternoon in a statement by Gay Paul, president of New York Yankees.
He said, we are pleased to announce that Billy Martin will continue as Yankee manager and has been rewarded with a substantial bonus and recognition of the fine job he has done.
We hope this will put to rest the unfounded rumors that a change was about to be made.
Billy's contract runs through the 1979 season.
Billy Martin said, I'm very pleased and happy after talking with Gay Paul about this year, next year and 79.
Yankees were extremely good to me and everything is going to be great.
I want to thank George Steinbrenner, the top partner in the Yankees,
Gabe and the New York Yankees for this kind reward and expression of confidence.
And of course, my warm thanks to our players whose great performances have made this all possible.
Well, that's the way it sets up. That should get Billy Martin a little bit easier as far as he is concerned.
I don't think it has much to do with the players, but Billy Martin has been given a bonus and a vote of confidence.
We talked with Lou Pinella of the New York Yankees. He's having quite a season about his observations on Bert Hooten and this game.
I think that Bert Hooten surprises a little bit the first time with his good fastball.
We didn't think he threw that hard from our Scouting Reports, but he pitched an excellent game against us.
I think most of our hitters were more preoccupied with his knuckle curve than they were with the fastballs.
And I think that this time around, you'll see the hitters looking more for the fastball.
If he makes a good pitch with the curveball, you're not going to hit it anyway, so I look for it.
If he hangs it, you should be able to hit it off the fastball.
Lou, did you find anything special about the knuckle curve that it breaking a pattern or just break down and out or down and in?
Well, the early part of the ball game, the knuckle curve was quick and it was breaking down and away.
Towards the middle part and latter part of the game, it slowed down somewhat and was hanging a little more.
We've been talking with Lou Pinella. Lou, of course, having an outstanding series. Thank you very much, Lou.
Thank you, Rob.
Well, the crowd is filing in and it looks as though we'll have another standing room only crowd on this very nice evening for baseball.
It's a little bit chilly. The temperature will be down in the high forties and also there's a little bit of a breeze going, but not too bad.
As we get set for the ball game, the Yankees are going with their same lineup, with the exception of the pitcher that they used in the opening game of this World Series.
And the Dodgers have made just one change from their opening lineup. They are playing Rick Mundy in center field in place of a rookie Glenn Burke who started in the first game of this series.
The national anthem will be sung by Robert Merrill and Joe DiMaggio will be the man who will throw out the first ball.
Don Sutton pitched the Dodgers back to even in the LCS, the league championship series and back to New York where they tend to fall one over the Yankees in LA.
And the fifth game, here's what he thought of Bert Hootens chances tonight.
Well, I don't think that it bothered me that much on Sunday. I think that I have the approach to ball game that to those kind of games that it's more fun to play when there's something on the line.
And having watched Bert Hootens for the last couple of years, I think that he is a better pitcher when there's something on the line too.
So I think we're in good hands tonight.
That's good news for Dodger fans and of course you are playing in this ballpark.
Hootens with that knuckle curve throws a lot of ground balls as Casey Stengel would say so the ballpark shouldn't make a whole lot of difference to him.
No, I don't think so and I think he's a tight pitcher that if he gets behind with the curve ball and they don't swing at it, he can pitch up and away with enough velocity to use that straight away center field in those alleys where you really have to hit a tee shot to get it out of here.
We talked with Lou Pinella and he said that he was surprised by the velocity of the fastball that Bert Hootens threw and that he felt that Yankees would be sitting on the fastball more and not worrying about the knuckle curve.
Well, who knows if that's a con job that he's trying to get us to believe that he's going to do it or if it's a truth.
I think Bert Hootens gets underestimated by a lot of people. He has three good pitches. He has a change up that not too many people are really aware of who don't see him every day and he knows how to pitch.
So like I say, I think we're in good hands.
Talking with Don Sutton. Don, thank you very much.
Okay, Ralph.
We'll continue in just a moment.
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All the New York Yankees are being introduced right now. And of course, they get the thunderous applause from these partisan Yankee fans.
The Dodgers have just been introduced. And the Yankees are getting set to go here at home at Yankee Stadium in the sixth game of the seven game series.
If it goes one more, we'll have seven.
We'll return to the 1977 World Series in one minute on the CBS Radio Network. This is Ralph Kiner, CBS Radio Sports.
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Hello again from Yankee Stadium, where CBS Radio Sports is pleased to present the sixth game of the 1977 World Series between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers.
With Ross Porter and I'm Win Elliot. And things are just about ready to get underway as Bob Merrill sings the National Anthem.
Join in the singing of our National Anthem, which will be left by Wepis Merrill.
And his red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
We'll be right back to Yankee Stadium after this word.
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Game 6 Yankee Stadium, win earlier with Ross Porter, we're just about to get underway and so the last of the necessities, the umpires at home plate, John McSherry, first base, Nester Shilak, second base, Ed Sudahl, Larry McCoy's at third base, left field, it's Jerry Dale's area, and Jim Evans is patrolling right field.
And we're awaiting the toss of the first pitch, the ceremonial, that'll get this game underway, Game 6. I suspect you know that the Yankees have the lead in games, 3-2.
And I tell you that in all World Series, a team trailing by one game at this point in the series, one out of four, so the odds are four to one against the Dodgers if you want to put it that way. And I see him now in the Yankee dugout, the greatest living ball player, Joe DiMaggio.
Comes out, waves his hand, you hear it, coming out is actually going to the mound. That's the first time I've ever seen that.
Joe Di is actually going to the pitchers mound to deliver the first pitch and there's a little embarrassed grin on his face. Ben's down, not quite to the Rosenback, here it comes. God loves it.
You know, Joe for all the things he's done in the world of baseball, always has that shy, little embarrassed grin on his face. He's never quite relaxed in front of the public as he was in the batter's box or loping around in center field.
It's a very attractive little grin and there it was and he had a ball. Insofar as Joe Di can express the fact that he's having a ball, awfully nice guy, very contained however, contained to the point when he thought he had had it in baseball that he couldn't perform as the greatest in center field.
He packed it in, he didn't wait for anybody to tell him or anybody to offer him any lesser or offer him any more. He said, I've had it as long as I can't perform the way the public has come to accept my performance, I'm through.
So that was Joe Di through under field but obviously never through, at least in Yankee Stadium here and I suspect all over the world at baseball. And the Yankees take the field. It'll by Mike Torres, who is one of the four pitchers to go all the way in this series.
That's the first time that's ever happened or ever happened since 1971 that is. Torres and Gidry for the Yankees, Houten and Sutton for the Dodgers. And so it'll be two guys who went all the way.
Houten and Torres, I might tell you that Torres with three days rest prefers it that way. In his winning streak of seven games earlier in August, that's the way he did it. As for Sutton, he's plenty rested. Whether it's a nickel curve, a knuckle curve or whatever, he's had five days to rest.
So this is the game the Dodgers must win. You must be tired of hearing that. And this is the game that the Yankees feel, I think secretly, that it's got to knock out those guys from West Coast today or it may be too late.
It's what I said out in California. When you've thrown your best punch, he wobbles the knee shake, but he doesn't go down. You know, it's going to be a long night. Well, this may be the longest of all series, the seventh game type.
Torres is out there warming up. About the seventh game. In 1963, the last time these two guys met, that is the Dodgers and the Yankees, it was the shortest possible of all series. Los Angeles won it, four nothing.
Koufax vested or Koufax vested forward in the fourth game, and that was the famous game when Junior Gilliam hit the ball to third base, boyard threw it to Pepitone. Pepitone lost it in the sun, Gilliam went to third, and on the next play, sacrifice fly, he came in and that was the winning margin, two to one.
The Yankees, of course, have a large margin in play against the Dodgers, both from Brooklyn and Los Angeles. The Brooklyn style, they beat the Dodgers seven series to one. However, the Los Angeles group holds the edge in World Series play against the Yankees, as I've just explained.
So this is the tenth. The Yankees lead it at the moment, three to two, and everybody's tense with excitement here. The only thing that's changed here in New York, it's nighttime, it's on the cool side, and the cheers you will hear coming from the Yankee fans.
And by my side, ready to get underway with play by play, Ross Porter.
Thank you very much, Gwynale, good evening everyone from Yankee Stadium, New York, where over 56,000 have crowded in on a cool autumn night. The temperature might be in the high 40s by the time this game is over.
The wind blowing out toward left center field, as Mike Torres, the winner of Game 3, looks down to Thurman Munson and Dodger second baseman, Davey Loeb, stands in, and the sixth game is about to begin.
Torres to the wind up, and the right handers first pitch is high for a ball, one ball and no strikes. Torres got Loeb's all four times he faced him in Los Angeles last Friday night, Davey 3 for 20 in the series.
He swings and misses a good fastball from Torres, and it's one ball and one strike. Torres lost Game 3 of the American League Championship Series in Kansas City, 6-2, but he pitched five and a third of an inch of shutout relief in the deciding game of the playoffs.
There's a ground ball by Loeb, shot the bucket in it short and he throws him out.
So one away for the Dodgers, that'll bring on shortstop Bill Russell. Russell like Loeb's was all for four against Torres the first time they faced in this World Series.
Russell overall in the series is 4-4-23.
Torres beat the Dodgers Friday night in Los Angeles 5-3, he allowed a 3 run home to Dusty Baker, but he struck out 9, breaking ball for a called strike to Russell.
Nationally gun fired John McSherry working behind the plate tonight.
Torres is ready, the right hander winds and delivers, and Russell grounds went out to the second baseman Willie Randolph, a two hopper, he feels it and throws out the Dodgers shortstop.
So two infield grounders off the bats of Loeb and Russell, two out and nobody on and up comes Reggie Smith, the bat left hander against Torres.
Ross, one of the indications as to how effective Torres might be tonight is the speed with which he pitches, not the speed of his pitch, but how frequent his pitches come.
So far he's wasted no time and that's a good sign for Torres.
Torres up to the wind up now and the pitch to Smith, a swing and a miss, a good high fastball. Reggie was 1-4-3 against Mike.
In game three, Torres retired the last 11 Dodgers to face him the other night.
He's working with three days rest, no wind up delivery, Smith grounds one to the left side, get back hands, it bobbles it, no play.
Smith will be aboard, Bucky Dent the shortstop had to come back two strides to his right to get the high hopper, batted it down and we'll wait and see what the scoring will be.
It'll be an error on Bucky Dent.
So that's the third error of the World Series on the Yankees. Remember they didn't have any until the game in Los Angeles Sunday and then there were errors committed by Greg Nettles and Lou Pinella.
We've only had four errors in the series. So Smith is the first base runner of game six and that'll give Ron Sey at chance here in the first inning.
Sey 0-3 against Torres, 3-4-18 overall in the series.
Sey takes high and away for a ball.
Two out and runner at first, no score just the start of the ball game.
Torres to the stretch, looks at Smith, the pitch to say, fouled on. No the ball gets away from Munson and down to second goes Reggie Smith.
So there was no foul tip, the ball bounced off to the left of the plate, Munson went over to get it.
But Smith trots in the second base and the Dodgers have a managed scoring position on Thurmond Munson's pass ball.
We count to say one ball and one strike.
Sey has appeared now in ten World Series games including 1974.
He's only 171 in the series in those two years.
The stretch by Torres, the 1-1 pitch.
Slider misses outside ball to two balls and one strike.
Sey during the series has only three hits and he's hitting just 167.
But Ron has been retired on outfield flies nine different times.
Here's the 2-1 pitch.
Low ball Thurry, Thurry in one.
On deck, Steve Garvey.
More runs have been scored in the first inning this year than in any other inning during the series.
Dodgers have five, the Yankees have four.
The pitch to Sey.
Low ball four, the Dodgers have two on with two out.
And this in general has been a two out series so much of the havoc has been raised by each club.
Now in this particular inning, Thurry seemed to be going along very well.
He threw three ground balls with the third one to Reggie Smith, bounced on the lip of the grass,
fooled Dent and put him on and now they based on balls with the pass ball in between and the Dodgers are threatening.
Steve Garvey's had seven hits in the series, the same as Thurman Munson of the Yankees, they've been the top men there.
Garvey hitting 350 as he stands in.
Torres has pitches low for a ball, one ball and no strikes.
So Torres, who should have been out of the inning, now has to work out of a scrape with Smith at second,
safe on an error by Dent and Sey aboard on five pitches on a walk.
The next one to Garvey, low ball two, two and oh.
Surprisingly win in this World Series so far, almost half of the runs,
20 of the 42 we've seen have been scored in the first three innings.
Well it shows you what Jettards will do.
Garvey waiting, Torres at the belt, but two oh pitch.
Blind rod, base set down the right field line into the corner. That'll score Smith, say halfway to third.
As Jackson picks up the ball, Sey is 10 feet from third turning to coming home.
The throw will be nowhere, two to nothing Dodgers as Sey scores and Garvey winds up at third base with a triple.
So Garvey conked it right over the bag down the right field line scoring.
Smith and Sey, two unearned runs, but the Dodgers lead it to nothing.
Steve Garvey and analyzing the success of the Yankees early in the series says they're smart hitters.
They go with the pitch. They don't try to necessarily put it in the stands.
If it's outside, they go with it. Muntzin did that. Jackson did that.
So Steve came up and put his bat where his mouth had been.
Chambles was playing him way off the line and had no chance.
Here's Dusty Baker taking a fastball inside from Torres for a ball, one ball and no strikes.
Baker collected three hits on Sunday and as we pointed out he had a three run homer off Torres in game three.
The next one to Dusty outside ball two, two and 0.
So with two out in the first inning and Torres sailing along, he got a ground ball to the shortstop, but Dent bobbled it.
Sey walked and Garvey chased home two runs with a triple in the right field corner.
Baker takes low ball three, three and 0 and Thurman Muntzin walks out in front of the plate hollers something to Mike Torres.
If you're going to lose the plate, the best place to lose it however is low.
He didn't quite get it low enough nor far enough outside to Garvey and that's why the Dodgers with the two on run, on run run.
Let's see if they turn Baker loose. He's taking and it cost him right in there three and one.
Dodgers got two runs here in the first inning of game one, but the Yankees came back to win that one in 12, four to three.
The three one pitched to Baker, pop foul back three and two.
Torres out of Topeka, Kansas came to the Yankees in April from Oakland and won 14 ball games for New York.
He lost 12.
Torres won seventh straight though between the last of July and the last of August.
Garvey down the line from third, now time out for the moment.
Torres checking something with plate on by John McSherry now back up on top and Baker waiting.
The one end up in the three two pitch, strike three call, slider got the outside corner, Baker yells at McSherry,
but Torres works himself back from a three and zero deficit to get the Dodger left fielder.
However Los Angeles breaks on top with two runs, one hit, Garvey's two run triple, a big error by Bucky Dent.
And at the end of a half inning in game six, the Dodgers two and a Yankees coming up to face Bert Houghton for the first time.
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If you've joined us late, the Dodgers scored twice in the top half of the first inning, two on-earn runs.
Torres got the first two batters, Dossley, with ground balls, Reg Smith hit one of the shortstop Bucky Dent, it took a fairly bad bounce.
He foosled it nevertheless, then Mike tried to be careful with say through four low ones.
Steve Garvey, who had been the leading hitter in terms of number of hits the Dodgers had, but only had one RBI to his credit.
Then, pickled a low outside ball right down the right field line, he went the third, the two Dodgers in front of him scored and that was it.
Dick Tidwell started to get up in the Yankee bullpen, but that was obviated by the fact that John Dusty Baker struck off.
And so it is, two nothing, as Bert Houten now comes to see if he can do it again.
He met the Yankees here and shut them out, or rather and defeated them, he went the entire nine innings, he had an easy time of it,
because the starter in that game, Catfish Hunter, was touched up for five runs in the first three innings and the game was over quite early.
However, Bert has been a consistent pitcher for the Dodgers all year round.
He's had five days rest, let's see what he does as Mickey Rivers comes to bat for the Yankees Ross.
This marks the third straight time at Yankee Stadium, all the games played in New York this year, that the Dodgers have scored two runs in the first inning.
It wasn't enough in game one, it was enough in game two when Houten won six to one with a complete game five hitter, a night in which he struck out eight.
The first pitch to Rivers is a pop flight on the left field line, Baker coming fast, Russell going out, Baker near the foul line, reaches across the line and makes the catch.
Good catch by Dusty Baker, lost the hat and it took the left field umpire Jerry Dale to tell us about it, since Baker went out of sight,
but a good one handed catch by Baker, apparently in foul territory, about about a strike.
I think he actually tumbled in over the low barrier there, the low stands in his momentum, carried him over.
Yes, he did win over, it was sort of a half gainer that he did into the stands, but he had it.
Here's what he ran off the Yankee, second to aceman, taking the knuckle curve low for the ball, one ball and no strikes.
Houten in game two against the Yankees, retired 14 of the last 15 New York batters to face him.
Randolph takes the low ball too, two balls and no strikes.
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Game six, Yankees leading three games to two, the Dodgers ahead the night two nothing.
Houten swings to the wind up and the two oh pitched to Randolph is high, ball three, three and oh.
Houten has had a strikeout walk ratio this year of two and a half to one.
Here's the three oh pitched to Randolph on the way, called strike, outside corner of the letters three and one.
One out, nobody on, bottom of the first, the three one pitch.
Hutsmash to the left, the Russell he planks it down, turns and throws the Garvey in time, good play by Russell on a hot shot by Randolph.
Two away in the New York first, just as the Dodgers had two out with nobody on in the top of the inning when they erupted for two.
Thurman Munson, who's had a good series with seven base hits and 21 advance, strives up to the plate from the right side.
Munson went one for four against Houten the first time they faced last week.
One of the reasons Houten was so effective against the Yankees in game two was the fact that he got Rivers 0 for four and Randolph 1 for four.
He kept the two leadoff mid off the base bats.
First win to Munson is low for a ball, one ball and no strikes.
Bert Houten has not lost a game in over two months, it's been ten weeks.
August the 11th, the last time he fell Cincinnati beat him.
The 1-0 pitch to Munson, tapped out to the shortstop, Russell charges, gloves, one handed, throws the Garvey, pulled him off the Garvey came back and tagged the bag.
Munson is gone and so are the Yankees in order.
And at the end of one inning in game six, Dodgers two, Yankees nothing.
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Going into the top of the second hit, Yankee Stadium gained number six.
It's Dodgers two to nothing over the Yankees.
Mike Torres against Burt Hoot and both pitchers pitched well.
Torres victimized by an error at short, a walk and then a triple down the right field line by Steve Garvey.
Both runs scoring unearned.
Hootin had no problems with the top three in the Yankee batting order, a foul fly off of rivers and then two ground balls.
Now the Dodgers to bat for their half of the second inning.
Rick Mundy, Steve Yeager and Burt Hootin will face Mike Torres as we go to the second.
Hootin only threw eight pitches in the first inning to the Yankees.
Mundy 0-4-4 against Torres in game three is 1-4-7 in the series.
Mundy's had the last two games off. He hits a ground ball to Chambliss at first.
Crystal carried over the bag, one away.
Steve Yeager has been a pleasant addition to the Dodger attack here in the playoffs and also in the World Series.
Yeager hit 16 home runs during the regular season.
But here in the World Series, he has five runs battered in.
He and Dusty Baker had the most of the two.
Any two players in the series were either team.
And Yeager drove in four of those five runs. Sunday the Dodgers did him in game five.
The three-run homer of Don Gallop the Big Blow giving the Dodgers a five-nothing lead in the fourth inning that day.
Here's a hopper foul up along third.
Preston Gomez feels that he's coaching a third again for the Dodgers.
Jim Gilliam, who celebrated his 49th birthday yesterday in the coaching lines at first for Los Angeles.
Two nothing Dodgers as Steve Garvey went the other way in the first inning.
Ripped one past the first base bag into the corner, scores Smith and Sey.
Yeager takes low for a ball, one ball and one strike.
There have been 39 World Series which reached the sixth game and in 26th of the 39, two-thirds of them,
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There's a roller up along third. It goes foul in the last 10 feet before Nettles feels it.
So Yeager will have to come back to count one and two.
Yeager is no gazelle yet he would have beaten that one out had it been fair.
And I notice that Greg Nettles in regards to the temperature tonight in between pitches puts both his hands in his armpits
to keep them warm and of course the batters come out thoroughly garb in those golf gloves.
This is not Los Angeles weather.
It does Ross mentioned earlier it probably will get down to about 40, no precipitation,
but there'll be a little creaky out there.
Torres ahead on the count of Yeager, one ball and two strikes. The pitch got him swinging.
Torres gets his second strike out. He closed out Baker in the first inning.
Now with two away, Bert Houten will come up.
Houten was 0 for three as a batter in game two.
Houten, 27 year old, former University of Texas All-America.
Once pitched a no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs.
And he said that was on a cold night against Philadelphia.
Torres pitches Luke to right field.
Reggie Jackson coming up. He's there now. One hand zip to the final out.
Torres didn't have to throw too many pitches himself in the second inning.
He gets the Dodgers easily at the end of an inning and a half.
Dodgers two, Yankee is nothing.
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Well, as we look out at the field and we hear the murmur of the crowd in the back,
Hooten has taken his time getting back to the Dodger dugout,
make his way to the mound.
Now he's manicuring the spikes because he was the last batter up,
though he didn't run very vigorously on that little loop or to right field.
Nevertheless, it's always the pitcher's prerogative to take his time,
presumably to conserve his energy.
He's the guy that does the most work out there.
Right now, he's doing a deep knee bend or two.
Hooten is had a very successful season. You'd never know it when you talk to him.
Or does he react that way? I understand his nickname is happy.
Give him to him by Tom LaSorda, basically because he never smiles.
Well, when you're winning, you don't have to smile.
LaSorda, for instance, will tell you, interminably, most of the time,
that he loves his job and he loves his players and he loves the game.
I had a chance to ask him, has he ever had a losing season?
I was wondering how much of a lover he would be there.
He looked at me and surprised, mocked, surprised and said, losing season, what's that?
Okay, he maintained that he did.
Well, you hear the response to the right fielder, number 44, Reggie Jackson.
Well, LaSorda wasn't exactly honest with you,
when because he did have a club that spoke hand in 1971 that finished third
and lost seven more than they won.
He's had winners everywhere else.
I would suspect he would maintain a spoke hand aside,
that that wasn't part of the United States or something.
Reggie Jackson has had five hits in the last three series games
and he scored two runs in each of those three.
He takes a high pitch from Hootin for a ball, one and a half.
Reggie's six for 17 in the series, three runs battered in.
Jackson with two home runs.
The next one from Hootin, inside for ball two, two and a half.
Jackson was 0 for four against Hootin, the first time they faced here last Wednesday night.
Two balls and no strikes to Reggie Jackson leading off in the last of the second.
Hootin's pitches alone outside ball three, three and a half.
Hootin finished third this year in the National League and earned a run average.
He wound up the year at 2.62.
Only John Candelaria of the Pirates and Tom Siever of the Mets and then Reds had a better ERA.
The 3-0 pitch to Reggie, a high ball four and four pitches. Jackson walks.
And the fact that he gets on base at this particular instant
makes him the most popular man in town.
He's been quoted, misquoted, listened to, unlistened to.
You know the story.
Chris Chambliss was also 0 for four against Hootin in game two.
Chris has had five hits in the series and 20 at bats.
Bird Hootin out of a stretch.
The pitch to the Yankee first baseman is low.
Ball one.
So Hootin is missed on five straight, opening up the second inning.
Dodgers two Yankees nothing with that one hit in the game, a two run triple
over the first base bag by Steve Garvey of the Dodgers in the first inning.
The next one to Chambliss sets a strike on the inside corner at the belt
and it's one ball and one strike.
I suspect the Yankee stadium crowd is trying to emulate the veteran stadium crowd
in Philadelphia when Hootin was presumably upset by the constant noise.
Now the stretch by Hootin. He looks at Jackson.
There goes Reggie Abloh. The pitch is low and outside and Jackson comes back to the bat.
Two balls and one strike to Chris Chambliss with Greg Nettles on deck.
Hootin is ready working quickly.
Two one pitch to Chambliss.
A drive the right center field indeed.
Way back going, going a home run for Chris Chambliss and we're tied to two.
That's the first real blow that Chris Chambliss has struck in the series.
He's got the back part of the bat on it and smashed it 385 feet into the right center field stand.
And the Yankee bet is a whirlpool of activity.
And Tom Lasorda, no that's Red Adams, comes out to speak to the Dodger pitcher.
I noticed just before Chambliss took his place at bat, Billy Martin was up on the top step.
We're dragging furiously, fake and false and real signs, giving him the rolling fist, the fight sign.
Billy, as you probably have heard, got a vote of confidence from owner Steinbrenner and General Manager Gabe Paul this afternoon.
A bonus for the year. He will be retained for the remaining two years of his contract.
Red Adams has come out to settle down for aided and abetted in part by the Yankee Stadium, which has thrown the unrolling kind of tissue paper up.
And the stadium group has had to go out and clear the field and the den has not let up as it is now 2 to no outs second inning Yankee's at bat and Ross, who is it?
In the associate's throwing win in the Dodger bullpen, Chris Chambliss, who had 17 home runs during the American League season, has noted it with a two run blast to right center.
Greg Nettles takes the knuckle curve low for a ball, one ball and no strikes.
Houten only gave up 14 home runs during the National League season. That was the second low total on the Dodger staff.
Tommy John gave up only 12.
Here is Nettles 4 for 17 in the series. The ground smashed at Garvey. One handed behind the bag and carries it over one away.
So Nettles ripped it, but right at Garvey and we have one gone in the New York second inning.
And this is Lou Ponella. That is the, ooh, you hear in the background. That's Lou, not Boo.
A knuckle ball, whether it's a curve or just an inexplicable dancer, when it doesn't break is duck soup.
And it looked like Chambliss caught one that didn't do any breaking.
He got all of it and drove it at least 400 feet into the right center field seats.
Lou Ponella, one for three against Houten in the first outing between the two fouls one back for a strike.
Ponella, 6 for 19 on the series, but Lou fighting a mild slump at the moment. He's 0 for 7.
2-2, bottom of the second.
Bird hit into the wind up and the 0-1 pitch to Ponella, high pop fly on a middle of the infield, and a shot a right center.
Reggie Smith coming in calling for it, loses the cap and makes the catch.
Two away as Ponella pops up to Smith. Here's shortstop Bucky Dent.
Bucky Dent.
It was Dent's two out error in the first inning, which set up the Dodger two run salvo.
Dent, Boblin, Reggie Smith hopper, and then after Ron Saywalk, Garvey whacked the triple down the right field line to chase in two.
Houten to the wind up to pitch the Dent, knuckle curve swung on a missed strike one.
Dent, 1 for 2 against Houten in the series and 5 for 17 against Dodger pitching.
Crowds over from the right side, hits the ground ball at the Davey looks.
Two hopper, Davey's got it and throws him out.
So Houten settles down after Chambliss' two run homer.
Dent locks the ball again. Two runs, one hit, nobody left.
At the end of two innings in game six, Dodger's two Yankees two.
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Okay, we're about to go to the top of the third and both pitchers now are even.
Mike Torres was touched for a triple after an era and a walk that put him in jeopardy.
Then Bert Houten having walked Jackson, a home run by Shambles.
So it was really only one hit apiece.
You may missus Carter came all the way from California.
He's really wrapped up in a series win and this Carter is here to see game six.
As he was for games four and five in Los Angeles.
Another warm welcome for another guest seated near home.
The Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Griffin Bell.
Attorney General Griffin Bell is also here at Yankee Stadium tonight along with 56,000 plus other baseball fans.
And they're seeing a stirring start to game six of the 1977 classic.
Dodger is getting two runs in the first on an era walk and Steve Garvey's triple.
And the Yankees coming back to square it in the second on a walk and a two run home run by Chris Shambles.
And out in Southern California they may be about to revoke Chris Shambles' UCLA alumni card.
Here's Davey Loek taking loan outside from Mike Torres as we go to the third inning.
The third inning has been the most productive of the World Series so far for the Dodgers.
They have scored seven runs in the third inning.
Loek's foul is one back. One ball one strike.
Ross you sound like they may issue you a UCLA card unless maybe you already have one I don't know.
No, no. Mine is at the University of Oklahoma win.
The next pitch to Loek's popped up foul.
It'll make the stands off to the right back out of play.
One ball and two strikes to Loek's.
Davey granted out the bucket dent to open the ball game.
The last time a World Series was completed in six games was 18 years ago.
Can you believe that?
And the Dodgers took the White Sox in 1959 four games to two.
Torres is one two pitch to Loek's has hammered foul back on the screen again.
So the count remains the same.
18 years ago. I'm not that old.
I found it hard to believe that ever since them have all gone four five or seven.
Mike Torres back even in the ball game.
Steps up on the slab looks down the Munson now ready to go to work.
Six foot five inch right hander deals one to the Loek's low ball two two and two.
Two runs one hit for each team.
Yankees have an error that helped cost them two runs.
Loek's wetting the two two pitch low outside ball three three and two.
Torres threw a hundred and thirty three pitches in game three so they'll watch him closely.
There's a hopper back the Torres reaches up and loves it turns and throws the
channels in the dirt.
And then he almost threw it away but channels dug it out.
And that went away.
Here's Russell.
That was not an easy play on either end.
He leaped up and then it seemed to me he aimed the ball instead of just chucking it over there.
And now Chris Chandler says the home run and the out quencher on Davey Loep's the young man from Providence, Rhode Island.
Who it's often been said as Dave goes so go the Dodgers.
Russell granted out the second his first time up Billy bounces one of the shortstop dent this time.
Bucky up throwing to away.
Reggie Smith got things started for the Dodgers in the first inning with his hopper to the left side which didn't
bop old for the error.
Reggie much better percentage hitter and power hitter from that left side.
And I think by all odds his home run in the second game has been the longest hit of the series.
Reggie takes low for a ball.
Smith leads the Dodgers in runs during the series with six now including the one tonight in the six games.
Torres is one oh pitch.
He's swung on a miss.
Good fastball by Mike.
Billy Martin was not going to start Torres tonight but he was told that figure was index finger ten to nine.
This was not a hundred percent healed so he went back to Mike.
The one one pitch to Smith.
There's a drive to center field and deep rivers turns that was going to be gone again in the right center field.
The big and the Dodgers regain the lead three to two on Reggie Smith's third home run of the World Series.
That was almost exactly where the one he hit in the second game was deposited well over the three hundred and eighty five foot mark
easily four hundred.
The fact part of the bat you could tell from the crack in the trajectory.
There was no question about it at all.
And so the Dodgers go back into the lead three to two.
The Dodgers now have had nine home runs in the series the most since the nineteen fifty five Brooklyn Dodgers had nine.
And so the nine here this year by the Dodgers equals the National League high the nineteen fifty seven Braves that had eight home runs.
Ron say takes inside for a ball the nineteen fifty six Yankees all the all time record twelve home runs in a series.
Say take some outside corner for a strike one ball and one strike.
So three to Los Angeles as Reggie Smith unloads say waiting one on one.
The pitch from Torres is high inside two and one.
The Dodgers then have scored all three of their runs here tonight after two or out.
Say wait here's the two one pitch here's a ground blow to the left side nettles bubbles and has no play.
Greg runs to his left in front of Dent to get his glove on the ball.
And while prone tried to come up and throw and couldn't do it it'll be a base hit for Ron say.
So say who walked and scored in the first inning is on again with two out here in the third three hits now for the Dodgers.
Mike Torres.
I'm not sure that Greg hadn't let it go through that was in position to feel the ball but whether his long throw would have been quick enough.
I'm not sure.
It's a very good point when it also reminds us of the ball hit out of Los Angeles in game three when say cut in front of Russell and the ball go off his glove where Russell had been allowed to get the ball.
They would have had probably forced out at second at worst.
So the little things all add up in a great classic like this.
Here's Garvey who tripled into his first time up. Torres misses outside for a ball.
Let's pause five seconds for station identification.
This is the CBS radio network.
WCBS New York.
The 1 0 pitch to Garvey inside ball two to an O.
No activity now in either bullpen.
Dodgers three Yankees to the top of the third inning in New York.
Game six if there's a game seven will be on the air tomorrow night on CBS at 8 0 7 Eastern time.
Torres is set to pitch to Garvey foul back.
Tommy John would pitch game seven if there is one for Los Angeles and run.
Get ready.
Apparently now is Billy Martin's choice for game seven.
Although there were reports here yesterday Martin wouldn't use good ring game seven.
Garvey's floods one to center field and deep but rivers going back.
You'll have a play in front of the warning track and make the gap.
The Garvey had a close to 400 feet.
The deepest part one of the deepest parts of the ballpark and an easy out for Mickey Rivers.
The Dodgers though go back in front one run two hits one left at the end of two and a half innings Dodgers three Yankees to.
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So it's Reggie Smith who's done it before and he did it again in that third inning of the Dodger half the one blow putting the Dodgers back up on top reruns to the Yankees to 3 3 0 the score for Dodgers 2 1 1 1 error by Bucky Dent the line for the Yankees.
OK Ross Mike Torres swings and misses the first pitch from Bert Houten as we go to the Yankee half of the third inning. The Ark is not scored in this series in the third inning or in the ninth and Torres takes high for the ball one on one.
Los Angeles has been blanked in the seventh and eighth innings. Now the wind up by Bert Houten and here comes the one one pitch it's swinging a miss strike two one and two.
Torres was all for three when he hit in game through in Los Angeles. Houten ready the one two pitch knuckle curve got him swinging one out on the Yankee third inning for Bert Houten his first strike out of the game.
He had eight remember the first time he faced New York. Here's Mickey Rivers who fouled out the Dusty Baker in the first inning. Baker reaching into the front row of the seats along the left field line to make the catch.
He's not had a hit in his last eight at bats against the Dodgers. He bounced up along the first baseline Laurel foul. Mickey now four for twenty four in the series. Of course when Rivers gets on the Yankee offense is certainly boosted and encouraged.
He does cause the defense to anticipate so many possibilities with him on first day almost every single becomes a double.
Ron say playing way in the grass for Rivers here's Houten one strike pitch knuckle curve in the dirt one and one until Chambliss hit the two run homer in the second. No Yankee had driven in more than one run in any World Series game this year.
Rivers fouls it out of play along the left field line and it's one ball and two strikes. So the Yankees over the last week have had a lot of people with RBI totals of one but nobody had to until Chambliss. Rivers takes way upstairs ball two two balls and two strikes from Houten.
Of course the Dodgers about score the Yankees prior to tonight twenty four to eighteen. It's been a very even series at the plate to pitch the Rivers foul back our way upstairs. Still to.
Dodgers now have scored 17 of their twenty seven runs in the series as the result of home runs. Rivers bounces one out toward Davey Lopes. Lopes has got the high hopper and throws him out.
So two way in the New York third inning. Second baseman Willie Roundoff grounded at the short his first time up.
I think back to the 1960 World Series when remember the pirates and Yankees went around and around the Yankees wound up outscoring the pirates fifty five to twenty seven in Pittsburgh when the World Championship.
So the run sometimes that doesn't tell all the story pitch inside the Randolph the Yankees that year won sixteen to three ten to nothing and twelve to nothing at Pittsburgh one of the other four games.
One of the pitch to Randolph five ball two there is an instance of too much of a good thing.
Well Yankees have won all the close games this year the Dodgers have won the two lopsided contest. Randolph takes a high strike two and one.
New York is one by one run in twelve innings by two runs by two runs Los Angeles is one by five runs and by six runs.
Two balls and one strike the Yankees second baseman Willie Randolph Bert Houten's pitch popped up down the middle of the diamond Rick Monday coming in.
Davey Lopes going out. Lopes gives way. Monday loses the cap and makes the catch and Bert Houten just as he did in the first inning gets the Yankees in order in the third.
And at the end of three innings in game six at Yankee Stadium is the Dodgers three the Yankees two.
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The money is to keep some small town post offices open and keep the mail coming on Saturdays. Now back to the World Series in New York I'm David Jackson CBS News.
A comparatively quiet Yankee Stadium as we've gone through the first three innings here in game number six with the Dodgers holding a three to two lead.
Reggie Smith's third home run of the series the first of the night giving the L.A.'s that lead in the top of the third as Mike Torres goes to work Ross.
Dusty Baker leads off he struck out his first time up he checks his swing on a high pitch from Torres for ball one one and oh.
The team which has scored first has won four of the five series games the last four Baker takes inside ball two to an old the Dodgers led here two to nothing in game one as we told you.
But the Yankees came back to win that one in twelve innings four to three. Torres is two old pitches outside the Dusty for ball three and it's three and oh Baker steps out looks down to Preston Gomez to see if they might let him swing three and oh.
Monday and Yeager to follow in the Los Angeles for the pitch called strike three and one three runs three hits no errors for the Dodgers two runs one hit one error for the Yankees Mike Torres is three one pitch popped into the right center field.
Fairly deep though the ball carrying Reggie Jackson going back to the warning track and got a play so that one fooled me when I was headed didn't look like I would carry that far. The Jackson wound up about three hundred and seventy five feet or so away making the catch and Baker went the opposite way.
He's been one of the few Dodgers the last couple of days to try to go to right center field. The length of that blow didn't fool Billy Martin he's got Dick Tidrow up warming up in the Yankee bullpen.
Rick Monday bounced out to Chris Chambliss his first time up Chris playing deep on the dirt part of the infield at first and Monday takes a call strike from Torres.
If you join us late the Dodgers got two runs after two men were retired in the first inning.
Monday takes inside and it's one and one. Smith was aboard on Bucky Dent's air at shortstop Ron say walked and Steve Garvey line went over the first base bag into the right field corner to drive in two runs.
Yankee's got two in the second on Jackson's walk and Chris Chambliss is long homer. Monday lines a base head over shortstop in the left field and the Dodgers have their fourth hit on Mike Torres.
Vanilla falls down but he gets the ball back in and Monday with a long sweep around first holds on with a single Dodgers have had a hit now and every inning except the second near Steve Yeager.
Yeager was one of Mike Torres's two strikeout victims after now when he went down swinging in the second inning Baker had been called out in the first.
Torres is pitched to Yeager the smash past third fair ball off the railing on left field. Here's Monday on the way to third base.
Penelope throwing a second they got a shot at Yeager. He is out at second base. Good throw by Lou Penelope played the carom off the railing and throughout the Dodger catcher who went in stomach first.
But Billy Martin is on the way out to the mound and even though Bird Ooton is due up it could be that Billy thinks Mike Torres is going far enough.
So Lou Penelope with a great defensive play for the Yankees. Otherwise the Dodgers would have had two men in scoring position with one out.
But that's what you call being familiar with the grounds. Penelope has played that bounce before and he was honored in a hurry and the perfect strike in the second baseman will he ran off and they got Mike Steve Yeager.
So Mike Torres is aided by a great throw by Penelope and Billy Martin is going to stay with him as Bird Ooton comes up.
I remember a play in the playoffs in the American League where Lou was not quite that gracious in his playing the bounce. He had thought a fan touched it and a lally gag to throw in and everybody was running around like mad.
Nobody had touched it. So you know they all even up I guess.
Here's Ooton with Monday at third and two out Torres delivers and the pitch is low for the ball one and all.
Ooton had a soft fly ball to Reggie Jackson his first time up tonight.
So two out a runner at third instead of second and third and one out called strike the Hootman Penise and it's one and one.
So that could be a big play in this ball game. Only time will tell.
Five hits now for the Dodgers off Torres including two this inning.
But all Los Angeles has to show for it as a runner at third with two away.
And Steve Yeager is training out to be the big batter for the Dodgers and the other six to the series to less than Garvey.
Hootman swings through a pitch from Torres and it's one ball and two strikes when the Yankees bat on the fourth.
They'll soon up Thurman Munson Reggie Jackson and Chris Chambliss three to two Dodgers in the top of the fourth inning Monday down the line.
The one two pitch the Hootman got him swinging.
So Torres thanks to a fine play by Lou Pinella on Yeager's base hit gets the Dodgers no runs to hits one left at the end of three and a half innings in game six Dodgers three Yankees two.
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Bert Hooten once again the last batter in the inning takes the pitchers prerogative he'd been the last batter in the second inning as he was in this inning.
And he's lullagagging out to the mound after a few deep breaths there in the dugout just taking his time he's going to try to go nine of course and anything he can keep from doing other than pitching is to his advantage.
As for Mike Torres his infield did them in in the first inning on a lot to honor and runs well on that fourth inning they can snap back and help them out that to base blow or normally it would have been with Steve Yeager's glass the left field.
And then the ball and he threw out Steve Yeager who is not exactly a sprinter and that got Torres out of the inning that and the National League's refusal to have a D.H. didn't help their cause that time.
That's not the point but that's what happened. So as we go into the last half of the fourth ritual Reggie Smith's home run in the third inning the Dodgers lead it three to two and the Yankees captain to the play.
Thurman Mutson has a nine game hitting string in World Series competition. He's hit safely in nine of the 10 postseason games this year hitting it a three 10 clip coming to play off. Mutson granted out the short his first time up.
Thurman has struck out seven times in the series. That's the most of any player on either team. Herditton goes to the wind up with a three to two lead and delivers and off speed pitches high for a ball one and all.
He used only 36 pitches in the first three innings. Chris Chambliss ripped him for a two run homer in the second but the Dodgers got the lead back on Reggie Smith's third homer of the series and the third the pitch to Mutson drive the left field.
That's going to be a base hit. Dusty Baker over to get it cuts it off. Mutson around first we'll have to hold the long single.
So Mutson extends his hitting string and World Series play to 10 game. That's the Yankees second hit off Houghton the other one was Chambliss's homer.
And here's Reggie Jackson. Jackson walked on four pitches his last time up there. There's a drive the right field and deep. Smith going back away back. It's gone.
Well Bert Houten threw the wrong ball and Reggie Jackson made it the long ball. Two swipes of the bat for the Yankees in the second and fourth inning.
Chris Chambliss left handed Reggie Jackson left handed each time with a man aboard and the Yankees take the lead four to three and we're having a blizzard of paper here in left field right field and a momentary halt as Davey Loops comes in to settle down as pitcher Bert Houten said it before when that
knuckle curve doesn't break. It's a gone goose. Now the big guy who hit the first two run homer for the acts Chris Chambliss Ross the Yankees ahead for the first time tonight on Reggie Jackson his third home run of this World Series.
Here's Chambliss knuckle curve for a called strike and Reggie Jackson with two more runs scored tonight. Remember he walked and came across in front of Chambliss's homer. Jackson has scored eight runs in the last four games to for contest by Houten his long the dirt to
the Yankees. He's got a long ball one and one. So Jackson has scored eight of the Yankees twenty two runs in this series and it's four three New York on a couple of two run homers by a pair of left handed sluggers Chambliss and Jackson
has scored a goal ball two two and one. And Lea Sosa throwing again in the Dodger bullpen and here comes Tommy LaSorta when Jackson's ball wound up in the lower deck in right field Steve Yeager had gone out in front of the plate and he's
got a good signal as if to say he's lost it. He doesn't have much on it. Now LaSorta going out to talk to when LaSorta goes out. He's a man who usually brings the hook with him. So said thrown earlier in the ball game. And now let's see whether LaSorta decides the Yankees pitcher.
There is no tomorrow for Los Angeles. The Yankees have an opportunity to make some gambles tonight knowing that would be a seventh game tomorrow but not so for the Dodgers.
And once again Ross it's the person of Reggie Jackson. Reggie had been a thorn in Los Angeles side when it was an Oakland A World Series as you might remember. That one went five games.
In that series it was Holtsman Hunter and Jackson of this current Yankee squad and Tom LaSorta has had enough for the talk with Bird Hooten. He's called for a relief pitcher to come in. I presume it will be Sosa.
Sosa who pitched a couple of strong relief innings here against the Yankees. He didn't do that well against the Phillies. And one inning he gave up two hits. And you recall a book in the game, the second game that the Dodgers lost.
But thereafter Sosa has been the kind of relief pitcher you need. He's not allowed anything. Of course the Yankee crowd invigorated by Reggie Jackson's line drive blast to right field, likely about 340 feet.
Two big blows for the Yankees that put them on top. After Jackson walked in the second, Chris Shambles put it into the Babe Ruth porch. And then in the fourth inning after Captain Munson did what he's done in every World Series game he's played in.
Wacked a safe hit to left field. Reggie Jackson came up and loving the life-flight as he does. He has the ability, the verve and the jazz to come to it when it's necessary. He put it into the porch and gave the Yankees the 4-3 lead.
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One 27 year old right hander replaces another. A Leah Sosa out of the Dominican Republic comes on for the Dodgers. Sosa has not seen service in this World Series since six nights ago. He came in in game one you might recall in the eighth inning with the Yankees leading 3-2 and the bases loaded and won out.
And Sosa proceeded to strike out Lou Penella and get buckied in to bounce into a fielder's choice. Those are the only two men he faced. Yankees saw the Dodgers tired in the ninth on Lee Lacey's Pinsengeloch Sparky Lyle.
But New York came back to winning 12. So it's been a while since Sosa has worked. A Leas who throws a good breaking ball, good slider, finished third among National League relievers this year and earned run average.
By year's end he had dropped the DRA down to 1.97.
And Rossy comes in to pitch to Chambliss with the count two balls and one strike.
So Chambliss technically belongs to Bert Hooten. Nobody out, nobody on. Two runs over for the Yankees in the fourth inning on Reggie Jackson's third home run of the series.
So both Reggie's, Jackson of the Yankees and Smith of the Dodgers, have clubbed three home runs here in this year's series.
Four-three New York. Here Sosa's pitched to Chambliss. Outside ball three, three and one.
Greg Nettles on deck. Lou Penella will follow. But the first time this evening the Yankees are ahead. Four to three.
Sosa to the wind up. The three one pitch. Popped up. On the left side Russell going out and shallow left. Baker coming in.
Russell calling. Bull drops. One to win a second Chambliss and he'll make it.
Baker and Russell got messed up on their communications. They both lost their caps going for it.
It looked like Russell was going to get it. And in the last second Bill shied away.
And the ball didn't get there. And just like that, Chambliss goes into second base. And I guess it'll have to be a gift double. Nobody touched him.
That should have been an easy catch for Baker. We could see that as Russell was angling over, it was going to be a real tough play for him.
He actually overran the ball. And Baker had to hold off. He could have taken it easily. And a little crack in the Dodger composure now.
So it's a double for Chambliss. He's out at second base with the second extra base hit of the game.
And here's Greg Nettles that grounded out the Garvey his first time up. Sosa ready to pitch. Sinker low for a ball. Want to know.
Sosa calls time. He wants to talk to Yeager. It might also be win that the noise of the crowd ground out either Baker or Russell calling for the ball and led to that boo boo.
Well, but Baker had it in front of him all the way. It was Baker's play. He should have made the play. Although he had a long run.
Well, you remember earlier Nettles with all that range he has outdid himself, got in front of a ball that Dent could have handled.
It's just the tension and the desire to do all out to overdo occasionally in a World Series game.
Big balloon came out of the stands on the field. So Dick Houser came down from third and stepped on it. Bobby Cox coaching at first for New York.
So set the belt. Nettles waiting one and oh Chambliss away from second. Nobody out the pitch outside ball to an oh Nettles is a very dangerous threat in Yankee Stadium.
Although you can't prove it by his play in this World Series. He has not really hit a hard ball.
Nettles and Willie Randolph were named today to the Sporting News All-Star team for this year along with Steve Garvey of the Dodgers.
So says two oh pitches. The ground ball to second. That'll get the runner over. Loeb's feels it throws out Nettles but Chambliss goes to third one away.
Lou Pinella coming up. He applied out the right field his first time up. The Dodgers treading by a run don't want to give up anymore.
So they bring the infield in here in the fourth inning with Chambliss over at third. That could be a big run in this ball game.
And it could be a gift if New York can cash it in.
And I might say Ross for an infield to come in on Pinella he is the best bat mechanic with the possible exception of Diamond Munson on this Yankee squad.
He can place the ball as though we're on top of a pool table.
Sosa will work out of a stretch to Pinella who is all for eight the last few games.
So ready the pitch. Grounded foul over toward the Dodger dugout.
Four runs four hits one error for the Yankees three runs five hits no errors for the Dodgers.
We're in the last of the fourth Los Angeles got two in the first New York came back with two in the second Los Angeles got one in the third.
New York has two in here in the fourth inning and we've had a three home run this two for the Yankees.
Pinella waiting no balls and one strike. Chambliss off the bag at third.
Here is Sosa's pitch inside and low one and one shortstop Bucky Den is next.
So the Dodgers and Sosa will be careful with Pinella who hit 3 30 during the regular season.
Remember we told you Sosa struck out for Nella the other time he faced him here in the series.
He'd like a strikeout now the stretch the one one pitch breaking ball line left field indeed Baker going back he'll catch it.
And the Sosa and the Chambliss will score after the catch and the Yankees lead five to three.
For Pinella his third RBI of the series and the Yankees cash in a Dodger mistake for the third run of the frame.
That should have been the third out and Sosa the Dodgers should have been back on the bench trailing only four to three.
Because of the misplay in left field the Yankees and another here's Bucky Den with two out and nobody on.
Then granted at the second his first time up checks his swing and didn't go around according to first base umbar Nestor Shilac on an appeal by play them by John McCherry.
Yankees five Dodgers three bottom of the fourth the next one to dent inside ball two to an O when the Dodgers bat in the fifth they'll have the top of the lineup.
Lopes Russell and Smith it's the first time tonight the Dodgers have found themselves behind Sosa no wind up delivery inside the dent ball three three and O the Dodgers have out hit the Yankees five to four.
The Yankees have a couple of two run homers and a gift double which they just cashed in for another run. Sosa winds the pitch to dent called strike scoreboard shows it to two but it's actually three and one since the first pitch was a ball.
Make sure he trying to get the scoreboards attention.
Well he got the three and two there's still a little off Sosa's next pitch breaking ball hammered bowed on the left field side.
So now it's three and two the Bucky Dent the ball boy down the third baseline made a beautiful play on that one reached across his body and got it back handed and the Yankees have done it both ways this round power and then inch him along and fly out to the field and get him in full count pitch on the way from Sosa to dent inside ball four.
That's the second walk by Dodger pitcher who walked Reggie Jackson the second inning and it cost him when Chris Chambliss followed with a home run. Here comes Mike Torres up and he becomes the seventh man to bat at the New York fourth inning.
But to be perfectly honest and fair to Houghton he did not walk him in the fourth inning and it caused more costly in the fourth inning because Jackson put it into the stands with Watson on first and that put the Yankees ahead four to three then the Fuselin left field the ground ball and the sacrifice flyers made it five to three.
Mike Torres went down swinging in the third inning he's over four in the series so sad of a stretch the pitch got the outside corner for a strike.
Mike Torres one of eight children from a Mexican American family which lives in Topeka Kansas. His dad worked for the railroad out there.
He catches in the peek in the Santa Fe there's a bouncer out the left side Bill Russell's got it to make the long foot a guardly and they get Torres but New York goes in front with three runs on three hits and one left at the end of four innings and game six Yankees five Dodgers three.
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The Dodgers come to bat on the top of the fifth.
They went into the bottom of the fourth leading by Iran now they trail by two and the guy out in right field who does everything is picking up papers now Reggie Jackson number 44 he seems to.
Need adversity seems to need turmoil to bring out the best in him he was a part of the.
Yankee stadium this year of 77 remember the near fester cups with his manager in a Boston dugout the various magazine articles Jackson seems to have a genius for saying something two months before it comes out by the time it comes out and pretty wishes he hadn't said it maybe he didn't mean it but this.
Remember the old pinstripe Yankees this year it's been the pinstripe Yankees nevertheless here they are through four innings leading the Dodgers five to three in what could be the last game of the series Ross Yankee manager Billy Martin was given a nice bonus today by the Yankee front office of course he has a couple of more years on his present contract so they had to thank him for.
He's going to go to confidence and Martin will be back next year.
Davey Lopes leads off in the Dodger fifth runs up the button take slow for a ball one ball in those strikes.
Lopes has bounced out twice tonight to Dan in the first inning and back to Torres in the third.
Maybe it's been on base five times in the last two games in Los Angeles and clean a home run into triple Torres is pitch low ball to two and oh Yankees leading now but two runs as we go to the fifth inning.
Lopes steps out and looks down to Gomez at third.
They're not together yet on their signs Gomez has a different set of signs for each Dodger player to oh pitch popped up on the left side.
Bucky Dent going out Lou Penella coming in same play that the Dodgers had this time the Yankees make it work though and Penella has.
One away for Bill Russell who's been a victim of two infield grounders tonight one the second one to short.
Mike Torres never played high school baseball out in the Pica he played American Legion ball and 17 he signed with the Cardinals for a twenty thousand dollar bonus.
Russell takes inside Mike later went to Montreal from St. Louis then Oakland now to the Yankees.
He's a pitch load of Russell for ball to two balls and no strikes and that brings Billy Martin on the run out of the Yankee dugout and it brings Sparky Lyle to his feet in the Yankee bullpen.
And incidentally Ross Mike Torres has not signed a Yankee contract he says they have not offered him one that's sweet enough and here he conceivably could win two of the necessary four in a series and not be a member of the Yankees next year or ever more.
Martin's had his say he's back down the steps of the dugout and Torres ready to go to work to Russell two balls and no strikes.
Reggie Smith on deck.
Torres winds of the pitch had misses outside ball three three and oh Torres is allowed five hits to walk one he struck out three.
He's leading for the first time five to three three oh pitch to Russell is taking it's inside ball four.
So the second walk given up by Torres he walked saying the first inning and the Dodgers made that payoff for two runs when Garvey followed with a two run triple down the right field line.
Reggie Smith hammered his third home run of the series with two out on the third inning and nobody aboard and gave the Dodgers a short live three to two lead Yankees got three in the fourth.
Ground ball is short.
Then Scott had over to Randolph for one back to first double play.
Taylor made one hopper to Bucky Dent near the bag at second.
He turns it into a six four three 20 Kelly the Dodgers are gone in the fifth but at the end of four and a half the game six Yankees five Dodgers three.
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You're not a championship team as the Dodgers have been in their play in the National League and not have the ability to come back.
There is one fact however they want it so easy so quickly.
Well their metal is certainly going to be tested now and we're going to find out Ross what goes in the last of the fifth.
The double play by the Yankees was their first in the series that Dodgers had the other four.
But that was Taylor made it to round off the Chambliss on a hot smash on one hot by Smith making rivers when they ran off and then Thurman Munson here in the New York Fifth inning.
Five three Yankees.
A Leo Sosa in his second inning of work goes to the lineup of the pitch of the ground ball at the middle face.
And then he hurries in to get the ball rivers a long turnaround first you'll hold on.
With his fifth hit of the series in that is twenty sixth and bad and the Yankees have even the hit totals and five apiece.
Two hits off Sosa the other one was a blooper and the left field and Baker and Russell couldn't get together on a dead drop that led to a Yankee run the third of the fourth inning.
The Dodgers ran off his over to Sosa the football over to Garvey and Rivers back on the bay.
The Dodgers not thirty three come from behind victories during the year.
They'll have to do it tonight if they're to stay alive.
Another third of first base and Rivers back in time Yankee is trying to win a world championship for the first time since nineteen sixty two.
The last time a New York team was a world champion was eight years ago when the nineteen sixty nine Mets did it.
Dodgers haven't won one in a dozen years way back in nineteen sixty five.
They beat Minnesota in seven Sosa ready looks at Rivers the pitch to Randolph around the but takes a called strike.
Oh and one and everybody on the baseball field in motion lobes towards first the shortstop to cover the middle of the diamond say in.
Randolph fighting the slump at the moment he's had one hit in his last sixteen advance in the series four for twenty three overall Sosa again the first base.
Rivers back Ross Porter and well it from Yankee Stadium New York game six of the World Series Yankees five Dodgers three New York trying to wrap it up tonight.
So ready the pitch to Randolph around a bunch does but Yeager's got it he's going to second base to Russell in time to get the force on Rivers.
The throw is on the right field side of the bag but Russell kept his foot on a long enough according to National League umpire Ed Sudol.
And so they get the lead man Rivers and Randolph aboard on a fielders choice and that's about the third time in the series when we've seen a Dodger catcher the other two times being Jerry Grody take a but and turn it into an out that second.
This was a little more difficult on the bounce that Jerry Grody handled they jumped right into his right hand and he didn't have to waste any time but this one Yeager had to go out and gobble.
And there was a question as to whether his throw well it was good enough it didn't draw him off the base that quickly and so they erased Rivers but Randolph on first now is himself very fast.
Thurmond Munson an outstanding World Series hitter over the last two years got his 17th in two years of series competition here tonight.
And first thing Munson does is ask by John McSherry to look at the baseball.
Elias Sosa is using and McSherry throws it out has nothing to do with Sosa regardless.
Thurmond Munson asked for that ball to be looked at as a matter of habit.
The series nine for 17 last year eight for twenty three this year one on one out Sosa stretches to pitch the thermon a pitch out nothing in the works.
The ball in those strikes left hander Doug Raub against the throw in the Dodger bullpen he pitched one inning plus in game four in Los Angeles on Saturday five to three New York bottom of the fifth inning.
Willie Randolph leads away from first with one away.
Here comes the one old pitch the Thurmond Munson breaking ball low ball to two and all the Yankees tonight trying to make it seven World Series championship.
Over the Dodgers and their nine meetings Dodgers beat him only in 1955 while in Brooklyn in a 1963 in Los Angeles Sosa ready again good lead by Randolph and deciding to go after him.
Sosa tosses over to Garvey too late.
This is a vital part of the game because the Dodgers trail by a not insurmountable two runs but to let the scrappy Yankees get any more ahead of you would be a debilitating feeling.
Now the stretch by Sosa Munson waiting to go the pitch broken back looper to center field Monday coming up he's got it.
Randolph had gone two thirds of the way and he draws a throw at first base but it gets back so Munson cracked the bat and fly out the Monday and Thurmond shaking his head as he goes back down the steps of the dugout.
To a way and here's Reggie Jackson who had walked homeward and scored two of the Yankee five runs and Jackson now in World Series history has 20 basets and a 3 28 career average in the series.
1973 1974 and this year in his own run tonight was his fifth World Series home run he now has 12 runs battered in and 14 runs scored.
So when they start playing for the money Reggie gets ready.
So Sosa again a flip over to first base and Randolph back to out a runner at first for New York in the bottom of the fifth.
The Yankees five the Dodgers three when the Dodgers hit in the sixth they'll send up Ron say Steve Garvey and Dusty Baker.
So Sosa set the pitch right field indeed way back going going going.
Another home run for Reggie Jackson and the Yankees laid seven to three and Tom LaSorta is out to talk to his pitch.
And what can you say about Reggie Jackson.
His second home run of the game.
He was walked his first time up which now is a matter of hindsight proves to be the best way to pitch to him.
However it backfired in that second inning when Chris Shambles right after him hit the ball into the right field course.
In the fourth inning Thurman Munson slashed a single to left field and the Dodger pitching staff at that point Bert Hooten made a mistake and pitched to Jackson.
And he hit a line drive some 15 feet high about three hundred and forty feet into the right field stand.
That gave the Yankees a four three lead and unsettled the Dodgers to the point that on the next play Chris Shambles hoisted a high fly to left field.
Russell and Baker got confused and let the ball drop.
Shambles was advanced to third ground ball to the right side and then Lou Pinella a long fly to left field brought him home.
When the Dodgers went down Dossley and their half of the fifth Mickey Rivers rounded a single into center field.
He was forced at second as Willie Randolph attempted to pun him along.
Red Thurman Munson hit a liner a soft one a broken back soft liner to center field and then Reggie Jackson hit an almost duplicate blow.
But our two home runs redundant when you do the same thing twice with the same result.
A line drive to ref field by the right field about 15 feet high two more runs and the Yankees now lead at seven to three in the sixth possibly deciding final game of the 1977 World Series.
In the first five games of the series when the Yankees had had four home runs two of those by Reggie Jackson.
And here tonight they clout three home runs in five innings and Jackson has two of those.
And as I look at the World Series record book I believe that's a new record.
Reggie Jackson's four home runs in a six game series Babe Ruth at three home runs in a six game series in 1923 Ted Klaussoski at three for the White Sox in 1959.
And Reggie Smith it is third here tonight. But the two by Reggie Jackson giving him four.
And if it's all over tonight that would be a new World Series record in fact four is also the seven game series record.
So for a six game series this would be it if it's over tonight.
Doug Rao picks up for a Lea Sosa as the Yankees double their lead and now it is seven to three with two more here in the fifth inning.
And the long ball has propelled New York to that margin.
Chris Chambliss hit the first home run for the Yankees.
That came in the second inning with Jackson aboard and wiped out the Dodgers early two nothing lead.
Chambliss up again. He's got a double in addition to his home run. So three home runs in a double counting for four of the six hits for the Yankees and Rao sends one inside off the chest of Chris Chambliss for a ball two out two over seven three New York in the fifth
Rao's pitch low ball to two and over and anything you might say about Reggie Jackson that we have neglected to say up to now it isn't necessary to say.
Two balls and no strikes to Chambliss the pitch by Rao gets the outside corner for his strike Reggie now with three runs tonight that gives him nine runs in the six game series.
He has been on base and the Yankees have brought him around breaking ball hammered on one half the Garvey behind the bag at first and he'll take care of Chambliss.
But the Yankees get two more runs on two hits and at the end of five innings in game six Yankees seven Dodgers three.
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When Reggie Jackson ambled out to right field his port crowd rose in unison and greeted him.
He took off his hat and that was the signal for the third the first base side just to the right of home plate on home plate.
He got half the ballpark breeding him as he lifted his cap.
This has been Reggie Jackson's night and oh how he must love it.
We go to the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium.
New York seven Los Angeles three and Ryan say leads off to the Dodgers.
He has walked and singled towards his first pitches low for a ball one and oh the Dodgers have had runners in four of their first five at best only in the second inning was Torres able to get him in order.
There's ball two high to say to an oh three Yankee home runs.
Two by Reggie Jackson and one by Chris Chambliss and the Yankees leading by four say takes ball three high three and oh Billy Martin had Sparky Lyle of earlier and he's going back to the bullpen now to get somebody else up and throwing.
And it looks like Sparky again the three oh pitched Iran say it called strike three and one Babe Ruth one time at three home runs in a series game.
In fact he did it twice.
Ruth at three home runs in a game in 1926 and again three in 1928 one night or one day at that time three to pitch got say swinging.
So Mike Torres fell behind three and oh and then fan Ron say that was Mike's fourth strike out of the night.
And you can just see him swelling to his chest with the help of those long blows that have put him four runs ahead.
He's really on his game now.
Steve Garvey tripled in the Dodgers first two runs in the opening inning he applied to center a deep drive his last time up Garvey Buntz but it's foul back into the stands.
So Garvey likes to lay the ball down and as a very adept runner pop that one back into the seats at his own one.
Reggie Jackson's nine runs in the six games would also be a New World Series record.
Babe Ruth and somebody named Alvin Powell had eight runs each in two six game series.
Ruth and Gary in separate years had nine runs scored in only four games.
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The oh one pitch to Garvey popped up in the right field.
Jackson coming up for it waiting.
He's there now.
He's got it to a way the Dodgers are down to their last 10 outs trailing seven to three in the sixth inning.
Here's Desti Baker has been called out on strikes and fly to right field.
I remember a game in Philadelphia where they were down to their last out and two runs behind with nobody on base in the ninth inning.
They're called strike to Baker.
So Torres is adrenaline pumping as one said because of the Yankee offense goes to work to Baker again.
There's a drive to left field but now going back for it at the warning track you'll have a boy waiting.
He got it.
Baker out on a long flight of left Torres gets the Dodgers in order in the sixth and at the end of five and a half innings Yankee seven Dodgers three.
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Now back to the World Series game in New York.
This is Doug polling CBS News.
73 Yankees last half of the sixth inning on the Yankee who had more home runs than anybody during the regular season.
The third baseman Greg Nettles who just made all star third baseman today.
He's coming up against Doug Rao.
Nettles has hit a couple of ground balls to the right side tonight one to Garvey one to Lopes.
Seven runs six hits one error for the Yankees including three home runs three runs five hits no errors for the Dodgers one home run breaking ball from Ralph recall strike the Nettles.
Rao who worked in the name on Saturday goes to the wind up and the pitches swung on a miss by Nettles strike two 0 and 2.
The Dodger scouting report said jam Reggie Jackson with hard stuff a lot of fastballs will appear tonight that both times Jackson hit fastballs and hit him over the ball over the wall and right field for home runs.
Next pitch the Nettles is outside and one ball and two strikes.
Now ready again the one to pitch ground it foul toward the Yankee dugout over the first base side Dodgers led to nothing Yankees caught him Dodgers led 3 2 Yankees went ahead five to three and seven to three.
That's where we are in the bottom of the sixth inning Nettles waiting Doug Rao Wines in the one to pitch got him swinging on a hard fastball inside.
The second strikeout by the three Dodger pitchers who have struck out Mike Torres.
Here's Lou Penella Penella 0 for one tonight a sacrifice fly his last time up after a pop fly to right but Penella made a defensive play in this ballgame in the fourth inning which really helped the Yankees out.
They were trailing at the time three to two.
Penella hits a foul out of play along the right field line back into the second deck with Monday at first and one out of the Dodger for the Yeager hit a smash off the box seats halfway down the left field line but a ricochet back to Penella Monday went to third but Penella went after Yeager and nipped him at second.
The Dodgers potential beginning was thwarted pitches inside the Penella for a ball one on one.
Texan delivers there's a drive up in a center field Monday turns goes back he's there now in front of the warning track to make the catch.
To I'm Bucky Dent has bounced out and walked tonight. I don't imagine I'll make the Dodgers Reuters feel any better but Bakers fly ball to left field that ended the previous half for the Dodgers would have been a home run in right field.
That Penella smash had had gone to right field instead of center it would have been a home run.
Dent waits for Rouse pitch was his hide away from all one and all when the Dodgers bat on the seventh inning they'll send up Rick Monday Steve Yeager and a hitter for Doug Ralph.
So the Dodgers have somebody else up in the bullpen and right field it looks like Charlie Huff Dent sends a fly ball down the left field line that's going to be foul Baker coming over and it'll go back out of play Ross it is hot one ball and one strike to Bucky Dent Charlie Huff.
Pitch well in Los Angeles in game three of the series when it took over from Tommy John and pitch three hitless Emmins or he gave it one hit no runs in three Emmins.
Dent waits for Rouse one one pitch swing and a miss strike two one and two.
The Dodgers have been in an incredible amount of their games this year they bet out of contention and only six of the 171 games they have played.
There's a ball low in the dirt to dent two and two.
So when they are behind by four runs it's very unusual.
They were routed one day in Pittsburgh this year 11 to four lost a couple of other games by five runs or six.
There's a ground ball to the left side Russell comes in gloves that one hand it throws in time.
Justin's I'm Garvey at the ticket out on a hop and they get Bucky Dent Yankees going order but at the end of six in game six New York seven Los Angeles three.
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So we go to the top of the seventh with the Dodgers trailing before but let's remind ourselves that the Yankees four runs that they lead by worse.
Whiffed incoming Reggie Jackson a home run and the third and another one in the fourth each time with a man aboard a miscue by the Dodgers although it won't go as an error and a sacrifice fly.
And that's how the Yankees are in the lead.
So with one swing of the bat the complexion can turn immediately.
We go to the top of the seventh at Dispin Los Angeles it would be followed by two choruses.
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Let's see how the Dodgers react in the seventh inning.
Rick Monday will lead off for the Dodgers.
He is bounced out in single tonight Monday two for nine in the series.
Now one for six against Mike Torres the first one to Monday a ground ball to the right side will round off plugs the gap feels it throws the chambliss one away.
For the Dodgers first ball hitting frequently denied against Mike Torres in Monday makes the first out of the seventh inning.
Steve Yeager got the last Dodger hit.
That was the ball that he shot off the box seats on a hop along the left field line in the fourth inning and then was thrown out on a great peg by Lou Pinella the second base.
Since then the Dodgers have had only one runner Russell who walked in the fifth and was doubled up on Smith's ground ball.
Yeager swings and misses again the first ball but in all honesty they Mike has only walked two people tonight.
Torres is fan for he's allowed five hits he's leading seven to three in the seventh inning.
The next one of the Dodger catchers low for a ball one on one.
The Dodgers to show you what they've done have surrendered seven or more runs now in 24 games this year.
And before tonight they had lost 19 of the other 23 when they gave up that many ground ball right back to the pitcher.
Torres grabs it and throws out Yeager twice tonight.
The Torres has helped himself with the glove.
He's also the third inning and now Yeager for the second out in the seventh and the Dodgers are down to their last seven outs as Ed Goodson comes out to hit for Doug Rao.
I don't know whether Billy senses that Torres is tiring or lost his stuff.
He's had Sparky Lyle up on the bullpen and now Billy is out at the pitchers mound discussing Torres both with Mike and catcher Thurman Munson and the third baseman Greg Nettles is over there.
I suspect Billy is not going to take the slightest bit of chance.
He's back to the dugout.
Lyle is still working in the bullpen and Mike Torres is still on the mound.
Ed Goodson a left handed hitter used as a pinch hitter by the Dodgers this year.
Takes a call strike from Mike Torres.
This is the first time Goodson has batted in the World Series.
The maximum Torres is a ground ball foul.
I belong first base and so quickly Torres jumps ahead 0 and 2 to Ed Goodson.
Seven to three Yankees at the seventh inning of Game Six.
Torres is pitch low for a ball one and two to Goodson.
The ball is out.
Nobody aboard.
Torres ready the one to pitch got him swinging.
The last seven Dodgers to face him since the walk to Russell and at the end of six and a half innings in Game Six Yankee seven Dodgers three.
Goodson fight the congestion shrink the swollen membranes help relieve the runny,
sneezey, cloggy misery caused by every known cold virus.
Are you sure?
Contact, Ann.
Today's contact does all that up to 12 hours all day all night.
No matter what cold virus attack, that's the one to contact.
Take only his direct.
The New York Yankee Stadium crowd taking a leaf in the songbook of the Los Angeles fans is now doing take me out to the ball game themselves.
A little disorganized somewhat cacophonous in fact and no no substitution that's go go go the Yankees.
Let's take this moment while we may to recognize and to thank all the folks who've helped in this broadcast.
That means the secretary's operations personnel the technical people both the New York and Los Angeles boy you've been so much help to Ross and Bill and Mr.
kinder and Mr. Coleman out there in San Diego.
We want to thank you.
We're proud of your efforts and we want everybody to know you.
Thanks again boys and girls.
We're down to the last half of the seventh and this kind of a holiday spirit.
Now I don't know whether it's premature.
You've seen any number of ball games blow up in the eighth inning and the ninth inning.
But right now you're going to have a hard time convincing the Yankee fans here that their Yankees are not going to be the world's champions in 1977.
Right now they hold a lead of seven to three and they're going to face a new Dodger pitcher Charlie Huff the knuckleball specialist.
The Dodgers got off front in the first inning bang bang two to nothing.
But the Yankees came back in the second inning to run Chris Shambles homerun tied it up.
Then Reggie Smith hit one into the right field porch in the third inning to give the Dodgers a three to lead.
But that was the last time Reggie Jackson a two run homer in the fourth inning a misplay in left field and eventually a sacrifice fly.
Made it another run in that fifth inning rather the fourth inning for the Yankees and then would you believe it again.
A two run homerun by Reggie Jackson in the fifth inning.
And we are now where we are.
Seven to three New York Yankees last half of the seventh and the big guy from Topeka Kansas already nine innings a winner.
Did say to go the route again Mike Torres.
Torres gets a standing ovation as he comes to the plate to lead off for New York at the bottom of the seventh inning.
Go face knuckleball or Charlie Huff.
Torres has struck out and bounced out tonight.
Mike taps one foul behind the plate.
Huff and his three scoreless innings of relief in Los Angeles in game three Friday night.
All out only a base hit a single to Mickey Rivers in the ninth inning.
Torres holds up on a knuckleball outside one on one.
Huff this year for the Dodgers one six games saved 22 others.
He was instrumental in the Dodgers fast getaway in April and May.
One one pitch knuckleball swung on a miss strike two one and two.
Reggie Jackson was the most valuable player of the 1973 World Series and he might very well be the MVP in 1977.
The way things are going.
Torres swings and misses striking out on a dancer from Charlie Huff.
But the fans applaud him anyway as he goes back to take a seat.
Mike if Reggie isn't the guy who's going back to the dugout Mike Torres who bids fair to a pitch two and one to complete games without a contract.
It's going to be pretty hard to talk to Mike after this is over as he hasn't signed and he is a two game winner in the series.
Wow.
And he's led the Yankees staff and victories win with 17.
Rivers takes a knuckleball outside of all bounces behind the plate.
Want to know.
Torres of course also had the most starts for the Yankees this year the most complete games with 17 the most innings pitched 244.
So he was a big cog in the wheel knuckleball from Huff is outside the Rivers ball to two and 0.
Even not keeping score with us when the Dodgers come up in the eighth they'll have a low up for Russell and Smith to face Mike Torres.
Huffs to a pitch line drive base hit by Rivers into the right field corner.
Smith over to get it.
Rivers around first he'll hold as Smith gets it back in a hurry and Mickey Rivers has got his second straight hit his sixth of the series.
A one out single here in the seventh inning.
That's the Yankees seventh hit.
Dodgers have five.
Willie Randolph is 0 for three tonight he tried to but Rivers to second base in the fifth inning wound up a force out at second but Randolph scored when Reggie Jackson powered his second home run of the game into the right field seats.
Huff stretches the pitch knuckleball strike pops out of Yeager's glove rolls in front of the plate but he's out to get it 0 and 1.
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Ross Porter with one Elliott from New York game six the Yankees trying to sell up their first world championship since 1962.
And there are four runs ahead in the bottom of the seventh inning.
How throws the first Rivers back.
Rivers stole a base off of the ninth inning of game three after he singled but he was left at second Randolph taps and foul behind a plate of lunging for a knuckleball 0 and 2.
The Yankees don't see that many knuckleballers during the American League campaign.
Of course Wilbur Wood from the White Sox will throw that dancer up there.
You don't see much of a knuckleball anyway.
Well the Negro boys in the National League have got it down pretty well Joe and Phil.
But you're right.
There are not that many around.
Randolph waiting 0 and 2 1 out 1 on 7 3 New York knuckleball high inside and Randolph leans out of the oil.
Lance Rotson a left hander begins to throw in the Dodger bullpen.
Yankees trailed two to nothing caught up at two fell behind three to lead five three and now seven three.
The pitch to Randolph got him swinging knuckleball.
Wait a minute.
Did he fall out of the glove.
Apparently so is the Randolph still alive.
Yeager couldn't hold on to it.
Chase the high knuckle.
But got just enough of it on the bat.
To tip it off.
So it's one and two.
Now the stretch by Charlie Huff he looks at rivers and now backs off the mound.
Huff was about through as a pitcher when a scout for the Dodgers named Goldie Holt told him how to throw the knuckleball.
There's a high outside pitch.
They thought maybe Rivers was going to pitch you out of this two and two.
Here in the seventh Torres struck out but Rivers single now Randolph waiting two and two the pitch knuckleball fell back off Yeager's right shoulder.
Count is still even to two.
The long ball has been the Yankee power story tonight.
Two run homer by Chambliss in the second inning.
Two run homer by Jackson in the fourth.
Two run homer by Jackson in the fifth.
So the three long shots have accounted for six of the seven New York runs.
There goes Rivers.
Randolph bounces one to say looks at second but his only play is the Garvey.
They get Randolph and Rivers moves up 90 feet to second base.
So by sending Rivers the Yankee stayed out of a double play.
And here's Thurman Munson coming up.
Munson has a single tonight and three at bats.
Thurman with eight hits in this year's series.
Reggie Jackson has eight for the Yankees in the six games.
Steve Garvey has eight for the Dodgers.
And you get the feeling that this stadium crowd already is consigning the games to the world's champions and they're saluting their heroes giving them their accolades as they come to bat.
Charlie Huff looks at Rivers deals to Munson of all is tapped off of Munson's foot at the plate foul.
And Yeager goes out to help his fellow catcher up.
Their friends they had dinner together in Los Angeles the other night after one of the series games.
So the catchers for turn today had a little meeting.
And Yeager is looking over to the Yankee dugout where big Cliff Johnson another catcher is giving it in business.
And they're both grinning at each other.
Munson digging a toe hold in from the right side.
Rivers the runner at second for the Yankees here in the bottom of the seventh inning.
New York seven Los Angeles three two out Huff at the belt.
And now balloons come out of the field and Huff steps back.
So we've got a yellow balloon in front of the plate.
A green balloon making its way up toward the first base bag.
John McSherry goes out to get the yellow balloon.
Yankee Batboy gets the green one.
At least they're not throwing things tonight when just balloons.
Well the mood's a little different.
All is well with the world right now for the Yankee fans are four runs ahead.
Now this is the second half of the season.
The Yankee Belcevs and swings and misses at a knuckleball from Huff.
Oh and to he's got a good one.
Charlie Huff came under a lot of criticism in Los Angeles this year and much of it was unjust.
Charlie Huff had hurt his arm being overworked from the fans didn't know it.
As a result he started coming three quarters that over the top.
then Mike Garmin pulled a hamstring muscle
and Garmin couldn't go in the bullpen.
So he had to stay with Huff
and it was then that Huff hurt the shoulder.
Altered his delivery and the opposing batter
started to rock him.
Two-two pitch.
Swung on a miss, ball gets away from Yeager
but not far enough and the throw down to Garvey
retires Munson after the strikeout.
So no runs, one hit, one left.
Huff gets two strikeouts.
But at the end of seven innings in game six.
It's still Yankee seven and the Dodgers three.
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Yankees holding a seven to three lead Mike has occasionally struggled in this
game but whenever he had to dig down and get it like the ball players say he did
it cost him in the first inning wasn't really his fault two out a ground ball
to short mishandled by Bucky Dent and then trouble Steve Garvey a triple down
the line drove in not only Reggie Smith
the series the first pitch of call
strike Mike Torres a pitch 88 pitches in the first seven innings we told you
through 133 the last outing lobes the ground ball base hit up the middle of
the left of dead in the center field so lobes collects the Dodgers sixth hit and
the speedy second baseman is aboard and Billy Martin at Sparky Lyle up and
throwing before Mike Torres ever went to the mound here in the eighth inning
Sparky has not appeared in the last four games to possibly the entire series we
haven't seen him since game one well he did throw an eight through an any that's
right Garvey at the home run off of him in the ninth inning right six days ago
here's Russell is over two plus a walk tonight Torres goes to first and lobes
back Mike Torres served up 21 pitches in the first inning six in the second
nineteen and the third and then 13 912 and eight Russell takes inside on the
corner for a strike on one the Dodgers need base runners they got the big guns
coming up but there are four runs behind lobes with the leadoff single here in
the Los Angeles eighth inning Torres is ready the pitch to Russell takes outside
for a ball one on a word about Lyle he's always maintained that he pitches best
when he pitches most often the time off he's had for a spark he is almost a
sabbatical I wonder what his touch will be like if he comes in the pitch to
Russell did he go around yes he does that John McSherry couldn't check his
swing right inside pitch and Russell's behind one and two twenty three times this
year the Dodgers scored five or more runs in an inning only need five right now
to go ahead and it's the eighth inning they're running out of time Torres is
ready to one to pitch outside two and two twenty seven times this year the
Dodgers batted around and almost half of their games they scored five or more
runs so they have the offensive capabilities but they're gonna need them
now in a hurry the stretch the two to pitch to Russell outside ball three
three and two and it could be when if Torres walks Russell he's gone
Martin is on his feet Reggie Smith on deck seven to three Yankees nobody out
of the eighth and loops away from first doubtful he will run on this pitch the
three to Russell find right the right field but it's gonna hang up long enough
for Jackson to make a one handed catch over his head to Russell went the other
way but not far enough and Jackson had enough room to stretch high and glove it
one away in the Dodger eighth inning and the Yankees are five outs away from
their first world title in 15 years and here's their big gun the guy who already
has a homer in this game three on the series Reggie Smith Smith has scored
two of the Dodgers three runs tonight safe on an errand scored in the first
homer to the third and into a double plays last time up and Smith takes inside
from Mike Torres for a ball Torres making his 14th career appearance against
the Dodgers 13 of those with the Cardinals and Expos he's been two and
five against them over the years but the night he's ahead there's a fastball for
a call strike to Smith leveling the count at one ball in one strike the other
day in Los Angeles Lopes with the Dodgers behind attempted to steal stealing
was snuffed out I don't think he'll do it tonight not four runs behind now the
stretch the pitch to Reggie low inside ball to two and one Ron say on deck
Steve Garvey to follow the Dodgers bringing their big thunder up for maybe
the last time this year two balls and a strike to Smith Mike Torres stretches
looks at a loax the pitch pop found out of play behind the plate two balls and
two strikes if the Dodgers lose tonight they will fly home immediately after the
game and they'll be back in Los Angeles sometime between 3 30 and 4 o'clock in
the morning West Coast time and a celebration would still be going on in
New York about that time I'm sure of the Yankees win to pitch to Smith
ground ball to first channelist gloves it down to the shortstop covering for one
back the first double boy for the second straight time Reggie Smith
grounds into a double play shambles made it look easy three six three the
Dodgers turned away with one hit in the eighth inning and the Yankees are three
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wouldn't you know it first up to bat for the New York Yankees in this last half
of the eighth Reggie Jackson in the series he scored nine driven in what seven
earlier in this series Reggie said about his manager and the strife they've
known that Billy Martin deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for keeping the peace
well that's a hand for Reggie Jackson when I wouldn't have guessed it since
Nobel was the scientist who invented or discovered dynamite perhaps part of that
prize should go to Reggie Jackson Jackson with four runs batted in since a
fly ball is center field indeed that's gonna be way back and that's gonna be gone Reggie Jackson
as it is for the home run of the game Reggie Jackson becomes
the second man in World Series history they had three home runs in a game we
told you earlier Babe Ruth did it on two occasions in 1926 and in 1928 and
Jackson just crunched one over the center field wall that must have been 440
feet or more away and they want Jackson to come out and take a bow with the
Yankees leading eight to three in the eighth inning and Reggie Jackson with
three home runs and five are behind and there he is takes his head off waves his
acknowledgement to the Yankee fans says thank you very much what a performance
tonight by Reggie Jackson who has been in the center of controversy with the
Yankees all year long I don't know there isn't anything to say or at least it's
beyond me the championship of heroics Reggie Jackson three million dollars to
get him here he has often said he doesn't want to come back here I don't
believe it for one second I never had Reggie Jackson could have had more money
by going to Montreal he could have had more money probably going to three other
places but he came here because this is where the newsmakers are and ready has
made it good and or bad and that's what he wanted and then this sixth and
obviously deciding game of the world series ready just took charge three home
runs to back up Mike Torres put it here's Chris Chambliss taking a knuckleball
from Huff for a ball so Reggie Jackson with five home runs in this year's
world series and three of them in game six all kinds of records four runs scored
tonight by Reggie Jackson ten runs scored in the series in six games by Reggie
knuckleball loaded Chambliss ball to Huff is ready the next pitch ground ball to
the right side looks over to his left to glove it turns and throws the garbys for
the out but the fans still buzzing over the spectacular performance tonight of
Reggie Jackson you know we told you was the MVP in the 1973 World Series with
Oakland you know how many home runs he hit in that World Series one I want to
tell you that last home run he hit we didn't get around to telling you about
it it was almost dead center that's no man's not it must have been 450 feet
here's Greg Nettles his 0 4 3 tonight 8 to 3 New York Nettles grounds at foul
outside of first so these New Yorkers ready to erupt three outs away from a
world championship Jackson's had nine hits in the series and five have been
home runs knuckleball and Nettles loan inside one and one and it's we're number
one from all sides of Yankee Stadium as far as the crowd is concerned the game
is over it's time to celebrate more on Reggie Jackson is now hitting 450 in
this series nine for 20 pitch the Nettles swung on and missed one and two he
scored 10 runs he's had nine hits a double five home runs and eight runs
battered in five of those tonight they can give him the car right now for the
MVP knuckleball inside called strike three on the corner and Nettles is out
that's half third strikeout but the Yankees have opened up a five run
cushion to take to the ninth inning I guess if anybody's happier than Reggie
and I doubt that anybody is at the moment it's the owner of the New York
Yankees or the principal owner George Steinbrenner who's been in the midst of
this all the way through but the indication tonight knuckleball to
Lupinella's inside for ball one and oh they're gonna be a lot of people claim
win that George Steinbrenner bought a world championship but this ball club
really gel this year here in New York knuckleball outside to know well they
had a magnificent season last year and then fell apart in the world series this
year they didn't clinch until they were sitting in the dressing room while it was
raining outside the day before but they've done it in the series the 2-0
pitch to Penella's bounce foul over toward the Dodger dugout when the Dodgers
bat on the ninth their last hopes will rest on the shoulders of Ron say Steve
Garvey and Dusty Baker I think it's fair to say about the Yankee
organization too and we'll say it after this pitch but now the loops had fell
back on the stand in the stands behind home plate two balls to strike beyond
the purchases by mr. Steinbrenner the first second short third baseman left
fielder center fielder were all trades the right fielder was a free agent the
catcher grew up in the organization Penella pops one back at first Garvey
going back to get it straddling the line and foul territory makes a catch but
the Yankees get another run on one hit Reggie Jackson's third home run of the
night and their underfated Jackson races out the right field at the end of eight
innings in game six Yankees eight Dodgers three you hear that for Reggie Jackson
going to right field takes off his hat salutes his fans even as they salute him
go go go Reggie in one of the most spectacular World Series performances
in history Reggie Jackson adored at the moment occasionally Abhorred but
currently adored and what a way to end the season oh boy you can read all about
Reggie of course in the 1977 World Series program that's being sold at the
ballpark right now it's 80 pages their color features on everybody that's been
in the postseason's play you can find it on selected newsstand or you can order
your copy now by sending a checker money order two and a half dollars to World
Series program post office box 666 San Francisco California 9 4 1 0 1 the
preceding has been brought to you on behalf of major league baseball and
talking about the biggies remember the Super Bowl Sunday January 15th right
here all the play-by-play action from New Orleans on most of these CBS radio
network stations and it's the top of the ninth the Los Angeles Dodgers after a
fantastic season one of the fastest getaways in the history of baseball
great play by almost all their players Ronnie say those 29 RB eyes in the month
of April the most magnificent comeback by left-handed Tommy John Steve Garvey
the shortstop they've had a great year and it looks like it's now down to the
last three outs Ross when you're certainly right in those comments about
this Dodger ball club it was good enough to win 103 games this year and
certainly the fans in Southern California and around the country are
proud of this Dodger ball club they've come a long way at one year Ron say
takes a called strike from Mike Torres as we go to the ninth inning that was
Torres is 100 and second pitch of the evening the next one to say low for a
ball one and one eight runs eight hits one error for the Yankees but three of
those hits were home runs by Reggie Jackson and another was a home run by
Chris Chambliss half of their hits have been home runs say blokes one foul
it'll be out of play although great nettles goes over takes a look at the
lands back along the left field line one and two to Ron say who broke his bat
and we'll have to get a new one so the Yankees one game one and twelve innings
the Dodgers came back here on Houten's five hitter and then perhaps the big
surprise of the entire fall classic the Yankees ability to win two straight in
Los Angeles put the pressure on the Dodgers LA came back in game five but
tonight the Yankees equal to the challenge and four home runs have given
them the lead the pitch to say misses for a ball two balls and two strikes not
many people figured the Yankees could take two out of three a Dodger stadium
but they did it Friday and Saturday the pitch to say it foul back upstairs
again outstanding pitching on Friday by Mike Torres and on Saturday by Ron
Gittery gave the Yankees this three to one lead in the series the Dodgers kept
it alive Sunday but tonight too much power here at Yankee stadium mostly
supplied by Mr. Reggie Jackson to pitch to say strike three ball six
strikeouts for Mike Torres one away in the ninth inning here's Garvey Ross I
think you put your finger on it the big surprise and the gilded pitching and the
Yankee staff that came into this series wounded severely wounded gullet hunter
Torres had had a bad shoulder figure oh I had a bad finger nobody knew that Mike
would pitch two games such as he has that gullet would win that first game
Garvey grounds one to the left side bucky Dan takes the big hop almost falls
down throws the chambliss not in time
American League umpire Nestor Shylock on top of the play he saw Chris Chambliss do
the splits but then had slipped as he tried to station himself and get
something on the throw bucky almost did it but Garvey legs it out for his ninth
hit of the series the Dodgers have a runner with one away on the ninth inning
and here comes Dusty Baker and it was the Yankee pitching because until
tonight the Yankee power did not show itself overpower first pitch to Baker
ball one and oh Garvey's hit is only the second hit by the Dodgers since the
fourth inning looks gotta lead off single in the eighth but he was erased on a
double play Torres to the stretch the pitch to Dusty wind right base at
Lafayle Garvey to second and holding and the Dodgers have to a board and
they're not through yet they're gonna go down fighting if they're gonna go down
Baker with his seventh into the series as eight hits off Torres Lyle has been
throwing a ballgame in itself in the Yankee bullpen and he's back out there
again but now with a five run lead Billy Martin knows that even a grand slam
Homer cannot get the Dodgers even so he's gonna stay with Torres to at least
face Rick Monday Monday has a single and three at bats Garvey a second Baker at
first Torres stretches the pitch swing and a miss Reggie Jackson three home
runs tonight only Babe Ruth ever did that before in a world series game and
you're joining some pretty elite company when you go with a Bambino five
homers in the series another record for Reggie Jackson Monday's gonna but leaves
it foul and Munson's gloves strike two not a bad thought by Rick Monday because
the Dodgers got to get some people on base about that like Vic Davalio did in
that game in Philadelphia game number four the Dodgers are not giving up they
trail by five they have two on 0 and to the count Mike Torres to the stretch
the pitch to Monday bounce foul behind the plate Monday playing for his 11th
manager in 12 years Tommy LaSorta missed 44 games this year with back problems
11 out of 12 never on Monday surprisingly is a lot of his home runs on Monday
two on one out 938 three Yankees Torres goes to the stretch the 0 2 pitch to
Monday foul back the Dodgers have left three men on base tonight the Yankees
only two the home runs have helped clear the sacks four home runs by New York
three by Jackson one by Chambliss one home run for Los Angeles by Smith
Garvey away from second Baker from first and Monday steps out as Torres
takes a little too much time now the stretch here comes the 0 2 pitch low
one and two Steve Yeager on deck the Yankees looking for the double play that
could give them their first world title in 15 years hard to believe it's been
19 62 since the last bagged one Torres set the 1 2 pitch low ball to Monday
had a good eye to look at that one two and two the Yankees went ahead tonight
in the fourth inning with three runs that bit at five to three they got two
in the fifth and one of the eighth on two more home runs by Reggie Jackson and
it's eight to three in the ninth Chambliss comes in from first base to talk
to Torrez Monday waiting two balls and two strikes eight runs eight hits one
error for the Yankees three runs eight hits no errors for the Dodgers Torres
is set checks his runners the 2 2 pitch there's a fly ball to right field and
deep Reggie Smith though may have a place on the warning track in front of the
wall he's got it to away Garvey tags up and moves over to third base Baker
stays at first and by a matter of maybe 10 feet or less Rick Monday misses a
three-run homer that would have gotten the Dodgers right back into the ball game
at eight to six but now two away and Vic Davolio is gonna hit for Steve Yeager as
the Dodgers are down to their last out of the season and to see to it that
Yankee Stadium will stay a viable stadium if this game should end on the
next out there are now at least 50 policemen on each foul line or
approximately stretched out around the box seats they're going to try to get
out there to restrain what in a moment probably will be well you use the word
before Ross an eruption the right field porch they're all sitting on the top of
the stands and it's going to be a race to see whether the policemen can get out
there first or whether the fans can drop down onto the field first we're down to
the last down there's two on Vic Davolio to pinch it and Mike Torres trying to
wind it up for his second nine inning full game series when Davolio spent much
of the year in the Mexican league waiting from the left side he bunched down
a third good but nettles bearhand pick up throw the plate not in time Garvey
scores is eight to four Baker at second Davolio at first with another one of
those drag bunts that he does so well that one down the third base line good
for an RBI the Dodgers are down now eight to four with loophs coming up or
maybe Lee Lacey I'm sorry Lee Lacey is gonna hit for the pitcher first and then
loophs if they get that far so the Wiley Vic Davolio who many people say is at
least 41 years old a man the Dodgers acquired from the Mexican league for
twenty five hundred dollars in August keeps them alive on the ninth inning
Billy Martin on his way out the talk to Torres with Lacey do up I think that's
going to be it for Mike I'm not sure nope Billy's gonna let him stay there is
now for runs difference is too on Lacey at bat should he get on it would bring
the tying run to the plate and Vic Davolio as he did in Philadelphia with
one difference in Philadelphia he dragged one down the first base line here he
punched one down the third base line the idea was to get on and he did
firecrackers explode in right field and Reggie Jackson comes in from the right
field I don't know whether he got hit oh he's going to get a helmet I'm told I
don't blame him Reggie Jackson for the final out with some of the overzealous
fans in right field throwing firecrackers on the field Reggie has come in for the
protection of his batting helmet the police are out in the right centerfield
area swinging their clubs above their heads trying to keep the fans off the
edges trying to keep them from jumping into the area when the game is over and
we see that they've just grabbed one brought him into the dugout I understand
to that anybody who is caught on the field will spend an equal amount of time
in the judge now Reggie has come to the dugout he has his batting helmet and
now he's heading back to the field of battle but now the field of play in
right field and the announcement goes again on the public address the system
please control yourself don't throw things on the field including yourself
Lee Lacey comes out to hit now for Charlie Huff two out ninth inning a
run over for the Dodgers Baker at second Davilio with a bunch single at first
base Torres to the stretch in the pitch to Lacey outside for a ball Lacey got
the pinch single here in the ninth inning of game one off Sparky Lyle which
got the Dodgers even Torres is ready the 1 0 pitch called strike one and one
the Dodgers need to get Lacey on to get the time run to the plate they're four
down Torres who's pitched the nine-hitter stretches deals but popped up
Torres has got under the Yankees of the world champions for the 21st time and for
the first time in 15 years Lee Lacey tried to put his way on he popped it up
it was caught by Mike Torres and New York wins eight to four over Los
Angeles and takes the world championship four games the two the first time in
18 years that a world series was completed in six games and the Yankees
have done it beating the Dodgers the final turtles the Yankees eight runs eight
hits one error the Dodgers four runs nine hits and no errors the fans are
swarming on the Yankees stadium and now this is Ross Porter turning it over to
win Elliott I enjoyed working with you win they too Ross it would have taken
2,000 cops to keep the ants it looks like an anthill down there the kids have
come from every section of the stand we will be back I hope in a minute
right here that's right hey after the work is done while you're still having fun
anytime the right time to say it
but why is it a bus to be for any time at all
that's right after the work is done while you're still having fun looking a
busy waiting for your call you said you said it every time and I suppose St. Louis
the signboard in center field is saying we're number one the kids down in the
field say who cares we're a thousand strong it wouldn't have made any
difference how many cops are attendance tried to keep them they poured over the
fences they poured onto the field they're doing snake dances victory dances
ripping up the bases there'll be no more baseball at Yankee Stadium this year
the Yankees are the world's champions they won the fourth game eight to four
they did it with a decimated pitching staff they did it with a superhuman
effort by Reggie Jackson and this deciding game Mike Torres was the
pitching hero with two complete series wins 155 pounds of Louisiana Cajun
but the name of Ron Gidry came in and did what he had to don gullet with hope
and faith and an injured left arm surprisingly won the first game and had
we known it then that was really it when gullet came out of nowhere with that
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what's the tenure the crowd down there looks like that forest in the wizard of
bars jumping around strange wonderful impossible it's Reggie Jackson's three
home runs Mike Torres brilliant eight-hit pitching that has given the
New York Yankees the 1977 world series that was it eight to four we'll return
with our post game activities in a minute this is when Elliot for Ross Porter
CBS radio sports WCBS New York
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from our vantage point here in the Yankee clubhouse at Yankee Stadium in
New York this is Ralph Conner and in the Yankee clubhouse we have bedlam just
taking place here champagne is being poured all over the opening round was
spilled all over Bill White the Yankee announcer as he was talking to the
commissioner baseball also a quick toast to manager Billy Martin Billy Martin
said he'd be here in just a second but we have maybe a hundred two hundred
people in the clubhouse and it's hard to get anybody to move around but the Yankees
coming into the clubhouse coming in somewhat quietly at the beginning they
came in the young boys came in first running in and congratulating each other
and then finally it was Billy Martin coming in and receiving the
congratulations of Bill White and then right after that Reggie Jackson coming
in and Reggie going over to his locker in the clubhouse very quietly taking off
his glasses no one at first noticing that he had arrived in the clubhouse and
then after getting the glasses off he sort of sat in his area there and I'm
sure was more or less contemplating the tremendous emotion that must have come
out as he hit the three home runs that really put the Yankees over the top so
we're waiting as we try to come up with someone that we can talk to as this
crowd keeps milling around keeps milling about us and right now our
postgame show will continue in a moment
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Back in 1973 Reggie Jackson was the hero of the last ball game the seventh game of the World Series
against the New York Mets and Reggie you've done it again
Well thanks a lot Ralph it's a great feeling I'm just glad that there are a lot of people
that shared along with me
You know I watched you come into the clubhouse and you came in rather quietly took your glasses off
and what was going through your mind at that point must have been tremendously emotional
I was beat I was a little afraid of getting off the field the fans were out there and it was a struggle
and I wore glasses and I get to the point where I lose my depth perception you know and I was kind of frightened
because I don't know where I'm stepping or anything you know but I just want to get inside and get my breath
because I was really tired
Then you got the champagne all over you
That's always like a you know the taste of victory and it symbolizes victory and championship and it's just nice
You know Reggie three home runs in the final game is a feat that Babe Ruth once did and I'm sure that you'll be thinking about that
It's fantastic accomplishment
Well Ralph I don't know there's you guys throw the word superstar around a lot and you know guys like Maze and Aaron and Ruth and DiMaggio and Mantle
and at least for one day I can say I had a day of one
You've been saying that New York is not quite your town and might be now
Well we'll see it's I can't do much more neither can the team and either can the town they were very supportive
I'm glad we won for the fans and I'm glad we won for just a lot of people here I think it's good for the town
I'm sure it'll be a happy winner for people in New York they need it
And certainly good for Reggie Jackson
Well it's great for me but I'm I really don't count I'll have a good time and you know I'll relish in the things that will happen to me
but I can say I know there's a God out there and everybody will be happy and that's what's important
What do you got planned for tonight?
Well go to a little place over on 76th Street
Jimmy McMullins to have a couple of beers and share good times with some friends and my father's here and he's real happy so I'm excited
Thank you very much Reggie Jackson a great series
Thanks Ralph thanks very much
Reggie Jackson of course Reggie with a fantastic series having three hormones in the final game
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Right now here in the clubhouse we have the commissioner baseball Bowie Kuhn and Bowie
This is one great day for you and of course a great year for baseball
Well I think it's a fine culmination to what has been an outstanding year Ralph
I think this has been an exciting series
I don't know when we've seen such a home run barrage in the series and Reggie of course was super spectacular today
As was Mike Torres so it's been a great win for the Yankees and we're all proud of in baseball
Well it took place in this big city here and I think the fans riding the ups and downs of the Yankees throughout this whole season
Finally realized that it's over and it really ended with a bang
Well you know it's been a roller coaster for the Yankees this year
They've been a very dramatic team with a lot of contention on them
But they've been an exciting team and I think they showed today that they're real champions
Alright Bowie Kuhn the commissioner of baseball thank you very much Bowie
Okay Ralph nice to be with you
So here in the Yankee clubhouse where you still have this tremendous crowd milling around
It's hard to get to anybody it's almost impossible as a matter of fact
And the big story the home runs by Reggie Jackson the fine pitching by Mike Torres
Mike the winning pitcher and two of the ballgains for the Yankees
As they won the series four games to two the first game going to the Dodgers
Pardon me but to the Yankees by a score of four to three and twelve innings
In that ball game the winning pitcher was Sparky Lyle the second game
Going to the Dodgers six to one as Burt Hooten pits the winning victory of that ball game
And then the Yankees going to Dodgers stadium winning out there
They defeated the Dodgers by a score of five to three four to two
And then LA coming back to move it back to New York City
As the Dodgers won the fifth game by a score of ten to four
And the sixth game going to the Dodgers by a score of eight to four
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I'm talking with the president of the National League, Chubb Feney
And Chubb I know that you went down to a tough defeat here tonight
As the Yankees really prevailed with their home run hitting in the final game
Well we're really very disappointed
You know the Dodgers are a super ball club and I think they played very well
It's just one of those things
Too much power, too much Reggie Jackson tonight
Wish we had another day at him tomorrow
Well it's all over Chubb and I'm sorry you'll have to wait until next year as they say in Brooklyn
That's right it's a long time but we'll make it in 78
Okay Chubb Feney, president of the National League
Right here we have the winning manager
We have Billy Martin and Billy congratulations
Thank you Ralph it was quite a season
You came into the clubhouse kind of quietly
The emotion of it all sort of getting to
It caught up to me finally
How about in that last inning do you have any doubts about the fact that Mike Torres would finish the ball game?
Well he was throwing hard and I had to spark you ready for about four innings
So I wasn't worried if I had to go to sparking
I know one thing you did well you gave that home run sign enough times
Well I wish I could take the credit for that Ralph
But our guys are just their battlers and they probably been reading in the paper
Where they haven't been hitting any home runs and then maybe they decided to bust loose
I can see them coming around the last three or four days
I can see the left handers bats starting to come around
Billy Martin and winning manager Billy thank you very much
Well there it is the Yankees have defeated the Dodgers to win the 1977 World Series in six games
Once again tonight's score the New York Yankees eight and the Los Angeles Dodgers four
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This is Ralph Kiner saying so long from Yankee Stadium on the CBS Radio Network
This is WCBS in New York as one minute before 11 o'clock
As you just heard the Yankees won the World Series with an eight to four victory tonight over the Dodgers
In the NBA the Pistons beat the Jersey Nets one ten to ninety three tonight
And it was the Knicks over the Kansas City Kings one twenty to one thirteen
Islanders in Los Angeles ended up scoreless
Spencer Ross was covering the Knicks game for News 88
Ed Engels and Art Athens covering the Yankees game up at the stadium
We'll be hearing from all of them later on in this night as New York celebrates
It's 55 degrees in Manhattan with humidity at 64%
A Southwest wind at ten miles per hour
Barometer just under 30 inches and going up a partly cloudy night
Breezy and cool with a chance of showers developing after midnight
Temperatures of 43 to 48
Overcast damp and cool tomorrow with occasional rain high in the middle 50s
And again in the city now 55 degrees
I'm Robert Vaughan now stay tuned as CBS covers the world at 11
CBS News the New York Yankees win the World Series in six games
Defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight eight to four
I'm David Jackson reporting on the CBS Radio Network
And we have a report from Yankee Stadium and win Elliott of CBS Sports
Dave the center field scoreboard and signboard says it
Yankees 1977 World's Champions the second complete game pitching win by Mike Torres
He struggled for a while but he stayed in it allowed only four runs and eight hits
The Yankees trailing to nothing after an error opened the gates for the Dodgers in the first inning
Chamble as a two run homer Reggie Smith gave them back to lead the Dodgers
With a singleton in the right field stands and the rest of the way it was all Reggie Jackson
A two run homer in the fourth, a two run homer in the fifth
And a two run homer in one run homer in the eighth
It was one of the superior performances in all World Series history
And the guys who were supposed to do it did it the hard way
The pinstripe champions of all baseball the New York Yankees win Elliott for CBS News from Yankee Stadium
Reggie Jackson's three home runs in one World Series game equals a record held only by Babe Ruth
So for the Yankees tonight a lot of champagne and celebrating for the Dodgers
As it was so many times when they were in Brooklyn it's wait till next year
More news in a minute
On Sunday January 2nd we'll take you to Dallas to find out who will come out on top of the Cotton Bowl College Classic
Moving to the weekend of January 14th at 15th you'll hear about Superbowl's pass from win Elliott on a spectacular Super Bowl weekend special
17 broadcasts recalling exciting moments for football's greatest event of the year
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Terrorist bombs exploded overnight in northern Italy violent footnotes to the end of a hijacking
Blasts wrecked three showrooms for German-made cars in Turin and Leghorn, Italy
No injuries are reported anonymous callers said bombs were planted in memory of three anarchists
Reportedly committed suicide in jail. Those deaths came after West German commandos stormed a Lufthansa airliner in Somalia
Freed 86 hostages and killed three of the four hijackers yesterday
Freedom for the jailed anarchists had been one of the hijackers' demands
The end of the hijacking also prompted violent demonstrations by leftists in Rome and Athens
But in Frankfurt the commandos returned to a hero's welcome and praise from many world leaders
At the UN today, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said there's a move for immediate consideration of the issues of terrorism and hostage taking
This under threat of a two-day strike by many of the world's airline pilots if no UN action is taken
House Senate conferees began work today on an energy bill saying they were in a compromising mood
The mood apparently didn't last long after four hours of debate they got stuck on the first issue discussed
Whether utility companies should be allowed to finance and install home insulation. The House says no, the Senate says yes
After a meeting with President Carter today, Senator Abraham Rybakov said the conferees would work closely with the White House
Energy, he says, is a very important issue
We're talking about taxes that will raise between now 1985 and the neighborhood of $50 billion
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A warning today from Vice President Mondale to South Africa
In a Johannesburg newspaper interview Mondale says it will be increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain good relations with the white South African government
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Robert Vaughan on News 88 where you heard the Yankees win it all tonight at six minutes after 11 o'clock WCBS News time
More on that Yankees game, Reggie Jackson's three homers
Connie Breesy and Kool, a chance of showers developing after midnight
Temperatures of 43 to 48 with southerly winds at 8 to 16 miles per hour
Overcast damp and cool tomorrow with occasional rain and a high in the middle 50s
Southeast winds at 10 to 20 miles per hour
Thursday clearing Breesy and Kool, high 55 to 60 degrees
Looking just a little further ahead from Dr. Bob Harris and our weather center on Friday
Increasingly cloudy, shower and that should come sometimes late in the day
A high in the upper 50s on Friday against 54 degrees now in New York
Mostly cloudy at the moment with 64% humidity
As you doubtless heard a little bit earlier with a three home runs by Reggie Jackson
A two run homer by Chris Chambliss tonight, the New York Yankees beat
The Dodgers, 8 to 4 up in Yankee Stadium and they won the World Series in game number 6
Reggie Jackson, the most valuable player, a car he won tonight saying he's going to give it to his kid sister
We have WCBS reporter Art Athens with the fans
And there it is, the final out of the game, something Yankee fans have waited for for 15 years and this fight warnings to stay off the field
The field is mobbed, Reggie Jackson like a shot for his way in to right field
Purses a few players, a few spectators out of the way and makes it to the dugout
And there goes the pitcher's mound, warmed and it looks like a lot of fans trying to figure out how to get the rubber up the faces
It disappeared right away and police, New York City police are out on the field
Night clubs are swinging at a few and they've got a guy down and it looks like out cold over at third base where he might have been trying to steal the bag
Thousands of fans pouring out on the field, some of them carrying sides despite the fact that at almost every inch of the gates around Yankee Stadium
They're coming from the stands into the field, there are police, mounted police now hit the field
Coming out through the right field gate and they're knocking down some fans, they're using billy clubs, they're not fooling around
There go a few more firecrackers out in right field and the field is mobbed
Somebody's rolled up the on deck batter circle and is trying to figure out a way to get out of here with it
I don't know whether it'll make it very far, he's trying to walk back into stands and he just got pinched
Oh, Ned Trubelin, Ned Trubelin, he doesn't want to give it up, he's got that on deck circle and he won't give it up
A few nights, Dick swings, some bases disappear and all in all after 15 years I guess a lot of these fans figure they're entitled to get out there and tear up Yankee Stadium
Most of the 56,000 fans are staying in their seats watching the spectacle out on the field
The police have promised to make a rest and I'm sure they'll make a few, I see about a half a dozen people down on the ground
They've been hit with might sticks and they're being pulled off the field
A lot of them are still walking around, victory sides, number one sides, paying little or no attention to the police
And it doesn't look like there's too much they can do as the scoreboard clashes Yankee, 1977 World Champs at Yankee Stadium, this is our death
And we have a lot more sports coming up, of course in addition to Art up at the stadium, we had our sports director at Ingalls there
While our Spencer Ross was at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks opener, the Knicks beat the Kansas City Kings tonight to get underway
The Knicks lost, the Islanders in Los Angeles scoreless, we'll be getting Jim Kelly with all the rest of the sports news coming up shortly
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The Concorde SST arrives tomorrow in New York City, Tom Foday has the story
After all the demonstrations and court fights there is no more question here that the British are coming and so are the French in their supersonic transport
British Airways spokesman Norman Lorney
We are expecting the first Concorde to land at New York tomorrow about 11 o'clock in the morning
The first Concorde test takeoff from Kennedy will come the following day
For now opponents say there will be no protest but the near future, Brian Levinson of Concorde Alert says that will be different
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That's what it's going to look like because we are going to have those cars like floats
But now it will be the Concorde and not the protest cars that will be the focus of attention at JFK
Tom Foday in New York
It's 11 after 11 o'clock because of that exciting ball game the Yanks won tonight
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14 minutes after 11 WCBS Sports Time
I'm Jim Kelly, it's sports time, more precisely World Series time
I won't hit a home run everybody else did though
Game 6, the Dodgers had to win, they took a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning after two men were out
An error, a pass ball, a walk and then a Steve Garvey triple
The Yankees went down 1-2-3 in their half of the first inning
Los Angeles the same in the top of the second but in the Yankee half of inning number two
Reggie Jackson walks on four straight pitches and then Bert Hooten delivers
One pitch to Shamless, a drive to the right center field and deep
Way back, going, going, a home run for Chris Shamless and we're tied 2-2
But not for long as Ross Porter called it here on CBS Ready
Reggie Smith steps up and the Los Angeles half of the third
The 1-1 pitch to Smith, there's a drive to center field and deep
Rivers turns, that one's going to be gone again in the right center field
Pavilion and the Dodgers regain the lead, 3-2 on Reggie Smith's third home run of the World Series
But Los Angeles' 3-2 lead was short lived as Thurman Munson singled and Reggie Jackson dug in
There's a drive to right field and deep, Smith going back, away back, it's gone, home run for Reggie Jackson
Four 3 Yankees, they had another run as Chris Shamless had a soft fly ball drop in
Between Dusty Baker and Bill Russell in short left field, that went for a double
And he moved over to third base, Lou Pinella then drove him home with a sacrifice fly for a 5-3 Yankee lead
And that's the way it was until the New York 5th inning when Reggie Jackson is up once again
The pitch, drive to right field and deep, way back, going, going, gone, another home run for Reggie Jackson
And the Yankees lead 7-3
Amazing, and the crowd thought so too, they wouldn't stop chanting Reggie, Reggie
Until he came out of the dugout once again and dopted his cap
That reaction though was small by comparison when Reggie Jackson came up, yet again in the New York 8th
Jackson with four runs batted in, sends a fly ball to center field and deep, that's going to be way back
And that's going to be gone, Reggie Jackson has hit his third home run of the game
And that ties a World Series record set by Babe Ruth and Reggie did it
Yep, in the house that Babe Ruth built, Yankee Stadium, the Dodgers added one more in the night
Than they threatened briefly but it was too little, too late
Reggie Jackson supplying the offense in game six and Mike Torres going the route
Ironically he's the one that made the final Dodger put out
Torres, who's pitched the nine-hitter, stretches deals
But, popped up, Torres has got under the Yankees of the World Champions for the 21st time
And for the first time in 15 years
The Yankee right-hander stopping the Dodgers on nine hits, he beat them for the second time in just four days
Both were complete games, he gave up two unearned first inning runs at 425 foot home run to Reggie Smith
His third of the series and then he only gave up four hits and one run over the last five innings
This was Torres after the game
Five of this is it, we're number one, this year anyway, he wanted to show
And of course the Yankee victory perhaps inspired by the vote of confidence
Given to manager Billy Martin earlier in the day, club president Gabe Paul
Ending speculation that Billy Martin would be fired by saying he would be retained for the final two years of his contract
With a substantial bonus, forget the bonus, nothing is sweeter than a win in the World Series
And ironic in a way, that when the money was on the line
The series most valuable player would turn out to be none other than Reggie Jackson
Who was at the center of controversy all season long
First was Jackson against Thurman Munson, then Reggie Jackson against Billy Martin the manager
Don't forget that blow up on national television against the Boston Red Sox when the two almost came to blows
This is what Reggie had to say after game six, after the Yankees had won the World Series against the Dodgers
Eight for the final in game six, four two in games, Reggie?
Well, it's great for me, but I really don't count
I'll have a good time and you know, I'll relish in the things that will happen to me
But I can say I know there's a God out there and everybody will be happy and that's what's important
So the New York Yankees, champions of the world, they take the Dodgers eight for the final, four two in games
That's sports time, that's World Series time, we're out of time, I'm Jim Kelly and friends on the CBS World Series
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This was around somewhere, you know?
He struck out a lot, but he was a good defensive man, I'll say that
No, but Dad and I used to have, in the first days of television, you know, when the old Dumont television was out there
We used to have great problems about what game to watch, you know, on television
Because I wanted to watch the Yankees, he wanted to watch the Red Sox and there was the ability to see both
Because we could get both channels
And you know, Dad said Ted Williams is just the greatest guy, you know, and I said yes, yes
Ted Williams was great, he was right about it
I mean, he's unbelievable, but I mean, Joe DiMagia, you can't be him
There's more, I'm going to put it that way
So I've always been the Yankee fan all my life because, you know, I've lived here obviously
But somewhat, just to sort of just pick a dad a little bit, I like the Yankees
Well, Peter, thank you very much, and when you said Joe DiMagia, Joe followed in the tradition, of course, of Babe Ruth
It so happened, by the way, the Yankees had three sonner-fielders over a period of 40, 41, 2 years
All of whom made the Hall of Fame
Was that Tony?
It was Earl Combs, Joe DiMagia and Mickey Mantle
Oh, right
Which is a little bit of trivia, perhaps
No, it's not
Three regular center-fielders that spanned better than 40 years, all of them made the Hall of Fame
Well, all I have to say is that I hope that Mickey Rivers keeps on with us so that he can make it too
Because I think he's a super player
He really is
And Peter, I thank you, and since you mentioned tradition, the wife and the owner of the Yankees
That was the one thing he told me, I first met him when he was a football coach
And I met him out at Purdue
But many years later, he becomes the owner of the Yankees
And he had to remind me of that, which made me feel about two inches tall
But anyway, I wanted the Yankees to win more
And I'll be very honest about this for him this year, because I know what he went through
Oh boy, did he
And you do too
No, I couldn't agree with you more
I mean, what George has done with Mr. Steinbunner has done
He's brought to New York a team that is really New York
I mean, it is controversial, it is a team that has problems
So does New York, I mean, it's a team, however, that has stars and so too does New York
I mean, it is a New York scene to me
As a star yourself, do you understand the way
Well, sorry not, I mean, I think the Yankees are so exciting
And my children love them, my wife loves them
And we just come to a lot of games and we're just very excited about this
This night is so exciting to us
And to a wonderful girl, I know it is for Mrs. George Steinbunner, who she doesn't like doing the air
George is down there
But she's great on the air
We've worked together before
Oh, hasn't he?
In Tampa
I'll tell you what
Why don't you interview Mrs. Steinbunner
First of all, John and I would like to congratulate you, Mrs. Steinbunner
And of course I had the privilege of meeting you before in your family
But I know what all this meant
It really was exciting and we're all so happy
And we appreciate all the wonderful fans in New York City
And that's what's so great about it
They've all supported us, not only here but all over the country
Everyone wanted to see the Yankees win so many places where we would go
And everyone is just so happy that we could do it
Well, John, do you want to ask Mrs. Steinbunner or something?
No, I really like the analogy though
Because there's no line show business
It doesn't matter what they say as long as they spell your name right
And I think, although I'm sure that George Steinbunner
That's for years
For you
That many of the Yankees would not like all the controversy surrounding it
I think it's great
And I think it really is part of New York
And then winning the World Series of the Bang with the great star Reggie Jackson
That Mrs. Steinbunner brought in
Anyway, it is really some night
You're really excited, aren't you?
You better believe in Thor the Tildren
And don't forget, this team just absolutely creamed the Cincinnati team
Right, absolutely
They've been ahead of the Cincinnati team
More than 10 games, right
Last year, you know, we had a little unfortunate four games
Okay, listen, Mrs. Steinbunner doesn't want to be on the air
There's nothing worse, I don't believe in people going in and putting mics in people's mouths
We don't want to be on the air
I'm doing television now because she's gorgeous
Yeah, she is
She is, she is
The most beautiful children I've ever seen in my life
May I add one thing, Gay Paul blesses heart in the business of almost 50 years
Yes, the first World Series that this many need
It was with Cleveland, Cadillac Green Team
Cincinnati, I never won a World Series, it's the first one
I was happy to be with Gay when the last out was made
I was with Gay when the last out was made
And we ran over and Brayson, he just cried like a child
I just want to interrupt just for a moment
I asked Mary, which he come in
Mary Paul
And Mrs. Steinbunner already said she would
But Mary says, you know, I've never done this
And I said, I know you haven't
She says, wait until Gabe gets up here
I said, I don't know if I can wait for Gabe or George
Because they're both down in the club
So I thank Mrs. Steinbunner, no reason Gabe or Mary aren't here
I want to explain that
One of them may get here before we get off the air
I thank you all very much
Thank you, Bill Shea and Mrs. Steinbunner, Robert Merrill
Thank you, Peter Duchen
God bless you all
Mel, I have to, you know, it's a kick
When you revere someone
Because you've met all the greats, you know
And when you revere someone and then they tell you
That they hear you on the air
And I know you feel it's a kick all your life
You know, I went outside with Robert Merrill
To tell him I do about 150 games a year
Hockey, basketball, my show, football
And my voice is just being abused
You know, he told me what to do
You know, about going to a voice teacher
And learning how to hit different notes and all
What he mentioned in the practice
I'm not going to tell you what he told you to do
It's to do re mi paso, la ti do re mi
You're a voice coach, right?
Mel, first thing about listening up
I have to take care of some commercials, as they say
Your basic commercials
Now, Mel's looting up some of our bosses
Meanwhile, we're going to
Have some more people come in
We have about 35 minutes on the air
And what a great night
We've had representative Edward Koch
And this is George Steinbrenner
Robert Merrill from the Metropolitan Opera
Maybe America's greatest classical singer
Peter Duchen
William Shea of Shea Stadium
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If you have been locked up
In the cellar somewhere, I don't know what's happened
I'm sorry, it's been one whale of a night
The Yankees have won the World Series
They beat the Dodgers 8-4 tonight at Yankee Stadium
The Dodgers scored two runs in the first on a Steve Garvey triple
With two out and two on
Chris Chambliss hit a two run home run
The second to tie the game
A big home run for Chris who had not been hitting well
He hit it deep in the right center field
Bleaches off a low fastball
Reggie Smith at a Mike Torres fastball
I think in the third inning to give the Dodgers a 3-2 lead
In the same area
He hit it off Hooten too with a knuckle baller
And knuckle curve, excuse me
And then Reggie Jackson went to work
One of the most dramatic nights at Yankee Stadium
He hit three bolts
Two down the right field line, deep in the right field seats
And one, the biggest bolt of all
All on the first pitch
He hit it in the center field seats
Only Ken Singleton reached those center field seats
Since Yankee Stadium had been redesigned
It probably was 450 feet off a Charlie Huff knuckle ball
And it's the first time in World Series history
Anyone's hit three home runs consecutively
Only the third time in World Series history
A gentleman's hit three homers in one game
And Babe Ruth did it twice
In 26 and 28, I think in St. Louis
Both times against the Cardinals
And
It's about as exciting as wild as season
Beginning in spring training with the Yankees
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
And it comes out of World Series
The championship in the sixth game
And Mel Allen is here, who's a blessing
You know I love you, I'll tell you why
Because you have a right to sit back
And be kind of a cynical observer
You've done eight million World Series games
And you've done it all
You're as excited like a young kid tonight
Like you're out of Alabama singing your first World Series game
Wasn't that great?
It was great, but you know why
There's more than a partisan viewpoint
Or partisan reaction
It was a great sports story
And the man I'm about to bring on the air
Is a man who's written many great sports stories
And
I put him in the
Same time
Capsule, so to speak
When Russ Hodges
Left
Our broadcasting here at Yankee Stadium
And went to the Giants
As a chief announcer, the fellow that replaced him
Was a guy named Kurt Gowdy
And I'm delighted to say
That I had something
To say about it
Because Dan Topping
Made a so-rest in peace at that time
We were introduced to five people
Missing the tapes, he said
Take anyone up you want
After all you have to live with
And I had met Kurt
He was in town to do some basketball
Oklahoma State had
A Hank Iba
Had great basketball teams
And so
He came in and worked with us
Before he went to the Red Sox
And then became the national figure
He is in our business
And the gentleman I'm talking about
Standing just to my right
Hal Middlesworth
Who also came from Oklahoma City
And
Is a sports reporter
For the written page
And went to Detroit
And now
Is public relations director
For the Detroit Tigers
Now Hal, you've seen
So many exciting things in the world
Of sports as a reporter
And the Tigers in 1968
World Series
And we had to win
Very exciting
You can talk about that
Compare the two
Give us your viewpoint from the standpoint
Of a Detroit reporter
And a member of the Detroit Tigers
About this World Series
Well one thing I'd like to point out
Is what happens on the field
Is what counts as you and I well know
And the Yankees prove what a
Ball Club they were with their performance
On the field, regardless of what's happened
Away from the field and so forth like that
It's a great ball club and I'm very happy
To see the Yankees win
Because I'm an American league at heart
And I want to see them do well
I'm a friend of Billy Martins
And have been for a long time
Ever since he played for the Yankees
And played a little bit for the Tigers
And managed for the Tigers of course
But to get back to 1968
As you know the Tigers were down one game to three
And came back and won
And won three games out of that series
And got a bit of key blow
Make a little shit of home run in that series
Which is very unusual for us
But it was an exciting time
And it was a psychological thing
In Detroit which pulled the town together
As no other thing could have
In 1967 there had been
Rope trouble with riding and so forth like that
And this turned the town around
And it's been a better town ever since really
I'm glad you said that
I was disappointed truthfully
I don't like to get in the controversy
Deliberately
Sometimes you are naturally
Because you give your viewpoint
As a writer or a broadcaster
But the other day
When the Tigers
Dodges
Left here
After the first two games
Some of them criticized
At least I'm not criticizing the Dodgers
Frankly I'm criticizing
The media
Both radio TV
I put that
In one category
That's why I say both
And the press
Because the headlines
Least in New York were
Dodgers criticizing New York fans
Now the percentage
Just like tonight there was a slight interruption
As you know how
They're not representative
To any degree at all
Much somewhere like
One half of one half percent
Of the fans
I think the fans in New York
Like the fans in Detroit
I can only think of a couple of ballparks
Where they really are so completely
One sided
I think these are a few kooks
Or
People who just want to
You know be seen on television
And I say our businesses
Have fought there but they're not typical
Of New York they were New York fans
No way New York has fine fans
When I was covering
The Tigers with newspaper men
I like to come to New York because
Of the fans the fans are good fans
They're appreciative fans
Our team like to play as you remember
We had Frank Lerry and Jim Bunning
Real nemeses to the Yankees for a long time
And we enjoyed playing here
I think our players played better in New York
I know Al K. Line gave his best
Performances right in this park
He sure did I remember him
Before they republished this ballpark
And the little barriers out here
Making catches, robbing people
Of home runs
And I'm glad you mentioned him
Because to me he was always
One of my favorite
Ball players, I think one of the greatest
Ball players of all time
Not because he won a batting championship
At the age of 20 which
Equaled out of Ty Cobb
I think it was a few days difference
But they talk
About people in New York
That's true being a center
Of communications getting more
Publicity if they do something big
And I can't quarrel
That it is but on the other hand
If Al had hit a few more
Home runs I think he would
Have gotten more publicity
Than he did certainly more
In other words
He put it this way he didn't get as much
He deserved he was one of the greatest
Ball players I ever saw he in line drives
He made the greatest catches
I can remember
A throw it's funny how you remember things
Running toward the foul line
In right field he made a willy made
So-called I say this with
New York fans because they're so used
To the vet talk which is
Of course true
He was running toward
The right field foul line
And made a catch of a ball
Running at a 90 degree angle
The home plate and whirling through guy
Trying to tag up and score after the catch
But that was typical of Al Kingline
He taught runners early in his career
Not to try to go from first
To third on singles to right field
You know that he threw guys out
Repeatedly and they quit running on him
Right
You know Detroit
Since we were reminiscing a little bit
As you look back over the years
You had Ty Cobb who won
9 straight batting titles
Lost one I think he won 3
Mourner-O
12 all together
I think they have had teams
Tiger teams that had more people
Who have won batting titles
Remember like Harry Hyland
Who used to win like every other year
And then you had K-Line
But I don't know
Who left out anybody
Harvey Keane, Norm Keane
Oh yeah Harvey Keane you remember
The one batting titles but
There was a period in there
When the Yankees
The dynasty if they hadn't won a penant
If they didn't win a penant
The team that did was the Tigers
Right and the competition between
The two teams was great here and in Detroit
Great great crowds
Great competition it's been a great rivalry all the time
I remember when Red Roth
It was a great Yankee third baseman
One of the greatest of all time
Managed the Tigers and had a great battle
One year and the Tigers were finally beaten out in the end
And one of the reasons I don't know
How the Yankees got Johnny Myers
And let him go I think the Tigers wanted him
I think he would have made the difference
That's right that was in 1950 of course
And the Tigers led the race almost
All the way and the Yankees came in at the close
There was a very exciting year
Well Hal I sure appreciate you're coming in
And representing the press
On this and there's so much I could say
About the Tigers
Through the years I know
When I was a kid in Birmingham, Alabama
They had a working agreement with the Detroit Tigers
And a lot of the great Tigers
In the middle 30s
Alpine wind penance was around 35
Or so played the Cubs
I believe the Cubs
They don't have the Cardinals
Dizzy Dean
The Joe Medwick situation
When the
Fans got a little angry out there
When he slid hard
In the third baseman Marv
Marv Owen
A lot of people who are listening in
Of course weren't even born then
I'd only been
I guess I was maybe 6 or 7 years old seriously
A guy named Earl Whitehill
Got killed
In an old B-Laxman
He was a great left hand pitcher
He was like a Louis Tion today
When
I used to go to Rick Woodfield in Birmingham
He'd go in a wind up and he would actually
Spend his body around completely
And look at second baseman then pitch
In general Alvin Crowder
Those two went from Birmingham
To Detroit
So naturally we rooted for Detroit
As people, you know, kids run up
Then later they both wound up in Washington
And helped the Senators win
But there's always been a wonderful
Feeling about this
That's the wonderful thing about baseball
Of course you don't know where your fans are going to be
You have fans all over the country
The Yankees do have, we do have
That's what's the appeal of the game of course
Now you have Ralph Hough as your manager
And you know
I'm saying this
For the benefit of those who are listening
In who may also know it
The Tigers have been one of the outstanding
Organizations and all of baseball
All through the years
A lot of folks who
Live in a town don't really
Pay attention to what happens
Behind the scenes in other towns
But now you came in
From Oklahoma, I came in
From Alabama, I found this to be true
Right, I've enjoyed my life
And I've tried very very much
It's a fine organization as you say
Ralph Hough has done an admirable job
With a group of very fine young players
That we're hoping will mature
In a couple of years into a championship club
And I think we will
Well I'll tell you this
They always draw the fans
And I hope Mark Pedrich gets back
A good champion
He's been St. Petersburg
Now working out with our instructional
League team
And Ralph Hough is there
At the end of this week
And put him on the mound and see what he can do
The doctors are very optimistic
And we are too
Thanks to you, Mark
So it's good to see you
Much obliged to you
Hough Middlesworth Public Relations
Director of Detroit Tigers
And a top
Rider, a member of the baseball
Right Association of America
And we thought we'd get the viewpoint
And a member
Arrival club in the American League
John
I was going to be a little listening to both of you
I went back to
The assistant manager's office
Where frankly the party upstairs
Is going on and a select little
Champagne and
Gabe and George have not gotten upstairs yet
But when they do we're going to
Bring them in here, I'd love to congratulate them
You know someone said it was a
Bill Shea, it was a Bob Merrill
It's so great for Gabe Paul
To be one of the world champions
That's what the business is all about
Can I tell you something about
Gabe tell you
I don't mean to
Put it quite that way
You know it
He was a follow that
Came from upstate New York
Around Syracuse
He broke in as a
Not even a bat boy, but he shined his shoes
In the clubhouse
And from there
He rose until he became
The second man in line
To the president of Cincinnati Reds
Who later became the National League president
Warren Giles and he became president
Of the Cincinnati Reds
He built up a great ball club for them
In the 50s, he remember the year
And they hit over
221
The year I referred to with
Bertie Tevitz
Before they hit 221 home runs
And he then
Left
Go to Cleveland
Just before they
Right after they won the penalty
39 and 40
They won 2 punts and one of them
The Yankees beat them in 1939
Which was my first year, the next year
Strangely the man who just had on
Detroit
The Reds and Tigers played the 40 series
But Gabe and moving about
Had never
Gotten this far
And over a half century
A man that
Was on the American League
Executive Committee
A man who is a real baseball man
A George Weiss type
A
Branch Ricky type
A guy that is good for baseball
And put it that way, I'm so proud that he won
It's such luck and timing in life
As you know, you can pick a ball player
Who maybe in his first year George Zeber
And he's who will have a world championship
Ring for the rest of his life
No matter what happens
I got one
You have more than one
They only gave me one really
Ernie Banks played like that
And never even got to a penalty
Well, Mr. Baseball
We're going to have different people on
But right now it's time to
While you do that kind of run
Banks might be available
Got to try to pay your immense salary
In a couple minutes
I'm not going back to Champagne
Trying to see if I can get one of these
Sparrows, okay
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But again, I do want to thank the New York
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Manchester Broadcasting Productions
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Combining along with
Our good people at WMCA
Dennis Israel and Mark Mason
For
Canceling the New York Islander
Broadcast that would have been on the network
So that we could all be here at Yankee
Stadium for what turned out to be the clincher
And probably the most, or not maybe the most
One of the most dramatic nights with
With Reggie Jackson coming to the fore
And hitting three home runs
Three consecutive times of bat
And I believe on three consecutive pitches
I think he hit the first pitch every time
And
I know I would have felt very badly
But I think he's been here
The Yankees did that a couple of years ago
They canceled one of their early season games
So we could bring you the Nets championship
Final against Denver when they
Erased a 22-point lead
I think I was excited that night
Mail Allen has brought in the commissioner baseball
I did a program though, not too long ago
I sat in for Barry Gray
I had Marty Appellon
Oh, yeah
He's along with Joe Grasiole Jr
And the player, agent, business
Hall of Famers in baseball history
And Marty Appell gave a great
Testimonial to Blueie Cune, the commissioner baseball
And I agree under Blueie Cune
Baseball is prospered
Like it never has before, and if I may say this
Mr. Cune, we've never met before
I'm John Sterling, it's nice to meet you
And do you know this was baseball's bound of year
In attendance, in great crowds
In tremendous play in the
In the expansion cities, Seattle, Toronto
People wouldn't know this, but this was baseball's greatest year
And what a great finish for it tonight
And I think he's won, but because of the drama
In the two biggest cities in this country
New York and Los Angeles, and you must be a very happy man tonight
I'm delighted, I agree
It has been a tremendous year
For baseball, we've seen so many things go right
We've had so much excitement
We've had, you know, we've had controversy
But that has all been bad
Some of it, I guess, the commissioner would just as soon do without
Because it's a sort of a problem for him
But the whole thing has been enormously
upbeat
We've seen attendance, such as many people never dreamed
In professional baseball, we've seen interest
At a normally high level
And I think we've seen a very fine, exciting series
That thrilled the country
And the whole thing has been
A very suitable climax to
The great championship year of 1977
You know, about a decade ago
People were saying, well, baseball is too slow
And it's an old man's game
And now you see so many kids at ballparks
And cities, I'm not talking about New York drawing
Or LA drawing, I'm talking about
Milwaukee, Seattle
Toronto
Philadelphia drawing 2.5 million
Cincinnati, 10 games out drawing 2.5 million
Chicago Cubs
And you see so many young people in ballparks
And I think the interest in baseball is in an all-time high
I know on my program
It is discussed all year long
You know, basketball is there
Hockey is there, football is there
But baseball is discussed all year
Well, in one of the great new games that's played
Is in the off-season, a lot of people spend time
Discussing what the commissioner has done wrong
That keeps the interest up
But I do agree with you about the youngsters
In the ballpark
And I give a lot of credit to 26 baseball clubs
Who I think have had a real sense
That baseball had better appeal for the young people
And they've gone out and done their best
To attract young people to our game
In a whole bunch of ways they do in marketing
Including maintaining
Very reasonable prices
So that people can come to our games
And I think we've been successful
In attracting young people
I think the future on that account is even brighter
Than it is today
John Mann or I want to mention
Something about the commissioner
Not from the standpoint
Of embarrassing him
Two years ago I think
They had the first intercollegiate
Summer baseball
It opened up in
Bergen County, New Jersey
Cable television
Baseball commissioner's office
Or the baseball commissioner
And donated as I remember
$25,000
To this league
Which included
Bergen County
Included
Teams in New York
And met the pollinary all together
But
The teams were made up
Of college ball players
Who lived in a given area
In the development
Of future major leaguers
Your office
As I understand it Mr. Commissioner
Has
Given great support
Not only financially but
In other ways
To these leagues
The
Expansion in the major
You had a reduction in the minor league
So the players had to come from somewhere
Do you remember that?
We think these college leagues are extremely important
Because it gives a whole lot of
Very promising young players a chance
After college is over
To play during the summer
In very effective, good competitive leagues
And we think this has been helpful
In the development of a great deal of talent
We've been very happy to support those
And we also love baseball
And it's fun to do it because it does help
In the development of baseball
But these leagues have been important
You're absolutely right
I don't like to get into controversy
Deliberately
But this one time I will to this extent
As the
High Commissioner baseball
We had a situation here
In this series
We had a lot of controversy
About the club all year
Some of it related to your office
At least indirectly
Going back to last year
You understand what I mean
I like always
You as an attorney
I'm supposed to have practiced but never did
But there's always two sides to a coin
A lot of people read things
And so they think certain things
You had reasons for
The moves that you made last year
And negating a given deal
And bobbing more than one club
And not just the Yankees and so forth
But
I would like to just
Directly
Ask you a question
You have to be a fan
You always were before you even became commissioner
I had the privilege of knowing you even then
Wasn't it very dramatic
Let me put it this way
If you don't want to answer the question
I can understand it
With Reggie Jackson doing what he did today
In view of all that's been going on
As a fan, then you are a fan
You bet I am
Would it be rude of me
To ask you what you're feeling was
As a fan, not as a commissioner
I will tell you absolutely what my feeling was
I was absolutely thrilled
To see him hit that third home run
To me that was a fantastic world series
Accomplishment
To see him under the pressure he has been
At the core of some of the
Controversies we've had in the game
So you know there's a lot of pressure on him
He didn't play the last game
Of the league championship series
Which had to put pressure on him
And I think for him to step up there today
And hit three home runs the way he did
And the last one, I think it's still going out there
To me
It showed what a champion
Reggie is and what he can do
When the pressure is there
Thank you very much
I just want to tell you this
On that show
That's what I cited about
Because the times I've heard you say
When you've appeared on TV
You know all the players and what they're doing
Good and bad and the scouting reports
Because you are a fan, so am I
And I think that's great
It's our business too
But I think baseball is at this family's
I'm so happy for baseball
I could watch a baseball game every day
And never tire of it
And it's a great year, congratulations
There never will be a surcease of controversy
Baseball is too big for that
No, John, that's correct
Baseball is, we first had a professional ball
In 1869 in this country
And we first had organized leagues
Even before that, amateur leagues
Baseball has always been a game of controversy
And never a game really afraid of controversy
And I think it has been a part of
The strength of the game
That what goes on in it is quite open
You find very little quieted down
Oh yes, maybe a little here and there
But basically the story of baseball is told
And told very thoroughly, we play every day
The media covers us very thoroughly
We don't have any secrets in this business
And I think if we could keep them
We probably wouldn't, and the effect has been
To make us real and believable
And I think quite honest
You know what I'd like to say here
I've had the privilege of being out here
Number of times, you know, in the course of the year
Here's the commissioner of baseball
He makes a decision
Against the Yankees
He did it for baseball, not
Against a ball club
But he is sitting with the owner
Of the Yankees, they are friends
They may disagree with one another
But you see, this is what makes baseball
Still in the national pastime
I don't know if it sounds old corny
But it still is
You can disagree with one another
And you can argue with one another
But in the final analysis, you are a member
Of a fraternity
An institution
Not just a race, an institution
It's a part of our country
You're right, I think it's fair to say
That George Timberlain and I have had some
Monumental disagreements
And that probably, even that puts it mildly
I suspect, but I don't think we have ever
Been enemies of one another
And while we may have disagreed
I think we both respected the other guy's position
And I would say that today about what George
Has done to try to build this team
And I'm sure he would say that about
Functions, he doesn't have to agree
But he knows that I'm doing the best I can
And then I work hard at the job
Which is something you better ask of people
You really do, I'll say that
And you've been a great commissioner
I hope you still will be
For as long as you want to be
That was Buick Hewitt
I want to talk to a friend of mine
When he was playing shortstop
Now, he's
Administrative assistant
I don't know if that's a title
This is the stick, I call him just stick
This is Gene Michael, a fine shortstop
With the Yanks and their problem years
And now an administrative assistant
Very close to George Steinbredder
In the decisions and the running of the ball club
In fact, Gene of course is
A gentleman who had the walkie-talkie
He was abused several times
And several times, Gene, are you
Did you get as much of a kick
As much of a thrill out of this World Series
As you always thought you might if you'd be
In a championship situation
I don't think you can ever get the same thrill
Out of it as you would if you were a player
But this is probably the next best thing
I know that there are players that
Didn't play that much this year
That are really thrilled about it
And I know that I would have been thrilled
If I was a player just sitting on the bench
If I was playing regularly
That would be even a greater thrill
But this is a close affiliation
Or whatever you want to call it
And I'm just glad to play a small part in it
Alright, Gene, I don't know if it's a small part
I do know this
I wanted so much for you to be back with the Yankees
You were released last year, I believe, by the Red Sox
You came back with the Yanks
First as a coach now as administrative assistant
And baseball's in your blood
It's been there for a long, long time
You've played other sports in school
And there are a lot of people
And we talked about this before
We mentioned Ernie Banks' name
He's the most prominent name
There are probably a thousand guys who never get into the World Series
Now you know the kind of show that I have
The name of one kind or another
And the people who have been
Living with the reports on radio, TV
Newspapers, magazines
The daily trials and tribulations
Of the Yanks
I don't know what I want to ask about
I guess I want to ask you all about it
Is it surprising that a ball cup could rise
Above all the jive and the nonsense
And the Winner World's championship
And isn't it a little bit dramatic
The way they did it tonight with the three homeruns
In the row by Reggie Jackson
And the home by Chris Chambliss
To get him even in a ball game
Where if they lose, now they go to a seventh game
And you don't know who's going to win a seventh game
This is all kind of amazing that this year
Is coming past in the Yanks of Champions
Yes it is
It's a thrill for every single player
I know that
You're talking about Chris Chambliss' home run
I know that was a big thrill for him
Because last year he hit the big one
He's had trouble his last couple months
And he hasn't hit the big home run
In the ball game because when you're two nothing down
Or something and you think you may never catch up
And when you do, it's a big thrill
And I know he put us back in the ball game
Reggie, he has that fire
Reggie can do those things
Gene was just like the other day
When we were talking about this before
The first error we made in the series
Was to spin out over and the base hit
And
Was it Baker? He reached second
The next ball goes to Nettles
Normally double play
You know, takes his eyes
For a moment you play
Sometimes you take your eyes and see where a runner is
Normally, in a double play, you're still in the ball game
People say a 10-4 ball game
I could have made a difference
But that time, he's still in the ball game
That's right, it looks like a double play
But I saw what that ball did
That ball really came up and it wasn't an easy play at all
It was a tough play and that's the play you get Arizona
The ball comes up quite a bit
If it comes up and bounces over his head, it's the base hit
But when it comes up and hits you in the middle of the arm
You either take the night in the first inning
Two outs, dent backs up on the ball
You know, you can either charge it
You could have booted it and you go back
So they get a man on, boom, homer
But then we get one back
The same way with shortstop left-failer
Calling each other off the ball
One thing I did want to ask you
John mentioned the walkie-talkie situation
After Reggie
Either hit his second or third home run
I was running back and forth
And I was running back and forth
And Mr. Steinbrenner's box
Back to the TV just taking a look
They had a close-up of Reggie on the telephone
So obviously that had to be
With somebody upstairs
I don't know who else
In the middle of a ballgame
He could have been talking to
Could it have been a change of pitchers
Maybe it's after the second homer
And he was coming up shortly
About what this picture through is
Before Gene replied
Let me just break the station
Because his midnight WMCA
Strauss communications in New York
And we are going to continue this for about
Half an hour, you know, I caught that
I was standing next to Bob Fishel
And Mickey Morabito
And they did have a monitor
And I thought I saw Jackson
Saying that in the monitor
I thought that he said low fastball
Meaning maybe the pinchy hit
Or maybe where
Where Houten was throwing a sosa
I think it was sosa
Because it was throwing the ball
There by the way were some unusual pitches
Throne in this game
Because Reggie Smith had a fastball
And I didn't think
I had no one ever told me a scouting report
But I saw Smith playing the National League
And the Mets would play him
And I saw Mets pitch him with slow breaking stuff
Whatever
And I was surprised that Jackson got a couple of fastballs
To hit over the plate
I think the second one
I think sosa tried to get it on his hands
And I was like, who is Reggie talking to
And why
If that was your question
That was the question he probably was calling
You know, answering some fan of his
I think he's talking to Gene really
He called up and wanted to know a scouting report
And I didn't follow these ballcups
Clyde King, Jerry Walker and Bernie Tevison
About name and death
By the way, we had Bernie and Clyde on before
In the game
He called up to find out what sosa threw
And I had seen him in the spring
And they had followed him
And they knew he was a slider's fastball pitcher
And Reggie wanted to know about that
He was pretty much a two-pitch pitcher
And I think he had a fastball
That was a little bit in
Sosa has a good arm
He asked him about his move
And we said he had a fair move in first base
Pretty good move
And he wanted to know about him
It was good that he called up
He could ask other players
And I'm sure he was asking around
I think that means he was really trying to think
Gene, I do want to ask you this question
Tell me about the decision
Middle part
End of the year for you to go up
With a walkie-talkie to talk about
Defenses. I saw it really happen once
Where the Yankees positioned
Jackson or Blair
Was in the right field closer to the line
They kept moving the line
And I honestly don't know who it was
Now it was Solongo, Maven, Cowins
Hit the ball to the right field line
Blair made an easy catch of it
What do you try to impart
When the game is going on
To either Yogi or Alston
Who has the other end of your walkie-talkie
What we do is we go over the scouting reports
And then I have charts
I'll explain it during the season
First of all, because I have different charts
For different hitters
Against different pitching
And I have all these things that I look at
And consider and then I consider our pitcher
And I make up the charts, I go down
And he's going to try to pitch them
If you're going to pitch them a certain way
Then I'll make another adjustment right in front of them
Right where we know
That they're going to have a tendency to hit the ball
You never know, like you said
Moving to the right and all of a sudden
The ball is hit there, well you're just hoping
That the ball is hit there, well you feel that
Maybe he's going to hit the ball towards the right field
So you don't want to give him the right field line
There's a lot of guessing involved
And there's a lot of luck involved too
But what you do is try to play the best possible percentage
Is this question?
As a shortstop, when you're playing
You adjust the quality of the count
Don't you?
The things that you know, therefore
Sitting upstairs, don't you
In part some of the information
Based on your judgment
As a player
How you would
Either move closer to second or further away
Whether, depending on the count
You really do, but it's hard for us
To know the pitch that's coming to the plate
The infielders really have that advantage
So we can't really tell what pitch is going to go to the plate
So we don't really move or fool around with the infielders
As much as they're good thinkers
Or they win the infielders, you don't want to be
Right, right, right
But the outfielders don't have the advantage
Of knowing the pitch that's going to the plate
So what we're doing is we're just putting them where
We think they'll hit the ball, have the best chance
Of hitting the ball, in other words you feel that
A player doesn't hit the ball down the line
So you give them both lines, you move off the lines
Maybe a little bit and try to cut up the alleys
And that's all you're trying to do
You can't tell where the ball is going to be
You try to tell what you really
You try to get an advantage
Where the areas that they're going to
Cut down the field on them, so to speak
You know, George or Mr. Steinbrenner
Having been a football coach
And this was his idea
I didn't think too much of it when I put it started
But then as I saw other teams playing our hitters wrong
Then I knew that we were on the right track
Because when I would see these other hitters
And I would know that
Gee, we got to be making some mistakes too
So let's get as involved as we can
I just want to add Mel
We're going to continue this for maybe another 25 minutes
So we will join the Long John Neville
Candy Jones program in progress
We thank them for relinquishing some of their time
But you know, can I just
Inject this one thing?
Yes
Years of doing football
And George Steinbrenner having been a football coach
They always have at least two men
Upstairs
In football
When the game is on
They have scouts of course
Scouting a given team ahead of time
Oh, that rule
New rule has been put into the game of football
You can't scout a team now
You only exchange films
But when the game is on
These scouts upstairs
They can watch your offense and defense
And see what's happening better than you can at ground level
Absolutely
And that's the point too
It's true in all sports
The worst seat of all
In hockey or football
Baseball is downstairs
And baseball is certainly in the dugout
And there are hockey teams now
That are putting people upstairs
To see the formations
How they get the puck out of their zone
Where they mass their five skaters
It makes sense
And when you're at ice level
We never broadcast a game from my level
And that's what the coach is saying
He's not saying anything
Figures go up and down
You sit upstairs
It's an entirely different game
There's something else too that's involved
Upstairs you have one thing to think about
Billy has a thousand things to think about downstairs
And we have nothing else to do
But before the games
I'll go over and sometimes I'll study charts
And scouting reports
And look at new ball players
On paper
During the game think of this one thing
Whereas Billy has a thousand things to do
And it's sort of a relief in a way
If you can take it that way
Just moving players
I go over with the pitchers before the game
How they're going to pitch them
What kind of fastball they have
I know what kind of fastball most of our pitchers have
I know that when Gidry's right
Right hand hitters so to speak don't pull
His fastball very much
When he gets it over the plate they can't pull the ball
Because it's too much fastball
Well if a guy is a pull hitter
Why play him to pull against Gidry when he's getting the fastball over the plate
And usually surprisingly
They don't hit his slider anyway
Let me ask you this
In the second game of this World Series
Houten showed the Yankees
His knuckled curve
But he was getting them out
Mainly on the fastball
If I'm correct I may be wrong
But at least he was throwing more fastball
He was showing them enough of the knuckled curve early
And looked like the hitters were looking for it
I happened to talk to one of the coaches tonight
And he said
I think our guys ought to stand up there
And look for the fastball
And said knuckled curve and pull him
Did that make sense or not
Well I don't know that much about it
Because you know hitting was for me
It was awfully tough
But I do know that I heard hitters talking about it
And I know they made some adjustments
On Houten and it worked out well
Especially Reggie I know he made some adjustments
Well it sort of jammed us early
Like he said
That home run really put us back in
That's right
It was a turning point in the ballgame
Really
I think it was
Well
Gene we're going to let you go
Thank you very much
And by the way congratulations
Thank you John
Thank you Mel
I appreciate it
We hope we get Gabe and George
By the way before you go
You know one thing that interested me
I love inside baseball
Tonight Goodson came up to spin Schitter
Yanks were way out in front of 8-3
I think it was the 8-10
I see Martin go out there and you knew Martin
Was talking to Musson Torres
Here's the book
We haven't seen much of him
No one's seen much of him
You know they were talking it over
I have Norman McClain on
He's got his views from the Yankee clubhouse
People wondering why aren't we in the clubhouse
We're upstairs and you know the celebration is going on
And those guys want to be
With each other in the clubhouse
Before they go out
It's the biggest night of their lives
They're taking two showers
The first one was champagne
And we hope that
Maybe we can get Gabe and George
Maybe they're upstairs
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Norman I
I'm so happy to see
You know tonight
Was more than just a World Series win
It was a great World Series win in the World Championship
For New York City again
And we're both New Yorkers and both love this
Great City which has its problems
But tonight it was the centerpiece
The showcase for millions
Of people across the country who love baseball
And it couldn't have been more dramatic
With the Jackson 3 homers
Especially dramatic Norman
And followed the continuing
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman trials
And tribulations. Now you went downstairs
Tell me about the feeling in the club house
And what some of the guys were talking about
And what was that?
The high assignment with the AP was exactly that
Now I have been
At least 10 of these things
Previously in other cities in many cases
And I've been in Yankee once before
In 1962 most of them
15 years ago. This was different
This meant something. Those players
Had been through so much
Mainly hacking at each other
Hacking at the front office, the Billy Martin situation
That finally winning
Seemed to be
Just much more than overcoming the dodges
Greg Nettles put it this way
He says winning cures a lot of problems
But I don't want to go through another season like this
Even if we win
Gabe Paul
Of course
Acknowledged
That the possibility
Of Thurman Munson
Leaving was there but he said
You're not going to get away that easy
And I see Gabe Paul here
Right now so why don't we give
Gabe a shot? Well boy we're very happy
Mel Allen has brought in the two men that we wanted
Most of all have been trying to get for the past
Hour and a half that we've been on the air
Mr. George Steinbrenner
And Mr. Gabe Paul and you know we mentioned this
With Robert Merrill
With Representative Edward Koch
With Boi Kuhn
With your wife Mrs. Steinbrenner
With Peter Duchin
Of the turnaround that's been the New York Yankees
Since you two gentlemen got here a few years ago
And I know you couldn't be happy
There's nothing I can say to make you happy
Not only did you win and win the world's championship
But it was achieved in the most dramatic fashion
With Reggie Jackson being three homers on three pitches
Chris Chambers sitting at two run home run
To get us back on the ball game
And there's nothing I can say I'm so happy
For both of you, I really am
Let me start off with Gabe
I think it's Gabe's second experience
Gabe congratulations first of all
Thank you very much
I want to say that great players rise to the occasion
As Reggie did tonight
The greater the player the more they rise to the occasion
And he did
Gabe I know you've been close
Many times
And
Got the brass ring
On one occasion, never his presence
That's correct
But
Once when Cincinnati had
221 homers
They missed
About two games that year
And I know this must be in the half century
Approximately
Being connected to baseball from the time you started
One of the greatest thrills I've ever had in my life
Well, I could ask you a lot of questions
But I'd love to know what's in your heart
My heart is at a time
I'm so glad for myself
I'm so glad for George Steinbrunner
I'll tell you
I think George and I
We
Have a team
I think really
We compliment each other
And we have a compatibility
That has helped
And he puts a burr up my tail
Every now and then and I need it
But he's got a red hot poker
And you know something
He's got that poker in the fire dial for next year
But the thing is
Certain doctors know how to use it
And it doesn't hurt you
In the end you went out
I have no pain
I got very lucky tonight
New gentlemen don't know about it
Very important to me
The Nathan Islanders owner Roy Bow
And their vice president Mike Manzer
And Ed Bibinski and Mike Dietemasso
Of Manchester Productions
And the radio rights
And my general manager Dennis Israel
A program director Mark Mason
Insisted that we not do
The talking game on the network
And they said do you have to go out there
And I wouldn't have missed this for real
I am so happy
I don't tell you about the trials and tribulations
But in your own words
What do you feel now
You've won the world's championship
This is what you've been fighting for
Since you got to New York
And you've won the world's championship
Back in the city
George you give you the best answer
About tomorrow afternoon
When the dance is settled down
I feel the same way
The world's championship is now where it belongs
In New York City
And that's where it belongs
And that's where it is
And that's where it's going to stay for a long time
That's all there is to it
And the stadium was filled
And the world was
With representative Kotze
A great night for baseball and great for the Yankees
It is John
I feel the same way
It's great to be a part of it
The credit goes to Gabe and Billy
I came in the weekends to see the ball games
But the credit goes to those two guys
They did the job, they made the trades
They got the people and they kept it going
And the team never gave up
It's so great for the American League
But the biggest thing about it is how great it is for New York
It just shows everybody
It's a whole new world of champions
And I've said it all along and I mean it
It really is
You know there have been knocks all the time about the Yankees
Buying the championship
Well first of all, the Free Asian thing is here
If it wasn't here, we wouldn't be involved
But since it's here, you might as well play by the rules
Those are the rules so you're playing by them
But, Gabe Paul Gattier
George Steinberg and I was at that press conference that day
The Yankees were not drawing crowds
I've been here 5 and a half years
The Yankees had a poor team and they weren't drawing crowds
and the Mets were doing it all and bless them for it.
Also Bill Shea was here and he was as happy as anyone else.
Gaitball traded for Chris Chambliss.
Gaitball traded for Greg Nettles.
Gaitball traded for Willie Randolph.
Glupin' Ella.
Glupin' Ella, Mickey Rivers.
On and on and on.
And you really deserve all the credit in the world.
Well, you don't do those things unless you have the backing
and you can't take the risk unless you have a race
around your pencil.
And the backing was here and the stimulation,
as I talked about, that red hot poker was right here.
And that's the teamwork and that's what you need.
Because you can sit on your duff a little bit
at a little bit of a time, but I never
have a chance to sit on my duff hot.
Me here at 830 a moment.
George, can I say one thing in my personal standpoint?
I had to have a man of his stature remind me
that we had met once, two years ago,
when he was football assistant football coach at Purdue.
And this past season, somebody lacking a column
for an open date called me up and went to a column.
My whole point was, as part of it,
was about the very thing you mentioned.
But I said, well, I can say one thing about George Steinbrenner.
I said, I first met him when he was assistant football coach
at Purdue, later Northwestern.
And I said, he's used to recruiting.
I said, how you recruit, you recruit according to the rules.
But the rules are this way.
And so he's used to recruiting to win.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
I say there isn't, too.
And what I should tell you about that time
was I was between coaching jobs.
I wanted to go into sports casting.
Somebody says, why don't you call Mel Allen?
I said, he wouldn't know me from anything.
I was a 22-year-old kid.
And Mel talked to me for 45 minutes on the telephone.
Didn't know me from Eve.
I never forgot it.
And I remind him of when I saw him.
And that kind of consideration for a young guy
is why you're what you are, Mel.
Well, I appreciate it.
I don't want to see a living legend that makes this
not a picture.
You're ready to be.
I want to say somebody's father.
His father, Henry Steinbrenner.
I met his mother and father here.
His father was the greatest track star in the history of MIT.
And how do I know that?
My brother went to MIT.
And he said, is Henry Steinbrenner
any relation to George Steinbrenner?
And I said, his father.
He says, is the only track star we've ever
had in the history of MIT?
Only NCAA champion.
He won the lower.
Well, thanks for having us, John.
I listen to you every night going home and everything.
And coming.
And you've been a great, great boost to us.
And you've stuck with us.
And the fans out there that would call.
And I'm so happy for the fans in New York.
Those people that take the time to call and express their views
and tell you when you're right, tell you when you're wrong.
But they never gave up on the team.
And they're the guys that deserve the credit.
You know, the commissioner of baseball,
I put him to the test.
Well, I have only time.
I don't like to get the controversial deliberately.
So I said, you know, and Gene Michaels was in here.
He was saying, tell you.
And John, you tell him, I said, you know, you and George
Steinbrenner have had your ups and downs.
That is disagreements.
What did he say, John?
He said, yes, but we're still friends.
And that's the greatness of baseball.
And what we've done is for the good of baseball.
I said, whether we agree or whether we don't agree.
We've got a good commissioner.
And I said, a time and time again the last year.
And we have a good commissioner.
And we should be damn happy to have him.
And you know what we also said, which is really true,
that you go over all the years.
This baseball is about a year.
Great crowds in all cities, not just some cities.
And the American League, oh, as the American League came up
with the two great cities, Seattle and Toronto.
Well, you've come here and you built a champion.
And I congratulate you.
WMCA congratulates you.
We're so happy you're such a big part of the station.
We thank you very much.
We be grateful.
Thank you for all the help you've given us all year.
And to the fans out there that take the time to call,
thanks to them.
They deserve the credit.
And before you know, whether all this happened all year,
you can have written a script.
And you've been in show business.
They're late by you, Jackson, to buy.
Nobody would buy this script.
They tried to sell it for a movie.
Nobody.
You can do it.
Impossible.
Thanks for your real home run.
We're going to need Chinese jobs.
Thanks so much for coming in.
That's great.
We have eight minutes or so to chat with each other.
I'm so happy you've gotten, Mr. Steinberg.
You know, I wish we didn't have any more minutes left
for the sembraries.
I think I topped off the evening.
I mean, you know, two guys that really were, you know.
You know, when you were talking to Gabe,
I want to tell you this.
Yeah.
You're talking to Gabe on Mike.
And off Mike, George Steinberg came to me and said,
you know, John, I ran into a guy downstairs in television.
He said to me, talking to George Steinberg,
said, you know, if I got a Hollywood script writer
to write a movie, you know, in those corny baseball movies,
you're usually announcing it, by the way.
Yeah.
Like the Babe Ruth story.
You know, the great Mel Allen line,
he had to announce in the corny Babe Ruth movie in 1948.
And he was announcing the home runs of Babe Ruth
and Mel said, you know, I was three years old at the time.
Yeah.
But anyway.
Well, that was what the critic did in reviewing the movie.
He said, you know, it makes no sense to me going into,
you know, a whole two column review or a one column review.
Let me just put it this way.
They had Mel Allen describing Babe Ruth's 60th home run
in 1927 when he was just three years old.
That gave you an idea of the rest of the picture.
But you know, he said to me off Mike again, he said,
he said, this guy TV guy came to me and said, you know,
if I had a Hollywood script writer to write this,
the world championship game, the guy who's been in the center
of this unbelievable maelstrom of controversy hitting three
over his bang, bang, bang, the third one in the center field.
These were no one hits one.
It went halfway back, by the way, off a knuckleball.
The only guy that ever hit one over the old fence
was Mickey Mantle batting right handed
against the left hand pitcher.
And so this is, you know, very similar.
No one would ever believe it.
No one would believe it.
And you know what?
We were here.
We believe it.
Well, you know, you and I are now together two seasons
and we've seen two things happen.
Chambliss is home running won the playoffs last year
in the ninth inning.
And this dramatic thing today, dramatic in this sense,
not because of the team victory alone.
But like you put it so well before, all the maelstrom
you use that word, controversy, headlines
and newspapers on the air, all this sort of thing.
And who comes up wondering whether people
loved him or not, but Reggie Jackson.
I think he found out that people loved him
because they finally made him come out.
He took a bow after an ovation, right?
It was an amazing year.
I've been through some amazing world series and playoffs,
but nothing has compared quite with this in view of what
started in spring training with the Mickey Rivers.
Then came right on through with a bunch of other guys.
It also shows you that you can talk all you want about what
happens off the field.
Can we get Bob Fischelin for a moment?
Yeah, I asked Bob before you said it.
Can we get Bob Fischelin?
He'd talk about what happens off the field
in the newspapers, radio, TV, whatever.
And everyone has their job to do.
And everyone has to talk.
But what goes on in baseball is what
goes on between the two white lines.
And what goes on between the two white lines
has made the Yankees champion.
Here is a gentleman who worked with Mel Allen
so many years as the PR director of the Yankees
is now assistant to the commissioner.
We have a commissioner on, by the way,
among many of the luminaries.
And a good friend of mine, Bob Fischelin.
Thanks, John, but that's the wrong title.
I'm assistant to the president of the American League.
This is the president of the American League.
I'm sorry.
You've seen so many world series and all,
but this final game was such a kick because of the dramatics.
It sure was.
I've always seen it.
We've all seen an awful lot of dramatics.
This is the greatest show in sports.
What do we have in the front of the media guide?
We have something about America's premier sports event.
That's sort of a dramatic way of putting it.
But that's what it really is.
You never can tell what's going to happen in this game.
And that's what makes baseball such a fantastic ball game.
Who would believe that the center of all the controversy
would hit three home runs on three pitches.
The final one off a knuckleball, I guess, low outside.
He hit it about 450 feet in the centerfield bleaches.
That's all.
It was exciting.
As a matter of fact, I didn't see it.
I was already down in the interview room
and heard about it after I got there.
I saw the first two.
But it was a super series.
And it's a great thing for the Yankees, a great thing for New
York and Uber for the American League to have a.
I sat next to your boss, Lee McFail,
at the baseball writers' dinner in January.
And I asked him about the two cities, Seattle and Toronto,
coming in and what they'd be like.
He had great reports about it.
Well, this year, Bob Fishel was the greatest year
in American League history.
You broke all attendance records.
You brought in two cities that were two fabulous cities.
Toronto almost drew to me.
And Seattle way over a million.
And now you've won the American League once again,
has won the World's Championship for the fourth time
in the last six years.
You have to be very happy.
We're very happy.
And we do 19,650,000 fans from coast to coast.
It was really a sensational year.
We had the only week spot.
Really, the whole league was open.
And there were extenuating circumstances there.
So it was a super year, John.
It was just great.
It's just really thrilling.
I'm not part of it because after all,
we're just working in the office for the league,
but supporting all the clubs.
But the Yankees did a tremendous job.
The Red Sox in Kansas City and Baltimore
also had tremendous years.
He had a lot of other clubs.
I interrupt here for a moment.
He said he had nothing to do with it.
He had a lot to do with it because it was a build up.
Bob came here.
It was a Bob 1954.
And the great tradition that was continued in for a while,
it wasn't.
And that was because of extenuating circumstances.
But Bob, if he, I don't know if he's able to say it
from a given standpoint or not, but you
can't work for this organization over a number of years
without having that tradition embedded within you
and not feeling.
Well, certainly.
I came here and we won nine tennis in our first 10 years
here.
You can never forget that.
If you lived to be 1,000 years old, which we know as well.
But nine and 10 is, nobody will ever have that in sports.
It was a tremendous thing.
Well, you and Jordan renewed this tradition
was a great thing.
Bob is close to General Manager and President of the Yankees,
George Wison, and Lee McFail.
And he knew what it took to win pennants.
It took more than just organization.
There's a great sports track.
He wants to talk to Mary.
All right.
Bob, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Well, we're going to get off because it's time.
And Long John Neville, Candy Jones, are going to go on.
And I just want to again thank all the people who
helped us cover this.
And now WMCA will, after winning this championship,
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We only have a couple more minutes.
And we better get off before we do.
And very quickly, and this is not going to be mushy,
I promise you.
When I first met you, off the air,
I told you that you were my hero.
And that's a bit mushy in itself.
But anyway, I always looked up to you,
and I'm so glad I can work with you.
We've become good buddies here.
And I thank you, Mel.
We had a lot of fun together.
And right here in this year, both.
It's been great.
We'll see you back here next year, huh?
We're the only two guys on Oregon
to step on each other's toes and not feet.
Not at all.
And I might add something that the management and the staff
of WMCA Radio, the flagship station of the New York Yankees
radio network, wishes to congratulate George Steinbrenner,
Gay Paul, Billy Martin, and the entire team of the New York
Yankees on their World Series victory.
WMCA has carried the Yankees for the past seven years.
And can hardly wait for next season to begin.
The Yankees, and George Steinbrenner
said this a moment ago.
It's what's made him the happiest.
The Yankees have brought the World Championship of Baseball
back to New York.
WMCA is proud to have brought you all the action.
Well, I'm really proud to be part of it.
It's a very small part, I know.
But I'm very proud that I could join probably
the foremost sportscaster in the 20th century
in this country, Mel Allen, and bring you all these shows.
And that sounds like a lot of bull, and it really isn't.
You think about it.
He's been the number one guy and still is.
How it depends which part of the bull you're talking about.
That's free-save for him.
And by the way, Mel, both be credits.
Right.
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And our thanks also to Mr. Herve Buffalo Broski
who's done a great job here in coordinating all these events.
We've been streaking out.
He's been streaking out all the whole time.
We've been streaking off in different areas.
And let's see now.
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And don't forget the salmon soup and the lemon cream pie.
The salmon soup and the lemon cream pie.
And by the way, we'll talk about it tomorrow.
I'll be on the air right after the 7 o'clock news.
We hope to replay some of the home runs tomorrow night
as well.
And we'll talk at length about it.
So what more can I say?
I love you all.
And I'm glad you've been listening.
And we've enjoyed bringing it to you.
And we'll see you tomorrow night after the 7 o'clock news.
Stay tuned in progress with the Long John Neville Candy
Jones program here on WMCA and have a good championship
night, everybody.
Five, eight, seven, eight, three, two, one.
Here comes the Yankee.
Let's get behind the chiller.
Yankee.
They're gonna learn to feel it.
Yankee.
Everyone knows they play the way.
Parched, they're going to be on it.
Yankee.
They're gonna take fire.
Yankee.
They're gonna run away when you're done.
Yankee.
Why do you say to me when I'm ready to fall again?
They're gonna shout when you're out of the ball.
They're gonna scream, put it out of the wall.
They are the team, out of nowhere.
They're gonna play the way.
Parched, they're going to be on it.
Yankee.
They're gonna run away when you're done.
Yankee.
Shout it out loud, we love the game.
Yankee.
We're really proud of our Yankee.
When we run away, we're gonna take the big ball.
Hit, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch, punch.
Go, go, go, go.
They're gonna shout when you're out of the ball.
They got a scream, put it on the volume
The other team's gonna know what it is
They don't mind, they can't believe it
Yes, we got one, Yankee
Count it up loud, we love them
Yankee, we're really proud of our Yankee
And we wanna win, new day
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