On April 23, 1960, the Cleveland Indians faced
the Kansas City Athletics in an afternoon game
at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. The Indians
were managed by Joe Gordon, who was in his third
and final season with the team. Although the
Indians had been a consistent 90 -win team and
had reached the World Series in 1954, they had
declined to nothing more than an average team
by 1960. Kansas City was led by first -year manager
Bob Elliott, who had taken over from Harry Kraft
after his three -year tenure with the A's. The
game featured two relatively unknown starting
pitchers, Barry Lappman for the Indians and Dick
Hall for the Athletics. This audio recording
is from the radio broadcast featuring announcers
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Here we are in Kansas City, and the scene at
home plate finds Joe Gordon, the manager of the
Indians, with a big grin on his face, even though
the Indians have yet to win a ball game this
year. Bob Elliott, the manager of the Kansas
City A's in his first year in that capacity,
talking things over with the four umpires. Al
Smith will be at the plate just walking out of
your picture. Joe Paparella is at first base.
Second base umpire is Ed Runge, and Johnny Rice
is the third base umpire. It's a cool, windy,
rather overcast day here as these two American
League ball clubs battle. And two right -handers
will be going at it. To tell you a little bit
about them and who they are, here's Carl Erskine.
Hi, thank you, Jack. Two right -handers are now
warming up. Barry Lattmann, who came over from
the White Sox just this year. And he's down there
hoping to get off to a good start today because
he had an eight and five year last year in a
little over a hundred innings. And I know he's
out there today wanting to get started and get
this number one win under his belt. Dick Hall
has already completed his pregame activities,
Carl, and we've seen him before quite often.
Dick Hall, you'll recall, was an outfielder,
Jack, and they converted him to a pitcher, and
he came up with some arm trouble with the pitcher
bird and was sent out. The other boys got on
the field, Jack, and tried to get underway. Right,
and Dick Hall will be going to the mound, carrying
with him a rather fantastic record from last
year at Salt Lake City. The athletics wearing
the white home uniforms. The wind blowing out
towards left, as we told you, and we expect quite
a few to be jumping out of this ballpark. Unless,
of course, the pitchers have anything to say
about it. We'll set the lineup for you. First
in left field, there's Bob Sir. Alongside Bob
in center field is Bill Tunnel. The fellow can
really cover ground and get an idea of the distance
at the same time, 421. Hank Bauer, one of the
great names in baseball, is playing right field.
The third baseman is a rookie, Bob Johnson. And
another youngster is at the shortstop position.
That's Ken Hamlin. He had quite a day yesterday
with that club. Jerry Lumpy, a former Yankee
at second base. And yet another former Yankee,
Norm Siebern, at a strange position playing first
base this afternoon. Back of the plate is a former
national leaguer, Harry Cheney, who is with the
Cubs. Number one catcher now for the A's. And
on the mound, this big fella, 6 '6", Nick Hall.
Last year his record was quite outstanding 18
and 5. There is Jojo White coaching at third
base for the Cleveland Indians and Red Cress
is the first base coach talking things over with
the umpire saying what do you have to do to win
a game? The athletics have won one and lost two.
They lost two games to Chicago. Both games they
felt they could have won. They had some bad breaks
they say. Meanwhile Cleveland is on three having
lost the third game yesterday here to the Kansas
City A's and the A's home opener four to one.
Here's Johnny Temple. Dick Hall on the mound.
The first pitch of the ball game is a ball. Temple's
gotten off to a rather slow start. A scrappy
little fellow who last year played second base
for Cincinnati was involved in a trade with Cal
McGlish. One ball to count. And a strike now.
One and one. The outfield just about straight
away for Temple. He hits the ball to all fields.
He has only one out of 14. And there's nothing
that a ballplayer likes any better than to get
off to a good start and dislikes any more than
to get off to a slow one. One and one to count.
Low inside now. Two and one. You might seldom
see a pitcher this size, Carl Erskine. He's a
big tall boy out there. I'm sure he looks right
down that hitter's throat up there. Strangely
enough, as tall as he is, he's a low ball pitcher.
If he keeps that ball low, you'll see a lot of
ground balls today. He looks a little awkward
but has a good fastball going for him. There's
a shot in the right center. That looks like trouble
and an extra base hit and this couple can run
those bases. And he's going to try for two. He's
in there. That's the way the ball game starts
with a shot in the right center. A two base hit
for Johnny Temple. Temple jammed into that bag
quite hard down there as you can see. Number
two is the shortstop. The second baseman is lumpy.
Walter Bond the rookie right fielder made the
play and made it rather close. Phil Cleveland
has a good opportunity to get off and running
here. The batting order finds Temple and Al Pearsall.
Walter Bond hitting third. Tito Francona batting
the number four spot. Russ Nixon the catcher.
Big power at first. Woody held it short. Bubba
Phillips at third. And Latman. Bauer on right
field a while ago. With whom I referred. A ball
the first off. First off getting an opportunity
to play because Harvey Keane. Just acquired from
Detroit is out of the lineup and will be for
a couple of more days with a bad leg. Temple
on a second base and there's nobody out. Temple
is a very fine base runner. Aggressive ball player.
He's able to get a good size lead off the second
base. Now the time goes to one and one. All of
the other teams are saying action today and we're
going to keep you up -to -date on the progress
of those games. Seeburn, Lumpy... Hamlin on the
shortstop is just out of your picture. One ball,
one strike. Two balls and a strike. His control
record was fantastic last year. I was just checking
on him before the game today and he... He only
walked 28 men in the entire season last year,
in which he won 18 and lost five. And this is
a contrast to what he was the year before at
Pittsburgh when he had arm trouble. Last year
at Salt Lake City, it's a two ball, one strike
count to Pearsaw. There's a base hit and a right.
Temple's going to hold up at a third, I believe,
as Bauer comes up with it. First and third and
nobody out. What a throw Bauer made right through
the play, but nobody out and Temple wasn't taking
any... and two consecutive hits on the ball.
Now here's Walter Bond, a rookie who's broken
in in great fashion for the Indians. Another
big fella, about 6 '5". First and third, Kansas
City infield moves in, either for a play at the
plate or for the double play. Outfield way around
to the right, deep for Walter Bond. You know
you can either as a pitcher be afraid of a big
fellow or you can take the positive approach
Jack and say boy what a strike zone this guy
has. Usually they try to jam a fellow this size.
Left handed hitter to a right handed pitcher
left hand hitter often steps into the ball and
in doing so it's advantage to the pitcher to
pitch him tight. This temple on third base. The
runner on first first all very fast nobody out
there. Strikeout right now. Mary Cheney yelled
something out to his pitcher. First and third.
Nobody out. The ball game just started. We had
a double and a single. One ball one strike to
count. A real good fastball and a good cut. Getting
his best shot that time. I have a feeling this
fellow swings a little like Sam Jones we were
talking about last week. He has almost as fast
a backswing as he does across the plate. I saw
Chidi move out of there on that foul tip. Walter
Bond in the hole. There's Persol being held close
which gives the left -handed batter a lot of
room through the right side of the infield. Wow,
a lot of play. This is what a ball club really
enjoys when they have a fellow like Walter Bond
come into camp. Just for a look see and find
him to be so good that you can't cut him off
the ball clock. They're playing in right field
and batting him in the number three spot. Tito
Francona will be next. Try to get the strike
on the inside corner and ran the count to two
and two now. Kansas City infield of Johnson,
Hamlin, Lumpy and Seaborn. Looking for that double
play ball. Good view as the umpire season. There
is a base hit and a run is in and let's see if
Pearsall tries for third. He stops as Bauer fires
it back in. Three straight hits off of Dick Hall
and Walter Bond drives in the first run of the
game. One to nothing Cleveland. Temple across
the plate. Pearsall. One of the fastest was compelled
to stop at second base on the strength of the
good throwing arm of Hank Bauer and now here's
Tito Francona the left fielder. Francona has
four out of 14 in this young season. And already
they're throwing in the Kansas City bullpen which
is. Way beyond the center field fence. First
and second. Nobody out a run in. The Indians
lead the A's one to nothing. Outfield deep to
the right for Francona. Out of play into the
seats. Jack we're just. mentioning earlier that
Bob Hall was a low ball pitcher when he was at
his best. And these three base hits in this first
inning have all come on pitches above the hitter's
belt. I'm sure that this is one of the reasons
that these fellows have hung out three solid
line drives during the first inning. They all
have been well hit. Frank Conner had 20 home
runs last year. That's a good strike. That's
two of them. Tito has something to say to Al
Smith. He played umpire. Pierce on his second
base. Walter Bond on at first. Nobody out on
a run in. The nothing to pitch. It's a ball.
One and two now. He's hoping for that double
play to change the inning. Get the momentum going
in the other direction. You see Sebring playing
behind the runner at first. One ball two strikes
and going to hit it on the screen. Getting some
good cuts at this guy This fell is around the
plate all the time and the hitter walks in there,
especially after two or three base hits Momentum
starts rolling for a ball club and each guy walks
up there swings a little harder than the last
There's a good view of the power -hitting Frank
Conner with 20 home runs and 79 RBI is last year
for the Indians looking for his first homer this
year one ball two strikes a little off the pitch
breaking ball runs account to tune to This is
the second stop in our big league baseball parade.
Last week we were fortunate enough to be able
to show you Sam Jones one hitter and I wonder
what's going to happen today. The Indians have
gotten off to the good start. Having scored one
already. Two men on. Nobody out. There's ball
three. Three and two with nobody out and Dick
Hall is getting in a peck of trouble. Harry Chidi
goes to the mound. A worried man right at this
point. We'll keep an eye on the runners for him.
Pierce Hall on his second and Bond on his first
and see if they're breaking with this 3 -2 pitch.
There's nobody out. They're not going. Base is
loaded. Nobody out. Ron Conner gets to first
base the easy way. He's on first. Walter Bond
is on his second. Piersol is on a third and Bob
Elliott. Here's Bob at second base. Piersol talking
to JoJo White and going to the mound to talk
to his pitcher is the Kansas City manager Bob
Elliott. I was anxious to get a chance to see
Bob again as I did before the game today. Bob
is back in the big leagues after some time away
managed out at the Coastal League last year and
I'm sure he's got a few things on his mind out
there on the hill right now. Bob Trowbridge is
still throwing out the bullpen. I'm sure that
Elliot is now motioning for Trowbridge. So here
in the first inning, Bob Hall had a little shaky
start. He didn't retire a man. He gave us three
hits. A walk. One run. I know he's saying to
himself, Jack, that his big legs are just like
I left them. They're rough to cope with. That's
right, Colin. And gee, it hurts. There's a fellow
who labored hard in the minor leagues trying
to get another shot. Piled a fine record. High
classification ball, and then worked hard this
spring. Looking for his first start of the season,
and he gets it. He gets nobody out here in the
first inning. The Indians having score to run.
On a double, two singles and a walk. Have the
bases loaded, and here comes a Kansas City pitcher,
and that's right in style. Man, well, yeah, I
never talk about the good old days when I played
ball, but I'll say this. It was a long walk from
the bullpen when I used to come in. And early
in my career I can recall my knees shaking a
little bit on that long walk to the mound. I
wonder if he's got the radio on listening to
a little soothing music as he comes in. Or maybe
he's listening to another ball game. Base is
loaded and nobody out and it's a tough situation
to inherit. With the Russ Nixon due to be the
Cleveland batter. Well they didn't break any
speed limits with their car that's for sure.
I wonder what the speed limit is in the ballpark.
There's a good shot of the Kansas City Ground
Crew's artistic ability. They've used the chalk
lines to draw baseballs and letters KC and so
on. Here comes Bob Trowbridge now into your picture.
Bob, incidentally, is a nice mullinger. He came
over here to Kansas City and he also is a sinker
ball pitcher. I know he'll be trying to get this.
Next year he hit the ball on the ground. Could
have been a reason, Jack, that they brought Trowbridge
in. Paul was having trouble getting the ball
down. There was no chance for an infield play
or a double play. This may have influenced his
program and brought Trowbridge. Well they called
him last very long and here's Bob Trowbridge
who last year for the past few years was at Milwaukee.
So this afternoon we're dealing with a lot of
former national leaguers and... When we check
the athletics periodically, we'll be referring
to the fact that he's a former Yankee, and when
we deal with the Indians and consider the trading
activities of Frank Lane, why the past records
of these ballplayers will all turn out to be
very interesting, I'm sure. Even the ballplayers
were buzzing about some of the most recent trades.
Now, ordinarily ballplayers don't talk too much
about it. They're not too concerned, but the
trades had such impact this past week that the
Cleveland players were talking about them. Well,
there were surprising trades and some big names
involved. This makes for an uneasy feeling, Jack,
if you're a ball player and you wonder whether
you should send your laundry out or not. This
prank caught on at first. Walter Bond running
at second base. Here's all on a third. There's
nobody out. One run in and the better is the
Cleveland catcher, Russ Nixon. infield back the
outfield deep and around to the right Nixon wasn't
wasting any time Nixon you remember as a father
that was involved in that trade between the Indians
and the Red Sox with Sammy White being the other
player and then white quit the deal was canceled
and Nixon came back to Cleveland up there with
the base it loaded one and one Hank Bauer is
very deep and right. Will Tuttle to shade it
over into right center. There's quite a gap in
left center between Tuttle and Sir. One run in
and the Indians leading. Basin loaded, nobody
out. One on one to count. There's a double play
ball. play yesterday to start double play. He
looks like a sure bet. They're like shortstop.
Cleveland first baseman he's gotten up to a pretty
good start first and third now with two out.
Sounds like the fans would like to see him strike
out and what a job it will be. outfield deep
straight away and feel back with two out. There's
Pierce all on a third base. Frank Connors on
at first in the dirt and a nice block by Katie.
You didn't want to throw but the other runner
went down to second base. Frank Connors goes
to second on the wild pitch. Here's all game
halfway down the line and Cheney did a tremendous
job on that wild pitching that he blocked the
ball and kept it out in front of him which is
the big item that a catcher must contend with.
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69 cents. Here's the Kansas City batting order.
Bill Tuttle leading off. Terry Lumpy in second.
Hank Bauer third. Norm Seaborn fourth. And Bob
Serb. Harry Chidi. The catcher. Bob Johnson.
Ken Hamlin batting eighth. And then Trowbridge
who has come out in place of Paul. Barry Lampen
the pitcher. All the White Sox about to throw
his first pitch for the Indians. Slow. Tuttle
has three out of 14 and outstanding defensive
ballplayer. Another one down there ball to. Cleveland
leading one to nothing. Temple double to start
the game. The third on a base hit. By Pearsall
and came home in a base hit by Walter Bond. Two
balls, no strikes to count. Popped up. Should
be easy. It's foul. The catcher is there. Nixon.
Now power chases him away and makes the catch.
Nixon was calling for it, but it's always easier
for the first baseman than you'd like to see
him chase that catcher off. gets a chance. That's
right. Most of the time the first baseman is
a better shot because he's coming in on the ball
and not going away. The ball isn't going away
from him. He's coming in to meet it. Here's Jerry
Lumpy Jack ready to take his legs. Jerry Lumpy
the second baseman. One out and nobody out. Good
one. Up behind the first hitter and now gets
ahead of Lumpy. Indians came up with three hits
in that first inning. What a job that Trowbridge
did. Out of play. Strike two. Now somebody got
a souvenir there, Jack. Easy way. He's lounging
up there in the grass. He picked up that baseball.
No balls, two strikes. Youngster has a tough
time to ballpark today Jack Outrooting all the
adults that after a foul ball and they ruin $100
suits $30 hats trying to get a 275 baseball One
ball two strikes one out. Nobody got a lumpy
Russ Nixon is the Cleveland catcher the plate
umpire is Al Smith Barry Latman involved in the
trade for her score. Ready to fire the 2 -2.
Full count now. There's Hank Power, who already
has been taken to the hearts of these Kansas
City fans. He'll be up there next. Bring him
to the count. The athletics are a run down. That's
a high pop line to short right. Here comes Walter
Bond on the run. Look out, he held it. Bond caught
the ball. No, it was Power. Power caught the
ball and Big Bond hit him from behind and he
still held the ball. Duffel couldn't get in on
the play. The ball was fair when it was caught.
Power. Power taking a little time coming back
to his position there at first base as Hank Bauer
steps in. Banks are going to call time to see
if power is shaking up at all. It's taking it
very, very easy coming in. Looked as though he
got stepped on in that shuffle down there. About
three of them are trying to stand on the same
spot under that ball. OK, he's all right. Back
at his position and there are two out. One to
nothing. The Indians lead the A's. Changed up
on him and he fouled it on the screen. Evens
a count one and one. I asked Hank around the
batting gauge before the game if he made the
deal to come to Kansas City or George Weiss.
This is Hank's home and I know he's happy about
being here. As much as he didn't miss out on
the World Series money last year. Foul again.
These A's have a rather formidable ball club.
A couple of youngsters in the infield. There's
Norm Seaborn waiting to hit next. One ball, two
strikes to count. Barry Lattman breezing through
this first inning. and down they go in order.
Three up and three away in the first inning for
the Kansas City Athletics. And so at the end
of the first inning the score is Cleveland one
and Kansas City nothing. Second inning of the
ballgame. Kansas City Municipal Stadium, Harry
Cheney the catcher. Bob Trowbridge on the mound.
Mr. Woody Held gets ready to step in and start
the second frame. See Al Smith, the plate umpire,
uses that inflated chest protector. Woody Held,
the shortstop, the batter. Very few of the umpires
use the inflated job. Bob Trowbridge, first one
here. It's a ball. I think you're finding the
American like Jack they use this outside protector
the most. Jocko Collins is the only guy I know
in the national league that uses it. What he
held takes another one low. He held at 29 home
runs last year. Has none so far this year. Two
hits out of 11 trips. Nobody on or out in the
second inning. to get a breaking ball over on
his behind and then the count to three and oh
now. Nick Hall started got nobody out. Three
and one. That's about the only time you see this
foul throw went straight Jack is when he's he
knows that the hitter is hitting. Red Cress is
the first base coach for the Cleveland Club.
And Joe Joe White on the other side of the diamond.
Three and to the count. High and easy in the
center field. Bill Tuttle going back. It's well
hit. Not much more room. He's out. You can tell
by watching Tuttle that he had the ball all the
way but he couldn't have gone much further. The
wind seems to be above the stands blowing very
hard. Here's the third baseman, a former Chicago
player, Bubba Phillips. On the screen and out
of play. The power hitting of what he held Tito
Francona, and they hope Walter Bond is one of
the reasons why they were able to trade Colabito.
They figured they had enough power. They're anxious
to get a fellow like Harvey Keene, but unfortunately
Keene is riding the bench with a bad leg. There's
that base hit. Into left center. Let's see if
he tries for two. Tuttle is up with it. No play.
A base hit for Bubba Phillips. That's the fourth
hit of the day for the Cleveland Club. Down there
talking things over with Norm Seaburn. And the
Cleveland pitcher will be the batter. One to
nothing, Cleveland is leading this quarter run
in the first. And in case you joined us late,
Temple doubled. First all single him to third.
Walter Byam drove in the run with a base hit.
Then a walk to Frank Connott. And the starting
pitcher, Dick Hall, was out of there. This is
Lattman. He's going to bunt. Misses. No play
at first. Cheney came up ready to throw, but
Sebring was charging in. We were talking to Bob
Elliott before about Sebring playing first base.
It's a strange position for him. He's an outfielder.
He played for a couple of weeks in spring training
and played his first game at first base yesterday.
And these are the situations of which he is unsure
when to charge in, when to hold the runner close
and so forth. There's a bunt that's fair if Cheney
picks it up and whoa, he's out. It appeared that
Chidi in order not to hit the runner tried to
lob the ball and not throw it with a good stuff
on it to first base. This is a sure way to throw
a ball away. Lumpy was the man who covered. Phillips
goes down into scoring position when coming out
of the top of the batting order. And here's the
guy that started it all in the first inning Johnny
Temple. Doubled in the first and has scored the
only run of the game. With two men out. Bob Trowbridge
is the pitcher. In the dirt. You can see the
difference. Trowbridge keeping the ball down.
As compared to Dick Hall the starting pitcher.
That's Phillips. Right. This club has about five
or six sinker ball pitchers. Strike gets the
ball. One and one. I was talking to Harry Chidi
indeed. He's got you before the game. He said
a sinker ball pitch is very effective in this
park because everybody goes up there pumping
for that short lead field. Three thirty down
the line. A rather easy park to hit home run.
Sinker ball artists cause them to beat the ball
in the ground when they're swinging from the
heel. So one ball one strike count. Used to go
into st. Louis Jack when Jerry Staley was pitching
and I think they I think they went down that
infield pretty good in front of the plate One
ball, two strikes, and it's two and two. Johnny
was lamenting the fact that it's rough to be
traded to the other league. It's one thing to
be traded within the league, but when you go
to the other league, you lose all the knowledge
of the pitches that you've gained if you're a
student of the game as Temple is. He uses the
reverse of most fellas. Big hitters for power
use light bats. Johnny, who swings not too hard,
uses a very heavy bat, somewhere near 40 ounces
on occasions. Just pecks that ball. There's one
to the second baseman. Lumpy charges it, gets
the big hop. Temple is thrown out by Lumpy to
Seaburn. No runs, one hit. No errors, and one
man left on base. And so at the end of an inning
and a half, the score is Cleveland 1, Kansas
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to a terrific start hitting 400 with four out
of ten two homers. He undertook a conditioning
program during the off season and has paid off.
He's at a real hot spring. Outfield deep and
around on the right. Ball two. Nixon started
to chase it. New one goes to the mouth. I think
players Jack realized more than ever that there's
really no off season anymore. That's man should
stay in shape the year round. All three three
and all. Bob serve will hit next. You'll be followed
by Harry Chidi. He's got quite a bit of power.
Bauer Seaborn serve and Chidi all capable of.
Hitting the ball out with regularity. That means
three nothing. in blue Jack. Never been wrong
yet. Three balls and a strike. About that one
ball. Well there's the first baserunner. Seaburn
is wearing those big. Airplane. Bob Serb. He
belted one here yesterday. They say if you get
the ball up and serves eyes while you're headed
for trouble because he has a lot of power in
that high pitch. First baseman power is holding
Seaman close. One and one. Here's a fellow Jack
I don't believe I've seen a ballplayer this year.
any other year for that matter. It's in any better
shape than serve. This fella is hard as nails.
Watch him swing that bat. He has three out of
eight so far, for the season. See him in a short
lead. Two balls and a strike. Served last year
had 20 home runs. 87 RBI's. Lattmann slowing
down a little bit. Two balls and a strike. Hit
it off the end of the bat and it looks like it's
going to drop. It does. See when it stops at
second. Hit that one right off the end of the
bat. When the fellow like serve swings the bat.
and connects the outfielders instinctively start
to break back when he takes a full swing like
he did there. When it's off the end of the bat
they oftentimes miss that step coming in on the
ball. You know this serve is kind of a hitter.
You hear fellas say Jack that he's a wrist hitter
like Ernie Banks or Hank Aaron. This guy is a
muscle hitter. He hits with his muscles. We had
a close up look at Seabourn. And serve and now
here's the catcher Harry Chidi who has four out
of twelve so far. Indian infield looking for
the double play ball. Ball one. Boy that ball
was just in the weathering of that catching glove.
That man's a pretty big fellow at six three ways
to ten. One eight and lost five for the White
Sox last year. One ball no strikes to count.
There's nobody out here. That man thought he
had a strike on that one. Cleveland is leading
one to nothing scored around the first. And they
were blanked in the second days after going down
in order in the first inning. Started with a
walk to Siebert. And a base hit by Bob Serve.
And it's two balls and no strikes to Harry Chidi.
Foul on the screen. Not much room to chase the
foul balls here. Grandstand rather close to the
playing field. Two balls and a strike. Three
and one. GD was out and now he gets back in.
Nobody out here on the bottom of the second as
the A's threaten to get back in the ballgame
trailing one to nothing. Gillette bringing in
the ballgame from Kansas City. Jack Buck here
along with Carl Erskine. 3 and 1. Popped up foul
and out of play. 3 and 2 now. Can't give up on
those pop flies too soon Jack because of the
wind blowing above the stands. Sometimes carries
that ball back in. Nixon kept a good eye on it
all the way. There's Don Hefner coaching it.
third base for these athletics. Oh Walker Cooper
at first. Three and two the count. I wonder if
the runners will be moving with nobody out to
try to avoid the double play. A lot of factors
enter into the decision which has to be made
by Bob Elliott. He's a trailing one to nothing
here early in the game. To consider who's running
who's coming up next. He strikes out very often.
The speed of the base runners. A lot of factors.
Nobody out. Runners on it first and second. Three
and two the count. They're not going. That's
hit foul. They really smashed that one. Chase
them off the bench down there in the Cleveland
bullpen. Still three and two. See these bullpens
in the spring. They have about 15, 20 players
down there it seems like. Comes cut down date.
They really fit them out. Chudy had five home
runs last year for the A's. To give you an idea
of the power. There's a Micah throw. A couple
of singles in the ballgame tied. Serve stopped
at second. Left fielder Frank Connick could make
no play. Sebring scored. It's tied one to one
and here's Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson the third
baseman. Nobody out. Ball game tied. Latman seems
to be having trouble with his curve ball. He's
hung the ball up in the, up around the shoulders,
up around the eyes two or three times. Got in
trouble pitching to Seaburn by throwing two curve
balls for the boss. Pitch from Latman and it
is a strike. First and second here nobody out.
Last of the second score tied one to one. With
Cheney getting the RBI. Bond had the run vetted
in for Cleveland. Here's the play to first. Made
it pretty close. Big power playing behind the
runner and trying to sneak in there. Double play
ball perhaps. Out there. First and third now.
The ball wasn't sharply hit. Bubba Phillips started
to play at third base. Bob Johnson reaches on
the Bueller's choice. He was forced to second
and serve went to third. And here's the shortstop
of the athletics. Ken Hamlin. Formerly in the
Pirate Organization last year played in Columbus
Ohio. First and third with one out. Score tied.
That's right. Well that Nixon really moves around
behind that plate. Down the move all the time.
We talked about Darrell Rice last week being
a good shifting catcher and Nixon taking a page
out of Darrell Rice's book. Ships on everything.
At least the fly ball to drive in the tie breaking
run. Foul on the screen. Trying to go into right
field with it. Strike two. I'll bet Barry Linton
hasn't set up for the strikeout which he'd like
to get. The pitch is due to hit next. Sun trying
to break through here in Kansas City. Windy overcast
day. Third serve on the third base. Johnson on
it first. is still throwing in the bullpen. Might
have a play at the plate as the center fielder
Pierce Hall is there. Serb tags up. Here he comes.
There's the throw and he goes back. Went back
to third base. The ball was not hit very deep
at all. You could tell the way Serb came down
the line watching the outfielder that he was
not intent on trying to. So Hamlin couldn't get
the fly ball and the runners are still on it
first and third with two out now and left with
just about out of the inning which started off
in rough fashion for him with a walk and two
singles. And now here is Trowbridge. I don't
recall him being too formidable with that bat.
He takes his swings up there. He's respectable
for a pitcher. Strike one. And the last of the
second is a score to run here and tied the game
one to one. Nixon wasn't aware he'd missed the
ball and hit in his glove squirted through and
rolled behind him. And this is the break serve
got it making it because Nixon didn't jump on
that ball it got behind in a hurry. He wasn't
sure it had. Count goes to one and one on Trowbridge
with Johnson on its second down two out. That
might be trouble. He got him. Would have been
trouble but Trowbridge doesn't run very well.
Jumple made the play and that's the end of the
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has broken through here at Kansas City, as you
can see from the shadows on the field, as Bob
Trowbridge came on and did a fine job in relief.
Now has been staked to a one -run lead as the
third inning. gets underway. Harry Chidi there
and the Indians number two hitter in their lineup.
Jimmy Pearsall. He single his first time up and
was left down. They play straight away for him.
Strong wind blowing out toward left. It's popped
up. It's foul. Seabron chasing it. A play like
that is put to the discretion of the official
scorer as to whether or not the fielder should
be charged with an error. In that case they said
no. No play. That wasn't an easy chance. The
ball was going away from him and he was running
toward the stands. Seaman playing a strange position
down there at first base as we've told you earlier.
Normally an outfielder. The count is one strike
to Jim Pearsall. play. The ball is two strikes.
Nobody on her out here in the third inning with
Kansas City leading two to one. The Indians looking
for their first win of the year. Pretty ballpark
here as you can tell. You look around following
the progress of this contest. One ball two strikes.
Jack Buck here along with Karl Erskine and Gillette
bringing you the ball game from Kansas City.
First all hits another foul. Well next week we'll
be able to talk about the Dodgers and the Giants.
It'll be good to see the Dodgers again. That's
right. I'll see all my old buddies out there
and it'll be a little difficult for me to take
a neutral position up here in this booth, Jack.
You'd better. Carl Oisken. One ball, two strikes,
curve ball, two and two. This trouble shows a
knuckler once in a while. Occasionally, usually
when he's ahead of the batter. My old friends
in Brooklyn says there comes Oisken from Ft.
Wythe. Two and to the count and first saw hits
one down the line. There's trouble. Nice play
by sir. Awesome to a single. Here's all gets
his second hit. I imagine Mr. Keane is mentioning
a bit on the bench. I wonder if he will get back
in the lineup with that leg heel. That was hit
number five. For Cleveland. Here's Walter Bond.
He drove in there running the first inning. You
know, people wonder why they have six weeks of
spring training, spend a lot of money, and take
these fellows down in the warm sunshine. But
there's a good example of Harvey Keene, who I
think reported late this year and then came up
with an injury. First pitch was a strike to Bond.
I'll be aware out of the right deep, they have
to keep their eye on Prisock. We're gonna run
those bases. Foul. This fella swings from the
hill. Makes it strike two. How would you throw
him now, Tom? Well, uh, maybe he should throw
this one under the plate. With two strikes. Those
managers jump up and down on that bench when
they hit a two -strike pitch. They really scream.
It's no balls, two strikes. Sebring holding the
runner close. A lot of room for the right side
for the left -handed batter. Nobody out here.
Wasted that one. The A's leading the Indians
2 -1 at the end of 2. The base hit you just witnessed
off the bat of Pearsaw was hit number 1 ,000
for Jim in his big league career. Bond pops it
foul and it's going to be near the stands. Johnson
chasing it, the wind moving it, and he baffled
but couldn't get it. Went a long way after the
ball and started off like it was going to be
way out of play. And then the wind, which Carl
pointed out to you earlier, the fact that you
can't give up on a ball. Then he brought the
ball back in, but Johnson couldn't catch up to
it. It's still one and two to Walter Bond. Something
exists here now that you can see very well in
your picture. A shadow at the plate and the bright
sunshine at the mound. This is a makes it difficult
at the plate to see and as the game progresses
I think this shadow will eventually move on out
past the mound one ball two strikes He's in here
looking for the double play the outfielders are
all deep First all started with a single he's
not first nobody out Well hit You can tell why
the Indians like this guy Walter bond is big
about six five well over 200 pounds He really
swings that toothpick. Looks like a toothpick
in his hands up there. He spreads out the plate
almost as wide as the box is marked off. Trubridge
calls time once to get together with Cheney.
Oh, by the way, this guy's a pretty good hitter.
Better cover what you throw. Everyone wonders,
what do they talk about on the mound? They don't
always joke, but quite often it's a case of breaking
a little tension out there, putting the pitcher's
mind at ease, and occasionally they'll throw
in a little gem of a suggestion of how you might
get the hitter out. One ball, two strikes to
count. Nobody out here. throw a bridge writes
up his first strikeout first all still on a first
base and here's the number four hitter in the
Indian lineup left fielder Tito Francona he walked
his first time up of the right deep for this
fellow. He really blossomed into quite a hitter
last year. Ball two and it doesn't pay to get
behind these fellows. Pearsall singled and Bond
struck out. That's what's happened so far here
in the third inning. Kansas City leading Cleveland
two to one although. Out hit five to two. Trying
to throw a breaking ball. Two and all and runs
it to three and all. Three balls, no strikes.
And it wouldn't be too surprising when the runner
on base, Pearsall, see Frank Kona chop down on
this three -nothing pitch. Ball for him. Trowbridge
gives up his first walk. Frank Conner goes to
first. Red Crest is the coach. And here's the
Cleveland catcher who hit into a double play
in the first inning. Very solid second base.
Russ Nixon is the batter. Pops it up. It's foul.
Johnson chasing it near the stands. Looks like
he's going to have a play. He's failed with men
on base twice. So it's two on, two out. Here's
the old Kansas City favorite coming up. Two on
and two out. Tang run is on his second base for
the Indians. Bob Trowbridge the pitcher. his
first time up the third baseman threw him out.
Everybody else saying action this afternoon.
At the end of this inning we'll be able to give
you all the scores of all the games. Couple of
the ballgames are over. Not too big a crowd on
this Saturday afternoon in Kansas City. He's
played their home opener yesterday. Power hits
another foul and out of play. Yes sir, next week
on big league baseball, the Dodgers and the Giants.
When those two get together, there's bound to
be some action. That's low. Count runs to two
and two on Power. Two balls, two strikes to count.
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the athletics do in the third inning here. They
start with the top of the batting order. The
center fielder, Bill Tuttle. Curve ball in there.
He fouled out his first time. Phillips to power.
One man gone here. Lappman breezed through the
first inning and then got in trouble in the second.
Started it with a walk and then two singles.
Chibi drove in a run and then a pass ball allowed
another run. Jerry Lumpy here popped to the first
base for his first time. It's a foul near the
stands and out of play. Phillips chasing over.
One strike to count. Latman wants a new baseball.
The Latman score trade. Seemed to bring about
the opinion of everybody that was good for both
ball clubs. Opinion still divided of course.
On the Colavito Harvey Keene trade. One ball
one strike to Jerry Lumpy. Bauer strikes out
for the second time and he's been the only athletic
victimized by Latvian. Bumper gets a new supply
of baseballs. And here's a fellow that started
the rally in the second inning by drawing a walk.
First baseman, Norm Siebert. Two men gone. The
turn is thrown out by Johnny Temple. Bumpy got
a hit in the inning. No runs, one hit, no errors.
One man left on base and so the score at the
end of three innings is the Athletics two, the
Indians one. It's time now for our stations to
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at some scores of some of the other ballgames
as this one goes into the fourth. Detroit won
another, defeating Chicago 6 to 2. Larry the
winner over Pierce. And Boston won out over Washington
8 to 3. Fornelli is against Passball. There's
the other score. The Yankees leading Baltimore
3 to 2 in the seventh. In the national league,
Cincinnati and Philadelphia are tied 2 and 2.
in the ninth. First person Woody held is a strike.
Pittsburgh leading Milwaukee five to four at
the end of eight. And that Giants score, the
Giants lead the Cubs seven, ten to two at the
end of seven. Trowbridge. Next delivery is hit
to the shortstop, Hamlin. One out. Held is thrown
out by Ken Hamlin. What about that score? The
Giants 17 and the Cubs 2 at the end of 7. And
the Dodgers lead the Cardinals 5 to 4 at the
end of 6. One man gone here in the fourth inning.
Bubba Phillips single this first time. It's a
foul. The Giants are flexing their muscles today
over there. We said they had a lot of power in
the middle of that lineup. The power up and down
the lineup today 17 to 2. I know earlier Nicky
and Nicky Pater had a home run and Bob Schmidt
did one with two men on. Now the saying is if
you're going to lose one lose one right. Chicago
can say they're losing this one right today.
It's not overdue. He's still got a hit in the
second inning. That was his first hit of the
year. He's one for 10 now. Trowbridge in addition
to his good sinker ball throws a lot of sliders
a lot of breaking ball and all three of those
were breaking balls and look each one a little
farther outside. Well here's the pitcher he sacrificed
the first time up. Barry Lappman. Pops it up
to second seconds. Having a little trouble now,
calls for it. So, Trowbridge has a very eerie
evening. Although, monthly staggered a bit under
that pop fly. With the wind and the sun being
what it is. Now, at the end of three and a half
innings, the score is the A's two and the Indians
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Super Blue Blade. First pitch to Bob Serb. One
around. Serb leading off, single back in the
second inning and scoring a run. The athletics
left fielder. Four out of eight so far this season
including this game. Nice play. Johnny Temple
scooting to his right throws out Bob Sir. The
Indians got a valuable piece of poverty when
they got Johnny Temple. Of course they gave up
one of their big winners. The Red Legs needed
some pitches. Cal go surprise when he starts
pitching in that small park in Cincinnati Strike
the duty and they jump out of there pretty good
First a homerun these days is to be found in
any ballpark where these fellas can sock that
ball One and one to Harry Chidi He's catcher.
He's single and drove in the first athletic run
in the second inning And another run scored on
a pass ball Finds the ace on top. Two to one.
Here with one out and nobody on in the fourth.
Curve ball. One ball, two strikes. Now we have
pretty good battle going between Trowbridge,
who relieved Dick Hall, the Kansas City starter.
A good battle between Trowbridge and Barry Letman.
Phillips has to back up and play the long hop.
Up and down and out. Oh, and up in the air, and
then we have plenty of time with cheaty running,
and that's two out. One thing about it, Carl,
whenever you see an athlete in any sport, do
something with an unnatural motion like Phillips,
and then we have plenty of time. That's when
they make the mistakes. Not only that, but that's
when you get hurt. First pitch to Bob Johnson
is a ball you need to hurt physically. Right,
I think in football they will always stress this
point with so much body contact to always do
the natural thing and always do the thing to
the fullest. Ball two to Johnson. Any maneuvers
you shy away from or don't do all out, this is
the time you get hurt. On basketball you're going
for a layup when you're all by yourself, no opposition,
you just do something different because you know
that you don't have to bear down. And that's
when you blow the shot. Two out of nobody on
two balls, no strikes to count. Johnson hit that
one right off the end of the bat. He can chalk
up now. Reach on the field of choice in the second
inning. He's the A's third baseman, a rookie,
whom they drafted. Hey, old bird dog, Cooper,
still bounce around down there in that coaching
box. Well, we saw him in batting breakers. Walker,
Cooper, dulled a couple out of this ballpark.
That's ball three to Johnson. He's batting in
the number seven spot. That's been working in
a hurry, Watson. This Johnson, at whom we're
looking right now, bears a remarkable resemblance
to Rocky Colabido. In fact, they've already nicknamed
him Rocky. Here's Ken Hamlin, the shortstop.
Fly out to center field his first time up. Throw
to first. Two to one, the A's lead here in the
fourth inning. Right down the middle. One and
one. Slamming and throw rather hard. I was talking
to some of the thugs before the game today and
asked him what basically his stuff was. They
said just good hard fastball and a good hard
curve. It's a pretty good combination. One and
one to the batter, Hamlin. Curveball hit the
third base. The play is going to be the second
to Temple. Johnson is forced by Hamlin from Bubba
Phillips to Johnny Temple. No runs, no hits,
no errors, and one man left on base. And the
score at the end of the fall betting the athletics
two and Cleveland one. what we need. Johnny Temples
the batter he doubled his first time up and scored
a run that's the way the ballgame started. Then
he ground it out back in the second inning. He
has two for 16 which is not much like Johnny
Temple. Tries to bunt and it goes foul. He'll
do a little bit of everything. He'll do that
with two out too. John's expecting a summer this
year that he can maintain his weight and his
strength because in that. hot ballpark in Cincinnati
playing one hundred and fifty four and as the
way this guy moves around he always lost weight
during the season. So he's looking forward to
those cool days in Cleveland this year when he
can probably keep that weight up that at 311
last year. Take strike to strike out very often.
Nobody out here in the fifth inning. It's going
to be a temple for us all and Walter Bond. We're
around at the top of Cleveland batting order
again. A real good eye up at the plate. Cleveland's
quarter run in the first. The A's came back with
two in the second. This is Bob Trowbridge who
relieved Dick Hall in the first inning. We're
waiting for Harry Chidi to fix the mask. He had
it off. Made an adjustment. Now he's ready to
go. One ball two strikes. number 37. He'll be
up there next. Here's the 2 -2. Very close. 3
-2. It's a lot of courage to take that pitch
in a 2 -2 count. Yeah, Trowbridge out there has
nibbled it outside of that plate three straight
pitches down attempting to get Temple out of
there with two strikes on him. And he's just
missed. A shot in the left. Serve is on the go.
It's going to be off the wall. Might have a play
at second base. Temple is held to a single. A
nice play by Bob Serr. Temple really caught that
one right off the three thirty sign out in left
field. When it became apparent to serve that
he wasn't going to be able to get to the ball.
He took a fine position and got a good rebound.
They don't hold their runners to singles very
often on a shot off that wall. Here's Pearsall.
It's hit number six for Cleveland. Hit number
two for Johnny Temple. He got it on a 3 -2 pitch.
Pearsall punts. The play is going to be the first
base. Now Pearsall was punting for the hit but
he got it right back to the mound. Temple went
to second. So it's a sacrifice. Throw bridge
to Seaburn. Some of the boys will tell that he
was protecting that average of his. Had a pretty
good idea with this big fella coming up, Walter
Bond. He's single and drove in a run back in
the first inning, then he struck out in the third.
Indian rookie right fielder. Tying run, temple
on its second base. And one man out here in the
fifth. wearing sunglasses now. The wind doesn't
seem to be quite as strong as it was earlier
blowing out toward center field. One and one
to bind. Bob Trowbridge formerly of Milwaukee.
Johnny Temple on its second base. A curveball
hit into deep right. That ball is trouble and
it's out of here. That ball really jumped. A
curveball. And he hit it out. Scoring Temple
ahead of him. That ties the score as Temple steps
on the plate. And now Bond's run puts them ahead.
A single and a homer. And the Indians are out
in front by the score of 3 to 2. And now Tito
Frank Conner wears walk twice. It's a bouncing
ball to lumpy. Really hung a curve ball to bond
didn't he Carl. That ball is up. Certainly was
up and a little bit in on him and when he hit
it it sure didn't sound from here that he hit
it well enough to go over that fence. I'm sure
he hit it well or it wouldn't have gone that
far. I don't think he got a lot of help from
the wind. indication this guy is not only big
he really is strong I surprised myself when that
ball jumped out because as you say Carl I didn't
sound good when he hit it but it's gone now and
the Indians lead three to two here in the fifth
inning with two out this is Russ Nixon the catcher
I might have been disappointed if we hadn't seen
one home run here today the way the wind is blowing
Trowbridge wouldn't have been disappointed Nixon
hits one intellect. It's his first hit free trips
Single of the opposite field off the bat of the
Cleveland catcher The Indians, after scoring
in the first inning and then losing their advantage,
are again on top, 3 -2. Shebram watches it all
the way, but there's no play. And it's strike
two. Pitcher is due to lead off for the Athletics
in the bottom of the... Good thing. No balls,
two strikes. A high fly ball, the deep left.
That ball is going to be trouble. And serve,
can't get it. It's off the wall. Runs going to
score. A double for power. Serve had a little
more room out there in the outfield than he imagined.
Leapfoot couldn't get to the ball. It's a double
and an RBI on a nothing two pitch to Vic Power.
Drives in the run. Nixon scored all the way from
first base. Three runs in the inning making the
score four to two. Power with a double goes to
third on the throw to the plate. Here's the shortstop.
Woody held with power on a third. Going to keep
an eye on him. He's trying to steal Swalm. The
play is out at home. on the top of the head as
power was reaching with his hand. And the argument
continues here. That ends the inning. Out trying
to steal home. Three runs. On four hits. No errors
and nobody left. And at the end of four and a
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cents, or the giant economy size, 98 cents. Temple
started with a single. Kersall sacrificed and
Vaughn hit a home run to put Cleveland ahead
by the score of three to two. Then after Francona
grounded out, Nixon's single and Power doubled
him home. Power went to third on the play at
the plate. This is Whitey Herzog batting for
Trowbridge. Last of the fifth getting underway.
Barry Ladman on the mound for the Indians. He's
started and going all the way. George Brunet
is in the bullpen for the A's. There's a foul
off the end of the bat for strike two. Whitey
Herzog the batter here. in the on deck circle.
They thought they had a strikeout, but they didn't
get the call. It's one and two. Herzog last year
batted 293. Just in a few games, however. In
the dirt, two and two. Power came after Chidi
as he attempted to steal home with those spikes
flying, jumped right on top of him. Chidi didn't
tag him, but Power didn't get to the plate, and
then Power reached for the plate, and Chidi tagged
him on top of the head. Quite an argument when
the inning was over. There's ball three. Three
and two to the leadoff man here. It appeared
that Power, who was out by some 10 or 12 feet,
saw that he was going to be out after attempting
to steal, and he tried to knock the underpinning
out from under Harry Chidi, and he only spun
off of him. Then the argument came because of
Chidi in an attempt to tag, his attempt to get
back to the plate. The umpire called him out.
So maybe the A's have something going on. Last
to the fifth the Indians lead four to two. Frank
Conner makes the catch on a flat ball hit by
Tuttle. Why not. Frank Conner and Kersall were
all after that one. Now, the number two hitter
in the lineup, the second baseman, with one for
two so far in the ball game, Jerry Lumpy. Lumpy
popped out, then single in the third. Kersall
got it first base. The A's two runs down, they
figure he's not gonna be running until Power
is playing behind him down there, thus protecting
the hole against this left -handed hitter. That's
through the hole the other way. down at second
base and lumpy at first with one out. Bauer pops
it up short left center. First all on the run.
Look at him come. He's there and has it. Runners
get back two out. First off and cover that ground
in the outfield. Came a long way for that one
playing deep for Bauer. Now that puts things
squarely up to the number four hitter in the
athletics lineup. He's out at first. And there
is the first baseman, Norm Sebring. It's a foul.
Sebring walked in the second and quarter run,
then grounded out. The Indians are on top, 4
-2, and we're in the bottom of the fifth, 2 on,
2 up. I've been taking a little time. He's in
a bit of a jam here. This is the second time
that Grant, when we showed you in the bullpen,
has been warming up. One and one. Tom Seaborn,
a St. Louis boy. Last year with the Yankees,
he had 11 homers. 53 RBI is about at 271. A good
fastball on the corner. Now Seaborn has to be
cutting away up there. He's in the hole one and
two. That man had plenty on that one. I think
we spoke earlier Jack about pitching inside to
some of these left handers and there was a good
example. Striding in and taking the pitch but
it just about the corner. One ball two strikes
two on two out. This is a wild now. Two on, two
out, two balls, two strikes. Four to two of the
score. Get a bunch of human beings down there
playing with a baseball and look out. One and
one. Do bomb serve. Serve single. Score a run
in the second and then ground it out. There's
Seaborn. And there we have Lumpy. one ball two
strikes only had seven in the hall and then he
got him and then whoops you know that run of
course will be an unearned run but uh or any
other runs that score this inning will be unearned
they're still just as big on the scoreboard indians
lead by one At the end of the fifth inning is
Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3. two Cincinnati and
Philadelphia in the eighth. It's Pittsburgh five
and Milwaukee four. Look at that San Francisco.
Jack Sanford won that one eighteen runs. Two
runs for Chicago. Drop was a loser. He'd like
to spread those over the season I bet. Los Angeles
and St. Louis. St. Louis is forced to hit now
on the sixth inning eight to five. We're ready
to go here in the top of the sixth inning. Kansas
City. Brunette is on the mound, B -R -U -N -E
-T, George Brunette. Those American League games
are all over. I gave you those scores earlier,
but in case you weren't with us, it was Detroit
6, the White Sox 2, Boston 8, Washington 3, the
Yankees 3, Baltimore 2. So the Tigers are still
undefeated. They're 4 -0. George Brunette is
the third Kansas City pitcher. Started with Dick
Hall. and then Bob Trowbridge in the first in
the sixth that's Brunette and what he held will
lead off. I hope you're enjoying the action in
this one. We've had quite a bit of it at municipal
stadium in Kansas City. Gillette sending you
the game. It will be on hand each and every Saturday
for you. Next Saturday the Los Angeles Dodgers
and the San Francisco Giants from Los Angeles.
Jack Buck. Karl Erskine here. We're enjoying
the ballgame along with it. Chidi gets together
with the pitcher on the signs. And turn the lights
on here. An indication of the sort of day we're
having. We had sunshine for just a couple of
minutes or so and then only part of the field.
What he held is 0 for 2. Not too good a start
for the season. 2 out of 13. He underwent a couple
of operations that really frightened him but
strike. Thought for a while that Woody might
have cancer. Fortunately it was not true. He
held back. It's 1 and 1. 4 to 3 the score on
this one. The Indians about hit the athletics
nine to four. The Indians have made the only
error. When you consider that run the scored
on the air plus the run the scored on the pass
ball the A's have scored some pretty cheap markers
but they do count. He caught that one in the
right field. Hank Bauer should make the catch.
What he held applies to Hank Bauer. It's not
the first five ball that Mr. Bauer has caught.
He's not used to that much room out there however.
No. First thing he sees in Yankee Stadium used
to see people. Here's Bubba Phillips. One for
two in this game a single and a strikeout. Remember
the last time out there he went for three bad
balls in the fan. Didn't go for this one. Got
a single in the second inning. He's only hit
for the season so far. He's one for ten. Ball
two. He is bringing in the left hander here to
see what they can do about stopping the power
hitting of Bond, Frank Cota, and Nixon. One out,
nobody out. Third baseman, Johnson. Save! He
put everything he had on it, but he couldn't
get Bubba Phillips. He gets his second hit of
the ballgame. He had to wait for that high bouncing
ball to come down. He knew he was going to have
trouble, so he cranked up and fired as hard as
he could and quickly as he could. Couldn't flag
down Phillips. He's on a first with one out.
And the pitcher is coming up. One man gone here.
You can look for most anything in this situation.
This is not simple. This is very Latin. It's
not uncommon to see a pitcher bunt in this situation,
Jack, because of a fellow like Temple coming
out behind him, even though there's one out.
Johnson's even with a bag at third base, protecting
against the bunt. The base hit by Phillips was
number 10 for the Indians. Popped it in the air,
he grabs it, nobody covering. Phillips got back
in time as Lumpy was unable to get over there.
So Brunette wisely held the ball. Good wood on
that one. Swung at that one he had a good marine
line drive base hit. I'm sure he was trying to
make that bunt good out in front of the plate.
Made sure he bunted it fair and with something
on it and he did. Here's a fellow who has two
hits in the ballgame Johnny Temple. He has two
for three. A double and a single and he scored
twice. Phillips on at first two out. There's
a bot and that's a good one. Going to have trouble
throwing them out. Low throw. Safe. Nice play
by Sieber. Base hit by Temple his third. Well
that's smart baseball by Temple keeping the inning
going. No sense a little fellow like him pumping
away for the fence. First all here has more power
and then you get around it. a bond who will follow
him. So Temple collects his third hit of the
day. Here's personal. You know whereas there
are certain patterns in baseball that are followed
because of a percentage. Again you take nothing
for granted because just because of a two outs.
No reason in the world why I felt like Temple
couldn't lay one down and he did. There are two
men out here foul tip. Pierce all has two for
two. Both singles. He sacrificed his last time
up. Temple's on it first. Bubba Phillips is on
it second base. Indians trying to score more.
They lead four to three here in the sixth inning.
Foul on the screen. Strike two. The net's in
trouble and he hasn't been wrapped for a solid
hit yet. No balls two strikes. Base hit. Let's
watch for the play at the plate. Bauer juggles
the ball. The run scores. Temple goes to third.
Parasols third hit. Makes the score five to three.
The first well hit ball off of Braden in this
inning. Temple went from first to third. As Phillips
scored we anticipated a play at the plate but
Bauer juggled the ball. No error charged however.
He may not have had a chance at the plate because
of a hop the ball took on the last bounce. He
had to stop play it up off the middle of his
chest and even had a feel of the ball clean.
I doubt that he could have thrown home. Bell
again. Yeah this guy homered his last time. It
went right out to the pitcher. Bond is thrown
out by Brunette. One run. Three hits. No errors.
Two men left. So, at the end of five and a half
innings, the score is Cleveland five, Kansas
City three. Now, have you taken my razor again?
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and travel case only 195 Well Barry Lampman has
gone five having allowed only four hits and he
needs in the ballgame five to three Walter Bond
has come in from right field to get the sunglasses
and we'll soon be ready to go in the bottom of
the sixth game in philadelphia jack has gone
into the 12th inning got a real battle over there
going on between cal mcclish and uh feral is
in the ball game now 12th innings two to two
since now in philadelphia evidently the cardinal
game is over and they defeated the dodgers nine
to five i didn't want to mention that jack Well,
here's Harry Chidi to see what he can do about
starting something for the A's. He has a single
out of two trips and an RBI. Kansas City catch
it. Barry Lappman is the pitcher. shortstop what
he held. Johnson is over to having walked once
in the game. One out here in the bottom of the
sixth. He's got that run back in a hurry didn't
it. It's five to four. Guy like Chidi he doesn't
have a always the healthiest batting average
but as strong as he is in a game like this. Really
be dangerous. Ken Hamlin. up and trying for the
third time. One and one now. Burnett is up for
his first time in the game. Two home runs in
the setting ties the game. Five all. You know
fans wonder why they don't play the old bunt
for one run these days but there's a good example.
When any man in a lineup can sock that ball over
the fence you don't give up an out for anybody.
The base is empty. Cheney and Hamlin have homered
in this inning. One and one. Two out. Nobody
on. The 1 -1. Two hits, no errors, nobody left.
At the end of sixth, Indians five, Athletics
five. It's time now for our stations to identify
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ABC television network. Now it's the seventh
inning here at Kansas City in the ball game that
Gillette is bringing you. Score tied 5 -0 between
Cleveland and Kansas City. In the American League
and the other games. There they are. Detroit
6, Chicago 2, Boston 8, Washington 3, Yankees
3, Baltimore 2. This ballgame now belongs to
Brunette to win or lose. See battles with Latman.
Oliver Grant, whom we showed you earlier, is
still throwing in the bullpen. Pito Francona
leading off here in the seventh inning. I made
an observation then he killed Jack and didn't
finish it. This fellow's got a good fastball
compared to throw bridge. He was throwing sinker
balls and sliders for the most part. Francona
hits one past the pitcher. Lumpy. Gary Lumpy
throws out Francona who is now 0 for 2 having
walked twice. One out here in the top of the
seventh inning. The A's trail one to nothing.
They lead in the second inning two to one. Then
they trail four to two. Four to three. Five to
three. Then they tied it with those two homers.
The attention brings the field attendance today
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is Russ Nixon. That's ball one. Come be with
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Gillette will be bringing you big league baseball
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the Giants from Los Angeles. Nixon hits it foul
and it's one and one. Better lash down the TV
sets next week, Jeff. Yeah. Those two ball clubs
get together and then ballpark. A lot of things
will be happening. Nixon here has a single lot
of three trips. It's going to run. They had a
glimpse of Dick Power who's in the on deck circle.
That's Powell in the seats and that's on the
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the bottom of the seventh inning and the fans
here in Kansas City are standing for the hometown
stretch. We have a new pitcher for the Cleveland
Indians. The second heart of the game. He takes
over for Barry Matlin. This is his second game.
He is 0 and 1. And leading off will be the second
baseman who was so busy in that last half. Jerry
Lumpy. singles out of three trips. We're looking
at another guy who's been really hum that P.
Jerry Lump. To be followed by Bauer and Seaborn
as the A's try to break the deadlock here in
the seventh inning. Grant was 10 and 7 last year.
This ballgame belongs to Grant and Brunette right
at the moment. Tie five and five. The count is
one and one. feel straight away from. I say these
fans are in good voice here today. Hear the reaction
to this intentional pass. This is one of the
reasons that baseball officials or baseball owners
decided rules committee decided to leave the
intentional pass in on four pitches rather than
just an automatic trip to the plate to the first
base. It always gets some reaction. Walker Cooper
is the coach. This is a good idea here. They
check signs quite often with a man on second.
Realize the man on second can also see those
finger signs with a catcher just as well as a
pitcher. And you can imagine they signed are
a little more complicated. Good to go out and
check occasionally and make sure someone didn't
cross up. of Bob serve in the bottom of the seventh
score tied by ball. On a second base is lumpy.
Seeburn the runner at first. Ball breaking down
and also appeared to be. Off the plate outside.
Serve up there wants to get a piece of that ball
he sees all those RBI's out in front of him there.
On to the count. Serve is the batter Chidi will
be next. If they don't get the double play. I
feel deep in. straight away in the infield back
looking for two. Double football. Out there.
That's all. Served court one right at the shortstop.
Held to Temple to power. No runs. One hit. No
errors. One left. And at the end of seven still
tied. The Indians five and the Athletics five.
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Brunette. Score tied, five all. Ball one. Woody
is 0 -3 in the ball game. We've got a fellow
with pretty good power batting in the number
seven spot. 29 homers last year, there's ball
two. Brunette had been up before. Last year he
was at Portland where he won five and lost 13.
Ball three. It's the first appearance of the
year for Brunette. All four. Well that's no way
to start the A -thing. As far as the athletics
are concerned. Burnett came on in the sixth inning.
Gave up a run, then breezed through the seventh.
Now starts off the eighth by giving a free pass.
Here's Bubba Phillips. Bunch foul. He has single
twice out of three trips. And a bunt again. The
play is to first base. Whoops. Make one sure
they say and Harry Cheney the catcher called
the play. You can hear him calling from up here.
We're going to have a pinch hitter. Harvey Kane
is coming to the plate. Philip sacrifice held
his down a second with one out. Here's the power
who is involved in that controversial trade.
Call the veto for Harvey Keane. I see he's got
Rocky's old number down there. So they just swapped
uniforms, Jack. That's what happens in the scheme
of baseball. Time breaking right on the second.
They're going to walk Keane. The A's have a right
hander warming up in their bullpen and the Indians
have the right handed batting Johnny Temple coming
up so we might see some further action here.
It's a good bet we'll see a runner for Keane
also with a bad leg who will be on first base.
So there's the intentional walk. Keane is on
at first. He's immediately relieved by a pinch
runner. Runner's on at first and second. Carol
Hardy is the pinch runner. Johnny Temple the
batter. And Burnett stays in. Temple has had
two singles and a double. First and second one
out. They both got there with walks. We're in
the eighth and tied five to five. The A's really
need the double play. Temple needs the base hit.
Right back here. The lights have been turned
on here in Kansas City. So Mike Lee will be the
third Cleveland hurler. Of the day and the bottom
of the. And just missed on that one. One and
one. See the first baseman playing behind the
runner Carol Hardy at first. There's Bubba Phillips
down at second base. Or rather would he help.
A little sacrifice in the center. Two balls and
a strike. Temple doesn't strike out very often
as we told you. And also he's a tough man to
double up. They bunched John through the middle.
That's where he hits usually. Hits the right
field and up through the middle. You can see
the two positions short and second there on your
picture that they're squeezed in towards second
base. Two balls and a strike they count. He held
up. Three and one. Three and one the count. Temple
is looking down at the third base coach Joe Joe
White. Who in turn was looking into the dugout
from then into Joe Gordon. Three balls and a
strike. Think he'll be swinging. The A's have
a right hander in the bullpen. This fellow is
also very difficult to double up any pair solve
and run. Rob Elliott makes no move here in the
eighth inning bases loaded one out scored time
five all. back down a piece of paper. He's really
need to double play at first all needs at least
the fly ball. Scored tied five and five. All
the other baseball is over. And everybody else
played this afternoon. That could use a strikeout.
There's a high pop up. The infield fire rule
applies. The batter is out. The bases will still
be loaded with two men out. The second baseman
makes the catch. Well there's a big one. Here's
all really angry as you can see. Popped out to
lumpy and it puts it up. To the Indian rookie.
The right fielder Walter Bond. There's Temple
on a first base. Carol Hardy running for key
to bat it for the pitcher on its second and what
he held on at third. Two men out a stunning score
tied by a ball and here is bond who has a homer
and a single out of four trips. That got a real
big out when he got Pierce Hall to pop up. No
more throwing situation in baseball and bases
loaded to. You're speaking of a spectator Jack
not a pitcher, right? Go garden comes hustling
out the dugout to claim a block on the part of
the pitcher George Brunette one thing about it.
Gordon is probably accomplishing something even
though he is going to lose the argument here
and that would be to try to upset the pitcher.
Not only Gordon came up keen and about four other
players all simultaneously came off of that bench
when they thought they detected a ball to the
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Bottom of the eighth now on the athletics. We're
given a life when they get out of that and that
was equal to the occasion. Last time up and the
fans are yelling for a little more. The Kansas
City catcher. A new pitcher is on the mound for
the Cleveland club. He follows their starter
Barry Lattman and their first relief man Mudcat
Grant. It's a big ball six five Mike Lee. Oh
no excuse me. Change uniforms as often happens
at this time of year. Paul Paul on our part meant
too much about it because just didn't recognize
the fellow Bob Grim is the pitcher. Former member
of the athletics and of course of the Yankees
Bob Grim. These days you can't even tell the
players with a scorecard Jack. You're right.
Last of the eighth. Grimm pitching to T .D. Ball.
We're in the eighth. Score tied 5 -0. So, Jim
Grant, who was in the game, pitched only one
inning. Wasn't scored a five. Here's the one
-one. Left center. On the run is Prancota. He
gets it. Chitty flies to Prancota. Remember,
Tito was the one who dropped the fly ball back
in the fifth inning. He squeezed that one. One
out and here's the. Athletics third baseman.
Been on base once with a walk he's over to. Bob.
Johnson. Grim gets a head on him. It's been a
busy game. A lot of hits. Fall for the Indians.
Seven for the A's. One out, nobody on. One and
one to count. Foul out of play. thousand six
hundred and fifty nine in the ballgame today.
Here's the one to get down the third baseline
foul. Remains the same. I would have been troubled
if Steve there. Walker Cooper talking to Johnson.
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game Join us, will you please? Struck him out
So Grim retires the first two men Ken Hamlin
here a homer his last time up and tied the game
is only hit. And three trips he's the Kansas
City shortstop. Grim gets ahead here to. And
as a little fellow at five ten one hundred and
sixty eight. Two out and the base is empty. The
A's have hit five home runs this year. And all
of them have come with the bases empty. Here's
the one -one. Score tied five to five. Last of
the eight. Foul. Tonto. Grim's getting the fastball
over. Getting him out with the fastball and wasting
the curve, it appears. I first saw this fella.
He was really a hard thrower. And of course,
since then, he's developed a good slider and
a good curve. Polk out now. That's a pattern
of a young pitcher, Jack. They came in on the
cover of the leg. Good strong arm. big strong
back just rare back and throw and they learn
all these other things. So Ken Hamlin gets a
base on ball there's a tie breaking run and let's
see what the A's do. Pitchers due to bat George
Brunette. No one has come out yet. have a pinch
hitter. A pinch hitter for George Burnett will
bring on yet another Kansas City pitcher in the
ninth inning. In the batter here is Marv Thornberry.
Two out, run around first. It's been a rather
long game, two and a half hours right now. But
a lot of excitement in this 5 -5 contest. Graham
is way out in front. See the first baseman, Power,
holding Hamlin close. No balls, two strikes on
the batter, Throneberry. One and two. Graham
and Throneberry were teammates at one time. Here's
the one and two. Brownberry down on strikes.
Grimm got two strikeouts in that inning. No runs,
no hits, no errors, one left. And so at the end
of the eighth inning, the score is Indians five,
Athletics five. And now it's the ninth inning
of the ballgame. baseball is over Detroit 6 Chicago
2 Boston 8 Washington 3 Yankees 3 Baltimore 2
and in the National League all of those ballgames
are over Philadelphia defeated Cincinnati 3 to
2 Pittsburgh knocked off the Braves 5 to 4 the
Giants buried the Cubs 18 to 2 and the Cardinals
won their third in a row taking the Dodgers 9
to 5. A new pitcher for the Athletics. Dick Hall
started. Trowbridge came out in the first inning.
Brunette in the sixth inning. And now it's Marty
Coutina. Marty Coutina. He'll be facing the big
hitters on the Cleveland club. So we're in the
ninth but nothing has been settled. Still tied
five and five. Bettina has appeared in one game.
Having pitched one and eight. Formerly the property
to the Cardinals. Pitched only seven innings
for the A's last year. Spent most of his time
at Portland where he won 14 and lost 10. Here's
Tito Francona to start it off in the ninth inning.
He walked twice and lumpy threw him out twice
from second base. Curveball ball one. Shot foul.
One and one. The fourth Kansas City Huller in
the ballgame. Cleveland meanwhile he goes three.
He started laughing and ran in the seventh Grim
in the eighth and was still in a foul out of
play. And Francona is in the hole one and two.
out the one to pitch. They said to left a single
for Frank Conner to left. His first hit third
time he's been on base. And there is the lead
run. Stroke that nicely to the opposite field.
Well they said by the book that's where you're
supposed to hit a curve ball and I think folks
at home on their screen could see that that pitch
was a curve ball. He laid it in the left field
for a base hit. Now it's Russ Nixon the catcher.
Who has a single out of four trips. And has going
around. Time called. Francona was breaking with
the pitch but time had been called. Interesting
to see what happens on this play we'll keep an
eye on the base runner for your Seaborn holding
him close. Popped up. Third baseman wants it.
Now the shortstop, Hamlin. Nixon pops out to
the shortstop. And here's the Kansas City favorite
coming. J .D. talking to Tina. Run around first
to be looking forward to the. Ninth inning for
the A's it's due to be at the top of the order.
Tuttle lumpy and bowler. Might have been a pitch
out. Tina has a. unusual style he steps almost
as a crossfire sidearmor but his his right arm
comes over the top. He's keeping a real good
eye on Frank Conan. If held here it keeps the
inning going. Love of Phillips will be the batter.
Two men out here in the top of the ninth. situation
like this you oftentimes see them turn the hitter
loose on a three nothing pitch. Run around first
to outscored tied 5 all in the ninth ball for.
Francona goes to second. The batter is due to
be Phillips. We're going to have a pinch hitter
I believe. Bob Hale is going to come out and
that. Phillips had gone two for three in the
game. Bob Hale an infielder formerly with Baltimore.
Left handed batter comes out to hit. So a single
and a walk is put the. Athletics in trouble foul
out of play. Two on and two out. The Indians
have left quite a few stranded in the ballgame.
They've left a total of ten men on base. Curveball.
Coutinho should throw them out. ninth inning
the score is still tied Indians five athletics
by. The left range of big league baseball every
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for $1 .95. Nine -tening and the ball goes around
the infield. Bob Grimm has this ball game to
hang onto. It's tied 5 -5. The A's looking for
their second in a row over Cleveland. Cleveland
trying to win their first of the year and here's
the top of the order, the center fielder Bill
Tuttle. George Strickland is the third baseman
now for Cleveland. There's the base hit. Makes
a wide turn. A single for Cuddle. That's the
first time he's been on base and the A's fans
say it couldn't have happened at a better time.
Bill Cuddle parked one through the middle. only
hit number eight for the A's have been out hit
13 to 8. They could win it right here. Here is
lumpy and of course they'll be looking for the
button. Good fun. You'll be out at first. Seeing
a lot of good sacrificing in the game today.
They go back to that one run brand of baseball.
Hank Bauer, who is already considered the mayor
of Kansas City, could really be a popular guy
right here. Now the Indians have a couple of
choices to make. They have first base open. They
could pitch to Bauer and walk Sievern. Or they
could walk Bauer and bring in left handed or
pitch to Sievern. All of those things are going
to be discussed right now on the mound between
Gordon number 35, catcher Nixon and the pitcher
Bob Grimm. He's in trouble right here. In a pitch
to our base not going to get this time we can
fly and power the batter. He's all for three
he struck out twice. Seaborn is due to that next.
To repeat, Bill Tuttle, at whom you're looking
now, can really run. by the score of six to five.
We've driven the hosing cover, and Marty Kutsana
getting the win in the ball game. The final score,
the Athletics six and the Indians five.