WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:04.580 This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:31.780 .com for more sports history. were considered 00:00:31.780 --> 00:00:34.600 an average team in the early 1970s, having missed 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:36.700 the postseason for seven consecutive seasons. 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:39.619 In this game, the Athletics' Denny McLean took 00:00:39.619 --> 00:00:42.380 the mound against the Yankees' Mike Kekich. This 00:00:42.380 --> 00:00:44.700 audio recording is from the New York radio broadcast 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:47.259 featuring announcers Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto, 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:58.479 and Bill White. on another well sort of a chilly 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.299 evening with a breeze blowing toward right field 00:01:01.299 --> 00:01:03.939 and tonight the New York Yankees will try to 00:01:03.939 --> 00:01:07.540 get back on the winning track after losing last 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:11.840 night's ball game to the Oakland A's in 12 innings 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.900 by a score of 4 to 3 on a pinch hit double by 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:20.379 former Yankee teammate Mike Egan and Phil Rizzuto 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:22.840 I'd have to say tonight the Yankees will certainly 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.519 have their work cut out for them because they're 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.920 going against Dennis McLean, and even though 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.340 McLean was a 22 -game loser for the Washington 00:01:32.340 --> 00:01:35.859 Senators last year, I've got the feel that with 00:01:36.620 --> 00:01:39.219 A winning ball club, a contending ball club, 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:41.900 which Oakland is, McClain will come back and 00:01:41.900 --> 00:01:44.640 very possibly reverse that one -loss record. 00:01:45.060 --> 00:01:46.879 Well, I'm sure you're right, Frank. I expect 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.340 Denny McClain to have a big year this year. He 00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:51.180 won his first start for Oakland. They said he 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:53.599 didn't have his good stuff, but with that impeccable 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.879 control that he has, with a club like he has 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.359 behind him, he's going to be rough. And as we 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.140 look down his lifetime mark against the Yankees, 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:05.459 he's won 15 in lower state. So as you say the 00:02:05.459 --> 00:02:07.400 Yankees got their work cut out for them one thing 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.919 they know that he's around the plate and he's 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.740 a fellow like You don't have to worry too much 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:16.639 about you can really dig in that good control 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.060 And if it's not too good, we might see a little 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:23.000 extra hitting tonight. That is probably the reason 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.860 that McLean has, in the past, led the league 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:29.099 in home runs given up by a pitcher. Absolutely, 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:30.900 thanks. Same thing happened to Robin Roberts, 00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:33.360 who was a big winning pitcher, but yet year after 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.639 year he'd lead the league in giving up home runs. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.860 Okay, Phil, we'll be back with the starting lineups 00:02:38.860 --> 00:02:42.460 right after this message. During the next few 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:44.740 weeks, you'll be hearing the three letters X, 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:48.259 B, R often. What do they mean? They're a computer 00:02:48.259 --> 00:02:51.560 code for Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Extended 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.819 Benefits Writer. 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Reggie 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:50.949 Jackson will be the right fielder, batting third. 00:04:51.250 --> 00:04:53.449 Hitting in the cleanup spot at third base, Sal 00:04:53.449 --> 00:04:56.410 Bando. Bobby Brooks, the center fielder, batting 00:04:56.410 --> 00:04:59.350 fifth. Catching tonight and batting sixth, Dave 00:04:59.350 --> 00:05:03.149 Duncan. Mike Epstein will be at first base, batting 00:05:03.149 --> 00:05:06.220 seventh. Larry Brown will be playing second base 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:08.339 batting eighth. Remember last night, Dick Green, 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.240 after laying down a beautiful bunt, had trouble 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:14.060 with his back and was barely able to get off 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.800 the field under his own power, so he is not in 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.000 the ball game. Larry Brown will be playing second 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.759 batting eighth. And Denny McLean pitching and 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.399 batting ninth. For the Yankees, Morris Clark 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.019 leads off at second base. Catching and batting 00:05:28.019 --> 00:05:30.899 second, Thurman Monson. Bobby Mercer in center 00:05:30.899 --> 00:05:33.750 field, hitting third. In the cleanup spot in 00:05:33.750 --> 00:05:36.970 left field, Roy White. Felipe Alou will be at 00:05:36.970 --> 00:05:39.990 first base batting fifth. The right fielder batting 00:05:39.990 --> 00:05:42.769 sixth, Johnny Callison. Rich McKinney will be 00:05:42.769 --> 00:05:45.610 at third base batting seventh. The shortstop 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:48.649 hitting eighth, Gene Michael. Pitching and batting 00:05:48.649 --> 00:05:52.089 ninth, Mike Kekich. And as the men in blue come 00:05:52.089 --> 00:05:55.129 out, the umpires, along with Dick Williams, the 00:05:55.129 --> 00:05:57.050 skipper of the Oakland A's, and Ralph Hopp will 00:05:57.050 --> 00:05:58.850 be out there. There he is, right in the middle 00:05:58.850 --> 00:06:01.829 of the umpires. It'll be Ron Luciano calling 00:06:01.829 --> 00:06:04.990 balls and strikes, Frank Umott at first base, 00:06:05.370 --> 00:06:08.129 Jim Odom the umpire at second, and Don Denkinger 00:06:08.129 --> 00:06:12.850 at third. This is the New York Yankee baseball 00:06:12.850 --> 00:06:15.569 network we pause now for station identification. 00:06:41.870 --> 00:06:44.250 Well, they break up the huddle at home plate. 00:06:45.350 --> 00:06:48.310 And Frank Messer, it's just a shame the Yankees 00:06:48.310 --> 00:06:50.490 have been in every ball game so far this year. 00:06:50.629 --> 00:06:52.269 But with the way Baltimore is, can you imagine 00:06:52.269 --> 00:06:54.449 Baltimore getting beat three games in a row? 00:06:55.430 --> 00:06:58.389 No, I can't. No, that's right. But Yankees could 00:06:58.389 --> 00:07:00.709 have really picked up some ground. Yes, they 00:07:00.709 --> 00:07:03.990 could have. Baltimore lost two out of three in 00:07:03.990 --> 00:07:07.670 the last two in a row in Cleveland. And then 00:07:07.670 --> 00:07:11.550 the Orioles were beaten again last night. by 00:07:11.550 --> 00:07:18.310 Kansas City. In fact, they were shut out by Kansas 00:07:18.310 --> 00:07:22.069 City last night, three to nothing. Now, ladies 00:07:22.069 --> 00:07:25.949 and gentlemen, we hope you'll join with Robert 00:07:25.949 --> 00:09:23.309 Merrill in our national anthem. begins his warm 00:09:23.309 --> 00:09:25.149 -up throws. We'll take a look at other games 00:09:25.149 --> 00:09:29.110 for you. Minnesota defeated Boston 3 -1 this 00:09:29.110 --> 00:09:31.710 afternoon. Dick Woodson got the win. Dave LaRoche 00:09:31.710 --> 00:09:35.230 saved it for him. And Ray Culp was the loser. 00:09:36.190 --> 00:09:38.549 Baltimore, Kansas City tonight. The Orioles have 00:09:38.549 --> 00:09:42.070 lost three straight, as Phil just remarked. The 00:09:42.070 --> 00:09:44.850 Chicago White Sox trade for Dick Allen paid off 00:09:44.850 --> 00:09:47.929 again this afternoon, as the former Richie, now 00:09:47.929 --> 00:09:51.879 Dick Allen. hit a tempting two -run homer to 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.960 carry the White Sox to a 7 -5 win over Cleveland. 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.299 Earlier in the ball game, Mike Andrews had hit 00:09:58.299 --> 00:10:01.139 a grand slam homerun to tie it up 4 -4 at the 00:10:01.139 --> 00:10:04.519 end of 7. The winning pitcher was Steve Keely, 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:09.019 and the loser was Steve Mingori. Detroit at Texas 00:10:09.019 --> 00:10:12.519 tonight. California beat Milwaukee 3 -1 this 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:14.980 afternoon, as Ricky Clark, with help from Allen 00:10:14.980 --> 00:10:17.759 and May, Rudy May working in relief, saving the 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.820 ball game for him. defeated Bill Parsons, who 00:10:20.820 --> 00:10:23.259 started for the Milwaukee Brewers. California 00:10:23.259 --> 00:10:27.779 3, Milwaukee 1. And looking at the National League 00:10:27.779 --> 00:10:34.720 this afternoon, the San Francisco Giants defeated 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:39.820 the Philadelphia Phillies 8 -6 on a 10th inning 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:44.220 home run by Bobby Bonds. The Phillies had scored 00:10:44.220 --> 00:10:46.500 two runs in the top half of the 10th inning to 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:50.370 go out in front 6 -4. The Giants got four runs 00:10:50.370 --> 00:10:53.330 in the bottom half of the tenth and won it eight 00:10:53.330 --> 00:10:57.970 to six. And Kingman had two more home runs for 00:10:57.970 --> 00:11:00.049 the Giants. He's hit four for the year now. The 00:11:00.049 --> 00:11:02.009 rest of the game for tonight, we'll check those 00:11:02.009 --> 00:11:07.850 scores as they come in. First pitch of this ball 00:11:07.850 --> 00:11:09.889 game to Kampenaris, butted back to the mound, 00:11:10.049 --> 00:11:12.269 fielded by Kakechi, throws to first and throws 00:11:12.269 --> 00:11:14.950 him out. Though this game gets underway in a 00:11:14.950 --> 00:11:19.019 hurry with Kampenaris. Trying to butt himself 00:11:19.019 --> 00:11:23.360 on and check it pops on that ball quickly and 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:28.120 throw him out One pitch and one away and here 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:32.259 comes Joe Rudy Silver's little you remarked last 00:11:32.259 --> 00:11:34.980 night that this Joe Rudy is one of the more improved 00:11:34.980 --> 00:11:38.379 ball players in the league He is and didn't he 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:40.879 lay down a beautiful bunt last night, too. He 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:45.600 certainly did the Oakland A is wearing the Well, 00:11:45.700 --> 00:11:47.539 they're not wedding gown white anymore. What 00:11:47.539 --> 00:11:49.539 is that, the shade of white? It's if white had 00:11:49.539 --> 00:11:51.899 different shades, but it does. Curb ball to Rudy 00:11:51.899 --> 00:11:56.039 is up high, ball one. Rudy, a right -hand hitter. 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:00.480 A very white white. Yeah, but they still do have 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.159 the wedding gown white complete uniform, which 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.220 I think they wear at home. Oh, is that right? 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.000 Down low comes Kekich. Ball two -two and out 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.259 of the right -hand -hitting Joe Rudy. Bill Kane 00:12:14.259 --> 00:12:18.059 said they lead the league in uniforms. All right. 00:12:18.220 --> 00:12:20.600 And that's true. They have at least three different 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.840 sets, possibly four. They are wearing the Kelly 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:28.279 Green jerseys with the Fort Knox gold undershirts. 00:12:28.580 --> 00:12:31.659 Line drive base hit the left field. Michael had 00:12:31.659 --> 00:12:33.779 short started for it. The ball hit like a bullet 00:12:33.779 --> 00:12:38.039 was past him. And Rudy is on with a one -out 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:39.940 single here in the first inning. It will bring 00:12:39.940 --> 00:12:44.710 up Reggie Jackson, the right fielder. for Joe 00:12:44.710 --> 00:12:47.409 Rudy based at number nine on the young season. 00:12:50.169 --> 00:12:52.429 And nobody in the starting lineup has any more. 00:12:52.570 --> 00:12:55.409 Sal Bando has nine hits. Reggie Jackson getting 00:12:55.409 --> 00:13:00.129 off to a slow start is four for 25. Left hand 00:13:00.129 --> 00:13:05.210 hitter. Jackson always a threat to hit the ball 00:13:05.210 --> 00:13:09.830 out of the ballpark, however. Kekich comes to 00:13:09.830 --> 00:13:15.860 the belt and deals up high, ball one. Kekich 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:19.240 has a lifetime record of no wins and two losses 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.059 to Oakland as Reggie Jackson looks down to his 00:13:22.059 --> 00:13:25.179 third base coach, former Yankee herb, Norrin. 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:29.980 Jerry Adair coaches it first. And the 1 -0 pitch. 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.720 Kripball is in there for a call strike, beautifully 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:41.700 drawn by Kekich. Sal Bando is on deck. Reggie 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:46.129 Jackson went 0 for 4 last night. Struck out once. 00:13:46.990 --> 00:13:49.870 Hit one line drive caught in right field by Callison, 00:13:49.970 --> 00:13:54.769 the pitch. Strike two, ball. A ball and two strikes 00:13:54.769 --> 00:14:07.509 to the left hand hitting Reggie Jackson. Mustachio, 00:14:07.549 --> 00:14:15.059 Reggie Jackson. Right down on the end of the 00:14:15.059 --> 00:14:17.480 bat waiting Ben slightly at the waist Kekich 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:23.220 checks first and deal side on Jackson strikes 00:14:23.220 --> 00:14:27.419 out on a side on delivery from Mike Kekich. He 00:14:27.419 --> 00:14:30.460 really came down with that one Bill Said it had 00:14:30.460 --> 00:14:32.820 something new Steve Klein has been going in that 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:35.159 side on pitch quite a bit and now Kekich have 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:41.580 been very effective Here's Sal Bando Bando has 00:14:41.580 --> 00:14:48.299 nine hits he's batting 333, 9 for 27. Right hand 00:14:48.299 --> 00:14:50.620 hitter. Can play a good third base for you, too. 00:14:50.620 --> 00:14:54.340 He's the team captain. Caggage checks first, 00:14:54.419 --> 00:14:57.179 Alou holding the runner on. Drops a curve low, 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.820 gets away from Munson, but he recovers quickly. 00:15:01.379 --> 00:15:12.019 And Rudy does not try to go. Caggages have wide 00:15:12.019 --> 00:15:14.669 and left. Mercer in center, and Johnny Callison 00:15:14.669 --> 00:15:18.330 in right. They're spread out on Vando. So is 00:15:18.330 --> 00:15:20.590 the infield. The pitch. Get right back up the 00:15:20.590 --> 00:15:21.929 middle. That's going to get through there for 00:15:21.929 --> 00:15:24.850 a base hit. Rudy around second base now stops 00:15:24.850 --> 00:15:27.370 as Mercer charges the ball, gets it back to the 00:15:27.370 --> 00:15:31.289 infield. And Vando rips one right back up the 00:15:31.289 --> 00:15:33.629 middle for a single into center field. Base hit 00:15:33.629 --> 00:15:36.210 number two of the inning. And with runners at 00:15:36.210 --> 00:15:38.490 first and second, here comes the rookie, Bobby 00:15:38.490 --> 00:15:46.210 Brooks. Brooks playing center field, Angel Banwall, 00:15:46.750 --> 00:15:50.990 down to the minors, working out an injury. And 00:15:50.990 --> 00:15:52.590 I'll tell you, this kid Brooks looked pretty 00:15:52.590 --> 00:15:54.509 good last night, Bill. First time I'd seen him. 00:15:54.509 --> 00:15:56.629 He didn't have a base hit, but he showed us good 00:15:56.629 --> 00:15:59.350 foot, and he hit the ball well, although it was 00:15:59.350 --> 00:16:02.450 caught every time, right? He's a right -hand 00:16:02.450 --> 00:16:04.669 batter, holds the bat down on the end. Swings 00:16:04.669 --> 00:16:07.590 on a curve, it's a fly ball to deep center. Mercer 00:16:07.590 --> 00:16:10.649 going back, turns under it now. Glove up, and 00:16:10.649 --> 00:16:14.470 Bobby has it. Rob Brooks drives Mercer to deep 00:16:14.470 --> 00:16:17.909 center field to take his fly ball. For the Oakland 00:16:17.909 --> 00:16:21.070 A's, no runs, two hits, no errors. 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Check it out. Thank 00:18:18.099 --> 00:18:22.279 you. All right, Bill here is Denny McQuain ready 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.319 to work to Hoss Clark. Clark has nine base hits. 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:29.940 He and Thurman Munson lead the club in base hits. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.880 They're both nine for 27. And the first pitch 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:39.160 is high for ball one. Denny McLean in nine years 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:46.839 in the American League has won 128 ball games. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:52.579 He misses outside, two balls and no strikes. 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:59.660 High ball three, three and oh. McLean probably 00:18:59.660 --> 00:19:03.440 does not throw as fast as he used to, but as 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.579 Phil mentioned earlier, He is a control pitcher. 00:19:08.980 --> 00:19:11.259 He did not walk anybody in his first and only 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:14.599 other start this year. He comes high at a clock 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.859 and walks him on four pitches. So you start talking 00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:19.019 about a guy's control, and what does he do? Well, 00:19:19.099 --> 00:19:22.099 he walks the leadoff man on four deliveries. 00:19:27.299 --> 00:19:45.380 Seven months in. Nine for 27. The other star 00:19:45.380 --> 00:19:49.000 was against the Kansas City Royals. He gave up 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:54.019 eight hits, but no earned runs. The A's won the 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:56.240 ball game three to two. He comes low to Munson. 00:19:56.259 --> 00:19:58.819 That's ball five. Well, I'll tell you, it looks 00:19:58.819 --> 00:20:01.359 like he's aiming that ball, Frankie. He hasn't 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:09.380 really cut loose yet with a good fastball. He's 00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:12.299 behind Munson 1 -0. Clark at first. Epstein holding 00:20:12.299 --> 00:20:15.259 him on and throw over there and Clark gets back. 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:18.200 Remark last night looking down there at Epstein 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.059 about how much weight he had lost. Billy told 00:20:20.059 --> 00:20:25.319 me 25 pounds. Said he thought it might help him 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:28.539 in August. The last couple of months of the season. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.440 He and George Scott both have taken off I guess 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.180 about that same amount. Scott took off so much 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:36.000 weight he doesn't look good. I don't know. That's 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.329 right. So used to seeing that big husky guy come 00:20:39.329 --> 00:20:44.869 up there. All right, the 1 -0 pitch down to Munson. 00:20:45.130 --> 00:20:47.170 Here it comes. Swung on. Ground ball through 00:20:47.170 --> 00:20:49.769 the hole and a left field base hit. It's all 00:20:49.769 --> 00:20:51.789 seven. Munson keeps it going. He has done it 00:20:51.789 --> 00:20:54.029 every game of the year. That's his eighth ball 00:20:54.029 --> 00:20:58.509 game. And he has hit it all, eight of them. We 00:20:58.509 --> 00:21:01.109 asked Thurman on the Yankee warm -up show, Phil. 00:21:01.150 --> 00:21:02.890 We were talking about his hitting streak. And 00:21:02.890 --> 00:21:05.410 my last question was, Thurman, are you superstitious? 00:21:05.959 --> 00:21:08.079 I said, if you don't get a hit tonight and the 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:10.559 streak is broken, you're going to blame me. And 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.579 he said, no, if it's got to end sometime, nobody 00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:21.119 ever hit 162. But he's got eight. Of course, 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.859 it won't be 162 game season this year. It'll 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:27.000 be, what, 155 as far as the Yankees are concerned. 00:21:29.120 --> 00:21:31.700 or possibly less depending on the weather. Right 00:21:31.700 --> 00:21:34.779 now, Bobby Mercer steps in with runners at first 00:21:34.779 --> 00:21:39.279 and second and nobody else. McLean deals outside 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:45.819 to Mercer. Bobby is hitting 259. At action already 00:21:45.819 --> 00:21:48.720 in the Oakland A's bullpen, John Blue Moon Odom 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:54.779 has begun to warm up. He's a right -hander. The 00:21:54.779 --> 00:21:57.750 next pitch, fastball. Porn right through for 00:21:57.750 --> 00:22:04.509 the strike, one and one. No, I didn't say porn. 00:22:04.710 --> 00:22:10.670 There's no such word. Ball of the strike. No 00:22:10.670 --> 00:22:13.390 score. Just underway. Bottom half of the first 00:22:13.390 --> 00:22:17.009 inning. He's got two hits off Kekich, but he 00:22:17.009 --> 00:22:19.849 left the man stranded. They're playing Mercer 00:22:19.849 --> 00:22:22.470 to the right side. McClain delivers. Mercer swings, 00:22:22.529 --> 00:22:24.589 looks it into left field. Rudy's after it. He's 00:22:24.589 --> 00:22:29.079 under it now. And Joe Rudy makes the catch. So 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:31.460 Bobby Mercer going the other way flies out to 00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:34.940 Rudy one down. It will bring up Roy White, the 00:22:34.940 --> 00:22:37.099 Yankee left fielder, with a batting average of 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:42.279 259. You know, this is, look at this, Bill. I 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:44.920 didn't realize this until just now. Clark leading 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:49.440 off 9 for 27. Then Munson is 9 for 27. Mercer 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:52.900 is 7 for 27. And White's 7 for 27 coming into 00:22:52.900 --> 00:23:03.480 this game. Mary White will bat left. They play 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:05.619 him as they play Mercer, shaded around to the 00:23:05.619 --> 00:23:09.240 right side. Larry Brown at second base, well 00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:11.619 over in the hole between first and second. Kapaner 00:23:11.619 --> 00:23:14.480 is the shortstop behind Clark, who is leading. 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.900 Drag is called over at the knees. Bando wide 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:21.779 of the bag and even with the bag at third base. 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.920 Rudy's shallow in left field. Brooks over toward 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:30.609 the alley. And Reggie Jackson tucked away toward 00:23:30.609 --> 00:23:34.569 the right field corner. Well, they fail Lewis 00:23:34.569 --> 00:23:37.150 on deck. McClain ready, kicks and deals, and 00:23:37.150 --> 00:23:45.069 he misses high. One and one. McClain walks off 00:23:45.069 --> 00:23:47.109 the reverse slope of the mound, blows on his 00:23:47.109 --> 00:23:56.170 pitching hand. One ball, one strike, one out. 00:23:56.230 --> 00:24:00.480 Runners at first and second. The pitch. Wong 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.819 on. Raps sharply down the first face line. Feel 00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:06.220 it by Epstein. He goes to the shortstop, Campaneras, 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.619 for the fourth on Munson at second. No return 00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:14.920 throw. Munson is out on the fourth play at second. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.599 Three -six, Epstein to Campaneras. Clark goes 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:24.240 to third. White reaches on the fourth out. They 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:26.740 were lucky on that play Frank Mike didn't have 00:24:26.740 --> 00:24:28.680 a good grip on the ball looked like he was going 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:30.420 to hit the runner right in the middle of the 00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:33.359 back Kevin Harris was lucky to see that ball 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:38.299 and make the fourth place It brings up what he 00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:42.940 failed Oh, we play playing first for the injured 00:24:42.940 --> 00:24:47.559 Ronnie Bloomberg Bloomberg has a flying ball 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:50.789 on the right side He pinched it safely last night, 00:24:50.950 --> 00:24:53.490 hitting over 600, just a shame he can't play. 00:24:54.650 --> 00:24:56.730 And the A's are without Dick Green, their second 00:24:56.730 --> 00:24:59.990 baseman, who has a back problem. 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Bobby 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.799 Bonds home run and with the man on won it and 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:01.039 the rest of the game tonight, right? Dave Duncan 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:03.299 the catcher leads off a right hand batter the 00:27:03.299 --> 00:27:05.660 first pitch to him. Curve ball is hit high and 00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:08.599 he had a left field. Roy White. Coming in now, 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.000 after starting back, he's under it, and White 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.059 makes the catch. One pitch, one away. Duncan, 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:17.119 going after that first pitch, didn't have a chance 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:20.039 to tell you he was sitting 214, but he has two 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:30.380 home runs. Here's Mike Epstein. Epstein, four 00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:34.289 for 20, 200. Mike said losing the weight he thought 00:27:34.289 --> 00:27:36.750 would help him in the latter stages of the season. 00:27:36.910 --> 00:27:38.609 He said last year he just couldn't seem to hit 00:27:38.609 --> 00:27:41.430 in the last part of the campaign. He feels the 00:27:41.430 --> 00:27:45.630 first one foul back on the screen. And last season, 00:27:45.890 --> 00:27:50.369 Epstein tied a record held by several of home 00:27:50.369 --> 00:27:54.069 runs in four consecutive times at bat. Not in 00:27:54.069 --> 00:28:00.750 the same game, however. Two in one game, two 00:28:00.750 --> 00:28:02.829 in the other. Two off left -handers, two off 00:28:02.829 --> 00:28:06.170 right -handers. He's left and back. Swings to 00:28:06.170 --> 00:28:08.109 this one, splices it off toward the alley. Let's 00:28:08.109 --> 00:28:10.589 let it feel. White is there and cannot get to 00:28:10.589 --> 00:28:13.710 it. The ball drops in front of him. Roy White 00:28:13.710 --> 00:28:17.130 seemed to pull up, but I really thought that 00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:19.670 ball would be caught. It looked like it should 00:28:19.670 --> 00:28:22.089 have been caught unless the white gave, the light 00:28:22.089 --> 00:28:29.200 gave Roy White a little bit of trouble. The ball 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.259 fell just in front of Roy. So it goes as a base 00:28:32.259 --> 00:28:35.099 hit. Puts Epstein on at first base, and it brings 00:28:35.099 --> 00:28:37.660 up Larry Brown filling in for the injured Dick 00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:42.559 Green. Green came up with a back spasm last night 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:48.880 after bunting. And the finish. Plung on and sliced 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.460 foul. This is Larry Brown's first time at bat 00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:55.839 this year. He went into play second base when 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:58.160 Green came up with the injury last night. And 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:02.220 Green says that he kept feeling that cool wind 00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:05.359 all night. He said the back began tightening 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:09.920 up. He told Larry Brown about the 7th inning 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.960 to loosen up because he said, I'm going to have 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:14.900 to have you. I don't think I'll be able to finish. 00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:16.740 And sure enough, he couldn't finish. The 0 -1 00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:19.079 pitch. Dribble on it. Swung on it. And this strikes 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:24.440 two. No score in this ball game. Both teams threatened 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:29.599 in the first. The A's had bases from Rudy and 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:35.440 Vando, but Kekich stranded them. And the Yankees 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:38.140 had a walk to Clark and a single by Munson, their 00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:43.859 first two men up. But they couldn't score. Now 00:29:43.859 --> 00:29:45.740 we have one out here in the top of the second. 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.579 Fair of his low this time. One ball and two strikes. 00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:54.500 The pitcher, Denny McLean, who swings hard, is 00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:59.339 on deck. By that, I mean, when he makes contact 00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:00.980 with the ball, he can give it a pretty good ride. 00:30:05.420 --> 00:30:11.279 No, I knew exactly what you meant, Frank. One 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:13.599 ball, two strikes, one out, one on. A little 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:15.920 holding on the base runner, Epstein at first. 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.859 Yankees hope for the double play ball. Here comes 00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:23.440 the pitch. Missing low for a 2 -2 count. You 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.380 see the way that Epstein's taking that lead with 00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:29.200 the left hand on the hip. Probably hasn't felt 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:31.960 his bones in so long since he's taken off that 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:35.460 25 pounds that he just likes the feel of the 00:30:35.460 --> 00:30:44.619 new body. Alright. 2 -2 pitch here. Curveball 00:30:44.619 --> 00:30:48.940 is fouled off. Deckage keeps curving. The right 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:51.920 -hand hitting Larry Brown trying to induce the 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.279 ground ball and hopeful of the double play. McKinney 00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:58.000 is deep at third toward the line. Michael in 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.599 about one -third of the way it's short and the 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.140 same goes for Clark at second. The outfield is 00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:05.880 fanned out with the deep man Roy White at left. 00:31:07.740 --> 00:31:12.579 Munson flashes the side. Kekich takes it. Left 00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:15.410 -hander looks over to first. Sees up steam, hand 00:31:15.410 --> 00:31:18.769 on hip, and the pitch fouled back off the mass 00:31:18.769 --> 00:31:25.289 played on by Ron Luciano. He's still looking 00:31:25.289 --> 00:31:28.869 for the ball and it went all the way to the ball 00:31:28.869 --> 00:31:31.589 boy who puts it in his mask and he gets it in. 00:31:32.349 --> 00:31:34.369 That jarred him a little bit Frank, he couldn't 00:31:34.369 --> 00:31:40.349 locate it. He's showing Don Denginger now about 00:31:40.349 --> 00:31:42.349 how it felt. He's sort of shaking his head as 00:31:42.349 --> 00:31:46.109 if he's shaking a cobweb shot. Let's take a second 00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:51.630 look at that baseball. Luciano's big. Another 00:31:51.630 --> 00:31:54.230 2 -2 pitch. Runner going. Check swing. A ball. 00:31:54.309 --> 00:32:02.019 Throw to second base. He is out. took the throw 00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:04.519 and made the tag at second as Thurman Munson 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.019 fired that ball quickly to get Epstein and that 00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:10.039 had to be a hit and run and Larry Brown head 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:14.400 down did not take a cut at it. That was a tough 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.140 play Frank he had two balls two strikes on him 00:32:17.140 --> 00:32:18.960 you're supposed to protect the runner you're 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:21.720 absolutely right but the ball was almost in the 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.640 dirt and if Epstein had made a hook slide to 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.380 the inside part of the dime and he might have 00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:31.559 beat that out. 3 -2 pitch. Long on and fast foul 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:34.759 past Noren. I thought it had to be a hit -and 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.019 -run. I was indicating that I'm sure they wouldn't 00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:40.720 have Epstein stealing. Even with 25 pounds off 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:50.299 of him. Mike is a lot stronger than he is speed. 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:53.059 3 -2 pitch again. Hit on the ground, a short 00:32:53.059 --> 00:32:56.259 stop. Michael to his left has it. Throws on to 00:32:56.259 --> 00:32:59.240 first base and the side is retired. Well, the 00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:01.339 pitcher McLean will have to lead off the third 00:33:01.339 --> 00:33:05.339 inning, which is in Kekich's favor. For the Oakland 00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:08.440 A's, no runs, the base hit, no errors. And with 00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:11.140 Munson throwing Epstein out, nobody left. At 00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:13.720 the end of the top of the second, it's the Yankees 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:59.720 nothing, and the A's nothing. They'll show you 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.240 how Schaefer stays consistently crisp and bright 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.019 glass after glass. And that's when you'll want 00:34:05.019 --> 00:34:28.190 to switch to Schaefer. the Yankees play up at 00:34:28.190 --> 00:34:30.650 West Point tomorrow, then the Minnesota Twins 00:34:30.650 --> 00:34:32.789 come in Friday night, Saturday, big cap day, 00:34:32.869 --> 00:34:35.670 double headed Sunday, and off day Monday, May 00:34:35.670 --> 00:34:38.389 1st, and then the California Angels in. Tuesday 00:34:38.389 --> 00:34:41.170 night, May the 2nd, and Wednesday afternoon, 00:34:41.349 --> 00:34:47.070 May the 3rd. Johnny Callison up here in the bottom 00:34:47.070 --> 00:34:49.510 half of the second. It'll be Callison, McKinney, 00:34:49.550 --> 00:34:52.710 and Michael. McClain's pitch, big hook serve 00:34:52.710 --> 00:34:57.150 is high. Ball one. Callison has but one hit. 00:34:57.309 --> 00:35:05.190 He's been up 15 times. Right -hander Denny McLean 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.869 ready again. Deals a fastball for a strike and 00:35:07.869 --> 00:35:16.489 it's one and one. No score here. Bottom half 00:35:16.489 --> 00:35:18.949 of the second. Denny McLean winds, kicks and 00:35:18.949 --> 00:35:21.489 delivers. Fastball again and he misses this one. 00:35:22.610 --> 00:35:26.639 Two balls and one strike. They play Callison 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.900 to pull in the outfield. Reggie Jackson, deep 00:35:28.900 --> 00:35:31.019 and right, back toward the warning track, over 00:35:31.019 --> 00:35:34.599 toward the corner. Larry Brown backs up at second. 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.420 This pitch is low. Ball three, three and one. 00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:43.019 Rich McKinney, very wide in third, and Campanaro 00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:45.860 shaded over toward the back. Joe Rudy again in 00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:49.059 shallow. Rudy plays a shallow left field out 00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:50.579 there, Phil, but they haven't hit one over his 00:35:50.579 --> 00:35:56.949 head yet. 3 -1 pitch coming. Swung on, hit the 00:35:56.949 --> 00:35:59.030 straightaway center at Steve. Back goes Bobby 00:35:59.030 --> 00:36:01.289 Brooks, still going back. He's there now and 00:36:01.289 --> 00:36:05.369 he makes the catch. So Callison is retired on 00:36:05.369 --> 00:36:09.349 a fly ball to rather deep center. One down. It 00:36:09.349 --> 00:36:11.969 brings up Rich McKinney, the Yankee third baseman. 00:36:12.809 --> 00:36:17.630 McKinney is batting 259, 7 for 27. The Yankees 00:36:17.630 --> 00:36:19.929 have three men in the starting lineup tonight, 00:36:20.110 --> 00:36:32.090 batting 7 for 27, 259. Mercer, White, and McKinney. 00:36:36.050 --> 00:36:42.929 McClain's first pitch, outside, ball one. On 00:36:42.929 --> 00:36:47.429 deck is shortstop Gene Michael. There's no score 00:36:47.429 --> 00:36:50.010 in the ball game, bottom half of the second inning. 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:53.300 Dennis McLean in his second start for Oakland 00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:59.579 delivers again and ball two says Ron Luciano 00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:07.460 McLean and Duncan thought that was a little closer 00:37:07.460 --> 00:37:15.719 McLean turns it loose and he's got a strike this 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:28.389 time as McKinney was taking 21 but 10 while losing 00:37:28.389 --> 00:37:31.190 22 last year for the Senators. Fastball hit on 00:37:31.190 --> 00:37:34.730 the ground at 3rd. Vando gobbles it up. On the 00:37:34.730 --> 00:37:37.250 first base to retire Rich McKinney. This is the 00:37:37.250 --> 00:37:39.929 New York Yankee baseball network. We pause now 00:37:39.929 --> 00:37:43.389 for station identification. This is Steve Fitzgerald, 00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:46.210 contact host. Call us weeknights from 8 to midnight. 00:37:46.489 --> 00:37:50.070 Hear on the fresh air sound of Radio 81, WGY 00:37:50.070 --> 00:38:03.699 Schenectady. Gene Michael will step in left -handed 00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:09.219 against McLean. First pitch. Last ball for a 00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:14.719 strike. Michael is hitting 125. Two for 16. Four 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.360 runs butted in for Michael. He won one ball game 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:20.139 with a basis -loaded triple. This one is bounced 00:38:20.139 --> 00:38:22.559 to second. Charged by Larry Brown. He's got it. 00:38:22.659 --> 00:38:26.059 The throw to first to side is out. One, two, 00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:28.099 three go the Yankees. At the end of two, the 00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:30.099 score. New York nothing and Oakland nothing. 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.000 Yes, sir. May I help you? Yeah. Yeah, I'd like 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.619 to order one of them 72. Okay fine Let's go over 00:38:38.619 --> 00:38:41.539 the options. Do you want air conditioning? Of 00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:47.340 course Power steering sure sure AM radio AM FM 00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:50.619 Stereo radio with a tape deck, huh? Would you 00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:53.880 like yeah? Yeah, give it to me by the way How 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:57.380 many miles per gallon can I expect well if you 00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:00.579 do a lot of highway driving? Not too much stop 00:39:00.579 --> 00:39:08.170 and go Seven. Power options are terrific, but 00:39:08.170 --> 00:39:11.369 they have their price. They rob you of mileage. 00:39:12.349 --> 00:39:14.289 Well, Getty has a way to make up some of those 00:39:14.289 --> 00:39:18.050 lost miles. Getty sells only premium for a few 00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:21.809 cents less per gallon than most other major premiums. 00:39:21.869 --> 00:39:24.809 So you get more gas for your money, which means 00:39:24.809 --> 00:39:27.349 you get more miles for your money. And that's 00:39:27.349 --> 00:39:30.090 nice to have, whether you have a car full of 00:39:30.090 --> 00:39:33.710 accessories or not. Well, maybe I don't need 00:39:33.710 --> 00:39:42.010 the power sun visors. Another look at the scoreboard. 00:39:42.190 --> 00:39:44.530 Minnesota over the Red Sox 3 -1. Woodson the 00:39:44.530 --> 00:39:46.750 winner, Colt the loser. Baltimore, Kansas City 00:39:46.750 --> 00:39:49.030 later on. The White Sox in 10 and he's defeated 00:39:49.030 --> 00:39:52.309 Cleveland 7 -5. Keely the winner, Mingori the 00:39:52.309 --> 00:39:55.269 loser. Andrews had a grand slam home run in the 00:39:55.269 --> 00:39:57.650 7th. Dick Allen is thirded here in the 10th with 00:39:57.650 --> 00:40:00.380 one on the winner. Detroit at Texas later on 00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:02.719 California beat Milwaukee three to one clock 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:05.559 the winner Parsons the loser New York at San 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:08.460 Diego later on the Giants in ten innings beat 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:11.059 the Phillies eight six Johnson the winner Brandon 00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:13.460 the loser Kingman two homers and Bobby bonds 00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:16.320 the winning homer in the tenth with one on right 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:18.760 Dennis McClain leads off the third and takes 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:21.880 a strike. Kekich hits the ball over just above 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:24.820 the knees. McClain has been up three times this 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:27.940 year without a base hit. Right hand batter. Next 00:40:27.940 --> 00:40:30.519 pitch to him. Her ball is swung on and missed 00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.920 right to her. No score. The Oakland A's have 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:38.119 three bases. The Yankees have one. The A's got 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:41.780 two men out in the first inning. Bobby Brooks 00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:44.280 then hit a long fly ball that was caught by Mercer. 00:40:45.179 --> 00:40:47.619 A ball is inside to McLean and the count is one 00:40:47.619 --> 00:40:54.920 and two. McLean does not choke up on the bat. 00:40:54.940 --> 00:40:57.010 He's right down on the end of it. takes a big 00:40:57.010 --> 00:40:59.489 cut when he cuts and looks at a called third 00:40:59.489 --> 00:41:04.510 straight. Second strikeout for Mike Kekich. He 00:41:04.510 --> 00:41:08.110 got the fastball right past the plate. One down, 00:41:08.250 --> 00:41:10.329 now the top of the order. Burt Cabaneras tried 00:41:10.329 --> 00:41:12.909 to bunt himself on leading off the game and was 00:41:12.909 --> 00:41:15.190 thrown out on a good fielding play by Kekich. 00:41:17.190 --> 00:41:22.550 Joe Rudy comes out undone. Cabaneras right hand 00:41:22.550 --> 00:41:28.300 batter. Here comes the pitch to it. Had his second 00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:31.880 for a strike. He was looking all the way. I'm 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.139 surprised that Campanaris was not a switch hitter. 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:36.539 Oh boy, wouldn't he be something? You know, he 00:41:36.539 --> 00:41:39.420 can throw with either arm. Uh -huh. He can throw 00:41:39.420 --> 00:41:43.179 left -handed as well as right -handed. Pitch 00:41:43.179 --> 00:41:44.960 to it. Curveball. Hit off the end of the bat 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.260 down the first baseline. Alou comes up with it. 00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:49.940 Tags the bag in front of Campanaris. Two down. 00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:59.679 Two quick outs and it brings up Joe Rudy, who's 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:03.099 single to left field in the first inning. Rudy 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:08.420 had a solid line shot to left for his ninth base 00:42:08.420 --> 00:42:19.579 hit of the year. Rudy is going to make Keckage 00:42:19.579 --> 00:42:22.980 wait. Now he gets in. That's out of a closed 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:29.460 stance. Left foot in front. of the right foot. 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.519 Kekich takes the side. Rocks, kicks, and deals. 00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:50.500 Fastball missing. Low ball one. Kekich takes 00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:53.150 the side with both feet on the rubber. Delivers 00:42:53.150 --> 00:42:55.309 a breaking pitch for a strike one and one. A 00:42:55.309 --> 00:42:58.489 lot more motion than there was pitch that time. 00:42:59.090 --> 00:43:02.389 One ball, one strike. They were looking forward 00:43:02.389 --> 00:43:05.329 to going up to West Point tomorrow. That's always 00:43:05.329 --> 00:43:11.409 a great day. Fun day. The game's going to be 00:43:11.409 --> 00:43:13.789 played, I believe, starting at 3 o 'clock. 1 00:43:13.789 --> 00:43:19.130 -1 pitch. Swann not in this. Strike two. I don't 00:43:19.130 --> 00:43:20.630 believe it's going to start at three. I know 00:43:20.630 --> 00:43:24.190 it's going to start at three. That's what Bill 00:43:24.190 --> 00:43:28.449 Cain had in the note he handed me. Two outs, 00:43:28.510 --> 00:43:30.769 nobody out, no score. Top half of the third inning 00:43:30.769 --> 00:43:35.230 in Yankee Stadium. Dekich working to Joe Rudy. 00:43:36.730 --> 00:43:42.789 High. Two balls, two strikes. Yankees have won 00:43:42.789 --> 00:43:45.010 two and lost five this year. The A's have the 00:43:45.010 --> 00:43:49.190 reverse record, five wins and two losses. Yankees 00:43:49.190 --> 00:43:51.170 trying to climb out of the cellar. The A's trying 00:43:51.170 --> 00:43:57.719 to stay on the roof. And the 2 -2 pitch. Fastball 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.159 popped up on the right side. Alou is calling 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:04.139 for it. Near the bag at first base. And he makes 00:44:04.139 --> 00:44:07.960 the catch to retire the side. Three up, three 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:10.079 down. Nothing across for Oakland. At the end 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:12.179 of two and a half, the score. The Yankees nothing 00:44:12.179 --> 00:44:18.280 and the A's nothing. Macer puts it all together 00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:21.179 for you. Especially if you enjoy real excellence. 00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:24.380 Because at Macer, excellence is a matter of quality. 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:28.099 What cost? We have lots of beautiful things that 00:44:28.099 --> 00:44:30.739 cost quite a bit, and we're proud of them. 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We're open from 10 to 5 .30 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:08.820 daily, Thursday nights until 9, and there's free 00:45:08.820 --> 00:45:11.820 parking in our own attended private lot. Convenient 00:45:11.820 --> 00:45:15.460 payment plans? Of course. Mayfair, central at 00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:17.920 Larkin Albany, the most complete and unusual 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:26.320 store of its kind in the Northeast. The big cap 00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:28.960 day doubleheader coming up Sunday with the Minnesota 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:33.280 Twins. Oh boys and girls, 14 years of age and 00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.980 under, accompanied by an adult, get a genuine 00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:39.440 Yankee cap, Frank. All right, just as McClain 00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:41.559 had to lead off the top half of the inning, Yankee 00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:45.059 pitcher Kekich leads off the home half. And he 00:45:45.059 --> 00:45:48.300 looks for the high pitch ball one. Kekich, although 00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:50.179 a left hand pitcher, is a right hand batter, 00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:52.739 like McClain, he has been up three times without 00:45:52.739 --> 00:45:56.659 a base hit. Fastball is in there for a strike, 00:45:56.739 --> 00:46:04.400 one and one. Reggie Jackson is playing very shallow 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.639 and right and over towards the line. This pitch 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.179 low and outside, backhanded out of the very spot, 00:46:10.300 --> 00:46:13.559 Dave Duncan, the catcher. Bobby Brooks, the center 00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:16.380 fielder, shades the alley and he's shallow. And 00:46:16.380 --> 00:46:19.679 Joe Rudy plays a shallow, straightaway left field. 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.960 Two ball, one strike pitch coming, it is. Fastball 00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:27.639 is lined out toward center, but Bobby Brooks 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:29.980 is right there, backs off a couple of paces and 00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:33.599 puts it away. One out and it brings up the top 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:37.599 of the order. Hey, next time you come out to 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.920 Yankee Stadium for a night game, just check out 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.159 our new lighting facilities. Dedication ceremonies 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:48.380 of the dramatic new Yankee Stadium area lighting 00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:51.079 facilities took place this evening at 7 o 'clock 00:46:51.079 --> 00:47:00.559 before the start of this game. He's represented 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:07.280 by President Mike Burke and pitcher Mel Fuddlemeyer. 00:47:07.659 --> 00:47:09.739 Off clock up there batting left -handed takes 00:47:09.739 --> 00:47:12.400 high, ball one. Vando in on the grass down the 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:21.760 line at third. There's a strike and the count 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:32.219 evens one and one. Yes, sir. The new lighting 00:47:32.219 --> 00:47:35.199 system out here around the outside. Very good. 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:40.980 Pitch taken high by Clark. That's the second 00:47:40.980 --> 00:47:43.219 major step in the redevelopment of the stadium 00:47:43.219 --> 00:47:46.480 area. During the winter, you might have noticed, 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:48.539 if you were out here for any of our games, the 00:47:48.539 --> 00:47:51.960 old garage and shops on the East 157th Street 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:56.559 side were removed. Clark gets the ball down the 00:47:56.559 --> 00:47:59.840 first baseline foul. Epstein -Doleport could 00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:02.460 not come up with it, but the ball was just foul. 00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:11.820 So -called first base umpire, Frank Umach. Sir, 00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:14.639 the Yankees move right along. The city and everybody 00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:17.539 helping out in the redevelopment here extended 00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:19.820 the parking area and now got the new lights up 00:48:19.820 --> 00:48:24.409 to show you how to get into it. And there'll 00:48:24.409 --> 00:48:27.929 be more improvements. Two balls, two strikes 00:48:27.929 --> 00:48:30.650 to Hoff Clark. McClain turns it loose. Pass ball 00:48:30.650 --> 00:48:33.409 is fouled. Back to the left side and into the 00:48:33.409 --> 00:48:41.550 seat. Got a hole, two and two. Clark walked in 00:48:41.550 --> 00:48:44.010 the first inning. McClain walked him on four 00:48:44.010 --> 00:48:47.550 pitches. He was just a bit erratic to get started. 00:48:49.269 --> 00:48:51.289 Munson followed with a single. Clark going to 00:48:51.289 --> 00:48:54.210 second, but then... Mercer flying out, White 00:48:54.210 --> 00:48:56.989 ratted into a force, Adalou flying out, and the 00:48:56.989 --> 00:49:01.829 Yankees did not score. 2 -2 pitch. Up high with 00:49:01.829 --> 00:49:04.369 a breaking ball, and the count is 4 -3 -2 on 00:49:04.369 --> 00:49:17.289 Hoss Park. Thurman Munson is on deck. Lane has 00:49:17.289 --> 00:49:20.469 retired seven in a row since Munson's hit. Bark 00:49:20.469 --> 00:49:22.690 at this one in the outer right center not these 00:49:22.690 --> 00:49:25.650 Brooks started back now comes in he's calling 00:49:25.650 --> 00:49:29.869 for the center fielder has it First time bill 00:49:29.869 --> 00:49:32.730 of the two -game series on the ball fit toward 00:49:32.730 --> 00:49:35.010 center field of Brooks has made a false step 00:49:35.010 --> 00:49:36.889 That's right. He picked a good time to do it 00:49:36.889 --> 00:49:39.489 as you said Frank a towering fly had plenty of 00:49:39.489 --> 00:49:42.929 time to recover He's had four put outs already 00:49:42.929 --> 00:49:45.630 having a busy night out there. That's a good 00:49:45.630 --> 00:49:48.110 jump on that ball We remarked last night, and 00:49:48.110 --> 00:49:53.679 he's got good speed Here's Thurman. He has the 00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.460 only Yankee base hit. And it extended his hitting 00:49:57.460 --> 00:50:02.260 streak through the season. Yankees have, this 00:50:02.260 --> 00:50:04.500 is their eighth game and Munson has hit in all 00:50:04.500 --> 00:50:09.500 eight. First offering. Sidearm curve up under 00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:15.900 the chin almost hit him. Playing game around 00:50:15.900 --> 00:50:19.900 from third base with that one. One ball no strike. 00:50:26.710 --> 00:50:30.269 Wayne rocks again and delivers. Strike ball one 00:50:30.269 --> 00:50:49.530 and one. Bobby Mercer waiting on deck. And the 00:50:49.530 --> 00:50:52.130 one -one pitch. Get back up the middle and that 00:50:52.130 --> 00:50:54.739 one is going to get through for a base hit. Saw 00:50:54.739 --> 00:50:58.199 Munson swinging a hot bat for the Yankees. Has 00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:01.860 another base hit. He is two for two on those 00:51:01.860 --> 00:51:07.139 with the only two Yankee hits. Bobby Mercer the 00:51:07.139 --> 00:51:18.679 batter. Munson now has 11 hits to most of any 00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:25.179 Yankee. Bobby Mercer fly to left. He went the 00:51:25.179 --> 00:51:27.539 other way, but Joe Rudy caught up with it in 00:51:27.539 --> 00:51:31.539 the first inning. Epstein will hold Munson on 00:51:31.539 --> 00:51:39.079 it first. Mercer batting out of a crouch. There 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.179 goes Munson. The pitch is lined to right field. 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.039 Bayes hit. Munson around second. Diggs for third. 00:51:44.099 --> 00:51:46.739 He'll make it. Jackson's throw is into second 00:51:46.739 --> 00:52:00.360 base. And Bobby Mercer in a rope to right. Yerster 00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:03.420 Munson broke with the pitch, and Mercer lined 00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:05.900 it to right field. So the Yankees have runners 00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:09.400 at first and third, and Roy White has a chance 00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:16.400 to put the Yankees on the board. Roy's been a 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:18.280 sharp grounder to Epstein in the first inning, 00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:20.619 that the first baseman turned into a forced out 00:52:20.619 --> 00:52:27.480 at second. So White is 0 for 1. Felipe Alou moves 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:29.730 on deck. There is no score here in the bottom 00:52:29.730 --> 00:52:33.650 half of the third. Second time in the game, the 00:52:33.650 --> 00:52:41.090 Yankees are runners at first and third. There 00:52:41.090 --> 00:52:45.650 are two ups. Bando tightens up at third. Campanaro 00:52:45.650 --> 00:52:48.489 shades toward the bag at second, and Larry Brown 00:52:48.489 --> 00:52:50.769 deep in the hole between first and second. The 00:52:50.769 --> 00:52:54.130 pitch, low and away, ball one. Rudy is shallow 00:52:54.130 --> 00:52:56.829 in left. Brooks not deep out there in right center. 00:52:57.469 --> 00:53:00.170 Reggie Jackson is the deep man on the outfield 00:53:00.170 --> 00:53:04.570 as he swings over towards the corner and right. 00:53:04.869 --> 00:53:07.869 Epstein, left foot on the bag, right foot on 00:53:07.869 --> 00:53:10.190 the bag, holding the runner on. The pitch is 00:53:10.190 --> 00:53:13.889 in the dirt, blocked by Duncan. Two balls and 00:53:13.889 --> 00:53:31.389 no strikes to Roy White. Good speed at first 00:53:31.389 --> 00:53:34.730 in Bobby Mercer. And at the plate in Roy White. 00:53:34.969 --> 00:53:37.969 Of course, Thurman -Hunst at third base can move 00:53:37.969 --> 00:53:42.170 very well, too. Do nothing such coming. Kerrball 00:53:42.170 --> 00:53:44.550 is high on the air down the right field line. 00:53:45.130 --> 00:53:47.929 Jackson over near the foul ball. Looking, reaching. 00:53:48.190 --> 00:53:53.070 He cannot get it. It's a foul ball. Foul ball 00:53:53.070 --> 00:54:05.469 in the seat. That ball right down the line, Phil, 00:54:05.469 --> 00:54:08.650 is always an exciting play because you're never 00:54:08.650 --> 00:54:11.030 sure till the last second whether the outfielder 00:54:11.030 --> 00:54:13.670 can catch it or whether it's going to be fair 00:54:13.670 --> 00:54:15.849 or foul. I don't know whether it's going to hit 00:54:15.849 --> 00:54:19.909 that foul pole, which has happened so often here. 00:54:21.449 --> 00:54:24.730 Foul pole is in fair territory. Any ball that 00:54:24.730 --> 00:54:28.329 hits the foul pole is a home run. The pitch to 00:54:28.329 --> 00:54:36.710 White, swung on and missed, two and two. I wonder 00:54:36.710 --> 00:54:40.909 why they don't call it the Fair Pole. I don't 00:54:40.909 --> 00:54:53.309 know. Start a new trend. Yeah. Sudden victory 00:54:53.309 --> 00:54:57.389 in the Fair Pole. 2 -2 pitch to white. Low one 00:54:57.389 --> 00:55:01.170 outside. A full count. That will release Bobby 00:55:01.170 --> 00:55:03.969 Mercer from first. Elton Howard reminded. Three 00:55:03.969 --> 00:55:07.789 and two count. Two out. And Epstein will back 00:55:07.789 --> 00:55:09.730 off now and weigh the line instead of holding 00:55:09.730 --> 00:55:14.489 the runner on. Frank Steele, our engineer, says, 00:55:14.690 --> 00:55:19.610 call it the unfoul fold. Three and two to Roy 00:55:19.610 --> 00:55:24.829 White. The set by McClain. Here's his pitch. 00:55:24.969 --> 00:55:27.690 Wong on. Hit in the air to left center. Rudy 00:55:27.690 --> 00:55:30.329 coasting over to the left side. He's under it. 00:55:30.610 --> 00:55:32.710 And the left fielder puts it away and a retire 00:55:32.710 --> 00:55:36.130 the side. Again, a threat for no score. The Yankees 00:55:36.130 --> 00:55:38.469 get no runs out of two hits. There were no errors 00:55:38.469 --> 00:55:41.090 in two left. At the end of three, the totals 00:55:41.090 --> 00:55:43.750 look like this. For both teams, zero, three, 00:55:43.809 --> 00:55:49.050 and zero. Nothing to nothing end of three. Just 00:55:49.050 --> 00:55:51.130 throw a few words at you as we go to the fourth 00:55:51.130 --> 00:55:53.210 inning. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Phil Vizzuto. 00:55:53.849 --> 00:55:56.269 Okay, Frank and Reggie Jackson, who struck out 00:55:56.269 --> 00:56:00.329 his first time up, swings and misses a good curve 00:56:00.329 --> 00:56:08.659 by Mike Kekich, strike one. Bill White sits down. 00:56:11.139 --> 00:56:16.400 Lovely yellow. Oh, he's colorblind. I am a little 00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.480 bit. He gouts one of shallow right fields. Coming 00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.239 in fast and going back clock. Look out, a clock 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:25.860 makes a beautiful play. It looked like a certain 00:56:25.860 --> 00:56:29.920 collision between Taliesin and Clark. Reggie 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:32.599 Jackson golfed the ball, it didn't hit it hard, 00:56:33.099 --> 00:56:35.079 and Callison broke back, came in, looked like 00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.019 they were going to run together, but Clark made 00:56:37.019 --> 00:56:40.239 the catch and Johnny stopped. Fine play by Horace 00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.539 Clark, 1 -0. No, it's a black leather jacket. 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:46.360 I saw it say yellow. I don't know why. It's blue. 00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:52.119 Blue? I really am colorblind. Sal Bando, who's 00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:54.079 singled his first time up, takes the strike. 00:56:54.420 --> 00:56:58.519 Say that word. OK. Don't score on the top of 00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:00.519 the fourth. It must be this cold weather. My 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:04.239 eyes are watering. The Czechs are swinging it 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:07.099 slow one -on -one. I wonder what the Cardinals 00:57:07.099 --> 00:57:09.320 are thinking now with that Steve Carlton pitching 00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:11.840 a one -hitter and he's 3 -0. How about Jerry 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:14.019 Royce? Someone said he's 2 -0 down at Houston. 00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.400 That is right at Houston, right? Curve in there, 00:57:17.460 --> 00:57:22.739 one ball, two strikes. I said do you make deals 00:57:22.739 --> 00:57:25.219 like that? Then you keep your fingers crossed 00:57:25.219 --> 00:57:29.440 that they don't do too well. Steve Carlton, 14 00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:34.079 strikeouts and a one -hitter. Change up just 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.880 outside, two and two. One out, nobody on. Top 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:46.300 of the fourth, no score. On deck, Bobby Brooks. 00:57:47.699 --> 00:57:49.900 Right hand hitting Sal Bando, crouching over. 00:57:50.019 --> 00:57:52.320 Swings, bounces, one is short. Team Michael gets 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.699 a nice big hop. And throws Vando off, there are 00:57:55.699 --> 00:57:59.900 two away. That'll bring up Brooks who fly deep 00:57:59.900 --> 00:58:07.059 to center field his first time up. Brooks to 00:58:07.059 --> 00:58:17.739 batter and Dave Duncan on deck. Wind blowing 00:58:17.739 --> 00:58:24.079 out towards right field. Brooks right hand batter 00:58:24.079 --> 00:58:26.300 holds that bat straight up and down. Takes a 00:58:26.300 --> 00:58:40.500 pitch outside, ball one. Mike rocks back. Change 00:58:40.500 --> 00:58:42.800 up in the dirt. Gets away from Munson. It's ball 00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:46.420 two, two and up. Airman hustles back to get it. 00:58:57.299 --> 00:59:01.019 Teckens and Munson, as are McLean and Duncan, 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.280 two men that move around more and are warmer 00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:07.619 than anybody. This is a foul off Luciano's chest 00:59:07.619 --> 00:59:18.639 protector and it's two balls and a strike. Everybody 00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:21.059 must have been listening to that game up in Boston. 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:23.920 Yeah, my words were getting around. My foul was 00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:27.920 my buddy done and I told him to get on. The 2 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:32.800 -1 pitch. Swing and a miss. Two balls, two strikes. 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.340 Got a good cut at that pitch, but Kekes has got 00:59:37.340 --> 00:59:42.099 a good breaking ball tonight. I think Mike's 00:59:42.099 --> 00:59:44.039 throwing more breaking balls than fastballs so 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:52.239 far tonight. The 2 -2 delivery. Low and inside, 00:59:52.420 --> 00:59:56.909 3 and 2. Mike is about three bases. Brook out 00:59:56.909 --> 00:59:59.909 two has not walked anybody. Right now there are 00:59:59.909 --> 01:00:02.670 two out, nobody on, and a full count on Bobby 01:00:02.670 --> 01:00:10.670 Brook. The very off pitch. Foul. Back on the 01:00:10.670 --> 01:00:27.460 screen and out of play. to play Brooks straight 01:00:27.460 --> 01:00:33.400 away. Again the 3 -2 delivery. Low and he walked 01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:36.260 him. The first walk of the ball game by Keckens. 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:41.320 Still with two out, Brooks is at first and now 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:43.440 Dave Duncan will fly into left field his first 01:00:43.440 --> 01:01:00.909 time up. Felipe Alou holds the bag against Brooks. 01:01:01.409 --> 01:01:03.750 Brooks is fast. We'll see if he tries to steal 01:01:03.750 --> 01:01:05.690 a base there. It's tough to get a good jump off 01:01:05.690 --> 01:01:09.150 a left -hand pitcher. But with two out, he just 01:01:09.150 --> 01:01:14.110 might try it. Stretched by Kekich. Runner does 01:01:14.110 --> 01:01:16.650 not go. The changeup is low and outside ball 01:01:16.650 --> 01:01:23.909 one. Mike Epstein on deck. Duncan looks down 01:01:23.909 --> 01:01:26.349 at Irv Noren, who is flashing some signs in the 01:01:26.349 --> 01:01:32.280 coaching box. Gary Adair, the coach at first. 01:01:34.059 --> 01:01:38.699 Dunk in the right hand better. Stretched by Kekich. 01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:43.000 His curve is hit deep to left foot foul, got 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:48.179 out in front of a breaking pitch. One ball, one 01:01:48.179 --> 01:01:59.170 strike. Bobby Brooks back to first base. No score 01:01:59.170 --> 01:02:07.909 in the top of the fourth inning. 1 -1 count to 01:02:07.909 --> 01:02:17.789 Dave Duncan. Beckett's ready. Hit down the right 01:02:17.789 --> 01:02:20.949 field line and slicing foul. So Duncan pulled 01:02:20.949 --> 01:02:24.210 one curve deep to left. Tried to hit another 01:02:24.210 --> 01:02:31.769 curve to right, got them both foul. This guy 01:02:31.769 --> 01:02:36.650 has two home runs so far this year. He isn't 01:02:36.650 --> 01:02:39.329 hitting over 200 on, but he leads the ball club 01:02:39.329 --> 01:02:42.550 this early with a couple of home runs. So he 01:02:42.550 --> 01:02:46.170 has some power. He does with that bat. He's right 01:02:46.170 --> 01:02:49.650 down the end of it. All right, Mike is ready. 01:02:49.909 --> 01:02:56.329 Brooks leads the way. It's by Kekich low and 01:02:56.329 --> 01:03:01.610 outside, two and two. The way Dick Williams talks, 01:03:01.610 --> 01:03:05.190 Oakland might use one of these catchers, either 01:03:05.190 --> 01:03:12.269 Tennes or Duncan, as part of a deal. They have 01:03:12.269 --> 01:03:15.610 two pretty good catchers. Tennes did a home run 01:03:15.610 --> 01:03:21.949 last night. All right, now the 2 -2 delivery. 01:03:22.650 --> 01:03:26.110 Curve line, a left field for a base hit. And 01:03:26.110 --> 01:03:28.670 Brooks around second stop. No, he's going to 01:03:28.670 --> 01:03:30.550 go to third. He gave him the decoy. And going 01:03:30.550 --> 01:03:33.110 into second base as Michael threw to third, and 01:03:33.110 --> 01:03:36.469 Gene was decoyed. Nobody yelled for him to throw 01:03:36.469 --> 01:03:38.889 to second base. Bobby broke around his second, 01:03:39.210 --> 01:03:42.349 stopped, and then split into third base. And 01:03:42.349 --> 01:03:44.210 as Roy Weiss threw the ball to Gene Michael, 01:03:44.250 --> 01:03:47.510 Gene turned and whipped it to third. And Dave 01:03:47.510 --> 01:03:49.989 Duncan continued to second base. So it's a single 01:03:49.989 --> 01:03:53.449 to left. And went to second on the throw to third. 01:03:55.369 --> 01:03:58.239 That was a high curve ball. And he jumped all 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.280 over. And now Mike Epstein, who's single to left 01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:02.980 center field in the second inning, then was thrown 01:04:02.980 --> 01:04:08.260 out trying to steal. Two out, two on, no score 01:04:08.260 --> 01:04:17.059 in the top of the fourth. Bobby Brooks leads 01:04:17.059 --> 01:04:21.679 off third. He's got a big lead. And Keckett's 01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:23.639 looking at him. Brooks Fakes coming down the 01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:26.139 line, stops the pitch to Epstein, hits deep to 01:04:26.139 --> 01:04:28.909 right center. Bobby Mercer digging hard, digging 01:04:28.909 --> 01:04:32.289 hard and makes a diving catch and held on to 01:04:32.289 --> 01:04:37.130 the ball. What a play by Bobby Mercer. A sinking 01:04:37.130 --> 01:04:40.449 line drive to deep right center field. Beautiful 01:04:40.449 --> 01:04:45.869 play by Bobby. Saved two runs there easy. So, 01:04:46.190 --> 01:04:49.309 four Oakland, no runs, one base hit, no errors, 01:04:49.530 --> 01:04:52.110 two men left. And now at the end of three and 01:04:52.110 --> 01:04:54.610 a half, it's Oakland nothing and the Yankees 01:04:54.610 --> 01:05:00.480 nothing. You know how it is with that first cold 01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:05.480 beer. It goes down so easy and it tastes so good. 01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:08.960 Now wouldn't it be great if your second beer 01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.679 tasted just the same? Just as smooth and just 01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:15.739 as bright. And imagine getting all that first 01:05:15.739 --> 01:05:20.360 beer pleasure every beer through. Man, that'd 01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:27.519 be some kind of beer. And Schaefer Beer is. Bye 01:05:27.519 --> 01:06:07.199 bye! Special announcement for fans 14 years of 01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:09.460 age and under. This Sunday, April 30th, is the 01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:12.420 new date for the Yankees' popular Cap Day, originally 01:06:12.420 --> 01:06:14.820 scheduled in the canceled Baltimore series. Now, 01:06:14.820 --> 01:06:16.820 if you bought tickets for the original Cap Day 01:06:16.820 --> 01:06:19.480 with Baltimore, it would be necessary to exchange 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:21.780 your tickets. But in any event, don't miss this 01:06:21.780 --> 01:06:24.639 big event. Plus a big doubleheader on Sunday, 01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:28.599 April 30th. Okay, Bill, Felipe Alou takes one 01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:31.500 high and tight ball one. Felipe flies to center 01:06:31.500 --> 01:06:34.679 field his first time up. McLean got out of two 01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:37.099 jams in the first and third innings. Yankees 01:06:37.099 --> 01:06:40.260 had runners at first and third both times. Couldn't 01:06:40.260 --> 01:06:42.960 get that base hit. A slider outside is ball two, 01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:45.519 two and nothing. He retired the Yankees in order 01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:50.860 in the second inning. McLean really not fast 01:06:50.860 --> 01:06:54.360 tonight. What a good pitcher. He's spotting the 01:06:54.360 --> 01:07:01.300 ball on the corners. The 2 -0 pitch is popped 01:07:01.300 --> 01:07:03.820 up right near the plate. Coming back Dave Duncan. 01:07:03.980 --> 01:07:06.840 He's under it and makes the catch. Almost ran 01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:11.159 by it. Hit him right off the hand and it's 1 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:15.159 -0. That'll bring up Johnny Callison who'll fly 01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:18.599 deep to center field his first time up. A scoreless 01:07:18.599 --> 01:07:23.480 ball game in the bottom of the fourth. All these 01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:25.400 teams coming in here have been pitching Callison 01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:28.280 away, and they've kept him in the center field 01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:30.059 area. They haven't allowed him to pull too much. 01:07:30.500 --> 01:07:32.860 He just will curveball on a left -hander, just 01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:36.739 missed the right field pole. Wow. And he's been 01:07:36.739 --> 01:07:38.880 hitting him deep to Santa, but as we know, it's 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.159 Depp Valley. He broke to one and left. Well, 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:43.420 now we'll wait. Yes, it's in for a base hit. 01:07:43.940 --> 01:07:46.800 Johnny's going to try for two. The throw to second. 01:07:47.219 --> 01:07:49.739 Not in time, and Callison in with a hustling 01:07:49.739 --> 01:07:53.079 double. Oh, he must've heard Bill White. They've 01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.119 been pitching him away, and Johnny's been trying 01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:58.219 to pull it and hitting the center field. So, 01:07:58.239 --> 01:08:01.719 Callison went the opposite way, pulled Joe Rudy 01:08:01.719 --> 01:08:04.699 out there, and Johnny kept hustling and is in 01:08:04.699 --> 01:08:07.800 with a double. His first double of the year, 01:08:07.820 --> 01:08:11.480 his second base hit of the season. Little huddle 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:16.100 out on the mound. Bando, Duncan, and McLean, 01:08:16.140 --> 01:08:18.319 and with one out the bat of Rich McKinney, who 01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:22.609 bounced the third his first time up. The more 01:08:22.609 --> 01:08:25.050 I see that Sal Bando, the more impressed you've 01:08:25.050 --> 01:08:27.470 got to be with him. He not only hits the ball 01:08:27.470 --> 01:08:29.590 well for Oakland, he catches everything, but 01:08:29.590 --> 01:08:32.130 he seems to be the on -the -field leader. He's 01:08:32.130 --> 01:08:34.270 always out there when somebody gets in trouble. 01:08:34.770 --> 01:08:37.590 Just a minute ago, I saw him move left fielder 01:08:37.590 --> 01:08:40.930 Joe Rudy into left field where he got white ball. 01:08:41.930 --> 01:08:46.050 All right, he is a good field general. All right, 01:08:46.170 --> 01:08:49.529 McLean set. Tonight on Pitch to McKinney outside 01:08:49.529 --> 01:09:02.359 ball one. Lane keeps blowing on his hand. Denny 01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:06.739 ready again. Low, ball two, two and nothing. 01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.600 Outfield straight away on Rich McKinney. One 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:20.779 man out, no score on the bottom of the fourth. 01:09:23.550 --> 01:09:27.449 Denny Calliton with a good lead at second. McLean's 01:09:27.449 --> 01:09:30.310 pitch is a breaking pitch, but outside ball three, 01:09:30.409 --> 01:09:33.489 three and upping. On deck, Gene Michael. Time 01:09:33.489 --> 01:09:35.869 is called now, as Dave Duncan wants to have a 01:09:35.869 --> 01:09:38.729 word with Denny McLean. Meanwhile, this is the 01:09:38.729 --> 01:09:40.909 New York Yankee baseball network, and we pause 01:09:40.909 --> 01:09:43.770 for station identification. This is your guy, 01:09:44.050 --> 01:09:47.050 High Agent. Join me for your kind of music, weekdays 01:09:47.050 --> 01:09:49.670 three to seven, here on the fresh air sound of 01:09:49.670 --> 01:10:00.630 Radio 81, WGY Schenectady. All right, McLean 01:10:00.630 --> 01:10:02.909 is ready. Three and all the count to McKinney. 01:10:03.270 --> 01:10:05.489 There's one right in there. It wasn't a fastball, 01:10:05.489 --> 01:10:09.050 it was a breaking pitch. Three balls and a strike. 01:10:13.289 --> 01:10:15.550 McLean has walked one man. That was Horace Clark 01:10:15.550 --> 01:10:20.310 leading off in the bottom of the first. The 3 01:10:20.310 --> 01:10:23.630 -1 pitch. Breaking pitch just outside. McLean 01:10:23.630 --> 01:10:27.189 didn't like that call, but it's ball four. Second 01:10:27.189 --> 01:10:30.600 walk given up by Denny. And it brings up Gene 01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:32.920 Michael. The stick bounced to second base his 01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:36.220 first time up. Callison at second. McKinney at 01:10:36.220 --> 01:10:42.000 first with one out. Joe Rudy playing very shallow 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:45.060 in left. Bobby Brooks shallow in center. And 01:10:45.060 --> 01:10:47.180 Reggie Jackson moves in a bit in right field 01:10:47.180 --> 01:10:49.899 now. They got three fine throwing arms out there. 01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:53.260 And Callison will really have to hustle on a 01:10:53.260 --> 01:11:01.750 base set to score. All right, Gene Michael, a 01:11:01.750 --> 01:11:04.750 switch hitter batting left -handed against McLean. 01:11:05.149 --> 01:11:08.470 And he comes to the belt. His pitch is hit high 01:11:08.470 --> 01:11:11.710 in the air to right field, going way back. Jackson 01:11:11.710 --> 01:11:15.850 back, a home run for Gene Michael. Holy cow. 01:11:16.789 --> 01:11:21.029 Again, with Reggie Jackson playing shallow. Gene 01:11:21.029 --> 01:11:23.750 Michael hit it over his head, into the seat. 01:11:24.590 --> 01:11:28.329 A big three -run home run for Gene Michael. His 01:11:28.329 --> 01:11:32.300 second three. RBI hit of this year, he had a 01:11:32.300 --> 01:11:35.199 triple with the bases loaded earlier in the year. 01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:38.199 And the Yankees go out front three to nothing. 01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:42.079 Bill, look at that crowd. Well, some other kids 01:11:42.079 --> 01:11:44.880 are going to be happy. The St. Michael's home 01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:49.920 at 1380 Arthur Hill Road in Staten Island. They'll 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:53.220 get nine baseball gloves, compliment of ABCO. 01:11:58.329 --> 01:12:01.210 All right, Bill, on the first pitch to Mike Hecky 01:12:01.210 --> 01:12:05.149 is strike one cause. Isn't that apropos St. Michael's 01:12:05.149 --> 01:12:08.710 home and Gene Michael hit it? He checks his swing 01:12:08.710 --> 01:12:13.289 and files it off. It's nothing in two. So Gene 01:12:13.289 --> 01:12:17.710 Michael now with seven RBIs to take the team 01:12:17.710 --> 01:12:22.229 lead in that department. A triple with the bases 01:12:22.229 --> 01:12:24.689 loaded to drive in three, a home run with two 01:12:24.689 --> 01:12:31.189 on to drive in three more. McLean winds his pitch, 01:12:31.710 --> 01:12:34.630 strike three called, and then Kekich is out of 01:12:34.630 --> 01:12:38.069 there, so that walk was a big one. First strikeout 01:12:38.069 --> 01:12:42.710 for McLean, two men are out. And the batter, 01:12:42.970 --> 01:12:45.390 Horace Clark, who has walked and flied to center. 01:12:50.869 --> 01:12:53.869 So Gene Michael, he has only three base hits, 01:12:55.069 --> 01:12:57.970 including this home run, but seven runs batted 01:12:57.970 --> 01:13:16.789 in. Pitch to Harris, high ball one. McLean winds, 01:13:17.510 --> 01:13:19.689 fast ball, slight foul down the left field line, 01:13:19.789 --> 01:13:25.489 back into the seats out of play. That ball really 01:13:25.489 --> 01:13:28.729 carried that Michael Hitzbill. Yeah, I was just 01:13:28.729 --> 01:13:30.470 wondering if Michael had ever hit a home run 01:13:30.470 --> 01:13:33.350 into the right field seat here before. I know 01:13:33.350 --> 01:13:35.020 he didn't last here, of course he only hit the 01:13:35.020 --> 01:13:37.960 one down the left field line is powerful. Strike 01:13:37.960 --> 01:13:40.800 two, ball and two strikes. He beat somebody with 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:43.420 that home run. He did. In the last of the night. 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:45.899 He makes his homeless count. He doesn't hit many. 01:13:46.539 --> 01:13:51.399 But they are clutch home runs. A ball, two strikes, 01:13:51.699 --> 01:13:53.640 two out. The Yankees in front, three to nothing. 01:13:57.260 --> 01:14:02.340 High ball two, two and two. Blue Moon Odom up 01:14:02.340 --> 01:14:05.619 and warming up for the Oakland A's on left field. 01:14:08.819 --> 01:14:11.260 Odom had gotten up in the first inning also when 01:14:11.260 --> 01:14:17.779 the plane got in trouble. Slight foul down the 01:14:17.779 --> 01:14:19.939 left field line, back into the seats again and 01:14:19.939 --> 01:14:24.199 out of play. Harris going with the pitch. And 01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:34.989 the count is two and two. On deck Thurman Munson 01:14:34.989 --> 01:14:42.890 who is two for two tonight. McLean's pitch is 01:14:42.890 --> 01:14:46.149 hit deep to right field but it's curving and 01:14:46.149 --> 01:14:50.390 goes foul. Clark got a round on a breaking pitch. 01:14:52.569 --> 01:14:59.670 That went out of another home run for the Yankees. 01:15:01.670 --> 01:15:05.970 Wind up by McLean. Low and inside. Ball three, 01:15:05.970 --> 01:15:11.229 three and two. Duncan throws the ball over the 01:15:11.229 --> 01:15:13.729 head of McLean and Larry Brown comes in from 01:15:13.729 --> 01:15:24.770 second base to retrieve it. The payoff pitch 01:15:24.770 --> 01:15:29.609 to Harris. Low ball four. So McLean having a 01:15:29.609 --> 01:15:35.039 rough inning here. Walking two, giving up a double 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:38.659 and a home run. And now Thurman -Munson, who 01:15:38.659 --> 01:15:40.739 is two for two, single or left in the first, 01:15:40.939 --> 01:15:43.760 single or center in the third. Thurman, who was 01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:48.579 hit in eight straight ball games. All the games 01:15:48.579 --> 01:16:01.779 the Yankees have played this year. With a good 01:16:01.779 --> 01:16:05.199 lead at first, McLean sets, throw to first base, 01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:19.119 Clark dives back in time. Thurman asking for 01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:22.539 time as he gets ready. Now he sets throw to first 01:16:22.539 --> 01:16:35.930 and Clark is back again. stretched by McLean. 01:16:36.189 --> 01:16:38.810 There goes Clark. The ball is fouled back in 01:16:38.810 --> 01:16:41.210 the upper deck and out of play. What a jump Horace 01:16:41.210 --> 01:16:44.670 had. But Thurman had a nice slow curve ball and 01:16:44.670 --> 01:16:47.550 with Larry Brown breaking from second base, he 01:16:47.550 --> 01:16:50.689 had a big hole between first and second. Tried 01:16:50.689 --> 01:16:53.170 to slap it there, but got under it and fouled 01:16:53.170 --> 01:16:57.529 it back in the upper deck. Dickhouser flashes 01:16:57.529 --> 01:17:00.789 the sign to Thurman -Munson and Horace Clark. 01:17:06.980 --> 01:17:10.000 One strike on Muntz. Two out, the Yankees lead 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:14.539 3 -0. In the bottom of the fourth inning. McLean 01:17:14.539 --> 01:17:17.079 ready. There goes Clark again. Another one fouled 01:17:17.079 --> 01:17:19.439 back and out of play. And again, Clark had the 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:24.000 base stolen. And you hear the roar as the fan 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:26.020 in the upper deck had it, dropped it, it came 01:17:26.020 --> 01:17:33.279 back on the net and onto the field. Nothing and 01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:51.170 to the count. Todd McLean looks in for the sign. 01:17:53.109 --> 01:17:56.829 Stretched by McLean. He's pitching to pitch out, 01:17:56.829 --> 01:18:05.029 but that time Harris was not going. Then Dick 01:18:05.029 --> 01:18:08.909 Hauser goes through five or six signs. Hudson 01:18:08.909 --> 01:18:10.890 now has to protect the plate. He's got a ball 01:18:10.890 --> 01:18:16.170 and two strikes on him. Quick throw to first. 01:18:16.270 --> 01:18:27.449 Clark is back. McLean ready. Strike three, Munson 01:18:27.449 --> 01:18:30.289 caught looking. That was a weird inning for McLean. 01:18:30.329 --> 01:18:33.630 Two strikeouts, two walks, two hits. But the 01:18:33.630 --> 01:18:36.470 Yankees pick up three runs on the two bases. 01:18:37.250 --> 01:18:40.029 No errors and a man left. And at the end of four 01:18:40.029 --> 01:18:42.510 full innings, it's the Yankees three, Oakland 01:18:42.510 --> 01:18:55.020 nothing. says that Henry Aaron has hit his 643rd 01:18:55.020 --> 01:19:00.119 home run of his career. That gives Atlanta a 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:03.699 2 -1 lead over St. Louis after one inning of 01:19:03.699 --> 01:19:09.739 play. So that's Aaron's fourth home run of this 01:19:09.739 --> 01:19:14.399 season and his 643rd as Atlanta leads St. Louis 01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:19.539 2 -1 at the end of one inning of play. All right, 01:19:19.640 --> 01:19:21.979 Bill Larry Brown bounced the shortest first time 01:19:21.979 --> 01:19:25.880 out takes the curve low ball one afternoon, Minnesota 01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:30.279 beat Boston 3 to 1 and Kansas City's playing 01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:34.600 Baltimore the birds have lost three strings Chicago 01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:37.880 beat Cleveland 7 -5 on Rich Allen's attempt home 01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:43.300 10th inning home run Richie's third of the year 01:19:43.300 --> 01:19:47.659 No score Detroit at Texas California beat Milwaukee 01:19:47.659 --> 01:19:51.949 3 to 1 And that's all we have here. Okay, Bill, 01:19:52.050 --> 01:19:54.810 a 1 -1 count on Larry Brown. Mike Jalivis is 01:19:54.810 --> 01:20:03.229 inside, two balls and a strike. I heard Redwood, 01:20:03.310 --> 01:20:07.170 Dick Allen said that he's very happy in Chicago 01:20:07.170 --> 01:20:10.109 playing for the White Sox and this is it. He's 01:20:10.109 --> 01:20:13.609 traded again, he's going to quit. That's what 01:20:13.609 --> 01:20:17.630 he said at Los Angeles about this time last year. 01:20:18.260 --> 01:20:21.260 And two years ago, he said the same thing at 01:20:21.260 --> 01:20:25.699 St. Louis. It's amazing. That guy has a good 01:20:25.699 --> 01:20:28.720 year every year. I guess I'd better start calling 01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:33.539 him Dick, too. Yeah. Yeah, he is better than 01:20:33.539 --> 01:20:36.859 I am. Two balls, two strikes. On right hand, 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:40.399 hitting Larry Brown. Curve, hit on the ground, 01:20:40.460 --> 01:20:43.359 in the hole. Michael backhands it. Throw it to 01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:47.539 first. They got him, holy cow, what a play by 01:20:47.539 --> 01:20:51.380 the six. I mean, he came up firing. Now, that 01:20:51.380 --> 01:20:53.779 was a difficult play. He was going full speed 01:20:53.779 --> 01:20:57.159 in the hole, deep on the edge of the grass, came 01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:02.859 up throwing it throughout Larry Brown. And let's 01:21:02.859 --> 01:21:15.060 see, we have a pinch hitter now. Coming on. Hendrick 01:21:15.060 --> 01:21:26.420 is coming on to bat for McLean. George Hendrick. 01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:37.180 Played with Iowa and Oakland last year. With 01:21:37.180 --> 01:21:42.869 Iowa that is 333 -21 home run. Ice is one foul. 01:21:42.930 --> 01:21:45.409 Boy, he whips that bat. He's loose as a goose 01:21:45.409 --> 01:21:48.109 up there. He looks like Aaron, huh? He gets that 01:21:48.109 --> 01:21:50.649 bat and wraps it behind his ear. Big right -handed 01:21:50.649 --> 01:21:54.189 hitter. Lean. Looks to be about, what, 6 '3"? 01:21:54.189 --> 01:21:58.470 Oh, let's see what it is here. 6 '3"? You hit 01:21:58.470 --> 01:22:00.270 it on the nose. All right, how about the weight? 01:22:00.829 --> 01:22:04.729 You got those... 175. 195. Would you believe 01:22:04.729 --> 01:22:09.189 it? Aye, one -on -one. Is he that big? That's 01:22:09.189 --> 01:22:15.890 what it says here. 6395 pounds. Boy, he is tall. 01:22:16.109 --> 01:22:18.090 Hey, he looks like Don Quinn Dennis. We should 01:22:18.090 --> 01:22:21.170 play with him. Just a little bit. One -one delivery. 01:22:21.510 --> 01:22:23.569 Broke. Brown ball up the middle and back at second. 01:22:23.590 --> 01:22:25.630 That'll be a face hit. Clark's up with it, but 01:22:25.630 --> 01:22:29.529 can't make the throw. So the play by Michael 01:22:29.529 --> 01:22:32.189 now looms even larger. They'd have had runners 01:22:32.189 --> 01:22:35.470 at first and second. An infield hit. Clark backhanded 01:22:35.470 --> 01:22:37.569 the ball over the bag, but was going towards 01:22:37.569 --> 01:22:40.399 left field. Couldn't throw it. That's the fifth 01:22:40.399 --> 01:22:44.399 hit for Oakland. And now Bert Campanaro hits 01:22:44.399 --> 01:22:52.199 to the box and bounced out to first base. Yankees 01:22:52.199 --> 01:22:54.140 in front three to nothing here in the top of 01:22:54.140 --> 01:23:05.699 the fifth. One out. Infield in double play depth, 01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:07.699 with the exception of Alou, who's holding the 01:23:07.699 --> 01:23:13.260 bag against George Hendricks. Mr. Campanarity, 01:23:13.500 --> 01:23:17.119 front foul in the Yankee dugout. In this series, 01:23:17.420 --> 01:23:20.000 Oakland has used three pinch hitters, and they've 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:21.920 come through with three base hits. Three for 01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:25.159 three. Yankees doing very well in the pinch hitting 01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:31.920 department, too. Five for eight, and a sacrifice 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:46.000 fly. One strike on Campaneras. The stretch by 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:48.520 Mike. And he was going to bunt again, but this 01:23:48.520 --> 01:23:55.380 one is low on his one -on -one. Alou and McKinney 01:23:55.380 --> 01:23:58.699 were charging in that time. Campaneras with outstanding 01:23:58.699 --> 01:24:09.939 speed. One man out. Hendrick leads to a first 01:24:09.939 --> 01:24:18.939 base. Curve is high, ball two, two and one. You 01:24:18.939 --> 01:24:20.739 know, one thing about this Oakland club, Phil, 01:24:20.739 --> 01:24:22.680 they don't try to get all their runs at once. 01:24:22.960 --> 01:24:25.699 You were yet last night with Rudy up on a man 01:24:25.699 --> 01:24:27.640 on first, Keith Bunnett. That sets that whole 01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:30.279 ball game up because Bando came through with 01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:34.340 a triple to tie the ball game. Absolutely. With 01:24:34.340 --> 01:24:36.560 a club like this, as you say, they figure a run 01:24:36.560 --> 01:24:40.439 here, run there, then a long ball. The pitch 01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:42.220 bounced slowly to third, or they're going to 01:24:42.220 --> 01:24:45.420 have to hurry to get him. McKinney throws. Safe! 01:24:45.539 --> 01:24:50.380 Safe at first base. I tell you, he can fly. That 01:24:50.380 --> 01:24:53.539 brief one second of hesitation, where the technique 01:24:53.539 --> 01:24:55.699 was going to pick it up on McKinney, caught him. 01:24:55.699 --> 01:24:59.979 That base hit. He had tried a bunt twice, and 01:24:59.979 --> 01:25:03.180 that one was a swinging bunt. There's actually 01:25:03.180 --> 01:25:05.479 no such thing as a swinging bunt, but it had 01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:09.560 the same effect. He gets an infield hit. He can 01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:15.039 really get down that line. I still say the play 01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:18.979 by Gene Michaels so far has kept Oakland from 01:25:18.979 --> 01:25:21.659 having a real big inning. Instead of the bases 01:25:21.659 --> 01:25:24.020 loaded and nobody on, they have runners at first 01:25:24.020 --> 01:25:27.220 and second and one out. Joe Rudy, single or left, 01:25:27.420 --> 01:25:32.119 and popped to first base. Yankees lead 3 -0 top 01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:39.859 of the fifth. Hendrick at second, Campanaris 01:25:39.859 --> 01:25:49.520 at first. Stretched by Kekich. Mike Kicks delivers 01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:52.560 a curve hit deep to left center field, way out 01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:55.340 there. Roy White is back there though and Mercer 01:25:55.340 --> 01:25:58.649 and Mercer makes the catch. Both runners could 01:25:58.649 --> 01:26:00.789 have tagged up in advance, but they didn't they 01:26:00.789 --> 01:26:04.090 played it halfway and a long drive by Joe Rudy 01:26:04.090 --> 01:26:07.770 caught by Bobby Mercer And deep left center field 01:26:07.770 --> 01:26:11.229 the wind blowing from left toward right field 01:26:11.229 --> 01:26:14.229 held that ball up That have been a long run in 01:26:14.229 --> 01:26:19.329 a lot of ballpark, but not Yankee Stadium Reggie 01:26:19.329 --> 01:26:21.550 Jackson struck out in the first was robbed of 01:26:21.550 --> 01:26:23.750 a base hit on a fine over -the -shoulder catch 01:26:23.750 --> 01:26:27.609 by Horace Clark in the fourth Two out and two 01:26:27.609 --> 01:26:36.710 on. Yankees out in front three to nothing. Mike 01:26:36.710 --> 01:26:41.590 is ready, comes to the belt. Curve is a little 01:26:41.590 --> 01:26:53.930 bit high, ball one. They play Jackson way around 01:26:53.930 --> 01:27:00.699 towards right. Another curved swing and a missed 01:27:00.699 --> 01:27:06.819 one -on -one. Jackson does not get cheated on 01:27:06.819 --> 01:27:20.899 his swing. He really swings hard. Mike gets the 01:27:20.899 --> 01:27:25.479 sign from Munson. Runners lead away. The curve, 01:27:25.479 --> 01:27:28.319 check to swing that time and it's low. Two balls 01:27:28.319 --> 01:27:36.199 and a strike. Tekich is keeping that ball in 01:27:36.199 --> 01:27:39.979 good spots on Jackson. Either down and in or 01:27:39.979 --> 01:27:42.960 down and away. Doesn't want to give one up to 01:27:42.960 --> 01:27:48.979 him. Yankees leading 3 -0 top of the fifth. Two 01:27:48.979 --> 01:27:57.800 out and two on. Mike, with a long look in, has 01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:06.319 the sign. His pitch swing and a miss. Two balls, 01:28:06.380 --> 01:28:08.739 two strikes. And I tell you, he had good motion 01:28:08.739 --> 01:28:10.800 on that one. He had to have good motion because 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:14.939 the pitch was up around the letters. If I were 01:28:14.939 --> 01:28:17.000 Reggie Jackson here, I'd be looking for that 01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:20.380 sidearm curve ball. He got him on that one the 01:28:20.380 --> 01:28:25.880 first time up. Two balls, two strikes, two out, 01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:31.199 two men on. He's probably throw the fastball 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:38.479 right by it. Stretched by Kekich. He looks. Breaking 01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:41.859 pitch and it's low. Three and two. So he did 01:28:41.859 --> 01:28:44.100 not come side on but would not give in and throw 01:28:44.100 --> 01:28:47.380 the fastball. He has not thrown a fastball. He's 01:28:47.380 --> 01:28:49.460 thrown five pitches to Jackson, all breaking 01:28:49.460 --> 01:28:52.260 pitches. Now the runners will be off with the 01:28:52.260 --> 01:29:02.619 pitch. Three and two and two up. They lead away 01:29:02.619 --> 01:29:06.520 and that Campanaris can fly. Taking a big lead. 01:29:06.920 --> 01:29:11.279 The stretch. Mike looking at Campanaris. There 01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:13.520 they go. The curve is high. Ball four on the 01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:16.779 bases to load it. I said you lose daughter to 01:29:16.779 --> 01:29:19.079 sneak in behind campaign errors a quick throw 01:29:19.079 --> 01:29:22.460 over there would have picked them off Second 01:29:22.460 --> 01:29:25.539 walk given up by tech it and the bases are loaded 01:29:25.539 --> 01:29:30.260 Two men are out and here's that man Bando. He's 01:29:30.260 --> 01:29:32.180 single a center in the first bounce is short 01:29:32.180 --> 01:29:36.579 in the fourth But it was his big triple last 01:29:36.579 --> 01:29:39.539 night that tied up the ballgame drove in two 01:29:39.539 --> 01:29:50.300 runs Red Bean gets up in the Yankee bullpen. 01:29:53.899 --> 01:29:56.819 Hendrick at third. Campaneras at second. Jackson 01:29:56.819 --> 01:30:01.460 at first. Hendrick coming down the line, but 01:30:01.460 --> 01:30:03.779 Keckett's not even looking at him. And time is 01:30:03.779 --> 01:30:10.340 called as Bando has something in his eye. Oh, 01:30:10.340 --> 01:30:20.779 he's got it out. And we're ready to go. All right, 01:30:20.920 --> 01:30:25.039 Mike rocks back. Mr. Bando almost hit him, and 01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:27.100 Munson, they had a play on his third, and the 01:30:27.100 --> 01:30:34.619 ball popped out of Munson's glove. Ball one on 01:30:34.619 --> 01:30:41.859 Sal Bando. Bando has a double, a triple, and 01:30:41.859 --> 01:30:47.920 three runs batted in on the year. Mike ready 01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:58.270 again. Curve outside, ball two, two and up it. 01:31:04.989 --> 01:31:09.250 Face on balls, cross McLean in the bottom of 01:31:09.250 --> 01:31:14.409 the fourth inning. The 2 -0 pitch, ground ball 01:31:14.409 --> 01:31:16.890 hit the third, McKinney is up with it, goes to 01:31:16.890 --> 01:31:20.500 clock in time for the fourth play. And that Jackson 01:31:20.500 --> 01:31:23.300 went at the clock and split about ten feet past 01:31:23.300 --> 01:31:27.020 them, but Harris jumped over them. They get the 01:31:27.020 --> 01:31:29.500 fourth from third to second and four Oakland. 01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:33.399 No runs, two base hits. No errors, three men 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:36.060 left. And at the end of four and a half, it's 01:31:36.060 --> 01:31:42.039 the Yankees three and Oakland nothing. The new 01:31:42.039 --> 01:31:45.359 pitcher for the Oakland A's is Johnny Lee Blue 01:31:45.359 --> 01:31:48.590 Moon Odom. A fellow from Macon, Georgia. Blue 01:31:48.590 --> 01:31:52.729 Moon last year had a bit of arm trouble. He did 01:31:52.729 --> 01:31:56.829 get into 25 ball games, completed only three. 01:31:57.529 --> 01:32:02.869 He won 10 games and lost 12 for the Oakland A's. 01:32:03.250 --> 01:32:07.850 Blue Moon, Odom. That surgery on his right elbow 01:32:07.850 --> 01:32:12.430 was a 1970 bill? Mm -hmm. That's rough there. 01:32:12.489 --> 01:32:14.970 Not too many pitches come back after surgery 01:32:14.970 --> 01:32:18.510 on their pitching elbow. Would you like to see 01:32:18.510 --> 01:32:22.470 this young kid do well? He's quite a competitor. 01:32:28.550 --> 01:32:34.649 He'll be facing Mercer wide and aloof. Wears 01:32:34.649 --> 01:32:37.329 number 13 on his back, so he's not the least 01:32:37.329 --> 01:32:50.600 bit superstitious. All right, he's ready to go. 01:32:51.859 --> 01:32:54.539 So, Denny McLean worked four innings. He gave 01:32:54.539 --> 01:32:58.300 a five -hit, walked three, struck out one, checked 01:32:58.300 --> 01:33:02.060 that, struck out two, and allowed three runs. 01:33:02.140 --> 01:33:04.579 The first earned run scored off Denny McLean 01:33:04.579 --> 01:33:10.119 this year. Bobby Mercer lined to left and lined 01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:14.880 a single to right. Yankee's out in front three 01:33:14.880 --> 01:33:16.699 -nothing. We're in the bottom of the fifth inning. 01:33:30.029 --> 01:33:34.729 Blue moon ready. Fastball is low. Ball one. He 01:33:34.729 --> 01:33:50.510 threw that ball hard. Right hander into the windup. 01:33:51.109 --> 01:33:53.710 Fastball outside. Ball two. Two and nothing. 01:33:59.199 --> 01:34:01.260 Sometimes the weather like this, some pitchers 01:34:01.260 --> 01:34:04.000 who've had arm trouble worry about it, but this 01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:06.840 fellow is cutting loose. It's good to see him 01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:10.100 do that. The 2 -0 pitch. Line to right field, 01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:13.359 curving, foul. Boy, Bobby was looking for the 01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:16.640 fastball. Got it. Drilled it deep into the seats, 01:34:16.939 --> 01:34:23.600 but fouled by about 20 feet. On the big scoreboard, 01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:26.880 the Yankee RBI lead is Gene Michael with 7, Bobby 01:34:26.880 --> 01:34:35.079 Mercer with 5. And now Bobby has the time at 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:40.479 the plate. Bottom of the 50, Yankees lead 3 -0. 01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:51.859 Wind up by Blue Moon. Fastball is low and it's 01:34:51.859 --> 01:35:09.729 3 and 1. to see him sign up the way he drew people 01:35:09.729 --> 01:35:14.390 in the ballpark. On the road, he had quite a 01:35:14.390 --> 01:35:17.229 year. Foul to the left of the plate, it's three 01:35:17.229 --> 01:35:21.229 and two. Jim Woods, the Oakland announcer, said 01:35:21.229 --> 01:35:23.029 he was talking to Willie Mays, and Willie has 01:35:23.029 --> 01:35:26.109 a way to get blue into the league. He said, why 01:35:26.109 --> 01:35:28.210 doesn't blue do the same thing I did with Sonam? 01:35:28.329 --> 01:35:31.810 Sign for 50 and borrow 50. Pay the 50 back over 01:35:31.810 --> 01:35:34.850 10 years, but don't make any payments on the 01:35:34.850 --> 01:35:40.960 last 50. How do you like that the payoff pitch 01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:44.640 strike three called Bobby Mercer called out on 01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:49.579 strike So blue moon autumn first man he faces 01:35:49.579 --> 01:35:52.340 the tough Mercer he strikes him out and now raw 01:35:52.340 --> 01:36:00.439 white bounce to first and fly to luck I don't 01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:02.079 know where the Finley would go for that though 01:36:04.340 --> 01:36:11.140 Evidently, he stole them, didn't he? Yeah. I 01:36:11.140 --> 01:36:18.579 won out. Nobody on. Hold them into the windup. 01:36:19.300 --> 01:36:23.539 Foul out of play. Back in the upper deck. Well, 01:36:23.539 --> 01:36:28.640 I gotta tell you, Bill, laid down today with 01:36:28.640 --> 01:36:35.470 a fella named... ...Liddy. Tom Letty, and he 01:36:35.470 --> 01:36:39.810 had a hole in one. It's one of the prettiest 01:36:39.810 --> 01:36:41.909 sights and one of the most exciting things you 01:36:41.909 --> 01:36:45.510 ever want to see. Even for you non -golfers, 01:36:45.670 --> 01:36:51.090 a hole in one pitches high, and it's one on one. 01:36:51.729 --> 01:36:54.029 On the longest par three hole on our course, 01:36:54.109 --> 01:36:56.829 he hit a forward, and you could see it all the 01:36:56.829 --> 01:36:59.189 way. Hit on the green, take two bounces, and 01:36:59.189 --> 01:37:03.050 disappear right in the cup. You ever got a hole 01:37:03.050 --> 01:37:06.069 in one? I got one hole in one. Oh, and it's something. 01:37:08.329 --> 01:37:12.189 Lowball 2 -2 -1. You gotta buy drinks. Yes, sir. 01:37:12.189 --> 01:37:15.810 You gotta buy everybody who has played golf, 01:37:16.149 --> 01:37:20.090 or had played that day, a drink. But it really 01:37:20.090 --> 01:37:22.109 doesn't cost you, because everybody puts up a 01:37:22.109 --> 01:37:24.590 dollar and you get whatever the pot is. He got 01:37:24.590 --> 01:37:30.810 about $240. Not bad. In case the internal revenue 01:37:30.810 --> 01:37:34.539 is... Listening in. That pitch low inside. Ball 01:37:34.539 --> 01:37:39.920 three. Three and one. I want to tell you what 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:42.159 was so tough about it. He was not my partner. 01:37:42.859 --> 01:37:45.600 He got a shot. He got a stroke on that hole so 01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:48.920 he had zero for the hole. How can you beat that? 01:37:48.979 --> 01:37:54.380 He can't even tie it. It cost me a few bob but 01:37:54.380 --> 01:37:59.260 I was very happy. Had a couple of Dr. Peppers 01:37:59.260 --> 01:38:02.789 and that was it. Ground ball to first base that's 01:38:02.789 --> 01:38:05.689 being up with it runs over makes the play unassisted 01:38:05.689 --> 01:38:15.350 and there are two away And now fully Bayaloo 01:38:15.350 --> 01:38:25.090 line to center and foul to the catcher To out 01:38:25.090 --> 01:38:27.069 Yankees in front three to nothing we're in the 01:38:27.069 --> 01:38:49.579 bottom of the fifth inning Johnny Callison, which 01:38:49.579 --> 01:39:08.439 is low inside, ball one. The 1 -0 delivery. Little 01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:16.779 bit high, ball two, 2 -0. Question marks on the 01:39:16.779 --> 01:39:20.500 pitching staff for Oakland. Blue moon, Odom one. 01:39:21.640 --> 01:39:30.079 Dobson, another one. 2 -0 pitch, fouled again 01:39:30.079 --> 01:39:34.699 and got Luciano. That's three times that Ron 01:39:34.699 --> 01:39:38.239 Luciano has been hit with foul tips. Twice on 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:53.420 the mask, once on the chest protector. Dave Duncan 01:39:53.420 --> 01:40:00.359 gives the sign to Odom. His pitch is fouled back 01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:02.239 in the upper deck and out of play and the count 01:40:02.239 --> 01:40:10.619 is even at two and two. It looks like the Yankees 01:40:10.619 --> 01:40:12.579 hitters are just looking for that number one, 01:40:12.579 --> 01:40:15.100 that fastball, and they're really getting good 01:40:15.100 --> 01:40:19.319 rips at it. They are. I guess they figure with 01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:22.539 the cold weather and blue moon. We mentioned 01:40:22.539 --> 01:40:24.439 before, maybe a little worried. Doesn't want 01:40:24.439 --> 01:40:28.100 to throw too many breaking pitches. A little 01:40:28.100 --> 01:40:30.159 chilly here tonight. Denny McLean was blowing 01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:32.680 on his hand, going to his mouth just about after 01:40:32.680 --> 01:40:38.020 every pitch. The 2 -2 pitch, just outside another 01:40:38.020 --> 01:40:44.579 blazer that time. It's 3 -2. Well, you know, 01:40:44.659 --> 01:40:47.119 Felipe will be looking for the fastball here. 01:40:48.039 --> 01:40:54.350 Three balls, two strikes, two outs. Total mind. 01:40:54.949 --> 01:40:58.170 Passball is low and inside, and Alou gets a walk. 01:40:58.729 --> 01:41:00.729 This is the New York Yankee Baseball Network. 01:41:00.850 --> 01:41:05.369 We pause now for station identification. This 01:41:05.369 --> 01:41:08.329 is Steve Fitz, your contact host. Follow us weeknights 01:41:08.329 --> 01:41:10.449 from eight to midnight. Hear on the fresh air 01:41:10.449 --> 01:41:21.880 sound of Radio 81, WGY Schenectomy. Johnny Callison, 01:41:22.060 --> 01:41:24.699 who started the big three run uprising for the 01:41:24.699 --> 01:41:26.399 Yankees in the fourth inning with an opposite 01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:29.880 field double, is up there. Johnny also applied 01:41:29.880 --> 01:41:32.500 deep to center. He's one for two on the night. 01:41:33.100 --> 01:41:36.340 Alou leads away. Pitch to Callison. Swing and 01:41:36.340 --> 01:41:38.560 a foul to the left of the plate. Strike one. 01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:46.720 Johnny has that right hand. Well, it's stinging 01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:48.600 a little bit right now. He hit it off the end 01:41:48.600 --> 01:41:57.140 of the bat. making a fist. It's the kind of night 01:41:57.140 --> 01:42:02.319 you got to hit him right on the trademark. Best 01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:04.779 ball pulled, he got that one on the trademark, 01:42:04.979 --> 01:42:10.460 but just bowled down the right field line. Nothing 01:42:10.460 --> 01:42:21.819 and two. Epstein holding the bag against Duluth. 01:42:22.770 --> 01:42:24.810 Yankees with all three runs in the fourth on 01:42:24.810 --> 01:42:29.869 the three -run homer by the stick, Gene Michael. 01:42:35.970 --> 01:42:40.489 Odom leans over to get the sign. Callison now 01:42:40.489 --> 01:42:55.020 has the time. Odom ahead of him, 0 -2. Still 01:42:55.020 --> 01:43:08.779 nothing in two. Oh, another new ball thrown out 01:43:08.779 --> 01:43:21.439 to Odom. On deck, Rich McKinney. Odom is ready. 01:43:28.880 --> 01:43:32.539 for a base hit. A loser on second. He's going 01:43:32.539 --> 01:43:34.920 to third. The throw comes in at third, not in 01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:38.520 time. And I want to tell you, that was as pretty 01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:42.100 a play as you'd want to see. I don't know whether 01:43:42.100 --> 01:43:45.119 it was a blooper pitch, but it was a high, slow 01:43:45.119 --> 01:43:49.079 change -up curve. And Johnny Callison just backhanded 01:43:49.079 --> 01:43:52.180 like a tennis stroke over Vando's head. You can 01:43:52.180 --> 01:43:55.520 see the look on Vando's face, Bill. Johnny waited 01:43:55.520 --> 01:43:58.479 on that ball. Well, it just looped it out there. 01:43:58.699 --> 01:44:00.659 Usually on a pitch like that, if you're trying 01:44:00.659 --> 01:44:02.500 to pull the ball, you're out in front. You either 01:44:02.500 --> 01:44:04.760 pop it up or hit it on the ground in second base. 01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:08.659 So when you can handle a pitch like that after 01:44:08.659 --> 01:44:11.479 being thrown so many basketballs and still waiting 01:44:11.479 --> 01:44:14.579 to hit it out there, your timing is coming around 01:44:14.579 --> 01:44:17.260 pretty good. That's for sure. So the Yankees 01:44:17.260 --> 01:44:20.600 have run it at first and fair. And I tell you, 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:23.020 Felipe hasn't lost any speed because Rudy made 01:44:23.020 --> 01:44:25.479 a great throw in the third but Alou kept going 01:44:25.479 --> 01:44:27.819 and slid in safely. Now Rich McKinney bounce 01:44:27.819 --> 01:44:32.180 the third and walk. Pops it up. The catcher Dave 01:44:32.180 --> 01:44:34.899 Duncan in foul territory coming back near the 01:44:34.899 --> 01:44:38.859 screen. Makes the catch. So the Yankees are out 01:44:38.859 --> 01:44:42.260 of there. No runs. A base hit. No errors and 01:44:42.260 --> 01:44:44.880 two men left. And now at the end of five full 01:44:44.880 --> 01:44:47.500 innings it's the Yankees three and Oakland nothing. 01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:55.020 Bobby Brooks. Line to base hit the left field. 01:44:55.239 --> 01:44:58.699 He hit a bullet past McKinney. Roy White up with 01:44:58.699 --> 01:45:02.180 it and Brooks is on. Brooks had fly to center 01:45:02.180 --> 01:45:06.260 and walk before singling sharply to left. That's 01:45:06.260 --> 01:45:09.359 the seventh base hit. For Oakland, it brings 01:45:09.359 --> 01:45:11.640 up Dave Duncan who has fly to left and single 01:45:11.640 --> 01:45:22.850 to left. I think he's leading 3 -0 top of the 01:45:22.850 --> 01:45:29.649 sixth. Stretched by Mike. His pitch fouled back 01:45:29.649 --> 01:45:39.489 off the screen, strike one. On deck, Mike Epstein. 01:45:41.270 --> 01:45:55.369 Mike has hit the ball hard twice tonight. Bobby 01:45:55.369 --> 01:45:59.550 Brooks leading off first. Alou playing in back 01:45:59.550 --> 01:46:02.770 of the runner. High and outside, one -on -one. 01:46:04.069 --> 01:46:05.930 And we're going to get some action now in the 01:46:05.930 --> 01:46:16.350 Yankee bullpen. Duncan looks down at Irv Noren, 01:46:16.510 --> 01:46:25.310 coaching at third. Change -up, hitting the ground 01:46:25.310 --> 01:46:28.270 a third, could be two. McKinney to Clark, back 01:46:28.270 --> 01:46:32.109 to first, double play! And Horace Clark hung 01:46:32.109 --> 01:46:35.189 in there that time, with the speedy Bobby Brooks 01:46:35.189 --> 01:46:37.470 right on top of him and sliding in to Horace. 01:46:37.510 --> 01:46:40.390 Horace got rid of it, completed the double play, 01:46:40.409 --> 01:46:44.609 and then was knocked down. This is the new Horace 01:46:44.609 --> 01:46:47.010 Clark we're seeing this year, big double play. 01:46:49.050 --> 01:46:53.449 And they were two out, and a batter now. The 01:46:53.449 --> 01:46:55.890 single was cut down trying to steal in the second 01:46:55.890 --> 01:46:58.050 and then robbed of a base hit on a great play 01:46:58.050 --> 01:47:06.710 by Mercer in the fourth. Side armor to Epstein 01:47:06.710 --> 01:47:17.310 in there, strike one call. Time is called, Epstein 01:47:17.310 --> 01:47:21.789 wants Luciano to look at the ball. He does and 01:47:21.789 --> 01:47:28.430 says nothing wrong with it. He's still leading 01:47:28.430 --> 01:47:38.289 three to nothing. Another side armor, but this 01:47:38.289 --> 01:47:40.590 one is a little low, breaking pitch, and it's 01:47:40.590 --> 01:48:08.239 1 -1. 1 -1 pitch outside, 2 -1. has been in there 01:48:08.239 --> 01:48:10.859 all the way. Denny McLean started for Oakland, 01:48:11.199 --> 01:48:14.479 went four innings. There's a fastball right down 01:48:14.479 --> 01:48:28.420 the middle, two and two. Two balls, two strikes, 01:48:28.479 --> 01:48:42.050 two outs. Kekich into the windup. Down by a low. 01:48:43.390 --> 01:48:45.770 Epstein hung in there that time as Kekes came 01:48:45.770 --> 01:49:04.510 by the way of first base. And we'll have a 2 01:49:04.510 --> 01:49:08.850 -2 pitch coming up. Here it is and it's a curve 01:49:08.850 --> 01:49:33.539 low. ground hard base hit to right field. Epstein 01:49:33.539 --> 01:49:36.340 has done very well against the left -hand pitcher 01:49:36.340 --> 01:49:38.199 tonight. He's hit the ball hard three times, 01:49:38.260 --> 01:49:42.659 two base hits. And that's base hit number eight. 01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:44.699 So you can see how important that double play 01:49:44.699 --> 01:49:48.539 was now, just as Michael's fielding play in the 01:49:48.539 --> 01:49:51.579 fifth inning was. And here's Larry Brown, who 01:49:51.579 --> 01:49:54.439 was robbed of that base hit in the fifth and 01:49:54.439 --> 01:50:03.939 bounced out to Michael, his first time up. Allier 01:50:03.939 --> 01:50:08.460 is on deck. And the event that Larry Brown gets 01:50:08.460 --> 01:50:12.500 on, Allier will pinch hit for Blue Moon Odom. 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:21.979 There's a pitch in there. Strike one call. Two 01:50:21.979 --> 01:50:24.420 men are out. Yankees leading 3 -0 in the top 01:50:24.420 --> 01:50:36.649 of the sixth. momentarily. The Oakland bench 01:50:36.649 --> 01:50:39.010 getting on Ron Luciano and he's just thrown Dick 01:50:39.010 --> 01:50:42.850 Williams out of the game I do believe. Dick Williams 01:50:42.850 --> 01:50:46.029 really getting on Ron Luciano and he's been ejected 01:50:46.029 --> 01:50:51.350 from the ball game. And Dick Williams who has 01:50:51.350 --> 01:50:55.229 really let his hair grow long like some of his 01:50:55.229 --> 01:51:01.180 ballplayers was getting on Luciano and That's 01:51:01.180 --> 01:51:04.199 enough, and Williams kept talking and Luciano 01:51:04.199 --> 01:51:07.899 waved him out. So now Williams comes out to have 01:51:07.899 --> 01:51:11.800 another say. But it's too late now, he has been 01:51:11.800 --> 01:51:15.619 thrown out of the game. Trying to get a $25 worth. 01:51:15.899 --> 01:51:21.380 Yeah. Stay too long, it might cost you 50 though. 01:51:21.399 --> 01:51:23.819 That's right. Because here comes Frank Umont. 01:51:30.060 --> 01:51:32.020 He's got a nickel word in though before he left. 01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:39.600 He's got 25 dollars and five cents worth. Alright 01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:46.180 Bill. So Dick Williams is out of the game. It's 01:51:46.180 --> 01:51:51.699 one strike on Larry Brown. Stretched by Kekich. 01:51:51.699 --> 01:52:08.279 Kich is outside one -on -one. One ball, one strike. 01:52:12.220 --> 01:52:14.359 Curve hit on the ground is short. Gene Michael 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:17.079 up with it, flips the clock for the fourth play. 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:22.079 Oh, the Yankees with good defense tonight. For 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:24.680 Oakland, no runs, two hits, no errors, a man 01:52:24.680 --> 01:52:26.859 left. At the end of five and a half, it's the 01:52:26.859 --> 01:52:38.539 Yankees three and Oakland nothing. Mitchell just 01:52:38.539 --> 01:52:41.800 informed us, Bill, that that's Williams' second 01:52:41.800 --> 01:52:43.840 ejection of the season. So that's going to cost 01:52:43.840 --> 01:52:47.720 him more than 25. Uh -huh. Looks like that's 01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:50.180 kind of a year. Here he is, the hitting star 01:52:50.180 --> 01:52:53.060 for the Yankees, Gene Michael. Bounced a second 01:52:53.060 --> 01:52:55.119 his first time up, but in the fourth inning with 01:52:55.119 --> 01:52:57.840 two men on, he home it into the right field seat 01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:01.300 for all three runs. And Gene takes the pitch, 01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:11.680 low ball one. and the Yankees in front three 01:53:11.680 --> 01:53:19.220 -nothing. Wind up by Odom. Outside ball two. 01:53:19.279 --> 01:53:21.800 Odom, when he delivers, kind of falls towards 01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:34.479 first base. Here's the two -all pitch. Right 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:39.149 down the middle, strike called. Two and one on 01:53:39.149 --> 01:53:51.510 deck, Mike Kekich. Two -one pitch high, ball 01:53:51.510 --> 01:53:57.090 three, three and one. Oakland out hitting the 01:53:57.090 --> 01:53:59.710 Yankees eight to six. But as we told you, the 01:53:59.710 --> 01:54:03.850 big home run by Michael accounting for all three 01:54:03.850 --> 01:54:11.060 runs. 3 -1 delivery, Gene taking all the way 01:54:11.060 --> 01:54:16.380 at slow ball four. Second walk, given up by Odom. 01:54:17.979 --> 01:54:21.079 And now Mike Hekkichup, and his job is to advance. 01:54:22.119 --> 01:54:25.579 Michael is second with a sacrifice putt. Epstein 01:54:25.579 --> 01:54:30.439 comes over now to talk with Blumo. You know, 01:54:30.539 --> 01:54:32.140 with Larry Brown in there, Phil, I wonder if 01:54:32.140 --> 01:54:34.800 they'll try the play they tried last night with 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:39.239 the second baseman, Green, coming in. I got it. 01:54:39.659 --> 01:54:43.619 Brown is not nearly as quick as Dick Green. I 01:54:43.619 --> 01:54:45.920 imagine Epstein will come in and Brown will go 01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:49.239 over and cover first. You gotta be quick to do 01:54:49.239 --> 01:54:52.859 that. They're creeping in and Kekich bunched, 01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:54.659 bunched it hard. Epstein, they're gonna go to 01:54:54.659 --> 01:54:56.840 second and it's gonna be late and every... Oh, 01:54:56.840 --> 01:55:00.539 he called him out! Holy cow did he miss that 01:55:00.539 --> 01:55:06.460 play. Jim Odom. Michael had slid his foot, was 01:55:06.460 --> 01:55:12.189 on the... the inside part of the bag, and Campanaris 01:55:12.189 --> 01:55:14.609 had a reach for it. Gene had beaten the play, 01:55:14.810 --> 01:55:19.829 but Odom called him out. So it goes to the fourth 01:55:19.829 --> 01:55:23.130 play from three to six. Epstein got in there 01:55:23.130 --> 01:55:27.449 quickly, but did not make a good throw. And Gene 01:55:27.449 --> 01:55:29.649 Michael with a good jump and a burst of speed 01:55:29.649 --> 01:55:33.350 was in the second base. One away. Harris clots 01:55:33.350 --> 01:55:35.510 the batter. Harris has walked twice and flied 01:55:35.510 --> 01:55:48.659 to center. Kekes with the jacket on at first. 01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:53.460 Standing in front of, staying there. The stretch 01:55:53.460 --> 01:55:57.300 and the pitch outside ball one. Bill White, you 01:55:57.300 --> 01:56:00.300 know, watching Kekes there, I noticed when I 01:56:00.300 --> 01:56:02.279 was playing there was some big guys would stand 01:56:02.279 --> 01:56:04.500 in front of our first baseman on a play like 01:56:04.500 --> 01:56:07.479 this. Didn't that bother you a little bit? It 01:56:07.479 --> 01:56:12.880 does. Right, it does. You can't see well. All 01:56:12.880 --> 01:56:24.529 right, the 1 -0 delivery. Low ball 2, 2 -0. Virginia 01:56:24.529 --> 01:56:27.529 Citizens Day at Saturday at 2 p .m. when the 01:56:27.529 --> 01:56:32.270 Yankees play the Minnesota Twins. Our first one 01:56:32.270 --> 01:56:37.109 of the year. 2 -0 pitch outside, ball 3, 3 -0. 01:56:41.609 --> 01:56:44.229 One thing here, Phil, I'm sure Mike wanted to 01:56:44.229 --> 01:56:47.569 get the guy over. second but I'm also sure he 01:56:47.569 --> 01:56:49.689 didn't want to be out there on that base himself 01:56:49.689 --> 01:56:52.050 standing around in this cold weather. Right he 01:56:52.050 --> 01:56:54.010 wanted to get in that dugout where those heaters 01:56:54.010 --> 01:57:00.789 are. Stay warm. We know on our clock he'll be 01:57:00.789 --> 01:57:03.750 taken all the way. The pitch is right down the 01:57:03.750 --> 01:57:08.449 middle three balls and a strike. Herman Munson 01:57:08.449 --> 01:57:20.869 on deck. Ready for the 3 -1 pitch. It's right 01:57:20.869 --> 01:57:27.149 in there, strike two, three and two. Well, let's 01:57:27.149 --> 01:57:30.630 see if Mike will be off and running. Only one 01:57:30.630 --> 01:57:35.010 out. They're not paying too much attention to 01:57:35.010 --> 01:57:40.189 him there at first base. The stretch, he does 01:57:40.189 --> 01:57:45.840 not go and the ball is outside, ball four. Walked 01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:48.199 two men in this inning. His third since he came 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:52.300 in the ball game in the fifth. Beckett's walking 01:57:52.300 --> 01:57:54.800 slowly to second. Clark is at first. Thurman 01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:57.079 -Munson who is two for three. Single to left 01:57:57.079 --> 01:57:59.819 in the first. Single to center in the third and 01:57:59.819 --> 01:58:04.420 struck out in the fourth. On deck, Bobby Merson. 01:58:06.180 --> 01:58:08.399 Yankees leading three nothing. Bottom of the 01:58:08.399 --> 01:58:39.640 sixth. One out. Breaking pitch, ball one. Only 01:58:39.640 --> 01:58:44.500 one out. Mackey's trying to add to their three. 01:58:46.539 --> 01:58:52.800 Hold them to the belt. Ball two, little bit inside. 01:58:54.189 --> 01:58:56.970 Epstein's going to come over, and Bando started 01:58:56.970 --> 01:59:03.529 in from third, but Epstein got there first. Little 01:59:03.529 --> 01:59:18.270 action in the Oakland bullpen. Two balls, no 01:59:18.270 --> 01:59:38.819 strikes on Munson. His pitch is ball three. Three 01:59:38.819 --> 01:59:50.760 balls, no strikes. So, Blue Moon Odom in a jam 01:59:50.760 --> 01:59:55.079 here. Walk through this inning already, and there's 01:59:55.079 --> 01:59:57.500 the strike on the inside part of the plate. Three 01:59:57.500 --> 02:00:02.539 and one. On the scoreboard, the Yanks wish the 02:00:02.539 --> 02:00:05.140 Knicks the best of luck at Los Angeles tonight. 02:00:06.100 --> 02:00:09.340 The first game of that important playoff series 02:00:09.340 --> 02:00:14.699 between the Knicks and the Lakers. The don't 02:00:14.699 --> 02:00:17.460 turn on your TVs doesn't start till after ten. 02:00:20.239 --> 02:00:23.359 The stretch and the pitch pop foul back and out 02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:29.920 of play. Green two. Matter of fact, If they might 02:00:29.920 --> 02:00:32.520 delay the start of that game, I heard on the 02:00:32.520 --> 02:00:34.779 radio because President Nixon is going to dress 02:00:34.779 --> 02:00:41.739 the country tonight at 10 o 'clock. If they delay 02:00:41.739 --> 02:00:44.220 it too long, they'll be starting the season again. 02:00:44.699 --> 02:00:47.180 Looks like they start basketball in June, though. 02:00:50.039 --> 02:00:56.300 And hockey. Gotta wish the Rangers luck, too. 02:00:56.300 --> 02:01:04.159 They'll be meeting the Boston Bruins. Second 02:01:04.159 --> 02:01:07.020 base orb was a good throw there to have Kekich. 02:01:07.739 --> 02:01:10.319 They had the pickle play on. Larry Brown came 02:01:10.319 --> 02:01:14.140 over, but Blue Moon Odom threw it high, and Kekich 02:01:14.140 --> 02:01:18.500 was able to dive back in. A lot of times that's 02:01:18.500 --> 02:01:21.020 a count play. The pitcher will watch the catcher, 02:01:21.300 --> 02:01:25.640 and when the catcher, or in this case, Dave Duncan, 02:01:25.819 --> 02:01:29.060 sees Brown, the second baseman, positioned, he'll 02:01:29.060 --> 02:01:31.760 maybe give the pitcher a quick fist to the old 02:01:31.760 --> 02:01:44.140 wheel and throw there. Right on the nose. As 02:01:44.140 --> 02:01:49.020 Munson gobs a low fastball. That Rudy really 02:01:49.020 --> 02:01:51.920 bouncing around in left field. Two outs. Bobby 02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:53.859 Mertz to the batter. Bobby is flying to left, 02:01:53.939 --> 02:01:59.060 single right and struck out. These guys have 02:01:59.060 --> 02:02:01.699 more conferences than anybody. There's Bando 02:02:01.699 --> 02:02:04.640 out there again with his catcher Duncan. They 02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:06.600 do a lot of talking. I guess that's what you 02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:09.100 need though with a veteran ball club. Soft aim's 02:02:09.100 --> 02:02:12.020 over. Well, it looks like they've been stalling 02:02:12.020 --> 02:02:14.359 to get somebody loose out in the bullpen, Bill. 02:02:14.939 --> 02:02:17.420 That's Bill Posedale, who evidently has taken 02:02:17.420 --> 02:02:20.479 over for Dick Williams. Williams was kicked out 02:02:20.479 --> 02:02:24.720 for arguing a ball strike count with Ron Luciano. 02:02:26.220 --> 02:02:29.720 So Bill Posedale out there now talking to his 02:02:29.720 --> 02:02:32.979 pitcher, Lou Monodam, and they're gonna, looks 02:02:32.979 --> 02:02:34.899 like they're gonna bring a left -hander in to 02:02:34.899 --> 02:02:41.010 pitch to Bobby Mercer. Dick Hauser. goes out 02:02:41.010 --> 02:02:42.810 and says something to Mike Tankett. She tells 02:02:42.810 --> 02:02:45.050 him to be careful down there. Mike almost got 02:02:45.050 --> 02:02:48.489 picked off. While we're waiting on the new pitcher, 02:02:48.529 --> 02:02:50.869 let's go over the scores again for you. Minnesota 02:02:50.869 --> 02:02:54.550 beat Boston 3 -1. The winning pitcher was Dick 02:02:54.550 --> 02:02:58.670 Woodson, the loser Ray Cope. No score. Baltimore, 02:02:58.810 --> 02:03:01.510 Kansas City at the end of three innings of play. 02:03:01.649 --> 02:03:04.710 McNally against Al Kenton. Baltimore's lost three 02:03:04.710 --> 02:03:10.659 games in a row. Chicago White Sox. Dick Allen's 02:03:10.659 --> 02:03:12.979 third home run of the year in a 10th of one on 02:03:12.979 --> 02:03:19.239 edge to Cleveland 7 -2. That's the Chicago 7th 02:03:19.239 --> 02:03:22.699 straight win. Texas is playing host to Detroit. 02:03:22.779 --> 02:03:24.460 There's no score there at the end of two and 02:03:24.460 --> 02:03:27.359 a half innings of play. California beat Milwaukee 02:03:27.359 --> 02:03:30.600 3 -1. The winner, Clark. The loser, Parsons. 02:03:33.460 --> 02:03:36.220 In the National League, San Francisco beat Philadelphia 02:03:36.220 --> 02:03:45.840 8 -6. I think at the end of five, St. Louis leads 02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:49.020 Atlanta now eight to three at the end of three 02:03:49.020 --> 02:03:51.939 and a half innings of play. Henry Aaron got his 02:03:51.939 --> 02:03:56.039 643rd home run of his career in that ball game. 02:03:58.340 --> 02:04:01.119 Houston leads Chicago, the Cubs three to two. 02:04:01.460 --> 02:04:03.819 The Cubs have lost seven straight and the Astros 02:04:03.819 --> 02:04:06.539 surprisingly have won eight straight. Montreal 02:04:06.539 --> 02:04:09.199 and Los Angeles, that game tonight and we have 02:04:09.199 --> 02:04:18.619 no score on that yet. I'll tell you about the 02:04:18.619 --> 02:04:21.460 many ways to buy tickets to Yankee games. There 02:04:21.460 --> 02:04:23.619 are more than 200 ticket outlets in Yankee land. 02:04:23.800 --> 02:04:26.039 First there is the Yankee Stadium's advanced 02:04:26.039 --> 02:04:28.319 ticket office. That's open every day of the season 02:04:28.319 --> 02:04:31.600 from 9 in the morning until 5 p .m. and until 02:04:31.600 --> 02:04:33.960 at least a half hour after the close of the game 02:04:33.960 --> 02:04:37.039 at Yankee Stadium. You can also order any time 02:04:37.039 --> 02:04:39.420 by mail simply send your ticket request, check, 02:04:39.420 --> 02:04:41.500 or money order together with your name and address 02:04:41.500 --> 02:04:43.939 to the ticket manor. New York Yankee, Yankee 02:04:43.939 --> 02:04:56.100 Stadium, Bronx, New York. Okay, Bill and Jim 02:04:56.100 --> 02:04:58.619 Rowland, a big left -hander comes on to do the 02:04:58.619 --> 02:05:00.600 pitching. This is his second appearance of the 02:05:00.600 --> 02:05:03.560 year, has no one or loss reckoned. Pitching to 02:05:03.560 --> 02:05:05.659 Bobby Mercer with runners at first and second, 02:05:05.680 --> 02:05:08.359 two out in the Yankees leading 3 -0. Almost a 02:05:08.359 --> 02:05:12.039 wild pitch. A good play by Dave Duncan as Rowland 02:05:12.039 --> 02:05:21.819 came side on. Ball one to Mercer. Rollin' at 02:05:21.819 --> 02:05:30.859 6 -2, 200 pounds. Kekich at second, Clark at 02:05:30.859 --> 02:05:38.279 first, two up. Through the belt. Pitch low, ball 02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:42.779 two, he almost stumbled that time. Fixing the 02:05:42.779 --> 02:05:50.460 mound out there. On deck, Felipe Alou. Nope, 02:05:50.560 --> 02:05:57.979 check that, Roy White. Felipe bats after White. 02:05:59.479 --> 02:06:05.560 2 -0 on Bobby. Switched by Rowland is low, ball 02:06:05.560 --> 02:06:12.340 three. And Rowland wanted that one. 3 -0 to count. 02:06:18.340 --> 02:06:21.640 That's the score of the game, too, 3 -0. Yankees' 02:06:21.899 --> 02:06:32.739 favor. Stretch by Rowland. 3 -0 pitch. Strike 02:06:32.739 --> 02:06:44.899 one call, 3 -1. Look at him. He's got hands up. 02:06:45.460 --> 02:06:47.760 He's got two strikes and a ball. He's got to 02:06:47.760 --> 02:06:50.460 adjust the opposite. But it's three and one here. 02:06:52.720 --> 02:06:54.899 All right. Ready for the 3 -1 pitch. Bobby will 02:06:54.899 --> 02:06:58.359 be ready for that fastball. He hits it deep to 02:06:58.359 --> 02:07:00.220 right field. That ball's going to be in for a 02:07:00.220 --> 02:07:03.180 base hit. Bounces in the seats for a ground roll 02:07:03.180 --> 02:07:06.680 double. And Tekich scores. Block has to stop 02:07:06.680 --> 02:07:09.260 and go back to third. And Bobby Mercer in with 02:07:09.260 --> 02:07:12.079 a stand -up double. The Yankees are out in front 02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:17.739 four to nothing. You know, that's got to be a 02:07:17.739 --> 02:07:21.399 great feeling, Bill. A new pitcher coming in. 02:07:21.479 --> 02:07:25.460 He's behind three and one. And the almost 99 02:07:25.460 --> 02:07:27.460 percent sure he's going to come in with a fastball. 02:07:27.560 --> 02:07:29.220 You're going to get that fastball. And Bobby 02:07:29.220 --> 02:07:31.020 hung with it and lined it down the right field 02:07:31.020 --> 02:07:33.359 line. And actually, the ball hadn't bounced in 02:07:33.359 --> 02:07:35.600 the seat. Bobby might have gotten another RBI 02:07:35.600 --> 02:07:38.039 because Clark was hustling around second. Yes, 02:07:38.039 --> 02:07:41.909 he was. By two men around, Roy White the batter. 02:07:42.090 --> 02:07:44.750 Roy has bounced to first twice and flying to 02:07:44.750 --> 02:07:51.930 left. Mercer at second, Clark at third. Rowland 02:07:51.930 --> 02:07:55.350 will take the full windup. Mr. White fouled back 02:07:55.350 --> 02:08:04.590 and out of play. That run, by the way, will be 02:08:04.590 --> 02:08:10.989 charged to Blue Moon Odom. Mike Kekich scoring. 02:08:17.609 --> 02:08:23.890 One strike pitch just outside 101. Clark also 02:08:23.890 --> 02:08:30.970 is the responsibility of Odom. Harris has had 02:08:30.970 --> 02:08:35.319 three walks in this ballgame. Number last year, 02:08:35.539 --> 02:08:36.680 Harris got a lot of walks. As a matter of fact, 02:08:36.739 --> 02:08:38.899 got more walks than he's gotten in any other 02:08:38.899 --> 02:08:42.039 year in the big leagues. Curve looped in a shallow 02:08:42.039 --> 02:08:44.000 right field. Nobody's going to get this, but 02:08:44.000 --> 02:08:47.000 it'll go into the seat. Epstein chases it, but 02:08:47.000 --> 02:08:50.899 it goes way back into the seat. One ball, two 02:08:50.899 --> 02:08:58.699 strikes. Harris now has five bases on balls for 02:08:58.699 --> 02:09:10.100 the year. Mark had 64 last year and ours is noted 02:09:10.100 --> 02:09:12.619 as a man was tough to walk cause he would swing 02:09:12.619 --> 02:09:16.600 at just about anything but he's really got that 02:09:16.600 --> 02:09:26.680 eagle eye now. The pitch high and outside the 02:09:26.680 --> 02:09:29.260 count is even a two and two. Two balls, two strikes, 02:09:29.539 --> 02:09:34.579 two out, two men on. And at halftime, the New 02:09:34.579 --> 02:09:38.960 York Nets 63, the Virginia Squires 52. Go Nets 02:09:38.960 --> 02:09:44.279 on the scoreboard. The 2 -2 pitch. Foul over 02:09:44.279 --> 02:09:57.100 our heads. How about that? A young boy got that 02:09:57.100 --> 02:09:59.319 one. Showed me a lot of courage there because 02:09:59.319 --> 02:10:02.819 it's cold tonight and that was a solid foul ball 02:10:02.819 --> 02:10:12.770 line drive. Two and two. Rolling winds. Pitch 02:10:12.770 --> 02:10:27.550 low and inside, full count, three and two. Three 02:10:27.550 --> 02:10:30.310 balls, two strikes. Yankees in front, four -nothing. 02:10:30.649 --> 02:10:37.850 And the bottom of the sixth. The background and 02:10:37.850 --> 02:10:39.949 the back goes out to the mound. So does the ball 02:10:39.949 --> 02:10:42.229 and Roland throws the ball at first base and 02:10:42.229 --> 02:10:46.210 they got him. But the Yankees pick up a run on 02:10:46.210 --> 02:10:50.829 just one base hit. No errors and two men left. 02:10:51.189 --> 02:10:53.609 And now at the end of six full innings is the 02:10:53.609 --> 02:10:59.390 Yankees four and Oakland nothing. We're getting 02:10:59.390 --> 02:11:01.869 ready to go at the top of the seventh before 02:11:01.869 --> 02:11:03.869 we go to the top of the seventh though. Here 02:11:03.869 --> 02:11:06.789 is Bill White with a very important announcement. 02:11:07.529 --> 02:11:10.310 Bill, let's pause now. This is the New York Yankee 02:11:10.310 --> 02:11:13.329 baseball network. Let's pause for station identification. 02:11:14.329 --> 02:11:16.970 This is your guy, High Agents. Join me for your 02:11:16.970 --> 02:11:20.050 kind of music, weekdays, 3 to 7, here on the 02:11:20.050 --> 02:11:24.210 fresh air sound of Radio 81, WGY Schenectady. 02:11:31.649 --> 02:11:34.510 As we go into the top of the 7 with the Yankees 02:11:34.510 --> 02:11:38.539 ahead 4 -0, We have a pinch hitter, Frank Mutter. 02:11:39.359 --> 02:11:44.000 Yes, Brett Algate. Well, that for the pitcher, 02:11:44.180 --> 02:11:48.859 Jim Rowland. And the A's, as Ewen Phil mentioned 02:11:48.859 --> 02:11:51.239 earlier, have been very successful in this series 02:11:51.239 --> 02:11:53.699 with their pinch hitters. A little while ago, 02:11:53.840 --> 02:11:55.859 George Hendrick had an infield hit as a pinch 02:11:55.859 --> 02:11:59.300 hitter. The Oakland pinch hitters are three for 02:11:59.300 --> 02:12:01.659 three in this series, Bill. All right, techage 02:12:01.659 --> 02:12:03.779 is ready. D was the first pitch. A curve ball 02:12:03.779 --> 02:12:12.840 that's too low. Two years with the Minnesota 02:12:12.840 --> 02:12:16.880 Twins. Picked up over the window by open. Down 02:12:16.880 --> 02:12:22.300 low ball. Two balls and no strikes. Aldi, a big 02:12:22.300 --> 02:12:25.920 right -handed hitter. He's 6 '3", weighs 215. 02:12:26.439 --> 02:12:29.920 Attended Hofstra College. Looks down on his third 02:12:29.920 --> 02:12:32.180 base coach, Irv Norn. Tag that just ready now. 02:12:32.239 --> 02:12:39.840 The 2 -0 pitch. Ball three inside. It'll be Aldi, 02:12:40.000 --> 02:12:45.029 then Burt Campanier. and then Joe Rudy as we're 02:12:45.029 --> 02:12:48.029 in the top of the seventh. Gackage has given 02:12:48.029 --> 02:12:52.189 up eight hits. Pitch is too low, ball four. Walked 02:12:52.189 --> 02:13:00.569 him on four pitches. So in this series, the Oakland 02:13:00.569 --> 02:13:02.670 Pitch Hitters have all gotten on base. Three 02:13:02.670 --> 02:13:07.069 hits now, walk to Brant Algea. Algea not addressing. 02:13:08.490 --> 02:13:11.590 The Yankees lead 4 -0. The hitter is Burt Campanero. 02:13:11.890 --> 02:13:14.229 Campi's been up three times. He's won for three. 02:13:14.430 --> 02:13:16.229 Bounce to the pitcher. Bounce to the first base. 02:13:16.350 --> 02:13:18.250 And got an infield single off the glove for Rich 02:13:18.250 --> 02:13:21.829 Bacchetti. Gekkage stretches. Comes to the plate 02:13:21.829 --> 02:13:27.489 too high. A ball. At activity in the Yankee bullpen, 02:13:27.649 --> 02:13:30.609 Bill, Fred Bean, right -hander, and Rich Hinton, 02:13:30.810 --> 02:13:34.239 a left -hander, both warming up. Kekich had trouble 02:13:34.239 --> 02:13:36.140 with Milwaukee in the later innings, but John 02:13:36.140 --> 02:13:39.119 Briggs got him for a home run. So Ralph Hough 02:13:39.119 --> 02:13:42.020 is going to try to not let Mike go too far. The 02:13:42.020 --> 02:13:45.380 1 -0 pitch. There's a strike on the outside corner. 02:13:45.460 --> 02:13:49.979 Ball and a strike. The Aggie infield, Alou is 02:13:49.979 --> 02:13:53.399 holding Alier there at first. Horace Clark at 02:13:53.399 --> 02:13:55.840 second base. Gene Michael at short. They're looking 02:13:55.840 --> 02:13:58.960 for two. Rich McKinney's enclosed at third, looking 02:13:58.960 --> 02:14:02.239 for the punch. Kekich comes to the bell. He doesn't 02:14:02.239 --> 02:14:05.100 have a big lead. Pitch. Line drive, base it up 02:14:05.100 --> 02:14:10.399 the middle. That had to take it ducking. Alney 02:14:10.399 --> 02:14:12.619 will hold it second base as Mercer comes up with 02:14:12.619 --> 02:14:15.420 a base ball and that brings Ralph Houk out of 02:14:15.420 --> 02:14:22.220 the deck out. Campanier's hit a 1 -1 pitch and 02:14:22.220 --> 02:14:24.560 lined a single up the middle for his second base 02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:30.079 hit. Bran Alye stopped his second. Now Ralph 02:14:30.079 --> 02:14:34.619 Houk out talking to Thurman Munson and Mike Kekich. 02:14:35.260 --> 02:14:37.699 And there's some action out in right field. Ralph's 02:14:37.699 --> 02:14:39.119 going to leave. He's going to let Kekich stay 02:14:39.119 --> 02:14:44.859 in there. Joe Rudy's a hitter. Yankees ahead 02:14:44.859 --> 02:14:51.460 4 -0. Rudy's been up three times. He's singled 02:14:51.460 --> 02:14:53.460 to left field his first trip up, popped to the 02:14:53.460 --> 02:14:55.460 first base, and a Lou and he's flied to center 02:14:55.460 --> 02:14:59.020 field. So he's 1 for 3. One thing about this 02:14:59.020 --> 02:15:01.789 ball Kekich has had good support behind him. 02:15:02.189 --> 02:15:04.810 Great play by Gene Michael. And a good catch 02:15:04.810 --> 02:15:08.329 in deep center by Bobby Mercer on Rudy back in 02:15:08.329 --> 02:15:11.130 the fifth inning. Saved some damage. A double 02:15:11.130 --> 02:15:13.550 play in the sixth inning got him out of potential 02:15:13.550 --> 02:15:17.590 trouble. All right, Rudy Batts right -handed. 02:15:18.909 --> 02:15:23.789 Go out. Kekich will stretch. Text out yet second. 02:15:25.420 --> 02:15:27.739 takes a long look at him comes to the plate a 02:15:27.739 --> 02:15:30.520 curve ball gets the outside corner called strike 02:15:30.520 --> 02:15:32.779 but Kenny backs up just a bit at third base the 02:15:32.779 --> 02:15:37.739 outfield plays Rudy straight away Roy White fairly 02:15:37.739 --> 02:15:43.159 deep in left field Oakland now with nine hits 02:15:43.159 --> 02:15:45.659 but as Frank Messer mentioned the Yankees have 02:15:45.659 --> 02:15:49.760 come up with some fine fielding plays here's 02:15:49.760 --> 02:15:54.800 your one pitch to Rudy change up cut on had him 02:15:54.800 --> 02:15:59.619 fooled with a high change. Rudy with an extremely 02:15:59.619 --> 02:16:06.140 closed hand missed a high change up and the count 02:16:06.140 --> 02:16:29.829 runs down no balls in two strikes. Now Kekich 02:16:29.829 --> 02:16:35.329 is ready. Here's the 0 -2 pitch. Best ball lined 02:16:35.329 --> 02:16:37.850 to center field. Mercer's back now. He's probably 02:16:37.850 --> 02:16:41.069 started in. He one -hands the ball. Allier tags 02:16:41.069 --> 02:16:44.510 the second. He'll go to third. Campanaris was 02:16:44.510 --> 02:16:46.489 late getting back to first, so he'll have to 02:16:46.489 --> 02:16:50.569 stay there. Rudy hits the ball hard. Mercer backed 02:16:50.569 --> 02:16:53.250 up one -handed it. Alertly threw the ball to 02:16:53.250 --> 02:16:55.690 second. The whole of Campanaris at first base. 02:16:56.409 --> 02:16:58.579 As Allier tag... Second and second and one on 02:16:58.579 --> 02:17:01.180 the third. One out now. Runners at first and 02:17:01.180 --> 02:17:04.940 third and the hitter is a powerful Reggie Jackson. 02:17:08.239 --> 02:17:11.420 Jackson struck out. Popped up to Clark. Hoss 02:17:11.420 --> 02:17:15.299 made a fine running catch. About 25 yards out 02:17:15.299 --> 02:17:18.520 in right field there. Right in front of Johnny 02:17:18.520 --> 02:17:24.879 Callison. And Jackson's walked. So Reggie is 02:17:24.879 --> 02:17:28.940 0 for 2. That's left handed. Has a quick bat. 02:17:29.840 --> 02:17:32.120 And Callison plays in deep and right field. Alou 02:17:32.120 --> 02:17:36.059 is holding Campanier's on it first. Allier leaves 02:17:36.059 --> 02:17:39.879 from third. Pitch. It's the outside corner, it's 02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:52.600 right. Kekich gets ahead of Jackson. They play 02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:55.659 Reggie to full. Bursar deep and right center 02:17:55.659 --> 02:18:01.649 field. White and left center and deep. The 0 02:18:01.649 --> 02:18:04.549 -1 pitch. Swung on, bounced foul outside first 02:18:04.549 --> 02:18:08.290 base line. So it's no balls and two strikes. 02:18:11.969 --> 02:18:14.430 Alier goes back to third base. Campanier is first 02:18:14.430 --> 02:18:18.170 to first. Campy talking to his first base coach. 02:18:18.510 --> 02:18:29.649 Gerrier there. Now Kek is looking in at Munson. 02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:33.319 Mike takes a peek at Aliyah leading him third, 02:18:33.399 --> 02:18:35.360 comes to the belt, looks at the popular as a 02:18:35.360 --> 02:18:39.079 third. Sidearm curveball, come on! And this struck 02:18:39.079 --> 02:18:44.840 him out on three pitches. So Kake picks up strikeout 02:18:44.840 --> 02:18:49.360 number, let's see, three. He's gotten Jackson 02:18:49.360 --> 02:18:53.680 now twice. And that was a big one. So two outs 02:18:53.680 --> 02:18:58.700 and Sal Bando's in. Bando's one for three. He's 02:18:58.700 --> 02:19:00.530 single to center his first drip, bounce. short 02:19:00.530 --> 02:19:04.010 and also bounced into a four shot. Sal Fando, 02:19:04.030 --> 02:19:06.989 that's right -handed. He's a tough out, especially 02:19:06.989 --> 02:19:10.590 with men on base. And he has Alye down at third 02:19:10.590 --> 02:19:12.989 camp and errors at first. Yankee still ahead 02:19:12.989 --> 02:19:16.889 4 -0, top of the seven. Kekich deals a change 02:19:16.889 --> 02:19:20.270 up to two low. Fando backing out on that change. 02:19:21.510 --> 02:19:23.629 Sal Fando looking for a ball inside on deck. 02:19:23.690 --> 02:19:29.549 Bobby Brooks. Outfield straight is up for Bando. 02:19:29.889 --> 02:19:32.489 They play him straight away. Clark shades him 02:19:32.489 --> 02:19:35.190 towards second just a bit. Back on the grass 02:19:35.190 --> 02:19:44.350 there. 1 -0 pitch. Curve ball's inside. Two balls 02:19:44.350 --> 02:19:49.950 and no strikes. Keckage is struggling just a 02:19:49.950 --> 02:19:54.729 bit. They count 2 -1 -0 on Bando with runners 02:19:54.729 --> 02:20:00.280 at first and third for the Oakland Daves. Now 02:20:00.280 --> 02:20:04.659 Mike's ready. And there goes Campanier. Keckage 02:20:04.659 --> 02:20:07.440 steps off, goes to first phase. Campy gets back 02:20:07.440 --> 02:20:13.680 there. Keckage was in his stretch. Campanier 02:20:13.680 --> 02:20:16.620 started toward second. Mike alertly stepped off 02:20:16.620 --> 02:20:22.799 the bag, off of the mound. And took a couple 02:20:22.799 --> 02:20:25.200 of steps toward Campanier. Campanier stopped, 02:20:25.299 --> 02:20:28.239 went back and beat the throw there. Kekich was 02:20:28.239 --> 02:20:29.979 watching that runner over there at third base, 02:20:30.040 --> 02:20:32.500 too, to be sure he wasn't going to try to break 02:20:32.500 --> 02:20:38.860 Alguez. Oh, Campanera's still there at first 02:20:38.860 --> 02:20:44.540 base. Alguez at third. Two outs, two balls, no 02:20:44.540 --> 02:20:48.200 strikes on Bando. Here's the pitch. Two high 02:20:48.200 --> 02:20:51.319 ball, three. Three and 0. Evidently, that worried 02:20:51.319 --> 02:20:55.100 Mike just a bit. I don't know where Campy was 02:20:55.100 --> 02:21:00.100 going. They're behind 4 -0. But he almost got 02:21:00.100 --> 02:21:08.219 it off, he almost pulled it off. Mike comes to 02:21:08.219 --> 02:21:12.219 the bell. Here's a 3 -0 pitch to Bando. That's 02:21:12.219 --> 02:21:15.040 a strike right down the heart of the plate. 3 02:21:15.040 --> 02:21:20.280 -1. Bando takes a look down at his third base 02:21:20.280 --> 02:21:28.120 coach, Irv North. And Kekich now is ready. Here's 02:21:28.120 --> 02:21:32.719 a 3 -1 pitch. High ball, four. Base is loaded 02:21:32.719 --> 02:21:36.620 now as Bando jogs down the first base. Campanier 02:21:36.620 --> 02:21:41.719 goes into second. Alier down at third. Two outs 02:21:41.719 --> 02:21:44.860 and the hitter is Bobby Brooks, the center fielder. 02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:47.520 Brooks is one for two. He's flying to center 02:21:47.520 --> 02:21:50.040 field, he's walked, and he's single to left. 02:21:50.420 --> 02:21:55.620 This little fella's about 5 '8". That's right 02:21:55.620 --> 02:22:03.120 -handed. Ralph Howe looking down, looking out 02:22:03.120 --> 02:22:07.059 over the field. He's been off the seed package 02:22:07.059 --> 02:22:12.200 once, isn't he? Mike Nowell winds up. Time's 02:22:12.200 --> 02:22:17.440 called, he wants him rosin'. Townsend runners 02:22:17.440 --> 02:22:21.739 on base, they're three out there. Bad nose at 02:22:21.739 --> 02:22:26.420 first. Camp and there's the second. Here's the 02:22:26.420 --> 02:22:28.700 fish to brook. Curve ball, one hopper to Michael, 02:22:28.940 --> 02:22:32.680 fantastic base hit. One run scores. Around third 02:22:32.680 --> 02:22:35.600 base is Campanaris. He'll score easily. Bando 02:22:35.600 --> 02:22:39.239 holds it second. And the Yankee lead has been 02:22:39.239 --> 02:22:44.700 cut in half. Brooks with a single pass. Gene 02:22:44.700 --> 02:22:46.840 Michael just to his left towards second base. 02:22:46.899 --> 02:22:52.360 Just out of his reach. So Brooks drives in two 02:22:52.360 --> 02:22:55.739 runs. He gets Allier in from third. Campanaris 02:22:55.739 --> 02:23:00.780 in from second. Bando stops it second. And Oakland 02:23:00.780 --> 02:23:03.860 picks up two runs now. They have 10 hits. The 02:23:03.860 --> 02:23:12.559 Yankees have four runs on seven hits. Ralph Auk 02:23:12.559 --> 02:23:15.040 out there again. This time, that's going to be 02:23:15.040 --> 02:23:19.020 all for Mike Kekich. OK, Bill, you can keep an 02:23:19.020 --> 02:23:20.799 eye on the bullpen. So he was coming in here, 02:23:20.819 --> 02:23:24.059 and with Dave docking up there, I would imagine 02:23:24.059 --> 02:23:27.920 Fred Bean. And Bobby Brooks with one swing of 02:23:27.920 --> 02:23:30.319 the bat gets as many runs batted in as he had 02:23:30.319 --> 02:23:34.319 all season. Say, you know, every day or so we 02:23:34.319 --> 02:23:36.420 like to tell you about the many easy ways to 02:23:36.420 --> 02:23:38.899 buy tickets for Yankee games. 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And a reminder, too, that Yankee 02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:00.780 tickets also are available at all Ticketron offices 02:25:00.780 --> 02:25:05.500 around the metropolitan area. Call 644 -4400 02:25:05.500 --> 02:25:08.659 in New York for the Ticketron office nearest 02:25:08.659 --> 02:25:11.879 you. Tickets also are available at the offices 02:25:11.879 --> 02:25:14.979 of the North Jersey Automobile Club in Oredell, 02:25:15.059 --> 02:25:18.530 Patterson, and Jersey City. Yankee tickets also 02:25:18.530 --> 02:25:22.610 can be purchased from any of the 62 Avco financial 02:25:22.610 --> 02:25:25.829 services offices in the New York area, and at 02:25:25.829 --> 02:25:29.110 welcome aboard vacation centers 144 West Main 02:25:29.110 --> 02:25:32.770 Street, New Britain, Connecticut, and G -Fox 02:25:32.770 --> 02:25:35.989 Shopping Center, Meriden, Connecticut. G -Fox 02:25:35.989 --> 02:25:38.530 and Company, Main Street and Hartford, Connecticut 02:25:38.530 --> 02:25:47.180 also has Yankee tickets. slender right -hander 02:25:47.180 --> 02:25:49.700 Fred Bean, who generates a lot of power from 02:25:49.700 --> 02:25:52.579 a small frame, comes on the pitch for the New 02:25:52.579 --> 02:25:55.979 York Yankees and back to Bill White. All right 02:25:55.979 --> 02:25:58.020 Franklin, Bean's in his second appearance for 02:25:58.020 --> 02:26:01.920 the Yankees and he'll have to face Dave Duncan. 02:26:02.219 --> 02:26:05.079 Bando is at second, Brooks at first, Yankees 02:26:05.079 --> 02:26:07.620 ahead 4 -2, two outs here with the top of the 02:26:07.620 --> 02:26:13.020 seventh. Bean stretches, comes to the play, a 02:26:13.020 --> 02:26:16.899 curve ball misses outside. Duncan's been up three 02:26:16.899 --> 02:26:19.319 times. He's fly to left field, single to left, 02:26:20.020 --> 02:26:28.020 and he's bounced into a double play. Dave has 02:26:28.020 --> 02:26:34.620 power. He has two home runs this year. Badendo 02:26:34.620 --> 02:26:36.899 takes a big lead down a second. He'll be checked 02:26:36.899 --> 02:26:40.760 by Bean, takes a long look at him, delivers a 02:26:40.760 --> 02:26:49.440 slider, gets the plate, one and one. Yankees 02:26:49.440 --> 02:26:53.340 play Duncan straight away. White in left, Mercer 02:26:53.340 --> 02:26:56.200 in center. Johnny Taliesin out in right field. 02:26:56.399 --> 02:26:59.920 Now the stretch. The runners lead. 1 -1 pitch. 02:27:00.200 --> 02:27:04.020 Hurt ball fouled off. That hit Duncan on the 02:27:04.020 --> 02:27:06.639 toe. Went out in fair territory, Munson bounced 02:27:06.639 --> 02:27:09.239 on it, but the home plate umpire Ron Luciano 02:27:09.239 --> 02:27:12.159 immediately stopped the play, so they count the 02:27:12.159 --> 02:27:15.899 ball and two strikes on Duncan. Now McKinney 02:27:15.899 --> 02:27:21.649 moves back at third just a bit. Sal Bando down 02:27:21.649 --> 02:27:26.610 at second. Bobby Brooks at first. They count 02:27:26.610 --> 02:27:33.370 one ball and two strikes on Dave Duncan. Duncan 02:27:33.370 --> 02:27:37.229 cocks that fat over his right shoulder. As Dean 02:27:37.229 --> 02:27:39.989 looks at it much. Now the little right -hander's 02:27:39.989 --> 02:27:42.809 ready. One -two pitch. Curve ball hit up in there 02:27:42.809 --> 02:27:45.489 left field. White digging in for it. Now he has 02:27:45.489 --> 02:27:47.969 the range, waits on it, and has it for the third 02:27:47.969 --> 02:27:52.290 out. So Fred Dean comes in and pitches to Dave 02:27:52.290 --> 02:27:56.829 Duncan, and he gets him on a lazy, lofty fly 02:27:56.829 --> 02:28:01.670 ball to left field. But Oakland picked up two 02:28:01.670 --> 02:28:06.850 runs on one two -hit. There were no Yankees errors, 02:28:07.370 --> 02:28:11.329 and two A's left on base. At the end, now of 02:28:11.329 --> 02:28:13.829 six and a half innings of play, the New York 02:28:13.829 --> 02:28:19.909 Yankees four, the Oakland A's two. Tomorrow, 02:28:20.069 --> 02:28:22.870 the Yankees are looking for a good day to go 02:28:22.870 --> 02:28:27.430 up to West Point and play the cadets up at the 02:28:27.430 --> 02:28:31.530 U .S. Military Academy. And then for the weekend, 02:28:31.569 --> 02:28:33.590 they'll be right back here at Yankee Stadium 02:28:33.590 --> 02:28:36.549 to meet the Minnesota Twins Friday night at 7 02:28:36.549 --> 02:28:39.610 .30, Saturday afternoon at 2 o 'clock, and the 02:28:39.610 --> 02:28:42.590 big cap day doubleheader Sunday starting at 1. 02:28:43.170 --> 02:28:44.920 Chance for you to come out and... Here's the 02:28:44.920 --> 02:28:48.219 Harman Killebrew Rod Carew, Cezar Tovar, and 02:28:48.219 --> 02:28:51.799 the rookie home run sensation Bobby Darwin. Now, 02:28:51.799 --> 02:28:55.020 Darwin is a rookie, true, but I think he's like 02:28:55.020 --> 02:28:58.780 a 29 -year -old rookie. He was around, what was 02:28:58.780 --> 02:29:01.040 it, Bill White, the Dodger organization as a 02:29:01.040 --> 02:29:03.500 pitcher for several years? I believe so, right? 02:29:03.680 --> 02:29:08.159 Right. And now he's converted to the outfield. 02:29:09.600 --> 02:29:13.899 And, well, he had a sensational spring. with 02:29:13.899 --> 02:29:15.959 the twins down in Florida. I'm looking forward 02:29:15.959 --> 02:29:17.780 to seeing them. We hope you'll be out here. That's 02:29:17.780 --> 02:29:22.000 this weekend, the Yankees and the twins. All 02:29:22.000 --> 02:29:24.420 right, Franklin, it'll be a Lou Callison McKinney 02:29:24.420 --> 02:29:27.020 in the last of the sevens as the Yankees carry 02:29:27.020 --> 02:29:34.680 a 4 -2 lead here. The new pitcher for the A's 02:29:34.680 --> 02:29:38.100 is Joe Horland, and he misses inside. Joe picked 02:29:38.100 --> 02:29:41.639 up by the Oakland A's from the Chicago White 02:29:41.639 --> 02:29:47.319 Sox. Orland was released there just before the 02:29:47.319 --> 02:29:50.559 baseball strike. 1 -0 pitch to Alou. Popped up 02:29:50.559 --> 02:29:52.920 in foul territory. The catcher, Dave Duncan, 02:29:53.200 --> 02:29:56.540 is back. He throws his mask down and grabs the 02:29:56.540 --> 02:29:59.059 ball for the first time. So Alou fouls out to 02:29:59.059 --> 02:30:02.680 the catcher, Duncan. Orland was released by the 02:30:02.680 --> 02:30:04.680 White Sox. There's a little bit of controversy 02:30:04.680 --> 02:30:08.879 over it. But I was trying to show before the 02:30:08.879 --> 02:30:12.159 ball game tonight. And he feels this could be 02:30:12.159 --> 02:30:14.799 quite a break for him to be released by Chicago 02:30:14.799 --> 02:30:17.459 and picked up by the Oakland A's, coming to a 02:30:17.459 --> 02:30:20.579 club that, well, is figured to be more of a contest 02:30:20.579 --> 02:30:24.020 really than Chicago. Now he pitches to Johnny 02:30:24.020 --> 02:30:27.739 Callison. Down low ball. Callison's been up three 02:30:27.739 --> 02:30:31.219 times. He's two for three. Fly deep to center 02:30:31.219 --> 02:30:33.360 field. He doubled down the left field line and 02:30:33.360 --> 02:30:36.219 he singled the left field. So John's been going 02:30:36.219 --> 02:30:38.760 to the opposite field. Portland's ready. One 02:30:38.760 --> 02:30:40.989 old pitch to Callison. curve ball looped to left 02:30:40.989 --> 02:30:43.250 field, that's going to curve foul. Bando's after 02:30:43.250 --> 02:30:45.190 Thomas Campanero is going to get back in the 02:30:45.190 --> 02:30:48.729 seats. So the count's one and one on Callison. 02:30:52.569 --> 02:30:54.510 Coleman, of course, excited about being with 02:30:54.510 --> 02:30:56.389 another ball club, especially when he was out 02:30:56.389 --> 02:30:59.590 of work there for that brief time. But he said 02:30:59.590 --> 02:31:01.569 you can't count the White Sox out. He said they're 02:31:01.569 --> 02:31:02.909 going to have a good ball club this year and 02:31:02.909 --> 02:31:05.129 they could make their presence very much felt. 02:31:05.329 --> 02:31:07.450 Well, they already made their presence felt. 02:31:08.750 --> 02:31:13.010 Dick Allen? Wilbur would 1 -1 pitch to Callison, 02:31:13.030 --> 02:31:16.950 misses outside a breaking ball. They have, Chuck 02:31:16.950 --> 02:31:19.469 Tanner has done a great job of molding that ball 02:31:19.469 --> 02:31:22.969 club, that young club. They've got Carlos May. 02:31:23.270 --> 02:31:25.530 I think they'll be in here in June sometime. 02:31:26.229 --> 02:31:31.409 Be able to see Dick Allen on June 13th. 2 -1 02:31:31.409 --> 02:31:34.069 pitch to Callison, bounce right back to Horan. 02:31:34.370 --> 02:31:36.909 Fitcher has it. He'll go to first base near two 02:31:36.909 --> 02:31:41.360 outs here in the seventh. What about the White 02:31:41.360 --> 02:31:43.639 Sox? Well, they've won seven in a row with that 02:31:43.639 --> 02:31:46.139 10th inning win today on Dick Allen's home run. 02:31:47.139 --> 02:31:51.639 They are moving right along. Go along with that 02:31:51.639 --> 02:31:55.079 big Bill Melton, the third baseman. Carlos May, 02:31:55.139 --> 02:31:59.559 who's a good hitter. They're going to be trouble. 02:31:59.940 --> 02:32:01.520 Unless you've got a guy like Wilbur Wood who 02:32:01.520 --> 02:32:02.860 you know is going to go out there and pitch at 02:32:02.860 --> 02:32:06.680 least twice a week, sometimes three. And win. 02:32:07.200 --> 02:32:09.870 Here's McKinney. He pops the first pitch up and 02:32:09.870 --> 02:32:12.229 foul territory, no it's in fair territory. The 02:32:12.229 --> 02:32:16.989 first baseman Epstein right on the line and it's 02:32:16.989 --> 02:32:20.250 called a fair ball and he has it for the third 02:32:20.250 --> 02:32:23.350 up. So McKinney pops to the first baseman Mike 02:32:23.350 --> 02:32:26.649 Epstein. The Yankees miss seven, three up and 02:32:26.649 --> 02:32:28.850 three down. Now at the end of seven full innings 02:32:28.850 --> 02:32:32.690 of play, the Yankees four, the Oakland A's two. 02:32:35.559 --> 02:32:39.159 Ralph Halt makes some changes now as Rusty Torres 02:32:39.159 --> 02:32:43.159 comes on to play right field and Hal Lanier will 02:32:43.159 --> 02:32:45.399 come on to play third base with Rich McKinney 02:32:45.399 --> 02:32:48.940 and Johnny Callison out of the ball game. Fred 02:32:48.940 --> 02:32:51.180 Bean on the mound. He came on in relief in the 02:32:51.180 --> 02:32:54.680 last inning when Kekich gave up a couple of walks, 02:32:54.899 --> 02:32:56.940 a couple of base hits and a couple of runs and 02:32:56.940 --> 02:32:59.100 he got Dave Duncan on the fly ball to shuttle 02:32:59.100 --> 02:33:02.600 left. So we'll see what transpires here in the 02:33:02.600 --> 02:33:05.159 last two innings as the Yankees try to hold on 02:33:05.159 --> 02:33:07.879 to and perhaps improve a four to two lead, Bill. 02:33:08.299 --> 02:33:10.680 All right, Frank. Think Mike Epstein's a hitter. 02:33:10.719 --> 02:33:12.639 Mike's two for three. He's hit the ball hard. 02:33:13.559 --> 02:33:16.940 Payne gets a curve ball too low. Epstein singles 02:33:16.940 --> 02:33:19.860 the left -center field back in the second. He 02:33:19.860 --> 02:33:23.280 hit a long fly to right -center field where Mercer 02:33:23.280 --> 02:33:25.559 Dobin got it in the fourth, and he's single the 02:33:25.559 --> 02:33:28.879 right field in the sixth. 1 -0 pitch to Big Mike 02:33:28.879 --> 02:33:33.500 outside and high ball to two balls and no strikes 02:33:33.500 --> 02:33:38.459 They play Epstein to pull Taurus deep in right 02:33:38.459 --> 02:33:41.020 field Bobby Mercer in right center Roy white 02:33:41.020 --> 02:33:43.219 deep and left center for spark now move back 02:33:43.219 --> 02:33:46.340 on the grass at second base 2 -0 pitch outside 02:33:46.340 --> 02:33:51.620 ball free Beans missed three straight times here 02:33:51.620 --> 02:33:56.170 on deck is Mike Egan Sky broke up the ball game 02:33:56.170 --> 02:34:00.809 last night with a double. Back in the 12. 3 -0 02:34:00.809 --> 02:34:03.750 pitch to Epstein. And there's a strike on the 02:34:03.750 --> 02:34:12.209 outside corner. 3 -1. Epstein looks at his third 02:34:12.209 --> 02:34:18.149 base coach, Herb Norton. Times call. Now we're 02:34:18.149 --> 02:34:22.149 ready. Here's a 3 -1 pitch from B. That ball 02:34:22.149 --> 02:34:27.860 is too high. Epstein throws his bat away and 02:34:27.860 --> 02:34:33.559 jogs on down to first base. And Mike Hegan will 02:34:33.559 --> 02:34:36.879 hit for Larry Brown. Oh, he's being called back 02:34:36.879 --> 02:34:40.299 now. Kurt Bleffrey's also swinging a bat. Luciano 02:34:40.299 --> 02:34:43.360 is asking Herb Norton if that's the finish that 02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:58.139 he wants, and it'll be Mike Hegan. Last night 02:34:58.139 --> 02:35:03.719 won the ball game for the A's. You know, Yankee 02:35:03.719 --> 02:35:06.020 bullpen coach Jim Higgins was asked by a couple 02:35:06.020 --> 02:35:08.180 of the reporters how he thought about it. He 02:35:08.180 --> 02:35:09.760 said, well, I'll tell you, last year, he said 02:35:09.760 --> 02:35:12.719 we had the perfect situation. He said, Mike came 02:35:12.719 --> 02:35:15.159 up in a similar situation, got a base hit, but 02:35:15.159 --> 02:35:16.979 Bobby Mercer threw the runner out of the play. 02:35:18.260 --> 02:35:20.620 First pitch to Higgins, a breaking ball too low. 02:35:23.219 --> 02:35:25.739 One ball and no strikes. Higgins bats left -handed. 02:35:28.459 --> 02:35:34.440 He's pinch -hitting for Larry Brown. Yankee pitchers 02:35:34.440 --> 02:35:37.020 haven't gotten the open, uh, pinch -hitters out 02:35:37.020 --> 02:35:39.760 so far this season. Epstein leaves. Louis Blank 02:35:39.760 --> 02:35:42.739 behind. That breaking ball gets a play. One and 02:35:42.739 --> 02:35:50.299 one. On deck is Kurt Flepper with calling flank, 02:35:50.319 --> 02:35:55.420 but he doesn't like to be called flank. Bean 02:35:55.420 --> 02:35:59.200 looking at it much. He comes set. Check step 02:35:59.200 --> 02:36:02.479 stitch. Curve ball cut on and missed one and 02:36:02.479 --> 02:36:13.680 two. The Yankees have a Lewitt first, Clarket 02:36:13.680 --> 02:36:17.000 second, Gene Michael a couple steps from second 02:36:17.000 --> 02:36:19.500 base there shortstop and the third baseman now 02:36:19.500 --> 02:36:23.899 is Hal Lanier as Bean is ready. One two pitch. 02:36:24.010 --> 02:36:26.850 Misses outside. Counts even two balls and two 02:36:26.850 --> 02:36:28.989 strikes. The Yankees lead this ball game four 02:36:28.989 --> 02:36:36.469 to two. We're in the top of the eighth. The A's 02:36:36.469 --> 02:36:40.389 have ten hits. The Yankees seven. Now the strike. 02:36:41.530 --> 02:36:44.290 Here's a two -two pitch. Swung on, bounced foul. 02:36:44.370 --> 02:36:47.569 That'll be in the Yankee dugout. Counts even 02:36:47.569 --> 02:36:55.680 two balls and two strikes. now on the backside 02:36:55.680 --> 02:36:59.600 of the mound. Rubs the ball up. The fella doesn't 02:36:59.600 --> 02:37:03.319 use much rosin. Of course, as cold as it is, 02:37:03.479 --> 02:37:11.979 rosin won't do you any good out there. Hagan 02:37:11.979 --> 02:37:15.479 chokes up just a bit on the bat. Here's the 2 02:37:15.479 --> 02:37:18.799 -2 pitch. Misses outside. Full count now to Hagan. 02:37:21.520 --> 02:37:23.559 Epstein at first base. He's looking around for 02:37:23.559 --> 02:37:28.780 a sign. He will even move now with the Yankees 02:37:28.780 --> 02:37:35.860 ahead 4 -2. Now we're ready. Epstein leads. He's 02:37:35.860 --> 02:37:40.079 not running. Curve ball is fouled up. Breaking 02:37:40.079 --> 02:37:42.760 ball with 3 -2 -15. He has quite a bit of confidence 02:37:42.760 --> 02:37:44.659 in his ability to get the ball and the ball all 02:37:44.659 --> 02:38:06.120 over the plate. Chalice in the field, Mercer's 02:38:06.120 --> 02:38:08.200 after it, really digs in, Bobby loses his hat, 02:38:08.319 --> 02:38:11.479 but he has the reins now and has it for the first 02:38:11.479 --> 02:38:44.500 time. first pitch last night I asked him after 02:38:44.500 --> 02:38:47.459 the game I ran into him and said why don't you 02:38:47.459 --> 02:38:49.340 start swinging at the first pitch and he said 02:38:49.340 --> 02:38:51.540 when I was come up as a pinch hitter with my 02:38:51.540 --> 02:38:56.659 hands cold. Kurt batting left -handed Epstein 02:38:56.659 --> 02:39:02.000 leads pitch is too low a ball. Alou is not holding 02:39:02.000 --> 02:39:05.420 Epstein at first base the Yankees enjoy a two 02:39:05.420 --> 02:39:08.399 run lead and they're winning four to two there's 02:39:08.399 --> 02:39:14.350 one out and they play They play Bluffery to pull. 02:39:16.069 --> 02:39:18.409 Too low, he started at a breaking ball, held 02:39:18.409 --> 02:39:24.030 up. Two balls in those strikes. Bluffery has 02:39:24.030 --> 02:39:26.469 always had a fantastic eye for the strike zone. 02:39:26.590 --> 02:39:28.969 He very seldom swings at a bad pitch. In fact, 02:39:29.729 --> 02:39:31.770 when he first came up, they tried to get him 02:39:31.770 --> 02:39:33.510 to do this. They said he was taking pitches for 02:39:33.510 --> 02:39:36.190 balls that he could get out of the ballpark for. 02:39:36.309 --> 02:39:37.989 So then they were prompting him to be quite a 02:39:37.989 --> 02:39:40.590 slugger. Here's a 2 -0 pitch to him. That breaking 02:39:40.590 --> 02:39:43.379 ball just misses the outside. corner, three balls 02:39:43.379 --> 02:39:45.979 and no strikes. Blepharie backs out, looks down 02:39:45.979 --> 02:39:48.180 at Irv Noren, Noren looks in, he's getting the 02:39:48.180 --> 02:39:51.059 sign from somebody. Dick Williams has been kicked 02:39:51.059 --> 02:39:53.920 out of the ball game, but you can be sure he 02:39:53.920 --> 02:40:00.139 is not too far from that Oakland dugout. Now 02:40:00.139 --> 02:40:04.440 the 3 -0 pitch to Blepharie. There's a strike, 02:40:04.799 --> 02:40:07.299 drilled right in there. We've heard you and Phil 02:40:07.299 --> 02:40:10.739 mention earlier, Bill, that Dick Williams... 02:40:10.920 --> 02:40:13.219 would contemplate a trade for either dunking 02:40:13.219 --> 02:40:15.540 or tennis. Now this fellow Bluffery can rely 02:40:15.540 --> 02:40:17.579 on that luxury. Bluffery can go in there and 02:40:17.579 --> 02:40:20.520 catch for him. Right. Right. Epstein leads from 02:40:20.520 --> 02:40:23.260 first. The pitch. Curve ball. Cut all on it, 02:40:23.360 --> 02:40:26.879 Miss. Three and two. Hey, one thing. That bean 02:40:26.879 --> 02:40:28.760 isn't afraid to throw the breaking ball when 02:40:28.760 --> 02:40:33.639 he's behind. Throw it three -two to Heaton. Just 02:40:33.639 --> 02:40:35.959 throw it behind three -to -one and Bluffery got 02:40:35.959 --> 02:40:41.379 it over. Now the stretch. Here's a payoff pitch. 02:40:42.040 --> 02:40:43.959 Curve ball, swung on and missed. Struck him out. 02:40:44.159 --> 02:40:47.399 Big strikeout for Fred Bean. That's out number 02:40:47.399 --> 02:40:55.420 two. Bean throwing a breaking ball from behind. 02:40:56.100 --> 02:40:58.239 That's Fleffery on. Two straight curve balls. 02:40:58.739 --> 02:41:02.659 And that'll bring in Bert Campanaris. Campi's 02:41:02.659 --> 02:41:05.879 having a good night. He's two for four. Bounced 02:41:05.879 --> 02:41:08.809 out twice. Got an infield hit, and he singled 02:41:08.809 --> 02:41:14.250 and scored a run back in the seventh. Lanare 02:41:14.250 --> 02:41:17.930 third, moves in for him. He tries to putt, misses 02:41:17.930 --> 02:41:25.270 it. And it's a strike. Alou now holds Epstein 02:41:25.270 --> 02:41:27.870 on. Felipe feeling that he'll have to protect 02:41:27.870 --> 02:41:31.709 that first baseline for a putt anyway. Might 02:41:31.709 --> 02:41:34.909 as well hold Epstein there. Lanare in close to 02:41:34.909 --> 02:41:40.620 third. field straight away for Campaneros. Now 02:41:40.620 --> 02:41:43.659 Bean comes to the belt. Checks Epstein. U01 pitch. 02:41:43.799 --> 02:41:46.059 Curve ball, flung on and missed. No balls and 02:41:46.059 --> 02:41:49.200 two strikes. We're seeing a gutty performance 02:41:49.200 --> 02:41:53.139 here from little Fred Bean. Bean came on in the 02:41:53.139 --> 02:41:55.559 seventh and ticed Dave Duncan, hitting a little 02:41:55.559 --> 02:42:00.479 soft looper to wide left field. And after walking 02:42:00.479 --> 02:42:11.629 Epstein this inning, he's struck out a guy. The 02:42:11.629 --> 02:42:16.250 walking Epstein got Mike Egan to fly to Mercer 02:42:16.250 --> 02:42:21.049 and Center, struck out Kurt Bleffrey. Then he 02:42:21.049 --> 02:42:23.469 caught Kurt Campanaris looking at a third strike 02:42:23.469 --> 02:42:25.790 and he gets out of the inning. No runs, no hits, 02:42:25.950 --> 02:42:28.049 no error. There was one walk and one man left 02:42:28.049 --> 02:42:31.809 on base. At the end now of seven and a half innings 02:42:31.809 --> 02:42:40.549 of play, the Yankees four, the Oakland A's. second 02:42:40.549 --> 02:42:42.450 baseman at a new pitcher. The pitcher will be 02:42:42.450 --> 02:42:44.450 Darrell Knowles, and out at second base, a bit 02:42:44.450 --> 02:42:47.430 of a surprise to us up here will be Kurt Bluffery. 02:42:48.270 --> 02:42:58.329 Kurt Bluffery playing second. And Kurt Bluffery 02:42:58.329 --> 02:43:02.170 last year did play second base. He had played 02:43:02.170 --> 02:43:04.969 second base in the minor leagues, but very, very 02:43:04.969 --> 02:43:08.620 sparingly. I'd say maybe a game or two. It's 02:43:08.620 --> 02:43:10.979 not a completely foreign position, but it's an 02:43:10.979 --> 02:43:14.639 unfamiliar one to him, Bill White. Well, Dean 02:43:14.639 --> 02:43:16.799 Michael will be the Yankee hitter. It'll be Micah. 02:43:16.959 --> 02:43:22.540 Michael. And then B. And then Hall -Clark. Yankees 02:43:22.540 --> 02:43:27.299 ahead 4 -2. Noles gets down low a ball. Darrell 02:43:27.299 --> 02:43:31.299 Noles, a left -hander, is the fifth pitcher for 02:43:31.299 --> 02:43:33.920 Oakland. McLean started. Odom fits an inning 02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:35.739 and a third. Rowland fits a third of an inning. 02:43:35.840 --> 02:43:37.799 Joe Rowland fits one inning. Now Darrell Noles. 02:43:37.930 --> 02:43:39.729 This ball's hit out on the right field. It shouldn't 02:43:39.729 --> 02:43:43.809 be easy for Reggie Jackson. Fades to his right, 02:43:43.950 --> 02:43:45.809 waits on the ball, and gloves it for the first 02:43:45.809 --> 02:43:49.889 half. Dick Williams using his fifth pitcher tonight. 02:43:49.889 --> 02:43:53.190 He used four last night in picking up the four 02:43:53.190 --> 02:43:55.110 to three win. Of course, last night's game went 02:43:55.110 --> 02:43:59.829 to 12 innings. But this time here, you know, 02:44:00.010 --> 02:44:02.069 manager doesn't hesitate to go to that ball plant 02:44:02.069 --> 02:44:03.969 because he's got a lot of men that don't get 02:44:03.969 --> 02:44:09.129 much work in. Here's little Fred B. His first 02:44:09.129 --> 02:44:15.090 appearance late Noles is ready swung on and missed 02:44:15.090 --> 02:44:20.069 the first ball of fastball. Feeling shifts toward 02:44:20.069 --> 02:44:22.010 right field for Bean. Bean bats right -handed 02:44:22.010 --> 02:44:26.129 and they're in shallow. Noles over the head, 02:44:26.270 --> 02:44:28.610 dual one pitch. Misses outside, one and one. 02:44:28.709 --> 02:44:31.270 One out, nobody on. Yankees lead 4 -2 in the 02:44:31.270 --> 02:44:36.510 last half of the eighth inning. Yankees picked 02:44:36.510 --> 02:44:38.899 up three runs in the fourth. Gene Michael did 02:44:38.899 --> 02:44:41.399 his first home run of the year. A three run job. 02:44:42.040 --> 02:44:44.719 You give them a three nothing lead. They added 02:44:44.719 --> 02:44:48.719 one more in the sixth. This pitch is fouled off. 02:44:49.200 --> 02:44:55.219 One and two on beam. Oakland picked up their 02:44:55.219 --> 02:45:03.319 two runs in the seventh. Also got rid of Mike. 02:45:10.540 --> 02:45:16.760 All in two strikes. Bean came on and he's done 02:45:16.760 --> 02:45:24.000 a heck of a job. Nose doesn't like the sign. 02:45:24.100 --> 02:45:27.620 Now he's ready. One -two pitch. Hit up in the 02:45:27.620 --> 02:45:30.659 air down the right side. It'll be in foul territory 02:45:30.659 --> 02:45:34.799 and it'll be in the seat as Epstein and Jackson 02:45:34.799 --> 02:45:38.000 and also Bluffery all down there in the right 02:45:38.000 --> 02:45:43.799 field quarter. Ball went back two seats, two 02:45:43.799 --> 02:45:51.620 rows. The A's infield now has Epstein at first. 02:45:51.940 --> 02:45:54.500 Kurt Bleffrey, who pinched it last inning, stayed 02:45:54.500 --> 02:45:59.979 in the ball game. He's down at second. Now we're 02:45:59.979 --> 02:46:03.420 ready. One, two, pitch to B. Swung on and missed. 02:46:04.319 --> 02:46:26.729 Struck him out. He walked in the first, popped 02:46:26.729 --> 02:46:29.329 to the center fielder back in the third, walked 02:46:29.329 --> 02:46:33.809 in the fourth, walked again in the sixth. Clark 02:46:33.809 --> 02:46:36.829 has a good eye. Clark doesn't want to swing it 02:46:36.829 --> 02:46:41.510 better. His hand is with it. That gets you outside 02:46:41.510 --> 02:46:47.450 corner. That's right. Outfield straightens the 02:46:47.450 --> 02:46:54.079 way for Clark. Swung on, looped the right field, 02:46:54.280 --> 02:46:57.000 Jackson's there, comes in now, and one hand's 02:46:57.000 --> 02:47:01.620 the ball. Reggie got a slow start on that ball, 02:47:01.620 --> 02:47:04.079 but once he picked up speed, he picked it up 02:47:04.079 --> 02:47:07.780 full tilt. So that's it for the Yankees in the 02:47:07.780 --> 02:47:10.360 eighth. No runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody 02:47:10.360 --> 02:47:12.899 left. At the end now of eighth full inning to 02:47:12.899 --> 02:47:16.120 play, the New York Yankees, four. The Oakland 02:47:16.120 --> 02:47:56.610 A's, two. You remember, and the service you already 02:47:56.610 --> 02:47:59.530 expect with a Terry Morris name. As always, Morris 02:47:59.530 --> 02:48:03.430 gives you more. Prices like these. 1972 Mavericks, 02:48:03.469 --> 02:48:11.270 1995. 72 Pintos, 1815. 72 Torinos, 2325. 72 Mustangs, 02:48:11.590 --> 02:48:14.930 2455. See why everyone is excited? Terry Morris 02:48:14.930 --> 02:48:18.049 is back. See Ford's newest twin dealer, Morris 02:48:18.049 --> 02:48:20.270 Ford of Mercury, one mile north of the Burnt 02:48:20.270 --> 02:48:23.100 Hills traffic light on Route 50. and Milan Avenue 02:48:23.100 --> 02:48:31.000 in downtown Boston's far. Well, we're going out 02:48:31.000 --> 02:48:33.260 of the top half of the ninth inning, and some 02:48:33.260 --> 02:48:36.280 big men for Fred Dean to face, the heart of the 02:48:36.280 --> 02:48:39.180 batting order, Joe Rudy, Reggie Jackson, and 02:48:39.180 --> 02:48:42.780 Sal Bando. Minnesota for Boston, 3 -1. Baltimore 02:48:42.780 --> 02:48:44.879 and Kansas City still scoreless in the fifth 02:48:44.879 --> 02:48:47.840 inning. And Detroit scored five in the fifth 02:48:47.840 --> 02:48:51.590 for a 5 -1 lead over Texas. California over Milwaukee 02:48:51.590 --> 02:48:56.129 3 to 1 and Chicago beat Cleveland 7 to 5. And 02:48:56.129 --> 02:48:58.450 in the National League, 8 to 6 San Francisco 02:48:58.450 --> 02:49:00.909 over Philadelphia, the Cincinnati Reds lead Pittsburgh 02:49:00.909 --> 02:49:05.549 5 to 1 in the seventh. And it is St. Louis 9, 02:49:05.590 --> 02:49:09.450 Atlanta 4 at the end of five innings. All right, 02:49:09.530 --> 02:49:12.350 Frank, we're ready for Rudy. And Bean gets a 02:49:12.350 --> 02:49:15.670 breaking ball in for a call strike. Rudy's one 02:49:15.670 --> 02:49:19.370 for four. single to left field. He's popped to 02:49:19.370 --> 02:49:21.590 the first baseman and Clyde outflies to Mercer 02:49:21.590 --> 02:49:26.489 in center. Joe Batch right hand. Al Lanier is 02:49:26.489 --> 02:49:28.209 trying to take the bun away from him. He's in 02:49:28.209 --> 02:49:30.329 close to third. He bunched the third base. Lanier 02:49:30.329 --> 02:49:33.350 is in, gloves the ball, goes to first base and 02:49:33.350 --> 02:49:36.370 the ball was inside the line but Alou grabbed 02:49:36.370 --> 02:49:41.350 the ball and he and Rudy collided there and the 02:49:41.350 --> 02:49:46.639 runners out. He hit pretty hard. Rudy, the throw 02:49:46.639 --> 02:49:48.899 was in. Lanier was playing in close. He took 02:49:48.899 --> 02:49:50.860 the bunt away from Rudy. Rudy bunted anyway. 02:49:51.040 --> 02:49:54.459 Lanier made a fine pick up through inside the 02:49:54.459 --> 02:49:59.479 baseline. And Rudy ran smacking to Felipe Alou. 02:49:59.700 --> 02:50:02.500 In doing that, he tagged himself. So there's 02:50:02.500 --> 02:50:07.540 one out. And here's Reggie Jackson. That breaking 02:50:07.540 --> 02:50:12.920 ball gets the outside corner called strike. Yankees 02:50:12.920 --> 02:50:15.219 lead this ball game four to two and they're only 02:50:15.219 --> 02:50:21.159 two outs away. No wind. Jackson struck out twice, 02:50:21.260 --> 02:50:24.200 popped up and walked. Another curve ball cut 02:50:24.200 --> 02:50:30.299 on and missed. 0 -2. Bean with a good breaking 02:50:30.299 --> 02:50:33.600 ball, good motion. Ball is really dipping. They 02:50:33.600 --> 02:50:39.020 play Jackson. Now the 0 -2 pitch. Curve ball 02:50:39.020 --> 02:50:44.750 flung on and missed like three. So Bean, with 02:50:44.750 --> 02:50:50.549 his third strikeout here, has two outs in the 02:50:50.549 --> 02:50:53.590 ninth. And all he has to do now is get out of 02:50:53.590 --> 02:50:58.629 tough style. Bando. Bando is singled, bounced 02:50:58.629 --> 02:51:00.889 out, forced out, and he's walked. So he's won 02:51:00.889 --> 02:51:03.430 for three. Bando bats right -handed. He's working 02:51:03.430 --> 02:51:13.360 quickly. Get the fastball inside. Yankees lead 02:51:13.360 --> 02:51:18.819 four to two with two outs and nobody on top of 02:51:18.819 --> 02:51:24.000 the ninth. Curve ball misses outside. Two balls 02:51:24.000 --> 02:51:34.020 and no strikes. Bobby Brooks and Leon Dexter 02:51:34.020 --> 02:51:37.959 being looking at it much. Now he's ready. Wines, 02:51:38.100 --> 02:51:43.600 two -oh pitch, two high ball, three. Hudson slows 02:51:43.600 --> 02:51:47.059 him down now, all or something out there to him. 02:51:47.139 --> 02:51:49.200 Bean backs off on the back part of the mound, 02:51:49.479 --> 02:52:00.280 rubs the ball up. Here's a 3 -0 pitch. And it's 02:52:00.280 --> 02:52:04.120 a strike on the inside corner. 3 -1. Now this 02:52:04.120 --> 02:52:07.180 fella is showing some kind of guts here. He'll 02:52:07.180 --> 02:52:11.139 throw the breaking ball from behind. 3 -1 pitch. 02:52:11.500 --> 02:52:16.020 Strike two call. Bando taking all the way. Fred 02:52:16.020 --> 02:52:22.739 Bean now one pitch away from a save. See what 02:52:22.739 --> 02:52:24.899 happens. Bando's waiting. Now we're ready. Here's 02:52:24.899 --> 02:52:28.360 the 3 -0 -2 pitch. Curve ball given to left field. 02:52:28.379 --> 02:52:31.059 That should be easy for white. Roy's back about 02:52:31.059 --> 02:52:33.940 five steps. Waits on the ball and Cradles it 02:52:33.940 --> 02:52:37.579 in as well, but his ball game is over. Fred Bean 02:52:37.579 --> 02:52:40.219 being congratulated out there by Thurman Munson. 02:52:41.920 --> 02:52:45.920 For Oakland in the ninth inning, three men up 02:52:45.920 --> 02:52:49.500 and three men down. Frank Lesher will give you 02:52:49.500 --> 02:52:54.340 the wrap -up, but the final here, the New York 02:52:54.340 --> 02:53:38.930 Yankees four, the Oakland A's two. Shafer. Shafer 02:53:38.930 --> 02:53:42.129 pleasure stays first beer smooth, first beer 02:53:42.129 --> 02:53:46.149 bright, first frosty glass to last. You see, 02:53:46.250 --> 02:53:49.549 we started practicing on more than one beer thirsts 02:53:49.549 --> 02:53:52.049 back before most brewers even started brewing, 02:53:52.790 --> 02:54:10.079 and practice makes perfect. the Western Division 02:54:10.079 --> 02:54:12.479 defending champion Oakland A's in this two -game 02:54:12.479 --> 02:54:14.680 series at Yankees Stadium. Oakland winning last 02:54:14.680 --> 02:54:17.979 night 4 -3 in 12 innings. And the Yankees zipping 02:54:17.979 --> 02:54:21.340 right back tonight 4 -2 over Oakland in the regulation 02:54:21.340 --> 02:54:25.379 8 .5 for a winning home team. Yankees four runs, 02:54:25.479 --> 02:54:27.979 seven hits and no errors. Oakland two runs, ten 02:54:27.979 --> 02:54:32.139 hits and no errors. The win goes to Mike Kackage, 02:54:32.399 --> 02:54:34.700 making him the Yankees' first two -game winner. 02:54:34.739 --> 02:54:38.440 His record is 2 -0. And Denny McClain, who started 02:54:38.440 --> 02:54:41.200 for you. the Oakland A's will be the loser. His 02:54:41.200 --> 02:54:45.280 record is 1 -1. And you credit Fred Bean with 02:54:45.280 --> 02:54:48.299 a save his first of the year. And this his second 02:54:48.299 --> 02:54:51.920 appearance for the Yankees. And the Yankees tonight 02:54:51.920 --> 02:54:56.459 showed offense, a home run by Gene Michael, accounting 02:54:56.459 --> 02:55:00.260 for three of the four runs. Bobby Mercer driving 02:55:00.260 --> 02:55:02.680 in the other run with a double that bounced into 02:55:02.680 --> 02:55:06.399 the seats in right field. And the Yankees came 02:55:06.399 --> 02:55:09.620 up with some good defense behind Keckage and 02:55:09.620 --> 02:55:12.700 behind Bean, especially behind Mike Keckage. 02:55:14.059 --> 02:55:19.620 And we look to Bobby Mercer in the fourth inning, 02:55:19.780 --> 02:55:23.079 who made a spectacular catch on Mike Epstein 02:55:23.079 --> 02:55:32.680 with runners at second and third. And two men 02:55:32.680 --> 02:55:35.989 out. Prior to that, Horace Clark had made a fine 02:55:35.989 --> 02:55:39.190 catch on Reggie Jackson. Horace going way back 02:55:39.190 --> 02:55:43.409 in the right field. And then Mercer's catch on 02:55:43.409 --> 02:55:50.389 Epstein in the fourth inning. Also, a fine defensive 02:55:50.389 --> 02:55:54.409 play by Gene Michael and the fifth on Larry Brown. 02:55:54.530 --> 02:55:57.010 Michael going deep to his right, came up with 02:55:57.010 --> 02:56:00.370 Brown's ground ball way back in the hole. Turned 02:56:00.370 --> 02:56:03.090 around and threw him out. And that was a big 02:56:03.090 --> 02:56:06.649 play because the Oakland A's then got two infield 02:56:06.649 --> 02:56:09.850 hits, a long fly ball to center field off the 02:56:09.850 --> 02:56:13.909 bat of Joel Rudy that was dropped. A double play 02:56:13.909 --> 02:56:17.090 back to Keg HF in the sixth inning after a leadoff 02:56:17.090 --> 02:56:20.409 single by Bobby Brooks. Duncan hit the ball down 02:56:20.409 --> 02:56:24.389 to third baseman Rich McKinney and he turned 02:56:24.389 --> 02:56:27.790 it into a third to second to first double play. 02:56:28.190 --> 02:56:31.149 That DP was a big one because that Epstein got 02:56:31.149 --> 02:56:34.569 a base hit to right, but he was forced by Larry 02:56:34.569 --> 02:56:38.809 Brown. The Oakland A's got their two runs in 02:56:38.809 --> 02:56:42.229 the seventh on a combination of a walk to Pinscher 02:56:42.229 --> 02:56:49.309 or Brent Alier. And then a single by Burt Campanaris. 02:56:49.870 --> 02:56:52.909 A walk to Sal Bando, a single by Bobby Brooks, 02:56:52.989 --> 02:56:56.170 which drove in the two runs. That single by Brooks 02:56:56.170 --> 02:57:00.389 brought... Fred Bean to the relief of Mike Kekich 02:57:00.389 --> 02:57:03.569 and Bean just sort of mowed him down with a combination 02:57:03.569 --> 02:57:06.590 of curveballs and fastballs. He used the curveball 02:57:06.590 --> 02:57:10.250 very effectively, gained three strikeouts en 02:57:10.250 --> 02:57:14.190 route to his first Yankee save. And as we said, 02:57:14.270 --> 02:57:16.209 the Yankee attack featured a three -run homer 02:57:16.209 --> 02:57:18.510 by Gene Michael in the fourth. Gene is leading 02:57:18.510 --> 02:57:21.209 the Yankees and runs butted in with seven now, 02:57:21.549 --> 02:57:24.350 getting six of the seven on two swings of the 02:57:24.350 --> 02:57:28.930 bat. A base is loaded triple. to beat Milwaukee 02:57:28.930 --> 02:57:32.450 and the three round homer tonight. Bobby Mercer 02:57:32.450 --> 02:57:35.170 driving the other run in with a double. Mercer 02:57:35.170 --> 02:57:37.850 had two hits and Thurman Munson continued his 02:57:37.850 --> 02:57:40.110 hitting streak through eight games with a couple 02:57:40.110 --> 02:57:42.709 of base knocks. Well that's it. The Yankees won 02:57:42.709 --> 02:57:46.829 it. And the final score once again here at Yankee 02:57:46.829 --> 02:57:49.770 Stadium was the New York Yankees four and the 02:57:49.770 --> 02:57:53.030 Oakland A's two. And now this is Frank Messer 02:57:53.030 --> 02:57:56.110 speaking for Bill Rizzuto and for Bill White. 02:57:56.520 --> 02:57:59.319 For our producer and statistician Bill King and 02:57:59.319 --> 02:58:02.500 for engineer Frank Steele, saying so long from 02:58:02.500 --> 02:58:04.500 Yankee Stadium in New York.