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1978-Aug-24 • KCR/CHW • Kansas City Royals vs Chicago White Sox - Harry Caray - Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  Where is the
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  run is 26th of the year. 6th Oletkano hit a grand slammer for Milwaukee and Alexander
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  did a three run over for Cleveland. Here's the 2-1 pitch. Swing and a one hopper over
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  to second. Fire has it as he throws the outfield grass and he gets him. And there's one down.
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  His breath rounds out to second, 4-3. That Cleveland victory snapped a Milwaukee four-game
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  winning streak. Milwaukee has gone into today's activity, six games out of first. And they
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  had a chance to pick up a half a game on the idle Boston Red Sox but instead lose a half
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  a game and they're now six and a half back. Hal McCrae the batter hitting 278, 13 homers,
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  56 RBIs. Back from the right side, first pitch, one hopper to Kessinger. It's short. Long
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  throw across, in time, two down. Two up and two down. And when Mr. Proley is on his game,
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  you'll see a lot of ground balls. We've had two already here in the first inning as Pete
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  Lecock steps in. Pete former Cubs playing in his first game of this series batting from
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  the left side. Pete has not played because the White Sox has sent a couple of left handers
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  to the mound, Ross Baumgarten and Ken Kravitz the last two nights. White hander into the
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  wind up to the pitch. And it's low of all. Pete was the American League player of the
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  month in the month of July. Toronto and Detroit we told you is just underway. Those are the
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  only games in the American League, the two this afternoon and the two night games. Here's
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  the pitch low of all. In the National League, there are four games. Pittsburgh and Atlanta,
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  St. Louis and Cincinnati we gave you the probables. Later tonight, New York will be
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  at San Diego and Philadelphia out at Los Angeles. The Cubs are idle. Here's the 2-0 pitch. Swing
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  and a foul tip at the feet of the catcher. The Cubs will be opening up the series at
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  Cincinnati. They've now lost three in a row and five in their last six ballgames. Kansas
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  City Royals leading the American League West by one percentage point. As California won
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  last night, defeating the Yankees six to three. Right hander ready, the 2-1 pitch, swing and
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  a face tip to the left. Got a hold of the pitch on the outside part of the play to the left
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  hander. Single between short and third. And the Royals have a runner at first with two
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  outs. Both, despite the fact the White Sox beat Kansas City last night, both the Royals
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  have a runner. And California been playing fairly evenly. Kansas City won three of their
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  last four and California's won four of their last five. See how many games the Royals have
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  left with California. If any. Yep, they've got something up in September. Now college
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  city, 285 homers, 53 RBI, as I believe we told you. And the first pitch of the breaking
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  ball low, ball one. And it was all through inside. See here in the month of August, the
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  Royals will play Texas three over the weekend in Kansas City. Then the White Sox will go
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  into Kansas City for three. Here's the pitch swinging on this. In September, the Royals
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  are out in California for four games. And then California goes to Kansas City for three.
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  That's seven games in a period of about 10 days that they play each other from the eighth
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  of September to the 17th. Those will be big series. One ball and a strike. Right handed
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  delivers. Here's the pitch swinging a foul. So he's ahead of them one and two. The three
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  games that the Royals have left with Texas and the three with the White Sox are their
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  final games. I guess those two clubs this year. White Sox will play against the Eastern
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  Division with three games this weekend against Cleveland. Right handed ready. Here's the
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  one two pitch. Swinging the grounder to second base hit. Lacock stopped the second as Washington
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  charges the ball with a right handed hitter up fire with played way over. But Collins
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  goes to the opposite field singles. Lacock holding up the second. Both of the hits by
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  Lacock and by Collins have been on pitches about waist high on the outside part of the
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  plate. But they just slapped the opposite field. Now the batter is Darrell Porter, the
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  catcher hitting 279 homers and 55 RBI. The Royals have not completed play against the
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  East. They have three more with Detroit. But the White Sox have very little success with
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  Kansas City has played them about even. The big thing about the Royals, they have a lot
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  of home games. 16 of their last 21 will be at home against the likes of. Well they got
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  Milwaukee too. That's late. They've got Milwaukee, they've got Minnesota, Seattle, Oakland, California.
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  Here's the pitch swinging the grounder to second. Fire to his right. Has it flipped
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  to the shortstop for the fourth out at second. And Matt retires the side as Collins is forced
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  out. In the inning, no runs, two hits, no errors, two men left down. So at the end of
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  a half inning of play here at Tavisky Park, the Chicago White Sox coming to bat at the
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  bottom of the first. There's no score. Takes them on and begins his warmup thoughts as
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  they face Ralph Yard, Don Kessinger, and Mike Swyers. Swidor making his 31st appearance
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  of the year and his 30th start. This will be his fourth start against the White Sox.
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  They got credit for a 13 to 2 Kansas City victory against the Sox in Kansas City on
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  the 4th of June. But then he got hammered here, 11 to nothing in the second game of
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  a double hitter on June the 18th. But then he came right back in Kansas City on the 8th
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  of August and won 10 to 4. So whenever he has faced the White Sox, there's been a lot
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  of scoring in the three games that he has pitched. 15 runs were scored in one game,
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  11 in another, all by the White Sox, and 14 in another. And the first pitch to Ralph Gar
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  is fouled off, Ralph hitting 281, three homers, 27 RBIs. Kansas City pitchers in the last
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  five games have gone the distance three times. They've been getting some good efforts out
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  of their starters. Here's the pitch high and inside of all. Swidor has an earned run average
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  of four against the White Sox this year. In 18 innings, he's allowed eight earned runs.
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  Here's the 1-1 pitch way inside of all, backs him off. He's 2-1 against the White Sox this
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  year, 17 and 11 against the White Sox throughout his career. He did not have a record against
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  them last year. Here's the pitch, swidor up live all the left. Clint Hurdle playing near
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  the line is there and he's got it in fair territory. And there's one down. And the batter
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  will be switch hitting shortstop Don Kessinger, hitting 266 with a homer and 25 RBIs. Defensively
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  for Kansas City, Pete LeCocque is at first, Frank White at second, Freddy Potek at short,
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  and George Bledis at third with Darrell Porter doing the catching. Clint Hurdle in left field,
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  Amos Otis in center and Al Collins in right. Kessinger batting from the right side against
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  Swidor. White Sox have won six, lost five against the Royals. This is the rubber match
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  not only of this series and the first pitch is a strike. As the White Sox won last night
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  after the Royals won on Tuesday night, but it is also the rubber match of the season series
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  here at Comiskey Park. Here's the pitch. Sox having one three and the Royals having one
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  three and the pitch was high of all.
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  Split or delivers the one one delivery, swing and a looper to right, it might drop, it will,
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  a face hit. Kessinger goes to the opposite field with a single and the White Sox have
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  a runner at first with one out. Swidor with an earned run average of three point three
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  two. He has struck out fifty eight in two hundred and three innings and walked thirty
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  nine. Second high on the club and home runs allowed seventeen. Dennis Leonard has given
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  up twenty three.
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  So the batter is Mike Squires. Youngster has hit successfully in nine of his last eleven
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  ballgames, hitting three fifty nine with seven RBI's and he swings at a big breaking pitch
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  and misses. Strike one. Toronto and Detroit, no score at the end of one. It's the only
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  other game in the American League going on right now. Left hander ready, here's the pitch.
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  Slider misses outside, evens it up one and one. Outfield. Playing Squires almost straight
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  away. Center fielder shaded just a hair in the right center. Here's the pitch fastball
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  swing and a miss. They got Kessinger off the bag, a throw to first, he is out. Kessinger
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  was caught halfway between first and second. Tony LaRusso arguing with Brett Koss, the
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  umpire at first, Kessinger did not argue. And he is out two to three as he was picked
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  off. Apparently the hit and run was on and Kessinger stopped when Squires missed. So
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  he is picked off two to three. Left hander ready, here's the one two pitch outside of
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  all. Here's the two two delivery, swing and a miss, struck him off, the inning is over.
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  No runs, one hit, one man left on. With the end of one complete inning of play here at
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  Kamiski Park, Whiteside, coming royal something. Warren Brown back at Kamiski Park, no Kessinger
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  was caught coming back to first, it goes down as it caught stealing. They're keeping score
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  with us as he was thrown out from Porter to LeCocque. Clint Hurdle will lead it off for
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  Kansas City here in the second inning, no score in the ball game. He'll be followed
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  by Amos Otis and Freddie Potten. Our greetings tonight to George Makris of Peril Hicks Chevrolet.
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  George is our Chevrolet salesman of the day. Francis Enderman and the gang from Consolidated
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  Freightways up in the sky box tonight. And Jim DeLong and friends in one of the bull
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  friends along with John Seward and friends in the other bull friend tonight. Hurdle left
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  handed hitting rookie outfielder hitting 269, 6 homers, 53 RBIs, goes after the first pitch,
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  wants the fly ball deep to right field, curving, curving it is a foul ball. He got a hold of
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  it, a fully pitch, came within about five feet of hitting that foul pole down there
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  and there's one strike in the batter. Well former cup Paul Rushell, going to start against
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  the White Sox in this next series against Cleveland. Here's the pitch and it's a strike.
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  Rushell started the other night, did a good job but the Indians lost the ball game. He'll
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  be making his second American League start this weekend. Here's a swing and a grounder
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  foul to the right side. Indians will be in here tomorrow night. Francisco Barrios goes
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  against our old nemesis Rick Waits. Saturday Steve Stone will take on David Clyde and Sunday
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  Ross Baumgarten in an afternoon game will be going against Paul Rushell. It'll be the
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  second straight game. Here's the two strike pitch inside of all the second straight game
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  that Baumgarten goes against a fellow Illinoisan. He was matched up against Joliet Larry Gura
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  the other night and Paul Rushell, camp point product, will be pitching against him on Sunday.
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  Right hander ready, here's the pitch, swing and a grounder foul. Over at first Squires
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  has it, Steve Moroes doing the coaching at first for Kansas City. Chuck Hiller over at
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  third, his dad is here tonight in Johnsburg, Illinois, a lot of his friends and relatives.
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  A ball and two strikes. Hurdle with the number nine on his back, crouches in the box, stands
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  way back in it. Here's the pitch outside of all. Ted Henry doing the up-hiring behind
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  home plate. Probably a little upset, I think he thought he had the corner on that pitch.
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  Henry is only to be worked at inning and his shirt is practically completely soaked. Here's
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  the two-two delivery. Low inside of all, three and two. Greg Kosk up-hiring down at first,
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  Jerry Newdecker at second, and George Maloney at third. This is the rubber game of the three
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  game set and the rubber game of the series between these two at Comiskey Park. One and
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  two, one and one in this series, three and three for the year here. Here's the pitch
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  swinging a fly ball to left. Ralph Gahr comes running in. He's there and he takes it and
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  there's one out. So there's one down and Amos Otis the batter, inning 266, 15 homers, 62
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  BIs. Curly did a fine job in his last outing. He went the distance, defeating Cleveland
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  7-1, tossing an eight-hitter. Made that fine outing, you may recall, against Boston where
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  he beat them in Fenway Park, four to two. Here's a swing and a miss on the first pitch. But
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  then his second start was against Kansas City at Kansas City. He hadn't pitched in about
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  eight or nine days and he got whopped pretty good at four innings and he absorbed a 10-4
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  beating by the Royals. So this is his chance to even it up against Kansas City. Took the
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  rise back that time and patted his right wrist and forearm with him, indication that he's
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  perspiring out there pretty good. Doesn't want to get any moisture on that ball to slip.
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  Here's a swing and a base hit to right. Foddle Washington comes over, has it on a couple
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  of hops and gets it back into the infield quickly. As Otis goes to the opposite field,
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  singling to right. All three hits that the Royals have had here tonight, they've all
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  gone the other way on Proley. They haven't tried to pull him. But Brett McCrae grounded
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  out pulling him in the first inning. Porter pulled in and forced the man out. Hurdle hit
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  the other way against him and now Otis hitting the other way against him. So Hurdle's ball
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  was a put out by Gar. Freddie Potpeck the batter, here's the pitch to him and it's
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  slow of all. Potpeck hitting 270, a homer and 40 RVIs. A hot and humid night in Chicago.
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  Winds coming out of the southwest going from home plate to center field. Breeze of about
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  eight miles an hour. Proley tosses over to first runner back. White Sox went over the
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  1,300,000 mark here last night. 1,300,000. Stank corrected, 1,300,000 plus. Come out
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  of the ballpark this year, really a tribute to the Chicago White Sox fans. Here's the
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  pitch of strike. You know the White Sox despite the fact they're 20 games under 500 have out
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  drawn the Cubs this year. I'm not trying to put down the Cubs and their fans by saying
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  that but just an indication how great and loyal the White Sox fans have been. 1,304,843
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  and still about 15 more home games to go including tonight. Proley tossed over to first and Otis
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  is back. Amos with the lead. Right hander ready. There he goes, he stops. Here's the
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  pitch high and inside, backs him off. Two and one. Otis made a break and then stopped.
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  Amos has stolen 22 bases this year. He's been thrown out only five times. Pottec who's generally
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  been the leader on this club. Half the plate here is stolen 33. Their leader is the rookie,
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  Willie Wilson, 35 stolen bases. Two balls and a strike. Runner at first, one out, we're
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  in the second, no score. Right hander ready. Runner not going, here's the pitch, swinging
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  the grounder to short. Kessinger has it on behalf, goes to second for one, the relay,
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  running time. They get the front man, six to four. Otis came in pretty good. Fire got
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  it away but his throw was the outfield side of first and Pottec is on with a fielder's
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  choice. So he may be going here. He's got as I mentioned 35 stolen bases. Frank White
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  for that. He's pretty good contact this year. He's hitting 274, four homers and 35 RBI.
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  You talk about a fellow progressing with each year. It has been Frank White. He is one of
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  the premier second baseman now in the American League. First saw him in 73 for a while when
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  he was at Omaha, a little better in 74. Early out of the stretch, first pitch to White,
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  a pitch out, runner not going. He was up with Kansas City for a little bit in 73. He hit
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  221 for the Royals in 74, 250 at 75. Then he had a slump in 76, hit 229. He came back
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  to hit 245 last year now, hitting a 274. Swing and a miss and all that time. His defense
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  is continually improved. Though his batting average fluctuated, his RBI production improved
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  every year from 5 to 18 to 36 to 46 to 50. Down a little bit this year at 35 with a little
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  over a month to go in the season. He's been hurt a couple of times. Here's a swing and
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  a base hit to White. Goes to the opposite field. Pottec holds up at second. Every hit
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  here tonight, two in the first and two here in the second, have been on opposite field
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  singles. So the Royals have runners at first and second with two out at George Brett-DeBattery
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  grounded out to second his first time up. The reason we make a point of these opposite
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  field singles is the fact to show you what these guys are thinking when they go up there,
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  the majority of them. This is one thing that I don't know if they get enough credit for
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  is that hitting-wise, they've got a good defense, they've got good pitching. Their hitters know
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  what they're doing every time they get up there. Here's the pitch. Swing and a grounder
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  to first. Brett pulled it and Crowley takes the putout. Every time they have pulled the
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  ball in the infield, they've grounded out. Every time they've gotten a hit, they've gone
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  the other way with it. Brett pulling that ball, he still has that bone problem in his
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  right hand. And Matt retires the side. In the inning, no runs, two hits and two men
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  left on. So we go to the bottom of the second. Kansas City nothing, the White Sox nothing.
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  Warren Brown back at Kavisky Park. Lamar Johnson leads it off and he hits the first ball, Splendor
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  pitch for a strike. Here's the next delivery and it's inside of all. Lamar hitting 271,
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  eight homers and 57 RBIs. That's high in the club. Meaning the RBIs. Here's the 1-1 pitch.
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  Foul back upstairs. You're in tune with WMAQ Radio, Chicago, Illinois. Turado scored a
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  run in the second with the Tigers came back with one in the bottom half of their frame.
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  Tied it up, 1-1. Pirates at Atlanta, no score. That game in the bottom of the fourth. Here's
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  the pitch up high above. Pirates right now, the hottest team in baseball. Nine straight
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  victories. They gained seven games in the last 11 days. Here's a swing and a miss on
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  the Philadelphia Phillies. So that's the second straight strikeout for Splendor. For the batter
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  is Eric Soderholm. Soderholm hitting 251, 16 homers and 46 RBIs. Left-hander ready. Here's
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  the pitch. Swing and a grounder to the left side foul. Paul Splendor went to Quincy College
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  first two years then transferred to Morningside in Iowa over at Sioux City after going to
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  high school in Arlington Heights. He's had great success against the White Sox over the
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  years. Here's the one strike delivery and it's up high of all. The Spectal left-hander,
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  real gentleman in the first degree. Here's the 1-1 pitch. Swing and a pop-up on the right
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  side. Pete LeCocque backs up. In fair territory, the first baseman takes it. Had there two
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  down. Soderholm was honored by the Chicago Chapter of the Baseball Writers of America
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  this last winter at their banquet. I think the name of the award that he was given. Let's
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  check it out for you. Mike Colbert the batter, nobody on it, two out. Mike getting 269, no
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  homers and nine RBIs. Here's the pitcher, the swing and a shot to Leith's left centerfield.
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  Holt is going back near the warning track and he's got it right at the edge of the warning
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  track, an extreme left centerfield. That's been the best ball hit tonight by either club
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  and it goes as a long out. So it's three up and three down in the second. At the end of
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  two, the White Sox nothing, Kansas City nothing. Lauren Brown back at Comiskey Park as we go
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  to the third inning. Mike Crowley will face the number two, three and four hitters for
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  the Royals. Speaking about that award that was given Paul Splendorf by the Chicago Baseball
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  Writers, it was the Ken Hubs Award for meritorious service and conduct on and off the field.
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  So it's sort of like the, I guess you'd call it the Lady Bing Award in hockey, the gentleman's
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  award. Also you have to have credentials on the field as well as off. In other words,
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  you've got to be a winner in both areas and he certainly is. All right, Hal McCray will
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  lead it off, the designated hitter. He'll be followed by Pete LeCocque and Al Collins.
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  The Royals have gotten four hits off of Crowley, two in each inning. Hal McCray grounded out
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  to short his first time up. Jim Gallagheri from Palookas here tonight. A bunch of fellows
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  from Joliet along with him. Jim Oberwarchman, Bob Robinson, Jim Wermer, Herb Poler, Warren
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  Koverec and Jim Rolfe. Here's the pitch and it's a strike. Outfield playing him fairly
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  straight away. Spencer in center shading just a little in left center. Right hander ready,
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  here's the one strike pitch. There's a swing and a shot to right and second base has got
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  him. What a play by Breyer going to his right. The bat split in half. One piece went out
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  to Satterhove. The ball is to the right of second. Breyer got it about two or three steps
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  in the outfield grass and then he threw him out. Well, they don't have to saw that bat
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  and they have to find out if there's any cork in it or not. Which they did yesterday, you
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  know, and there wasn't a trace of cork in the grave bat. He's either had a good streak
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  or been in a slump without cork, but that time split it right in half. Here's the swing
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  and a grounder in the first pitch by Lecoque to Breyer at second. Throws him out. Greg
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  going to his left this time getting down the outfield grass. So two up and two down. Al
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  Collins the batter. Singles his last time up as had Lecoque. So probably trying to retire
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  the side in order for the first time tonight. Danny wants you to check with the weather,
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  see what the humidity is. Temperature. It's a pretty hot night. The wind's out of the
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  south west. Expecting rain tonight. Here's the pitch inside of all the call. Stocks lines
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  are open right now. White Sox will be tomorrow night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon
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  against Cleveland. Here's the one open swing and a miss. So the county even got one and
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  a half. Only into the wind up. Here's the pitch. Swing and a chopper to short. Pessinger charges
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  has it up around the letter. He just got it up around the letters as that ball took a
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  final high up to him. And it's three up and three down. The first time tonight. Slowly
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  retires the side in order. We go to the bottom of the third. The White Sox nothing. Kansas
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  City nothing. Mark Brown back at Comiskey Park as we go to the third inning. The White
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  Sox pitching staff now has shut out Kansas City for 17 consecutive innings. Claudio Washington,
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  who got the game winning hit out here last night, will lead it off against Paul Splittorff.
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  Tomorrow night is back to school night. The first 15,000 school kids getting into the
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  ballpark will get school kids. Pencils, books, pens, etc. Splittorff goes in the line up
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  and the pitch to Claudio is low of all. Claudio had half the White Sox tips out here last
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  night, going three for four and driving in two runs in that eighth inning, getting the
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  game winning hit. Left hander ready. Here's the pitcher, the swing and a foul out of play.
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  Ken Griffey has just got a two run homer off of Pete Bukovic. His eighth of the year in
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  the third and the Cardinals are leading Cincinnati four to two. Kansas City, or rather Cincinnati,
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  is still batting. Here's the pitch outside of all, three and one. Pirates Atlanta, no
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  score at the end of five. Claudio leading it off, he followed by Jim Spencer and Greg
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  Fier. Here's the swing and a grounder to second. White to his left has it and he throws him
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  out. And there's one out here in the third. White Sox have had only one hit off of Splittorff.
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  Splittorff, the first player originally signed by Kansas City, delivers to Spencer, swinging
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  a grounder. Popek has it, a short. He just did get Spencer. Red had cut in front of him,
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  couldn't get the ball. Thought maybe that might bother Popek a little bit, but it didn't
• 32:44
  as the veteran shortstop threw him out. So two up and two down. Spencer hitting two eighteen
• 32:49
  with four RBIs. And the batter is Greg Fier. Fier, with nobody on and two out last night,
• 32:55
  triggered that three run rally in the eighth inning when he singles. Splittorff originally
• 33:10
  signed on October 24th, 1969 with the Royals made his first appearance in September of
• 33:19
  the following year after being at Omaha where he won twelve games. Here's the pitch and
• 33:25
  it's low of all. He was signed by the Royals that went to Corning in 68, Omaha in 69 and
• 33:32
  70 with the Royals in part of 70. Back to Omaha in 71. Here's the pitch and it's low,
• 33:38
  came up in 71 with the Royals from Omaha and has been in the big leagues ever since. His
• 33:43
  finest year was 73 when he won twenty, lost eleven, completed twelve games. Here's the
• 33:49
  pitchers are swinging the grounder to short. Popek has it. Twos in time and it's a three
• 33:54
  up and three down inning again here in the third. So, Splittorff has retired seven in
• 33:59
  a row. He's faced a minimum nine hitters of the first three innings. We're at the end
• 34:03
  of three. I'm Lauren Brown. Harry Terry and Jimmy Pearsall will be along in a minute.
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  It's the White Sox. Nothing to the Royals. Nothing. Hello again everybody. Harry Terry
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  and Jimmy Pearsall. We're going now into the top of the fourth of the honey of a ballgame
• 34:18
  of pitching to them. Nothing, nothing. Now Porter's going to be leading it off. We've
• 34:27
  got about 12,000 people or so here. The White Sox are over to 1,300,000 Mark. Cleveland
• 34:37
  Indians will be here tomorrow night. How about school? Back to school, huh Harry? Oh, I
• 34:45
  wish it was. I'm going to give out some things that will help you get started. The first
• 34:51
  15,000 youngsters come into the park tomorrow night with some equipment to help start school
• 34:56
  off, right? Well, I'd like to be going back to school right now and know what I know now.
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  I don't think I've had as much fun. Oh, I don't know about that. Here's Porter. You
• 35:18
  know, today Jimmy swings and he bounce off the first pitch. Today everybody's out blowing.
• 35:23
  There you go again. You know, we used to have to sell newspapers and scrub and try to make
• 35:29
  money off of it. How many papers did you have? I had a big one right next to a factory. There's
• 35:40
  a strike call. I sold papers in front of the church every Sunday morning and delivered
• 35:44
  100. Then I had a paper route in the morning and a paper route at night. I used to make
• 35:48
  $32 a week. Oh, I used to make more than that. I used to tell the people who worked at the
• 35:54
  church, if you say they'd buy papers from me, they might have trouble. You were lucky
• 35:59
  to go to school. Two strikes on a ball. I used to get mad on Sunday papers though, Harry.
• 36:05
  They were too heavy. The other place was delivering papers early. What? Really? Really?
• 36:11
  Holding a 50-ounce record. 50-ounce record. I got the concert tour. Oh, I didn't know
• 36:15
  they could be cut. You were with the man? As soon as I went bad, I forgot everything.
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  Two strikes on a ball. Tigers leading Toronto 4-1 on the fourth. Texas beat Minnesota on
• 36:35
  a three-run homer by the Galesburg Black. Jim Sunberg. Cleveland nose-outs. Milwaukee
• 36:48
  9-8. I'm also going to pitch about five and a half games behind too. They really come
• 36:52
  a long way, I think. They'll beat today. There's the pitch. Went on way back. Might be out
• 36:58
  of here. Could be high into the upper deck. That was an off-speed pitch and Porter waited
• 37:05
  for it. Looks like he knew what was going to come. And boy, he really felt it. That's
• 37:12
  the steepest home run I've ever seen here in the right field stand. Better than halfway
• 37:18
  up into the upper deck. Well, that's his tenth home run of the year. And he's come a long
• 37:24
  way since he played for Milwaukee. He had a lifetime batting average of about 2.18. And
• 37:28
  now he's come over here with Cali Lau. And he's very happy too because he calls his own
• 37:32
  ball game. He feels like he's the leader. One night off right now, here's Clint Hurdle.
• 37:38
  Mike Broly has allowed five hits, one run. Thanks, Bobby. There's the line drive foul.
• 37:46
  And to the right field corner. One strike and nothing. Bob Birtucci who handles a bar
• 38:01
  in the bar room. I tell you what, he's a charming looking man. Just gave us a cold can of frozen
• 38:07
  beer. He can't be too bad. Here's the pitch strike call. Two strikes and nothing. A home
• 38:17
  run by Darrell Porter leading off the fourth inning. And boy, Mike Broly was really unhappy.
• 38:22
  He picked up a handful of dirt and threw it down to the ground. He knew he had made a
• 38:26
  bad pitch. Here's the pitch a little inside. Colburn asked for an appeal to the third base
• 38:35
  up by George Maloney. But he said no, he did not swing. Saint Louis four, Cincinnati three
• 38:42
  in the bottom of the fourth. Ball game one to nothing. Here's the wind, the pitch. High
• 38:58
  pop fly ought to be caught. Garza waiting in the take. Harry Broly best pitches that
• 39:05
  Hart's thinking he's throwing tonight. He's throwing hard. I've seen him throw all year.
• 39:08
  When they hit him, it's been on that slow breaking stuff. So there's one away, one in.
• 39:16
  Amos Odo's a hitter. The White Sox have already attracted 1,304,843. This is a great game.
• 39:27
  This is the sixth best attendance mark for a year in the club's history. There's a put
• 39:38
  swing on by Amos Odo's right to the center fielder Spencer, a line drive. That ball sort
• 39:44
  of fooled Spencer a little bit, but he got him all right. So after Porter let off with
• 39:50
  a terrifically hit a home run. Hurdle a notice of an easy outs and here's Freddie Pata. I
• 39:58
  think we ought to check his best as far as to get that ball for cork. He corked it out
• 40:03
  of here. Or else check the ball for the rabbit. There's a fast ball open low ball one. Boy,
• 40:13
  he's a real, he's a scusted Harry. I hit that ball as hard as I could hit it and it just
• 40:17
  wouldn't go anywhere. These guys hit that rabbit. See one ball, no strikes. There's
• 40:25
  a strike call. Having watched you play tennis, I know what you're talking about. You say
• 40:34
  my well, it's all in good fun. You can fill out of your head. You can slap me. That is
• 40:41
  the person. Try to the funny pull back. They appealed to the first base up by and he says
• 40:48
  no. Greg cost is the first base up by Jerry New Decker. The second base up by George
• 40:54
  Maloney. The third base up by and Pat Henry behind the play. He didn't go after it. Look
• 41:01
  like it pulled back. Hi Millie. Remember the Don Kessinger night Friday night, September
• 41:11
  the 8th. I know a lot of you Cub fans, there's a ground ball hit for the shortstop. Kessinger
• 41:17
  throws them out. One run, one hit. No air, nobody left. We go now to the bottom of the
• 41:25
  fourth one to nothing Kansas City. I bet that you too have noticed how much you like beer
• 41:36
  commercials. Everybody claiming to find the most expensive ingredients, the best tech
• 41:41
  mates, etc. Who really cares? Me, I go by the taste alone. Does it taste good? That's
• 41:50
  what I'm here. I bet you that way too. And if so, you have to admit that Stro's beer
• 41:56
  tastes good. Maybe it is the unique fire brewing that does it all. I know you're a real beer
• 42:02
  lover. You'll love Stro's. There's a good cigar. Line drive into the corner. Face it.
• 42:09
  It's on his way to second. Take off for three. Here's the ball. Face. Guy hits the first
• 42:24
  hit. Into the right field, Carter. They're claiming I think they're going to appeal to
• 42:30
  the miss. First base. Look to me like you step right in the middle of the bat. I'll tell
• 42:35
  you one thing, that sure hunkled a triple on that ball. And it sure wasn't even close
• 42:40
  to him. And now Carter, he goes. Oh, he's all right. I thought something had happened
• 42:46
  the way he was talking to Bobby Knapp, but he's got a good triple. So the time he runs
• 42:51
  is up. He's got a good base. Nobody else. Here's Kessinger now. Kessinger lined his
• 43:05
  single right his first time up. Here's Paul's foot dog. Is he ready? He's up there. Swung
• 43:12
  on down the right field line. Coming over is Cowan for makes and catch. Gaw holds up
• 43:21
  the third. More of the third one. Way up the line. One out. I think Harry, why Gaw has
• 43:30
  held up on that plate. There's nobody out. But it would have been a tough throw for Cowan
• 43:34
  because he's off balance. And with the speed of Gaw, if I was Gaw, I would have tried.
• 43:38
  But I guess he figured with nobody out, it was a tough chance. But Cardinal's lead,
• 43:46
  Cincinnati, four to three on the floor. Pittsburgh and Atlanta, those score at the end of sixth.
• 43:53
  This squire, now he's sanded his first time up. He has bailed in. Fast ball high outside.
• 44:00
  Ball one. Wasn't kind of unusual. They were playing back at shortstop for Kessinger that
• 44:04
  time. Give him the run. Now the stretch by splits off the fence. Right down the middle
• 44:13
  of fast ball for a strike dog. No ball in the strike. Now the stretch can bail in. Here's
• 44:27
  the fence. Swings and fouls him. He had a good touch. A good base runner right now is
• 44:33
  thinking on third. He's going to go on a ground ball, especially if it hits slowly. But if
• 44:37
  he sees a throw, beats him to the plate. He stops and he gets in a run draw for the guy
• 44:42
  to hit the ball and get the second. So he's got to be doing a lot of thinking. He's got
• 44:45
  to be alert because there's no chance of changing his mind. Two strikes on the ball. High,
• 44:51
  pop foul. Into the left-hand corner. Out of play. Bomb off. Even if Pertle could catch
• 44:58
  that ball, the odds were he shouldn't because he couldn't have made a play. He's got to
• 45:03
  depend on sputoff to strike Squires out in this situation because he did not throw him
• 45:07
  out. Sputoff is 1.15, lost tenth. Turn around average 3.32. Out of the sign. In field is
• 45:26
  the delivery. Stuck him out on the outside corner. Squires called out on strike. That's
• 45:35
  good fuldom. He thought it was wide. Looked like a back step and bumped the outside corner.
• 45:40
  Absolutely right, Harry. It looked to me like he turned it over and started it outside about
• 45:44
  that foot and it broke on the outside corner. Here's a tough pitch to take. So they're two
• 45:50
  strikes out. Now the infield drops back to normal position. You know, last night Kansas
• 45:58
  City had the same chance when Otis tripled and then he struck out three in a row. Gravick.
• 46:03
  So now it's Sputoff trying to get out of the same situation. Here's Lamar Johnson. Here's
• 46:09
  the stretch of pitch. Turn outside. Frank White plays Lamar Johnson right up the middle.
• 46:17
  And LeCocque plays almost in the second baseman position. Now the stretch of pitch. Swung
• 46:25
  him out. He struck Lamar out the first time on a changeup. First pitch was a breaking ball
• 46:32
  changeup but that time he threw him a high fastball and Lamar chased so he's got him
• 46:35
  looking for that slow stuff making his fastball much quicker. Here's the pitch. A little bit
• 46:41
  inside a fastball. Ball two. Two balls and a strike. Pittsburgh batting in the seventh
• 46:48
  of Atlanta. No score. Now the stretch of pitch. Turn ball low. Ball three. Sadder home would
• 46:58
  be up there next. Play balls and a strike. Here's the pitch. Watch him. Sorry the last
• 47:15
  eight out of nine games we've got pretty good pitching. That one game we were out of in
• 47:20
  Cleveland. The last game we were there we got beaten ten to one percent. We've had our
• 47:26
  troubles we've had a pretty good streak there. So the pitching seems to be improving more
• 47:29
  so than the clutch hitting. But we did get it from Washington last night. This sadder
• 47:35
  homie pops up. His last home run was August the third. Now Sputak is ready. Here's the
• 47:51
  pitch. Fastball. One ball no strike. Mike Coburn to be up there next. But there's two
• 48:02
  outs so something's got to happen here. The pitch. Hey he slices it into right field.
• 48:09
  Another man to burn. We got a break on that throw from Collins and he goes his second
• 48:22
  and gets sadder home. But a slow runner like Gunsley who just got to the bag he has sadder
• 48:26
  home by plenty but he threw towards the plate which is the play. But you're playing baseball
• 48:30
  to keep that run from starting. So now we got runners on second and third. Two outs
• 48:39
  and Coburn to enter. So it'll look like a streaming line drive at the box car. Sadder
• 48:45
  home was jammed. He hit the ball off his fist. Had looped in the chart right field. Scoring
• 48:51
  guard. Johnson going to third. Sadder home pulling up in second. What a double to his
• 49:00
  credit. And here's Coburn who's five deep. His first time up. Here's the stretch to pitch.
• 49:08
  Slow curve low inside ball one. Boy we got a I don't know how hot it is out on the field
• 49:15
  but it's murder up here in the booth. I'll go along with that coach. One one five. Here's
• 49:24
  the stretch to pitch. Off feed outside. Boy I got a feeling Coburn's going to rip one
• 49:31
  off this guy. Because Scudorf is not getting his breaking ball over. His best pitch has
• 49:36
  been his fastball and his team straight. Two balls no strikes. Oh he just got under it.
• 49:47
  A high pop fly. Boy his swing was there. The left fielder makes the cut. Hiddle. Takes
• 49:53
  care of Coburn. Fly ball. Boy Mike had his fit. He does happen to get under it a little
• 49:59
  bit too much. One run out of all that. Two hits. No errors. Two left. At the end of four
• 50:10
  we're tied at one. Harry Carrey and Jimmy Pearsall. We're going to the top of the fifth.
• 50:20
  The Cubs count pack number one fifteen from the Flames are here. Just think why to lead
• 50:38
  the way. First pitch he swings. Ground ball to Kessinger. He's got it. Over the first
• 50:51
  one nine we've got Bracken neverziejorn Major here it's Colter speak. Touched by pages Slater
• 51:08
  Ohio Peirce. F� HOJ K adalah Everyday True Team. We out of appears.talking tempted to
• 51:19
  One man out, top of the fifth tied up 1-1.
• 51:26
  Boy, it's humid up here.
• 51:32
  Instead of playing and sitting up here, I've got to believe.
• 51:35
  Well, this booth is just so small, Jimmy.
• 51:38
  Here's a pitch.
• 51:39
  Strike off.
• 51:41
  You know, we've got no room for the two of us to sit comfortably,
• 51:44
  and we should have three engineers sitting behind us.
• 51:48
  That booth next door, they could knock out.
• 51:51
  Now the wind will pitch, and a little bit low.
• 51:56
  Dan is crying for us. He's giving us a few tears, John.
• 51:59
  You know, he really feels sorry for you and I.
• 52:01
  Two balls and a strike. One man out.
• 52:04
  Charge front to hitter. Game tied up 1-1.
• 52:12
  Now the delivery.
• 52:13
  Strong ground ball to the second baseman.
• 52:15
  Friar kicks it, picks it up, throws.
• 52:18
  It's tied.
• 52:20
  Almost booted it too long, but recovered.
• 52:24
  You know, it's funny.
• 52:25
  He booted that ball and then pushed it to his right out of his glove,
• 52:29
  and then couldn't find it for a moment, and he almost lost the runner.
• 52:32
  But he knew it was there somewhere, and he kept feeling for it.
• 52:37
  A foot double by Eric Soto, almost 47th run batted in this year.
• 52:41
  Tied up the ballgame for the White Sox and the boys.
• 52:47
  Now there are two out, nobody on. Hal McCray to batter.
• 52:51
  First pitch is low. Ball one.
• 52:54
  McCray, he of the Cork bat, which turned out to be wood.
• 52:59
  Turned out to be nothing, huh?
• 53:01
  One ball, no strikes.
• 53:03
  Now the delivery.
• 53:05
  A little bit low.
• 53:08
  We understand Don Sutton, the pitcher of the Dodgers,
• 53:12
  who was involved in an altercation with Steve Garvey, the team star of first base,
• 53:18
  has called a press conference out on the coast for the purpose of apologizing to Garvey.
• 53:25
  There's the pitch long and foul.
• 53:30
  Well, I guess it's easy to be jealous of a guy who's got everything,
• 53:35
  and that's probably his story.
• 53:37
  My only thing about Garvey is whenever I've been around him, he's a perfect gentleman.
• 53:41
  He's a top class guy.
• 53:43
  Well, I mean, that's what they're jealous of.
• 53:45
  Oh, I see.
• 53:47
  I also noticed that Buckner said from the Cubs that he called up and congratulated Sutton.
• 53:52
  What a sick team.
• 53:55
  Well, he was with him, you know. That's what he's probably jealous about.
• 54:00
  Well, that's what gets me. Guys who have no involvement getting into the situation.
• 54:05
  The only thing Garvey does is play good every day.
• 54:08
  How could a pitcher be mad at him?
• 54:10
  If Reggie Smith is more valuable than Steve Garvey,
• 54:14
  then there's ball four to McRae that brings up Pete McCock.
• 54:20
  Then the Dodgers ought to be about 50 games in front.
• 54:25
  And Reggie Smith is an outstanding ball player.
• 54:29
  Sutton really struggling around 500.
• 54:31
  It just seems to me like he's upset with himself more than he's upset with Garvey and took it out on Garvey.
• 54:38
  Turns out they live only a few houses away, and the only comment I've heard from Steve Garvey on the situation is
• 54:47
  that he didn't like to have his family brought in to us.
• 54:50
  And I can't believe I'm for that one.
• 54:53
  Here's McCock swing until he fouls it off.
• 54:56
  One strike and nothing.
• 54:58
  You know, I always felt with my family, I kept my youngsters and my wife up in the upstairs away from everybody
• 55:04
  so they wouldn't get involved with the other players' wives.
• 55:06
  I just thought that we were any better than anybody, but I thought it was better for me.
• 55:10
  Because ball players say things they don't even know what they're talking about to their wives.
• 55:15
  Wives say things they don't even know what they're talking about to their husbands.
• 55:18
  You know, 90 percent of wives know absolutely nothing about baseball except the trowels.
• 55:24
  One strike and nothing.
• 55:26
  But they've got to show that they're interested in the livelihood of the man in the house.
• 55:30
  Being a white house, they have a lot of information.
• 55:32
  Being a white and a ball player is a bore. All you do is sit around and wait.
• 55:36
  Here's a pitcher a little bit high.
• 55:40
  A ball and a strike.
• 55:43
  Two men are out. Boy, anything burns me up.
• 55:46
  When a guy says the A, I can hear you rip me.
• 55:49
  Where'd you hear it?
• 55:50
  My wife told me.
• 55:52
  Did she tell you nice things we said about you?
• 55:54
  Well, she's in the bathroom then.
• 55:56
  One ball, one strike.
• 56:00
  But it's not only baseball that way.
• 56:02
  Here's a pitch swung and filed out of play.
• 56:05
  You know, that's why big corporations, when they hire an executive,
• 56:10
  they spend more time checking on the executive's wife than they do on the executive.
• 56:15
  They're hiring a very important money because they know what a troublemaking wife can do to a corporation.
• 56:23
  Just like you can do to a baseball team.
• 56:28
  Two strikes and a ball.
• 56:35
  Now, through the first, the runner back.
• 56:38
  McCrane, not too much of a threat as a baserunner, but I know he's been around long enough that he can steal one.
• 56:48
  Two men are out.
• 56:50
  Game tied, 1-1, the pitcher goes around there.
• 56:53
  Swung on, a little tap back to the mound.
• 56:56
  Holy throws the mound.
• 57:00
  No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.
• 57:03
  We go to the bottom of the first tied, 1-1.
• 57:06
  One drive and down the road, you're moving through a turn, and your car's looking good, it's going up and down in the mud.
• 57:17
  Harry Carrey and Jimmy Pearsall, we're going into the bottom of the fifth all tied up, 1-1.
• 57:23
  You know, at St. Louis, Jimmy, it was really funny.
• 57:25
  I'm not going to mention any names, but if one wife, you know, the wives usually sit in the same section.
• 57:33
  Three or four very, very jealous wives.
• 57:38
  Used to be really funny.
• 57:40
  A wife would show up with a new dress.
• 57:44
  They'd start talking how much it'd cost, she'd add a couple hundred, you know.
• 57:48
  Now, when the other wife would get home, she'd get her husband, she says,
• 57:52
  how come so-and-so's wife can spend $600 for a dress?
• 57:57
  Well, I can only spend $100.
• 57:59
  And oh, that poor guy, by the time he got to the ballpark, he wished he could go to Australia.
• 58:04
  You know, he'd have to put up, so he'd go out and spend $600.
• 58:08
  Well, next week, some wife would say she spent $800, right?
• 58:14
  One thing about the wives can't hit the field.
• 58:17
  Right out Washington, hits a bouncing ball up the middle.
• 58:20
  Frank White throws him out, nice play by White.
• 58:24
  The ball wasn't hit that hard, but it was hit perfectly, right over the pitcher's head.
• 58:29
  And you have to have a little range at second base to come up with that ball.
• 58:33
  You've seen a lot of those trickle through in the center field.
• 58:36
  But Frank White got over there quickly and made the play easily.
• 58:41
  What a turn he did, and Lecoque, who's impressed me with his basketball by this series,
• 58:45
  showed me something with his hands.
• 58:47
  He's got good soft hands and picked that ball out of the dirt very easily.
• 58:51
  Here's Tom Spencer now.
• 58:54
  Here's the pitcher, good bounce ball strike called Spencer Boundstock.
• 58:57
  His first time up, he's hitting 218.
• 59:01
  Bottom of the fifth, 1-1 tie, great ball, yeah.
• 59:05
  White's got some beating, beating the defending champ six out of 11.
• 59:09
  Here's the pitch ball back.
• 59:13
  Right below is here on the second row, a young fan making the catch in his lap.
• 59:19
  Pittsburgh got five runs in the seventh inning.
• 59:23
  Atlanta's batting in the bottom of the eighth, they lead by to nothing.
• 59:26
  They're six days behind and climbing.
• 59:29
  Here's the pitch on the white's front.
• 59:31
  Here's the tap to the second baseman. White throws him out.
• 59:35
  Two up, two down, boy, this foot's off his stuff too.
• 59:38
  See, Harry Spencer went from about 350, 60 to 218 in a hurry.
• 59:44
  That's one thing in the Major League, Jimmy.
• 59:49
  Once those pitchers, you might hit the first time around,
• 59:52
  but as soon as you've been in the league, I don't know how the great buying works,
• 59:57
  but everybody seems to know what you can and cannot hit.
• 1:00:00
  I remember scouting when I played too.
• 1:00:02
  More money spent on scouts up in front when they didn't spend years ago.
• 1:00:05
  You know, almost every team has an advanced scout.
• 1:00:08
  Into the city before their team, his team comes into the city,
• 1:00:12
  and he leaves a report to the manager on every player,
• 1:00:15
  what he can hit, what he can't hit, what he did hit, how they pitched him.
• 1:00:20
  And so a rookie might go good for a week or two,
• 1:00:23
  but then unless he really has the ability, his average is going to suffer.
• 1:00:28
  There's the pitch swim on by Breyer, bump by.
• 1:00:31
  Short center field, easy catch by Oda.
• 1:00:36
  One, two, three, nothing across.
• 1:00:38
  At the end of five, tied up at one.
• 1:00:41
  Now working his butt behind and then jumping up.
• 1:00:45
  Harry Carrey back in the ballpark.
• 1:00:47
  We're going into the sixth inning, a honey of a ballgame, one-one.
• 1:00:50
  Here on the right side, the beat me.
• 1:00:53
  Defending champion Royals, six out of 11 already in a year.
• 1:00:57
  The size of the world, I think Texas, they're rubbing out of 15.
• 1:01:00
  Harry, we were talking about the scouts up front
• 1:01:02
  and why the opposing teams learn the hitters quicker.
• 1:01:05
  But when we played, we played each other 21 times.
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  It didn't take much to learn each other.
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  It was just a matter of who was increasing and getting better in his ability.
• 1:01:14
  So I guess they didn't need the scouts.
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  Tell me again, on my interviews before the game, I called attention to this banner out there,
• 1:01:24
  some annual Pimmons Chokers, to find out whether they had any reaction about it or not.
• 1:01:30
  Thousands of them said Larry Gura said,
• 1:01:32
  well, he's got to rather be in the playoffs and choke to never get into the playoffs at all.
• 1:01:39
  Which, that's always a very good rebuttal.
• 1:01:44
  Say it, Gura, he's been a surprise and a happy one for Kansas City.
• 1:01:49
  Here's Al Cowans, lightning fast, this fella on a good hitter.
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  One out of two tonight, Mike Frohle is set.
• 1:01:59
  Fastball over the inside corner and strike call.
• 1:02:02
  Oh boy, does this throw hit the spot tonight.
• 1:02:06
  Frohle really having a good hard fastball in the sinker.
• 1:02:10
  Just jammed Cowans that time, had him completely fooled and he took the pitch.
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  Cleveland Indians here tomorrow night.
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  Curveball outside.
• 1:02:24
  I mentioned that Don Kessinger will be honored Friday night, September the 8th.
• 1:02:28
  And I also said that I'm sure a lot of the Cubs fans will want to be represented.
• 1:02:35
  And towards that end, I'd just like to pass along this information.
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  Here's a pitch foul back.
• 1:02:43
  Ron Santo, you know, who is his teammate with the Cubs,
• 1:02:47
  is on the committee on the Don Kessinger night committee.
• 1:02:54
  But Chuck Shriver, who used to be with the Cubs as a publicity director,
• 1:02:58
  now with Aaron Cushman, public relations firm, is handling the details.
• 1:03:07
  Here's a pitch bouncing ball to Frohle, he's got it easy off.
• 1:03:14
  So you Cubs fans, or White Sox fans, for that matter, or anybody's fan,
• 1:03:23
  you want to participate in that Don Kessinger night,
• 1:03:26
  you might want to get a group of tickets for your friends,
• 1:03:29
  or want to be represented at a free game ceremony,
• 1:03:33
  want to make a gift or something, or have a fan club of Kessingers
• 1:03:38
  that wants to be represented, here's the name, Chuck Shriver.
• 1:03:43
  S-H-R-I-V-E-R, Chuck Shriver.
• 1:03:48
  Here's the phone number, 2-6-3-2-500.
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  Here's Porter, a line drive, right after center fielder, easy off.
• 1:04:02
  Porter, wait a minute, make that a base hit, a line drive base hit in the center fielder.
• 1:04:09
  Spencer Field is on the one half, I'm looking down at his phone number.
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  Chuck Shriver, 2-6-3-2-500.
• 1:04:18
  Getting the number again, 2-6-3-2-500.
• 1:04:22
  I asked him to wait until you got that in, Harry.
• 1:04:25
  Porter gets another hit, a line signal to center fielder.
• 1:04:29
  Here's Hurtle now, and he swings and he misses.
• 1:04:37
  Nice shot, John Gibson, Bernie Russell, and Jim Perman, the bootleggers in Oakland,
• 1:04:45
  are here with Eddie Kobecki of Strasbury.
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  One on, one out.
• 1:04:54
  Hurtle swings, ground ball, swing, out at second, return throw, out at first.
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  Double play, 3-6-3.
• 1:05:07
  So Hurtle hit a hot smash right at squares, returned it into a double play, 3-6-3.
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  Beautifully done, no runs, one hit, no errors.
• 1:05:17
  Nobody left, we go into the bottom of the sixth, one-one tie.
• 1:05:23
  Here's Gar to lead it off.
• 1:05:28
  Bouncing ball to start, Potec throws, and boy, what a close play, but he's out.
• 1:05:34
  Let me tell you, John, that's not your line.
• 1:05:36
  We have had occasions this year when runners have walked down the lane,
• 1:05:41
  but you can't say that about Gar.
• 1:05:43
  He's set to double into a triple today.
• 1:05:47
  Hey, they're giving him a great hand for the last one.
• 1:05:50
  That's all it takes to just show these people that you want to play.
• 1:05:54
  The guys that are complaining are guys that just haven't played.
• 1:05:59
  These fans are just hungry to be able to cheer,
• 1:06:03
  and the only time they move is when a player just absolutely forces them to.
• 1:06:08
  Went out, here's Kessinger.
• 1:06:12
  Oh, that's the first time in a long set-tel you're something at this,
• 1:06:16
  that that one you stopped to reflect on it.
• 1:06:18
  Here's a guy who ran 90 feet at top speed, and they gave him an ovation.
• 1:06:24
  These guys that walked down the line, they ought to teach them something.
• 1:06:28
  Here's the foul ball off to the left.
• 1:06:30
  They might get a face hit if the guy doesn't throw it right.
• 1:06:34
  So we get paid in this game by production.
• 1:06:38
  One man out, nobody on.
• 1:06:41
  At least they used to pay that way.
• 1:06:43
  They show up.
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  Out of sight.
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  Pass for high.
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  Kim Sankowski, Shirley Rook, and Son Mike, who's celebrating his 15th birthday are here.
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  The pitch inside.
• 1:07:14
  Angie Leosi is joined again.
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  The pitch inside.
• 1:07:25
  A group of 15th and Captain's quarters there, yeah.
• 1:07:30
  Three balls, two strikes.
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  The delivery.
• 1:07:36
  Kelsinger, that's a high-pump line.
• 1:07:40
  Lecoque grabs it with one hand.
• 1:07:43
  Terry Squire's now playing in his 12th game, has that committed an error?
• 1:07:47
  And they finished that inning off that 3-6-3 double play was really something to watch.
• 1:07:51
  And this is something we didn't see all year.
• 1:07:53
  We weren't getting out of the innings because we just couldn't complete that kind of a double play.
• 1:07:57
  This guy here, I believe, is going to help us next year.
• 1:08:00
  And I like his bat, too.
• 1:08:02
  He hasn't done anything with split top, but this is the first time he's looked at him.
• 1:08:07
  Let's see what he does this time.
• 1:08:11
  Two out, nobody on the pitch.
• 1:08:13
  There's the looping liner in the center field of base-end.
• 1:08:17
  Looks like he caught it to these, he caught it.
• 1:08:20
  Squire's, boy, that wide really covers some ground.
• 1:08:25
  You know, you watch, when you see some of these other ballplayers, you begin to realize really what you've got to have before you win.
• 1:08:33
  That's right, like a Whittaker for Detroit, who changed that Detroit ball club into a contender, along with Camilla and Samuelson short stuff.
• 1:08:42
  Here's Lamar Johnson now, runner at first base, two out.
• 1:08:51
  Let's have a home run, huh, Harry?
• 1:08:53
  That's slow breaking.
• 1:08:55
  Lamar's had eight homers, 57 runs, about an inch, hitting 271.
• 1:09:00
  Oh, that's a good one.
• 1:09:02
  Oh, he's got a good one.
• 1:09:04
  So that strike can up it.
• 1:09:06
  You'll never see that pitch again tonight.
• 1:09:12
  You know, he's got such a hole between first and second, if they stay one and they hit it there, so he don't hit it out of the park.
• 1:09:19
  One strike and up it, Eric Saddle home would be next, so if they hit him, that's all you can give him.
• 1:09:26
  The first, there's a hit in the center field.
• 1:09:30
  Here's a runner on second racing, the third.
• 1:09:33
  The throw cut off.
• 1:09:34
  Staff go to first, Lamar back.
• 1:09:39
  Lamar had to make a dieting belly flop in the first base.
• 1:09:44
  He just fell down and skidded.
• 1:09:47
  Well, this is the way we scored with two outs and a fourth inning to tie it up.
• 1:09:52
  Saddle, with two outs, moved a double to short right field.
• 1:09:55
  Now he comes up again with runners in first and third.
• 1:09:59
  Last night with two outs, we got the winning run.
• 1:10:04
  St. Joseph's School also boys are here in the group tonight.
• 1:10:11
  Two men out, two men on, and here's Saddle home.
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  Hey, Minnie, we're trying to, boy, you're a tough guy to get, Minnie.
• 1:10:21
  We're trying to get you, where's that mic?
• 1:10:24
  Let's get a ride, get you through a little play by play in Spanish.
• 1:10:27
  Here's Saddle home up there.
• 1:10:30
  Mike Saddle home in Spanish.
• 1:10:33
  He's preparing to throw.
• 1:10:35
  Throw, ball inside, it's a ball inside for Saddle home.
• 1:10:39
  First pitch, wall inside.
• 1:10:42
  Go ahead, come on, we'll do it.
• 1:10:46
  There's a first man in first, second, third, two outs.
• 1:10:48
  The score is tied to a race.
• 1:10:51
  There he is preparing to throw, ball.
• 1:10:54
  Strike corner.
• 1:10:56
  Honestly, from here it seemed that the ball was a little inside, but it seems that he passed the bat and it's a strike one.
• 1:11:02
  The umpire was wrong, you said, umpire was wrong.
• 1:11:05
  Well, I wouldn't say that the umpire was wrong, I don't know.
• 1:11:08
  A ball and a strike.
• 1:11:10
  Okay, man.
• 1:11:12
  Ball, low and inside.
• 1:11:17
  Low and inside.
• 1:11:19
  Two balls and a strike, two outs.
• 1:11:23
  I know that.
• 1:11:25
  Prepare to throw, roll, pass, pass, third base.
• 1:11:28
  Short, slow, and he's going to throw a roll, pass, third base.
• 1:11:33
  It's Hobie.
• 1:11:38
  There he is preparing to throw.
• 1:11:42
  I'm going to try to get a good
• 1:11:44
  start.
• 1:11:45
  Look at his runners.
• 1:11:46
  He's got it!
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  It's a double!
• 1:11:50
  Right corner!
• 1:11:52
  It seemed that the ball was a little
• 1:11:54
  in the air, but it seems that he
• 1:11:56
  passed the bat and it's a strike one.
• 1:11:58
  The umpire wrong, as you said.
• 1:12:00
  I would say that the umpire is wrong.
• 1:12:02
  No, I'm not saying that.
• 1:12:04
  A ball and a strike.
• 1:12:06
  He's got it ready.
• 1:12:08
  He's got it.
• 1:12:10
  Ball low and inside.
• 1:12:12
  Down and inside.
• 1:12:14
  Two balls and a strike.
• 1:12:16
  Two outs.
• 1:12:18
  He's got it.
• 1:12:20
  He's got it ready.
• 1:12:22
  Roller pass, foul, third base.
• 1:12:24
  Short, slow, and he's got it ready.
• 1:12:26
  Roller pass, third base.
• 1:12:28
  Runners in first and third, two outs,
• 1:12:30
  two balls, two strikes, have Saturday
• 1:12:32
  all in a rolling foul outside
• 1:12:34
  third base.
• 1:12:36
  There he is.
• 1:12:38
  He's got it ready.
• 1:12:40
  Look at his runners.
• 1:12:42
  He's got it.
• 1:12:44
  He's got it.
• 1:12:46
  He's running and...
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  It's a double ball!
• 1:12:50
  One round in.
• 1:12:52
  Two outs in.
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  Hey!
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  Not a hole.
• 1:13:04
  It's a double.
• 1:13:06
  He's done a very, not a very good job
• 1:13:08
  of playing the five-all.
• 1:13:10
  He really lost his
• 1:13:12
  sparing
• 1:13:14
  and the ball hit off the wall
• 1:13:16
  from the left where he was playing.
• 1:13:18
  A double,
• 1:13:20
  a triple-oxidation
• 1:13:22
  powderhawk,
• 1:13:24
  two runs short.
• 1:13:26
  Hang in there, Minnie. Nice shot.
• 1:13:28
  Nice throw, Minnie. Oh, I want to tell you,
• 1:13:30
  certainly can't find a place for him,
• 1:13:32
  but you can't hide him when he hits the ball
• 1:13:34
  and you can't go to him.
• 1:13:36
  All right!
• 1:13:42
  You need him.
• 1:13:44
  They kind of sat on him with a double,
• 1:13:46
  two-army eye.
• 1:13:48
  He takes play down on the throw.
• 1:13:50
  All right!
• 1:14:14
  30 pop-back takes over.
• 1:14:20
  New run.
• 1:14:22
  Three hits.
• 1:14:24
  No errors. One left.
• 1:14:26
  This is Harry Carrey
• 1:14:28
  going over to the television booth
• 1:14:30
  to score here at the end of the sixth.
• 1:14:32
  White Sox 3, Kansas City 1.
• 1:14:36
  Lauren Brown back at Comiskey Park
• 1:14:38
  along with Jimmy Pearsall
• 1:14:40
  as we go to the seventh for the second night
• 1:14:42
  in a row, the White Sox, after nobody on
• 1:14:44
  and two outs, in a rally going
• 1:14:46
  as they just came up with two runs
• 1:14:48
  of the sixth inning.
• 1:14:50
  And Mike Squires, who Paul Splendorf
• 1:14:52
  is on the first two times that he faced him,
• 1:14:54
  looped one into right center
• 1:14:56
  over the outstretched middle of Frank White.
• 1:14:58
  Lamar Johnson singled his center,
• 1:15:00
  sending him to third, and then
• 1:15:02
  Eric Satterholm on a ball that was
• 1:15:04
  catchable hit one at the base
• 1:15:06
  of the wall out in left field, and
• 1:15:08
  it scored two runs and the White Sox
• 1:15:10
  had one way to one. For the second night
• 1:15:12
  in a row now with two outs, we've scored
• 1:15:14
  three runs last night and two runs tonight
• 1:15:16
  to go out in front. So this is what we
• 1:15:18
  haven't been doing and it's nice to see these guys
• 1:15:20
  bearing down with two outs instead of just
• 1:15:22
  saying, well, this inning's over.
• 1:15:24
  Let's get it over with. So we go to the
• 1:15:26
  seventh. It'll be Amos Otis,
• 1:15:28
  Freddie Potek, and Frank White.
• 1:15:30
  What a pitching to Philadelphia
• 1:15:32
  against LA. Tommy Johns,
• 1:15:34
  14 and 9,
• 1:15:36
  against Carlton, 12 and 11
• 1:15:38
  against Philadelphia. They probably have about
• 1:15:40
  50,000 in LA tonight.
• 1:15:42
  Pete Bukovic
• 1:15:44
  in the Cardinals, four, Cincinnati
• 1:15:46
  and Moscow, three.
• 1:15:52
  Here's the first pitch to Otis,
• 1:15:54
  and it's a strike.
• 1:15:56
  Only four
• 1:15:58
  times tonight is
• 1:16:00
  Proley giving up a ball hit to the outfield,
• 1:16:02
  three put outs in the home run by
• 1:16:04
  Porter in the upper deck. Otherwise, he's kept the ball
• 1:16:06
  low. Though Porter didn't single
• 1:16:08
  a ball that dropped in front of
• 1:16:10
  the center fielder in the last inning,
• 1:16:12
  but his success has been
• 1:16:14
  keeping the ball low.
• 1:16:16
  Here's the pitch and it's
• 1:16:18
  low.
• 1:16:20
  That is what Charlie Brown
• 1:16:22
  says the secret of life is, keep the ball
• 1:16:24
  low.
• 1:16:28
  A ball and a strike.
• 1:16:30
  White Sox
• 1:16:32
  trying to
• 1:16:34
  win the three game set here tonight,
• 1:16:36
  as well as the season series
• 1:16:38
  at Comiskey Park. Here's the pitch, swing of the grounder to third.
• 1:16:40
  Sonterholm has it. Throws,
• 1:16:42
  he got him.
• 1:16:44
  Otis is out, five, three.
• 1:16:46
  One, two,
• 1:16:50
  three, four, five, six,
• 1:16:52
  seven, eight, nine, ten.
• 1:16:56
  Eleven, twelve,
• 1:16:58
  thirteen
• 1:17:00
  put outs tonight
• 1:17:02
  for Squires at first base.
• 1:17:04
  I wonder what the record is.
• 1:17:08
  Boy, Lauren, if you don't know, the kids from Waterbury sure
• 1:17:10
  don't.
• 1:17:12
  Well, just an indication. When that first baseman's
• 1:17:14
  got a lot of assists, a lot of ground balls.
• 1:17:18
  The first pitch to Pottec
• 1:17:20
  is a ball. Freddie has forced the
• 1:17:22
  man out at second and he is grounded out to short.
• 1:17:24
  Outfield plays him
• 1:17:26
  shallow and straight away.
• 1:17:28
  Play him straight up on the infield.
• 1:17:30
  Sonterholm, though, playing parallel to the
• 1:17:32
  bag at third. There's the pitch,
• 1:17:34
  swing of the fly ball to left. Gar coming over
• 1:17:36
  near the line. He's there.
• 1:17:38
  And he's got it in foul territory in their
• 1:17:40
  two downs. Listen, Gar
• 1:17:42
  ran a mile for that ball. He got a good jump and
• 1:17:44
  really hustled, just like when he ran out that
• 1:17:46
  ground ball that he almost beat out. And also
• 1:17:48
  stripping that, stretching that double
• 1:17:50
  into a triple, so he has really
• 1:17:52
  come to play.
• 1:17:54
  So the batter is Frank White.
• 1:17:56
  Batting in the ninth spot
• 1:17:58
  here tonight with a right-hander going.
• 1:18:00
  He is singled and he is grounded
• 1:18:02
  out to short.
• 1:18:08
  Atlanta has been out for a long
• 1:18:10
  time in the bottom of the eighth after the Pirates
• 1:18:12
  have gotten five in the seventh.
• 1:18:14
  Right-hander
• 1:18:16
  Ruddy, here's the pitch, and it's
• 1:18:18
  high and inside of all.
• 1:18:20
  White, who really has improved
• 1:18:22
  his hitting going to the opposite field.
• 1:18:24
  It also busts a lot. May have an
• 1:18:26
  idea right here with two runs behind and
• 1:18:28
  Sadler home playing deep at third. He might
• 1:18:30
  bunt one. Let's see what happens.
• 1:18:32
  Here's the pitch, and it's
• 1:18:34
  low.
• 1:18:36
  Well, he gives no indication that he's going to
• 1:18:38
  bust.
• 1:18:40
  Two balls and
• 1:18:42
  no strikes.
• 1:18:48
  Nobody on, two outs.
• 1:18:50
  Right-hander delivers. Here's the pitch.
• 1:18:52
  And it's low outside, ball three.
• 1:18:54
  Mike has
• 1:18:56
  walked only one man tonight. That was McCray
• 1:18:58
  with two outs and a fifth.
• 1:19:00
  That's the first time that he's going
• 1:19:02
  3-0 on any hitter tonight.
• 1:19:06
  Right-hander Ruddy,
• 1:19:08
  here's the pitch, and it's low of all.
• 1:19:12
  He walked him on four straight pitches. That's
• 1:19:14
  the second walk given up by Mike.
• 1:19:16
  Now, the top
• 1:19:18
  of the order coming up,
• 1:19:20
  George Brett.
• 1:19:22
  Brett, who has not been really
• 1:19:24
  swinging a bad good, went 0-4
• 1:19:26
  last night. And so far,
• 1:19:28
  he has grounded a second
• 1:19:30
  place and grounded on a six at the first
• 1:19:32
  base. So that right thumb
• 1:19:34
  is really giving him trouble.
• 1:19:36
  And we thank
• 1:19:38
  Francis Enderman for the sass
• 1:19:40
  gorilla. What is that?
• 1:19:42
  Sass gorilla. Should I hum it?
• 1:19:44
  Yes.
• 1:19:48
  Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
• 1:19:50
  And it's a strike in the outside corner.
• 1:19:52
  I don't think he's going to
• 1:19:54
  throw that pitching through a corner. He's
• 1:19:56
  hitting the upper deck. Some kind of a change-up off
• 1:19:58
  speed, either a fast ball, change-up
• 1:20:00
  or a breaking ball. Jimmy, it looked like it was
• 1:20:02
  a hanging curve ball. Was it? That TV, yeah.
• 1:20:04
  It was way up there. It just
• 1:20:06
  when that thing just gets up there even in slow
• 1:20:08
  motion, slower than normal.
• 1:20:10
  Yeah, it was up letter high
• 1:20:12
  and he just popped it in the third row.
• 1:20:14
  Youngster made a great catch out there. Did he really? Yeah,
• 1:20:16
  with a bit.
• 1:20:18
  Well, we ought to put one of our fielders up there.
• 1:20:24
  Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
• 1:20:26
  And it's outside a ball. Jim Landis
• 1:20:28
  once caught a ball over the fence
• 1:20:30
  here at Kamiski Park and tumbled over when they
• 1:20:32
  had the fence out there. And I think sometime
• 1:20:34
  in your career that happened, didn't it? Yes, but
• 1:20:36
  Landis, great outfielder. One of the
• 1:20:38
  better center fielders that I've ever played against.
• 1:20:40
  Also, they had Barry here who could
• 1:20:42
  play as well as Landis.
• 1:20:46
  I didn't like that fence because they had a little
• 1:20:48
  dip for drainage in front of it. You could
• 1:20:50
  fall in it. Here's the one-one pitch.
• 1:20:52
  Swing on the grounder to...
• 1:20:54
  Nice play!
• 1:20:56
  Makes the unassisted out.
• 1:20:58
  And Brett has tried to pull
• 1:21:00
  purely four times tonight and he's out
• 1:21:02
  four times as a result.
• 1:21:04
  So, no runs, no hits.
• 1:21:06
  One left. We go to the bottom of the seventh
• 1:21:08
  lady. That's the one. Here's Mary Carey.
• 1:21:10
  Here's Mary Carey.
• 1:21:12
  Let me hear ya!
• 1:21:14
  Nice play!
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  Woo!
• 1:21:46
  Lady by the wall.
• 1:21:48
  Lady by the wall.
• 1:21:50
  Hey!
• 1:21:52
  Hey!
• 1:21:54
  Hey!
• 1:21:56
  Have we got
• 1:21:58
  time for you
• 1:22:00
  when you miss your house with us?
• 1:22:02
  Have we got time for you?
• 1:22:04
  Lord Brown and Jimmy Pearsall
• 1:22:06
  back at Comiskey Park as Claudell Washington
• 1:22:08
  takes the ball outside.
• 1:22:10
  Lady
• 1:22:12
  off the
• 1:22:14
  seventh inning. White Dock leading
• 1:22:16
  three to one. Left-handed ready.
• 1:22:18
  Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss.
• 1:22:20
  Evens it up one-and-one.
• 1:22:22
  Well, the Royals after tonight will either
• 1:22:24
  be in first by a half a game or in second
• 1:22:26
  a half a game out. White and
• 1:22:28
  Hurddock made a great compliment to Cravic.
• 1:22:30
  They, the best game, pitched against them
• 1:22:32
  in three years. When he shut them out
• 1:22:34
  last night, treated nothing and struck out nine.
• 1:22:36
  Here's the one-one pitch.
• 1:22:38
  Here's the swing and a hopper over the mound.
• 1:22:40
  White has it behind second.
• 1:22:42
  Trolls out in time as it pulls
• 1:22:44
  Lecombe off the bag and I'm sure that's going to go
• 1:22:46
  as a hit. I'm amazed that White
• 1:22:48
  even got it there in time, but it was off the bag
• 1:22:50
  towards right a little bit.
• 1:22:52
  And it's an infield hit for Claudell.
• 1:22:54
  That's the
• 1:22:56
  seventh White Dock's hit of the night.
• 1:22:58
  And the batter will be
• 1:23:00
  Tom Spencer looking down to Bobby
• 1:23:02
  Kanop for a sign.
• 1:23:04
  He'll try to sacrifice this runner over.
• 1:23:06
  Even if
• 1:23:08
  that throw hasn't on the bag,
• 1:23:10
  Claudell there had it beat out. He was really flying
• 1:23:12
  down that line. Tough play.
• 1:23:14
  Chopped right over the pitcher's mound and White got it.
• 1:23:16
  We're going to get activity in the Kansas City
• 1:23:18
  bullpen again. Here's the pitch.
• 1:23:20
  A bunt popped up.
• 1:23:22
  Squidorf has it, but Washington
• 1:23:24
  didn't get the back. He popped it right for the
• 1:23:26
  pitchers, raced off the mound in a
• 1:23:28
  hurry.
• 1:23:32
  Not a good bunt, but good defense
• 1:23:34
  on the part of Squidorf.
• 1:23:36
  I think even if he didn't get it, the catcher had a good shot
• 1:23:38
  at it.
• 1:23:40
  It was popped right between the mound and home
• 1:23:42
  play. So, one out.
• 1:23:44
  Greg Pryor the batter.
• 1:23:46
  Pryor last night. Now time is called.
• 1:23:48
  Claudell may have heard himself going back to first.
• 1:23:50
  Charlie Saad, the trainer
• 1:23:52
  going out to take a look at it.
• 1:23:56
  Tony LaRusso,
• 1:23:58
  first base coach talking. Can't tell
• 1:24:00
  exactly what the nature of the
• 1:24:02
  injury was.
• 1:24:04
  Larry Dovey, again, that same ankle
• 1:24:06
  I think he's blocking him out.
• 1:24:08
  They're going to take him out. Yep.
• 1:24:10
  He re-injured that ankle.
• 1:24:14
  So, he's going to be out of the ball game.
• 1:24:18
  They're in the seventh inning.
• 1:24:20
  Detroit leads Toronto 5-2.
• 1:24:22
  What a big double header. Toronto
• 1:24:24
  won over Detroit. The data won last night.
• 1:24:26
  They'd have been seven and a half games out.
• 1:24:28
  Detroit. Clean them out at home play.
• 1:24:30
  So, one out. Greg Pryor the
• 1:24:32
  batter.
• 1:24:34
  Pryor last night. Now time is called.
• 1:24:36
  Claudell may have heard himself going back to first.
• 1:24:38
  Charlie Saad, the trainer
• 1:24:40
  going out to take a look at it.
• 1:24:44
  Tony LaRusso,
• 1:24:46
  first base coach talking. Can't tell
• 1:24:48
  exactly what the nature of the
• 1:24:50
  injury was. Larry Dovey
• 1:24:52
  again, that same ankle I think
• 1:24:54
  blocking him out.
• 1:24:56
  They're going to take him out. Yep.
• 1:24:58
  He re-injured that ankle.
• 1:25:00
  So, he's going to be out of the ball game.
• 1:25:06
  They're in the seventh inning. Detroit
• 1:25:08
  leads Toronto 5-2. And what a big
• 1:25:10
  double header. Toronto won over Detroit.
• 1:25:12
  The data won last night. Data been seven
• 1:25:14
  and a half games out. Detroit.
• 1:25:16
  But now they're still nine.
• 1:25:18
  Big loss from Milwaukee. They were only
• 1:25:20
  six out. Texas defeated
• 1:25:22
  Minnesota on a three run home run
• 1:25:24
  in the tenth by Jim Sunberg, four to one.
• 1:25:26
  Bobby Molinaro
• 1:25:28
  is going to come in and pitch one. He is the
• 1:25:30
  leading base dealer on this club.
• 1:25:32
  So, the white side might
• 1:25:34
  have a few more options
• 1:25:36
  but now it's Molinaro. It's Bird
• 1:25:38
  that's brought out, goes to the clubhouse with that
• 1:25:40
  ankle that he re-injured.
• 1:25:42
  You got a left hand
• 1:25:44
  and a right hand are warming up on the both ends.
• 1:25:46
  It looks like
• 1:25:48
  Mangori
• 1:25:50
  and football.
• 1:25:52
  I can't get used to him in that blue youth.
• 1:25:54
  More little darker blue with Texas
• 1:25:56
  and gray with Detroit.
• 1:26:00
  How about those back to school
• 1:26:02
  utilities
• 1:26:04
  for equipment.
• 1:26:06
  It's great. It really is.
• 1:26:08
  Tomorrow night the first 15,000
• 1:26:10
  gets them.
• 1:26:12
  Here's the pitch. We're going to pop up coming back.
• 1:26:14
  Porter has the play.
• 1:26:18
  He can't get it.
• 1:26:20
  He came in too far
• 1:26:22
  it looked like. He wanted to pick up the
• 1:26:24
  fence and then go back off it.
• 1:26:26
  And when he got to the fence
• 1:26:28
  he lost the ball because he was underneath it
• 1:26:30
  and the ball just got behind him.
• 1:26:32
  A great
• 1:26:34
  pitch to like Porter still has the same trouble.
• 1:26:36
  So, Friar gets the life and many times
• 1:26:38
  when this happens,
• 1:26:40
  Gruns will score.
• 1:26:42
  All this drag last night that ignited that
• 1:26:44
  three-one rally in the eighth inning with nobody on it
• 1:26:46
  two out when he singles.
• 1:26:48
  White Sox won it three to nothing. Same thing
• 1:26:50
  happened here tonight with six. Nobody on it
• 1:26:52
  two out. Two singles and a
• 1:26:54
  double. Going a couple of runs.
• 1:26:56
  There goes the runner. Here's the pitch.
• 1:26:58
  Swung to the ground to right side. White has it.
• 1:27:00
  Paladero will stay in second and White
• 1:27:02
  throws out Friar. But they get the runner
• 1:27:04
  in scoring position.
• 1:27:06
  And they're two down.
• 1:27:08
  And the batter, Ralph Gahr
• 1:27:10
  who has tripled in three trips.
• 1:27:12
  Friar could have got a little bit more on that ball. He just
• 1:27:14
  drove it through. White made a move to his
• 1:27:16
  right but the ball was just a high hopper.
• 1:27:18
  But Friar got his job done.
• 1:27:20
  He put that run in scoring position and not a
• 1:27:22
  double play. Well, Leonard Sherman, an attorney
• 1:27:24
  here in Chicago listening to the ball game
• 1:27:26
  while at the ballpark. It's far to me
• 1:27:28
  it was Ken Berry who caught the ball and then
• 1:27:30
  slipped over the fence. Not Landis.
• 1:27:32
  Here's the pitch to Gahr. Put in the ground
• 1:27:34
  for the second. White has it
• 1:27:36
  and he throws him out. So that
• 1:27:38
  retires the side here in the seventh.
• 1:27:40
  No runs.
• 1:27:42
  One hit. One left.
• 1:27:44
  So we go to the eighth. White Sox
• 1:27:46
  in three. Kansas City one.
• 1:27:48
  The time
• 1:27:50
  that keeps coming through
• 1:27:52
  the year of the
• 1:27:54
  soul
• 1:27:56
  only one
• 1:28:06
  Kavisky Park.
• 1:28:08
  Fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty
• 1:28:10
  four here tonight.
• 1:28:12
  And Molinero
• 1:28:14
  is the main to the ballgame.
• 1:28:16
  Replacing
• 1:28:18
  Claudel Washington in right.
• 1:28:22
  And Fad Bosley comes in to play
• 1:28:24
  left field.
• 1:28:26
  So we have an outfield
• 1:28:28
  of Bosley and left.
• 1:28:30
  Center and center and Molinero in right.
• 1:28:32
  In field. Friar is at first.
• 1:28:34
  Friar at second.
• 1:28:36
  Pessinger at short. Satterholm at third.
• 1:28:38
  And Mike Colbert
• 1:28:40
  behind the plate. And we look down
• 1:28:42
  to the Kansas City bullpen.
• 1:28:44
  Marty Patz for the right hander.
• 1:28:46
  And Doug Byrd a right hander.
• 1:28:48
  A warming up. Waleba White Sox bullpen.
• 1:28:50
  Laren Legro a right hander.
• 1:28:52
  And Pablo Torrealba a left hander warming up
• 1:28:54
  for the White Sox. Hal McCray leads
• 1:28:56
  it off in the eighth. White Sox leading
• 1:28:58
  three to one.
• 1:29:00
  He's 0 for 2 tonight. Got on on a walk his
• 1:29:02
  last time up.
• 1:29:06
  Here's a 1-0 picture. The swing and a
• 1:29:08
  one hopper to Kessinger.
• 1:29:10
  Throws him out. It wasn't that easy.
• 1:29:12
  That ball hopped about three feet in front of him
• 1:29:14
  and came up quickly. But he glubbed
• 1:29:16
  it about waist high and throws him out for the
• 1:29:18
  first out of the inning.
• 1:29:24
  Will
• 1:29:26
  Lombardo who's now directing the
• 1:29:28
  Glenn Lombardo and Royal Canadian
• 1:29:30
  Orchestra here tonight
• 1:29:32
  along with other fellows in the band.
• 1:29:34
  Rich Atkins, Les Clark and Rich
• 1:29:36
  Chiminko. Hopefully the White Sox
• 1:29:38
  win here tonight.
• 1:29:40
  Pete LaCocca batter 1 for 3 tonight.
• 1:29:42
  Pitch 1 to left center field in the first
• 1:29:44
  pitch going way back. Spencer
• 1:29:46
  he's there. He's got it.
• 1:29:48
  And keeps left center field on the grass.
• 1:29:52
  The LaCocca gave that a ride.
• 1:29:54
  That is only the fourth put out by
• 1:29:56
  an outfielder here tonight.
• 1:29:58
  And slowly has kept the ball low.
• 1:30:02
  Ken and Patty Kramer. They're four children
• 1:30:04
  of Marion, Illinois at the ballpark.
• 1:30:08
  Ken Burley,
• 1:30:10
  Pinsach. Five years old.
• 1:30:14
  Here
• 1:30:16
  her first ballgame.
• 1:30:18
  P-I-E-T-R-Z-A-K.
• 1:30:20
  And the internal revenue
• 1:30:22
  agents accept organizations and employee
• 1:30:24
  plan divisions are at the ballpark tonight.
• 1:30:30
  And the good old boys
• 1:30:32
  from the community family centers
• 1:30:34
  are in attendance. And we appreciate
• 1:30:36
  Leonard Sherman passing up that note on Ken
• 1:30:38
  Burley. As Jimmy said, not much
• 1:30:40
  different from the defensive abilities of
• 1:30:42
  Jim Landis and Ken Burley.
• 1:30:44
  With great years with the White Sox.
• 1:30:48
  Right hander ready. Here's the pitch.
• 1:30:50
  I think Landis played at this ballpark
• 1:30:52
  more when it was wide
• 1:30:54
  open than Burley did.
• 1:30:56
  Meaning the
• 1:30:58
  defense was not at center field that much when
• 1:31:00
  Landis was here opposed to when Ken
• 1:31:02
  Burley was here. I may be mistaken, but I'm almost
• 1:31:04
  certain that Landis played
• 1:31:06
  more in this park
• 1:31:08
  with a 445 to straight away center.
• 1:31:10
  Al Collins, one
• 1:31:12
  for three tonight, bows off
• 1:31:14
  the first pitch. Here's the second offering by
• 1:31:16
  Burley. And it's outside of all.
• 1:31:20
  The White Sox that shut out Kansas City
• 1:31:22
  for 17 straight innings
• 1:31:24
  before Porter, Holbert, and the fourth.
• 1:31:26
  Now Burley is shutting out.
• 1:31:32
  Since that time, that was a lead off
• 1:31:34
  homer. Here's the pitch swing and a fly ball
• 1:31:36
  lost at the right center. Spencer coming over.
• 1:31:38
  Molinaro coming over and Spencer
• 1:31:40
  takes it. And that
• 1:31:42
  retires the side. One, two, three.
• 1:31:44
  As the Royals go down
• 1:31:46
  in order. And that is
• 1:31:48
  only the second time they've been set down in order
• 1:31:50
  tonight. So we go to the bottom
• 1:31:52
  of the eighth. The White Sox three, Kansas
• 1:31:54
  City one.
• 1:32:54
  The best
• 1:33:24
  point.
• 1:33:26
  Brown back at Tumiski Park as we go to the bottom
• 1:33:28
  of the eighth. Paul Splendor faces
• 1:33:30
  John Kessinger here. White Sox
• 1:33:32
  leading three to one. Here's the swing and a fly ball
• 1:33:34
  left center field of the base hit. Porter's
• 1:33:36
  over to cut it off. Here goes Kessinger
• 1:33:38
  headed for second. Now he stops and goes back
• 1:33:40
  to first. The White Sox get
• 1:33:42
  their lead off man on.
• 1:33:44
  A pair of right handers in the bullpen for
• 1:33:46
  the Royals. Marty Patton and Doug Byrd.
• 1:33:48
  Rather Steve
• 1:33:50
  Foucault continue to throw.
• 1:33:52
  Kessinger with his second hit of the
• 1:33:54
  ninth.
• 1:33:56
  Looking ahead to the Kansas City
• 1:33:58
  ninth Ohio.
• 1:34:00
  Gerald Porter, Clint Hurdle and Amos
• 1:34:02
  Ode. Two left handers
• 1:34:04
  and a right hander to face right
• 1:34:06
  hander Mike Brody.
• 1:34:10
  Mike Squires the batter. He
• 1:34:12
  triggered that two run rally.
• 1:34:14
  And the six inning with nobody on and two out with a
• 1:34:16
  single and the pitch to him is a strike on the outside
• 1:34:18
  Porter. After he had struck out
• 1:34:20
  right almost made a great play on the ball
• 1:34:22
  but it just got over his outstretched
• 1:34:24
  right center.
• 1:34:26
  That Johnson single that
• 1:34:28
  Sonderholt doubled the left as Hurdle
• 1:34:32
  made a poor attempt on the ball. There's a big
• 1:34:34
  break. Here goes the runner outside of
• 1:34:36
  ball. Throw to second. Goes in standing
• 1:34:38
  to stolen base.
• 1:34:40
  Doug Kessinger with a stolen base.
• 1:34:44
  I don't think they really expected Kessinger
• 1:34:46
  to be going here with nobody out and the
• 1:34:48
  fact that he is thirty six years old
• 1:34:50
  that is his second stolen base
• 1:34:52
  of the year. So now the
• 1:34:54
  White Sox with a runner in scoring position
• 1:34:56
  and nobody out.
• 1:35:00
  Here's the pitch.
• 1:35:02
  Outside of all two and one.
• 1:35:06
  White Sox hoping to add an insurance run here
• 1:35:08
  in the eighth inning.
• 1:35:12
  Sox has defeated Kansas City. Six out of
• 1:35:14
  eleven games this year.
• 1:35:20
  Left handed ready. Here's the two one pitch.
• 1:35:22
  And it is fouled off
• 1:35:24
  the left side by
• 1:35:26
  Squires as he was trying to put
• 1:35:28
  Kessinger over to third.
• 1:35:34
  It's the final game of the year between the
• 1:35:36
  Royals and the White Sox here in Chicago.
• 1:35:38
  White Sox will be in Kansas City
• 1:35:40
  Monday, Tuesday
• 1:35:42
  and Wednesday night.
• 1:35:44
  We'll have Smootorf going against the Sox
• 1:35:46
  for the fifth time this year.
• 1:35:48
  Not Monday.
• 1:35:50
  Left handed ready.
• 1:35:52
  The two two delivery.
• 1:35:54
  Swing and a foul coming up stairs below it.
• 1:35:56
  And a couple of fans
• 1:35:58
  battle for it.
• 1:36:00
  The man who got it
• 1:36:02
  stuck it gets it. Guy who
• 1:36:04
  touched it first just has a red hand.
• 1:36:06
  Nothing more, nothing less.
• 1:36:12
  Two-tip account.
• 1:36:14
  Smootorf ready. Out of the stretch. Kessinger
• 1:36:16
  with the lead off the second. Here's the pitch
• 1:36:18
  Squires. Put in another foul
• 1:36:20
  this time to the left of it.
• 1:36:22
  Fans dropped it
• 1:36:24
  in the first row of that back
• 1:36:26
  section in the upper deck.
• 1:36:28
  And the fan in the back row of the first section
• 1:36:30
  grabbed it.
• 1:36:32
  So we've had a couple of errors
• 1:36:34
  in the upper deck.
• 1:36:36
  Here in the eighth.
• 1:36:38
  Smootorf ready.
• 1:36:40
  Two-two pitch.
• 1:36:42
  Halt strike free. Stuck him out for the
• 1:36:44
  third time tonight.
• 1:36:50
  Now Mike a little disgusted
• 1:36:52
  but he battled him in that last inning
• 1:36:54
  and last time he was up
• 1:36:56
  and singled that trigger the two run rally
• 1:36:58
  which has the White Sox out at front now
• 1:37:00
  as Whitey Herzog
• 1:37:02
  comes to the mound and right-hander Lamar
• 1:37:04
  Johnson is up.
• 1:37:06
  So he I would imagine
• 1:37:08
  will bring in either Foucault
• 1:37:10
  or Marty Patton
• 1:37:12
  pair of right-handers for both ends.
• 1:37:18
  He wants Foucault
• 1:37:20
  right-hander to come in to face Lamar Johnson
• 1:37:22
  here in the eighth with the White Sox
• 1:37:24
  leading by a score
• 1:37:26
  of three to one. We'll be back
• 1:37:28
  in a minute. Is that you Selma?
• 1:37:30
  Yes it is.
• 1:37:32
  Still on the shopping for the party now?
• 1:37:34
  Yes I am.
• 1:37:36
  Pardon me.
• 1:37:38
  Who is this man?
• 1:37:40
  This man here.
• 1:37:42
  I promised him a
• 1:37:44
  J's potato chips.
• 1:37:46
  See at the market your wife bought all of the J's
• 1:37:48
  on the shelf for your party and the little
• 1:37:50
  you left for me.
• 1:37:52
  J's are not like J's.
• 1:37:54
  J's are made from thinly sliced
• 1:37:56
  fresh whole potatoes.
• 1:37:58
  I brought my wife home for potato chips.
• 1:38:00
  They're cooked in corn oil and cottonseed oil.
• 1:38:02
  Tastes great.
• 1:38:04
  Here you are.
• 1:38:06
  Thank you.
• 1:38:08
  I could finish it outside in the rain.
• 1:38:10
  Would you like another one?
• 1:38:12
  I wonder if you have any milk and house Selma?
• 1:38:14
  Oh sure.
• 1:38:16
  How about a sandwich?
• 1:38:18
  Thank you.
• 1:38:20
  I'll be very happy.
• 1:38:22
  J's the natural potato chips.
• 1:38:24
  You're for real.
• 1:38:28
  Steve Funkkopf comes in for Kansas City.
• 1:38:30
  They've just picked him up on waivers
• 1:38:32
  for the Detroit Tigers.
• 1:38:34
  He replaces Paul Spudorf.
• 1:38:36
  Spudorf went seven in a third innings.
• 1:38:38
  He allowed all white shots three runs.
• 1:38:40
  On eight hits he walked the man
• 1:38:42
  and he struck out three.
• 1:38:44
  And he is responsible for the runner
• 1:38:46
  over at second base.
• 1:38:52
  Now Funkkopf with Detroit had one-two lost four
• 1:38:58
  with four saves.
• 1:39:02
  With an earned run average of 3.37.
• 1:39:04
  They don't have any stats on them
• 1:39:06
  for Kansas City so I will imagine
• 1:39:08
  this is his first appearance
• 1:39:10
  with the Kansas City Royals.
• 1:39:18
  Pittsburgh defeated Atlanta tonight
• 1:39:20
  5-1.
• 1:39:22
  Ten victories in a row for the Pirates.
• 1:39:24
  And they have now moved into an identical tie
• 1:39:30
  for second place with the Cubs.
• 1:39:36
  Both clubs with a record of 63 wins against 62 on.
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  The Pirates are coming, tra la la la.
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  Bob Glass is with Associated Press here in Chicago
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  informing us that the Pirates have a much easier way to go
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  than either the Bullies or the Cubs.
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  Lamar Johnson the batter facing Funkkopf
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  making his first appearance for the Kansas City Royals.
• 1:40:08
  Flylevin was the winner in that Pirate game.
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  He's now 11-8.
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  Mikro the loser five and 14.
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  Here's the pitch.
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  Here's a swing and a long drive.
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  Be out of play into the seat.
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  Lamar touching that ball to the left.
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  Really not a lot of oop behind him.
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  And an art foul.
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  Cincinnati has changed pitchers in the eighth.
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  Cardinals leading 4-3.
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  Bears come on the pitch.
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  Right-hander ready.
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  Here's the one strike pitch.
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  Here's a swing and a base hit into the left center field.
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  Here comes the runner around the score.
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  Lamar makes the turn at first and comes back.
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  And it's a 4-1 ballgame.
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  So Whitey Herzog going with the percentages
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  bringing in the right-hander to face the right-handed hitter.
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  And it didn't work.
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  And that run is charged to Swidor.
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  So Swidor's total statistics for the night,
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  seven and a third in each pitch, four runs on eight hits.
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  The man is struck out three.
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  And the batter is Eric Sonderholm,
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  who up until Lamar's RBI singles has driven in all three White Sox
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  runs tonight with a pair of doubles.
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  Double Homer running the fourth to tie the game.
• 1:41:27
  Double Homer two in the sixth to get the White Sox to lead 3-1.
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  Now up there with the White Sox leading 4-1.
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  And a runner at first with one out here in the bottom half of the eighth inning.
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  And now Foucault wants to talk to his catcher, Darryl Porter.
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  Another baseball today.
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  Cleveland beat Milwaukee.
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  Andre Thornton, a home run in the 11th, 9-8.
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  Texas beat Minnesota 4-1, a three-run homer by Sundberg in the 10th.
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  And tonight Detroit leading Toronto 5-2 in the ninth.
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  And the White Sox leading Kansas City 4-1 in the eighth.
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  Check the National League for you in a moment.
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  Foucault working out of the stretch delivers, and it's up high of all.
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  The Pirates won their tenth in a row, beating Atlanta 5-1,
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  moving into a second place tie with the Idol Cup.
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  Cardinals now leading Cincinnati 4-3.
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  That game has now moved into the bottom of the eighth.
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  Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
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  Inside of all, ball two.
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  Metfleet San Diego 1-0 at the end of one.
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  Philadelphia just underway in Los Angeles.
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  And we've been informed that pitcher Don Sutton has called the news conference
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  to apologize publicly to Steve Garvey for the remarks that he made about it
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  in a newspaper article on the result fight between the two.
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  Here's the two.
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  Oh, pitch.
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  Going alongside the left hurdle is there to his left,
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  and he's got it about 10 feet in front of the warning track in left field.
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  And there's two down.
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  Two out, and Mike Colburn the batter.
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  He has flied out the center, flied out the left, and popped up the short.
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  0-3 tonight.
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  Not only has Sutton made some unkind remarks about Garvey
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  as well as his family in the newspaper, but he's got a radio show out in L.A.
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  and he has gone after him on that.
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  Just a matter of jealousy on the part of Sutton and a couple of the Dodgers,
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  including Bill Buckner now with the Cubs, who used to be a Dodger.
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  Here's the pitch swing and a miss.
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  It was Garvey, you know, who moved Buckner off the first base
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  and made him expendable.
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  That's one of the reasons they were able to trade him to the Cubs.
• 1:43:40
  He was upset at Garvey over that.
• 1:43:42
  Here's the pitch outside of all.
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  How in the world, anybody, if you legitimately get beat out
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  for a position to be upset or replaced in a job,
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  it's beyond me.
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  But at any rate, Sutton, when I give him credit for it,
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  apologized publicly tonight before that game to Garvey.
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  Here's the pitch outside of all.
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  Two balls and a strike.
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  Never be afraid to admit you're wrong.
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  Mr. Sutton did that tonight.
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  Here's the pitch outside, three and one.
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  Bad one here with foot runners at first and second.
• 1:44:30
  Bring up the left-hander, Bob Molinaro.
• 1:44:34
  The left-hander of the Kansas City Bullpen replaced Pucall
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  when he came in the ball game, and that's Steve Mingori.
• 1:44:40
  Marty Patton, the right-hander, still throwing.
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  Right-hander ready.
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  Here's the pitch.
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  Here's the swing and a base hit down the left-field line.
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  Lamar Johnson holds up the second as Hurdle charges the ball
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  and gets it into the infield.
• 1:44:54
  That's the second hit off of Pucall, and here comes Whitey Herzog.
• 1:45:00
  And he's going to bring in the left-hander, Mingori, to face Molinaro.
• 1:45:05
  So Pucall fits the third of an inning.
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  He's allowed two hits.
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  It's responsible for the two runners, Coburn at first
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  and Lamar Johnson at second.
• 1:45:17
  Four to one, the White backs out in front here.
• 1:45:21
  Mingori making his 37th appearance of the year.
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  He's won one.
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  He's lost three.
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  He's saved seven for the Royals, which his second hide is Robovsky's 16.
• 1:45:34
  And he has an earned run average of 2.68.
• 1:45:42
  So Pucall, making his first appearance as a Royal,
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  allows two hits that resulted in a run scoring charged to split orbs
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  in a third of an inning.
• 1:45:58
  Mingori this year has pitched a total of six innings against the White Sox,
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  allowing only one run on five hits.
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  He's walked a man and struck out three.
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  Has the third best earned run average against the White Sox for any of the Royals,
• 1:46:17
  according to their reports, ERA of 1.50.
• 1:46:21
  So manager Whitey Herzog, again, playing the percentages
• 1:46:25
  that backfired on him earlier this inning.
• 1:46:31
  Well, the Fox the Gram reminding the fans that Boston is going to be in concert here
• 1:46:34
  on Saturday, September 2nd.
• 1:46:36
  White Sox will be out of town.
• 1:46:38
  I guess Santana is going to be here also, as well as...
• 1:46:44
  Eddie Bunney.
• 1:46:52
  Well, Len Sherman, who's Leon Sherman, who's listening tonight here at the ballpark,
• 1:46:56
  we're talking about defense.
• 1:47:00
  For some reason I thought that the center field was all the way to 445
• 1:47:06
  as part of Landis's career, but he says no, it was 415 feet when Landis played here.
• 1:47:12
  Then when Mary was here, it stated 415, then they moved it in to about 400.
• 1:47:18
  I guess that's why I remember Landis on the warning track.
• 1:47:21
  Here's a pitch of foot coming in as Brett, he's got it.
• 1:47:24
  Paul Harrow trying to put his way on.
• 1:47:27
  Punched it right into the net of George Brett, and that retires the side.
• 1:47:30
  In the inning, White Sox at an insurance run on three hits, no errors, two men left on.
• 1:47:37
  So we go to the ninth, it's the White Sox for Kansas City 1.
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• 1:48:12
  A very stylish little number.
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  The new Chevy Monza, $3,659, for a car so sporty and so well equipped, its price surprisingly low.
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  See your local Chevrolet leader now.
• 1:48:41
  Lord Brown back at Kaniski Park as we go to the ninth, it'll be Darrell Porter,
• 1:48:45
  Quinn Hurdle, and Amos Otis, two left-handers and a right-hander to face Mike Brolick.
• 1:48:50
  In the bullpen for the White Sox, right-hander Laren LeGro.
• 1:48:55
  White Sox out in front here by a score of 4 to 1.
• 1:49:00
  Now talking about Landis and Berry, two outstanding centerfielders along the ilk of Johnny Mostel years ago.
• 1:49:11
  And we appreciate Leon Sherman's help in that matter.
• 1:49:15
  I didn't get a chance to see those guys that much because I was downstate at St. Louis Cardinal games most of the time.
• 1:49:23
  Working in Springfield and Peoria, and we didn't get too many White Sox color-casts in those days down there.
• 1:49:30
  WMAQ wasn't broadcasting the White Sox in those days.
• 1:49:35
  Darrell Porter tonight is two for three.
• 1:49:37
  He's accounted for the lone Kansas City run with a leadoff homer in the fourth inning.
• 1:49:41
  The White Sox had shut the Royals out for 17 innings when they hit that home run.
• 1:49:50
  White Sox now allowed Kansas City only one run in the last 22 innings.
• 1:50:05
  Schuller shut them out for three and two-thirds the other night.
• 1:50:08
  Wilber shut them out for two innings.
• 1:50:10
  Wilber Wood, Kravick shut them out on three hits and nine innings last night.
• 1:50:14
  And Broly has allowed only one run and eight innings here tonight, and that being the home run by Porter.
• 1:50:19
  Right-hander into the windup.
• 1:50:21
  Here's the pitch, and it's low.
• 1:50:23
  This is the only American League game going on right now as the Tigers have just defeated Toronto 5-2.
• 1:50:29
  Wilcox over more. Jason Thompson, the game's only homer, is 23rd of the year.
• 1:50:34
  Here's the 1-0 pitch, swinging a foul on a play at the upper deck on the left side near the skybox.
• 1:50:41
  One ball, one strike in the batter.
• 1:50:51
  Right-hander goes into the windup.
• 1:50:54
  Here's the pitch.
• 1:50:55
  Swing and a miss, right-two.
• 1:50:57
  That ball moving in on the left-handed hitter.
• 1:51:00
  Kansas City on Porter's home run took the lead in the top of the fourth, 1-0.
• 1:51:09
  But Eric Soderholm doubles home Ralph Gahr, who had tripled in the fourth to tie it up.
• 1:51:14
  Here's the 1-2 pitch outside of all.
• 1:51:17
  And the White Sox on Soderholm's second double of the night.
• 1:51:21
  Sits the lead in the sixth with two runs after Sox had nobody on and two out, and they rallied for two.
• 1:51:27
  Then Lamar Johnson, single homer, running the eighth to make it four to one.
• 1:51:30
  Here's the 2-2 delivery.
• 1:51:31
  Swing to the grounder, right side.
• 1:51:33
  Prior to his left has it.
• 1:51:34
  Throws, he got it.
• 1:51:37
  One out, two to go.
• 1:51:40
  As Clint Hurdle steps up, he has swung out to the left twice.
• 1:51:45
  He's grounded into a 3-6-3 double play and defensively he overran a ball in the left field corner,
• 1:51:53
  dropped to his left at the base of the wall that allowed the White Sox to score two runs.
• 1:51:58
  A ball was catchable.
• 1:52:02
  And that gave the White Sox the lead.
• 1:52:03
  Here's the pitch, swinging a foul out of play as it goes on the roof over the skybox.
• 1:52:12
  Four to one.
• 1:52:13
  White Sox out in front.
• 1:52:14
  They've out-hit the Royals 10 to 6.
• 1:52:21
  Here's the pitch.
• 1:52:22
  Swing to the grounder, takes a high hop into right field of base in.
• 1:52:25
  Prior to his left, couldn't come up with it as it took a high hop over his mid.
• 1:52:31
  And the Royals have a runner at first with one out, and Amos Otis the batter.
• 1:52:37
  Otis one for three tonight.
• 1:52:40
  Boy, Prior got a good jump on that ball that was there, but it high hopped him.
• 1:52:45
  He had to be about 6-3 in order to get that one.
• 1:52:50
  And the batter is Amos Otis, singled in the second, slide out the center in the fourth,
• 1:52:55
  and grounded to third in the seventh.
• 1:53:00
  Washington is going to run for hurdle.
• 1:53:07
  UL Washington running here.
• 1:53:12
  Washington has stolen 11 bases.
• 1:53:16
  They've got Willie Wilson on the bench.
• 1:53:18
  He has stolen 35, but the word is that Washington is the better base runner,
• 1:53:23
  though sheer speed it's Willie Wilson.
• 1:53:29
  His run really doesn't mean that much.
• 1:53:34
  Right hander ready, here's the pitch, runner not going, swing and a foul off to the right side.
• 1:53:44
  Ready, pot deck in the on deck circle.
• 1:53:49
  White Sox leading 4-1 trying to win the series, two games to one.
• 1:53:56
  It's a great season series here at Kavisky Park, 4-3 with a victory tonight.
• 1:54:01
  It would also put the Royals in second place.
• 1:54:04
  Right hander ready, runner not going, here's the pitch, swing and a base hit to the left.
• 1:54:07
  Now the Royals have a trying run up in the form of Freddie Potteck as Pat Mosley gets the ball back into the infield
• 1:54:13
  as Otis pulls the single to the left.
• 1:54:19
  And now Larry Doby, White Sox manager, goes to the mound.
• 1:54:25
  It's not a grow or right hander down in the bullpen.
• 1:54:30
  The White Sox at one time had a slew of left-handed reliefers, but right now
• 1:54:38
  Pablo Torreal with Wilbur Woods.
• 1:54:43
  Left handers in the starting rotation are Baumgart and Craving.
• 1:54:53
  Doby going to keep them in, we're going to get a pinch hitter here.
• 1:55:01
  Steve Braun is going to pinch hit for Potteck.
• 1:55:08
  Potteck was 0-3 against Foley, so Herzog going with the percentages, going with Steve Braun
• 1:55:15
  who they acquired for Jim Colbert from Seattle earlier this year.
• 1:55:20
  Hitting 268 with the Royals with 11 RBIs.
• 1:55:25
  Hitting 248 overall for the year, three homers, 26 RBIs.
• 1:55:30
  He represents the tying run.
• 1:55:34
  We're in the ninth.
• 1:55:37
  Right hander ready, here's the pitch and it's lower ball.
• 1:55:42
  Foley got Porter and Hurdle.
• 1:55:45
  Got out of the base hit, Washington running for him and Otis single to left.
• 1:55:50
  The tying run is at the plate.
• 1:55:55
  Right hander ready, working out of the stretch.
• 1:55:58
  Here's the pitch and that's the strike.
• 1:56:02
  He was up to Braun, one ball, one strike.
• 1:56:05
  Frank White in the on-deck circle.
• 1:56:08
  Legro continues to loosen up, White Sox will bend.
• 1:56:16
  White Sox has turned over one double play tonight, a second in this situation with F the ballgame.
• 1:56:21
  Right hander ready, here's the pitch, swinging it louder to third, going to second for one, relay, not in time.
• 1:56:35
  So Otis, the middle man, has retired five to four.
• 1:56:43
  Larry Dolby walking towards the umpire.
• 1:56:47
  Now he goes to the mound.
• 1:56:50
  Apparently Pryor got stepped on.
• 1:56:55
  Well, they're talking to Foley.
• 1:56:58
  Something happened to Foley.
• 1:57:09
  We're going to get a pitch hitter for Frank White.
• 1:57:12
  I don't know what Foley did to himself.
• 1:57:15
  Paul was grounded to Sotterholm.
• 1:57:21
  Sotterholm on that play, one for the double play, the second on the first, and they didn't get it.
• 1:57:26
  He had a chance to tag the runner, Washington, coming down the line.
• 1:57:31
  But he thought he could get the double play and the White Sox just didn't miss getting it.
• 1:57:35
  So the Royals have runners at first and third, and Laren Legro comes in for Foley here.
• 1:57:43
  With two out and two on, he had the name.
• 1:57:50
  What happened to Foley, we know not.
• 1:57:53
  He might have done something with his ankle the way he was walking off, I don't know.
• 1:58:00
  But Charlie Satt spotted it right away and went out to the mound.
• 1:58:06
  Tom Moquette from Oclair, Wisconsin, a left-hander.
• 1:58:11
  We'll pitch hit here.
• 1:58:14
  And the ninth with representing the tying run.
• 1:58:22
  He's at first and third and two out.
• 1:58:24
  Moquette hitting 205.
• 1:58:26
  He's hit three homers and driven in 25 runs.
• 1:58:29
  Frank White, while he was in there with one for two, he had singles grounded out to short.
• 1:58:33
  And they also got on on a walk.
• 1:58:39
  At the bottom of the ninth at Cincinnati, the Cardinals leading the Reds 4-3.
• 1:58:44
  The Pirates defeated Atlanta 5-1 tonight for their 10th straight.
• 1:58:47
  They moved into a tie for second with the Cubs.
• 1:58:51
  The Reds beat San Diego 1-0 at the end of two.
• 1:58:53
  The Phillies at Los Angeles just underway.
• 1:58:55
  Those are the only games in the National League tonight.
• 1:58:57
  Everything in the American League is over, with the exception of this game.
• 1:59:01
  This afternoon, Texas over Minnesota 4-1.
• 1:59:03
  Cleveland beat Milwaukee 9-8.
• 1:59:05
  And tonight, the Tigers snap Toronto's.
• 1:59:09
  Winning straight to sixth straight, defeating the Blue Jays 5-2.
• 1:59:14
  So Po kept the batter.
• 1:59:17
  And Pete Bukovic and the Cardinals just beat Cincinnati 4-3.
• 1:59:20
  The Reds are all over.
• 1:59:21
  Here's the pitch.
• 1:59:23
  Here's a swing and a fly ball to the right.
• 1:59:25
  Bolinero is there.
• 1:59:26
  This should be the ball game.
• 1:59:28
  He's got it.
• 1:59:29
  That's win.
• 1:59:31
  They have allowed the Kansas City Royals only one run in the last 23 innings of the
• 1:59:36
  season, two games to one.
• 1:59:50
  In the inning, no runs, two hits, no errors, two men left on.
• 1:59:56
  And 14,524 leave the ballpark on a happy note.
• 2:00:02
  The White Sox hit the season series against the Royals here in Chicago, four games to
• 2:00:06
  three.
• 2:00:07
  And we'll be back in just a minute with the Cardinals and the Highline.