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1966-Jun-10 - WAS/CLE - Washington Senators vs Cleveland Indians - Siebert No Hitter - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons
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  .com for more sports history. On Friday, June
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  10, 1966, the Washington Senators played against
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  the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium for
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  a Friday night game. The Senators were managed
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  by Gil Hodges and entered the game with a 23
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  -32 record and were starting Phil Ortega on the
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  mound. The Cleveland Indians, managed by Bertie
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  Tebbets, were competing for first place against
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  the Baltimore Orioles and came to the game with
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  a 31 -18 record. Sonny Siebert would take the
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  mound for the Indians. This audio recording is
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  from the radio broadcast featuring announcers
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  Jimmy Dudley and Bob Neal. Siebert is making
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  his 11th start of the year and his second against
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  Washington. He's four and three, and like Tiant
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  was last night and Bell was before his last start,
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  looking for that elusive number five victory.
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  Baldwin is outside and low. King has been kicking
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  up a little fuss. Lately, as his batting average
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  up to .277, four home runs and five doubles.
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  Left -hand batter swings and pops one foul. First
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  base side. Whitfield giving it a chase, but the
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  wind has it and takes it back into the crowd.
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  So the count will be ball one and strike one.
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  Gosh, you know that a total of 37 Farmer baseball
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  greats have already... signified that they are
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  going to be here for Sunday's old -timers game.
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  Bobby Avila, Vic Wertz, Larry Doby, and Johnny
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  Pesky are the latest to accept invitations. Here's
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  the pitch. Foul tip in the dirt, off his foot.
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  The count is ball one and strike two. Three other
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  former favorites accepted just a few hours earlier.
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  Joe Smoke Gordon, Bob Lemon. and Eddie Yost,
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  the guy that's coaching down at third. Naturally,
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  he's got to be here. The old -timers will play
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  their game at 1 .30 Sunday afternoon with the
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  regular Cleveland -Washington game following.
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  Avila, last Indian to win the American League
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  batting championship, is coming up from Mexico,
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  where he is president and field manager of the
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  Puebla Club. Ground ball hit to the right side
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  of the infield. Long hop taken by Hauser. Throw
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  to first, and King is out. Side retired. That
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  went on a 4 -3 play. Three up and three down,
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  nothing across. The Indians coming to bat in
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  the last half of the first inning. The score,
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  Washington nothing, Cleveland nothing. You know,
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  talking about the old time of game Sunday and
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  the fact that Avila, Wertz, and Doby have accepted
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  invitations, interesting to note that all three
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  of these men were honored as Cleveland Baseball
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  Writers Men of the Year. Doby in 50, Avila in
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  54, Wertz in 1956. Dobie was the first Negro
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  to play in the American League. He broke in with
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  the Indians in 1947. What a year he had in 1952
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  and in 1954. They'll all be here. Vic Wertz led
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  the tribe in home runs and runs batted in. Two
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  years, 56 and 57. But a host of others. Here
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  we go in the Indians' half of the first inning.
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  Phil Ortega, the right -hander, delivers. Pitch
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  is swung on to drive. Fly ball to right field.
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  Not too far for King. He's back under it, and
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  he makes the catch. Looked good when it left
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  the bat, but it didn't carry. Routine fly ball,
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  it turned out. Phil Ortega and Pete Rickard give
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  the Senators two fine pitches and a good lefty
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  -righty combination. In fact, they hold the part
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  of a rather remarkable record. In the history
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  of the American League, there have been only
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  four instances where pitches have struck out
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  seven consecutive batters. Ortega is one of them.
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  Rickard is another. They both pitch for the same
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  club. Ortega fires a strike down to Chico Simone,
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  now batting. Chico batting .242. And trying to
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  get out of the way of that inside pitch, it fouls
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  off the bat, counters two strikes. Rickard whiffs
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  seven Detroit Tigers on the 24th of April. And
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  Ortega followed May 29th when he struck out seven
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  consecutive Red Sox. And a... Now it is two strikes.
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  We get the sign from the umpire. The pitch outside.
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  A Washington mathematician figured out the odds
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  against this business of two pitchers striking
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  out seven men in a row, two pitchers on the same
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  club. You know what the odds against it were?
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  25 ,000 to one. The pitch is swung on. Popped
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  up into shallow center. Right back of second.
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  The wind will hold it up. The shortstop Brinkman
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  is under it and he has it for out number two.
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  Leon Wagner's at bat. First pitch swinging a
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  high pop foul off to the left and the wind carries
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  it out of play. Casanova gave it a try, but this
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  wind is still quite strong here off the lake.
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  You know, you've got to believe it's pretty tough
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  to strike out seven batters in a row. Sometimes
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  it's tough to strike out seven batters, period.
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  Ortega's pitch. Ball one outside. Ball one and
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  strike one. Phil Ortega, the tall right -hander.
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  Delivers a strike. Fastball, letter high to the
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  outside corner. Wags is in a slump so badly.
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  He says, I'm swinging when I should be taking
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  and I'm taking when I should be swinging. The
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  old story. You're looking for the right zigzag
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  and you can't get them together. One and two
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  pitch. Swung on and there goes a long drive to
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  a right field. He didn't zig on that one. He
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  zagged, baby. been suffering in the throws of
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  a slump that had seen his batting average down
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  to 259. This is number six, his sixth home run.
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  The batter now is Max Alves, right hand hitting
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  third baseman. He bunched to the third base side,
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  coming in fast, the first baseman, a one -handed
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  pickup, not in time with a throw. Base hit for
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  Max Alves. He caught Bob Savarin sitting back
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  on his heels, playing in a deep position. Here's
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  another way of saying it. And Max laid down a
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  bunt, beat it out for base in. You catch that
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  third baseman back there. It's a beautiful spot.
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  It also opens the way for another guy who swings
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  from the left side. Fred Whitfield. Batting .243.
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  Swing and a foul back to the screen. The Indians
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  lead 1 -0. Wagner is now tied with Whitfield
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  with six home runs apiece. Alvis still leads
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  the club in hits with 47. That was his 47. Runner
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  on. The pitch is too low. Ball one. Would you
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  believe it? Fred Whitfield took a pitch. I mean,
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  it was over the plate, but it was a little low.
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  Wingy likes to swing at all of them. Whitfield
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  leads the club and runs batted in. A total of
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  26. He's way ahead in that department. Ten ahead
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  of Calavito and Alvis. Throw the first by Ortega.
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  Ortega has won five and lost two. The pitch is
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  a changeup. Ball two high and outside. Ball two
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  and strike one. The pitch is fouled back into
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  the upper stands. Be alive up there. Whoops.
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  People falling. Ball two and strike two. Ortega's
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  full name is Filomino Coronado. Coronado. He's
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  6 '4". Born in Gilbert, Arizona. Ortega, you
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  know, was signed originally by the Dodgers. They
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  landed him for a $70 ,000 bonus. The pitch, swing
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  and a miss. He struck him out. Fred Whitfield
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  goes down swinging. Side is retired. The Indians
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  get a run on two hits. One left. End of one.
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  It is Cleveland 1, Washington nothing. Now we
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  move into the first half of the second inning.
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  Frank Howard will be leading off for Washington.
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  Happy to hear the good words from Sergeant W
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  .D. Morris, State Highway Patrol, Columbus, Ohio.
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  Enjoying the ball game? A lot of teachers here
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  tonight, and we're mighty happy to have them
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  with us. The batter up is Frank Howard, standing
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  in, the jolly, gentle giant. Right -hand batter,
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  average .269. He takes the strike. Curveball
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  hitting the outside corner. It was interesting
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  reading the bit about Mickey Mantle's comments
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  on Gary Bell and Bell's terrific slider, which
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  he was showing the other night. Bell had it working
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  perfectly. Fouled in the dirt. Two strikes. Bell
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  was making his slider hit the spots that he wanted
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  to hit with it. That's terrific. ball one outside.
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  One and two count. Wind up on the one and two.
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  Pitch a swing and he misses. Struck him out.
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  So he got the big one. Howard. Has hit seven
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  home runs this year. Sure good to see Dale Mitchell
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  and his son Dudley here at tonight's ballgame.
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  First he's here for the old -timers game. The
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  batter is Dick Ninn. First baseman. Left -hand
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  batter. Average 2 -12. He looks at a strike.
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  Boy, he let a beauty go by right down the middle.
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  Joe Gordon and Bob Lemon have been added to the
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  list of old -timers. Stars of the past who will
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  be here. Pitch is swung on by Nen. A ground ball
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  to the second baseman. There's Dick Hauser. He
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  has it. The throw to first and Nen is out on
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  a 4 -3 play. Sonny is making his 11th start and
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  his second against Washington. He faced them
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  and lost on May 18th. by a score of 4 -3. He
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  also appeared against them in the presidential
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  opener, remember? But that was a one -inning
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  relief stint. McDowell won that ballgame. The
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  batter is Don Locke. There's a strike. The slider
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  worked the outside corner. Locke was inserted
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  in the lineup when Valentine, Fred Valentine,
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  wrenched his wrist in batting practice and had
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  to leave the lineup. Savarin was moved up to
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  the number two spot. There's a high pop -up off
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  Locke's bat. Max Alves is moving in back of the
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  mound. And he makes the catch. The side is retired.
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  Three up and three down. Nothing across at the
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  end of one and a half. It's Cleveland one, Washington
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  nothing. Now we move into the last half of the
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  second inning. Coming to bat is Rocky Calavito.
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  Well, the summer is starting for a lot of youngsters
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  and a lot of athletes around the countryside.
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  But for the son of one of our fine policemen,
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  whom we see around the ballpark almost daily,
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  Gregory Olowski, undergoing an operation. Calavito
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  at bat, swings and hits the ground ball to the
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  third baseman. Savarin has it, throws to first
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  in time. You know, this is an anniversary, Soda,
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  for Rocky Calavito. It was seven years ago on
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  this date, June 10th, 1959, June 10th, in Baltimore.
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  Rocky Calavito hit four home runs. Remember that
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  historic game? Brilliant night in Baltimore.
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  But Rocky's having his troubles with that bat
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  right now. Here's Dick Hauser, playing at second
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  base in tonight's ballgame. Phil Ortega, after
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  victory number six, delivers a strike. This kid
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  who came along to Washington in that big trade
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  involving Claude Osteen is another of the bonus
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  bits of that trade that Washington is mighty
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  proud of. That's got to be one of the great trades
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  of all time. That's a ground ball to the shortstop.
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  Brinkman has it. The throw to first, and Hauser
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  is out on a 6 -3 play. The Indians lead 1 -0
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  on Leon Wagner's home run. You figure that when
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  the Dodgers give $70 ,000 for a pitcher, they
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  figure he's got something. But the Dodgers sent
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  Howard, Rickett, Ken McMullen, Nick Nin, along
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  with Ortega for an infielder named John Kennedy
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  and a pitcher Claude Osteen. That was in 1964.
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  Two out, Askew at bat, swings on the first one.
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  It's a high pop -up and a shallow right. Going
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  out, the second baseman, Blazingame, wants it,
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  and he has it. Boy, that was a quick inning.
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  Three Indians up and three Indians down. No runs,
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  no hits. At the end of two, the score is Cleveland
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  1 and Washington nothing. Now we move into the
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  first half of the third inning with the Indians
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  leading by a score of 1 -0. And here to take
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  us along is Bob Neal. Bob, come in. Thank you,
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  Jimmy, and hello again, everybody. As we move
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  now to the top of the third, the Indians holding
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  a 1 -0 lead. The Indians and the Washington Senators
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  will be here again tomorrow night. Game time
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  tomorrow will be 6 o 'clock. First man to face
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  Sonny Siebert in the top of the third will be
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  Paul Casanova, the catcher. The last time Washington
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  was here, he rolled into the city of Cleveland
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  with a batting average around .433. And by the
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  time he had left, the Indians had cooled him
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  off to down about .344. But he still represents
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  the long ball threat, although not with as much
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  consistency as he broke in. Paul Casanova, tall,
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  slender young catcher who originally belonged
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  in the Indian organization. Standing in, right
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  -hand batter, Sonny Siebert with a one -to -nothing
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  lead. Works now on the first pitch. Strike on
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  the outside corner. Casanova currently batting
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  240. Has three home runs, one triple, and five
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  doubles. Got 11 RBIs. And he moves around back
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  of that plate. Siebert's one -strike pitch. There's
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  a solid one -hopper to Chico Simone. Throws across
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  to Whitfield, and he got him. Boy, that ball
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  was shocked. One out in third. We just got news
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  of a big trade made between the New York Yankees
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  and the Kansas City A's. The Yankees have given
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  up Gil Blanco, a young left -handed giant, 6
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  '5", 217 pounds, Bill Stafford, whom they just
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  recalled from Toledo, and Roger Repose, a fleet
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  -footed outfielder, for Fred Talbot, a right
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  -hander, and Bill Bryan, the left -handed batting
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  catcher. Here's a fastball strike to Eddie Brinkman.
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  The Yankees are... Picking up a good right -hander.
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  Giving up Bill Stafford, who did some pretty
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  good work for Toledo. And a young man with potential.
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  Curveball in there for strike two. One to nothing.
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  That's the score as Eddie Brinkman stands in
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  facing Sonny Siebert with one out here in the
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  third. Two strikes now as Sonny Siebert checks
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  once again with Joe Askew. Joe wearing his new
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  helmet -type hat. Now the 0 -2 pitch. And it's
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  a little outside. It's one ball and two strikes.
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  Joe Pignitano pacing up and down at first base.
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  Eddie Yost at third. Now the 1 -2 delivery. It's
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  swing and a miss, and it's strike three as Siebert
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  threw the fastball right by him. Two strikeouts
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  now for Sonny Siebert. And let's pause. Ten seconds
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  for station identification. This is the Cleveland
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  Indians baseball network. Now the pitch coming
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  to Ortega. Fastball by Sonny Siebert over the
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  inside corner for strike one. Sonny really humming
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  that ball in there. The outfield split a little.
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  Davalio's in right center. Calavito's shallow
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  in right. Backed up in left is Wagner. Next pitch,
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  right in there for strike two. There's a report,
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  not confirmed yet, that the San Francisco Giants
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  have sent pitcher Bob Shaw to the New York Mets.
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  Here's the 0 -2. There's a foul away, and it's
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  no balls, two strikes. The Indians leading 1
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  -0 on Wag's home run into the right field seats.
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  Breeze blowing across. Now the pitch. He swings
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  on a curveball and he misses. Strike three. So
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  Sonny Siebert has retired nine of the Washington
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  centers in order. Picks up his third strikeout.
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  And in the middle of the third inning, it's Cleveland
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  one, Washington nothing. Now we go to the bottom
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  of the third inning. The Indians leading one
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  to nothing on Leon Wagner's home run. Here's
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  Sonny Siebert now to take a look at Phil Ortega.
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  Ortega, who signed for... Bonus upwards of $75
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  ,000 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Delivers a
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  strike. Philomino Coronado, Phil Ortega. There's
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  a swing and a miss on the fastball and a strike
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  two. Ortega really bends that arm. He goes way
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  back. Almost looks double jointed. Right arm
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  delivery by our take is very similar to one of
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  Don Drysdale, except Drysdale comes a little
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  more sidearm. Alone outside and it's one ball,
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  two strikes. Outfield straight away for Washington.
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  Howard in left, Locke in center. King is in right
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  field. Sabrine at third. Now the one -two pitch.
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  It's a pop fly. In foul territory is Dick Nen,
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  cashing over the catcher, waving to him, and
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  Nen has it, and there's one away. So Sonny Siebert
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  fouls to the first baseman. One out in the bottom
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  of the third inning. The Indians have a total
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  of two hits, a home run by Wags in the first,
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  a single by Albus on a bunt. And since that time,
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  young Phil Ortega's retired five Indians in a
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  row. Now he'll take a look at Vic D 'Avalio.
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  Little Victor batting 229. Now Ortega ready and
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  he fires. A fastball bunt attempt foul. D 'Avelio
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  is the kind of bunter that throws the bat out
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  there, leaves it and sort of suspends it in midair
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  while he's running down the baseline. And it's
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  foul, and it's strike one. Ortega, tall, young
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  right -hander. Looks like that arm's going to
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  come loose half the time. Six foot four. Fires
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  a little low. One and one. Remember one of the
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  years we were training out in Tucson, he was
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  pitching, I believe, for the Mesa High School.
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  He had an incredible record. He was as big then
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  as he is now. Here's the 1 -1. Outside with a
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  fastball. It's two balls and a strike. Here's
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  to get by primarily with his fastball. And they've
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  been trying to teach him how to throw the breaking
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  ball and not to hang the curve. Got a good slider.
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  Now the 2 -1 pitch. And it's a little too low
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  and outside ball three. Ortega looking in, and
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  he's ready to go. And it's too long inside, it's
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  ball four. So Darvillio works him for a base
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  on balls. Indians have a runner at first. Sure
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  good to see Mrs. Ralph Loker. Well again, and
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  back rooting for her favorite team, the Indians.
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  Now the pitch to Chico Simone. Fastball. Casanova
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  fires down and in at first. Back safely is D
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  'Avelio. Casanova really whips that ball around.
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  Now Ortega checking the runner at first. Vic
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  D 'Avelio on with the walk. Leads away. There
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  he fixes going and a foul tip. One and one. Chico.
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  Simone trying to check his swing and didn't.
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  And draws a 1 -1 count. Raise your eyes to the
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  heaven. Here's the 1 -1 pitch. Ortega checking
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  on Davalillo and throws over to first and he's
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  back. George, a good kid, Susie, who's one of
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  the coaches with the Washington Center. Ball
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  two. According to Bertie Tebbets, the Indians
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  badger, was the best knuckleball catcher he ever
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  saw. And Susie's advice to young catchers who
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  had to handle knuckleball pitches was to get
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  down low and look up. Now the look over. And
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  there he goes. And the pitch is swung on and
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  missed. Casanova's throw is on the first base
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  side. Safe. And they almost hit the umpire. Brinkman
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  had to break over on the first base side a second
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  to take the throw. And in so doing, he almost
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  knocked Jerry Newdecker off his feet. D 'Amelio's
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  got a stolen base. The Indians with a runner
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  on second. And a swing and a miss by Chico Simone.
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  And it's 2 -2. Simone pumping that bat as Ortega
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  gets set. Davalio leads away from second. Swung
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  on and there's a big hit to the left. Now take
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  a 2 -0 lead and Wags, who had a home run his
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  first time up, comes up to face the hard -throwing
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  right -hander. Simone leads away. There's a ground
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  ball. It's fouled just outside of first. Boyd
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  Dickman went racing over there. That ball was
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  scorched, too. Wags now has a total of six home
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  runs, and he's got 15 RBIs. in the run batted
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  in department is Fred Whitfield with 26. The
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  outfield split around to the right. Simone with
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  a long lead at first. Ortega checks him. Now
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  comes down with a pitch. There's a swing and
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  a high pop in the shallow left field. Could be
• 26:52
  trouble. Coming on is Howard. Going out is Brinkman
• 26:54
  and he got the ball. Simone trying to go to second
• 26:58
  and he's forced it. Throw and tags him and he's
• 27:06
  out. And here comes Gil Hodges out to protest.
• 27:11
  Apparently the second baseman Blazingame who
• 27:14
  took the throw juggled the ball while in the
• 27:17
  act of trying to force Chico Simone. Chico had
• 27:21
  held up and then tried to go to second base on
• 27:23
  the play and did get to second base. The throw
• 27:26
  was made by Eddie Brinkman into second base.
• 27:30
  But the ball apparently was juggled while...
• 27:33
  And the forced play was being attempted. Chico,
• 27:36
  figuring that possibly he was out, had gone beyond
• 27:39
  the bag and then suddenly turned for third where
• 27:41
  nobody was covering. Ortega raced over to cover
• 27:44
  the bag. And he took the throw coming over. So
• 27:52
  they're going to charge an error. Error charged
• 27:59
  to the shortstop. That got Simone to second,
• 28:06
  and then 6 -4 -1 on the play to get Simone, and
• 28:10
  Wagner goes to second on the throw. Eddie Brinkman
• 28:17
  had gone down along that left field line, a tough
• 28:20
  chance, and he had the ball in his glove, it
• 28:23
  dropped out. Then he made the throw to the second
• 28:26
  baseman, Blazingame, who was covering second,
• 28:28
  but umpire Neudecker said he was juggling the
• 28:30
  ball. Blazing game now showing that Simone had
• 28:33
  run out of the baseline. So now instead of getting
• 28:40
  Chico around to third, we've got Leon Wagner
• 28:44
  on second. Two out, the Indians have a run in
• 28:47
  as Davalio had scored on the single. But Wags
• 28:51
  on second, two down. Max Alves the batter. Pass
• 28:58
  ball low and in the dirt, blocked beautifully
• 29:00
  by Casanota. That was a kind of a wacky play.
• 29:14
  One ball to count. Max Alves waiting as Ortega,
• 29:17
  the tall right -hander, gets set and he fires.
• 29:19
  There's a strike called. It's one and one. The
• 29:22
  New York Mets today bought Bob Shaw from San
• 29:25
  Francisco. Price reported in excess of $20 ,000.
• 29:29
  He had a 6 .67 earned run average, 1 -4 -1 loss
• 29:33
  record. 16 -9 last year, and in 59 with the White
• 29:38
  Sox, he won 18 and lost 6. Inside, ball two and
• 29:44
  strike one. So a lot of trades moving around.
• 29:47
  The Aggies getting Fred Talbot, a right -hander,
• 29:50
  and Bill Bryan, a catcher from Kansas City, and
• 29:52
  giving up. Bill Stafford, a right -hand pitcher.
• 29:55
  Roger Repose, a left -handed swinging outfielder.
• 29:58
  And Gil Blanco, a 6 '5", 217 -pound, 20 -year
• 30:02
  -old pitcher. And probably some money. Now the
• 30:10
  2 -1. And it's too low, and it's ball three.
• 30:12
  Three balls and a strike. Three balls and one
• 30:29
  strike. Max Alves trying to keep it alive. The
• 30:33
  Indians are now leading 2 -0. Got a run in the
• 30:36
  first and a run here in the third. And it's ball
• 30:39
  four to Max Alves. They sign balls. Two men on
• 30:43
  for the Indians. Two out and Fred Whitfield arrives.
• 31:03
  Mitchell is here. Joe Gordon's checked in. And
• 31:08
  they'll all be here on Sunday for the old -timers
• 31:10
  game starting at 1 .30. Fred Whitfield standing
• 31:15
  in, waiting on young Phil Ortega. Wags with a
• 31:22
  pretty good lead from second. Max Alves jumps
• 31:24
  off to lead at first, and the pitch now to Wingy.
• 31:26
  Takes a swing on a curve, but he misses strike
• 31:28
  one. One strike to count. Wags again, edging
• 31:41
  down towards third. Max Alves moves away from
• 31:43
  first. Now the stretch in the pitch. Another
• 31:47
  curveball popped into right center field. Coming
• 31:49
  on as the center fielder locked. He's there and
• 31:51
  he makes the catch. So for the Indians in the
• 31:54
  third inning, one run, one hit, one error, two
• 31:59
  left. At the end of three, Cleveland two and
• 32:01
  Washington nothing. Now we're ready to go to
• 32:05
  the top of the fourth inning and the Indians
• 32:07
  leading in this ballgame by a score of 2 -0.
• 32:10
  Sonny Siebert will be taking a look at the top
• 32:13
  of the batting order now. Sonny put them down
• 32:15
  in order in the first, second, and third. He's
• 32:17
  posted three strikeouts. And there has not been
• 32:20
  a Washington center hit the ball out of the infield
• 32:22
  so far. Joe Eskew makes the throwdown of the
• 32:25
  second baseman, Dick Hauser, tonight. Houser,
• 32:29
  who's been bugged with a sore thumb, happened
• 32:32
  to pass Bertie Tebbets earlier this evening.
• 32:33
  Bertie asked him how he was feeling and he responded
• 32:35
  with the word, fine. And Bertie responded with
• 32:38
  a couple of words, you're in. John Blazingame
• 32:47
  standing in against the right -hander Sonny Sievert.
• 32:51
  Blazingame with a 2 .02 batting average. First
• 32:55
  pitch by Sonny. A ground ball right side. Hauser
• 32:58
  charging in. Flips over to the first base from
• 33:00
  Whitfield. There's one away. What is the game
• 33:03
  bouncing out? Second to first. 4 -3. Hauser to
• 33:07
  Whitfield. And the batter now will be Bob Savarine.
• 33:18
  Savarine bounced back to the pitcher, Sonny Siebert,
• 33:21
  in the first inning. Eddie Yost coaching at third
• 33:28
  in the first pitch by Siebert. Fastball in tight
• 33:31
  on him. Ball one. One out, one ball to count.
• 33:38
  Nobody on. And the next pitch is a swing and
• 33:41
  a miss and it's one and one. Indians with two
• 33:49
  runs on three hits and no errors. Boston and
• 33:53
  Baltimore have gotten underway. No score at the
• 33:56
  end of one. Is that Stang pitching? Thank you,
• 33:59
  Dick. Now the 1 -1 pitch. There's a ground ball
• 34:03
  to Whitfield. Grabs it, steps on the bag, and
• 34:05
  there's two away. Lee Stang going against Wally
• 34:12
  Bunker. No score at the end of one inning. And
• 34:18
  the batter now will be Jim King. The outfield
• 34:25
  playing Jim King, a good pull hitter and long
• 34:28
  ball plowder. Pulled around to the right. Now
• 34:32
  the pitch by Siebert. There's a swing and a miss
• 34:34
  on a curve ball. Strike one. Cincinnati has failed
• 34:40
  to score against the New York Mets. Atlanta,
• 34:44
  Pittsburgh just getting underway. Cards and Phil,
• 34:46
  Chicago and Houston. Now the one strike pitch.
• 34:50
  Another curve, this one a little inside. Ball
• 34:53
  one, strike one. One and one with two out. Nobody
• 35:06
  on. Sonny Siebert pitching in the fourth. Little
• 35:13
  outside. Two balls and a strike. Don't forget
• 35:19
  tomorrow night's game with Washington. Six o
• 35:23
  'clock. Next pitch, swing and a miss, and it's
• 35:39
  strike two. By the way, that rained out game
• 35:44
  with New York last night has been reset as part
• 35:46
  of a twiniter on Friday, August 5th. That makes
• 35:50
  the weekend with the Yankees a big five -game
• 35:52
  affair. Two games on Friday night, one on Saturday
• 35:54
  afternoon, and two on that Sunday. There's a
• 36:03
  fly ball hit into shallow left field. Coming
• 36:05
  on is Wagner and he makes the catch. Well, that
• 36:09
  was a long run by Wags and he came up with it.
• 36:12
  First ball hit to the outfield. And so Sonny
• 36:15
  Siebert now has retired. The first 12 men to
• 36:18
  face him in order. And in the middle of the fourth
• 36:21
  inning, the score Cleveland 2 and Washington
• 36:24
  nothing. Now we go to the Indian half of the
• 36:27
  fourth inning. And leading it off, batting in
• 36:29
  the number six spot tonight is Rocky Calavito.
• 36:32
  Indians have two runs on three hits. They got
• 36:35
  a run on the first inning when Wags poked his
• 36:37
  sixth home run of the year with two outs. They
• 36:40
  went down in order in the second and in the third
• 36:42
  with one out, a walk to D 'Abelio. Stolen base
• 36:45
  and a single by Simone. So the Rock is up there
• 36:49
  batting .224. Don Blazingame, who over the years
• 36:53
  has bugged Calavito a little bit by moving around
• 36:55
  near second base. Popping his glove. Checking.
• 37:03
  Moves a little bit now. And the pitch to Rocky.
• 37:05
  Swings and he drives a fly ball foul down the
• 37:08
  right field line. Racing over is Dick Nann going
• 37:11
  over the track and he backhands it beautifully.
• 37:13
  Nice play by the Washington first baseman. Calavito
• 37:17
  fouls out to Nann. One out for the Indians in
• 37:27
  the fourth inning. They lead it 2 -0. Sonny Siebert
• 37:34
  has not allowed a Washington Senator to reach
• 37:36
  first base. Here's Dick Hauser standing in, bounced
• 37:41
  out his first time, takes a fastball over the
• 37:44
  outside corner for a strike. Dick batting 262.
• 37:55
  Ortega fires. There's a ground ball left side.
• 37:58
  Brinkman moving to his left, back of second,
• 38:00
  throws to first. He's got him, and there's two
• 38:02
  away. Short to first, Brinkman to Dick Nen. Two
• 38:07
  down in the fourth inning, and Joe Askew, the
• 38:09
  batter, he popped out to the first baseman his
• 38:11
  first time up in the second inning. And the first
• 38:21
  pitch is a strike on the inside corner. Checks
• 38:28
  away, and it's one and one. The pitch was inside
• 38:30
  as Joe Askew checked his swing. Now one ball
• 38:34
  and one strike. Two down. We're playing in the
• 38:36
  bottom of the fourth inning. Outfield straight
• 38:41
  away. Ortega works on the 1 -1. And this one's
• 38:45
  too high. Ball two and strike one. Phil Ortega,
• 38:51
  who's won five and lost two. Gets set. Comes
• 38:55
  down with the 2 -1 pitch. There's a looper. The
• 38:58
  second baseman backing up. He gloves it and that's
• 39:00
  all. Askew pops to Don Blazingame in second base.
• 39:04
  In the fourth inning, for the Indians, nothing
• 39:06
  across. And at the end of four innings of play,
• 39:09
  it's the Indians two and the Washington Senators
• 39:11
  nothing. Now, fans, we move into the first half
• 39:17
  of the fifth inning. The Lions score. Cleveland
• 39:19
  two runs, three hits, no errors. Washington no
• 39:21
  runs, no hits, and one error. Phil Ortega for
• 39:25
  Washington. Sonny Siebert for the Indians. Right
• 39:29
  now, while we have the time, let's pause briefly
• 39:32
  for station identification. This is the Cleveland
• 39:35
  Indians baseball network. One of the great second
• 39:52
  basemen in the history of the Indians and the
• 39:54
  American League, Joe Gordon. Just walked in to
• 39:57
  say hello, along with Tony Cavoli. Tony's not
• 40:00
  on the All -Star squad, but he's just a visitor.
• 40:05
  But Gordon is, along with Hegan, Harder, Gomez,
• 40:09
  Grove, and a host of others. Here's Sunday for
• 40:12
  the old -timers' day game. Howard takes ball
• 40:15
  when inside. Big Frank Howard, 6 '7", 250 pounds,
• 40:19
  stands tall. Siebert's pitch is a strike. Slider
• 40:26
  worked the outside corner at the knees. Boston
• 40:28
  and Baltimore are underway. No score. End of
• 40:30
  one. Lee Stang for Boston and Wally Bunker for
• 40:36
  Baltimore. Here's the pitch. There's a fly ball
• 40:41
  to straightaway center. Vic Davalillo moves over,
• 40:46
  under, and he makes the catch. Every out builds
• 40:50
  up. A little more pressure. Every pitch becomes
• 40:54
  a little more important as Sonny Siebert narrows
• 40:58
  the halfway, nears the halfway mark in a perfect
• 41:01
  ball game. No senator has reached first base.
• 41:09
  Nick Nann is the batter. He grounded out his
• 41:11
  first time up. A hard ground ball to the second
• 41:13
  baseman. Ball went inside. Three, six, nine,
• 41:17
  twelve, thirteen men have gone down in order.
• 41:24
  Locke is on deck. Eddie Yost walking up and down
• 41:28
  in the coach's box at third. The pitch is low
• 41:31
  and into the dirt. There's ball two. Ball two,
• 41:33
  no strikes. Joe Pignatano is coaching at first
• 41:37
  base. Tonight is the Indians' annual teacher's
• 41:51
  night here at the stadium. The pitch is a strike.
• 41:56
  Good changeup is over. And tomorrow afternoon,
• 41:59
  here at the stadium, prior to the game tomorrow
• 42:02
  night, which will be at 6 o 'clock, the Tribe
• 42:05
  will conduct a clinic for more than 3 ,600 high
• 42:08
  school baseball players. There's ball three high
• 42:11
  and inside. Three and one. Nen looks down to
• 42:17
  the third base coach to see what he should do.
• 42:27
  3 -1 the count. The outfield is deep and around
• 42:29
  to right. The Indians lead 2 -0. Nen batting
• 42:32
  2 -10. Now the 3 -1 pitch. Coming on. Ball four
• 42:36
  high and outside. There is the first base runner.
• 42:41
  In the ballgame, Nen with a walk. On at first
• 42:44
  and coming to bat is Don Locke. Last night's
• 42:53
  postponement was the fifth for the Indians at
• 42:55
  home this season. The game has already been rescheduled.
• 43:06
  Seabirds pitch to Locke. A strike. Curveball
• 43:09
  over the outside corner. Throw to first by Askew,
• 43:11
  who has a quick move to the bases with runners
• 43:15
  on. He keeps them alert. Casanova, the catcher,
• 43:25
  is on deck. One out. The pitch is too high. Ball
• 43:29
  one. Ball one and strike one. Don't forget the
• 43:36
  Boston Red Sox will be in here next week, Monday
• 43:39
  and Tuesday. The Red Sox with one of the most
• 43:43
  sensational rookies in the game today, this year.
• 43:48
  Great Scott, George Scott. The exciting Carl
• 43:51
  Yastrzemski. Tony Conigliaro and a host of others
• 43:55
  will be here. The pitch swing and a foul. Out
• 43:59
  of the catch is Mitt and a fine catch by that
• 44:02
  gentleman. That's a baloney from Bobberton. Is
• 44:10
  he ever proud of it. He took two bows. That one
• 44:20
  particular box. Those seats have been passed
• 44:24
  down through the family. Year after year, Indian
• 44:30
  fans on deck. One and two on the batter, locked
• 44:34
  back in. Check to the runner with a look. See
• 44:37
  if it's pitch. Check swing, ball two, outside
• 44:40
  and low. Game time tomorrow will be 6 o 'clock,
• 44:52
  6 p .m. Sunday, 1 .30 for the old -timers game
• 44:59
  to be followed by the regularly scheduled game,
• 45:02
  a single game between Washington and Cleveland.
• 45:05
  Now the pitch, 2 -2, sidearm, a swing and a miss,
• 45:08
  struck him out. Snaps on the first, but the runner
• 45:11
  is back ahead of it. Siebert gets his fourth
• 45:16
  strikeout. Casanova coming to bat. Paul Casanova
• 45:31
  bats right. Average 237. The wind is out of the
• 45:37
  north -northeast again tonight, blowing across
• 45:39
  the field from third to first. Runner at first
• 45:42
  leads. The pitch is outside. Nick Nin drawing
• 45:46
  a walk. The 3 -1 pitch was a little bit high
• 45:49
  and outside. And he became the first base runner
• 45:52
  for Washington. Cincinnati and the Mets are underway.
• 45:57
  No score. End of the first inning. Atlanta at
• 46:00
  Pittsburgh getting underway. St. Louis at Philadelphia
• 46:02
  starting. The pitch. Outside and low. Ball two.
• 46:07
  Again, Askew goes to first baseman Whitfield
• 46:10
  with a throw. But the runner is back. We're in
• 46:15
  the fifth. With two out. Siebert mowed down 13
• 46:27
  Senators before he gave up a walk to Dick Ninn.
• 46:31
  Now he has two out and is facing Casanova, right
• 46:34
  -hand hitting catcher. The turnover pitch, a
• 46:36
  strike. He's been shaving those corners nicely
• 46:39
  with his breaking stuff. Like Gary Bell. Sonny
• 46:47
  throws the hard slider, which is an excellent
• 46:49
  pitch. Particularly if you have good control
• 46:56
  of it. Long lead by the runner, Nin, at first.
• 47:04
  The pitch, swing and a miss. He went for a bad
• 47:06
  ball. And Casanova's a little bit put out at
• 47:10
  himself. Boston is here next Monday and Tuesday
• 47:20
  nights. After which the Indians head east to
• 47:31
  play the Yankees, the Senators, and the Red Sox.
• 47:35
  Now Siebert goes to first with the throw. Eddie
• 47:46
  Brinkman waiting in the on -deck circle. The
• 47:53
  2 -2 pitch. Cummings swung on a ground ball to
• 47:56
  the right side. Second baseman Hauser has it.
• 47:58
  The throw to first is good in time. Casanova
• 48:01
  goes out. The side return. And for five innings,
• 48:05
  Siebert has set them down without a base hit.
• 48:09
  No runs, no hits. One walk, one left. End of
• 48:12
  four and a half. It is Cleveland two and Washington
• 48:15
  nothing. St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia
• 48:22
  Phillies are tied two and two at the end of one.
• 48:25
  The Cards got two runs off wise, but the Phillies
• 48:29
  got them right back when Allen hit a home run
• 48:32
  with a mate aboard. It's Simmons pitching for
• 48:34
  the Cardinals. Atlanta leading Pittsburgh two
• 48:36
  to nothing end of one. Johnson for Atlanta, Veal
• 48:39
  for the Pirates. Chicago at Houston, not underway.
• 48:42
  Los Angeles at San Francisco, not underway. Ed
• 48:46
  Versu has just hit a three -run homer in the
• 48:48
  last half of the second inning for the New York
• 48:51
  Mets. And the Mets are leading the Reds at least
• 48:55
  3 -0 at the end, or in the second inning. Maloney
• 48:58
  for Cincinnati, rustic for the Mets. No other
• 49:02
  action. Boston and Baltimore still no score.
• 49:05
  Baltimore batting in the last of the second.
• 49:08
  And the batter is Sonny Siebert. Ortega's first
• 49:10
  pitch is called a strike. Much to the dissatisfaction
• 49:15
  of the folks in the stands. We're trying to help
• 49:20
  the umpire Honachick a little. Bill Ortega delivers.
• 49:24
  There's a high hopper to the third baseman. A
• 49:26
  leap by Savarin. Down with it. The throw to first
• 49:29
  is in time. Siebert goes out and a good play
• 49:31
  by Savarin. The center to third baseman. 5 -3
• 49:36
  out. You know, we mentioned Pete Rickett a moment
• 49:46
  ago. He's now the new strikeout king of the American
• 49:49
  League at this stage of the game. He's worked
• 49:52
  99 and two -third innings, and he has 92 strikeouts.
• 49:55
  Moved ahead of Sam McDowell while McDowell was
• 49:58
  on the injured list. McDowell has worked only
• 50:00
  69 innings, 30 less. There's a drive to center
• 50:04
  field by Davalillo, and the center fielder's
• 50:07
  lock goes back and hauls it down. He was playing
• 50:11
  shallow. Made it look sensational as he had to
• 50:15
  go back and haul it down on a one -handed grab.
• 50:19
  But it was a routine fly ball. So they're two
• 50:23
  out. And the batter is Chico Simone. Single to
• 50:29
  drive and a run in the third inning. The Indians
• 50:31
  are leading two to nothing. The pitch is low
• 50:40
  and into the dirt. Ball one. Foul works after
• 50:51
  the game tonight. There's a line shot into left
• 50:55
  field. Base hit. Simone hits first as he makes
• 50:58
  the turn. He holds. Hitting in the number two
• 51:04
  spot. Seems to agree with Chico. That's his second
• 51:09
  hit. And the Indians fourth. It brings up Leon
• 51:13
  Wagner who had a big hit in the first inning
• 51:15
  for the Indians. His sixth home run of the year.
• 51:18
  His batting average. Is now 262. Takes the first
• 51:30
  pitch. Too low. Ball one. Number 27. Leon Wagner.
• 51:38
  The outfield shading wags around to right. Deep
• 51:42
  in all fields. Check to the runner. Ortega's
• 51:45
  pitch. High. Ball two. Ball two. No strikes.
• 51:51
  The Mets did get just three runs on Ed Brissou's
• 51:55
  three -run homer in the second inning off Maloney.
• 51:58
  So the Mets lead Cincinnati 3 -0 into two. The
• 52:03
  Dodgers and the Giants will have a head -on battle
• 52:05
  for first place out on the coast starting tonight.
• 52:15
  To a no count. Tall, 6 '4", 195 -pounder. Ortega
• 52:21
  is ready. Turns and goes to first with a throw.
• 52:24
  He figures with speed, which Simone possesses,
• 52:29
  Chico might go. There is a change -up too low.
• 52:34
  Ball three. Three and no count now. Tomorrow
• 52:38
  night, game time, six o 'clock. Second game in
• 52:41
  this series and Sunday afternoon, the finale.
• 52:45
  Preceded at 1 .30 by the old -timers game. Some
• 52:48
  of the great stars of the past, Indian stars
• 52:51
  and others of the majors, both American and National
• 52:54
  League stars will be here. The pitch is a strike.
• 52:58
  You got the change up over. Bell tie. Ball three
• 53:01
  and strike one. Wags will be looking and hoping,
• 53:11
  I'm sure, for a fastball, but he'll be looking
• 53:13
  this three and one over carefully. It's usually
• 53:17
  a pitcher's or batter's pitch. Foul back into
• 53:21
  the upper stands. It was a half -fast ball. Three
• 53:26
  and two. I'll never forget the time that the
• 53:39
  late... Lovable, beloved Chris Beaker tried to
• 53:43
  use that expression very rapidly. Could it describe
• 53:49
  a pitch that was not really all fast, it was
• 53:52
  just half. Three and two count on the batter.
• 53:56
  Two out, there he goes. The pitch swung on, popped
• 53:59
  up. Foul, third base side. Bob Savareen moves
• 54:04
  over under it and he has it. The side is retired.
• 54:09
  No runs, one hit. One left. End of five. The
• 54:13
  score, Washington nothing, Cleveland two. Now
• 54:17
  it's play ball in the first half of the sixth
• 54:19
  inning. The Lions score Cleveland two runs, four
• 54:22
  hits, no errors. Washington no runs, no hits,
• 54:24
  and one error. It was a youngster up in Canada
• 54:27
  who wrote the letter suggesting that when we
• 54:30
  give the score, we always, out of politeness,
• 54:33
  give the visiting team first, whether they are
• 54:37
  ahead. Or not. Though we'll try. Washington,
• 54:43
  nothing. Cleveland, two. As long as the Indians
• 54:48
  are on the plus side, it sounds good. Eddie Brinkman
• 54:53
  at bat. He'll lead it off for the Senators here
• 54:56
  in the sixth. His batting average currently is
• 54:58
  .208. He takes a strike. He struck out, swinging
• 55:10
  on a bad pitch his first time up. Sonny has now
• 55:17
  racked up four strikeouts. He has given up one
• 55:20
  base on balls. On deck is Ortega, then the top
• 55:24
  of the batting order. A strike hits the inside
• 55:27
  corner, just above the knees. More illustrious
• 55:32
  names of the past. Hal Trusky, one of the great
• 55:35
  first basemen. High trainer, Hall of Fame third
• 55:40
  baseman, the Pirates, Luke Appling. Returning
• 55:46
  Sunday for the old -timers game. Way outside,
• 55:50
  past the catcher and back to the screen. Ball
• 55:52
  one and strike two. Ought to be real fun to see
• 55:58
  those fellas along with others like Enos Country
• 56:01
  Slaughter, Johnny Vandermeer. Double no hit.
• 56:10
  Vic Rasche, Sancho Page, Johnny Mize, Joe Ducky
• 56:14
  Wucky Medwick, Ed Lopat, Bob Lemon, Joe Gordon,
• 56:18
  Joe Sewell. One and two pitch. Swing and a miss.
• 56:23
  He struck him out. While Lee Stang has been lifted
• 56:33
  in the game in Baltimore, Dick Stigman is now
• 56:36
  pitching for Boston in the second inning. Wouldn't
• 56:41
  it be awful if the sting of Lee Stang doesn't
• 56:48
  hold in a Boston uniform? The jinx he holds over
• 56:53
  Baltimore. Bill Ortega at bat and he gets a strike.
• 56:56
  Fastball at the knees. Cut the corner. One out
• 57:06
  and nobody on. There's a ground ball to the first
• 57:10
  base side. Whitfield backs up, takes, throws
• 57:13
  high to the pitcher covering, but see that it's
• 57:15
  tall. He leaps and brings it down. That's strange.
• 57:22
  There was Whitfield giving us an example of what
• 57:25
  he described once on one of the interviews as
• 57:28
  a bad first baseman's throw to a pitcher. Underhand
• 57:32
  easy toss. He says you work on these things in
• 57:36
  spring training, you become accustomed to a...
• 57:38
  Sort of a firm toss. He almost tossed it over
• 57:43
  Sonny's head. So they're two out, and here's
• 57:46
  Blazingame. Getting this pesky little rascal
• 57:51
  out twice has been a part of Sonny's fine pitching.
• 57:59
  Because Blazingame is tough to get out, even
• 58:01
  though his average isn't very high. Swings and
• 58:04
  hits the line. Drive. Foul. Third base side.
• 58:07
  See what I mean? He pokes that bat all over the
• 58:09
  place. The outfield straightaway. Calavito is
• 58:24
  deep and right. See if it's pitch. High and inside
• 58:27
  with a changeup. Ball one and strike one. On
• 58:32
  a check on the balls and strikes. That's Jumont
• 58:34
  at first. Over at third is Kenneman. New decker.
• 58:40
  Back of second. Two out. The pitch is a strike.
• 58:46
  Work the outside corner. On deck is Bob Savareen.
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  We're in the sixth here at the stadium. We hope
• 58:58
  you are here in the stadium tomorrow night with
• 58:59
  us on Sunday afternoon. The pitch swung on the
• 59:03
  ground ball to the left side. It's going to be
• 59:04
  a tough one. Chico Simone has it long for the
• 59:07
  first in time. He got him. Fine play. Chico Simone
• 59:12
  coming head on with a dribbler. Got the speedy
• 59:17
  blazing game. On a close one. 6 -3 out. 3 up
• 59:20
  and 3 down. And 19 men are all that Sonny has
• 59:26
  faced in six innings. Given up just one walk.
• 59:29
  No runs, no hits. Into five and a half. It is
• 59:32
  Washington nothing, Cleveland two. Now we move
• 59:40
  into the last half of the sixth inning. Two runs
• 59:43
  on four hits for the Indians. Nothing across
• 59:46
  the board for the Senators except one error.
• 59:50
  And the man left the board. Max Alves will lead
• 59:54
  it off. Number 10, the Indians third baseman
• 59:56
  batting 246. Baltimore came up with four runs
• 1:00:01
  in the second inning. Chase Lee Stang and they
• 1:00:04
  lead Boston four to nothing at the end of two.
• 1:00:09
  All right, Phil Ortega. Washington right hander
• 1:00:13
  pitches. Alvarez swings, but he misses. Strike
• 1:00:15
  one. Sure good to see all of the teachers from
• 1:00:23
  our great state here at tonight's ballgame. Guest
• 1:00:28
  of the management. Phil. Phil Ortega is ready.
• 1:00:36
  He rocked twice. Pitch is low and into the dirt.
• 1:00:40
  Ball one and strike one. Reggie Arturo coaching
• 1:00:42
  at first base. George Strickland is coaching
• 1:00:45
  at third. Batter on deck. Brad Whitfield. Here's
• 1:00:59
  the pitch. Foul back. Out of play. Up the stands.
• 1:01:03
  Be ready. Boom. Ball one and strike two. Boy,
• 1:01:10
  the sky is absolutely clear and beautiful. All
• 1:01:14
  the storm seems to have blown out. And the one
• 1:01:18
  and two pitch coming at Alvis. Almost hit him.
• 1:01:21
  Ball two inside. Changeup, but he didn't get
• 1:01:25
  it over. Ball two and strike two. Ortega shakes
• 1:01:44
  off a sign. Delivers. It's swung on. Popped up.
• 1:01:50
  The pitcher is calling for it. They're going
• 1:01:53
  to let him have it. And he makes the catch. Easy
• 1:01:56
  pop -up and Ortega, rather than wait for his
• 1:02:01
  third baseman to get into position, figured he
• 1:02:03
  would take it himself and did successfully. One
• 1:02:06
  out. And the batter is Fred Whitfield. Wingy
• 1:02:17
  has struck out and fried to center. Left -hand
• 1:02:23
  batter. Takes a strike. Fastball at the knees.
• 1:02:28
  Ortega's been spotting his pitches very well.
• 1:02:32
  Washington can be proud of this boy, Phil Ortega,
• 1:02:35
  and the left -hander, Pete Rickett, that they
• 1:02:38
  got from the Dodgers. Swing and a miss as Wingy
• 1:02:40
  went chasing on that changeup. Rickett has won
• 1:02:52
  six. Nortega has won five. So they have won 11
• 1:02:58
  games between them. Ball went outside and a bit
• 1:03:04
  high. Ball one and strike two. Sam McDowell continues
• 1:03:13
  to take treatment for his sore arm. It's muscular
• 1:03:18
  soreness. Pitch is swung on a line drive into
• 1:03:22
  right field. Base hit. Holding it first on the
• 1:03:26
  throw to the infield. And Rocky Calavito comes
• 1:03:32
  to bat. That's hit number five for the Indians.
• 1:03:36
  Whitfield's first. It's two minutes to nine.
• 1:03:52
  Just on Whitfield's base hit. And Calavito stands
• 1:03:58
  in. He swings. It's a fly ball to left field.
• 1:04:01
  Too high. The left fielder Howard moving in under
• 1:04:04
  it. And he makes the catch. They're two gone.
• 1:04:12
  Well, things have been pretty quiet out there
• 1:04:15
  in left field for the big fella. That's his first
• 1:04:19
  chance. He was in on the pop -up by Wagner. He
• 1:04:26
  was in the vicinity. But the ball was handled
• 1:04:29
  by Brinkman, the shortstop who drew the error.
• 1:04:33
  And now, a little meeting out there on the mound.
• 1:04:37
  The catcher, Casanova, out to talk with Ortega.
• 1:04:51
  Indians are leading Washington by a score of
• 1:04:53
  two to nothing. There are two out and we're in
• 1:04:57
  the last of the six. Hauser at bat, he looks
• 1:05:00
  at a strike. Hauser turning up okay off the injured
• 1:05:05
  list and back into the lineup. Larry Brown continues
• 1:05:10
  to improve. Here's the pitch. Outside, the ball
• 1:05:18
  got away from the catcher, but Whitfield is holding.
• 1:05:21
  Nice recovery. Time is called. Count is one and
• 1:05:24
  one. We also have some Cub Scouts here tonight.
• 1:05:47
  Along with their parents, Cub Scouts, 452. All
• 1:05:53
  right, back in play. Hauser stands in. The 0
• 1:05:55
  -1 pitch coming at him. And it is inside and
• 1:05:58
  low. A 1 -1 pitch. It's now ball two and strike
• 1:06:02
  one. Askew on deck. A look to the runner by Otega.
• 1:06:19
  He goes to first baseman Nen with a throw. But
• 1:06:23
  he must not be worried too much about Whitfield.
• 1:06:29
  All the winger did steal a base in the Yankee
• 1:06:31
  series. There's a swing and a miss. Track two
• 1:06:35
  on Hauser. The little colonel is trying to go
• 1:06:43
  to right field for one. But he failed to connect.
• 1:06:47
  It's now ball two and strike two. Last half of
• 1:06:50
  the sixth inning, the Indians lead two to nothing.
• 1:06:52
  There have been only five hits in this ballgame.
• 1:06:55
  The Indians have them all. Senators have had
• 1:06:59
  only one base runner. Dick Ninn, the first baseman,
• 1:07:02
  drew a walk. The pitch. A strike at the outside
• 1:07:06
  corner with a slider. And Hauser is called on
• 1:07:08
  strikes. The side is retired. In the sixth for
• 1:07:12
  the Indians. No runs. Markup a hit. One is left.
• 1:07:16
  And at the end of six, the score is Washington
• 1:07:19
  nothing, Cleveland two. Now we go to the top
• 1:07:22
  of the seventh inning. The Indians leading in
• 1:07:24
  the line score. The Indians two runs on five
• 1:07:26
  hits and no errors. Sonny Siebert has allowed
• 1:07:29
  only one member of the Washington Senators to
• 1:07:31
  reach first base. And the Washington Senators
• 1:07:34
  have committed one error. So Siebert now, having
• 1:07:38
  passed two -thirds of the mile post, tries to
• 1:07:42
  go through these next three innings. Trying to
• 1:07:45
  get the Washington Sounders out of there. Sonny's
• 1:07:48
  pitching very effectively tonight. His fastball
• 1:07:50
  moving well. His curveball breaking well. The
• 1:07:55
  end of two and a half innings. Baltimore four,
• 1:07:57
  Boston nothing. We'll be getting underway in
• 1:08:00
  just a moment. Fountain against the Gary. Minnesota
• 1:08:03
  against Chicago. Boswell against Buzz Hart. First
• 1:08:08
  batter to face Sonny Siebert in the seventh will
• 1:08:11
  be Bob Savarene. Left -hand batter batting .206.
• 1:08:19
  The outfield shaded to the right. First pitch
• 1:08:22
  on the way. Fastball a little too high outside.
• 1:08:24
  Ball one. Real fine crowd on hand. Now the one
• 1:08:39
  -ball delivery by Sonny. A strike is in there.
• 1:08:42
  That ball really broke. Sabrine pulled away and
• 1:08:44
  the ball caught the inside corner. One and one.
• 1:08:47
  Tomorrow night at 6 o 'clock, the Indians and
• 1:08:50
  the Senators will go again. And on Sunday at
• 1:08:53
  1 .30, the old -timers game. 2 .30, the Indians
• 1:08:56
  and the Senators. 1 -1 pitch. Fastball outside,
• 1:09:02
  two balls and a strike. A breeze really blowing
• 1:09:10
  across. And it's coming out of the northwest
• 1:09:14
  now, blowing across from left to right field.
• 1:09:18
  High and inside. Ball three. Three and one. Three
• 1:09:34
  and one as Sonny Siebert checks with Joe Askew.
• 1:09:37
  And the pitch. Strike is in there, 3 -2. Those
• 1:09:46
  of you who sent letters in when we were broadcasting
• 1:09:49
  from California in the Big 17 inning game, the
• 1:09:54
  most distant point from which we received a letter
• 1:09:57
  was Brooklyn, New York. 3 -2 pitch. There's a
• 1:10:01
  foul away. A gentleman in Brooklyn asked if he
• 1:10:06
  could have his tickets for when the Indians play
• 1:10:08
  in New York. And the Cleveland Ball Club's going
• 1:10:11
  to come through. We were amazed at the number
• 1:10:20
  of people who apparently stayed up all night
• 1:10:22
  to listen to that game. Now the 3 -2 pitch. Line
• 1:10:25
  shot to Whitfield. Line drive into Fred Whitfield's
• 1:10:31
  glove. One out on the seventh, and let's pause.
• 1:10:34
  Ten seconds for station identification. This
• 1:10:36
  is the Cleveland Indians baseball network. This
• 1:10:45
  is Bob Neal with Jimmy Dudley and our engineer,
• 1:10:48
  Dick Satterwhite. Jim King, the right fielder,
• 1:10:50
  stands in. He's bounced out second to first,
• 1:10:52
  a fly ball to left. Siebert's pitch. He fouls
• 1:10:55
  it off. It's drifting back into the seats. It's
• 1:10:57
  out of play, and it's strike one. Next pitch.
• 1:11:08
  Change -up curve. Drops a little low, and it's
• 1:11:10
  1 -1. One ball, one strike, one out. Jim King
• 1:11:19
  batting .273 in the outfield, playing him just
• 1:11:22
  a little to the right. Right side of the infield,
• 1:11:24
  well back. Hauser at second base, Whitfield at
• 1:11:26
  first. Now the 1 -1 pitch. Ground ball, pull
• 1:11:29
  foul. Joe Pignatano gave it the look. It rolls
• 1:11:32
  along. The fellow down there fell out of the
• 1:11:36
  box seats and reaching for that one. And he flips
• 1:11:44
  it in the air. He's got himself a souvenir. Now
• 1:11:53
  Siebert's one -two pitch. Foul back on the screen.
• 1:11:57
  It's still one ball and two strikes. Baltimore
• 1:12:02
  did not score in their half of the third. So
• 1:12:04
  it's Baltimore for Boston nothing. In the Yankee
• 1:12:11
  Detroit game it's Jim Bowden going for New York.
• 1:12:13
  Hank and Gary for the Tigers. Now the pitch.
• 1:12:21
  Struck him out on a curveball. Oh Sonny Siebert
• 1:12:25
  picks up another strikeout. That gives him three
• 1:12:28
  four five six strikeouts so far. Two out in the
• 1:12:31
  seventh inning. To the big fella Frank Howard.
• 1:12:48
  Struck out in the second hit a fly ball to center
• 1:12:50
  in the fifth. Sonny Siebert working to the big
• 1:12:55
  fella takes a curve ball. It's a little on outside
• 1:12:58
  ball one. Talk about ballplayers referred to
• 1:13:06
  as big fellas. This has to be the daddy of them
• 1:13:09
  all. Man he is powering. Sonny Siebert's one
• 1:13:13
  ball delivery. Swings and he fouls it off and
• 1:13:15
  it's one and one. Joe Askew wearing his helmet
• 1:13:23
  tonight. Real good idea for catchers to be wearing
• 1:13:30
  these babies, especially with those bats being
• 1:13:33
  whipped around. 1 -1 delivery. Swing and a miss
• 1:13:38
  and it's strike two. Now one ball, two strikes.
• 1:13:52
  Two out, nobody on. Outfield sliced around to
• 1:13:55
  the left. Siebert's one -two pitch, a side -armer
• 1:13:57
  that just missed. Boy, he gave that a big try.
• 1:14:01
  Sort of a crossfire as well. He stepped almost
• 1:14:03
  to the edge of the grass from the mound. Now
• 1:14:10
  it's two balls, two strikes. Two down, Indians
• 1:14:13
  leading 2 -0. Seventh inning. And the 2 -2. He
• 1:14:19
  tries it again, and he missed this time inside.
• 1:14:21
  3 -2. Trying to get him to back out of there.
• 1:14:25
  Frank Howard stood right in there. Don't forget,
• 1:14:31
  tomorrow night, 6 o 'clock, Sunday, the old -timers
• 1:14:34
  game starts at 1 .30. Two down. The payoff pitch
• 1:14:39
  by Sonny Siebert. There's a little high pop foul.
• 1:14:42
  Back of the plate. Askew waving everybody away.
• 1:14:45
  Comes over. He's got it. And so, Sonny Siebert,
• 1:14:53
  who retired the first 13 men to face him, gave
• 1:14:56
  up a walk to Dick Nann, and since that time has
• 1:14:59
  retired eight of the Senators in a row, continues
• 1:15:02
  to try and reach that you -know -what. No runs,
• 1:15:06
  no hits, no errors, and none left. So in the
• 1:15:09
  middle of the seventh inning, the Indians 2 and
• 1:15:11
  the Washington Senators nothing. Now we go to
• 1:15:14
  the bottom of the seventh inning. Jack Kenton
• 1:15:16
  running out to the bullpen I think is going to
• 1:15:18
  loosen up. Sonny Siebert has pitched himself
• 1:15:23
  a masterful game so far. Only two members of
• 1:15:26
  the Senators have hit a fly ball. And the rest
• 1:15:30
  have been ground balls with the exception of
• 1:15:32
  the base on balls of the six strikeouts. Only
• 1:15:35
  one man for the Washington Senators has gotten
• 1:15:37
  on base. That was Dick Nen who walked back in
• 1:15:40
  the fifth inning. So Sonny Siebert has gone a
• 1:15:44
  long way, seven innings so far. And Joe Askew
• 1:15:49
  comes up there now. He's popped out to the first
• 1:15:51
  baseman, popped to the second baseman. Phil Ortega,
• 1:15:54
  the right -hander, who's pitched well, he's allowed
• 1:15:56
  only five hits. Fires down to the Indian catcher.
• 1:15:59
  Curveball, he slaps it out in the right center
• 1:16:01
  field. Fly ball and down lock. The center fielder
• 1:16:04
  is under it and takes it for our number one.
• 1:16:07
  Ortega changed up on that curveball. Let Askew
• 1:16:11
  hit it and let him supply all the power. One
• 1:16:15
  out of the seventh and listen to the hand Sonny
• 1:16:17
  Siebert's getting. Sonny Siebert standing in.
• 1:16:31
  Sonny has fouled out and bounced out. First pitch
• 1:16:34
  to him. Swings and he fouls it off upstairs.
• 1:16:37
  Strike one. Yes, sir, the tension begins to grow.
• 1:16:43
  Listening to Dale Mitchell talking on the pregame
• 1:16:47
  program today. I remember that game that Don
• 1:16:50
  Larson pitched in the World Series because I
• 1:16:51
  broadcast it. Curve is inside. It's one and one.
• 1:17:01
  One ball and one strike. And the pitch. Too high
• 1:17:07
  and it bounces out of the catcher's mid. Two
• 1:17:10
  balls, one strike. We're in the bottom of the
• 1:17:20
  seventh. The Indians leading 2 -0. Now the 2
• 1:17:26
  -1 pitch. Fouled again, sliced off into the upper
• 1:17:30
  deck. Now it's 2 and 2. You know Larry Brown
• 1:17:34
  may accompany the team on their trip. I don't
• 1:17:37
  mean by that that he's ready to play because
• 1:17:40
  he sure isn't. But he's working out. He's still
• 1:17:44
  a little weak. And you can understand that. But
• 1:17:50
  it'll give him a chance to work out with the
• 1:17:52
  team if they decide to take him along. Now the
• 1:17:57
  2 -2 pitch. Strike him out. He gave him the fastball
• 1:18:00
  and outside and Sonny took a cut at it. So Phil
• 1:18:03
  Ortega has made his third strikeout. And now
• 1:18:12
  Vic D 'Amelio, the Indian center fielder in tonight's
• 1:18:15
  game. He's hit a fly ball to right field. He
• 1:18:17
  walked in the third, stole second and came home
• 1:18:19
  on Chico Simone's single. Indians got their other
• 1:18:22
  run in the first inning with two out and Wags
• 1:18:24
  hit his sixth home run of the year. We're going
• 1:18:28
  to move the outfield around a little for Vic.
• 1:18:31
  Don Locke has moved in shallow and left center.
• 1:18:33
  Frank Howard shallow and left. And Jim King is
• 1:18:38
  a little in right center. Takes a change up on
• 1:18:42
  the outside corner for a strike. Chuck Hinton
• 1:18:48
  throwing an Indian bullpen. As the tension continues
• 1:18:57
  to mount. Wind up and the pitch on the way. Down
• 1:19:03
  low and it's one and one. Two out, one and one.
• 1:19:21
  Here's Ortega's next delivery. And it's a strike
• 1:19:24
  on the outside corner of the fastball one and
• 1:19:26
  two that fastball really moved Sam McDowell will
• 1:19:32
  probably pitch tomorrow night's game Now Davalio
• 1:19:44
  steps out to pick up a little dirt And Ortega
• 1:19:53
  getting set again. Checks with Casanova's catcher.
• 1:19:58
  Two out, nobody on. Indians two, Washington nothing
• 1:20:01
  in the pitch. He struck him out. I believe had
• 1:20:04
  a good cut. And he becomes strikeout victim number
• 1:20:06
  four against the right -hander for the Senators.
• 1:20:09
  In the seventh inning for the Indians, nothing
• 1:20:12
  across. And at the end of seven full innings
• 1:20:14
  of play, the Cleveland Indians two, the Washington
• 1:20:16
  Senators nothing. Now it's the time of the eighth
• 1:20:20
  inning, and for Washington, we'll have Dick Nen,
• 1:20:23
  the first baseman, Don Locke, the center fielder,
• 1:20:27
  and Paul Casanova, the catcher. Sonny Siebert
• 1:20:35
  getting set to work. Has registered six strikeouts
• 1:20:40
  in his seven innings he's worked so far. And
• 1:20:46
  the only senator who has reached base, Dick Nen,
• 1:20:49
  will be the first man to face him in the fifth
• 1:20:51
  inning. Last time Washington was in here, Dick
• 1:20:54
  Nen really started to hit that ball. He'd had
• 1:20:56
  a report prior to that in his previous year's
• 1:20:58
  work that he was a late starter. And there were
• 1:21:01
  a lot of Herculean efforts in that game. You
• 1:21:04
  remember the great catch by Locke with his arm
• 1:21:07
  hanging over that right center field fence. Norm
• 1:21:10
  Cash and Jake Wood have each homered in the first
• 1:21:13
  inning. And so the Tigers lead at least by a
• 1:21:16
  2 -0 score over the Yankees with the Tigers batting
• 1:21:20
  in the last of the first inning. Here's Dick
• 1:21:22
  Nann, left -hand batter. Sonny Siebert firing
• 1:21:25
  to him and he takes up high. Ball one. Boston
• 1:21:31
  failed to score in their half of the fourth.
• 1:21:32
  Baltimore still leads in 4 -0. Joe has Q down
• 1:21:41
  with a sign. Op field is straight away and deep.
• 1:21:48
  There's a long drive to right field. It's curving
• 1:21:50
  and it's going to be fouled in the upper deck.
• 1:21:53
  That was... Big Belt had the distance. Indians
• 1:22:07
  still have wags in left field. Diabolo on center.
• 1:22:11
  Calavito on right. Alves at third, Simone at
• 1:22:15
  short, Hauser at second base, Whitfield at first.
• 1:22:18
  Now the 1 -1 pitch to Nen. Takes a fast ball
• 1:22:22
  just a shade inside and high. Ball two, strike
• 1:22:24
  one. Minnesota failed to score in their half
• 1:22:29
  of the first inning. Chicago now batting. Boswell
• 1:22:32
  against Buzz Hart. Kansas City will be at California
• 1:22:36
  tonight. Ground ball right side. Hauser moving
• 1:22:44
  over. Grabs it. Throws to Whitfield. He's got
• 1:22:46
  it. And there's one away in the eighth inning.
• 1:22:54
  One down and the batter now is Don Locke. Right
• 1:22:58
  hand batting center fielder. He popped out to
• 1:23:00
  the third baseman in the second. Struck out in
• 1:23:02
  the fifth. New York Mets leading Cincinnati four
• 1:23:07
  to nothing at the end of five. Atlanta now leading
• 1:23:10
  Pittsburgh 3 -0 at the end of three and a half.
• 1:23:13
  Sonny Siebert's first pitch to lock. Strike with
• 1:23:16
  a curveball cut the outside corner. One strike,
• 1:23:26
  one out, nobody on. The Indians lead 2 -0. Here's
• 1:23:30
  the pitch by Siebert. Curveball right in the
• 1:23:32
  backfield. out of the second baseman. Sonny Siebert
• 1:24:02
  ready to work and the pitch coming. He takes
• 1:24:05
  a strike. Ron Klein is now starting to throw
• 1:24:12
  in the Washington bullpen. Here's Siebert with
• 1:24:20
  a one strike pitch. Curveball, a ground ball,
• 1:24:23
  Simone charging in, up with the ball, fires to
• 1:24:25
  first. Low throw, followed by Whitfield. Throw
• 1:24:30
  is in the dirt. And it's an error, charged to
• 1:24:35
  Chico Simone. That is only the second member
• 1:24:39
  of the Washington Senators to get on base. And
• 1:24:42
  then walked back in the fifth. Casanova gets
• 1:24:44
  on on the error. So now the Washington Senators
• 1:24:49
  with a runner on first. And Eddie Brinkman, the
• 1:24:51
  shortstop, is due up there. And it looks like
• 1:24:54
  Bob Chance is going to come up and swing for
• 1:24:57
  him. Chico's throw was in the dirt. And Wingney
• 1:25:02
  could not handle it as it bounced back up. An
• 1:25:06
  error charged on Chico Simone. So we have a runner
• 1:25:12
  now for Washington on first base. Each team has
• 1:25:15
  been charged with an error. Bob Chance coming
• 1:25:18
  up there. Baby Huey of a few years ago with the
• 1:25:25
  Indians. Now swinging for the Washington centers.
• 1:25:29
  208 batting average. He's had one home run. He's
• 1:25:31
  had three doubles. Sonny Siebert facing this
• 1:25:36
  tough left -hand batter. Checks the runner at
• 1:25:38
  first and comes down with a pitch. A foul bounces
• 1:25:41
  back off the screen. One strike as Siebert jammed
• 1:25:46
  him with a fastball. He got it up on the handle.
• 1:25:53
  Casanova jumps off to a short lead at first.
• 1:25:56
  Whitfield playing back to the runner with Chance,
• 1:25:58
  a left -hand batter up there. Sonny Siebert ready
• 1:26:00
  in the pitch. Foul back upstairs again. Strike
• 1:26:03
  two. That one rattling above. No balls, two strikes,
• 1:26:14
  two down. The runner at first base in the top
• 1:26:17
  of the eighth inning. Chance moving back in.
• 1:26:21
  waving that bat as Sonny Siebert comes to the
• 1:26:23
  bell with a stretch. And the pitch on the way.
• 1:26:26
  He's struck him out. Frankly, chance won and
• 1:26:32
  missed. He'll ask you to hang him as he's got
• 1:26:34
  the ball. In the eighth inning for Washington,
• 1:26:37
  no runs, no hits, one error, one left. And so
• 1:26:42
  Sonny Siebert has allowed only two members of
• 1:26:45
  the Washington Senators to reach base. A walk
• 1:26:47
  to Dick Nen in the fifth. and Casanova getting
• 1:26:50
  on in an error in the eighth inning. And so in
• 1:26:53
  the middle of the eighth, it's Cleveland two
• 1:26:55
  and Washington nothing. This is Bob Neal with
• 1:27:02
  Jimmy Dudley and engineer Dick Satterwhite. We're
• 1:27:04
  watching a great ball game here tonight. Phil
• 1:27:07
  Ortega comes out to pitch in the eighth inning.
• 1:27:10
  He's pitched well. He's given up only five hits,
• 1:27:13
  two runs, a home run by Wags in the first, and
• 1:27:15
  a run on a walk, a stolen base. And a single
• 1:27:18
  by Simone that scored D 'Avelio. But it's sunny
• 1:27:21
  Seabrook's night at the moment. With only two
• 1:27:24
  members of the centers getting on. A walk in
• 1:27:26
  the fifth inning to Nen. A life for Casanova
• 1:27:29
  on an error in the eighth. Now the Indians try
• 1:27:32
  to add some to their two -nothing lead. As Chico
• 1:27:34
  Simone takes a swing and hits a foul. Back into
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  the seats. And it's strike one. And more of this
• 1:27:44
  action coming your way tomorrow night at 6 o
• 1:27:46
  'clock and again on Sunday. You'll have a chance
• 1:27:49
  to relive some of the historic moments of the
• 1:27:52
  past on Sunday in the old -timers game starting
• 1:27:54
  at 1 .30. Now the one -strike pitch is way outside.
• 1:27:58
  It's one -on -one. One ball, one strike. Ortega
• 1:28:04
  getting set, looking into his catcher, Paul Casanova.
• 1:28:08
  Ed McMullen is now playing third base and Sabarin
• 1:28:11
  has moved to shortstop. Foul as Chico checked
• 1:28:14
  his swing, and it's now two balls and a strike.
• 1:28:19
  Chico so far tonight has popped out of the shortstop,
• 1:28:22
  singled in the third, and singled again in the
• 1:28:24
  fifth. He's got one RBI, wags with his home run
• 1:28:26
  as the other. Raddatz and Bob Allen still throwing
• 1:28:30
  in the bullpen. Landis and Hinton are throwing
• 1:28:32
  in the Indian bullpen. Cleveland Indians baseball
• 1:28:39
  right here in the stadium. Outfield shaded a
• 1:28:44
  little to the left. Ready to go is Ortega in
• 1:28:50
  the one -two pitch. Way outside with a curve.
• 1:28:55
  Two balls, two strikes. Now the two -two pitch.
• 1:29:02
  And it's a strike called. Nice ball that caught
• 1:29:04
  the inside corner on Chico Simone. Simone called
• 1:29:07
  out on strikes here in the eighth. That's the
• 1:29:11
  fifth strikeout. For Phil Ortega. Ortega's been
• 1:29:17
  a little tough. In the second inning, he retired
• 1:29:21
  the side in order. Again in the fourth in order.
• 1:29:24
  In the seventh in order. Now he takes a look
• 1:29:27
  at Leon Wagner. Wags hammered a home run in the
• 1:29:30
  first inning. Safe on an error in the third.
• 1:29:32
  Fouled out in the fifth inning. Fouls it off
• 1:29:34
  the screen. It's strike one. We've got the young
• 1:29:40
  adults group from St. Paul's in Euclid. And everybody
• 1:29:46
  watching this game tonight sitting on the edge
• 1:29:49
  of their seats as they look ahead to the top
• 1:29:51
  of the ninth inning. Cleveland two and Washington
• 1:29:54
  nothing. Now the delivery. Ground ball right
• 1:29:57
  side. Grabbed by Nen. Races to the bag ahead
• 1:29:59
  of Wagner. Two down as Dick Nen takes that hard
• 1:30:03
  smash. Steps on the bag and Wagner bounces out
• 1:30:06
  to the first baseman. Two out in the eighth inning.
• 1:30:09
  Max Alves will be the batter. The Indians, two
• 1:30:15
  runs. Holding up at the moment. Trying to get
• 1:30:20
  some more. Max Alves so far tonight. Beat out
• 1:30:23
  a bunt in the first inning. Walked in the third
• 1:30:25
  and popped out in the sixth. The pop out was
• 1:30:27
  taken by the pitcher. Curveball, he nubs it off
• 1:30:30
  to the right side. Ortega racing over. Throws
• 1:30:33
  to first and he's got him. And the side is retired.
• 1:30:35
  So at the end of eight. thrilling innings. The
• 1:30:38
  score, the Indians 2, the Washington Senators
• 1:30:41
  nothing. Now, fans, we move into the first half
• 1:30:45
  of the ninth inning with the Indians leading
• 1:30:47
  by a score of 2 -0. A couple of changes in the
• 1:30:51
  outfield. Hinton replaces Wagner in left field,
• 1:30:55
  and Landis replaces Calavito in right. We're
• 1:31:01
  going to have a pinch batter coming up to bat
• 1:31:03
  for the pitcher, Ortega. will be number 34, Fred
• 1:31:07
  Valentine. Valentine batting for Ortega. He is
• 1:31:19
  the regular center fielder for Washington. But
• 1:31:24
  he came up with a sprained wrist in batting practice
• 1:31:28
  tonight, but he's coming up as a pinch hitter.
• 1:31:35
  Hinton will bat in Calavito's spot. Landis will
• 1:31:41
  bat in the number three spot. Siebert's first
• 1:31:43
  pitch. Swing and a foul tip in the dirt. There'll
• 1:31:46
  be a cheer on every pitch. That's for sure. Sonny
• 1:31:52
  Siebert into the windup. The pitch is a strike.
• 1:31:56
  A blazing fastball is right in there. Belt high.
• 1:31:58
  Strike two. Batter on deck is Don Blassingame.
• 1:32:07
  The outfield just about straight away. Valentine
• 1:32:09
  has a batting average of .284. Sievert into the
• 1:32:14
  windup. The pitch. Check swing. Too high. Ball
• 1:32:18
  one. He started his swing, but managed to stop
• 1:32:22
  it. We see that he has his wrist taped up, so
• 1:32:27
  he must have wrenched it enough for it to be
• 1:32:31
  painful. And, of course, it kept him out of the
• 1:32:33
  starting lineup. Ball one and strike two. Siebert
• 1:32:42
  gave up a walk in the fifth inning. And the runner
• 1:32:44
  was safe on an error with two out on the eighth.
• 1:32:46
  The pitch swung on. A line foul past third base.
• 1:32:51
  Ball one and strike two. They've hit some shots.
• 1:32:55
  Lockett a line drive to the third baseman, Max
• 1:32:58
  Alvis, who went high into the air. That was in
• 1:33:00
  the eighth inning. In the seventh inning, Savarene
• 1:33:04
  lined to the first baseman, Whitfield. Sonny
• 1:33:07
  Siebert juggling that ball a little bit out there
• 1:33:10
  in his glove. Now looks in for the sign. The
• 1:33:15
  batter is Fred Valentine, number 34, pensioning
• 1:33:17
  for the pitcher. Batting for Phil Ortega. The
• 1:33:20
  count is ball one and strike two. Here's the
• 1:33:23
  pitch. Outside. Ball two. The fans groan. Tension,
• 1:33:31
  excitement, enthusiasm riding on every pitch.
• 1:33:38
  You can just sort of feel it as it ripples through
• 1:33:40
  this crowd. The pitch at changeup is too high.
• 1:33:44
  Ball three, three and two. Full count on the
• 1:33:47
  batter. And these fans, thousands and thousands
• 1:33:55
  of them, along with the teachers, move to the
• 1:33:59
  front of their seats. The pitch is swung to the
• 1:34:01
  ground, ball to the right side of the infield.
• 1:34:02
  There's Hauser. He has it. The throw to first
• 1:34:04
  is in time. That was a 4 -3 play. Two outs away.
• 1:34:33
  Maybe six pitches away from history in the making.
• 1:34:39
  The Indians lead 2 -0. But the scores of right
• 1:34:43
  now is a little bit on the secondary side. It's
• 1:34:47
  a tremendous performance by one individual. Poised
• 1:34:50
  on the mound. The pitch is too high. Ball one.
• 1:34:55
  The outfield shading just maybe a step toward
• 1:34:58
  right. Alvis smoothing out the dirt a little
• 1:35:01
  bit nervously as he does so. At third base. Inside
• 1:35:06
  the bag. This guy can poke him to all fields.
• 1:35:09
  The 1 -0 pitch. Ground ball. Third base side.
• 1:35:12
  It kicks foul. Rolls to the coach. Alvis would
• 1:35:15
  much rather have had it. Ball one and strike
• 1:35:19
  one. The batter on deck is Bob Savareen. Tomorrow
• 1:35:27
  night, the Indians and the Senators again, six
• 1:35:29
  o 'clock, and Sunday, the old -timers game, along
• 1:35:32
  with a regularly scheduled game between the Indians
• 1:35:35
  and the Senators. Seep it in action. The pitch
• 1:35:38
  is ball two, high and inside. Ball two and strike
• 1:35:41
  one. Sonny Siebert, University of Missouri. The
• 1:35:47
  tall right -hander. Second -best earned run average
• 1:35:51
  in the American League last year. Second only
• 1:35:54
  to that of the Indians' lefty, Sam McDowell.
• 1:35:56
  And the 2 -1 pitch. Long foul off to the right.
• 1:35:59
  It'll be out of play. And there's one for the
• 1:36:02
  nervous fans to juggle. Oh, they do. Down below
• 1:36:04
  it goes. Don't be nervous, Sam. Some of Duke
• 1:36:17
  Simms' fans were flying by in an airplane tonight
• 1:36:20
  and they had a banner talking about the Duke.
• 1:36:26
  Two -and -two pitch coming up. Swung on the ground
• 1:36:28
  ball to the right side of the infield. Whitfield
• 1:36:29
  is going to make the play. Tosses to the pitcher
• 1:36:31
  coming. The runner is out. Only one to go. Whitfield.
• 1:36:40
  To the pitcher, Sonny C. And the heart beats
• 1:36:53
  faster. As the excitement mounts and mounts and
• 1:36:59
  mounts. The fans now are almost on their feet
• 1:37:04
  as Bob Sabourin stands in. Left hand batter.
• 1:37:07
  The pitch is ball one outside and over the blazing
• 1:37:10
  fastball. The outfield straight away. Fred Whitfield
• 1:37:18
  has moved on a step or two now. Closer to first
• 1:37:21
  base. Left hand batter up. Second baseman Hauser.
• 1:37:25
  Step it to and on the skin part of the infield.
• 1:37:27
  Alvis moves in. Here's the pitch. Swung on a
• 1:37:31
  high pop foul. Back and out of play. Ball one,
• 1:37:37
  strike one. Only two Senators have reached in
• 1:37:41
  this explosive, exciting ball game. Dick Nann
• 1:37:47
  drew a walk in the fifth inning. He was the first
• 1:37:49
  runner to get on. The first in 14 battles. With
• 1:37:53
  two out, Casanova was safe on an error in the
• 1:37:56
  eighth. And here's the one -and -one pitch. Swung
• 1:37:58
  on, fouled back into the upper stands. Maybe
• 1:38:01
  just one pitch away. Ball one and strike two.
• 1:38:10
  As Sonny Siebert reaches for greatness. He's
• 1:38:17
  walked hand -in -hand with it tonight. Now with
• 1:38:22
  two out. The one and two pitch. Coming up. And
• 1:38:25
  it is inside, says the umpire. He almost started
• 1:38:32
  his swing. And the fans were almost out on the
• 1:38:35
  field. Bertie Tebbett's hat did come out on the
• 1:38:40
  field. The cameramen are hedging closer. Here
• 1:38:50
  we go. The count is two and two. Two out. The
• 1:38:53
  pitch coming up. Swung on. A foul ball to left
• 1:38:55
  field. There goes Hinton. He's under it. He has
• 1:38:58
  it! The game is over. Sonny Siebert has pitched
• 1:39:04
  a no -hitter. It is the first one since 1951
• 1:39:09
  when Bob Pella defeated the Detroit Tigers 2
• 1:39:13
  -1. Listen to the roar of the crowd. on tonight's
• 1:39:31
  brilliant performance by Sonny Siebert in just
• 1:39:34
  one moment. This is a night of excitement. This
• 1:40:56
  is Sonny Siebert's night, as he has pitched the
• 1:41:00
  first no -hit ball game for the Cleveland Indians
• 1:41:03
  since 1951. It was on July 1st of 1951 that Bob
• 1:41:09
  Feller defeated the Detroit Tigers, pitching
• 1:41:12
  a no -hitter, and gave the Indians their 11th
• 1:41:15
  no -hitter in history. This is number 12, and
• 1:41:18
  Sonny Siebert. joins a long list of illustrious
• 1:41:21
  pitches in the history of the Cleveland Baseball
• 1:41:23
  Club. The Indians win it by a score of two to
• 1:41:26
  nothing. The Lions score, boy, you think we're
• 1:41:31
  not nervous. Everybody was nervous. For Cleveland,
• 1:41:35
  it was two runs, five hits, one error, and five
• 1:41:38
  left. And for the Senators, no runs, no hits.
• 1:41:42
  That part's easy. There was one error for the
• 1:41:46
  Senators. and they had two men left on the bases.
• 1:41:49
  Siebert walked only one batter, struck out seven,
• 1:41:52
  and only two Senators reached base. Dick Ninn,
• 1:41:57
  the 14th batter, in the fifth inning walked,
• 1:42:00
  and in the eighth inning with two out, Casanova
• 1:42:02
  was safe on an error. A brilliant performance,
• 1:42:05
  and Sonny Siebert joins a great list of illustrious
• 1:42:09
  pitchers who have been in the record book as
• 1:42:13
  pitching no -hit ballgames. Once more, the final
• 1:42:17
  score. Sonny Siebert pitching a no -hitter. Cleveland
• 1:42:22
  2 and Washington nothing. Sonny Siebert was certainly
• 1:42:36
  a lot of pitcher tonight. You've got to be lucky,
• 1:42:38
  Bob. I was lucky tonight. Cut the breaks. Well,
• 1:42:40
  you were also very effective. There were only
• 1:42:43
  two balls really that were hit hard. The one
• 1:42:45
  shot that was hit to Max Alves and the other
• 1:42:47
  was hit to Whitfield. Well, you know, it'd be
• 1:42:49
  a hit too hard to drop in there, though. I mean,
• 1:42:50
  a lot of times you jam somebody and it'll break
• 1:42:52
  your back and it'll fall in there. I mean, you've
• 1:42:56
  got to be lucky. I just think I'm the luckiest
• 1:42:57
  guy in the world right now. Well, you're also
• 1:43:00
  a great pitcher, and we're certainly happy to
• 1:43:03
  congratulate you, Sonny. Things have been going
• 1:43:05
  a little rough for you this year. You took kind
• 1:43:07
  of a rough beating from California. Things were
• 1:43:10
  a little rough in Minnesota. But, boy, tonight
• 1:43:12
  you really came back with a job. Yeah, Bob, I've
• 1:43:15
  been having a rough time. I think I know what
• 1:43:17
  was wrong. I think I corrected it. And I hope
• 1:43:19
  the rest of the season, I hope I'm just as effective
• 1:43:22
  as I can be and help the ball club more. Sonny,
• 1:43:26
  I know that every pitcher, when he's out there
• 1:43:28
  in a ballgame, perhaps doesn't think about it
• 1:43:30
  realistically until it develops. But somewhere
• 1:43:33
  along the way, he begins to think of a no -hitter.
• 1:43:35
  When during the course of tonight's ballgame
• 1:43:37
  did you think you might have a chance at one?
• 1:43:39
  First inning, Bob. Before I left home tonight,
• 1:43:42
  my wife, she's been getting on me because I've
• 1:43:45
  been getting hit pretty hard. And I told her,
• 1:43:47
  I said, get off my back. I said, I'll pitch a
• 1:43:49
  no -hitter for you. Did you? I did. I was kidding.
• 1:43:53
  I come out here in the first three innings. I
• 1:43:55
  realized I had a no -hitter. I started thinking
• 1:43:57
  about what I said to my wife. And then from then
• 1:43:59
  on, I was afraid to look at the scoreboard. I
• 1:44:01
  just said, dog it all the way. Go out there and
• 1:44:04
  get hitter by hitter. And I just can't believe
• 1:44:07
  it. Is this the first one you ever pitched? Yes,
• 1:44:10
  it is, Bob. In your entire career? Yes. Now,
• 1:44:14
  as we know, as the game went along, and as you
• 1:44:17
  told your wife you're going to pitch a no -hitter,
• 1:44:19
  as it got into, say, the fourth or fifth inning,
• 1:44:22
  you were aware of the fact that you hadn't given
• 1:44:24
  up a hit. That's right, Bob. The game was so
• 1:44:27
  close that I didn't really worry about the no
• 1:44:31
  -hitter. I was worried about the win. I mean,
• 1:44:33
  I wasn't trying to... throw somebody a curveball
• 1:44:36
  on three and nothing or something like that.
• 1:44:38
  I was trying to get them out. I was trying to
• 1:44:39
  win the ballgame. And if I pitched a no -hitter,
• 1:44:42
  I was fine, but winning the ballgame was most
• 1:44:44
  important to me. Well, you not only won a ballgame,
• 1:44:46
  but you reached straight into baseball history.
• 1:44:49
  You know, the last no -hitter pitched, Sonny,
• 1:44:51
  I think in the major leagues, I think was pitched
• 1:44:54
  by Bob Feller back in 1951. And, boy, that's
• 1:44:58
  a long span of time in the American League especially,
• 1:45:00
  isn't it? Yes, I thought McDowell probably pitched
• 1:45:03
  one before now, but... He will. I'm just surprised
• 1:45:06
  I was lucky enough to do it. Now, how about on
• 1:45:09
  the bench? When you come in after pitching each
• 1:45:11
  inning, did you sit in the same spot every time?
• 1:45:14
  Yes, I did, Bob. I did most of the same thing
• 1:45:16
  the whole game. But I wasn't too superstitious.
• 1:45:21
  I mean, I was just trying to concentrate on getting
• 1:45:23
  the hitters out. That's all I can say. I mean,
• 1:45:27
  I really wasn't. Anybody from the fans from the
• 1:45:30
  stands holler no hitter to you? No, none of my
• 1:45:33
  teammates said anything. Even Joe the catcher
• 1:45:36
  didn't say anything. I wasn't sure I had no hitter.
• 1:45:40
  Nobody said anything, but they were clapping
• 1:45:42
  me. They were giving me quite a hand when I went
• 1:45:44
  to bat, so I figured something was going on.
• 1:45:47
  How many times, now when you normally look back,
• 1:45:50
  you must take a look back out there and see whether
• 1:45:52
  anybody, you know, when you're looking back to
• 1:45:55
  just check around, getting ready to pitch, you
• 1:45:57
  must look at the scoreboard. Could you see those
• 1:45:58
  big zeros? No, I don't look at the scoreboard.
• 1:46:00
  Not at all? No, I don't. So you sure didn't look
• 1:46:02
  at it tonight, huh? That's one of the things
• 1:46:04
  I don't do. I don't look at the scoreboard. I
• 1:46:06
  try to keep my mind on the hitter and the catcher.
• 1:46:08
  If I'm looking all around the ballpark, I usually
• 1:46:11
  got my head in the stands. I'm usually not concentrating
• 1:46:14
  like I want to. Sonny, when you pitched in California,
• 1:46:16
  they said that one of the California coaches
• 1:46:18
  stole some of your pitches and the way you were
• 1:46:20
  handling it. I know when you pitched in Minnesota,
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  you tried to correct it. And obviously tonight,
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  your fastball was blazing, your slider looked
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  like it was going, and your curveball was jumping.
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  I think I made an adjustment on my slider. It
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  resorts back to one thing. I don't like to say
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  it because I think... It's all right. We don't
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  want you to give away any secrets. No, I don't
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  want anybody looking for it. Sonny Siebert, we
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  want to congratulate you. This is one of the
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  greatest moments a young man can have in his
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  lifetime. And I would have to think now, thinking
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  back to the years when your dad talked to you
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  perhaps about being an outfielder. Aren't you
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  glad now that you became a pitcher? Well, yeah,
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  I'm just glad I'm being a big league player.
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  I'm sure, we're sure proud of you. And, you know,
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  only two men got on against you, Dick Nen, who
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  walked in the fifth, an error to charge the shortstop
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  on Casanova's ball. And then when you came to
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  that final out, did the tension start to grow
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  a little bit when you knew that you had to get
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  that one? Well, Bob, blasting game, you know,
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  severing, those kind of hitters are the toughest
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  for me. I figure, well, if I can get those two
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  guys out, I guess I deserve it because they're
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  really tough. I'd rather see somebody like Frank
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  Harder or somebody swinging real hard at the
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  ball up there. I mean, that situation, I knew
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  they'd probably get some wood on the ball, and
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  I wasn't too sure of myself. I just gave them
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  everything I had. Well, you sure did. Sonny Siebert,
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  I know the reporters want to visit with you.
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  We want to offer you our congratulations. It
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  was a masterful job of pitching. Sonny Siebert
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  with a no -hitter. Certainly a proud moment in
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  your lifetime, and I hope there'll be a few more
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  for you. Thank you, Bob. My pleasure. Sonny Siebert,
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  and that's baseball tonight.