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1978-Aug-16 - CLE/DET - Cleveland Indians vs Detroit Tigers - 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 Wednesday, August
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  16, 1978, the Cleveland Indians traveled to Detroit
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  to play the Tigers at Tiger Stadium for a Wednesday
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  night game. Both teams were squarely out of the
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  playoff hunt at this point. Cleveland was managed
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  by Jeff Torborg and was far below .500 at 53
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  -65. The Tigers were managed by Ralph Houck,
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  and although a respectable 65 -52 record, were
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  nine games back and in fourth place in the AL
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  East. This game featured starting pitchers David
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  Clyde for the Indians versus Jack Billingham
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  for the Tigers. This audio recording is from
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  the Cleveland Radio Broadcast featuring announcers
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  Herb Score and Joe Tate. No score at the end
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  of one in their first game. And here at Tiger
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  Stadium, Jack Billingham. Twelve wins, five losses.
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  One -on -one against the Indians ready to go.
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  He'll face Rick Manning. It's Joe Tate to tell
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  you that it is. A beautiful night for baseball.
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  Thank you, Herb. Good evening, everybody. Billingham
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  throws the first pitch outside to Manning, and
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  the game is underway. Rick hitting .260, three
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  homers, 39 RBIs, and the pitch to him is a strike
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  to the outside. Corner one and one. Manning seven
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  for 23 against the Tigers this year with two
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  runs batted in. Billingham, the right -hander,
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  he's started twice before against the Indians,
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  won one and lost one. Pitched to Manning, popped
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  foul out of play upstairs over our heads of the
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  count as one and two. Cleveland comes in with
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  a record of 53 and 64 on the road. They have
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  won 20 and lost 37, including two straight here
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  at Detroit. They've taken the Tigers three out
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  of five in Cleveland. Tigers at 64 and 52. Both
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  teams coming off losses last night. 1 -2 pitch
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  to Manning, pop -up foul, again out of play to
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  the left, but the count remains at a ball and
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  two strikes. Here in Tiger Stadium, 325 to the
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  right field line, 340 in left, 370 in the power
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  alley in right center, 365 in left center, 440
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  feet in straightaway center field. Bellingham
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  with a 1 -2 pitch to Manning, hits a shot into
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  the hole and into left field, a base hit between
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  Rodriguez and Trammell. Now Manning opens the
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  ball game with a single to left field. And the
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  batter is Buddy Bell. Bell, a right -hand hitter,
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  at 300 right on the hit. Five homers, 48 RBIs.
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  One for 10 against Detroit with two runs batted
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  in. Buddy's hit safely in his last six games.
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  Nine for 26 in that span, a .346 mark. He's 11th
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  in the league at a .300 mark, and just 23 hits
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  short of a .1000 mark for his career. He's also
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  tied for fifth in the league in triples. Bellingham
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  to the stretch, banning at first, pitch to Bell,
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  drive down the right field line, it is starting
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  to fade into the corner, and Corcoran reaches
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  out, cuts the ball, bangs into the usher at the
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  wall, and hangs on. Corcoran takes a foul fly
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  on the corner. The good thing about usher was
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  there, he added some panning because Corcoran
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  plowed into the wall after the catch. He did
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  a good job of just getting through that ball.
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  Todd Manning still at first base, and here's
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  Johnny Grubb, the left -hand batter. Grubb at
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  .276, 14 homers, 55 RBIs, 5 for 20 against Detroit
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  this year. He, too, has a six -game hitting streak
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  going. He's ninth in the American League with
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  a .383 on -base percentage, tied with Bell for
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  fifth and triples with sixth. In his last six
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  games, he's eighth for 23, and over his last
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  30 ballgames, his batting average, .339, dating
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  back to July 14th. He has had six homers, 24
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  RBIs, and 20 runs scored in that 30 -game stretch.
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  The pitch is low, ball one. Joe Nasek coaching
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  at third, Rocky Calavito at first. Billingham
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  with one out, one on. Mickey Stanley at first
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  base tonight. Filling in for Jason Thompson,
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  holding out the bag with a runner. Throw to first
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  base, Manning goes back. Whitaker at second,
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  Trammell at short, Rodriguez at third. Kempin
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  left, LaFleur in center, Corcoran in right. Parrish
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  catching, and Jack Billingham on the mound. A
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  stretch, 1 -0 pitch, and Grubb checked his swing
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  but went too far, and the count is even at a
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  ball and a strike. Andre Thornton on deck. Indians
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  hitting .267 as a team with 78 homers, hitting
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  only .229 against Detroit with five home runs.
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  Billingham looks in for the sign from Parrish.
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  One ball, one strike. Manning leads at first.
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  The pitch to Grubb, and John raps one into center
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  field. The floor is out there and stabs that
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  line drive two out. Hard hit ball, but LaFleur
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  picks it off in the air. Two down, Manning still
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  at first base, and on comes Andre Thornton. Thunder
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  hitting 276, 23 homers, 76 RBIs, 5 for 20 against
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  the Tigers with one home run, four RBIs. The
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  Tigers have walked him eight times this year.
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  Thornton, fifth in home runs and RBIs among scored,
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  third in walks and on -base percentage, fifth
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  in slugging. He has accounted for 26 % of the
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  Tribe's total runs this year. Andre has scored
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  74 and driven in 76. Stretch, pitch. Thornton
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  takes strike one. Throwing in that big sweeping
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  curveball for a good hard sinker, slider. This
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  had good control this year. Check the temperature.
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  Here's the strike one pitch. Thornton chops the
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  ball foul back to the base of the screen in the
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  counter strike two. First of a brief two -game
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  set. Indians will be back here one more time
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  before the Tigers come to Cleveland. We'll be
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  playing them on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
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  the 8th, 9th, and 10th of September. And then
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  the Tigers come back to town on Friday, Saturday,
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  and Sunday, the 15th, 16th, and 17th of September.
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  Stretch by Bellingham. Two -strike pitch. Thornton
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  takes a little low. One ball, two strikes. Incidentally,
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  today, right -hand reliever Steve Foucault...
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  was claimed on waivers by Kansas City, and the
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  Tigers have purchased the contract of right -hand
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  pitcher Dave Tobik from Evansville. He was a
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  former All -American at Ohio University. One
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  ball, two strikes with two outs. The pitch is
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  hit into the hole that's short, right through
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  Trammell's legs into left field. That was a croquet
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  shot right through the legs of the shortstop,
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  Allen Trammell. You'll not see that happen very
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  often because he has really played defensively
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  outstandingly well. Air charged to Trammell.
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  And the batter is Gary Alexander. Alexander,
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  a right -hand batter, catching tonight for the
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  Indians. Hitting 235, 22 homers, 64 runs batted
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  in. 7 for 25 against Detroit in a Cleveland uniform
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  with 3 homers and 11 RBI. Gary's had five hits
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  in his last nine at -bats. First pitch is a strike
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  of an ease on the inside corner, strike one.
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  80 degrees at 8 o 'clock, according to the Weather
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  Bureau. Wind is west at 12 miles per hour. The
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  pitch, hit hard but fouled on the third baseline
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  to the Tiger bullpen. Bangs off the dugout to
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  the usher down that way, still strike two. First
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  inning, Indians with runners at first and at
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  second and two outs. Stretch. Two -strike pitch.
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  Check swing. Pitch low and outside. One ball,
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  two strikes. Alexander says something to Ron
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  Luciano, and Luciano wants to see the baseball.
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  Takes a look at it. a little saliva and decides
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  that he can't get the spot off the ball and throws
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  it out of play. One ball, two strikes with two
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  outs in the top of the first inning. Herb Billingham
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  is one of these guys, if you get to him, you
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  better get him early. If you get in the groove,
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  you're in trouble. That is right. He starts changing
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  speeds on you and gets that good control working.
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  1 -2 pitch. Alexander hits a very high pop -up
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  down the right side. Corcoran going over into
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  the corner, under the ball, makes the catch to
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  retire the side. On the first inning for the
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  Indians, no run to hit an error. Two men left.
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  And at the end of one half inning of play, the
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  Indians nothing and the Tigers are coming to
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  bat. 26 silver dollars. That's right, 26 silver
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  dollars. John Lucas is giving away 26 silver
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  dollars with purchase of selected appliances
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  at the White Westinghouse Anniversary Special
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  Sale going on now at Lucas Appliance in Mount
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  Vernon. A family -sized... energy -saving chest
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  freezer or a deluxe 30 -inch full -featured electric
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  range, now only $218. That's a savings of over
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  $60, and you could use your 26 silver dollars
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  as down payment. Lucas Appliance at 121 South
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  Main Street in Mount Vernon is having their 26th
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  anniversary sale now. Here's some great news
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  for people who like to know they've made a smart
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  buy. At Spitzer Dodge in Columbus, we've got
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  the stylish 1978 Dodge Diplomat for just $47
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  .95. That's right, a luxurious Diplomat, not
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  $6 ,000 or $7 ,000, just $47 .95. And diplomatically
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  speaking, that's a smart buy. This time, instead
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  of Chevy or Ford, pick out a mind -changer, the
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  new favorite Diplomat for just $47 .95. See you
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  soon at Spitzer Dodge, a Columbus tradition at
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  5100 East Main Street. but Dave Tobik from Ohio
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  University, and of course he is a native of Euclid,
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  Ohio, and now resides in Lyndhurst. He had a
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  non -roster trial with the Tigers last spring.
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  He will be in uniform tomorrow wearing number
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  3080. It was 5 -4 with nine saves at Evansville
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  and a 3 .38 ERA in 33 games with the triplets.
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  He allowed 72 hits but struck out 70 while walking
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  26 in 80 innings. 6 '1", 190 pounds, and an All
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  -American at Ohio University. He replaces Steve
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  Foucault. who was put on waivers today by the
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  Tigers and claimed to buy Kansas City. I see
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  the White Sox are going to crank up a new face
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  tonight. Baumgarten is pitching for the Chicago
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  White Sox down in Texas, and he will be going
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  against Doyle Alexander. Leading off for the
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  Detroit Tigers in the home half of the first
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  inning is Ron LaFleur, and he takes the first
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  pitch from David Clyde, low ball one. LaFleur
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  at 291, seven homers, 43 RBIs, nine for 30 against
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  Cleveland with three runs batted in. He has a
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  six -game hitting streak going, takes the first
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  pitch low, and then the next one high and tight,
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  ball two. LaFleur has hit safely in six straight,
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  seven for 22, and also hit safely in seven of
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  his last eight games. He moves up on a pitch
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  that's a strike, and the count is 2 -1. His five
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  -game scoring streak was snapped last night,
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  but he has crossed the plate eight times in the
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  last six games. Here comes the 2 -1 pitch to
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  LaFleur, and he wraps the bouncing ball by Bellman
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  into left field of base set, and now that sets
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  the stage for another set of statistics from
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  Ron LaFleur. That's right. LaFleur has swiped
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  24 bases in a row since last being caught at
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  Texas on July 9th, and he needs two more to tie
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  Mitchell Page's American League record of 26
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  straight set last year. He leads 0 -55. That
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  tops the American and National League. He's also
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  scored 94 runs, which is tops in both leagues.
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  He's only been caught eight times trying to steal.
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  His hitting streak has been extended to seven
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  straight with that leadoff single against David
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  Clyde. Now we'll see what he does to the bases.
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  And a bunt try by Whitaker, his foul tip, strike
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  one. Whitaker at 300, two homers, 41 RBIs, eight
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  for 18 against Cleveland with three RBIs. They
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  have also walked him five times. Here comes Jimmy
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  Warfield out to check on Gary Alexander, who
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  took that foul tip. on his hand. Come on, the
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  gloved hand, however. Whitaker has had 12 hits
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  in his last 30 at -bats during the eight -game
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  streak. He has scored 10 and batted an eight.
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  Herb, we were impressed with Whitaker and we
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  saw him early in the season. He has done nothing
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  since that time to take away the impressiveness.
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  I should say not. I was talking with Ralph Hock
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  before the game and he said that Whitaker and
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  Trammell, he said in all his years of baseball,
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  and he's been around a while, he said he's never
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  seen two kids come up. at such a young age that
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  work so well together and do the job so well.
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  He said they have just been outstanding. He had
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  the pleasure to watch them. Milwaukee has taken
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  a 2 -0 lead on Toronto at the end of three in
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  their first game. Stretch by Clyde with LaFleur
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  at first and they pitch out. Evens the count
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  at one and one, LaFleur was not going. Overall,
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  LaFleur has stolen 55 times in 63 tries. Bell
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  on the grass at third. Stretch and pitch, and
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  Whitaker ducks away from a high -tight fastball,
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  2 -1. Thornton at first, Kuyper at second, Berizer
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  at short, Bell at third, Grubb in left, Manning
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  in center, Norris in right, Alexander catching,
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  and on the mound, the left -hander, David Clyde.
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  McClure at first, and nobody up, 2 -1, pitch
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  to Whitaker, swing, and a miss, two balls, two
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  strikes. Dick Krasuski coaching at third base,
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  Freddie Hatfield at first. Tigers in with a team
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  batting average of .280 and .95. Homers hitting
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  .271 against Cleveland with four home runs. 2
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  -2 pitch to Whitaker. Moves up and Bunce foul.
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  He's out of there. Oh, Whitaker. Bunce foul on
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  a third strike. Goes as a strikeout. First one
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  for David Kladd. One out with LaFleur at first
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  base. Here's Rusty Staub. Staub at 301, 19 homers,
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  96 RBIs, 7 for 26 against Cleveland with 2 home
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  runs, 7 runs batted in, and the Indians have
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  walked him 7 times. Staub is hit safely in 7
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  of his last 8 games, 13 for 31 on that span.
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  He's batted in 9 runs now to tie Jim Rice for
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  the Major League lead with 96. He'll be a post
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  -game guest. Stretch by Clive, looks to the forward
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  first. And the pitch to Staub. Long drive. Right
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  center field. Manning going back with a lot of
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  pasture. Backpedaling and makes the catch deep
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  at right center. Two outs. Staub gave that one
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  a long ride. Two down. Steve Kemp the batter.
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  Kemp is hitting .283, nine homers, 59 RBIs. Three
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  for 29 against Cleveland. One home run, five
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  runs batted in. And he has walked five times
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  against the tribe. Steve had a rough night in
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  left field last night, and I guess the fans,
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  judging from what you read in the papers, touched
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  him up pretty good. Two outs with LaFleur at
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  first base of the first inning. Lance Perry,
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  Shondek. Stretch by Clyde. And the pitch. Pitch
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  out. LaFleur not going. Ball one. Campe left
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  -hand batter. He's hit safely in 14 of his last
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  15 games, hitting .377 on that span, hitting
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  .318 over his last 20 games, and he's second
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  in the league in walks with 80. Pitch is high
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  and inside, ball two. The Detroit Tigers have
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  won nine out of their last 12, and the Indians
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  have dropped 10 of their last 12. The stretch.
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  Look to first. And the pitch. High and inside
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  with a fastball. 3 -0. Tigers have been hot since
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  we saw them last. After their 8 -4 win over Cleveland
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  on July 6th, they were 40 -41. They're now 64
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  -52. The pitch. Fastball. Strike. Knee high.
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  Inside corner. 3 -1. The Indians, when they departed
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  Detroit, were at 37 -44. They are now 53 -64.
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  A stretch. Look to first. 3 -1 pitch. LaFleur
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  goes, and the ball is rammed to right center
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  field. Well tagged. Manning racing back. Can't
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  get it. Bounces up against the wall. LaFleur
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  will score easily. Kept the second base standing
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  with a double. And the Tigers lead 1 -0. Well,
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  LaFleur running with the pitch, and he scored
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  easily. That is Steve Kemp's 60th run batted
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  in against Cleveland. And for Steve Kemp, his
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  14th double of the year. Now this brings to bat
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  Lance Parrish, the right -hand batting catcher,
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  hitting .232, 11 homers, 26 RBIs. Bounces in
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  to Alexander, ball one. Parrish is four for 13
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  with a run batted in against Cleveland this year.
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  The Giants in Montreal. They're scoreless after
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  one. Blue against Freiman. The stretch. Look
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  back to Kemp. Pitch. Swing and a miss on a high
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  fastball. One ball, one strike. Pirates 2 -0
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  over... Cincinnati at the end of two in Pittsburgh.
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  And Reggie Smith just did a grand slam for the
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  Dodgers off Jim Cotta, the third inning. Dodgers
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  leading 4 -0 at Philadelphia. Stretch by Clyde.
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  And the 1 -1 pitch to Lance Parrish. Swing and
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  a miss. Now foul tip. He stays alive. Ball was
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  just grazed on the bat of Parrish in and out
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  of the middle of Alexander. One ball, two strikes.
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  David Clyde with a runner at second base and
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  two outs. A stretch, one -two pitch, Parrish
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  fouls another one back, bounces off the facing
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  in front of the seats, ricochets back out to
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  the foul line, one ball, two strikes. Detroit
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  has taken a one -to -nothing lead in the first
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  inning here at Tiger Stadium, single by LaFleur
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  and a two -out double by Kemp. Stretch by Clyde.
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  And the 1 -2 pitch to the left -hand batter.
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  Parrish takes low and inside. Two balls, two
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  strikes. Parrish is 6 '3", 195. At a Diamond
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  Bar, California. Clyde the stretch. Look back
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  to Kemp. And the 2 -2 pitch to Parrish. Way outside
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  and high. Full count of 3 -2. The Tigers lead
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  1 -0. Indians with a threat on the top. The first
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  could not score against Billingham. Look in for
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  the sign. Here's the stretch. 3 -2 pitch to Parrish.
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  Chopped foul behind the plate. And the count
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  is still three balls, two strikes. Back to Kemp.
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  3 -2 pitch to Parrish. Fastball. Low ball for
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  him. That is the first walk given up by David
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  Clyde. Dave now in 103 and one -third innings
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  has struck out 55 and walked 42. Kuyper, Clyde,
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  and Alexander will meet on the mound as Aurelio
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  Rodriguez gets ready to step in. Rodriguez hitting
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  266. Six homers, 34 runs batted in. 5 -for -21
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  against Cleveland with two ribbies. He's hit
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  safely in his last five ballgames. 6 -for -12
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  in that span. And it is this time of the year
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  that the PR folks sometimes have to reach a little
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  bit to find things to put in their notes. And
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  tonight, with Aurelio Rodriguez, the notes say,
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  one of the few players in Major League history
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  to have each vowel in his first name. Now that's
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  reaching a little bit. That is reaching. Kemp
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  at second, Parrish at first. Two outs, Tigers
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  lead 1 -0. The stretch by David Clyde, the look
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  back, and the bluff by Kuyper towards second.
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  Kemp jumps about a step and a half back toward
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  the bag. Rodriguez, a right -hand batter. A stretch
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  by Clyde, and the pitch to Rodriguez. Takes strike
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  one on the inside corner. Al McCray is on. inning
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  for Kansas City, but that may be too little too
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  late. It is 5 -1 in favor of the Twins, and they
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  are batting in the 8th. A stretch. And the pitch.
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  Hit hard and foul and into the seats in the upper
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  deck on the right. Depending on what California
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  does with Boston tonight, Kansas City could drop
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  out of first place. Milwaukee is rolling at the
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  expense of the Blue Jays. They have a 4 -0 lead
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  at the end of four innings of their first game
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  behind Mike Caldwell. A stretch by Clyde and
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  the two -strike pitch to Rodriguez. Fastball.
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  Outside. 1 -2. David Clyde has thrown quite a
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  few pitches here in this first inning. Tigers
• 22:08
  lead 1 -0. Two men on, two men out. A stretch.
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  And the left -hander with a 1 -2 pitch to Rodriguez.
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  High fly ball. Right center field. Manning and
• 22:19
  Norris getting together. And Jimmy Norris makes
• 22:21
  the catch. The right fielder retires the side
• 22:23
  with that grab. But the Tigers get on the scoreboard.
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  One run, two hits, and a walk with two men left.
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  And at the end of one inning of play, Detroit
• 22:31
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  of the second inning, Carbo, Norris, and Kuyper,
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  three left -hand batters against the right -hander,
• 23:41
  Billingham. Urban, I would like to wish the very
• 23:44
  best to J .T. Miller of Canton, Ohio, the young
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  man just home from the hospital after sustaining
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  a foot injury. We understand that J .T. is numbered
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  among the best of Indian fans down around Canton,
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  Ohio, and we sincerely hope that he's back in
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  good health in the very near future. We're happy
• 23:58
  to have him listening in tonight. Down on the
• 24:01
  farm last night, the opponents won two and the
• 24:03
  weatherman got the other two. Albuquerque shut
• 24:06
  out Portland for another one of the few times
• 24:08
  Portland's been shut out this year. They've been
• 24:10
  banging the ball. They were held to three hits.
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  Tom McGuff took the loss. Chattanooga and Waterloo
• 24:15
  were both rained out. Little Falls beat Batavia
• 24:17
  in the New York Penn League in both games of
• 24:19
  a twin -eyed doubleheader. Pitched to Carbo,
• 24:22
  fastball inside, ball one. Bernie hitting 262,
• 24:25
  two homers, 14 RBIs, 4 for 14 against Detroit
• 24:28
  with one run batted in. Little Falls beat Batavia
• 24:32
  8 -7 and 7 -0. Saavedra hit a home run for Batavia
• 24:35
  in the first game, but Bozeman throw a no -hitter
• 24:38
  in the nightcap for Little Falls. There's a shot
• 24:40
  up the middle on the ground and into center field.
• 24:42
  A base hit by Whitaker. Bernie Carbo spanks the
• 24:45
  ball on the ground right up the middle. Whitaker
• 24:47
  came galloping over behind the bag but couldn't
• 24:50
  flag it down, and the Indians have their second
• 24:52
  hit. Jimmy Norris, the left -hand batting right
• 24:55
  fielder. 269, two homers, 20 RBIs. He is 0 for
• 25:02
  7 against Detroit with one run batted in. Tigers
• 25:07
  lead 1 -0 in the top half of the second inning.
• 25:11
  Zach Billingham looking for win number 13. And
• 25:14
  tomorrow night we look at another 12 -game winner,
• 25:16
  Jim Slayton. Stretch of the pitch, fastball,
• 25:19
  low ball one. Tigers, one run, two hits, one
• 25:24
  error. And the Indians, no runs. Two hits, no
• 25:27
  errors. Now stretch. Pitch. Fastball again loaded.
• 25:37
  Norris ball two. 2 -0. Jack Billingham. Fine
• 25:52
  days with the Cincinnati Reds. He throws a pitch
• 25:54
  outside to Norris. Now the count goes to 3 -0,
• 25:58
  and the Indians may be on the verge of getting
• 25:59
  something started here on the second inning.
• 26:03
  Tigers picked up a run on the first on a single
• 26:05
  by LaFleur and a two -out double by Kemp. A stretch.
• 26:10
  3 -0 pitch. Norris takes a strike on the outside
• 26:13
  part of the plate above the knees. 3 -1. Bernie
• 26:19
  Carbo at first base. Mickey Stanley holding the
• 26:21
  bag. A stretch. And a 3 -1 pitch. Norris chops
• 26:28
  the ball foul over to the first base dugout.
• 26:31
  Usher beats the ball boy to the ball. Pretty
• 26:34
  good race. 3 -2. Indians occupy the first base
• 26:39
  dugout here at Tiger Stadium. And the Detroit
• 26:42
  Tigers almost below us here on the third base
• 26:44
  side. Urban and I sit in an ideal place to see
• 26:48
  the ball game. Looking right up the first base
• 26:51
  foul line. About 70 feet from home plate. Wrapped
• 26:54
  down the first base line. Great grab by Stanley
• 26:56
  Diving. Throws to second and got Carbo trapped
• 26:58
  off the bag. Clips to Rodriguez. Running him
• 27:01
  back to second. And it's a double play. Oh, my.
• 27:05
  Carbo didn't know where the ball was. He made
• 27:07
  the turn at second base and took about a step
• 27:10
  and a half or two steps beyond the bag and just
• 27:11
  stopped and looked around. And when he looked
• 27:14
  towards second base, there was Whitaker with
• 27:16
  the ball chasing him. Hanley engineered the whole
• 27:21
  thing with a spectacular dive toward the foul
• 27:23
  line. Caught the ball on one hop, falling on
• 27:26
  the bag for the out, straightened up, and then
• 27:28
  found Mr. Carbo wandering between second and
• 27:31
  third, and they ran him down. Now there are two
• 27:36
  outs and nobody on. Here's Dwayne Kuyper at bat,
• 27:41
  and Dwayne pops the foul over our heads. Out
• 27:44
  of play, strike one. Kuyper hitting 285, 33 RBIs,
• 27:49
  5 for 23 against Detroit. Kuyper has been sidelined
• 27:52
  since August the 11th with cartilage damage in
• 27:55
  his right knee, and he had collected 10 hits
• 27:56
  and 28 at -bats prior to the injury. Picks high
• 27:59
  and outside. One ball, one strike. Wind up on
• 28:09
  the next pitch. Kuyper fouls it back to the screen.
• 28:11
  One ball, two strikes. That play went 3 -6 -5.
• 28:15
  on the rundown of Carabao. Two outs and nobody
• 28:25
  on. Here's the one -two pitch. High. Two balls,
• 28:29
  two strikes. Bellingham looks in, gets the sign.
• 28:40
  Wind up. 2 -2 pitch to Dwayne Kuyper. Hits the
• 28:43
  bouncing ball up the middle behind the bag. Grabbed
• 28:46
  by Whitaker, but no chance to throw. Kuyper beats
• 28:48
  out the infield hit. Dwayne Kuyper returns to
• 28:51
  the lineup with a bouncing single. That is the
• 28:58
  third Indian hit. I tell you, that Dwayne Kuyper
• 29:02
  is something else. He sure is. You put that kind
• 29:04
  of desire and determination and hustle into 25
• 29:07
  people in the same uniform, you're going to have
• 29:09
  yourself a ball club that'll just beat you to
• 29:10
  death. Verizer, 291, 24 RBIs, 7 for 20 against
• 29:16
  his former teammates with one run batted in.
• 29:18
  Pitch to Tommy, low, good stop on the bouncing
• 29:21
  pitch by Parrish. He had to go quickly to his
• 29:24
  right and take that ball on the bounce in the
• 29:26
  left -hand batter's box. 1 -0 count on Verizer.
• 29:35
  Kuyper leads at first base, Stanley holding in
• 29:37
  the bag, stretched by Billingham, pitch to Verizer,
• 29:40
  fastball inside. Ball two. Tommy back down in
• 29:45
  the number nine spot of the order where he has
• 29:47
  done so very well this year. Rick Manning on
• 29:50
  deck. Stretch by Billingham. Pitch to Beriser.
• 29:53
  Swing and a miss. Two balls and a strike. There's
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  a pretty healthy breeze roaring by this ballpark,
• 30:02
  but down inside, not quite that strong a wind.
• 30:07
  When you get something up in the air, it might
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  ride. Pitch to Verizer. Bouncing ball to the
• 30:10
  shortstop. Trammell has it. Flips over to Whitaker
• 30:12
  for the force on Kuyper. And the side is retired.
• 30:15
  No runs. Two hits. But a man left. And at the
• 30:17
  end of one and one -half innings of play, the
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  action in the National League. Houston beat St.
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  Louis 4 -2. San Diego beat New York 2 -1. And
• 31:32
  Atlanta blanked the Cubs 9 -0. Both Phil Necro
• 31:35
  and Joe Necro started one and one for distance
• 31:38
  today. Joe for the Astros and Phil for the Braves.
• 31:41
  Tonight, Pirates 2 -0 over Cincinnati in the
• 31:44
  fourth. The Dodgers 4 -1 over the Phillies in
• 31:46
  the fifth. The Giants and the Expos scoreless
• 31:49
  in the third. Minnesota 5 -1 over Kansas City
• 31:52
  in the eighth inning of their first game. Milwaukee
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  4 -0 over Toronto in the fifth inning of their
• 31:56
  first game. First pitch to Mickey Stanley in
• 31:58
  the second inning is a swinging strike one. Stanley,
• 32:01
  264, two homers, seven RBIs, and two for nine
• 32:04
  in the series against the Cleveland Indians this
• 32:07
  year. Wind up by Clyde to the pitch. Stanley
• 32:10
  drives one into left field. Johnny Grubb going
• 32:13
  back, getting under the ball, and makes the catch
• 32:15
  about a step away from the warning pass. One
• 32:20
  out of the second inning. Batter is Tim Corcoran,
• 32:25
  the right fielder, left -hand batter. Corcoran
• 32:27
  at 269, one over 22 RBIs, two for nine against
• 32:30
  Cleveland thus far this year. He has had 10 hits
• 32:33
  in his last 26 at -bats, hitting safely in six
• 32:35
  of his last seven games, and he's had seven RBIs
• 32:38
  in that span. Start of the year, Charlie Spikes
• 32:42
  and Corcoran were scheduled to duel it out for
• 32:44
  that right field spot. Charlie ended up in Evansville
• 32:47
  and also on the injured list. Bunt. Beauty. Third
• 32:49
  base. Side. Bell. No chance. Face it. Boy, Corcoran
• 32:52
  laid down a perfect punt. No chance to get in.
• 33:00
  Bunt single for Tim Corcoran. Hits are now even
• 33:05
  at three. And it brings on Allen Trammell, the
• 33:07
  shortstop. Trammell at 255. Two homers, 22 RBIs.
• 33:11
  Five for 14 against Cleveland with one run batted
• 33:14
  in. One out, one on. Second inning, Tigers lead
• 33:18
  one to nothing. Cramer looks down to the third
• 33:24
  base coach, Dick Krasuski, for the sign. Dick
• 33:29
  Krasuski's taking his television set and he's,
• 33:31
  well, he's risking a TV set. He's going to have
• 33:33
  Howard Stitzel, our engineer, fix it. Say goodbye
• 33:37
  to the TV set. Fitch is inside ball one. You
• 33:39
  are living dangerously when you hand Mr. Stitzel
• 33:42
  a screwdriver. You're living dangerously when
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  you're just close to him. Well caught on Alan
• 33:49
  Trammell. A stretch by the left -hander, David
• 33:51
  Clyde. Looks to first base and delivers to Trammell.
• 33:54
  Inside again, ball two. Howard Stitzel was the
• 33:59
  engineer for the Detroit Tigers for how many
• 34:01
  years, Howard? 27 years. He was the engineer
• 34:04
  for Marconi. What are you talking about? Here's
• 34:08
  the stretch. Look to first base. 2 -0 pitch.
• 34:11
  Trammell hits it hard up the middle. Verizer
• 34:12
  near the bag. Goes over. Steps on second. Throws
• 34:15
  the first double play. No runs and a hit with
• 34:18
  nobody left. At the end of two, it is Detroit
• 34:21
  1, Cleveland nothing. About time you got here.
• 34:28
  Can't lay another foot in track till we unload
• 34:30
  your flat cars. Help yourself. And there's a
• 34:32
  mail pouch for you back in the caboose. Oh, that'll
• 34:34
  have my tobacco in it. Hank, tell the men I got
• 34:36
  some real fine leaf tobacco for chewing. Came
• 34:38
  in the mail pouch. The men who want to share
• 34:41
  line up at the caboose. You others, get these
• 34:43
  barrels of spice off the platform. The story
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  of a great American tradition, Mail Pouch chewing
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  of leaf tobacco, and it's been pleasing men ever
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  over 90 years' experience in giving tobacco chewers
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  what they want. A clean, fresh taste that's not
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  too strong, but isn't too sweet either. a flavor
• 35:07
  that really lasts and satisfies a man all day
• 35:10
  long. So if you haven't tried Mail Pouch lately,
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  chew a few packs and taste the Mail Pouch difference.
• 35:15
  You'll see why it's become a tradition to chew
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  Mail Pouch and treat yourself to the best. In
• 35:26
  the top of the third inning, Manning, Bell, and
• 35:28
  Grubb, the top of the Indians' order. Against
• 35:30
  Jack Billingham, the Tigers leading 1 -0 in the
• 35:33
  first inning. Ronald LaFleur single to left and
• 35:35
  with two outs. Kemp bashed a double to drive
• 35:38
  home on the floor from first base. Now it's at
• 35:42
  the top of the third. Manning, single left field
• 35:45
  to start the ball game for the Indians. They
• 35:46
  got him as far as second base on an error. That's
• 35:49
  as far as he could go in the first inning. Rick
• 35:58
  Manning, left hand batter. Fillingham standing
• 36:08
  behind the mound. I thought he was doing an Al
• 36:11
  Roboski there for a minute. Either that or he
• 36:13
  swallowed his chew. Here's the lineup first pitch
• 36:19
  to Manning. Fastball, strike one on the outside
• 36:21
  corner. I don't think he chews. Strike one pitch.
• 36:29
  Manning hits it hard up the middle. Whitaker
• 36:31
  knocks at it with the glove. Couldn't stop it.
• 36:34
  It got by him. And Manning should be two for
• 36:36
  two. Base hit for Manning. That is the Indians'
• 36:50
  fourth hit. Now, if our engineer was really on
• 36:52
  the ball, he would fix the squawk box so we could
• 36:54
  hear the official score from upstairs. A word
• 36:59
  to the Y. Here's the stretch. The pitch. Manning
• 37:04
  going. Bell hits the ball to third. Rodriguez
• 37:05
  no chance at second. Throws on over to first.
• 37:07
  Bell is out and a runner at second base. Very
• 37:16
  easily have been two had Manning not been going.
• 37:21
  Johnny Grubb, a line drive to the center fielder
• 37:23
  in the first inning of play. Detroit leads 1
• 37:30
  -0. They're in the top of the third inning. Now
• 37:39
  Urban. In terms of watching a ball game, I like
• 37:41
  this vantage point better than any place in baseball.
• 37:43
  This is one of the really nice ballparks. It's
• 37:46
  one of the older ones, but it's well kept. And
• 37:48
  I think for the fans in almost any seat, they
• 37:50
  sit in there very close to the action. Time called.
• 37:53
  And that goes doubly so for us. We're suspended
• 37:56
  from the facing of the upper deck. We actually
• 37:59
  protrude out from the upper deck. A stretch.
• 38:03
  Look back, pitch. That is a ball low. Ball one.
• 38:15
  Detroit leads 1 -0. Stretch by Bellingham. Looks
• 38:18
  back to Manning. 1 -0 pitch. Grubb takes. Going
• 38:20
  outside. Ball to 2 -0. Andre Thornton on deck.
• 38:29
  Tigers one run, three hits, one error. The Indians
• 38:31
  no runs on four base hits. A stretch. The pitch.
• 38:35
  And Grubb hits the ball foul to the coach's box
• 38:38
  at first base. Down to the bullpen. The count
• 38:40
  is 2 -1. Tomorrow night, 8 o 'clock, game two
• 38:46
  of this brief two -game set. And tomorrow night,
• 38:49
  for the Cleveland Indians, Dave Friesleben. And
• 38:53
  for the Detroit Tigers, it will be Jim Slate.
• 38:59
  Here's the 2 -1 pitch to Grubb. John takes a
• 39:02
  strike. Neha on the outside corner. Two balls,
• 39:04
  two strikes. Looking ahead to the Indians' homestand
• 39:07
  of the weekend against the White Sox. Friday
• 39:09
  night, Mike Proley against Rick Wise. Saturday
• 39:12
  night, Francisco Barrios against Mike Paxton.
• 39:14
  Sunday afternoon, Steve Stone against Rick Waits.
• 39:17
  Stretch, 2 -2, pitch to Grob. Check swing, in
• 39:21
  time, ball 3 -3 -2. What a tough loss that Steve
• 39:24
  Stone had last night. He gave up only two hits.
• 39:26
  One of them, the home run to Richie Zisk, and
• 39:28
  he lost one to nothing. Three balls, two strikes.
• 39:33
  One out on the top of the third. Manning at second
• 39:36
  base. The stretch. Payoff pitch to John. He bounces
• 39:39
  the ball back to the second baseman Whitaker.
• 39:41
  Throws to first and Manning checks in at third
• 39:43
  base with two outs. Andre Thornton the batter.
• 39:48
  He had a ground ball that went right through
• 39:50
  the legs of Alan Trammell, a shortstop for an
• 39:53
  error in the first inning. Thornton officially
• 40:02
  0 for 1 on the night. Indians had two men on
• 40:07
  in the first inning, couldn't score. Had two
• 40:09
  hits in the second inning, and couldn't score.
• 40:11
  Now we have a runner at third with two outs in
• 40:13
  the third. Look in for the sign, and here's the
• 40:17
  windup and the pitch to Thornton, and a fastball,
• 40:19
  strike one. Every once in a while, Jack Fillingham
• 40:21
  can still bring that fastball, and he did right
• 40:23
  there. Fillingham looks into Parrish and gets
• 40:31
  the sign. Manning leading at third base. Billingham
• 40:37
  nods and then steps back. Time called for the
• 40:45
  moment. Now both men are set. Strike one pitch
• 40:47
  to Thornton. He's going to bunt. Drops it third
• 40:49
  base side of the mound. Here comes Manning. Pick
• 40:51
  up by Billingham. Throw to first base. And they
• 40:52
  count him by an island. Oh, is that close? Close
• 40:56
  play at first base, but it retires the side.
• 41:00
  And in the third inning, no runs. One hit and
• 41:02
  a man left. At the end of two and one half innings
• 41:05
  of play. Detroit 1, Cleveland nothing. You know,
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  Game is over in Minnesota. And the Minnesota
• 42:19
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• 42:22
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• 42:26
  against Kurzanowski. Here in the third inning
• 42:32
  for the Detroit Tigers, the top of their order.
• 42:35
  Ron LaFleur. He got things rolling for the Tigers.
• 42:39
  With a hit in the first inning, eventually scored
• 42:41
  on a two -out double by Kemp. Wind up by David
• 42:55
  Clyde to the first pitch to LeFleur. It is a
• 42:57
  ball. Ball one. Next pitch to LeFleur. He rammed
• 43:08
  over Berizer's glove as he leaped up for that
• 43:10
  shot. In the left field, a single, and LeFleur
• 43:13
  is two for two. Well, they told us when we got
• 43:15
  here today, he is hot, and he is. Oh, the runner
• 43:20
  at first base. Nobody out. Four hits for the
• 43:23
  Tigers. He tried to punt his way out on the first
• 43:31
  inning and was out on a punted third strike.
• 43:38
  Stretch by Clyde. Look to LaFleur. Look at him
• 43:41
  again. And the pitch. Whitaker takes low. Ball
• 43:45
  one. Mentioned before that Ron LaFleur has stolen
• 43:51
  24 straight. Two away from the American League
• 43:55
  record set last year by Mitchell Page and ended,
• 43:58
  by the way, by the Indians. 1 -0 pitch will come
• 44:02
  after a throw puts LaFleur back in the bag. Cincinnati
• 44:06
  is tied up. Pittsburgh 2 -2 at the end of four.
• 44:11
  And the Dodgers have knocked out Codd in the
• 44:13
  fifth. Another throw to first base and LaFleur
• 44:18
  back easily. Home half of the third inning. The
• 44:27
  Tigers leading 1 -0. Look forward first base.
• 44:30
  Nobody out. 1 -0 count to Whitaker. Fastball.
• 44:33
  High ball two. Whitaker is one of these young
• 44:39
  fellas who had better walk into the ballpark
• 44:41
  with the rest of the team or they won't let him
• 44:43
  through the gates. Very young looking guy. 2
• 44:47
  -0 pitch. Fastball. Inside. Ball three. Whitaker
• 44:56
  is only 21 years old, but he looks like he's
• 44:58
  about 15. And he plays like he's been around
• 45:02
  for five years. Stretch, 3 -0 pitch, inside and
• 45:08
  high ball four. Now LaFleur goes to second base
• 45:11
  on a walk -over. And he plays like he's been
• 45:15
  around for five years. Stretch, 3 -0 pitch, inside
• 45:20
  and high ball four. Now LaFleur goes to second
• 45:23
  base on the walk to Whitaker, and now the Tigers
• 45:26
  have something cranked up. Second walk by Clyde
• 45:30
  to go with one strikeout. Rusty Staub, first
• 45:33
  time up, he sent Manning deep into center field
• 45:36
  to haul down a fly ball. Kuyper, Clyde, and Alexander
• 45:42
  have a conference in the mound. Staub leading
• 45:46
  the majors with 96 runs batted in. And as Herb
• 45:50
  mentioned, he will be Herb's guest tonight on
• 45:53
  the 10th inning show here at Tiger Stadium. Clyde
• 46:03
  looks in, stretches. And the pitch to Staub.
• 46:08
  He takes the fastball, the strike of the knees,
• 46:10
  strike one. Stob the batter. Steve Kemp on deck.
• 46:28
  Hyde looks back to the floor at second. Looks
• 46:31
  at him again and steps back. Stob choking that
• 46:37
  bat up about four inches, three and a half, four
• 46:39
  inches. It's a very small bat as well. Stretch.
• 46:47
  And Clyde with the strike one pitch to star.
• 46:50
  Curve is high. 1 -1. We're going to talk to him
• 46:53
  on the postgame show. We've already recorded
• 46:54
  it, and we'll be talking about the fact that
• 46:56
  he's a fellow who's driven in 96 runs already.
• 46:59
  Hit 19 home runs. He still chokes up the bat.
• 47:09
  The 1 -1 pitch. Dob takes one low. Gets away
• 47:11
  from Alexander. The runners move to second and
• 47:13
  third while Alexander raced over to the on -deck
• 47:15
  circle to pick it up. He did a great job of just
• 47:18
  even getting a glove on that ball. That ball
• 47:19
  bounced in the right -hand hitting batting box.
• 47:23
  Almost out of the right -handed batting box.
• 47:27
  The Tigers now have runners at second and third
• 47:30
  and nobody out. David Clyde uncorking his eighth
• 47:34
  wild pitch of the year. The Indians 45th and
• 47:36
  the bullpen for the tribe. Dan Spilner is throwing.
• 47:44
  Two balls, one strike. LaFleur at third, Whitaker
• 47:48
  at second. Nobody out. A stretch and pitch. There's
• 47:53
  a drive into right field. Jimmy Norris stabs
• 47:55
  the liner. LaFleur tags. He's coming home over
• 47:58
  to third base. Goes Whitaker and it's 2 -0. That
• 48:02
  was a sacrifice line drive. 97 runs batted in
• 48:08
  for Busty Staub. 2 -0 Detroit. The 8th RBI that
• 48:21
  Staub has had against the Indians this year.
• 48:29
  Brings up Steve Kemp. He doubled in the first
• 48:31
  Tiger run. Whitaker at third base and one out.
• 48:39
  Stretch by Clyde and the pitch and Kemp takes
• 48:42
  a strike to the knees of the outside corner.
• 48:44
  Strike one. Thornton, Kuyper, Verizer and Bell
• 48:48
  all pulled in around the edge of the infield
• 48:50
  grass. Stretch. Strike one pitch. That is strike
• 48:58
  two. 0 -2 count. Steve Kemp backing out of the
• 49:03
  batter's box, nodding and saying, yes, yes, yes.
• 49:05
  As if to say to Luciano, you're right. I don't
• 49:07
  know why I didn't swing. Clyde looks in and gets
• 49:12
  the sign. Here's the stretch. And the 0 -2 pitch
• 49:17
  to Kemp. Swing and a miss. Struck him out with
• 49:19
  a curveball. That is the second strikeout for
• 49:25
  David Clyde. And it brings on Lance Parrish.
• 49:29
  Parrish walked in the first inning of play. Dodgers
• 49:37
  now 5 -1 over the Phillies in the fifth. White
• 49:42
  Sox get a run on the first at Texas. Rangers
• 49:44
  are now batting Bumgarten against Alexander.
• 49:47
  Fastball is high to Lance Parrish, ball one.
• 49:50
  And Montreal has a 1 -0 lead over the Giants
• 49:53
  at the end of four. Dodgers could well be in
• 49:56
  first place by themselves when the evening is
• 49:58
  over. Pitch to Parrish. Low and inside. Ball
• 50:02
  two. 2 -0. Well, Heisel just hit number 28 and
• 50:13
  Yacht hit number three. And Milwaukee now in
• 50:16
  front 7 -0 after six of their first game. Stretch
• 50:22
  by Clyde. And the 2 -0 pitch. And Parrish hits
• 50:24
  it hard to third. Picked up by Bell. Throws across.
• 50:28
  Parrish is out. And the side is retired. One
• 50:31
  run, one hit, one walk, one wild pitch, and one
• 50:35
  left. At the end of three innings of play, Detroit
• 50:38
  2, Cleveland nothing. After a long home run After
• 51:17
  the game is won King of Bears is waiting for
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• 51:42
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  This is the Cleveland Indians baseball network.
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• 52:00
  Hitting number four, and here's Herb's score.
• 52:02
  Thank you, John Hagan, everybody, for the...
• 52:05
  Indians, Alexander Carbo -Norris come up against
• 52:08
  Jack Fillingham. The Indians trail in this game
• 52:10
  2 -0. It's Fillingham against David Clyde. Fillingham
• 52:14
  has surrendered four hits, but the Indians are
• 52:17
  not able to cross home plate yet. Gary Alexander,
• 52:27
  first time up, lifted a high, towering fly ball
• 52:30
  to right field. Caught out there by Corcoran.
• 52:40
  Big fella, 6 '4", 215 pounds. Inside and low
• 52:45
  ball one. Bellingham started his baseball career
• 52:54
  in 1961 with Orlando. Back in the Florida State
• 52:57
  League then. There's a strike over the outside
• 53:00
  corner knee high. First came up to the major
• 53:03
  leagues with the Dodgers in 1968 briefly. Went
• 53:06
  to Houston. arrived in Cincinnati in 1972, and
• 53:10
  there he had some really good years, twice won
• 53:11
  19 games. He was traded here to the Tigers during
• 53:21
  spring training this year. Ground ball, sharply
• 53:24
  hit, one bounce to the shortstop. Trammell, the
• 53:26
  long throw, they get Gary Alexander. 6 -3 on
• 53:30
  the out. Young Mr. Trammell can pop that baseball.
• 53:40
  The batter now will be the Indian designated
• 53:42
  hitter, Ernie Cabo. First time up, he bounced
• 53:44
  one right through the middle. First pitch is
• 53:53
  over at the knees, strike a curveball. Time call,
• 54:00
  they like that baseball exam, and Ron Luciano
• 54:03
  looks it over, says nothing wrong with it, throws
• 54:05
  it right back. Lined up and the pitch. Curve
• 54:19
  ball, this one stays high. Ball one, strike one.
• 54:23
  They do not post the batting averages here in
• 54:26
  Tiger Stadium, so they don't keep the current.
• 54:29
  Bernie Carbo started out hitting 262. He probably
• 54:31
  hit about 265. Line drive, right field, base
• 54:33
  hit. He waited on the curve ball and slammed
• 54:35
  it to right. So Bernie Carbo is two for two.
• 54:39
  Indians collect their fifth base hit. They have
• 54:42
  out -hit the Tigers now five to four, but the
• 54:44
  Tigers have out -run them two to nothing. Jimmy
• 54:47
  Norris smashed one that looked like it might
• 54:49
  be a base hit down the first base side. Mickey
• 54:52
  Stanley playing first base dove at the ball,
• 54:54
  grabs it. In fact, he landed right on top of
• 54:56
  the bag, scrambled up through to second. Carbo
• 54:58
  had made a turn at second. When we looked back,
• 55:01
  there was a shortstop with a baseball chasing
• 55:02
  him. Carbo now up to 271. Pitch to Jimmy, bouncing
• 55:07
  ball. This one goes over the head of Stanley
• 55:08
  into right field. Carbo to second, makes the
• 55:10
  turn. He'll go for third. The throw is all the
• 55:14
  way through and grabbed by Rodriguez off the
• 55:16
  bag. Holding at first is Norris with a base hit.
• 55:19
  At third base, Cabo with one man down. Indians
• 55:22
  have runners at first and at third, and here's
• 55:24
  Dwayne Kuyper. First time up in the game, Kuyper
• 55:28
  bounced the single right through the middle.
• 55:35
  Cabo at third, Norris at first. Here's a fellow
• 55:44
  who said, Ran to Detroit from Cleveland Heights
• 55:47
  to see the tribe and say hello. He says, I jogged
• 55:51
  all the way. I must have left Christmas Day or
• 55:54
  something. Who is this fellow? Ron Lawrence.
• 55:57
  I wonder if that's true. He did. Boy, that's
• 55:59
  something. Here's the pitcher. Bouncing ball.
• 56:06
  First base. Grabbed by Stanley. He has Cabo.
• 56:08
  Stuck off third. Running toward him. Throws to
• 56:10
  Rodriguez. Rodriguez now throws home. They're
• 56:13
  going to have Cabo. Long up. They make the tag
• 56:15
  a hand throw to third. And almost. Dale Norris.
• 56:19
  Now the Tigers were trying to time that. They
• 56:23
  had everybody jockeying back and forth. Hoping
• 56:25
  they could get Carbo running towards third. And
• 56:28
  also Norris coming to third. Carbo stayed in
• 56:31
  the rundown long enough to let Jimmy get into
• 56:33
  third base. So it'll be a fielder's choice. And
• 56:38
  it will go three. Or three to five to two. And
• 56:47
  on the play, Morris legs it around to third.
• 56:51
  And Kuyper goes to second. But now there are
• 56:54
  two men out. Tommy Verizon, the batter, hit a
• 56:56
  ground ball his first time up. And the shortstop
• 56:59
  grabbed and forced the runner a second on. Dillingham
• 57:04
  will go from the windup. Two men in scoring position.
• 57:06
  Two men out. Curveball slips it over, but Hive,
• 57:09
  all one. Wind up and the pitch. Swing and a miss
• 57:20
  on the slider. Frank and Wilma Hippley and Eric
• 57:25
  Hines here tonight. They say they're from the
• 57:27
  Akron area. They came over to see the Indians
• 57:29
  play. Pitch to Tommy. Foul back and out of play.
• 57:40
  Tommy came into the game with a batting average
• 57:42
  of 291. No home runs. 24 runs batted in. Two
• 57:52
  strikes on Tom. Schumann out. Indian runners
• 57:55
  at second and at third. They trail 2 -0 here
• 57:57
  in the fourth. Rick Manning's on deck, and he
• 58:01
  is 2 -for -2 in the game. Indians have had six
• 58:04
  base hits. They're trying to get their first
• 58:07
  run. Fillingham checking the sign with Lance
• 58:10
  Parrish. Wying up and the pitch. Check swings,
• 58:15
  like three calls. Flider over the inside corner.
• 58:18
  Tommy Verizon looks back to the umpire and says,
• 58:21
  Did I swing? And he says, No. And he points to
• 58:23
  home plate and says, It was over. First strikeout
• 58:27
  for Billingham, and he could not pick the better
• 58:29
  spot for himself to get it. For the Indians in
• 58:31
  the fourth inning, no runs. They get two more
• 58:34
  hits. No errors. They leave two more. They've
• 58:37
  now left six men in the first four innings. And
• 58:40
  at the middle of the fourth inning, the score.
• 58:42
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• 59:49
  the fourth inning for the Tigers. Tigers leading
• 59:51
  two to nothing. Indians have had some scoring
• 59:53
  opportunities, but have not been able to get
• 59:55
  the base hit when they really needed it. Here's
• 59:57
  Rodriguez, who has flied to right his only time
• 59:59
  up. Swing and a miss on the curve. David Clyde
• 1:00:07
  with that good overhand curveball. Arulio, right
• 1:00:10
  -handed batter. Started out with the California
• 1:00:14
  Angels back several years ago. Ended up in a
• 1:00:16
  big trade with then Washington. Curveball too
• 1:00:21
  low. Came over here in a rather large steal.
• 1:00:25
  Not many third basemen around baseball anywhere
• 1:00:28
  that has a truer or stronger throwing arm than
• 1:00:31
  Rodriguez. One ball and a strike. Fastball, foul
• 1:00:38
  back. This one gets a piece of Gary Alexander.
• 1:00:41
  Twice he's been hit tonight. Ron Luciano umpiring
• 1:00:50
  his home plate. Kenny Kaiser at first. Mike Riley,
• 1:00:54
  the second -base umpire. Third -base umpire is
• 1:00:57
  Bill Haller. A wind -up and the pitch. Curveball
• 1:01:02
  wrapped toward the shortstop. Grabbed by Tommy
• 1:01:03
  Verizon. Throws across and gets it. 6 -3 on the
• 1:01:09
  out. One man gone. Fourth inning. Brings up Mickey
• 1:01:13
  Stanley. Mickey, the oldest Tiger in terms of
• 1:01:16
  service. He's in his 13th year in the Major League.
• 1:01:30
  All with the Tigers. Swing and a miss on David
• 1:01:40
  Clyde's curve. Strike one. Make it a night. Clyde
• 1:01:44
  to left field. His only time up. 6 '1", about
• 1:01:52
  195 pounds. Just turned 36 years old. Long drive.
• 1:02:09
  on mickey stanley ever since texas anything headed
• 1:02:16
  for the foul pole makes me nervous i should say
• 1:02:18
  one man down fourth inning indians on top or
• 1:02:23
  behind now to nothing fastball inside drives
• 1:02:27
  them back all one strike two david clyde cut
• 1:02:31
  loose with his best fastball that time We're
• 1:02:39
  just jolted by four runs off the bat to the Pirates.
• 1:02:43
  Curveball too low, 2 -2. Game was tied going
• 1:02:46
  into the last half of inning number five. Pirates
• 1:02:48
  came up with four. They now lead Cincinnati 6
• 1:02:51
  -2. Somebody did some damage in that inning.
• 1:02:55
  Bill Robinson, a three -run homer. 2 -2 pitch.
• 1:03:02
  Fastball strike, three -call. He buzzed it over
• 1:03:04
  the outside part of the plate wayside. Stanley
• 1:03:07
  looks at a third strike. And the third strikeout
• 1:03:10
  for left -handed David Clyde brings up Tim Corcoran.
• 1:03:14
  He laid down a perfect one single his first time
• 1:03:17
  up. And his batting average up over the 270 mark.
• 1:03:21
  By the way, I understand that Nestor Shylock
• 1:03:23
  now has returned to his home to recuperate from
• 1:03:26
  his siege in the hospital and reportedly is in
• 1:03:29
  fine fettle. Fastball inside. I think it nipped
• 1:03:32
  him. Apparently it didn't. Right around the letters.
• 1:03:40
  Nested left the hospital fairly early and recovering
• 1:03:44
  at home. And we certainly wish him the best.
• 1:03:47
  He is, my way of thinking, the best umpire I've
• 1:03:49
  seen. Curveball, strike over the outside corner.
• 1:03:53
  David Clyde in this inning has the best curveball
• 1:03:55
  he's had all game long. Looks like he's really
• 1:03:57
  started to get right through it. One ball and
• 1:04:00
  a strike. Wind up, 1 -1 pitch. Fastball, swung
• 1:04:06
  on a miss, blew it right by him. One ball, two
• 1:04:10
  strikes. Fourth inning. Tigers two, Indians nothing.
• 1:04:14
  Indians have six hits, the Tigers have four.
• 1:04:17
  Tigers single runs in the first and in the third.
• 1:04:21
  Swing and a miss, strike three on the fastball.
• 1:04:23
  David Clyde gets them down one, two, three in
• 1:04:26
  the fourth inning, striking out two. And he has
• 1:04:28
  now retired the last six men that he's faced.
• 1:04:32
  For the Tigers, no runs, no hits, no errors,
• 1:04:35
  nothing across. End of four innings in Tiger
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  Jack Billingham, Indians trail, 2 -0. Manning
• 1:06:04
  single to left, single right up the middle. Both
• 1:06:07
  times hit the ball solidly. They're playing him
• 1:06:11
  straight away in the outfield. The pitch, line
• 1:06:13
  foul, third base side, and scattering a couple
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  of members of the ground crew sitting along the
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  railing down near the Tiger bullpen. whipping
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  around on top of the stadium. We can't feel much
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  of it down here in the stadium. Curveball bouncing
• 1:06:34
  in front of home plate. A ball on the strike.
• 1:06:35
  Here in Tiger Stadium it is a completely surrounded
• 1:06:38
  ballpark. Double decked all the way around to
• 1:06:41
  the power alleys in both left center and right
• 1:06:43
  center. Then they have an open up a deck which
• 1:06:45
  they consider the bleachers. But you can watch
• 1:06:48
  the flags on top of this ballpark and there's
• 1:06:50
  a lot of wind blowing. 1 -1 pitch. Bouncing foul
• 1:06:56
  over near the Indian dugout this time. And again,
• 1:06:59
  the usher beats the bad boys to the ball. One
• 1:07:03
  ball, two strikes. Ground ball. Ground ball.
• 1:07:10
  It's Sorkin Bay side. Grabbed by Lou Whitaker.
• 1:07:12
  Picks it up. Throws him out. Manning shattered
• 1:07:15
  his bat on that one. They're not booing here.
• 1:07:18
  That noise from the stands. They're going, Lou,
• 1:07:21
  he has become quite a favorite here. One man
• 1:07:25
  down in the fifth inning for the Indians. And
• 1:07:27
  Buddy Bell, who is fouled to the right field.
• 1:07:29
  A good running catch by Corcoran. Grounded out
• 1:07:31
  to the third baseman. Buddy 0 for 2. On deck,
• 1:07:34
  John Grubb. Johnny's sliding that lead donut
• 1:07:37
  up on the barrel of the bat. Bouncing ball, shortstop
• 1:07:39
  side. Al Trammell has this one. Throws, he gets
• 1:07:41
  him. Two up, two down. This one on a 6 -3 play.
• 1:07:47
  Johnny Grubb is lined out to the center field.
• 1:07:50
  Grounded out to the second baseman. He's 0 for
• 1:07:51
  2. Latest report from Milwaukee, six innings
• 1:07:55
  in their first game with Toronto. Milwaukee cruising
• 1:07:58
  along with a 7 -0 lead. Jantz and Heissel have
• 1:08:01
  home it. Heissel's home run is 28th, and Joe
• 1:08:04
  and I were talking between innings. That ties
• 1:08:06
  Jim Rice to the league lead. One try and miss,
• 1:08:10
  strike one. You can see Heissel's home run came
• 1:08:13
  with nobody on. I don't know how many RBI's that
• 1:08:17
  is. He's up in the 80s, though. I've got the
• 1:08:18
  thing somewhere found here. I've got it right
• 1:08:22
  here. Wind up the pitch. Low, one ball and a
• 1:08:28
  strike. Heisel now with 87 runs batted in, at
• 1:08:33
  least, because he may have had more earlier in
• 1:08:35
  the game. 1 -1 pitch. Fastball. It is a bit off
• 1:08:41
  the outside part of the plate. Two balls and
• 1:08:43
  a strike. Jack Fillingham, not really certain,
• 1:08:45
  but Pai Luciano saw that one correctly. Two balls,
• 1:08:51
  one strike. And the delivery. Curveball flips
• 1:08:56
  it over, but low. 3 -1. Dillingham has a funny
• 1:09:02
  little motion. Not really sidearm, but he hides
• 1:09:06
  the ball well. Sort of short -arms you once in
• 1:09:08
  a while. Bouncing ball foul to the right of home
• 1:09:12
  plate. Byron Luciano looks the ball over, says
• 1:09:17
  it's fit to use. Three balls, two strikes. Fifth
• 1:09:23
  inning, Indians trailing by 2 -2 -0. This afternoon
• 1:09:27
  in the National League, three afternoon games,
• 1:09:30
  a big afternoon really in baseball. St. Louis
• 1:09:34
  at home against Houston, lost. Houston 4 -2 over
• 1:09:36
  the St. Louis Cardinals. San Diego at New York,
• 1:09:39
  San Diego 2, the Mets 1. And Atlanta in Chicago,
• 1:09:43
  bomb the White, the Cubs, 9 -0. Foul ball, back
• 1:09:47
  above our heads to the right, upstairs. Now that's
• 1:09:49
  the kind, partner. It comes in this way. Get
• 1:09:52
  down quick. There's just one thing I want to
• 1:09:54
  get straight. You can call the Cubs anything
• 1:09:57
  you want. Good, bad, nasty. Never call them the
• 1:10:01
  White Sox. No? Never. No? I get very uptight
• 1:10:05
  when you do that. 3 -2 pitch. Hearted ball and
• 1:10:09
  foul just outside the line. Oh, we got a pretty
• 1:10:12
  good shot at that because we looked right down
• 1:10:13
  the first baseline. And it falls. From here,
• 1:10:17
  it looked like it almost went right over the
• 1:10:18
  first corner of first base on the home plate
• 1:10:20
  side. Looking all the way. Very close. Umpire
• 1:10:24
  down that way is Kenny Kyson. He was right behind
• 1:10:26
  it. Home plate umpire Ron Luciano looking also.
• 1:10:31
  You know, let's see. Speaking of the White Sox,
• 1:10:34
  they lead Texas 2 -0 at the end of an inning
• 1:10:35
  and a half. I wasn't speaking of the White Sox?
• 1:10:39
  No, no. Okay. Three balls, two strikes. Two men
• 1:10:44
  down on the pitch. Ground ball is sharply hit
• 1:10:47
  towards second baseman Whitaker. He picks it
• 1:10:49
  up, throws him out. And on three ground balls,
• 1:10:52
  the Indians are gone. One, two, three in the
• 1:10:54
  fifth inning. Three up, three down, nothing across.
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  Street. Well, we go now into the latter half
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  of the fifth inning. It is two to nothing. The
• 1:12:12
  Detroit Tigers, they scored a run on the first,
• 1:12:14
  a run on the third, and they've made it stand
• 1:12:16
  up thus far. David Clyde has retired the last
• 1:12:18
  six men and three of those on strikeouts. And
• 1:12:20
  last inning, he threw the ball as well as he's
• 1:12:22
  thrown it in his last four or five starts. Al
• 1:12:27
  Trammell will come along. He is a 20 -year -old
• 1:12:31
  young man from San Diego, California. really
• 1:12:35
  a baby as far as baseball is concerned. I told
• 1:12:38
  you earlier that Ronald Hoff was saying that
• 1:12:40
  with Trammell at 20 and Whitaker at 21, he said
• 1:12:43
  they are the two best young second base and shortstop
• 1:12:46
  double play combination to come along at one
• 1:12:48
  time that he's ever seen in his years in baseball.
• 1:12:50
  That's high praise. Whitaker, of course, being
• 1:12:53
  considered for the rookie of the year and pretty
• 1:12:56
  good credentials with a batting average of 300.
• 1:12:58
  Al Trammell is sitting at 255 with two home runs,
• 1:13:01
  22 runs batted in. Hit into a double play, started
• 1:13:04
  by the shortstop his first time up. Right -hand
• 1:13:06
  batter. Pitched by David Clyde. The curve is
• 1:13:10
  a bunt try. Foul back strike one. Minnesota won
• 1:13:21
  the first game at home against Kansas City, 5
• 1:13:24
  -1. Second game, split off, and Krasinowski will
• 1:13:28
  go. One strike. Wind up in the pitch. Fastball.
• 1:13:34
  High fly ball. Shallow center field. Manning
• 1:13:36
  on the go. Still coming. Reaches out. Makes the
• 1:13:38
  running catch. Rick Manning eating up the ground
• 1:13:41
  with that speed. Trammell flies to shallow center.
• 1:13:45
  One gone fifth inning. Here's Ron LaFleur who
• 1:13:49
  is single twice the left. One a line drive over
• 1:13:54
  the head of Verizer. The other a sharp ground
• 1:13:57
  ball between Verizer and Buddy Bell. Came in
• 1:14:01
  hitting a 291, so he's up around the 295, 296
• 1:14:04
  mark. Wind up. Left -handed throw is a curve
• 1:14:10
  low, ball one. My partner with his trusty calculator
• 1:14:13
  will tell us that it is 294. Fastball too low.
• 1:14:21
  The floor is not that many times where it's tough
• 1:14:24
  to raise the average. About this time of year,
• 1:14:26
  you usually go up two points with a hit and down
• 1:14:28
  one point if you don't get a hit. Two balls,
• 1:14:31
  no strike. Foul back. And this one, it's Gary
• 1:14:36
  Alexander, and that hurt him. He is down. Umpire
• 1:14:40
  Luciano calling for Jimmy Warfield to come out.
• 1:14:42
  That got him on the left shoulder. And as you
• 1:14:44
  may recall, he was hit on the left shoulder about
• 1:14:47
  five or six days ago. And it was a point where
• 1:14:50
  he got it the last time. He could hardly raise
• 1:14:52
  that left arm. We talked about this the other
• 1:14:56
  day with Jeff Torborg, and now we have a little
• 1:14:58
  time as they're working on him. Gary down on
• 1:15:00
  home plate. When you talk about a catcher, and
• 1:15:03
  you look at his batting average or something,
• 1:15:05
  and see a fellow might not be hitting too high,
• 1:15:06
  or no matter what he's hitting, you just have
• 1:15:08
  to consider that hitting is a very exact science.
• 1:15:12
  When Paul's getting up there at 90 -plus miles
• 1:15:15
  an hour, you have about two -fifths of a second
• 1:15:17
  to react, and a catcher is always full of bruises.
• 1:15:20
  He gets hit on the arms, the hands, the legs,
• 1:15:22
  and it's got to be very difficult. They get down,
• 1:15:25
  they got to squat down every pitch, get up and
• 1:15:27
  down. It takes a lot out of them. When you've
• 1:15:29
  got a catcher hitting around 280, 290, you have
• 1:15:32
  a fellow who's done a whale of a job. 2 -2 pitch.
• 1:15:36
  Bounces in. This one hits Gary in the pit of
• 1:15:38
  the stomach. 3 -1. You remember a couple of years
• 1:15:42
  ago, Ray Fossey, when he had that year where
• 1:15:44
  he just got nailed every time he turned around?
• 1:15:45
  Right. His body looked like a road map by the
• 1:15:48
  end of the year. Yeah, he was very fair -skinned,
• 1:15:49
  and every time he got a bruise, he could spot
• 1:15:51
  it. 3 -1 pitch. Ground ball. Shortstop side.
• 1:15:55
  Backhanded by Verizon. He's going to have to
• 1:15:56
  hurry the long throw. He gets him. Good play
• 1:15:58
  by Tom Beriser. Oh, he had no time to waste on
• 1:16:03
  that one. 6 -3 on the out. LaFleur is cut down
• 1:16:06
  by less than a half a step. Here's Lou Whitaker.
• 1:16:12
  Lou has struck out, trying to bunt with two strikes
• 1:16:15
  and fouled it off, and then he walked. David
• 1:16:19
  Clyde. In the first inning, he gave up a single
• 1:16:22
  to LaFleur, struck out Whitaker, and he tried
• 1:16:25
  to bunt. Starr flied to center. And then Kemp
• 1:16:28
  with LaFleur running, doubled the right center,
• 1:16:30
  drove home LaFleur from first. Foul back on the
• 1:16:33
  screen. In inning number three, a single by LaFleur.
• 1:16:38
  Whitaker walked and a sacrifice drive by Rusty
• 1:16:45
  Staub after a wild pitch drove home the run.
• 1:16:47
  That's the way it's been ever since. Two to nothing.
• 1:16:51
  Down low, one ball and a strike. Lou Whitaker,
• 1:16:55
  left -hand batter, wind up. Line delivers. Curve.
• 1:16:58
  Line drive. Right pass Kuyper. Kuyper put the
• 1:17:01
  glove down and barely slowed it down. That's
• 1:17:04
  going to be a tough play to score because that
• 1:17:07
  was a line drive that had an overspin on and
• 1:17:10
  Kuyper was going to grab it with the glove palm
• 1:17:12
  up about a little above the knees and suddenly
• 1:17:15
  the ball was sinking. He tried to reverse himself.
• 1:17:17
  The ball hit the glove and rolled through. They'll
• 1:17:19
  score it an error. Whittaker safe on an error.
• 1:17:25
  That is the first error for the Indians. Now
• 1:17:28
  the error is evened up at one apiece. Here's
• 1:17:32
  Rusty Staub who played deep to center and lined
• 1:17:35
  out the center. His line drive drove in a run.
• 1:17:39
  Actually, fastball outside. It was a line drive
• 1:17:43
  to right, not center. Line smash right at the
• 1:17:46
  right fielder that drove home the run in the
• 1:17:48
  third inning. And they are playing him deep in
• 1:17:52
  the outfield. Ball one to him. 97 RBI is the
• 1:17:56
  rusty is up at the front part of the batter's
• 1:17:58
  box curveball drops too low little Whitaker at
• 1:18:02
  first a definite threat to run Whitaker on the
• 1:18:06
  year has stolen seven times and then caught seven
• 1:18:11
  times fastball strike over the outside corner
• 1:18:18
  two balls and a strike Kansas City scores two
• 1:18:23
  in the first inning of their second game with
• 1:18:24
  the Twins. And the Minnesota Twins fail. Steve
• 1:18:30
  Kemp on deck with an oversized lead donut up
• 1:18:33
  on the barrel of the bat. 2 -1 pitch. Bouncing
• 1:18:38
  ball foul over near the coaching box at first.
• 1:18:41
  Freddie Hatfield watches it roll by. The ball
• 1:18:44
  is two strikes. Two minutes down and the Tigers
• 1:18:47
  lead 2 -0 here in inning number five. Been a
• 1:18:50
  good ball game thus far. David Clyde has settled
• 1:18:54
  down nicely. He had retired eight men in a row
• 1:18:58
  before the error allowed Whitaker to reach first.
• 1:19:05
  Two balls, two strikes, two men out, the pitch.
• 1:19:08
  Ground ball, first base side, Kuyper overtires,
• 1:19:10
  can't get it. Around second and hanging on is
• 1:19:13
  little Whitaker, up with the ball quickly, Norris
• 1:19:15
  back to the infield. Kuyper launched himself
• 1:19:17
  to his left and he just couldn't reach it. Rusty
• 1:19:21
  Stive gets a hit. That's his first hit. The fifth
• 1:19:24
  hit for the Tigers, their first since the third
• 1:19:26
  inning. Runners at first and at second, here's
• 1:19:29
  Steve Kemp, who doubled home a run in the first
• 1:19:31
  inning. Kemp with 60 runs batted in. He struck
• 1:19:38
  out swinging in the third. David Clyde has had
• 1:19:46
  four strikeouts in the game. He's walked the
• 1:19:47
  pair. Whitaker, a fast man at second. Rusty Stodd,
• 1:19:52
  nuts to Speedy on at first. And Clyde backs off
• 1:19:57
  as the riser tucked in behind the runner. Lance
• 1:20:02
  Parrish on deck. Check to the runner at second
• 1:20:13
  base. Curve low, ball one. In the bullpen, we're
• 1:20:19
  going to get activity for the Indians. It's like
• 1:20:21
  Dan Spillner will get up again, and that's who
• 1:20:23
  it's going to be. The pitch. Ground ball to second
• 1:20:34
  base side. Kuypek loves it. Throws to Thornton.
• 1:20:37
  Side retired. In the inning for the Detroit Tigers,
• 1:20:43
  no runs. They have one hit. There's one Indian
• 1:20:46
  error. Two men are left. We have played five
• 1:20:48
  here in Tiger Stadium. The score. Detroit two,
• 1:20:51
  Cleveland nothing. Anheuser -Busch, St. Louis.
• 1:20:59
  Well, it's the last half of the top half inning,
• 1:21:03
  number six. And for Jack Fillingham, he'll be
• 1:21:06
  looking at Thornton, Alexander, and Carbo. Alexander's
• 1:21:09
  been in trouble in almost every inning. In fact,
• 1:21:12
  last inning was the first time he set the tribe
• 1:21:13
  down in order. The Indians have left six men
• 1:21:16
  on base. But when he has needed it, he has had
• 1:21:18
  it. Billingham has not walked anybody. He has
• 1:21:20
  struck out one. Indians with no runs, six hits
• 1:21:23
  and one error. The Tigers, two runs, five hits
• 1:21:28
  and an error. Andre Thornton has been safe on
• 1:21:34
  an error. Tried to punt his way on in the third
• 1:21:37
  inning with Manning at third. And he came within
• 1:21:39
  about a half a step of beating one out. Pitcher
• 1:21:41
  Jack Billingham just didn't nip him at first.
• 1:21:49
  deep in the batter's box. The wind -up, Billingham's
• 1:21:51
  pitch is a slider breaking low and away. Ball
• 1:21:53
  one. On deck, Gary Alexander has that donut up
• 1:21:58
  on the bat. He is really whipping it around.
• 1:22:02
  Down low. 2 -0. Talk about a very exuberant young
• 1:22:07
  man. That's Gary Alexander. He's not loud or
• 1:22:09
  noisy. Talk to him about baseball or anything
• 1:22:13
  for that matter. He just has a lot of enthusiasm.
• 1:22:15
  I guess a lot of joy out of life. 2 -0 pitch.
• 1:22:20
  Ground ball, hard hit. Backhanded by Rodriguez,
• 1:22:23
  the third. Oh, he gets him. When you were a youngster
• 1:22:27
  and used to play and somebody would make a play
• 1:22:29
  like that, you'd always say, well, look what
• 1:22:30
  I found. And that's exactly what that was. A
• 1:22:33
  sharply hit ground ball to the right or the foul
• 1:22:36
  line side. Rodriguez just stuck his hand across,
• 1:22:39
  backhanded, and there it was. He's a pretty good
• 1:22:42
  third baseman. That's five minutes in a row,
• 1:22:47
  six minutes in a row, polished off by Billingham.
• 1:22:51
  And on the six outs, five of them have been ground
• 1:22:54
  balls and won a strikeout. Here's Gary Alexander,
• 1:22:57
  has flied to right, grounded the short. And on
• 1:23:00
  his ground ball, the short, it was a smash to
• 1:23:02
  the right of Trammell. Trammell backhanded it
• 1:23:05
  to him out. Wind up. Billingham throws the curve.
• 1:23:11
  It's bounced foul past Joe Nostick in the coaching
• 1:23:13
  box. Indians are on the road again. tomorrow
• 1:23:14
  night here in Tiger Stadium, but they will return
• 1:23:16
  to the Cleveland Stadium on Friday night, Saturday
• 1:23:19
  night, and there's an afternoon game on Sunday
• 1:23:21
  against the Chicago White Sox. See Larry Doby
• 1:23:24
  and his team come in. First time we've seen Larry
• 1:23:26
  since he's a manager. On Friday afternoon, big
• 1:23:29
  doings at the Boncourt Hotel. We'll tell you
• 1:23:31
  about that as we get this pitch in. Fastball
• 1:23:35
  missed low. Ball won on a strike. Buddy Bell
• 1:23:38
  will be honored by the Wahoo Club at the Boncourt
• 1:23:41
  Hotel Friday at noon. Buddy. He'll be joined
• 1:23:45
  by his co -captain on the Indians, Dwayne Kuyper.
• 1:23:48
  1 -1 pitch. Fastball over the inside corner strike.
• 1:23:51
  But he only needs 23 hits to get to the 1 ,000
• 1:23:54
  mark, and he'll be one of the younger players
• 1:23:56
  to reach that mark of 1 ,000 hits. Certainly
• 1:23:59
  the fine years he's had with the Tribe deserve
• 1:24:01
  a good showing at that Wild Club luncheon on
• 1:24:03
  Friday. It's open to the public. If you want
• 1:24:05
  some information on it, tickets and so forth,
• 1:24:08
  861 -1200. They'll be happy to take care of you.
• 1:24:11
  Time called. Ron Luciano leaps out in front of
• 1:24:14
  home plate, says don't throw. Incidentally, the
• 1:24:17
  master of ceremonies at that luncheon will be
• 1:24:20
  Harry Jones, the public relations director of
• 1:24:22
  the Indians. I talked to Harry today, and Harry
• 1:24:24
  tells me that they really have a very impressive
• 1:24:26
  guest list lined up, and it promises to be quite
• 1:24:28
  a show. One -two pitch, high, high, fly ball,
• 1:24:33
  left field. Going back, Kemp at the edge of the
• 1:24:35
  warning pad. Now a few steps to his left, he
• 1:24:37
  puts it away. That ball was at a mile high. Two
• 1:24:44
  men gone in the sixth inning. And that'll bring
• 1:24:47
  along Bernie Carbo. He is that. Hits his first
• 1:24:49
  two times up. Single up the middle. Line the
• 1:24:51
  single to right. Two for two. Billingham looking
• 1:25:02
  around, waiting for Kemp to get back in position.
• 1:25:06
  Two men down. Tigers lead 2 -0. A swing and a
• 1:25:08
  miss on a sinking fastball. Carbo has... asking
• 1:25:14
  that the home plate umpire examine the baseball.
• 1:25:16
  Ron Luciano obliges, says, I don't see anything
• 1:25:19
  wrong, shrugs his shoulders, walks back to home
• 1:25:22
  plate. We've talked about this before. Ron Luciano
• 1:25:25
  is a devotee of Shakespeare, and occasionally
• 1:25:30
  he can put on a performance of his own. Fastball
• 1:25:35
  missed outside. Also a bird watcher. That's right.
• 1:25:39
  You didn't know that? He's in the right league
• 1:25:42
  for it. Well, the birds aren't as disabled as
• 1:25:45
  for the rest of the year. 1 -1 pitch. Bouncing
• 1:25:47
  ball. First base side. Grabbed by the first baseman,
• 1:25:50
  Mickey Stanley. Runs to the bag. Gets there ahead
• 1:25:53
  of Carbo. Second straight inning. Indians have
• 1:25:55
  been retired. 1 -2 -3. At the middle of six here
• 1:25:59
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• 1:27:07
  the latter half of inning number six. The Tigers
• 1:27:09
  holding on to a 2 -0 lead. Thus far, Jack Fillingham
• 1:27:13
  has made it stand up for David Clyde. He has
• 1:27:16
  pitched extremely well. It'll be Lance Parrish,
• 1:27:23
  Aurelio Rodriguez, and then Mickey Stanley. Three
• 1:27:26
  right -hand batters coming up against the lefty,
• 1:27:28
  David Clyde. Parrish has walked. He is grounded
• 1:27:33
  to third. Parrish, 6 '3", about 195 pounds, from
• 1:27:40
  Diamond Bar, California. Fastball low. Parrish
• 1:27:49
  just 22 years old. Tigers have some really fine
• 1:27:53
  young ballplayers. Ball one. Parrish wears number
• 1:27:57
  13 on his white Tiger uniform. Curveball drops
• 1:28:01
  to... Slow 2 -0. 15 ,819 here in Tiger Stadium.
• 1:28:12
  Swing and a miss on the fastball down around
• 1:28:14
  the knee. Tiger home attendance tonight with
• 1:28:19
  the 15 ,000 puts them just under 1 ,300 ,000.
• 1:28:23
  About 1 ,000 shy of that. Two balls and a strike.
• 1:28:32
  Wind up by David Clyde. Swing and a miss. Fastball,
• 1:28:35
  pumped it by him. David with that good fastball.
• 1:28:42
  He really popped that one. Last three innings,
• 1:28:48
  David Clyde fits as well as he has in the last
• 1:28:51
  month. David Clyde fits as well as he has in
• 1:28:55
  the last month. He's really throwing extremely
• 1:28:57
  well. Fastball, strike three, called, and he
• 1:29:00
  knew it. He's fired it by Anthony. Catcher of
• 1:29:05
  the Tigers turns and drives away. Five strikeouts
• 1:29:08
  recorded by David Clyde. The matter now is the
• 1:29:15
  third baseman, Aurelio Rodriguez. He flies to
• 1:29:17
  right. He has grounded the short. Open two. Rodriguez.
• 1:29:26
  Lightly closed in. Curves too low. Ball one.
• 1:29:34
  Pirates picked up another run in the sixth inning.
• 1:29:37
  They lead Cincinnati now 7 -2. And the Pirates
• 1:29:41
  are batting in the last half of the seventh.
• 1:29:47
  Some game going in Montreal tonight. Fastball.
• 1:29:53
  Foul back. This one hits. Gary Alexander on the
• 1:29:57
  right foot. Oh, man. Is he taking a beating tonight?
• 1:30:00
  That San Francisco -Montreal game, they've gone
• 1:30:02
  to the top half of inning number eight. Montreal
• 1:30:05
  leading 1 -0. Vida Blue and Woody Freeman hooked
• 1:30:08
  up. Vida Blue's 16 -5 on the year. Frank Deneb
• 1:30:14
  won last night, so did Ron Guidry. Yankee left
• 1:30:18
  -hander became the first 17 -game winner in baseball
• 1:30:21
  this year, and he is leading the league in strikeouts.
• 1:30:25
  He's ahead of Nolan Ryan. He also pitched his
• 1:30:27
  sixth shutout. One ball and a strike. Dodgers
• 1:30:33
  leading the Phillies 5 -1, and they are in the
• 1:30:35
  ninth. Dodgers batting. Ball one, strike one.
• 1:30:41
  A Rulio Rodriguez. Wind up and the pitch. Curve,
• 1:30:48
  bounce forward short. Reiser comes on, gets a
• 1:30:50
  big hop, throws, gets him. 6 -3 on the out at
• 1:30:54
  first base. There are two men gone in the sixth
• 1:30:58
  inning, and here is Mickey Stanley. Mickey 0
• 1:31:01
  for 2 in the game. Last time up, called on a
• 1:31:03
  strike. Mickey picking up some dirt. Home plate.
• 1:31:11
  Banner's box, flipping it out. David Clyde right
• 1:31:14
  back up on top. There's a rosin stack behind
• 1:31:16
  the mound. Neither pitch side. I think it's gone
• 1:31:17
  to that rosin once. Tim Corcoran on deck. Two
• 1:31:27
  men out in the sixth. Tigers lead 2 -0. Check
• 1:31:29
  swing. Did he go around? Yes, he did to Zumpai
• 1:31:31
  Kaiser from first base. Mickey Stanley looking
• 1:31:34
  down at Ken Kaiser with less than affection.
• 1:31:38
  The fans just found out that they made that a
• 1:31:40
  strike. And they are not happy. Strike one. David
• 1:31:47
  Clyde working on Mickey Stanley. Tigers lead
• 1:31:50
  the Indians 2 -0. We are in the last of six here
• 1:31:53
  at Tiger Stadium. Ground ball. Third base side.
• 1:31:58
  Buddy to his right. Spears it. Throws. He gets
• 1:32:00
  them. One, two, three. David Clyde has polished
• 1:32:04
  off the Tigers in the sixth. Nothing across.
• 1:32:07
  And we go now into the seventh inning here at
• 1:32:09
  Tiger Stadium. The score, the Tigers two, the
• 1:32:12
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• 1:33:25
  up Dwayne Kuyper. Now, first of all, Jimmy Norris,
• 1:33:28
  then Dwayne Kuyper, and Tom Verizer. 7 -8 -9
• 1:33:32
  in the tribe order. Detroit with a 2 -0 lead.
• 1:33:35
  Picked up a run on the first on a single by LaPorte
• 1:33:37
  and a double by Kemp. Added a run on the third
• 1:33:40
  on a single by LaPorte. A walk, a wild pitch,
• 1:33:43
  and Staub sacrificed line drive fly ball to right.
• 1:33:49
  Jimmy Norris. Bob's to the first. Baseman Stanley
• 1:33:52
  made a spectacular play. Fell in the bag for
• 1:33:54
  one out. Picked himself up. Discovered Carbo
• 1:33:56
  wandering around off second base and turned it
• 1:33:58
  into a double play. Pitched to Norris. Pop foul.
• 1:34:00
  Out of play left side. Rodriguez charging over
• 1:34:03
  for this one. Lynn blew that one back toward
• 1:34:06
  the field, but it was still about five rows deep.
• 1:34:07
  Strike one. Stanley at first. Whitaker at second.
• 1:34:12
  Trammell at short. Rodriguez at third. Kemp in
• 1:34:15
  left. Lepore in center. Corcoran in right, Parrish
• 1:34:18
  catching, and Jack Fillingham on the mound. Over
• 1:34:19
  the first six innings, Fillingham has given up
• 1:34:21
  six base hits, struck out one, and has not walked
• 1:34:24
  anyone. Wind up, strike one pitch, Norris takes
• 1:34:27
  strike two. Norris in the fourth inning bounced
• 1:34:30
  a single over the first baseman's head into right
• 1:34:32
  field. Jimmy one for two on the night. Fillingham
• 1:34:36
  with the 0 -2 pitch. Norris takes low and outside,
• 1:34:38
  one ball, two strikes. Have a nice note here
• 1:34:41
  from a former Clevelander, Pat O 'Neill. Wants
• 1:34:44
  to be remembered to all friends and relatives
• 1:34:46
  back in Cleveland. He now works for Pro Sports
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  Publications here in Detroit. Pitch is low. Two
• 1:34:53
  balls, two strikes. Top of the seventh. Detroit,
• 1:34:58
  two runs, five hits, one error. Cleveland, no
• 1:35:00
  runs, six hits, and one error. Billingham all
• 1:35:08
  set. Here's the 2 -2 pitch to Norris. Kim takes
• 1:35:10
  outside. Full count of 3 -2. Earlier today, the
• 1:35:14
  Detroit Tigers placed right -hand relief pitcher
• 1:35:17
  Steve Foucault on waivers. He was claimed by
• 1:35:20
  the Kansas City Royals, and the Tigers have now
• 1:35:24
  called up Dave Tobik from Evansville. Pitch,
• 1:35:29
  high fly ball, short left field, trammel going
• 1:35:32
  back, shortstop in short left field, and makes
• 1:35:34
  the catch. Norris pops to the shortstop, and
• 1:35:37
  there's one out of the seventh inning. Dwayne
• 1:35:42
  Kuyper has singled to the second baseman and
• 1:35:44
  been saved for the fielder's choice. Dwayne coming
• 1:35:53
  off that bad knee. Still has the knee, but he's
• 1:35:55
  back in the lineup tonight. Going to give it
• 1:36:00
  a go, take that knee as far as it'll take him.
• 1:36:03
  There's a high fly ball to left field. Kemp coming
• 1:36:05
  in, getting under the ball, and makes the catch
• 1:36:08
  to us. Well, what we said about Billingham has
• 1:36:13
  evidently proven true again. If you don't get
• 1:36:17
  him early, he's going to get you. Indians had
• 1:36:20
  two on in the first, two hits in the second.
• 1:36:22
  Another man on in the third. Had two more hits
• 1:36:25
  in the fourth. Did not score against Billingham,
• 1:36:28
  and he has now wiped out the last nine men in
• 1:36:32
  a row. Tom Berizer, the batter. Tommy takes inside
• 1:36:35
  ball one. Tom has been safe on a fielder's choice
• 1:36:37
  and called out on strikes. Billingham winds up.
• 1:36:43
  Here's the 1 -0 pitch. Reiser takes the fastball,
• 1:36:46
  though. Ball two. Rocky Calabito coaching at
• 1:36:49
  first, John Ossock at third. Billingham turns,
• 1:36:53
  walks behind the mound. Staring down at the ground,
• 1:36:58
  flexes his right arm, turns and comes back up
• 1:37:00
  on top of the hill. He's done that two or three
• 1:37:02
  times tonight, it seems. So, occasionally he
• 1:37:06
  wants to regroup, so he goes back behind the
• 1:37:09
  mound. Not with the drama of Roboski. But with
• 1:37:11
  the same intent, pitch is high, ball three, 3
• 1:37:14
  -0. Rick Manning on deck. Here comes the 3 -0
• 1:37:21
  pitch to Verizer, and Tommy takes a strike. Below
• 1:37:24
  the belt on the inside corner, 3 -1. Wind up
• 1:37:31
  by Bellingham, and the 3 -1 pitch to Verizer
• 1:37:32
  chops the ball down the third baseline. Glove
• 1:37:34
  foul of the bag, throw across, but it's a foul
• 1:37:37
  ball, and the count is 3 -2, and Verizer will
• 1:37:39
  come back. Kaiser pops a fly ball into center
• 1:38:04
  field. Coming in to get it is LaFleur. He does,
• 1:38:07
  and the sides retire. Three up, three down. At
• 1:38:10
  the end of six and one -half innings of play,
• 1:38:13
  it is Detroit 2, Cleveland nothing. This is Dave
• 1:38:20
  Smith from Dave Smith Ford. We're over here in
• 1:38:22
  Pataskalo, which is halfway between Columbus
• 1:38:24
  and Newark, on Route 16. And we will save you
• 1:38:28
  money on a new Ford, or as you've heard me say
• 1:38:30
  many times, I'll buy you two fake dinners. Now,
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  right now, we're having our clearance sale, summer,
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  whatever you want to call it, the end of the
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• 1:38:51
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  so. I'll have to pay a fine? Look, look, I know
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  you believe you understand what you think I said,
• 1:38:58
  but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard
• 1:39:00
  is not what I meant. What? It's just before you
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  agent. and Corcoran Trammell on the floor against
• 1:39:23
  David Clyde. Detroit leading 2 -0. Corcoran,
• 1:39:35
  left -hand batting right fielder, had a fun single
• 1:39:37
  the first time up and then was doubled up on
• 1:39:40
  a ground ball to the shortstop. And he struck
• 1:39:42
  out in the fourth inning. Over the first six
• 1:39:45
  innings, David Clyde has given up two runs, five
• 1:39:47
  hits, struck out, five walked, two thrown, one
• 1:39:49
  wild pitch. Wind up. And the first pitch to Corcoran.
• 1:39:56
  Line drive. Right field. Norris coming in. Reaches
• 1:39:59
  out and grabs that ball. Corcoran is away. And
• 1:40:03
  there's one down on the seventh inning of play.
• 1:40:05
  Trammell with that ground ball to shorten. A
• 1:40:07
  pop fly ball to center field. 0 for 2 on the
• 1:40:09
  ninth. Defensively, it started at first. Kuyper
• 1:40:13
  at second. Verizer at short. Bell at third. Grubbin
• 1:40:15
  left. Manning in center. Norris at right. Alexander
• 1:40:18
  catching. And David Clyde at the mound. Tigers
• 1:40:21
  with a run on the first and a run in the third.
• 1:40:23
  Two to nothing. Tigers are now batting in the
• 1:40:25
  seventh inning. Here's the pitch. Trammell takes
• 1:40:32
  strike at the knees. David Clyde has given up
• 1:40:34
  just one hit since the third inning. Time call.
• 1:40:41
  Trammell steps back. Here's the strike one pitch
• 1:40:49
  to Trammell. Fast ball, low. One ball, one strike.
• 1:41:04
  1 -1 pitch. Trammell takes strike two to the
• 1:41:07
  inside corner. Freddie Hetfield coaching at first
• 1:41:13
  base. Dick Krasuski at third. Side shakes his
• 1:41:19
  head, then winds up. Here comes the one -two
• 1:41:21
  pitch. Trammell drives one down the left field
• 1:41:23
  line. This is going to be trouble. Into the corner,
• 1:41:26
  bounces up against the wall. Trammell's taken
• 1:41:28
  to second base. Rounds second and hangs on with
• 1:41:30
  a double. Alan Trammell doubles with one out
• 1:41:33
  of the seven. Indians will not play him the bullet
• 1:41:36
  ball, and he jerks it down the left field line.
• 1:41:42
  Six hits off Clyde, evening the hits between
• 1:41:44
  the two clubs at six each way. Bullpen action.
• 1:41:48
  Don Hood is trotting down there. Ron LaFleur
• 1:41:53
  has singled twice, scored twice, bounced a short
• 1:41:57
  once. Verizer got him on a fine play the last
• 1:41:59
  time up. Stretch by Clyde. Look back to Trammell.
• 1:42:06
  And the pitch to LaFleur. Outside, ball one.
• 1:42:09
  Lou Whitaker on deck. inside and the count is
• 1:42:23
  2 -0. Alexander trots to the mound to have a
• 1:42:28
  little chat with David Clyde. The moment LaFleur
• 1:42:38
  hitting 293. And he has collected 11 hits and
• 1:42:43
  33 at -bats against Cleveland. Don't need the
• 1:42:45
  computer for that. Too bad. 333. gets the side.
• 1:42:59
  A stretch. 2 -0 pitch. LaFleur swing and a miss.
• 1:43:03
  Ball rolls behind the plate. Picked up by Alexander.
• 1:43:06
  Trammell not sure whether it was foul tipped.
• 1:43:08
  Did not go to third base. At first he couldn't
• 1:43:10
  find the ball. He knew that Alexander had lost
• 1:43:14
  it somewhere but he thought it might have been
• 1:43:15
  down right between his feet. Rolled behind him
• 1:43:17
  by the time Trammell thought he couldn't move.
• 1:43:28
  Two on the count. Cramer leading at second base.
• 1:43:44
  The pitch is outside. Free ball. Left -hander
• 1:43:57
  and a right -hander in the Indians' bullpen.
• 1:43:59
  Stretch. And here comes the 3 -1 pitch to LaFleur.
• 1:44:03
  Strike two. Full count. Good curveball. That's
• 1:44:08
  what makes hitting tough. You've got a fella
• 1:44:10
  that's 3 -1. You look like you might be able
• 1:44:12
  to get a pitch you can pick on and come through
• 1:44:14
  with a good curveball like that. The stretch
• 1:44:17
  by Clyde. Look back to Trammell at second. One
• 1:44:21
  out. 3 -2 pitch to Ron LaFleur. Swing and a miss,
• 1:44:23
  and the curveball struck him out. Clyde with
• 1:44:28
  his sixth strikeout of the night. That is his
• 1:44:35
  60th strikeout of the year. Lou Whitaker has
• 1:44:38
  struck out trying to bunt. That was in the first
• 1:44:41
  inning. He walked to the third. The safe on Kuyper's
• 1:44:44
  error on a sinking line drive in the fifth. The
• 1:44:53
  stretch by Clyde. Look back to Trammell. And
• 1:44:57
  the first pitch to the left -hand batter, and
• 1:44:58
  Whitaker takes low and outside. Ball one. Rusty
• 1:45:04
  Staub on deck. RBI's tonight have been by Staub
• 1:45:08
  is 97th and Kemp is 60th. On both occasions,
• 1:45:11
  they drove home around to the floor. A stretch.
• 1:45:17
  And the pitch. Whitaker hits a very high fly
• 1:45:19
  ball down the left field line. Grubb coming hard
• 1:45:21
  toward the foul line into the bullpen. Running
• 1:45:23
  catch in foul ground to retire the Suns. Now
• 1:45:27
  runs and a hit with a man left at second base.
• 1:45:30
  And at the end of seven innings of play, it is
• 1:45:32
  still Detroit 2, Cleveland nothing. This is Dave
• 1:45:38
  Smith from Dave Smith Ford. We're over here in
• 1:45:40
  Pataskala, which is halfway between Columbus
• 1:45:42
  and Newark, on Route 16. and we will save you
• 1:45:47
  money on a new Ford, or as you've heard me say
• 1:45:49
  many times, I'll buy you two fake dinners. Now,
• 1:45:52
  right now, we're having our clearance sale, summer,
• 1:45:55
  whatever you want to call it, the end of the
• 1:45:56
  78th, get ready for the 79th. So come on over.
• 1:45:59
  We will save you money on a new car. We need
• 1:46:01
  used cars. We have a good selection. So come
• 1:46:04
  on over and see us, and do your best. We will,
• 1:46:06
  too. car drivers, baseball players, football
• 1:46:26
  players. Professionals like these face danger
• 1:46:31
  every day, and they all wear helmets for protection.
• 1:46:34
  Motorcycle riders are pros, too. That's why they
• 1:46:37
  wear helmets. They won't let a head injury take
• 1:46:39
  them out of the action. For more information
• 1:46:41
  on motorcycle safety, write the Ohio Department
• 1:46:44
  of Highway Safety, Columbus, Ohio, 43205. Wind
• 1:47:16
  up by Billingham. First pitch to Manning and
• 1:47:17
  Rick takes low and outside. Ball one. Manning
• 1:47:20
  a single twice in three trips. Hit to left in
• 1:47:23
  the first to center field in the third off Whitaker's
• 1:47:26
  glove. Bounce to the second baseman in the fifth.
• 1:47:28
  Pitch to Manning is a strike. Knee high on the
• 1:47:31
  outside corner. A ball and a strike. Billingham
• 1:47:39
  ready with a one -one pitch to Manning. Rick
• 1:47:41
  takes low and outside. The count is two and one.
• 1:48:08
  the left into the upper deck and that takes the
• 1:48:13
  count to two balls two strikes wind up to to
• 1:48:24
  pitch Manny check swing pitch a touch outside
• 1:48:27
  full count of three and two Third base side,
• 1:48:42
  backhanded by Rodriguez. Long throw. He's out
• 1:48:45
  at first by an island. Tom Morgan, Calivator,
• 1:48:48
  will argue with Ken Kaiser that Stanley was not
• 1:48:51
  on the bag when he took the throw. Kaiser gives
• 1:48:54
  you that great big wind -up motion when he calls
• 1:48:57
  a man out, and they are arguing that he was so
• 1:48:59
  busy winding up to call the man out, he didn't
• 1:49:01
  even see whether or not Stanley was on the bag
• 1:49:03
  or not. But Manning is out, and that's the way
• 1:49:05
  it's going to stand. One out, nobody out on the
• 1:49:10
  earth. Bell is fouled to right. Bounce to third.
• 1:49:13
  Bounce to the shortstop. Billingham. Ready to
• 1:49:30
  work to the right -hand batter. Wind up and the
• 1:49:35
  pitch. High and inside. Ball one. He has knocked
• 1:49:43
  off Toronto in their first game by a score of
• 1:49:48
  8 -1. Tough defense as the Indians. Johnny Grubb
• 1:50:25
  is lined to center, bounced to second, and again
• 1:50:27
  to second base. 0 -3 on the night. First pitch
• 1:50:39
  to John is a fastball. Strike of the knees. Strike
• 1:50:42
  one. Thirteen men in a row polished off by Jack
• 1:50:44
  Fillingham with the help of his defense. Pitch
• 1:50:50
  to John is low again, and the ball on strike
• 1:50:52
  one. Mike Caldwell is now a 15 -game winner for
• 1:50:59
  Milwaukee. Pitch to Grubb outside. Two balls
• 1:51:02
  and a strike. Wind up. 2 -1 pitch. Hit hard off
• 1:51:18
  the glove of the pitcher. Deflected to win. Got
• 1:51:30
  some leather on, deflected over to Whitaker,
• 1:51:32
  and he made the play. Three up, three down. The
• 1:51:35
  end of seven and one half innings of play. The
• 1:51:37
  score, the Tigers two, the Indians nothing. Hey,
• 1:52:26
  that's right. Nothing goes with that special
• 1:52:29
  time you call yours like the clean, fresh taste
• 1:52:32
  of Budweiser. Home half of the eighth inning,
• 1:52:45
  Staub, Kemp, and Parrish against David Clyde.
• 1:52:49
  Then we find out what happens to Rusty Staub.
• 1:52:52
  We'll get a station break. Rusty right now is
• 1:52:54
  stepping in. He has flied to center and has sacrificed
• 1:52:59
  line drive to the right fielder and singled.
• 1:53:05
  And that takes... Strike one, Nehi on the inside
• 1:53:08
  corner. White Sox 2, Texas 1 in the fifth at
• 1:53:11
  Arlington. Here's the strike one pitch to Staub.
• 1:53:14
  He takes low. One ball, one strike. Down in the
• 1:53:17
  bullpen, a left -hander, Ed Glynn, warming up.
• 1:53:27
  Montreal just knocked off the Giants, and the
• 1:53:29
  Dodgers defeated Philadelphia. The Dodgers are
• 1:53:32
  in first by a game. Pitch curve ball rammed right
• 1:53:35
  over Freddie Hatfield's head. The first base
• 1:53:37
  coach and bangs off the wall by the bullpen.
• 1:53:39
  One ball, two strikes. Staub ready again. One
• 1:53:46
  ball, two strikes. And Clyde's pitch. Staub pops
• 1:53:50
  it up. Foul. First base side. Back goes Thornton
• 1:53:53
  toward the bullpen. Fell on the grass. Makes
• 1:53:56
  the catch. One out and we pause for station identification.
• 1:54:00
  This is the Cleveland Indians baseball network.
• 1:54:05
  You know, listening to Major League Baseball
• 1:54:07
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• 1:54:09
  pastime, but to really appreciate the game and
• 1:54:11
  the players' talent... This is 3WJ, Central Ohio's
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  home, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, Browns, and
• 1:54:19
  Indians. WWWJ, Johnstown. Driving around on the
• 1:54:25
  first inning, struck out in the third, bounced
• 1:54:27
  the second to the fifth. Back to the screen.
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  Ball one. Woody Freiman threw a one -hitter at
• 1:54:50
  the Giants tonight. Vida Blue threw a three -hitter
• 1:54:53
  at Montreal. Wind up on the pitch. Kemp pops
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  a foul back upstairs. Headed for the roof for
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  the counters. Even at a ball, but a strike. to
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  nothing. One out and nobody on. Pitch is low.
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  He looked as though he was going to butter the
• 1:55:40
  ball but got the bat out of there in time. 2
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  -1 the count. Wind up by David Clyde and the
• 1:55:55
  2 -1 pitch. Kemp takes low and outside. And that
• 1:55:58
  takes the count to 3 -1. Here comes the 3 -1
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  offering to the left -hand batter. And Kemp wraps
• 1:56:11
  the ball foul down the first baseline. Gloved
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  by Thornton in foul ground. And it's a full count
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  of 3 -2. Pittsburgh just hit the Reds with four
• 1:56:20
  more in the seventh. And they now lead Cincinnati
• 1:56:22
  11 -2 in the eighth inning of play. Wind up in
• 1:56:33
  the pitch to Kemp. Hits hard. Kuiper can't get
• 1:56:35
  it. It's five in the right field. That was a
• 1:56:38
  bullet. Nice smash into right. That is the seventh
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  hit off David Clyde. Minnesota has battled back
• 1:56:49
  to tie up Kansas City 2 -2 after three of their
• 1:56:52
  second game. Minnesota beat them in the first
• 1:56:54
  game 5 -1. David Clyde. Look to first. And the
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  pitch. High drive. Center field. Manning galloping
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  back. Still going back. Still going back on the
• 1:57:13
  warning path. Holds it down. Parrish with a long
• 1:57:21
  drive to center field. Two outs. That was really
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  posted. He grabbed it right in front of that
• 1:57:30
  415 sign. In the bullpen for the Indians, Spillner
• 1:57:49
  and the hood again. A stretch in the pitch, and
• 1:57:56
  Rodriguez chops the ball toward third. Bell comes
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  in, grabs another run, throws across, got him
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  to retire this time. Eighth inning of play for
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  the Tigers. No runs and a hit with a man left.
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  At the end of eight, Detroit 2, Cleveland nothing.
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  The day is done. It's time to let it go. It's
• 1:58:19
  the moment to... no matter what you do no matter
• 1:58:39
  when or where you know a glass of blood is like
• 1:59:10
  Bush St. Louis. is up in the bullpen for the
• 1:59:54
  Tigers. Wind up first pitch to Andre. Outside,
• 1:59:56
  ball one. Thornton, safe on an error. Tried to
• 1:59:59
  put his way on with a squeeze and narrowly missed
• 2:00:01
  it. And then bounced to third in the sixth and
• 2:00:04
  a good play by Rodriguez. The pitch, Thornton
• 2:00:07
  hits a shot into left field. It's going to drop
• 2:00:09
  for a hit. Kept over, picks it up, and Thornton
• 2:00:13
  is on with a leadoff single in the ninth inning
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  of play. That break is swing of 14 in a row,
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  polished off by the right -hander, Jack Billingham.
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  Seven Indian heads. Fourteen in a row. Gary Alexander
• 2:00:33
  has flied to right, bounced to short, and flied
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  to left. Cillingham will go to work from the
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  stretch for the first time in some time. baseman
• 2:00:51
  Mickey Stanley telling Billingham he will not
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  cover at first base with Thornton. The stretch.
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  The pitch. High fly ball to short right. Corcoran
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  coming in under the ball and makes the catch.
• 2:01:06
  That's one out. Alexander for that high fly ball
• 2:01:10
  to right. Bernie Carbo is single to center, single
• 2:01:14
  to right and bounce to the first baseman. The
• 2:01:27
  Indians have a runner on. Killingham, the stretch,
• 2:01:39
  the pitch. Carbo takes the fastball, though.
• 2:01:42
  Ball one. Carbo takes again low. Ball two, 2
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  -0. Thornton at first base with one out of the
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  ninth inning. Carbo hitting 270. Stretch, pitch.
• 2:02:19
  Ernie takes low and outside. Ball three, 3 -0.
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  for the Indians. Half of the night. One out,
• 2:02:30
  one on. And the Tigers leading 2 -0. They picked
• 2:02:32
  up a run in the first and one more in the third.
• 2:02:42
  Look in for the sign. Right -hander Billingham
• 2:02:46
  against the left -hander Bernie Carbo. 3 -0 pitch.
• 2:02:49
  Bernie takes a strike. 3 -1. Billingham has not
• 2:02:52
  walked about it tonight. He's been behind very
• 2:02:54
  few of them. is in the bullpen. Pitch to Burney.
• 2:03:05
  Line drive, left field. Kemp coming over. Makes
• 2:03:08
  the catch. Two outs. Well, he hit it right on
• 2:03:14
  the nose to left field. When it first left the
• 2:03:16
  bat, it looked like it might be in there, but
• 2:03:18
  it didn't slice very much, and Kemp was playing
• 2:03:20
  over, and he got over there quickly. Jim Norris,
• 2:03:23
  the last man to keep it alive. He is bounced
• 2:03:27
  to first on a super play by Stanley. Bounced
• 2:03:30
  a hit over Stanley's head into right field and
• 2:03:32
  then popped up to the shortstop of the seven.
• 2:03:37
  Two to nothing, Detroit. Two outs and a man on
• 2:03:40
  in the ninth. Pitch to Jimmy Norris. He's low.
• 2:03:47
  Ball one. John Hiller staying ready in the bullpen.
• 2:03:59
  Norris, a strike at the knees. One ball, one
• 2:04:01
  strike. Fillingham keeping that ball right out
• 2:04:03
  over the outside part of the plate. Thinking
• 2:04:06
  that Norris will be trying to pull one. He's
• 2:04:08
  going to try and prevent him from doing that.
• 2:04:12
  The pitch. That is a strike at the knees. One
• 2:04:15
  ball, two strikes. Rolled in the slider, and
• 2:04:17
  that time moved it in on his hand. Fillingham
• 2:04:24
  has really done an artistic job here tonight.
• 2:04:33
  Norris takes a good stop by Parrish and a ball
• 2:04:35
  that bounced in. 2 -2 count. Bellingham again
• 2:04:48
  looks. Taking a lot of time with the game on
• 2:04:54
  the line here on the ninth. The pitch to Norris.
• 2:05:12
  count on Jimmy Norris. Killer in the bullpen.
• 2:05:15
  The stretch. Here's the payoff pitch, and a bouncing
• 2:05:20
  ball back to Whitaker. Second baseman throws
• 2:05:22
  the game. Final score, the Detroit Tigers 2,
• 2:05:27
  the Indians nothing. We'll start the wrap -up
• 2:05:32
  after a moment. It's Trader John's Traveling
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  tobacco, gentlemen. The story of a great American
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  tradition, Mail Pouch chewing tobacco. Mail Pouch
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  was America's first brand of leaf tobacco, and
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  it's been pleasing men ever since. That's because
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  Mail Pouch has its own special, one -of -a -kind
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  flavor that comes from over 90 years' experience
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  in giving tobacco chewers what they want. A clean,
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  fresh taste that's not too strong, but isn't
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  too sweet either. A flavor that really lasts
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  and satisfies a man all day long. So if you haven't
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  tried Mail Pouch lately, chew a few packs. and
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  taste the mail pouch difference, you'll see why
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  it's become a tradition to chew mail pouch and
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  treat yourself to the best. Well, here tonight
• 2:06:38
  it was Detroit. Two runs, seven hits, one error,
• 2:06:40
  seven left. Cleveland, no runs, seven hits, one
• 2:06:43
  error, seven left. The winner is Jack Billingham.
• 2:06:46
  He is 13 -5, and Herb, he is hot. He surely is.
• 2:06:50
  That is his eighth straight win. Four of those
• 2:06:53
  wins have come on the shutout route, and tonight...
• 2:06:57
  He just did a whale of a job, did not walk a
• 2:07:00
  batter, struck only one man out, so he had them
• 2:07:01
  hitting the ball, he had the ball down, and a
• 2:07:03
  lot of the outs were on ground balls. And Jack
• 2:07:05
  Billingham, now a 13 -game winner, I have to
• 2:07:09
  say that the Tigers made a pretty good acquisition
• 2:07:11
  on Jack Billingham when they picked him up this
• 2:07:13
  spring. That is his 27th career shutout, and
• 2:07:19
  fourth with the Detroit Tigers, but... By the
• 2:07:21
  same token, Herb, you really have to be encouraged
• 2:07:24
  with the work of David Clyde. David Clyde tonight,
• 2:07:26
  I think, pitched as well as he has at any game
• 2:07:28
  this year. He started off in the first inning,
• 2:07:32
  gave up a run on two hits. He gave up a run in
• 2:07:35
  the third inning, a wild pitch, hurt him there.
• 2:07:37
  But after that, settled right down. He walked
• 2:07:39
  only two batters in the game. Both the walks
• 2:07:41
  came by the third inning. He struck out six.
• 2:07:44
  And David Clyde allowed just seven base hits.
• 2:07:46
  And I thought from about the fourth inning on.
• 2:07:48
  He just really started to cut loose and throw
• 2:07:50
  the ball the way David Clyde threw it in his
• 2:07:52
  first four or five starts. And that is encouraging.
• 2:07:54
  And, of course, again, the Indians lose another
• 2:07:56
  very tough ballgame, a close ballgame. And Jeff
• 2:07:59
  Tolborg, the eternal optimist, and I'm not saying
• 2:08:01
  that in a derogatory manner, but, you know, you
• 2:08:03
  try to look for positive things. And it's the
• 2:08:05
  case tonight of getting men on base and just
• 2:08:07
  not being able to get the hit when you needed
• 2:08:09
  it. Indians' best opportunity probably came right
• 2:08:12
  at the beginning of the ballgame. They had two
• 2:08:13
  men on the first inning, single by Manning. The
• 2:08:16
  next two men were out. And then Thornton was
• 2:08:17
  safe on an error. They couldn't score. Then in
• 2:08:20
  the second inning, Carville let off with a single.
• 2:08:22
  And he went to second base on a ground ball but
• 2:08:25
  made a turn not knowing where the ball was. And
• 2:08:27
  they trapped him off. And that sort of ended
• 2:08:28
  that threat because Kuyper followed with a base
• 2:08:30
  hit. And that was it. We'll have more for you
• 2:08:33
  from Tiger Stadium in Detroit after this timeout.
• 2:08:39
  The day is done. It's time to let it go. No matter
• 2:09:02
  what you do, no matter when or where, you know
• 2:09:09
  a glass of blood is like an easy drink. Let me
• 2:09:21
  tell you something I learned a long time ago.
• 2:09:24
  When you work hard, you ought to relax. Easy.
• 2:09:27
  That's what Budweiser's all about. When you think
• 2:09:31
  about it, you get it all. And I was a boy singer.
• 2:09:39
  Well, with this win tonight, the Tigers go to
• 2:09:41
  65 -52 on the year. They're 5 -3 against the
• 2:09:45
  Cleveland Indians, including three straight here
• 2:09:47
  at Tiger Stadium. The Indians flip to 53 -65.
• 2:09:51
  And on the road, their record is 20 -38. The
• 2:09:55
  Detroit Tigers assure themselves of... Well,
• 2:09:59
  they don't, because Milwaukee has won their first
• 2:10:01
  game. And should Milwaukee win the nightcap over
• 2:10:03
  Toronto, then Milwaukee would move a half game
• 2:10:05
  in front of the Detroit Tigers. But the Tigers
• 2:10:07
  are still in excellent shape in the American
• 2:10:10
  League East. And tomorrow night, in the second
• 2:10:13
  game of this brief two -game set, we're going
• 2:10:15
  to see Dave Friesleb in one and four for the
• 2:10:18
  Indians. and Jim Slayton, 12 -9 for the Detroit
• 2:10:21
  Tigers. And Herb, when you talk about Dave Friesleben,
• 2:10:24
  and I know you've talked about this with Jeff
• 2:10:26
  Torborg previously, here's another man that is
• 2:10:30
  slowly but surely getting his act together. Sort
• 2:10:32
  of being reconstructed as far as the pitcher
• 2:10:33
  goes because they're trying to smooth out his
• 2:10:36
  pitching style and his motion. And after the
• 2:10:38
  last performance by Dave Friesleben, a game in
• 2:10:40
  which he didn't win, but Jeff Torborg saying
• 2:10:42
  it was the best that he had thrown as far as
• 2:10:44
  staying in a groove, getting the fastball over,
• 2:10:47
  getting the breaking ball over. And each time
• 2:10:49
  he goes out, it looks like he's getting a little
• 2:10:50
  bit better, and of course that is a very good
• 2:10:52
  sign for the Indians. The Indians are just hoping
• 2:10:54
  that several on the line, they can put some hitting
• 2:10:56
  and some pitching together and get back in the
• 2:10:58
  winning pass. We'll have more for you here at
• 2:11:00
  Detroit right after we take this timeout. This
• 2:11:05
  is Dave Smith from Dave Smith Ford. We're over
• 2:11:07
  here in Pataskala, which is halfway between Columbus
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  and Newark, on Route 16. and we will save you
• 2:11:14
  money on a new Ford, or as you've heard me say
• 2:11:16
  many times, I'll buy you two fake dinners. Now,
• 2:11:19
  right now, we're having our clearance sale, summer,
• 2:11:22
  whatever you want to call it, into the 78s, get
• 2:11:24
  ready for the 79s. So come on over. We will save
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  you money on a new car. We need used cars. We've
• 2:11:30
  got a good selection. So come on over and see
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  us, and do your best. We will, too. Automobile
• 2:11:35
  drivers cause more than two -thirds of all car
• 2:11:38
  motorcycle accidents. As both a driver and a
• 2:11:41
  cyclist, I know how hard it is to judge the speed
• 2:11:44
  and distance of a motorcycle. That's why it's
• 2:11:47
  important for drivers like me to keep an eye
• 2:11:49
  out for cyclists like me. That's what highway
• 2:11:52
  safety is all about. Good to know we're all out
• 2:11:55
  here together, you and I. Presented by the Ohio
• 2:12:00
  Department of Highway Safety. A couple of things
• 2:12:05
  that we... I'd like to call your attention to,
• 2:12:07
  in as much as we do have a couple of extra moments,
• 2:12:09
  the Wahoo Club will be meeting Friday, August
• 2:12:11
  the 18th, at noon at the Boncourt Hotel with
• 2:12:13
  a very special salute to Buddy Bell, who is rapidly
• 2:12:16
  closing on his 1 ,000th career hit. And Harry
• 2:12:20
  Jones will emcee the festivities. The Wahoo Club
• 2:12:22
  luncheon is open to the public. And if you'd
• 2:12:24
  like further information, just give a buzz to
• 2:12:26
  861 -1200 during normal business hours. And the
• 2:12:29
  Indians will come home for the weekend of the
• 2:12:31
  Chicago White Sox. As Herb said, our first look...
• 2:12:34
  with the White Sox under the managerial reign
• 2:12:36
  of Larry Doby. Mike Crowley goes against Rick
• 2:12:39
  Wise Friday night, Francisco Barrios against
• 2:12:41
  Mike Paxton on Saturday, and Steve Stone Sunday
• 2:12:44
  afternoon against Rick Waite. I'll have more
• 2:12:47
  right after we take this time out. This is Dave
• 2:12:55
  Smith from Dave Smith Ford. We're over here in
• 2:12:57
  Pataskala, which is halfway between Columbus
• 2:12:59
  and Newark, on Route 16. which is halfway between
• 2:13:04
  Columbus and Newark on Route 16. And we will
• 2:13:08
  save you money on a new Ford, or as you've heard
• 2:13:10
  me say many times, I'll buy you two steak dinners.
• 2:13:13
  Now, right now, we're having our clearance sale,
• 2:13:16
  summer, whatever you want to call it, into the
• 2:13:18
  78, get ready for the 79. So come on over. We
• 2:13:21
  will save you money on a new car. We need used
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  cars. We have a good selection. So come on over
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  and see us, and do your best. We will, too. This
• 2:13:29
  is Adrienne Barbeau. And I want to share with
• 2:13:31
  you some disturbing facts from the March of Dimes.
• 2:13:34
  In 16 foreign countries, a newborn baby has a
• 2:13:37
  better chance of surviving to his first birthday
• 2:13:40
  than he has in the United States. More of our
• 2:13:43
  babies die partly because we have a higher number
• 2:13:45
  of low birth weight babies. And low birth weight
• 2:13:48
  is the most common birth defect in our country.
• 2:13:50
  It is the cause of the greatest number of infant
• 2:13:52
  deaths. It is the major cause of disability in
• 2:13:55
  childhood. An unborn baby can't choose the country
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  of its own. I'll have all the scores of all the
• 2:14:01
  games. The National League is already said and
• 2:14:03
  done for the night, and Herb will be chatting
• 2:14:04
  with Rusty Staub of the Detroit Tigers. Announcers
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  for this broadcast selected and paid by 3WE Radio.
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  It took 2 hours, 11 minutes, 15 ,819 at Tiger
• 2:14:17
  Stadium. The final score, Detroit 2, Cleveland
• 2:14:20
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