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1977-May-24 - CAL/DET - California Angels 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 May 24, 1977,
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  the California Angels faced the Detroit Tigers
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  in a Tuesday night game under the lights at Tiger
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  Stadium. The Angels were managed by Norm Sherry,
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  who had taken over from Dick Williams midway
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  through the 1976 season. The Tigers were managed
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  by Ralph Houck, who had been struggling for three
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  years to get the team above .500 after the departure
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  of Billy Martin and their appearance in the ALCS
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  in 1972. In this game, the Angels sent 30 -year
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  -old Nolan Ryan to the mound to face the Tigers'
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  John Hiller, one of the game's earliest closers,
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  making a rare starting appearance. This audio
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  recording is from the Detroit Radio Broadcast
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  featuring announcers Ernie Harwell, Paul Carey,
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  and Ray Lane. John Hiller, who came out of the
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  bullpen to get his first start last Wednesday
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  at Texas, only the second start since 1972 for
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  him. He's getting his second start of this season.
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  Here tonight against the potent California Angels.
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  Killer, winner once, and loser four times. All
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  those decisions in relief this year. All right,
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  check that. The last one was the defeated Texas.
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  Ready to go. And here for the play -by -play,
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  Ernie Harwell. Thank you, Paul. Here we go. And
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  Torres deleted off Flores, and he takes the ball
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  outside. Ball one. Gil Flores, right -handed
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  batting outfielder. Wind up by Heller. He delivers.
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  There's a ball attempt, and it's missed by Flores,
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  and the count is even 1 -1. Flores batting .345
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  in 14 games. Young man from Puerto Rico, 24 years
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  old. That is the early career happened by injuries
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  last year at Salt Lake most of the year. Takes
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  the ball in too close. 2 -1 the count on Flores.
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  F -L -O -R -E -S. Heller ready to work. Here's
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  a sky again about the knees. The fastball. Larry
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  Barnett getting a dispute from the leadoff man
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  Flores about that call. Two -two the count on
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  him. Flores had a shoulder separation last year.
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  He batted .323, though, over the whole year at
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  Salt Lake. Swings at a bounding ball to first
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  base. Thompson knocks it down, picks it up. Touches
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  first base ahead of the batter Flores, and there's
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  one away. The very fine second baseman stepping
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  in now. R .E .M .Y. is hitting 287. Young man
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  from Massachusetts. He batted 263 last season.
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  This is the first look the Tigers have had at
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  the Angels. Didn't even see him in spring training
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  because they trained on separate coasts. Here's
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  the ball outside on Remy. Ball one. Keller delivers,
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  and the left -hand batter takes an outside pitch
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  again. 2 -0 the count on Jerry Remy. Jerry, another
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  one, the age of 24. Mankowski in close on him.
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  There's a strike call. Fastball across, 2 -1
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  on Remy. One out, nobody on. The game has just
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  started at Tigers Stadium. The lights are on.
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  There's daylight left around here, however, and
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  a good bit of it. Now Hiller winds and pitches.
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  Remy swings. A pop -up. Hit into short left field.
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  Going back for Reiser. The shot's out. Here's
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  Kemp behind him. And the left fielder, Kemp,
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  makes the catch. Either one's going to take on
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  that one. Dave Chalk will be the batter now.
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  Hitting .333. The third baseman in 36 games.
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  Angels have won nine of their last 13 and moved
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  up to fourth place. They were seven games under
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  .500 when they started that move. And now they're
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  .200. Here's the motion and the pitch. It's a
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  ball high on chalk. University of Texas product.
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  Right -handed batting infielder. He choked that
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  bat just a little bit. The 1 -0 pitch. Swung
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  on and hit high in the air. Into the infield.
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  Beriser and Fuentes are there. Fuentes back of
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  the mound. And he has it for the out. They go
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  down 1, 2, 3 in the California first. And at
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  the end of the half inning, the Angels nothing,
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  the Tigers are coming to bat. Well, the two Tiger
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  farm teams that played last night both had to
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  go into overtime and both were winners in extra
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  innings down on the Superdome in New Orleans.
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  Evansville, for the second game in a row, got
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  a game -winning home run from catcher Lance Parrish.
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  Lance hit a solo homer to give the triplets a
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  10 -inning, 9 -8 victory over New Orleans. But
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  John Valley has kept them in the ballgame with
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  a pair of home runs and five RBIs. Evansville
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  is now 21 -16 on the year, and they're in second
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  place in the Eastern Division of the American
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  Association. Montgomery was rained out of their
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  ballgame at Jacksonville. The Rebels are 26 -15,
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  and they rest in first place in their Western
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  Division of the Southern League. Down in the
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  Florida State League, Lakeland went 16 innings
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  before defeating Coco 5 -2. Lakeland is in first
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  place in the Northern Division with a 23 -17
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  record in the Florida State League. who throws
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  the baseball harder than anybody in the major
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  leagues getting rid of the pitch and out of the
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  Tigers in their first inning. The game is scoreless.
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  He has a 9 -4 lifetime mark against the Tigers.
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  He was 6 -4 against the entire league last year.
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  He won two and lost none against the Tigers last
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  season. First man to face him will be Phil Mancowski,
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  a left -handed batting third baseman. Still keeping
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  that average up there. He's batting .321 with
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  one home run and 10 RBI. Like to send Tiger get
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  well, which is to Janine Hand. The Saratoga Hospital,
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  she's up and at them real soon. No score first
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  inning. Nolan Ryan, young man from Texas, pitching
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  to Phil Mankowski. And there's that fastball
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  to tie it away, ball one. Terry Humphrey, the
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  former Tiger, is doing the catching. Chalk at
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  third, Griff at short, Remy at second, and Ron
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  Jackson at first base. Orion wheels and delivers.
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  There's a ball in close. That was a breaking
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  pitch. In the outfield, they've got Rudy in left,
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  Flores in center, and Boggs in right. Orion into
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  action. Pitches. It is a ball high. 3 -0 on Mankowski.
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  Kicks from the livers and a strike is called.
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  Empty inside corner with that one. One of the
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  great strikeout pitches in baseball history,
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  Ryan. He holds the seasonal record, 383 strikeouts
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  in one year. Here's a strike called. He got a
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  fastball through, 3 -2. Some of the other great
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  strikeout pitchers in baseball history, Rube
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  Waddell, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax. And he's beat
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  them all. Here's the 3 -2 delivery. Swing, a
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  line shot, base hit, center field. Fastball up
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  in the letters, and Mankowski just gave it a
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  little tap and hit it over the infield for a
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  single. Good bat control he has, Paul. Yes, Phil.
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  getting his first taste of Nolan Ryan pitching
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  in this ballgame tonight. And he just simply
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  swung it very easily, just met the ball, and
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  Ryan provides so much momentum anyway. Here's
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  Tito Fuente stepping in. He'd be batting left
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  -handed now, hitting .311. This will be Tito's
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  37th Tiger game. Man out first, nobody out. Tigers
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  at bat first inning. The game's scored. The Tigers
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  stadium in Detroit. And for what he's awaiting,
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  this will be his first look at this pitcher.
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  Except perhaps an exhibition contest. And he
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  takes a strike. Let her high fastball inside
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  corner. Ryan has fanned as many as 19 in one
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  game. He did that in an 11 -inning game against
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  Boston back in 74. There's a cut on the miss.
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  One of the great games Dolan Ryan pitch was right
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  here. You remember when he was pitching his second
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  no hitter this season. And struck out a total
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  of 17 Tigers. That was in 73. He has four no
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  hitters in his career. There's a ball and close.
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  One and two. He and Koufax share the record for
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  that. One and two. The count on point is nobody
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  down. A man at first base. Ryan sets and delivers.
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  The swings and misses. Like it's breaking ball
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  down around the ankles. And the way he's went
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  for a bad pitch. One on, one out. And Rusty Saab
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  will bat next. Rusty, the Tigers' designated
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  batter. Hitting at a 242 clip. Last year, these
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  two teams were six and six against each other.
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  Tigers won four out of six here. The Angels won
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  four out of six out of nine. It's a strike call.
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  That leather high fastball blazing in from Nolan
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  Ryan. Ryan delivers. It's a strike inside corner.
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  That went in above the knees. Two strikes to
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  count on him. Outfield is straight up on Rusty
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  Staub. Last time out, Ryan beat the Twins 5 -3
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  and struck out 12. He delivers a curve law 1
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  -2. Struck out 12. Orion tried to wreck it for
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  Sam McDowell. 74 games in which he has fanned
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  10 or more. Here's the pitch. It's a ball and
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  in close. Ooh, that was almost there. 2 -2, the
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  count unstopped. He's got that wicked breaking
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  ball to go with that fastball. Just an unbeatable
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  combination. He pitched that no -hitter, too.
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  He had a real good slow curve working for him
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  that Sunday afternoon. Here's a 2 -2 pitch. Runner
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  goes. Swing and a miss. Humphreys throw to second.
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  He is eight at second base. It's a strikeout,
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  and Mankowski has a stolen base. Two down, and
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  now Kemp will be the batter. University of Southern
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  California coming up now to face the Nolan Ryan.
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  Black, we got three straight Californians hitting
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  here against California. All left -hand batters,
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  all youngsters, 22, 22, and 24 years old. Kemp,
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  Compton, and Cochran. And all not very far from
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  where the Angels are based. Same neighborhood.
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  Two out, a man at second base. Kemp at the plate.
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  He's hitting 300 now, right on the nose. Six
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  home runs, 23 runs batted in for Steve. Curve
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  over for a strike. Well, he started him off with
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  a breaking pitch. And the Kemp took it all the
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  way for a strike call. Now they set up Ryan.
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  He turns and throws to second. Back in time is
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  the runner Mankowski. Bobby Grich ducking behind
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  him and taking a low throw to the right field
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  side of the bag. Seems strange to see Grich at
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  shortstop. Played it before, but I think he would
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  probably prefer second base. Here's the pitch.
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  It's a strike on the inside corner. That was
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  Ryan's fastball. Well, the last few hitters,
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  he's been getting ahead. He got behind on Mankowski
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  and then got to a 3 -2 count. Mankowski's single.
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  But on Poitiers and Staub, he worked on them
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  pretty good with two quick strikes. Now he's
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  got two strikes on Kemp. Let's see what it'll
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  give him. It's been a curve and a fastball so
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  far. Fastball very wide. He wasted that one.
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  High and away on Steve. Only one year in the
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  minors to Steve Kemp. And he's right up here
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  hitting that big league pitching. And very near
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  the plate. Wait till a one -two serve from Ryan.
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  It's a breaking ball. Oh, gets by Humphrey. Mankowski
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  will make it easy to third. That ball hit in
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  the dirt right near the feet of Kemp in the batter's
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  box. Humphrey blocked it a little bit to his
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  right. It'll be a wild pitch. Peter Gallons of
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  Sports Illustrated is here at Tigers Stadium
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  tonight. He's come in to do a story on Mark Fittrich.
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  Now two out. No score. First inning at Tiger
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  Stadium. Thompson waiting on deck. Kemp the batter
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  against Nolan Ryan. Here's a wide one now by
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  the California right -handed. The pitch is a
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  strike. God, he struck him out. Got a curve on
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  the inside corner. And Kemp strikes out. So there's
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  a single. A stolen base on the wild pitch. But
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  three strikeouts along the way. No runs. One
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  hit. No errors. And one man left on base at the
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  end of one. California nothing. Detroit nothing.
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  Hi, I'm Ernie Harwell, and I'm here with a couple
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  of competitors in the Chrysler Plymouth Dealers
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  Honorary Tiger Bat Boy Contest. Paul, how does
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  this thing work? Well, any boy or girl between
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  8 and 14 can sign up in any participating Chrysler
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  Plymouth dealer. Provided they're accompanied
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  by a licensed driver 18 or older. That's right.
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  And there's no obligation for signing up. Then
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  22 Bat Boys will be picked on June the 2nd. Right,
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  Katie? Right, 22 Bat Boys. One for each Chrysler
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  Plymouth dealer. And everyone who signs up gets
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  a free Tiger ION patch. Great. Well, that about
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  does it. So kids, grab your parents and stop
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  into any participating Chrysler Plymouth dealer
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  between April 18th and May 27th. And sign up
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  for the Tiger Bat Boy contest. Thank you, Katie
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  and Paul. And this is... And there's one more
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  thing. Yes, Katie? Shouldn't that be that person?
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  Well, anyway, see your participating Greater
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  Detroit Chrysler Plymouth dealer soon. It's difficult
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  in this busy world to keep up with everything
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  that transpires on a given day, but we at WJR
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  News summarize your world for you, evenings at
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  6. This is Jennifer Moore. Join us. No score
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  second ending. It'll be Joe Rudy to lead it off
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  for the Angels, considered... As one of the outstanding
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  all -around players in the American League. The
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  former Oakland A, now the property of California.
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  Thanks to the heavy shelling out of the old cowboy
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  Gene Autry. Rudy has reached the ripe old baseball
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  age of 30 and still moving along in great style.
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  Batting .259 this season, he takes the strike
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  on the outside corner. 38 RBIs for Rudy, an eight
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  -home run. First play for the Kansas City A's
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  and then move with them to Oakland finally. There's
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  a swing and a miss on a dipping left -hand curve
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  by others. Strike two on Joe Rudy. One of the
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  several ballplayers has taken a weightlifting.
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  To condition him. Here's a pitch. He swings and
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  fouls it away. This one will be back toward the
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  screen. And then right down below. Strike two
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  on Joe. Seattle leads Cleveland 1 -0 at the end
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  of one. Milwaukee and Baltimore, no score. They've
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  completed two. Montreal beat the Cubs today,
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  5 -4 extra inning. Pittsburgh leading the Mets
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  at the end of two. It's Pittsburgh, the 1 -0.
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  No other scores yet. Hiller winds, delivers.
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  Rudy swings, fly ball. Hit into short right center.
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  Here comes Stanley. Won't get there. Drops in
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  front of him. And Rudy has the first hit for
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  the Angels. Little Texas League single dropping
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  at the right center field. That'll bring up Bobby
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  Bonds. Hitting 274. Eight home runs and 24 RBIs
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  for Bobby. Got his start with the Giants and
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  had a fine career there. They traded into the
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  Yankees in 75. He stayed there one season and
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  then went to California. Bobby, troubled by injuries
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  last year, had a hand operation finally in August.
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  Dullo hits with power and he has fine running
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  speed. Bobby Bond, he swings and misses on the
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  Hiller changeup. Bob Dabb is a professional boxer.
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  Another looper hit the right field. May drop
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  in. And here comes Cochran. Can't get it. Drops
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  the ball after picking it up. He fires it back
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  at the Puentes. He dropped it on one hop. And
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  two singles very much alike. Rudy and Bonds have
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  hit a couple little Texas leaguers. And here's
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  Don Baylor, who's hit a lot more than Texas leaguers
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  in this ballpark. You remember a few of those,
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  don't you, Paul Carey? Oh, you bet. Has great
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  power. He's not hitting all that well so far
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  for the Angels. He's been a little disgruntled
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  over the fact that he's been having to play the
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  role of the D .H. But he's got that power and
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  speed. Batting 2 -0 -3. Seven home runs for Baylor.
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  19 runs better than former Baltimore Orioles.
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  And he takes a strike call. Baltimore dealt him
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  off to Oakland last year where he hit the 2 -47
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  and had 15 homers. In field and double play depth.
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  Miller in early trouble now. Two men on and nobody
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  down. No score. Second inning. Set to kick the
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  pitch. He swings and fouls it on the screen.
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  Got that fastball in on the hand from John. Baylor
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  got started early in baseball. He broke into
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  the age of 18. He's still only 27. And he's been
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  around since 67. Baltimore kept him in the minors
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  quite a bit because of all the talent they had
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  in outfield and at first base. Now to set the
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  pitch, he starts the bunt and takes the ball
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  outside. California broadcast team across the
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  way. A couple of Michiganders beaming it out
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  for California. Dick Enberg and Al Wisk. Don
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  Drysdale taking a few days off. Here's the set
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  -down by the Tiger left -hander Hiller. High
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  foul fly. May go out of play. Thompson coming
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  over near the seat. He has the room, but he overruns
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  the ball. It was about three or four yards away
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  from the barrier. Not real high, and Thompson
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  ran under it, went to the fence, and then he
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  couldn't go back and retreat. Oh, it falls in
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  safely. A foul fly. One and two to count on Baylor.
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  that he not only has power, but he has good running
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  speed. Well, the outfield straight up on Don,
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  and Hill has got to go to work on him again.
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  John sets and delivers. There's a little pop
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  ball over toward first base. Here's Thompson.
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  He has it for the out. Check swing foul ball,
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  and Thompson had a little trouble getting around
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  the runner at first base, Bobby Bonds, but he
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  made it over there in foul territory to make
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  the catch. Now we'll see Ron Jackson come to
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  bat the right -hand batting first baseman from
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  Bessemer, Alabama Jackson hitting 250 in 21 games
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  other big Huskies strong hitter This past is
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  the 24th birthday about a week or two ago He's
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  been up with the Californians a couple of times
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  swings and misses on the other changeup Jackson
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  last year and the year before was at both Salt
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  Lake and at California. Finally made it last
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  year as a regular with the Angels. Getting into
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  127 games. They've had him at third base, the
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  outfield, first base. He swings and misses. Breaking
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  ball, and Hiller took a little off that one,
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  too. A little bit of a breeze blowing out from
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  the right field corner toward the left. Coming
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  out of the south of the southeast. Miller checks
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  his time with his catcher, Milt May. No score.
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  Here's the fit. Watch out. In close. And he backed
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  off and lost his helmet. Del Crandall is the
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  first base coach. Dave Garcia coaches. The third
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  day was at Cleveland, you remember, coaching.
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  Crandall is the manager at Milwaukee. Here's
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  the pitch. He takes the ball low. Good stop by
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  May. He shot off one that hit in front of the
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  plate. 2 -2. Crandall spent all last year at
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  Salinas, I believe, in the California State League.
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  Out there in his home territory. Well, Garcia
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  from out that way, too. Now waiting on a 2 -2
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  pitch is Jackson. He swings and fouls it away.
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  Down the right field side it'll reach the seat.
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  The story's out of Cleveland concerning the imminent
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  dismissal rumored by Frank Robinson. Several
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  admits mention the fact that Garcia was off of
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  the job and turned it down. He didn't want to
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  leave California or leave the coaching ring.
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  Heller, check it, it's fine. It's a 2 -2 pitch
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  again to Jackson. Ron Twinker, the bounding ball,
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  hit off the middle, base hit, that'll get a run
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  in probably. Rudy rounding third, coming home.
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  Bonds takes third on the single, and California
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  moves in front, 1 -0. That was a hard one -hopper
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  to the glove side of Barraza. He couldn't get
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  over towards second to stop it, and it got through
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  for a single. Man on first, man on third, one
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  run in, one man down, and Bobby Grits, the batter,
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  1 -0 California. Rich hitting 267. Five home
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  runs and 17 RBI. The first well -hit ball of
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  Miller tonight. Yep, the other two were just
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  a couple of Texas leaguers that set the table
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  for Ron Jackson. The Tigers will keep their infield
• 24:39
  and double play depth in this situation. 1 -0
• 24:41
  California. Rich with that short stroke of his
• 24:45
  at the plate. Takes the ball in two blows. Bobby,
• 24:51
  back in the state where he grew up, although
• 24:53
  he was born in Muskegon, Michigan. Thompson holding
• 24:59
  on the back with Jackson at first base. 1 -0
• 25:02
  Angels. Here's a ball outside from Hiller. 2
• 25:06
  -0 the count. Tells you a little bit about the
• 25:08
  power and speed of this Angel lineup when they've
• 25:11
  got a Gritch batting in the eighth position.
• 25:13
  Pretty indicative. Hiller ready. Here's a fly
• 25:21
  ball at the center. About medium depth. Stanley
• 25:24
  comes in a little bit. Makes the catch. Here's
• 25:26
  the tag at third. And Barnes is coming home to
• 25:29
  score. The ball gets by Fuentes. Jackson breaks
• 25:32
  the second. Throw to Verizon. Not in time. Two
• 25:36
  to nothing. California. And now they've got a
• 25:39
  man at second and two out. So Gritch will get
• 25:41
  a sacrifice. On the fly to Stanley. And then
• 25:45
  Stanley will be charged with an error. And the
• 25:48
  ball. Got away from the infield. And here is
• 25:55
  the former Tiger, Terry Humphrey, who's won himself
• 25:58
  a regular job out there in California. About
• 26:00
  a .227. He's been in 32 games. He's the catcher.
• 26:11
  Here's a strike called on Terry, the lean man
• 26:15
  from Oklahoma. Killer pitches and Humphrey looks
• 26:27
  at a ball low. Ron Jackson on second. Two out.
• 26:41
  California two tight. Nothing. Swing and a tip
• 26:44
  to the mid of May. Angels two runs and three
• 26:50
  hits coming in this inning. Here's the set by
• 26:59
  heller the left -hander kicks and deals There's
• 27:01
  a bounding ball to short verizer short hop tip
• 27:04
  the total top citizen time and the side retired
• 27:06
  However, the Californians pick up a couple two
• 27:10
  runs three hits one arrow one man left At the
• 27:13
  end of an inning and a half California to Detroit
• 27:16
  nothing Hazy, hot conditions will hold through
• 27:21
  the week as the WJR weather forecast from Mount
• 27:24
  Sillard to Detroit reads fair to partly cloudy
• 27:27
  with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers
• 27:31
  through Thursday. Low temperatures tonight, 62
• 27:34
  to 65. Tomorrow's high and Thursday as well,
• 27:37
  86 to 89 degrees. Right now, winds are southerly
• 27:42
  at 7. Humidity is 53%. And under partly cloudy
• 27:46
  skies, it's 80 degrees at Detroit's Metro Airport.
• 27:49
  In town, 80 and mostly clear at Detroit City
• 27:53
  Airport. Pontiac reporting in with 77. It's 78
• 27:56
  and mostly clear in Ipsy. And Lansing has clear
• 27:59
  and 79 degrees. Repeating again at 8 .30, it's
• 28:04
  mostly... Clear and 80 degrees at Detroit Metro
• 28:07
  Airport. And MEP reporting no trouble at all
• 28:11
  on any freeway or Detroit area surface street.
• 28:14
  From Ty Cobb to Mark Fidrich, Radio 76 has been
• 28:18
  part of it all. It's sports information you've
• 28:20
  come to expect from WJR Detroit. Let's pause
• 28:28
  briefly for station identification. This is the
• 28:30
  Detroit Tiger Baseball Network. You're just three
• 28:32
  hours away from the captain, Jay Roberts, on
• 28:35
  Radio 76 at 11 .30 tonight on America's great
• 28:40
  radio station, WJR. Jason Thompson will lead
• 28:51
  it off against Nolan Ryan now, the flamethrower
• 28:54
  from California. Compton hitting .268. He has
• 28:57
  27 RBI as a team leader. And he also leads in
• 29:01
  home runs of seven. Ryan Reddy delivers. And
• 29:13
  Jason takes a high hard one. Very wide ball one.
• 29:26
  Here's a curve dipping down around the feet.
• 29:29
  2 -0 the count on Jason. Tomorrow night is Irish
• 29:33
  -American night. They'll have some colorful pregame
• 29:35
  ceremonies beginning at 7 .30. The game itself
• 29:38
  gets underway at 8 o 'clock. It'll be Roberts
• 29:40
  against Tanana. We hope you'll be out for that
• 29:42
  one. Now the 2 -0 delivery. It's a ball very
• 29:46
  high. 3 -0 on Jason Thompson. Repeat the announcement
• 29:52
  we made a little bit earlier that Vern Rule has
• 29:54
  been placed on the 21 -day disabled list. He
• 29:56
  has a little stiffness in his right shoulder.
• 29:58
  Fidrich comes on the active list. There's a ball
• 30:02
  outside. He walked him on four pitches. Thompson,
• 30:08
  the second Tiger runner. The first one was Mankowski
• 30:11
  who let off the first inning with a single. And
• 30:13
  now Tim Cochran, another Californian, stepping
• 30:16
  up. Batting .467 at 7 for 15. One home run and
• 30:20
  four runs better than. Jim getting a nice hand
• 30:26
  from the home folks here and his first appearance
• 30:28
  against them. Not against them, in front of them.
• 30:39
  Ryan on the mound, pitching to Corcoran. Here's
• 30:42
  the pitch. He takes the ball outside and Humphrey
• 30:45
  wants a little comfort. Now they're going to
• 30:56
  pass out the all -star ballot here at Tigers
• 30:58
  Stadium. So you folks better cast your ballots.
• 31:01
  Five Tigers are on that computer. Punch card
• 31:04
  ballot this year. LaFleur may stop Thompson and
• 31:07
  Rodriguez. Now the conference over. Corcoran
• 31:12
  back in the batter's box. One and all to count
• 31:14
  on him. Ryan Sesson pitches. It's a strike call.
• 31:18
  Leather high fastball. Incidentally, had a little
• 31:21
  talk with Rodriguez before the ball game. Aurelio
• 31:23
  says he's working out now, taking batting practice,
• 31:26
  stealing practice, running, doing everything
• 31:28
  to get ready and get back in the lineup. Here's
• 31:32
  a 1 -1 delivery, and Tim swings and misses on
• 31:35
  the curve. Aurelio was out here early today getting
• 31:39
  a lot of work out of third base. They were hitting
• 31:42
  a lot of ground balls at him. Seemed to be treating
• 31:45
  the leg a little gingerly, perhaps. Well, it'll
• 31:49
  take a little time. One and two, the count on
• 31:52
  ten. Ryan to the set position. There's the fastball
• 31:57
  high and outside. Two -two, the count on Corcoran.
• 32:05
  We've got a report now from New York. Boston
• 32:07
  leads the Yankees two to one at the end of one
• 32:09
  at Yankee Stadium. There's a curve. It is a little
• 32:14
  bit high. Full count on Tim Corcoran. Bryant's
• 32:22
  going to that curve quite a bit here in the early
• 32:24
  inning. Tim sets himself in there. He stands
• 32:31
  very deep in the batter's box. Full count pitch.
• 32:34
  Swung on it high in the air to left field. Not
• 32:36
  deep at all. Rudy is under it. Waiting, waiting.
• 32:39
  And it's in his glove for the out. Thompson retreats
• 32:43
  to first base. Here's Milt May stepping up the
• 32:47
  Tigers' schedule with a 2 .62 average. Milt has
• 32:53
  three home runs. He's driven in 13 runs. After
• 32:56
  Dave Roberts and Tanana duel tomorrow night,
• 33:00
  there'll be an off day for the Tigers. On Friday,
• 33:02
  Mark Federich comes back to action. He'll be
• 33:05
  pitching against Glenn Abbott on Demolay night.
• 33:07
  The Tigers versus Seattle. Saturday, it'll be
• 33:11
  Rosemar against Paul. And Sunday, Arroyo against
• 33:14
  Undecided. Tiger Day Saturday, Autograph Day
• 33:19
  Sunday. May looks at a strike call from Nolan
• 33:23
  Ryan. Thompson, not much to believe at first
• 33:35
  base. Jackson holds with him. The fastball is
• 33:38
  in too close on Milton. May, one and one to count
• 33:40
  on Milton. California picked up two in the second.
• 33:48
  They laid the Tigers 2 -0, but the Tigers trying
• 33:50
  to get back in the second inning. May swings
• 33:53
  and misses. He took a big ripple. And the fastball
• 33:56
  came in right through the letters. Two of the
• 34:09
  hitters who led the hitting against California
• 34:10
  not in the lineup today for the Tigers. Here's
• 34:13
  a foul back on the screen. One and two on May.
• 34:17
  Those two are LaFleur and Rodriguez. Rusty Staub
• 34:24
  was another one of the leaders last year against
• 34:26
  California pitching only. Hope you'll be out
• 34:31
  here tomorrow night, fun at the ballpark. Here's
• 34:34
  the pitch. Swing and a foul. It'll reach the
• 34:36
  seat back a third. That's the trouble with having
• 34:42
  only a two -game series with the Angels and a
• 34:44
  day off for four. You figure your odds are you're
• 34:47
  going to get to Nana and Ryan. It's a four -game
• 34:50
  series, so you can spread it around a little
• 34:52
  bit. That's a potent one -two punch, too, to
• 34:54
  run up against. Now May digging in, waiting on
• 35:01
  another one -two serve from Nolan. Here it is.
• 35:03
  He takes the high fastball. That one seemed to
• 35:06
  sail a little bit for him. 2 -2 the count on
• 35:08
  May. Doesn't appear that Ryan has really found
• 35:11
  his rhythm yet in this game. He's struggling
• 35:14
  a little bit. He seems to be getting his curveball
• 35:16
  over better than the fast stuff. Now the 2 -2
• 35:20
  delivery. There's his curve. It missed the mark.
• 35:23
  He's thrown a lot of pitches here in the early
• 35:26
  part of the game. He had an arm operation in
• 35:29
  late 75. September 75. And 76 was not an outstanding
• 35:36
  year for Nolan, not by his standards. Outfield
• 35:46
  around the right on May. Almost no breeze right
• 35:49
  now. Here's a pitch. He takes a walk. He didn't
• 35:52
  get the curve in that time. And the Tigers have
• 35:55
  two runners both on bases on balls. Mickey Stanley,
• 36:01
  veteran center fielder, getting a nice round
• 36:04
  of applause. Nick batting 265. One of the most
• 36:10
  popular of the Tigers, Mickey Stanley. Thompson
• 36:21
  on second. May on first. Tigers trail by two.
• 36:24
  Two -nothing in the second inning. And the pitch.
• 36:37
  He takes the ball outside. That was a fastball.
• 36:40
  High and away. Good turnout in the bleaches tonight.
• 36:47
  You can come out and see a baseball game for
• 36:49
  a dollar and a half. That's hard to beat. Cup
• 36:53
  of coffee costs almost that much now. Here's
• 36:57
  the strike call. Fastball in above the knees.
• 37:05
  Got about a fourth of a shrimp cocktail for that.
• 37:12
  2 -0. Angels lead the Tigers in the second inning.
• 37:16
  Stanley waits. The 1 -1 pitch is outside. Ryan
• 37:20
  going to that fastball a lot now. 2 -1 the count
• 37:24
  on Mickey. Tigers did some lusty hitting in Comiskey
• 37:34
  Park when they swept that series of Chicago.
• 37:38
  They'd like to continue that hitting pace. Stanley
• 37:42
  at the plate. 2 -1 pitch. Swing and a top. He
• 37:46
  just kicked that one off the net of Humphrey.
• 37:51
  And the count on Mickey, 2 -2. Outfield plays
• 38:04
  Stanley not to be able to get around on Ryan.
• 38:09
  Yeah, they've got Flores over there in right
• 38:11
  center. Let's see what he will give him on 2
• 38:15
  -2 now with one out and two on 2 -0. California
• 38:18
  leading in the second. Ryan takes his time. Mickey
• 38:20
  digging in waiting. Here it comes. He takes a
• 38:23
  strike, a fastball across. Hits that outside
• 38:26
  corner. That is a really tough pitch. Right -hander
• 38:30
  against the right -hander. He gets that fastball
• 38:32
  on the outside corner. Just a little bit above
• 38:35
  the knee. Not too much you can do. That's the
• 38:41
  fourth strikeout for Ryan. and he's retired five
• 38:45
  men and banned four of them. Here's Tommy Barraza
• 38:48
  with two on and two out. Tommy batting 160. This
• 38:53
  is his 25th game. Takes a wide one, ball one.
• 39:06
  Dick Krzyzewski coaching at first. Fred Hatfield,
• 39:09
  the third base coach for the Tigers. Barraza
• 39:13
  looked at a ball outside. Two at 0. Another fastball.
• 39:19
  Now Seattle and Cleveland are tied. They're 2
• 39:22
  -2 at the end of three. Baltimore second lead
• 39:24
  over Milwaukee at Baltimore. 1 -0. They've completed
• 39:27
  three over there. Now the 2 -0 pitch and Verizon
• 39:31
  takes the strike outside corner. Tiger fans trying
• 39:37
  to clap up a little rally here in the second
• 39:39
  inning with the Tigers trailing 2 -0. Now the
• 39:45
  set by Nolan Ryan. The right hander fires. It's
• 39:48
  a fastball. Swung on. Popped in the air to short
• 39:50
  left. Rudy is there. He's waiting. He has it
• 39:53
  and the side retires. The Tigers get two walks
• 39:55
  and that's all. No runs, no hits, no errors.
• 39:58
  Two are left. And it's the end of two. California
• 40:01
  two, Detroit nothing. We got together to do it
• 40:06
  better. And that's what we did. You know, when
• 40:16
  things go right, it really feels good. And that's
• 40:19
  the way it feels around the Marathon Oil Company.
• 40:21
  Because Marathon isn't just a name. It's a lot
• 40:24
  of people who got together because they think
• 40:26
  doing it better is the only way to do it. And
• 40:29
  if you ask me, I think they're absolutely right.
• 40:33
  We got together to do it better. That's what
• 40:38
  we did. We're Marathon. We got together to do
• 41:02
  it better, and we did. Jay Roberts here to remind
• 41:09
  you that I stay up late to provide a little night
• 41:12
  music and conversation on a program called Night
• 41:15
  Flight 76. Join me evenings at 11 .30 on WJR.
• 41:22
  Bill Flores, the lead off man, coming up now
• 41:24
  to start things in the third against John Hiller.
• 41:28
  California picked up a couple in the second.
• 41:30
  That's the difference in the game. They had singles
• 41:32
  by Rudy and Bond. Single by Jackson and a sacrifice
• 41:36
  fly by Gritch. Got the second run home. Heller
• 41:39
  delivers and Flores looks at a curve over. Strike
• 41:42
  one. He bounced that assist to Thompson the first
• 41:45
  time it's passed. Here's a pitch at law. One
• 41:52
  and one to count on him. in the dirt. The county's
• 42:02
  two and one. John Rock kicks the livers. Little
• 42:13
  pop fly back towards short. Verizon's there.
• 42:16
  He has it. And that's one away. Torres popping
• 42:21
  to Tommy Verizon. Jerry Remy will be the batter.
• 42:25
  John Sanderson is a great Tiger fan. Has been.
• 42:29
  And still is. Been in the hospital for a long,
• 42:32
  long time. Still rooting for the Tigers. We send
• 42:35
  our very best to him. He's at St. Joseph of Mount
• 42:37
  Clemens. There's the ball low. Ball one. Remy,
• 42:43
  a very fine competitor and highly regarded all
• 42:46
  around the league. He flied to left his first
• 42:48
  trip. Swings and misses on a Hiller curve one
• 42:51
  and one. other tomorrow night at 8 o 'clock.
• 43:11
  Hope you'll be out with us. Bounding ball to
• 43:13
  first. Thompson very wide of the bag. Has it
• 43:15
  raised to the bag. Won by Jason. Remy is out
• 43:18
  to Jason Thompson unassisted. Two up and two
• 43:21
  away. Dave Chalk. Dave popped to second base.
• 43:25
  His only trip. The right hand batter takes a
• 43:54
  strike on the outside corner to strike the comedy.
• 43:58
  California to Detroit nothing. The angels are
• 44:01
  batting in the third the first of a two game
• 44:03
  set. First look these two teams have had at each
• 44:06
  other this year. He takes a half cut but it's
• 44:10
  ruled the ball didn't go over. Piper net checking
• 44:14
  with Jim Evans at first he says you're right.
• 44:16
  He didn't go across. So I want to count on Dave
• 44:19
  Shaw. Here it is. Swing and a bounding foul.
• 44:22
  It's down past the coach, Dave Garcia. Dave managed
• 44:28
  in the Mexican ball. Same league that Rodriguez
• 44:33
  has often played in the wintertime. Here's a
• 44:36
  high pop -up over back of Mankowski. Verizer
• 44:40
  is in left field. Here comes Kemp behind him,
• 44:42
  and Verizer makes the catch for the out. They
• 44:45
  go down one, two, three, and the third. Here
• 44:48
  come the Tigers to bat in the last half. The
• 44:50
  third it is. California 2, Detroit nothing. When
• 45:16
  it comes to racing, motorcycle champions have
• 45:19
  one thing in common. Champions spark plugs. Last
• 45:22
  year, for instance, champions sparked all 16
• 45:25
  major U .S. and world motorcycle championships,
• 45:28
  including motocross and road racing. Is it any
• 45:31
  wonder when most factory teams go racing, champions
• 45:34
  spark plugs go along? So when your bike needs
• 45:37
  a new plug, do what racers around the world do.
• 45:39
  Fill her up with champions. Tigers coming about
• 46:05
  against Nolan Ryan. It is 2 -0 Angels. Two runs
• 46:10
  three hits for California. No runs, one hit for
• 46:12
  the Tigers. And here's the man who's had the
• 46:14
  only hit, Mankowski. He'll be leading off in
• 46:16
  the Tiger third against Ryan. Ryan has walked
• 46:19
  two. And he picked up four strikeouts in the
• 46:23
  first two innings. On the left -hand batting,
• 46:29
  Mankowski at a 3 -2 pitch for a single into center
• 46:32
  field. A first -time up bats again. Right -hander
• 46:35
  Nolan Ryan into action. But it is, and Phil takes
• 46:38
  a ball in close ball one. Still daylight here
• 46:42
  at Tigers Stadium. It is 8 .48 on the stadium
• 46:45
  clock. Ryan wheels and deals. There's a curve
• 46:51
  across above the knees. One and one. Hear the
• 47:00
  voice of Mark Fedrich from the far corner of
• 47:03
  the dugout over there at third base. Fastball
• 47:05
  onto the chin. Two and one. They got him. Mankowski.
• 47:14
  Chopkin close at third on Phil. 2 -0 California
• 47:17
  in the third. Low inside curve. 3 -1 from Nolan
• 47:23
  Ryan. Here's a ball outside. He walked in. That'll
• 47:37
  be the third walk off Ryan. Ryan really seemed
• 47:43
  to find himself back around 72. Tom Morgan got
• 47:46
  a hold of him when he was a pitching coach out
• 47:48
  of California. Worked him out between starts.
• 47:51
  Got him to take a little off his fastball once
• 47:53
  in a while. And it seemed to get Ryan in the
• 47:56
  correct groove. He's walked three. He struck
• 48:03
  out four and a lot of hit. Here's his first strikeout
• 48:06
  victim. Fluenti is coming up again. Batting left
• 48:09
  -handed. Tito takes the strike. Started the bunt.
• 48:12
  Hit the outside corner on him. Baltimore still
• 48:16
  leading Milwaukee there in the fifth inning now.
• 48:18
  Baltimore 1 -0 the Orioles ahead. Set by Ryan
• 48:24
  in the pitch. It's a ball outside. A one -and
• 48:28
  -one on Tito. Boston leading the Yankees there
• 48:36
  in the third. Two to one at New York. Minkowski
• 48:41
  getting a little bit of a lead at first. Ron
• 48:43
  Jackson holding on the bag with him. The one
• 48:46
  -one pitch coming up to Tito. Very high and wide.
• 48:50
  Two and one. Ryan throwing a lot of pitches here
• 49:00
  in the early inning. Here's a cut and a miss
• 49:11
  on a pitch that was in close around the knees.
• 49:14
  2 -2 the count on Palletti. Tito saying something
• 49:25
  to Barnett and Humphries. He stepped back into
• 49:28
  the batter's box. 2 -2 the count on him. Waiting
• 49:35
  on deck rusty stop. Here's a bit. It's a ball
• 49:40
  outside. There's that book out again. That's
• 49:43
  been up on the board quite a bit already. Kowski
• 49:51
  edging off a little bit at first base. Jackson
• 49:53
  holding with him. 2 -0 California. Tito swings
• 49:58
  and fouls it on the screen. Just got a piece
• 50:00
  of that fastball. Ryan deals that fastball. Tito
• 50:06
  doesn't have time to slide that left hand down.
• 50:08
  Yeah. Got to just get the bat across the plate.
• 50:17
  Waiting on another 3 -2 delivery from Nolan Ryan.
• 50:20
  Here it is. He swings and fouls another one on
• 50:23
  the screen. He took a little off that one. That
• 50:25
  didn't have the zip that the last one had. Sixty
• 50:36
  feet, six inches from the plate. The ball comes
• 50:39
  up 95 to 100 plus miles per hour. You don't have
• 50:45
  much time. About two -fifths of a second to hit
• 50:47
  the ball. Here's a swing and a miss. He didn't
• 50:49
  hit that one. It's the fifth strikeout for Ryan.
• 50:55
  And Rusty Staub will be the batter. He struck
• 51:08
  out his first time at bat. They moved the pitching
• 51:12
  mound back from the plate in 1893. It used to
• 51:15
  be only 50 feet from the plate. New York had
• 51:18
  a great pitcher named Amos Rusi. And they figured
• 51:22
  he threw too hard. They'd move it back. There's
• 51:24
  a ball outside. Well, all it did made his curveball
• 51:31
  a little more effective. And he was even a better
• 51:34
  pitcher after they moved it back to 60 feet six
• 51:37
  inches. Paul won the count on Rusty Staub. Man
• 51:42
  on first. One man down. 2 -0 California. Ryan
• 51:47
  sets and pitches. There's a strike call. The
• 51:50
  fastball in. 1 -1 they count on him. Staub steps
• 52:02
  out as we told you. He was one of the leading
• 52:03
  Tiger hitters against California pitching last
• 52:06
  year. Minkowski not getting much of a lead at
• 52:09
  first base. Stob takes the ball outside. Two
• 52:14
  and one they count on him. Now Rusty choking
• 52:30
  the bat. Leaning and waiting is the 2 -1 there.
• 52:34
  He swings fly ball at the drop left field near
• 52:36
  the line. Rudy coming over to his right is there.
• 52:39
  He makes the catch and holding it first is Mankowski.
• 52:45
  All the outs have either been strikeouts or fly
• 52:48
  balls to Rudy in left field. Rudy's had three
• 52:52
  put outs and then five Tigers have gone down
• 52:56
  on strike. Here's Steve Kemp who took a call
• 53:01
  third strike to win the first inning. Man Humphrey's
• 53:04
  gone out of the mound to talk with Nolan Ryan
• 53:28
  by digging in the conference is over now on the
• 53:30
  right hand Orion sets and pitches a left hand
• 53:33
  about it takes a strike outside corner he didn't
• 53:36
  like that call by Barnett gave him a little bit
• 53:38
  of the old family look there Ron Jackson holding
• 53:44
  on the bag with Mankowski at first base here's
• 53:48
  the pitch it's a ball high one and one We've
• 53:57
  told you from time to time that Kemp is a very
• 54:00
  aggressive hitter. Anybody to keep you from being
• 54:03
  aggressive, it would be the pitcher of the type
• 54:06
  of Nolan Ryan. Here's the set and the pitch.
• 54:10
  He backed him off with an inside fastball. 2
• 54:15
  -1 the count on Steve. Jason Thompson waiting
• 54:20
  on deck. We're in the third inning. The Tigers
• 54:21
  and the California Angels. The Angels have the
• 54:24
  lead 2 -0 at Tiger Stadium. Man on first, two
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  down for Detroit. A 2 -1 pitch to Kemp. He swings
• 54:32
  and fouls it away. He got a good ripple at that
• 54:34
  one. That was the let -up curve. But he beat
• 54:37
  the ball down on his foot. 2 -2 the count on
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  Steve. I don't think I ever saw a more impressive
• 54:47
  pitching performance than when Ryan pitched his
• 54:49
  second no -hitter in that 73 season against the
• 54:53
  Tigers. He struck out 17. Probably would have
• 54:56
  fanned more, but he had a big rest in the eighth
• 54:58
  inning when California got a lot of runs. Here's
• 55:03
  a 2 -2 pitch now to Kemp. Swing and a miss. He
• 55:07
  struck him out. He tried to hold up, but he'd
• 55:09
  gone across. That is six strikeouts on Olin Ryan.
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  No runs, no hits, no walks, no errors. One man
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  left at the end of three. California 2, Detroit
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  nothing. You're at the plate in the Labatt's
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  baseball trivia game. Here's the pitch. Who drew
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  the most votes in the first selection of players
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  for the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York?
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  Call Time Out to think about it over a cool,
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  refreshing Labatt's Blue. The answer, Ty Cobb.
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  Ty Cobb gained 222 votes, seven more than the
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  markets throughout Michigan. Getting it together
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  in the morning. to use the vernacular. That's
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  what we do in the morning here on WJR. I'm doing
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  my job. I'm J .P. McCarthy. Join me from 6 to
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  10. California got two in the second off John
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  Hiller. They lead Hiller and the Tigers now 2
• 56:44
  -0. We move to the fourth inning. Let's all enjoy
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  hearing from Paul Carey. All right, Ernie, thank
• 56:49
  you very much. It's Joe Rudy to lead it off for
• 56:51
  the Angels here in the top of the fourth inning
• 56:53
  against Hiller. It was Rudy who started things
• 56:58
  going for the Angels in the second inning with
• 57:00
  his loop single to right field. Hiller looking
• 57:07
  in, getting the side from Milt May. Into the
• 57:09
  windup, the left -hander delivers. The curve
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  stays high for ball one. Rudy backing out. Eight
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  home runs, 38 RBIs this year for Joe. As you
• 57:27
  know, most of them behind Frank DiManna. There's
• 57:29
  a foul into the upper deck behind the plate.
• 57:33
  Ball and a strike on Rudy. One of the three long
• 57:41
  -term contract -rich new players possessed by
• 57:45
  the California club. Out of that. re -entry free
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  agency draft. The pitch to him. Strike called.
• 57:53
  Joe had an idea and then decided to not go after
• 57:56
  it. Hiller with his second start of this season,
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  his second straight start. Did not survive the
• 58:07
  fourth inning at Texas, his first outing last
• 58:10
  Wednesday. Here's the pitch to Rudy. It's high
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  with a fastball. That'll even the count of two
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  balls and two strikes. The Angels getting two
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  runs in the second inning. A couple of loop singles
• 58:21
  by Rudy and Bonds, and then the one -off single
• 58:24
  hit very sharply beyond the reach of a riser
• 58:27
  into left center field by Ron Jackson. Sacrifice
• 58:30
  fly by Gritch Fowler. There's a swing and a miss.
• 58:33
  Rudy goes down swinging, and that's the first
• 58:35
  strikeout for Hiller. Let's pause for station
• 58:39
  identification. This is the Detroit Tiger Baseball
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  Network. Here's the weather for greater Detroit.
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  Cloudy, widely scattered afternoon and evening
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  thundershowers through Thursday. Low tonight,
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  mid -60s. High tomorrow and Thursday, upper 80s.
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  At a minute past 9, it's partly cloudy and 80.
• 58:54
  This is WJR Detroit. A cutter to miss by Bobby
• 59:00
  Bonds on the first offering from Hiller. Now
• 59:03
  Bonds had looped his single to right field his
• 59:05
  first time up. Well, Hiller, with his first strikeout,
• 59:08
  getting Rudy to open the fourth inning. A little
• 59:12
  bit low that time, near the outside part of the
• 59:14
  plate, and it took patience on Bond's part not
• 59:16
  to go after it. One and one on Bobby. Hiller
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  winds, delivers. Swung on and missed. He was
• 59:23
  over the top of that off -speed pitch. Ryan is
• 59:27
  spanning them at the rate of two per inning with
• 59:30
  a total of six. Nobody on, one down. Top of the
• 59:36
  fourth inning. A one -two pitch. He struck him
• 59:39
  out. Back -to -back strikeouts by Hiller. And
• 59:42
  Bonds going down swinging. John has pitched well
• 59:47
  here tonight. He got hurt by those two little
• 59:50
  soft fly balls that dropped in in the second
• 59:53
  inning by Rudy and Bonds. Only well -hit ball.
• 59:56
  One hopper into left center by Ron Jackson. So
• 1:00:01
  there are two down. Nobody on, and Don Baylor's
• 1:00:03
  at the plate. The pitch to Don. He checks. It's
• 1:00:06
  low and inside. The Oakland A's last year, previous
• 1:00:18
  to that with Baltimore, on the inside corner
• 1:00:20
  for a call strike. Miller has the sign. The 1
• 1:00:30
  -1 pitch. Taken inside. Ball two, strike one
• 1:00:35
  on Baylor. Power and speed owned by this man.
• 1:00:42
  The one who just struck out, Bobby Bond, is a
• 1:00:45
  good example of that. On the inside corner of
• 1:00:48
  her called strike. That's a pretty pitch. In
• 1:00:50
  around the knees. Now the line up by Hiller,
• 1:01:00
  the 2 -2 pitch. Line shot foul. That'll reach
• 1:01:04
  the facing of the upper deck and get into the
• 1:01:07
  first couple of rows in the upper deck and right
• 1:01:09
  field. Hope they were ready for that one out
• 1:01:13
  there. 2 -0. The Angels lead the Tigers here
• 1:01:18
  in the top of the fourth inning. Two down, nobody
• 1:01:20
  on. The 2 -2 pitch. There's a pop -up toward
• 1:01:23
  third. Mankowski calling for it, straddling the
• 1:01:26
  line. Now Verizer calls him off. He makes the
• 1:01:28
  catch in foul territory. And the Angels are retired
• 1:01:31
  in order here in the top of the fourth inning.
• 1:01:34
  Tigers come to bat in their half with a score,
• 1:01:36
  California 2, Detroit nothing. You may have been
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  Plymouth dealer today. I'd like to take the opportunity
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  right here before the Tigers bat on the bottom
• 1:02:52
  of the fourth inning to pass along my sincere
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  happy anniversary wishes to my... Father -in
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  -law and mother -in -law, Pete and Mary Westlock
• 1:03:01
  in Saginaw, Michigan, on the occasion of their
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  56th wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary,
• 1:03:08
  Pete and Mary. Here's Jason Thompson to lead
• 1:03:10
  it off for the Tigers in the bottom of the fourth
• 1:03:12
  inning. Nolan Ryan has struck out six Tigers,
• 1:03:19
  but he's had a little problem getting his rhythm.
• 1:03:21
  At times, had problems with a... Breaking ball,
• 1:03:25
  others with a fastball getting it over, and he's
• 1:03:27
  walked three and uncorked one wild pitch. Tigers
• 1:03:29
  have had base runners, but haven't been able
• 1:03:31
  to move them around and on in. Thompson walked
• 1:03:34
  his first time up. There's a wild one almost,
• 1:03:37
  high and wide to Jason. Ryan shrugging his shoulders.
• 1:03:44
  Nolan has slowed his delivery. He feels it's
• 1:03:46
  helped him a bit. Now they wind up the pitch.
• 1:03:51
  Breaking ball gets in. A ball and a strike on
• 1:03:56
  Jason. On the windup. And the pitch. It's a ball
• 1:04:09
  outside. Two and one now on Thompson. Thompson
• 1:04:16
  had a big day Sunday against the White Sox with
• 1:04:18
  those five RBIs. The pitch to him. Swung on.
• 1:04:21
  Ripped up the middle of the center field. A base
• 1:04:23
  hit for Thompson. Met the fastball and just sent
• 1:04:27
  it out over second base. Hit number two for the
• 1:04:30
  Tigers. They trail 2 -0 here in the bottom of
• 1:04:33
  the fourth inning. That brings up Tim Corcoran.
• 1:04:40
  Tim is playing his first game ever in Tiger Stadium.
• 1:04:44
  Joined the Tigers on the trip at Texas. Called
• 1:04:47
  up after a sensational start for the Evansville
• 1:04:50
  Triplets where he played first base almost exclusively.
• 1:04:54
  He's been used as the D .H. in one game and then
• 1:04:57
  in right field for the Tigers. Slightly open
• 1:05:00
  stance. Feet spread wide apart. The pitch to
• 1:05:02
  him. It's a fastball outside for ball one. Him
• 1:05:07
  got off to a slow start in Texas. Picked up a
• 1:05:09
  hit in his first game in Chicago, and that was
• 1:05:12
  a long one, a home run for him. And he wound
• 1:05:14
  up with three for four and three for four. The
• 1:05:17
  pitch to Tim. Strike. Got that one across the
• 1:05:20
  letters near the outside of the plate. Thompson
• 1:05:23
  at first. with a leadoff single here in the Tiger
• 1:05:26
  fourth inning. 2 -0 Angels. Tim Ply to left.
• 1:05:33
  His first time up against Ryan. Leans back. The
• 1:05:36
  pitch is swung on. A little looper towards center
• 1:05:38
  field. It'll drop in for a base hit. Thompson
• 1:05:40
  holds at second base as Flores, with excellent
• 1:05:44
  speed, comes in to pick that ball up very quickly.
• 1:05:48
  Ball died in the outfield, but Thompson didn't
• 1:05:50
  have a chance to go to third. Runners at first
• 1:05:52
  and second with nobody out. The batter will be
• 1:05:55
  Milt May. May walked his first time up. So he
• 1:06:03
  got a conference at the mound. Ryan, along with
• 1:06:06
  Terry Humphrey, the catcher, and Chalk, the third
• 1:06:09
  baseman, in to talk. Tigers with back -to -back
• 1:06:13
  singles here in the fourth inning. The Angels
• 1:06:16
  have the same thing in the second and cashed
• 1:06:18
  in a couple of runs. Protecting the baseball.
• 1:06:24
  Larry Barnett keeping it in play. May hitting
• 1:06:31
  3 -10. Three home runs, 13 RBIs for Milton. With
• 1:06:40
  Buentas batting left -handed, there's a string
• 1:06:42
  of six straight, seven straight Tiger batters
• 1:06:47
  left -handed against Ryan. There's a wild one,
• 1:06:49
  gets off the glove of Humphrey, and the runners
• 1:06:51
  will move up. That was a high fastball as Terry
• 1:06:56
  didn't quite get out of the crouch quickly enough
• 1:06:58
  to grab. It's being ruled a wild pitch, the second
• 1:07:03
  by Ryan. He uncorked one in the first inning,
• 1:07:07
  allowing Mankowski to get to third base, but
• 1:07:09
  that's where he died when Kemp struck out. Now
• 1:07:13
  there is nobody out. Thompson is at third. Corcoran
• 1:07:19
  at second. trouble with the ball game. Oh, he
• 1:07:29
  had some trouble in the second inning, too, and
• 1:07:31
  the Tigers got two on by way of walks. One ball,
• 1:07:36
  no strike count. The pitch to May. Swung out,
• 1:07:38
  lined down the right field line. It is a foul
• 1:07:40
  ball by a foot and a half. That had extra bases
• 1:07:45
  written all over it. Well, that time, Milk got
• 1:07:52
  out in front of a delivery by Nolan Ryan. A little
• 1:07:55
  too far. Normally you don't get around on Ryan
• 1:07:58
  that much. Oh, that was going to tie the game
• 1:08:05
  right there. Now the outfield has moved. They're
• 1:08:08
  beginning to move. Flores have been playing straight
• 1:08:11
  away on May, who is known as an up -the -middle
• 1:08:14
  hitter. And they're moving to the right on him
• 1:08:16
  now. They've opened up the gap in left center
• 1:08:17
  field. Actually in center field for Mills. A
• 1:08:20
  1 -1 count on him. And set the pitch to May.
• 1:08:25
  He swings and misses. An off -speed breaking
• 1:08:27
  pitch that time. May now behind with a one -two
• 1:08:36
  count on him. Ryan, even with men not on base,
• 1:08:48
  has become a more deliberate pitcher this year.
• 1:08:51
  Here's the one -two pitch. Fastball is high.
• 1:08:53
  Two and two. Tigers seeing two of baseball's
• 1:09:02
  best, opposing them on the mound in this series.
• 1:09:05
  Ryan tonight, Tanana tomorrow. Tigers will counter
• 1:09:11
  with Dave Roberts tomorrow. Here's the 2 -2 pitch
• 1:09:14
  to May. Bends him back, ball three. Last ball
• 1:09:18
  around the nose. Mickey Stanley on deck. Last
• 1:09:32
  in the string of left -hand hitters that Ryan
• 1:09:34
  has to face in the Tiger batting order. Runners
• 1:09:38
  at second and third. Nobody out of three. Two
• 1:09:40
  count on Mills. The pitch from Ryan. Swung on
• 1:09:43
  and hit off the end of the bat toward third.
• 1:09:44
  Chalk charges. Looks at home. Can't go. There
• 1:09:46
  goes the first to get May. And the Tigers get
• 1:09:48
  a run home. Staying at second was Corcoran. The
• 1:09:52
  play right in front of him. Chalk took a look
• 1:09:54
  at the plate. Saw he didn't have a shot at Thompson
• 1:09:57
  who was going to score. And took a look over
• 1:09:59
  his left shoulder at Corcoran to make sure he
• 1:10:01
  wasn't trying to advance to third. Gritch was
• 1:10:03
  covering for him there. And he went to first
• 1:10:05
  to just nip May by a step. So Milk gets an RBI.
• 1:10:08
  The Tigers narrow the gap to 2 -1 and get on
• 1:10:11
  the board against Nolan Ryan. Corcoran still
• 1:10:15
  at second now. With one out on the batter is
• 1:10:18
  Mickey Stanley. Finally struck out, swinging
• 1:10:28
  his first time up. Grounder by May was just hit
• 1:10:36
  off the end of the bat. Here's the pitch. A little
• 1:10:39
  high to make you ball one. May looking for something
• 1:10:46
  with a little more speed that time, and he just
• 1:10:48
  barely caught the end of the bat with it. Dribbled
• 1:10:51
  it in the high infield grass. It's a brand new
• 1:10:53
  infield here at Tiger Stadium that the Tigers
• 1:10:55
  are coming back to. The set, the pitch, piled
• 1:11:00
  upstairs. It'll be behind first base in the upper
• 1:11:03
  deck. On the batting cage before the game, some
• 1:11:07
  of the Angels were commenting about the length
• 1:11:11
  of the grass on the infield, and I explained
• 1:11:13
  to them that it's a brand -new infield. The other
• 1:11:17
  had been taken out completely when the Tigers
• 1:11:18
  went off on their 10 -day road trip. balls down
• 1:11:30
  in the infield here. Outside for a ball. Two
• 1:11:37
  balls and a strike on Stanley. Corcoran at second.
• 1:11:39
  Thompson let off the inning with a single. Advanced
• 1:11:41
  to second on the single by Corcoran. Both moved
• 1:11:43
  up on a wild pitch. Mays bounce off the third.
• 1:11:47
  Brought in a run. a bit tonight with that strike
• 1:12:05
  zone. Got those good pitches that will keep the
• 1:12:09
  batters off balance. But he's also been a wee
• 1:12:13
  bit inconsistent. And patience is the order at
• 1:12:17
  the plate. There's ball four. Stanley draws the
• 1:12:20
  walk. Well, Mickey moves to first. Corkbridge
• 1:12:27
  is at second with one up. That's the fourth walk
• 1:12:32
  issued by Ryan. Tommy hit a soft fly to left
• 1:12:41
  his first time up. Stanley gets a good size lead
• 1:12:54
  at first. Jackson playing behind the runner there.
• 1:12:57
  One in the dirt. Good block by Humphrey. That
• 1:13:00
  one just simply was badly released by Ryan. It
• 1:13:03
  hit out in front of the plate, to the side of
• 1:13:05
  the plate. Humphrey made sure he blocked it.
• 1:13:14
  Now the pitch from Ryan. Reiser takes outside
• 1:13:16
  ball two. Time called. Humphrey is going to go
• 1:13:19
  out to have another word with his pitcher, Nolan,
• 1:13:21
  who is having trouble. That plate is swimming
• 1:13:24
  around on him in here. Comes Norm Sherry, the
• 1:13:27
  manager of the Angels, out to talk to Nolan as
• 1:13:30
  well. Well, Ernie passed along a card. Cosmo
• 1:13:47
  Potts out of Warren High School. He's got 58
• 1:13:51
  members of the Big Orange Warren High School.
• 1:13:54
  varsity club on hand tonight. The card on the
• 1:13:56
  card comes from George Steele. Good friend is
• 1:13:58
  the basketball coach out at Warren High. And
• 1:14:02
  now he and the old college spots are on hand
• 1:14:06
  with a large group of Warren High. Conference
• 1:14:15
  is over now. Norm Sherry's gone back to the dugout.
• 1:14:20
  Humphrey winding his way behind the plate. Tigers
• 1:14:23
  have runners at first and second. With one out,
• 1:14:25
  they've scored a run. A couple of singles. They
• 1:14:27
  bounce out on a walk so far in this inning. An
• 1:14:30
  activity now on the Angel bullpen. Scott and
• 1:14:34
  Drago. The pitch is taken for a strike. That
• 1:14:37
  one was right across the letters. It looked like
• 1:14:38
  Tommy was going to take all the way. Scott's
• 1:14:42
  a left -hander. Drago a right -hander. Loosening
• 1:14:45
  in the bullpen for California. The 2 -1 pitch.
• 1:14:49
  Swung on and popped up. Foul. It'll drift. back
• 1:14:52
  out of play. This one will reach the upper deck
• 1:14:55
  behind first base. Ron Jackson coming over to
• 1:14:59
  watch it disappear. Alvarizer waiting on Nolan
• 1:15:19
  Ryan. A 2 -2 count on him. One down. Two runners
• 1:15:22
  on the infield and double play death. Ryan Reddick.
• 1:15:28
  The pitch to Tommy. He swings and pops a foul
• 1:15:31
  into the upper deck behind the plate this time.
• 1:15:34
  A war between the mound and the plate continues.
• 1:15:43
  We're all looking forward to that big... Tonight,
• 1:15:46
  coming up Friday night, the 1977 debut of the
• 1:15:49
  bird, Mark Fidrich, against the new Seattle Mariners.
• 1:15:55
  Now a 2 -2 pitch to Beriser. Almost hit him inside
• 1:15:58
  with a floater. Foul count again. He has gone
• 1:16:01
  to that 3 -2 count so much tonight. On deck is
• 1:16:08
  Mankowski. One out. Runners at first and second.
• 1:16:13
  Here's the 3 -2 pitch. Ball four. The bases are
• 1:16:17
  loaded. A fastball up around the shoulders. It
• 1:16:21
  took off on Ryan. That's the fifth strikeout
• 1:16:24
  for Ryan. Tigers trail two to one. They've had
• 1:16:31
  the base runners. The Tigers have left four on
• 1:16:34
  base in the first three innings. Got a single
• 1:16:36
  from Mankowski in the first inning and a couple
• 1:16:38
  of walks in the second inning. Both runners stayed
• 1:16:40
  there. A walk in the third. has been able to
• 1:16:44
  be part of the batters just enough. Picking up
• 1:16:48
  six strikeouts here in the fourth. Singles by
• 1:16:51
  Thompson and Corcoran and the bounce off by May
• 1:16:54
  get a run home and the two to Stanley and Verizon
• 1:16:57
  load up the bases for Mankowski. A single and
• 1:16:59
  a walk for Phil tonight. Here's the windup by
• 1:17:02
  Ryan and the pitch. Strike. Call. Pitch by Ryan.
• 1:17:06
  Phil would like to see that one again. This is
• 1:17:15
  loaded with Tigers. They trail 2 -1. The pitch
• 1:17:19
  to Mankowski. Bends him away. 1 -1. Ryan doing
• 1:17:29
  a little scraping around. Taking plenty of time.
• 1:17:38
  Now leaning on the knees. Into the motion. Here's
• 1:17:41
  a 1 -1 pitch. Wide. into talk now with Ryan.
• 1:17:54
  And Draco and Scott continue to loosen the bullpen.
• 1:18:02
  Ryan had a one -hitter earlier this year. That
• 1:18:13
  was against Seattle. Bob Stinson got the only
• 1:18:16
  hit off him, a fifth -inning single, as I recall.
• 1:18:23
  Here's the 2 -1 pitch. Way out. Have that one
• 1:19:03
  to swing at, but by the same token, you've got
• 1:19:05
  to play the percentages. Chance to get a run
• 1:19:08
  in if he's just a little off. And he has been
• 1:19:11
  more than a little off here tonight. Here's the
• 1:19:14
  full count pitch to Lankowski. He swings and
• 1:19:17
  pops a fly ball foul down the left field line.
• 1:19:19
  It's slicing and no one will get it. It'll drop
• 1:19:22
  on the bullpen. Rudy and Gritch both giving chase
• 1:19:28
  down there. Neither could catch up to it. So
• 1:19:31
  we come. back again to load those bases up. Mankowski
• 1:19:35
  may have broken his bat on that one. He's blocking
• 1:19:38
  the handle in the dirt. Yep, Phil's going to
• 1:19:41
  need a new bat. Exciting moment here at Tiger
• 1:19:54
  Stadium. Tigers trailing at 2 -1. One out with
• 1:19:58
  the bases loaded. Ready to go again. Ryan Wines.
• 1:20:05
  Here's the pitch. Swung on. A ground ball. They
• 1:20:07
  make it two. The grits for one. They relay. Double
• 1:20:11
  play. And that's all for the Tigers in the fourth
• 1:20:13
  inning. A one -hopper ready -made to Jerry Remy.
• 1:20:16
  And they turn the double play 4 -6 -3. For the
• 1:20:19
  Tigers in the fourth inning, one run on two hits.
• 1:20:22
  They had a couple of walks. No errors. And two
• 1:20:25
  runners were left on base. So after four innings
• 1:20:28
  of play, it's now the Angels 2, the Tigers 1.
• 1:20:31
  Here's a WJI news update. Veteran Detroit talk
• 1:20:36
  show host and columnist Lou Gordon is dead at
• 1:20:38
  the age of 60. Gordon was found dead in his bed
• 1:20:40
  this morning by his wife. Cause of death appears
• 1:20:42
  to have been heart -related. The struggling American
• 1:20:45
  Motors Corporation has a new president, Gerald
• 1:20:48
  Myers, who had been an executive vice president,
• 1:20:51
  succeeds the retiring William Lunenberg. President
• 1:20:53
  Carter discussed the Middle East with Prince
• 1:20:55
  Fahd of Saudi Arabia at the White House today.
• 1:20:58
  In Russia, Soviet President Podgordny has been
• 1:21:01
  effectively stripped of all but ceremonial power.
• 1:21:03
  The Communist Party Central Committee dropped
• 1:21:06
  the 74 -year -old Podgordny from the ruling Politburo.
• 1:21:09
  A three -judge federal appeals court in New York
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  City has extended until June 1st a ban against
• 1:21:15
  landings by the Concorde jetliner at Kennedy
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  Airport. The court scheduled on that date a hearing
• 1:21:20
  on the merits of the issue. On Wall Street, the
• 1:21:22
  Dow Jones industrials were down 4 .66 today,
• 1:21:25
  closing at 912 .40. The Detroit temperature,
• 1:21:29
  78 degrees. I'm Jim Fogle. Just so you'll know,
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  WJR presents Town and Country, the first thing
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  every morning at 5. This is Jim Garrett inviting
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  you to join Tom Campbell and me on Radio 76.
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  It's the top of the fifth inning here at Tiger
• 1:21:55
  Stadium. John Hiller set to face the Angels.
• 1:21:57
  They score 2 -1, Angel. Ron Jackson, who drove
• 1:22:01
  in an Angel run on the second inning to lead
• 1:22:03
  it off. A wind -up by Hiller. Here's the pitch
• 1:22:07
  to Jackson. He takes a strike. A change -up by
• 1:22:12
  Hiller right off the bat. Right -hand batter.
• 1:22:19
  The pitch to him. Swung on and fouled up. Stairs
• 1:22:22
  behind the plate. Two quick strikes on Ron Jackson.
• 1:22:27
  It was the number two pick in the pre -agent
• 1:22:30
  draft back in 1971 by the Angels. Worked his
• 1:22:34
  way up through their system. Played outfield
• 1:22:37
  and third base primarily, but is now playing
• 1:22:40
  some first base for the Angels as he is tonight.
• 1:22:43
  A pitch to him. Swung on. Lined at Verizer. A
• 1:22:46
  stab by Tommy. A good catch. At the time of just
• 1:22:50
  right, that ball was taking off. Like a golf
• 1:22:52
  shot. And it was beginning to hook, too, so Tommy
• 1:22:57
  had to make quite a play on it. One down in the
• 1:22:59
  fifth inning. Here's Bobby Gritch, who sacrificed
• 1:23:05
  fly to center, drove in the run that is the difference
• 1:23:10
  in the game right now. The pitch to Bobby takes
• 1:23:13
  low and inside. Ball one. to the member of the
• 1:23:21
  California Ball Club. Shot and a miss. Understood.
• 1:23:30
  The Angels extended him, but he wanted to play
• 1:23:34
  in Southern California. High for a ball, 2 -1
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  on Gritch. Ah, Hiller winds the 2 -1 pitch. It's
• 1:23:50
  low, 3 -1 on deck for California's Terry Humphrey.
• 1:23:53
  The Grinch won his fourth straight gold glove
• 1:23:56
  at second base last year, now making the conversion
• 1:24:00
  to shortstop this year. 3 -1 pitch to him, swung
• 1:24:04
  on, a fly ball lifted to center field. Stanley
• 1:24:06
  starts back. He's under it now. Mickey pounds
• 1:24:08
  the glove. He has it. Two down in the fifth inning.
• 1:24:12
  Nobody on, and in the batter will be Terry Humphrey.
• 1:24:23
  have been out. Heller settled down after giving
• 1:24:26
  up those two loop singles by Rudy and Bond for
• 1:24:29
  one solid hit by Jackson. After all, they've
• 1:24:32
  been able to touch killer four. But they have
• 1:24:36
  a two -to -one lead. The man from Chickasaw,
• 1:24:44
  Oklahoma, Terry Humphrey, waits and takes a called
• 1:24:47
  strike. The pitch to Terry. Check swing. It's
• 1:24:58
  low for a ball. A couple of seasons ago, you
• 1:25:04
  recall that Humphrey was seeing some action for
• 1:25:06
  the Tigers and had his season destroyed by George
• 1:25:10
  Brett in the collision at home plate. It's low
• 1:25:12
  for a ball. tiger right -hander has been placed
• 1:25:28
  on the 21 -day disabled list because of that
• 1:25:31
  bothersome stiffness in his right shoulder the
• 1:25:36
  date of the disability retroactive to may 20th
• 1:25:38
  that was the day after he started the exhibition
• 1:25:40
  game in cincinnati that was last thursday at
• 1:25:43
  cincinnati and mark pedry thus uh was made room
• 1:25:49
  for and mark is now an active member of the tigers
• 1:25:52
  he's been with them and very active but not officially
• 1:25:55
  so But he is now back on the 25 -man roster and
• 1:25:59
  ready to go. And his debut of the year is coming
• 1:26:02
  Friday against the Seattle Mariners. There's
• 1:26:07
  Tito Puentes, the leadoff for fifth inning for
• 1:26:09
  Detroit. Tito's been a little befuddled by Ryan
• 1:26:12
  so far, batting left -handed against Ryan. He
• 1:26:15
  has struck out both times. His old teammate at
• 1:26:18
  San Francisco, Bobby Bonds, was chiding him before
• 1:26:21
  the ballgame about it. High and wide for a ball.
• 1:26:23
  He said, how do you expect it? Pull the ball.
• 1:26:27
  He said he couldn't do it against Dick Krasuski,
• 1:26:29
  who was throwing batting practice. I expect to
• 1:26:31
  do it against Nolan Ryan. The pitch from Ryan.
• 1:26:34
  Punted towards third, but charged by Chalk. He's
• 1:26:36
  got it to throw the first, and he got it. Now
• 1:26:39
  that was punted right at Chalk, who was suspecting
• 1:26:41
  a punt. Charged in, and despite the high draft,
• 1:26:45
  was able to make an easy play out of it. He now
• 1:26:49
  has good bat control and has been able to get
• 1:26:51
  several punt singles. Between the third baseman
• 1:26:55
  and the mound. One out on the Tiger fifth. It'll
• 1:27:00
  bring up Rusty Staub. Rusty has struck out and
• 1:27:03
  hit a pop fly to left. Against Ryan, the wind
• 1:27:06
  -up by Nolan. He kicks and fires. Inside, around
• 1:27:09
  the knees. Ball one on Staub. on the mound. The
• 1:27:26
  pitch swung on a bounce to the first. Jackson
• 1:27:29
  waits for it, scoops it up, and trots to the
• 1:27:31
  bag to make the put -out unassisted on stop.
• 1:27:33
  There are two down. Let's pause for station identification.
• 1:27:36
  This is the Detroit Tiger Baseball Network. Checking
• 1:27:39
  the weather for greater Detroit. Fair to partly
• 1:27:41
  cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening
• 1:27:44
  thundershowers. Through Thursday, low to night
• 1:27:46
  in the mid -60s. Tomorrow and Thursday's high
• 1:27:49
  in the upper 80s. At half -past nine, it's partly
• 1:27:53
  cloudy and 75. This is WJR Detroit. There's Steve
• 1:27:57
  Kemp. Well, Steve has been a strikeout victim
• 1:28:00
  both times against Ryan. You saw a lot of Ryan
• 1:28:03
  when he was a youngster out in Southern California.
• 1:28:06
  Now he's batting against him high and wide for
• 1:28:09
  ball one. This is the first time he will have
• 1:28:11
  hit against Nolan Ryan. This ball game, that
• 1:28:14
  is. So far, he's been unsuccessful. Wiggling
• 1:28:19
  the bat to pitch to him. Low and inside, 2 -0
• 1:28:22
  on Kemp. Steve has really been swinging the bat
• 1:28:28
  well, upping his batting average to an even 300
• 1:28:31
  coming into the ballgame. 2 -0 pitch to him.
• 1:28:37
  He checks on a breaking ball inside at 3 -0.
• 1:28:43
  He's not given Steve much to really take a cut
• 1:28:47
  at. A lot of breaking balls and off -beat material.
• 1:28:52
  The pitch to him. It's low for ball four. So
• 1:28:56
  Kemp draws the walk, and that's the sixth base
• 1:28:59
  on balls issued by Ryan. He's also struck out
• 1:29:02
  six. And it'll bring up Jason Thompson with a
• 1:29:08
  walk and a single. Each club with three hits,
• 1:29:11
  but the Angels lead it 2 -1 here in the bottom
• 1:29:13
  of the fifth inning. They made a little better
• 1:29:15
  use of their scoring opportunities in this game.
• 1:29:20
  The only opportunities they had came in the second
• 1:29:23
  inning and made the most of them. A stretch by
• 1:29:29
  Ryan. Here's the pitch to Jason. Fastball is
• 1:29:32
  high. Ball one. Seattle now leads Cleveland 5
• 1:29:39
  -2 in the sixth inning across the lake in Cleveland.
• 1:29:43
  Boston ahead of the Yankees 4 -2 in the sixth
• 1:29:46
  inning in New York. A pitch to Thompson. There's
• 1:29:49
  a strike. A defender that caught the outside
• 1:29:52
  corner. Thompson didn't agree. Game moving along
• 1:29:55
  at Baltimore tonight. 1 -0 Baltimore over Milwaukee
• 1:29:58
  in the eighth inning. Jim Palmer working for
• 1:30:05
  the Birds. Strike two called. He worked him outside.
• 1:30:08
  That one was inside. Around the knees. Caught
• 1:30:11
  the inside corner. Moving it around on Jason.
• 1:30:23
  Ryan ahead of Thompson with a one -two count.
• 1:30:25
  Kemp at first, two down. And they tie your fifth
• 1:30:27
  inning. The pitch to Thompson. Swung on. A little
• 1:30:30
  pop -up in behind short. Gritch is calling for
• 1:30:33
  it on the edge of the grass. Makes the catch.
• 1:30:35
  That retires the side. No runs, no hits, a walk,
• 1:30:38
  no errors. One left after five innings of play.
• 1:30:41
  California 2, Detroit 1. Herbie delighting the
• 1:30:46
  audience after five innings here at Tiger Stadium.
• 1:30:48
  Ready to go in the sixth inning. Top of the batting
• 1:30:51
  order. The first pitch from John Hiller to Gil
• 1:30:53
  Flores. Taken for a called strike. And one trouble
• 1:30:59
  to many for Hiller. There's a tap foul rolling
• 1:31:02
  behind the plate. Two quick strikes on Flores.
• 1:31:05
  The second inning. Luke singles by Rudy and Bonds.
• 1:31:09
  Leave it off. Baylor is out on a pop -up. And
• 1:31:11
  Ron Jackson with a one -hop drive in the left
• 1:31:16
  center field to score a run. A sacrifice fly
• 1:31:18
  by Grich. Got another one home, and that's been
• 1:31:20
  it. A pitch from Hiller. Swung on. A fly ball
• 1:31:22
  to center field. Stanley starts back. Now drops
• 1:31:25
  in and makes the catch. One out in the Angels'
• 1:31:30
  sixth inning. That'll bring up Jerry Remy. Hiller
• 1:31:37
  has set down the Angels in order in the first,
• 1:31:40
  third, fourth, and fifth innings. Oh, except
• 1:31:45
  for that second. He's been letter perfect. Hiller
• 1:31:48
  winds, pitches to Remy. He shortens up, takes
• 1:31:50
  the strike. Got an offer on it. Got excellent
• 1:31:53
  speed, Remy does. Caused Mankowski to play in
• 1:31:58
  real tight, charge the ball. He's on the edge
• 1:32:00
  of the grass right now, actually. Sneaking in
• 1:32:03
  on the grass. Strike two called on Remy. 0 for
• 1:32:07
  2 for Remy tonight. Left hand batter. Feet close
• 1:32:18
  together. The pitch from John. Swung on. Hit
• 1:32:20
  on the ground to the left side. Cut off by Mankowski.
• 1:32:22
  Guns the first he got in. That high grass of
• 1:32:27
  the infield slowed that one down just enough
• 1:32:29
  for Mankowski to get over and be able to cut
• 1:32:31
  it off in front of the riser. Almost needed to
• 1:32:35
  make the play that way because of the speed of
• 1:32:37
  Remy. Oh, they're two down, nobody on, and Dave
• 1:32:41
  Chalk at the plate, a right -hand batter. He's
• 1:32:45
  popped to second and popped to short. Killer
• 1:32:48
  ready, delivers. Little high that time, ball
• 1:32:51
  one. John's control has been excellent. He delivers.
• 1:32:59
  Strike called. Mixing his speeds well. Around
• 1:33:06
  that plate all the time. 1 -1 pitch to Chuck.
• 1:33:11
  He takes strike two calls. Here's the wind -up
• 1:33:21
  by Hiller. The 1 -2 pitch. Bounce foul. 13 straight
• 1:33:32
  batters have gone down against Hiller. Beginning
• 1:33:37
  of the string was the sacrifice fly by Grich.
• 1:33:39
  Cut and a miss, he struck him out. Third strikeout
• 1:33:42
  for Hiller, and again for the fourth straight
• 1:33:45
  inning, he sets the Angels down 1 -2 -3. Here
• 1:33:48
  come the Tigers to bat to give it a try on the
• 1:33:50
  bottom of the sixth inning with a score, California
• 1:33:52
  2, Detroit 1. Ryan loosening up to face the Tigers
• 1:34:02
  here in the bottom of the sixth inning. John
• 1:34:03
  Hiller has pitched a superb ball game for the
• 1:34:05
  Tigers, with the exception of that one tough
• 1:34:08
  luck inning in the second where the Angels got
• 1:34:09
  their two runs and they lead it 2 -1. Ryan has
• 1:34:13
  been ultimately wild and accurate. He's kept
• 1:34:18
  the Tiger hitters off balance for the most part.
• 1:34:21
  The Tigers have left men on base in every inning.
• 1:34:24
  One in the first, two in the second, one in the
• 1:34:26
  third, two in the fourth, and one in the fifth.
• 1:34:28
  Here's Tim Corcoran, who's single in the fourth
• 1:34:31
  inning. He's one for two tonight against Ryan.
• 1:34:37
  First pitch of the inning to Corcoran is a fastball
• 1:34:41
  high. Ball one on Tim. One more with the Angels,
• 1:34:49
  and then Seattle will come in for three this
• 1:34:51
  weekend, followed by Oakland and Cleveland, a
• 1:34:54
  nine -game homestand. Strike. That one called
• 1:34:58
  on Tim. It came in above the knees of the basketball.
• 1:35:06
  Not much wind here at the ballpark tonight. The
• 1:35:10
  Tim is taking a little though. Two and one. Ryan
• 1:35:14
  thought it was in. Had some rain this afternoon
• 1:35:17
  in the ballpark area. A little brief shower.
• 1:35:22
  Unloaded and moved on. 2 -1 pitch to Tim. He
• 1:35:28
  swings and fouls it against the screen behind
• 1:35:31
  the plate. Corcoran will be followed by May and
• 1:35:38
  Stanley here in the Tigers' sixth inning. The
• 1:35:44
  Angels came into the game tied for fourth in
• 1:35:47
  the Western Division with Oakland and Kansas
• 1:35:49
  City six and a half games behind the leader,
• 1:35:52
  Minnesota. The 2 -2 pitch to Corcoran. Inside
• 1:35:57
  and it bounced off the plate and up against the
• 1:35:59
  chest protector of Humphrey and bounced away.
• 1:36:02
  One of those full counts again. Irish -American
• 1:36:09
  night tomorrow night. There will be some special
• 1:36:12
  ceremonies prior to the game. We'll have Demolay
• 1:36:15
  night on Friday night when the bird makes his
• 1:36:17
  debut. The 3 -2 pitch to Corcoran. Swung on and
• 1:36:23
  fouled with the green. He spoiled one off. doesn't
• 1:36:38
  like the ball he got. Let me get a new one. Cochran,
• 1:36:46
  one for two tonight. Tigers will throw another
• 1:36:55
  left -hander against the Angels tomorrow night
• 1:36:57
  in Dave Roberts. And the Tigers will see one
• 1:37:01
  of the best left -handers in the business, Frank
• 1:37:03
  Tanana, on the lob against them. He's won seven
• 1:37:07
  times, lost but once. The pinch to Cochran. Swung
• 1:37:11
  on and fouled off the face mask to plate umpire
• 1:37:14
  Larry Barnett. That sent him staggering about
• 1:37:16
  three steps backward. Ooh, it jammed the mask
• 1:37:24
  up against his chin. Orion's fastballs and Cochran
• 1:37:29
  just barely kicked it. Enough to send it over
• 1:37:33
  the shoulder of Humphrey. Barnett not quite ready
• 1:37:39
  to be the arbiter yet. He wants to look around.
• 1:37:48
  See how things look before he puts that grill
• 1:37:51
  work back on his face. Check on the mask. Make
• 1:37:55
  sure it's all in one piece. Three balls, two
• 1:38:03
  strikes on Corcoran. Nobody out here in the sixth
• 1:38:05
  inning. Nobody on. Here's the pitch to Tim. All
• 1:38:10
  four. He walked him. There's the seventh walk
• 1:38:12
  given up by Ryan. Oh, the Tigers have had the
• 1:38:23
  runners. Are they at least walkers, maybe we
• 1:38:26
  should say. Seven of them. Ryan's had a couple
• 1:38:31
  of wild pitches. There's Milt May. Third baseman
• 1:38:37
  Dave Chalk is looking for the sacrifice. They
• 1:38:40
  pitch to the plate, taken for a called strike,
• 1:38:43
  and Milk gave no indication that he was going
• 1:38:44
  to bunt. Milk often takes that first pitch. Must
• 1:38:51
  have looked at what's being thrown. Now they
• 1:38:58
  pitch to him. Strike two called. And again, he
• 1:39:01
  didn't shorten up. The poke on May, according
• 1:39:07
  to the opponents, say that Milk will not bump
• 1:39:11
  very often. The stretch. There's the set on the
• 1:39:20
  two -strike pitch. Swung on a bouncer to the
• 1:39:22
  right side. Up with it is Remy. The second for
• 1:39:25
  one. The relay to first. Gets away from Jackson.
• 1:39:28
  Not far enough for May to advance. It was a poor
• 1:39:31
  throw by Grich. Hit in the dirt, so it'll go
• 1:39:34
  as a simple force out at second base at Corcoran.
• 1:39:44
  Well, there's one out with May at first base,
• 1:39:47
  and Mickey Stanley will be the batter. Baltimore
• 1:39:57
  2 -1 over Milwaukee now in the ninth inning.
• 1:40:00
  The Brewers with their last chance at Jim Palmer.
• 1:40:08
  And the seventh at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox
• 1:40:11
  leading the Yankees 5 -2. Seattle ahead of Cleveland
• 1:40:15
  5 -2 in the sixth, but that's been out for some
• 1:40:17
  time. There's the set by Ryan. The pitch to Stanley.
• 1:40:24
  He cuts and misses. Strike one. Only three other
• 1:40:29
  games going in the American League tonight. Montreal
• 1:40:33
  involved in another long game today. The Expos
• 1:40:36
  winning it in extra innings in 13 innings over
• 1:40:39
  the Cubs 5 -4. The pitch to Stanley. Swing and
• 1:40:47
  a miss. He couldn't find that one. At Pittsburgh,
• 1:40:53
  the Pirates lead the Mets 5 -1 in the seventh
• 1:40:56
  inning. Philadelphia won the Cards nothing in
• 1:40:59
  the fifth inning at St. Louis. A couple of late
• 1:41:02
  starters on the West Coast in the National League
• 1:41:05
  this evening. Here's the stretch. The two -strike
• 1:41:09
  pitch to Stanley. It's outside and low, and Mickey
• 1:41:11
  held off. Tigers just four and a half games off
• 1:41:21
  the pace in the American League East behind Baltimore.
• 1:41:25
  Coming into the series with the Angels, who set
• 1:41:28
  the pitch to Stanley. He checked in time, fastball
• 1:41:31
  just outside, 2 -2 on Stanley. Now the stretch
• 1:41:50
  by Ryan. Here's the pitch to Mickey. Swings and
• 1:41:53
  lifts a foul into the upper deck on the right
• 1:41:55
  field side. Ernie got a letter today from Laura
• 1:41:58
  Kirchow of Saline, Michigan. She and the whole
• 1:42:01
  Kirchow family want to know who played third
• 1:42:04
  base and shortstop during the 68 World Series
• 1:42:07
  for the Tigers. Said to answer on the air. It
• 1:42:10
  was Don Word at third base, right? And Ray Euler.
• 1:42:14
  Well, Mickey Stanley played short during the
• 1:42:16
  series. That's right, during the season. Dick
• 1:42:18
  Krasuski and Ray Euler played it. There's the
• 1:42:27
  pitch from Ryan. Check swing by Stanley. Did
• 1:42:30
  he check in time? They're going to appeal, and
• 1:42:31
  he did check in time. Jim Evans, the first base
• 1:42:34
  umpire, supporting Larry Barnett's call behind
• 1:42:37
  the plate. Ooh, that was close. Stanley almost
• 1:42:40
  breaking the wrist on it. It's a 3 -2 count on
• 1:42:42
  Mickey. Ryan had had him swinging, missing on
• 1:42:46
  the first two pitches, and it's another full
• 1:42:48
  count. May at first base, one down. The pitch
• 1:42:58
  from Ryan, swung on, ground ball towards second,
• 1:43:01
  picked up by Remy. He'll tag the runner, May,
• 1:43:03
  for the first double play. Throwback to second,
• 1:43:05
  safe at second. Apparently they'd missed the
• 1:43:08
  tag of May. Flit, went down on the ground, did
• 1:43:13
  not go out of the base path. Remy could not make
• 1:43:17
  the tag and went on to first to get that one.
• 1:43:20
  They had to go back. The force was off. They
• 1:43:22
  had to go back and make a tag at May at second
• 1:43:24
  and missed him as he dove in safely. What happens
• 1:43:29
  is that it becomes simply a 4 -3 put out of Stanley
• 1:43:33
  at first base. Moving May to second. May did
• 1:43:43
  a good job. He was right on the base path. The
• 1:43:45
  ball fielded right there by Remy. And May came
• 1:43:49
  to a skidding halt, kind of went down low. The
• 1:43:53
  throw to first got Stanley in good shape. Here's
• 1:43:56
  Tom Beriser, the Tigers, with a runner at second
• 1:43:58
  in May. Trailing at 2 -1 here in the bottom of
• 1:44:01
  the sixth inning. Nolan Ryan looks back at second.
• 1:44:06
  The pitch to Tommy. Takes outside. Ball one.
• 1:44:10
  Beriser is fly to left and walked. Tigers have
• 1:44:17
  only three hits. So have the Angels. They've
• 1:44:22
  all been singles. The pitch. Strike. Fastball
• 1:44:26
  on the outside part of the play. Ryan into the
• 1:44:41
  stretch. The pitch to Verizer. He swings and
• 1:44:44
  fouls one into the upper deck behind first. Oh,
• 1:44:47
  it's a one -two count. The ball popping down
• 1:44:49
  toward the Tiger coaching box at first base.
• 1:45:01
  A ball and two strikes on Verizer with May at
• 1:45:09
  second and two away on the Tiger six. The pitch
• 1:45:12
  to Tommy is a curve on the outside corner. He
• 1:45:14
  struck him out. The first strikeout for Ryan
• 1:45:17
  since the third inning. But it ends the sixth
• 1:45:20
  for Detroit. No runs, no hits, no walks, no errors,
• 1:45:23
  and one left. After six innings, it's still the
• 1:45:26
  Angels two and the Tigers one. Well, we've got
• 1:45:35
  a tight one going here at Tiger Stadium. It's
• 1:45:37
  been interesting. It's primarily been pitching.
• 1:45:40
  They strike out from the walks of Nolan Ryan.
• 1:45:44
  And the excellent pitching of John Hiller, who
• 1:45:48
  got a little tough luck in the second inning
• 1:45:50
  when the Angels got both their runs on three
• 1:45:53
  hits, two of them rather tainted, and the sacrifice
• 1:45:56
  fly. It's the seventh inning for California.
• 1:46:00
  Joe Rudy will lead it off and back to the play
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  -by -play. Here's Ernie Harwell. Thank you, Paul.
• 1:46:05
  This has been a good one. The Angels lead it
• 1:46:07
  2 -1. Here's Rudy, who started the scoring in
• 1:46:10
  the second. And he swings and misses on the low
• 1:46:13
  outside fastball from the left -handed hitter.
• 1:46:16
  Only in that second inning have the Angels done
• 1:46:19
  anything. They got their three hits in that inning.
• 1:46:21
  And they scored their two runs. Everybody else
• 1:46:23
  has gone out in order in all the other innings.
• 1:46:28
  We put their three hits together. Here's a high
• 1:46:32
  -popped ball off the first base. Here comes May.
• 1:46:35
  Here comes Thompson near the seat. And it is
• 1:46:37
  just out of reach. Two rows in. Right at the
• 1:46:41
  corner of the angel dugout. One ninety four is
• 1:47:08
  the paid attendance just announced by Mr. Bill
• 1:47:11
  Brown on our intercom. Rudy waiting on a strike
• 1:47:14
  to pitch. Swings and fouls. One out of play.
• 1:47:24
  Well sometimes the pitcher the next day is charting
• 1:47:27
  pitches. I noticed Mr. Tanana is over there talking
• 1:47:30
  to a young lovely. In the corner of the dugout.
• 1:47:34
  He's not charting any pitches right now. There's
• 1:47:37
  a strike called. He struck him out. Rudy called
• 1:47:40
  out on strike. That's the fourth strikeout for
• 1:47:43
  Hiller. Bobby Barnes stepping in. He had one
• 1:47:50
  of the three hits in the second inning. A single.
• 1:47:53
  He also struck out on the fourth. It's a close
• 1:48:00
  one, 2 -1 California. The Tigers scored their
• 1:48:03
  only run in the fourth. Singles by Thompson and
• 1:48:07
  Corbin. A wild pitch moved them up. And then
• 1:48:11
  a bounce -off by May got the run in. There's
• 1:48:13
  a foul off the bat of Bobby Barnes. Back to the
• 1:48:16
  screen, strike one. Well, we'll see Dave Roberts
• 1:48:20
  and Frank Tanana here tomorrow night in the finale
• 1:48:22
  of the series. It's a curved low from Hiller.
• 1:48:27
  One and one. John has pitched a very fine game.
• 1:48:32
  But the Angels have to lead two to one. Swing
• 1:48:35
  and a miss by Bobby Bond. One ball and two strikes
• 1:48:39
  to count out. Milwaukee and Baltimore traded
• 1:48:42
  home runs in the eighth inning. Money hit one
• 1:48:44
  for Milwaukee for their first run and then Stingleton
• 1:48:47
  hit one for Baltimore. There's a little roll
• 1:48:49
  of foul over to Dave Garcia, the third base coach.
• 1:48:53
  Great history ahead on that game in Baltimore.
• 1:48:55
  The Orioles led 2 -1 in the ninth inning with
• 1:48:57
  Milwaukee batting in the first half of the night.
• 1:49:01
  Boston leads the Yanks 5 -2 there in the seventh.
• 1:49:05
  Cleveland has tied to Seattle. That's 5 -5 in
• 1:49:09
  the sixth. Here's a ball in close on Bonds. 2
• 1:49:13
  -2 the count on him. All three hits off Hiller
• 1:49:20
  have been single. Here's a bonding ball to short.
• 1:49:22
  Big hop for Verizon. They throw to Thompson.
• 1:49:25
  Plenty of time, and they are two down. Don Baylor
• 1:49:34
  will be the next man to bat now for the California
• 1:49:37
  Angels. Right -hand batting designated batter
• 1:49:40
  with a foul off the first with a pop -up to John
• 1:49:43
  Stopp. He took the ball to the air twice. Here's
• 1:49:52
  a little looper foul up this way out of play.
• 1:49:55
  Into the upper deck. And a gentleman from Toledo
• 1:49:59
  will take that one home with him. Baylor takes
• 1:50:09
  high for a ball. One and one the count of it.
• 1:50:12
  Two runs, three hits for the Angels. One run,
• 1:50:14
  three hits for the Tigers. One error to the Tigers.
• 1:50:19
  Didn't think in the store and there's a strike
• 1:50:21
  called he gets the fastball and above the knees
• 1:50:24
  wanted to unveil her Digging in standing deep
• 1:50:32
  waiting on Hillary's the next deliver here it
• 1:50:34
  comes. It's a change -up law on the account to
• 1:50:37
  do Mancowski defensive third the infield all
• 1:50:46
  the way back He takes the ball at the shoulder
• 1:50:50
  and close both down like a Britain ball And I
• 1:50:57
  didn't like that ball he wants another one from
• 1:50:59
  the umpire Barnett And we've seen this court
• 1:51:04
  that this year Barnett Evans got you on Springstead
• 1:51:09
  Here's the pit page up in the air Foul back a
• 1:51:15
  third. Mankowski racing. So is Barraza. Still
• 1:51:19
  going and nobody can get it. It falls into the
• 1:51:21
  bullpen. Barraza had the best shot, but it was
• 1:51:23
  just out of his reach. Over there where the ground
• 1:51:26
  crew sits. Long run for Tommy. He couldn't quite
• 1:51:30
  get there. Kemp had an even longer run. And it
• 1:51:35
  was tougher for Mankowski because he had to go
• 1:51:38
  straight back. At least Barraza had sort of an
• 1:51:42
  angle on the ball. And it fell among the three
• 1:51:47
  of them. Three -two, the count on Baylor. Wind
• 1:51:52
  up in the pit. Swing and a foul out of play.
• 1:51:56
  That one came back and hit May. Pittsburgh leading
• 1:52:01
  the Mets 5 -1 in the seventh. The Cardinals over
• 1:52:04
  the Phillies 5 -1 in the sixth. Montreal beat
• 1:52:08
  Chicago in 13 innings at Wrigley Field today,
• 1:52:10
  5 -4. Other games are late starters. Here's the
• 1:52:14
  pitch. Taylor takes a walk. That's the first
• 1:52:17
  walk off Hiller. That one got away from him and
• 1:52:20
  hit in front of the plate. 16 in a row had been
• 1:52:24
  retired by John Hiller before that walk. They've
• 1:52:29
  not had a runner since Jackson is coming up now.
• 1:52:33
  But singled in the first run in the second inning.
• 1:52:45
  Baylor's a good base runner. He's got a team
• 1:52:47
  -sized lead over there right now. And it is a
• 1:52:51
  ball in too close on Ron Jackson. Up until this
• 1:52:59
  inning, the Angels had left only one man on base.
• 1:53:08
  Baylor's set, delivers. It's a ball outside the
• 1:53:11
  fastball. 2 -0 the count on it. Almost no breeze.
• 1:53:17
  Now it has died. Good night, the baseball. This
• 1:53:28
  is set. Run it goes. Pitches a ball. Oh, for
• 1:53:31
  the second. He is out at second base. Now he's
• 1:53:35
  called safe as Fuentes didn't hold the ball.
• 1:53:39
  They had him. And then Fuentes didn't hold the
• 1:53:42
  ball. Otago. gave the outside and then the safe
• 1:53:48
  side. It'll be an error charge to Tito Palletti.
• 1:53:55
  No stolen base. Jackson at the plate. Three and
• 1:54:06
  all the count. There's a let -up pitch to tie.
• 1:54:09
  It'll be two walks in a row now off Hiller. It'll
• 1:54:14
  be the second Tiger error. On that play, May
• 1:54:20
  will get an assist. And it goes to the record
• 1:54:23
  books as caught stealing. Doesn't make sense
• 1:54:26
  to me because he wasn't caught stealing. That's
• 1:54:28
  like giving a guy an out at the first baseman's
• 1:54:31
  office. Give him a... Here's Bobby Gritch up
• 1:54:37
  and he takes a strike call. But that's the way
• 1:54:40
  the rules are. Yeah, and I guess what they're
• 1:54:42
  doing is... Saying that may had him because the
• 1:54:46
  call was out. They don't want to have may charged
• 1:54:48
  with a signal Well, that's right. That's that's
• 1:54:52
  the logic of it. Sure. There's a strike called.
• 1:54:55
  He got a curve over Yeah, if you didn't have
• 1:54:59
  the problem of the catcher's record of stolen
• 1:55:02
  bases and caught stealing it wouldn't be there
• 1:55:05
  So that's a good explanation Two on, two out,
• 1:55:13
  and it's a strike. Cody stood there and watched
• 1:55:16
  that one go by. Struck him out. It's the fifth
• 1:55:20
  strikeout for Hillers. No runs, no hits. One
• 1:55:24
  error, two left. We go to the last half of the
• 1:55:27
  seventh inning. The Tigers come in the back.
• 1:55:29
  The Angels 2, Detroit 1. Hi, I'm Ernie Harwell,
• 1:55:33
  and I'm here with a couple of competitors in
• 1:55:35
  the prize for Plymouth Dealers Honorary Tiger
• 1:55:38
  Bat Boy Contest. Paul, how does this thing work?
• 1:55:41
  Well, any boy or girl between 8 and 14 can sign
• 1:55:44
  up in any participating personal permit dealer.
• 1:55:47
  Provided they are accompanied by a licensed driver
• 1:55:50
  18 or older. That's right. And there's no obligation
• 1:55:53
  for signing up. Then 22 Bat Boys will be picked
• 1:55:56
  on June the 2nd. Right, Katie? Right. 22 winners.
• 1:56:00
  One for each Chrysler Plymouth dealer. And everyone
• 1:56:03
  who signs up gets a free Tiger iron -on patch.
• 1:56:06
  Great. Well, that about does it. So, kids, grab
• 1:56:09
  your parents and stop into any participating
• 1:56:11
  Chrysler Plymouth dealer between April 18th and
• 1:56:13
  May 27th. And sign up for the Tiger Bat Boy contest.
• 1:56:18
  Thank you, Katie and Paul. And this is... There's
• 1:56:21
  one more thing. Yes, Katie? Shouldn't that be
• 1:56:25
  that person? Well, anyway, see your participating
• 1:56:29
  Greater Detroit Chrysler Plymouth dealer soon.
• 1:56:45
  For station identification, this is a Detroit
• 1:56:47
  Tiger baseball network. At 2 past 10, here's
• 1:56:49
  the weather for greater Detroit. Fair to partly
• 1:56:52
  cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening
• 1:56:54
  thundershowers through Thursday. Low tonight,
• 1:56:57
  mid -60s. High tomorrow and Thursday, upper 80s.
• 1:57:01
  Right now, it's partly cloudy and 75. This is
• 1:57:05
  WJR Detroit. Mankowski will try to get going
• 1:57:09
  for the Tigers here in the seventh inning. They
• 1:57:11
  trail 2 -1, each team with two hits. It's been
• 1:57:14
  a close one, a pitching deal between contrasting
• 1:57:18
  pitchers. Nolan Ryan and John Hiller. And each
• 1:57:23
  has done an excellent job. Ryan's been hobbled
• 1:57:28
  by control troubles, but he's overcome them.
• 1:57:31
  He's walked seven and struck out seven. Here's
• 1:57:33
  Mankowski. And he looks at a strike. Bill has
• 1:57:39
  a single. He's walked and hit into a double play.
• 1:57:41
  He double played in the fourth inning. Baltimore
• 1:57:45
  hung on to beat Milwaukee 2 -1, Palm of the Winter
• 1:57:48
  and Augustine to lose it. Here's a foul out of
• 1:57:51
  play. Got that pitch down on the hands and fouled
• 1:57:54
  it upstairs in section 16. Strike two, the count
• 1:57:58
  on Mankowski. Don't forget, the same two teams
• 1:58:03
  go at each other tomorrow night. Dave Roberts
• 1:58:05
  against Frank Tanana. Battle of left -handed.
• 1:58:07
  Hope you'll be out here with us. Here's the pitch.
• 1:58:11
  It's a ball in too close. Off day Thursday, the
• 1:58:15
  Tigers resume action Friday and do they resume
• 1:58:18
  it with the Bird making his 77 debut. Hidrits
• 1:58:21
  against Abbott. It'll be DeMole night. Tomorrow
• 1:58:26
  is Irish -American night at the ballpark. Ryan
• 1:58:29
  was ready, then he backed off the slab. Wanted
• 1:58:32
  to do the count on Mankowski. What a job he's
• 1:58:35
  done filling in for the injured Rodriguez. Both
• 1:58:37
  with the bat and the glove. Ryan making him wait.
• 1:58:42
  It's the one -two pitch. In too close to the
• 1:58:46
  hard curve. 2 -2 the count on Phil. Tiger three
• 1:58:56
  hits. Mankowski, Thompson, and Corcoran all singles.
• 1:59:01
  California three hits. Rudy and Bonds and Jackson
• 1:59:05
  all singles. Here's a fly ball, hit back at shortstop.
• 1:59:10
  Little pop by Gritsch going back. Rudy coming
• 1:59:12
  in behind him. It's Rudy, the left fielder, to
• 1:59:14
  make the catch. The Tigers have hit a lot of
• 1:59:17
  balls weakly up in the air. Popping into short
• 1:59:21
  left field. Not getting around on that fastball.
• 1:59:24
  And the left hand is hitting the opposite field,
• 1:59:26
  popping to short of the short left. Here's Fuentes.
• 1:59:29
  He struck out twice and bounced to third on the
• 1:59:32
  box. Left -hand batting Tito Fuentes against
• 1:59:44
  the hard -throwing right -hander Ryan. There's
• 1:59:47
  a strike. Looked as if he wanted the bump but
• 1:59:50
  didn't go for it. Chalk is charging in from third.
• 1:59:58
  Nolan Ryan, the young Texan, kicks and deals.
• 2:00:01
  It's a curve over but low. 1 -1 on Tito. Scoreboard
• 2:00:06
  Joe will follow our broadcast. Paul Carey will
• 2:00:09
  be here with all the scores. Be sure to stay
• 2:00:11
  tuned. Ryan in the motion. Catches. It's a ball
• 2:00:17
  and close. He's driving that curve again around
• 2:00:20
  the ankle. Two and one on 20. Ryan has walked
• 2:00:25
  seven and struck out seven. Miller has walked
• 2:00:28
  two and struck out five. He didn't walk anybody
• 2:00:29
  until the seventh when he walked two in a row.
• 2:00:33
  There's a fly ball to the center field. Backing
• 2:00:35
  up Flores. Still going. Still going. Reaches
• 2:00:37
  up and makes the catch on the run. Good. Good
• 2:00:41
  running catch by Flores. He was playing shallow.
• 2:00:44
  Tito got good wood on it and hit it fairly deep.
• 2:00:47
  So there are two down and that will leave it
• 2:00:50
  up the rusty star of the Tigers seven. Angels
• 2:00:53
  lead the Tigers two to one. That's about the
• 2:00:59
  longest ball the Tigers have hit tonight. Struck
• 2:01:12
  out. Hit a short par to the left and bounced
• 2:01:15
  the first base unassisted. Now Ryan checks his
• 2:01:22
  time with his catcher Humphrey. And Rusty takes
• 2:01:25
  a strike. Fastball over. Here's another strike
• 2:01:42
  that'll hit the inside corner on a check swing.
• 2:01:55
  California, a couple of games under the 500 mark
• 2:01:58
  overall, but at night, they are five over the
• 2:02:02
  500 mark, 17 and 12. Now, two -strike count on
• 2:02:07
  rusty stop. Two out, nobody on in the seventh.
• 2:02:10
  He takes a half -cut and holds it. It's a ball.
• 2:02:13
  The curve dipped in around the ankle. California
• 2:02:16
  two, Detroit one. We're in the seventh inning
• 2:02:19
  at Tiger Stadium. Angels got two on the second.
• 2:02:24
  Tigers got one on the fourth. All the six hits
• 2:02:27
  in the game have been singles. Three per side.
• 2:02:31
  There's a ball in close. Another curve. Two -two.
• 2:02:34
  The count on Rusty. Rusty trying to get over
• 2:02:39
  those back ailments. Still not 100%. Ryan checks
• 2:02:48
  his sign again. The 2 -2 pitch is on the way.
• 2:02:51
  He swings and strikes out. Curveball pulled in.
• 2:02:54
  That is the eighth strikeout for Nolan Ryan.
• 2:03:00
  No runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody left.
• 2:03:03
  At the end of seven, the Angels 2, Detroit 1.
• 2:03:07
  When Doug McAnally goes to work as a roustabout
• 2:03:10
  in the Yates -Oral Field in West Texas, he doesn't
• 2:03:13
  work alone. He gets together with other marathon
• 2:03:16
  men like Leon Gentry, Phil Lemons, and Ernie
• 2:03:19
  Galindo, and together they go about the business
• 2:03:22
  of getting crude oil out of the ground. Doug
• 2:03:24
  McAnally could work alone, but the job wouldn't
• 2:03:27
  get done as well, or at all, without the help
• 2:03:30
  of Leon, Phil, and Ernie. Because each of them
• 2:03:33
  can do something the other one can't. So they
• 2:03:35
  get together to do it better. A company's like
• 2:03:38
  its people because it is people. When Marathon
• 2:03:42
  found oil, our oil people got together with some
• 2:03:45
  pipeline people who got together with some refining
• 2:03:48
  people who got together with some service station
• 2:03:50
  people so we could do it better. Marathon Oil
• 2:04:08
  Company. We got together to do it better. Hi,
• 2:04:13
  this is Frank Beckman. Glad you joined the club
• 2:04:15
  on Radio 76. Just a reminder that whether it
• 2:04:18
  happened on or off the field, we'll have it for
• 2:04:20
  you on the sports final. Evenings at 11 .15 on
• 2:04:23
  WJR. Here come the Angels to bat now. The eighth
• 2:04:37
  inning, they're leading the Tigers 2 -1. It'll
• 2:04:39
  be Humphrey, the former Tiger, batting number
• 2:04:42
  nine in the California order now. He's 0 -2 tonight
• 2:04:45
  against his old battery mate, John Hiller. Bounced
• 2:04:49
  to short and bounced to third in his two trips.
• 2:04:53
  Angels are 3 -7 this year against left -handed.
• 2:04:56
  Here's a bottom attempt by Humphrey at the back
• 2:04:58
  of the plate foul. However, they've won three
• 2:05:01
  out of the last four against left -hand pitching.
• 2:05:05
  In theory, you'd think that a catcher could hit
• 2:05:08
  an old battery mate about as easy as anybody
• 2:05:11
  because he's caught in. Very familiar with his
• 2:05:15
  repertoire, what he might throw up there and
• 2:05:18
  how he does it. Here's a bounding ball to third.
• 2:05:24
  Mankowski gobbles it up. They throw to Thompson.
• 2:05:26
  Gets him. And there's one away. Coach is working
• 2:05:35
  in the bullpen now and so is Drago. Going on
• 2:05:44
  the same theory we mentioned. He might think
• 2:05:45
  while the catcher could hit that on anybody because
• 2:05:47
  he sees the ball come up there the same way all
• 2:05:49
  the time. Same way as the batter would. But it
• 2:05:56
  doesn't seem to work that way. Here's Flores,
• 2:05:58
  the leadoff man. And he backed off from a changeup
• 2:06:01
  ball one. Flores has bounced the first, popped
• 2:06:04
  it short, and hit a fly ball to Stanley in center.
• 2:06:07
  Two to one, the Angels lead. We're in the eighth
• 2:06:09
  inning. There's a check swing. Let's see if it's
• 2:06:11
  a strike or ball. Yep, the first base up for
• 2:06:14
  Evans as he went through on that one. One and
• 2:06:16
  one to count. Here's a foul fly out of play.
• 2:06:28
  It'd be interesting to know how many. Times out
• 2:06:32
  of ten, for instance, that an umpire first to
• 2:06:35
  third rules the striker ball. I'd say most of
• 2:06:39
  the time he doesn't say he goes across. Here's
• 2:06:45
  a one -two pitch now coming up to Flores. It
• 2:06:48
  is in the dirt, bouncing away from May. Two -two,
• 2:06:51
  the count on Gill. Well, the Yankees bumped in
• 2:06:57
  with four in the seventh inning. We now need
• 2:07:02
  six to five over Boston at the end of seven.
• 2:07:06
  Here's a ball low. Three -two pitch. Swung on,
• 2:07:18
  base hit, left field. Soft line drive over shortstop,
• 2:07:23
  and that will be the fourth hit for the Angels.
• 2:07:27
  And the first one off Hillers. He allowed three
• 2:07:30
  in the second inning. Jerry Remy, left -handed
• 2:07:35
  batting infielder, stepped up now. Seattle and
• 2:07:46
  Cleveland in the eighth inning. They are deadlocked
• 2:07:48
  at 5 -5 over there. by Hiller over the first
• 2:08:05
  base. The runner back in time. Steve Gurley starting
• 2:08:08
  to heat up in the Tiger bullpen. In close to
• 2:08:14
  the curve. Backed him away. Mankowski playing
• 2:08:17
  inside the bag at third. Almost to the intergrass.
• 2:08:21
  Well, he's really to it, but they've got it cut
• 2:08:23
  out over there at third base. On this diamond.
• 2:08:27
  Brown crew's done a good job on the newly made
• 2:08:32
  infield. There's a little pop. ball off a third.
• 2:08:34
  Mankowski backing up. He's there. He has it.
• 2:08:38
  And a runner goes back to first base safely.
• 2:08:42
  Flores. He was way down the line. I don't think
• 2:08:44
  Mankowski realized that. And I really don't know
• 2:08:50
  what Flores is running for anyway. The ball was
• 2:08:53
  fouled and he didn't die. I don't know what he
• 2:08:57
  was doing down for close to second base. anyway,
• 2:09:02
  got back and they're two out. And the batter
• 2:09:06
  will be Dave Chalk. Chalk over three against
• 2:09:13
  the left -handed heller. He's popped the second,
• 2:09:17
  popped the short, and the last time up, took
• 2:09:19
  out. There's a ball, though. Good stop by May.
• 2:09:27
  That ball hit in front of the plate. Houston
• 2:09:57
  and LA, no report on that one. Atlanta and San
• 2:09:59
  Diego, no report on that one. And the pitch.
• 2:10:05
  He takes ball high for the first. They've got
• 2:10:08
  him in a run down. Flores. Thompson throws into
• 2:10:11
  Fuentes and makes the tag and he's out. The catcher
• 2:10:15
  to the first baseman and second baseman retiring
• 2:10:17
  to the side. No runs. One hit, no errors, and
• 2:10:20
  nobody left on base. And at the end of seven
• 2:10:23
  and a half innings, California 2, Detroit 1.
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  Okay, let's put a few nickels in the machine
• 2:10:29
  here and see what comes out. Ed Strasser weaves
• 2:10:37
  patterns in music, Sundays on Radio 76. Do you
• 2:10:44
  remember Bobby Sox, Lindy Hops, and warm summer
• 2:10:48
  nights? Remember joining the gang at your favorite
• 2:10:51
  hangout? Remember 78s and more big bands than
• 2:10:56
  you could count? Remember Pearl Harbor and Omaha
• 2:11:00
  Beach, V -Mail and VJ Day? And from all indications
• 2:11:04
  we got, there's a lot of tape being used this
• 2:11:07
  morning on tape machines as folks try to capture
• 2:11:13
  some of these things that are pretty hard to
• 2:11:14
  come by anymore. Patterns and Music, Sunday morning,
• 2:11:24
  8 p .m. to noon on WJR. Tigers need instant runs.
• 2:11:42
  They trail two to one. Ryan has not been as sharp
• 2:11:48
  as he often is, but he's been tough. He's had
• 2:11:51
  his strikeout pitch working. He's fan eight.
• 2:11:53
  He's walked seven. He's allowed three singles,
• 2:11:57
  and the Tigers touched him for a run in the fourth
• 2:12:00
  inning. Now they'll send up Kemp, Thompson, and
• 2:12:04
  Cochran, the three left -hand swinging Californians.
• 2:12:09
  In the middle part of the batting order. Kemp
• 2:12:12
  is struck out twice. Walks his last trip. Vance
• 2:12:20
  trying to clap up a rally here in the Tiger 8th
• 2:12:23
  inning. 2 -1 California. Ryan's gone all the
• 2:12:26
  way. Kirkwood and Drago in the bullpen for the
• 2:12:28
  Angels. There's a high foul. It'll be out of
• 2:12:32
  play. Drifting into the upper deck. Back of the
• 2:12:37
  tiger dugout. Now bounce down right in front
• 2:12:39
  of the tiger dugout. Strike one. McCown on Kemp.
• 2:12:46
  See you out here tomorrow, others. Enjoy big
• 2:12:48
  league baseball. Sports best bargain right here
• 2:12:52
  at Tiger Stadium. And on Friday, the bird comes
• 2:12:56
  back into action facing Seattle. Here's the strike
• 2:13:00
  one delivery. Kemp takes the ball wide. The one
• 2:13:03
  and one, McCown on it. It'll be Roberts and Tanana
• 2:13:08
  pitching tomorrow. A duel of left -handers. Here's
• 2:13:15
  the motion and the one -one delivery. Fastball
• 2:13:18
  on the inside corner. Oh, Kip didn't like that
• 2:13:21
  one. It almost hit him. And I think that's about
• 2:13:24
  as hard as Ryan is thrown tonight. One and two.
• 2:13:29
  The count on Steve Kemp. He's walking around
• 2:13:31
  in a circle now to the first base side of the
• 2:13:34
  plate. Left hand on his hip. Holding the bat
• 2:13:38
  in his right hand. Not quite ready to get back
• 2:13:40
  in. Leading it off on the eighth. Against Nolan
• 2:13:44
  Ryan. Steve kept waiting. And the pitch. He swings
• 2:13:48
  a little roll at the first base and go foul.
• 2:13:51
  Love down there by Jackson and foul territory
• 2:13:54
  right in the coach's box. We've got a final now.
• 2:14:02
  Pittsburgh beats the Mets. Five to two. Royce
• 2:14:06
  the winner. One and five. Matlack takes the loss.
• 2:14:08
  He's three and four. The Pirates defeat the New
• 2:14:13
  York Mets. That's our first night final from
• 2:14:19
  the National League. One and two. The count on
• 2:14:22
  Steve Kemp. And the pitch on the way. He swings
• 2:14:26
  and misses. Got him on a fastball. The ninth
• 2:14:30
  strikeout for Nolan Ryan. Jason Thompson will
• 2:14:37
  bat now. He's walked, mingled, and popped the
• 2:14:39
  shortstop. Tigers' only run came in the fourth
• 2:14:43
  on a single by Thompson, a single by Carpenter.
• 2:14:46
  They moved up on a wild pitch, and then Thompson
• 2:14:49
  scored when May hit a ground ball to third baseman
• 2:14:51
  Shaw. Stanley walked on all the bases, but after
• 2:14:56
  the walk to Verizon, Mankowski hit into a double
• 2:15:01
  play. They walk to the riser that loaded the
• 2:15:05
  bases and then Mankowski hit in the double play.
• 2:15:08
  Ball went outside on Jason. Ryan ready, winds
• 2:15:14
  and delivers and Thompson swings it. They pop
• 2:15:17
  up foul back a third. Josh chasing. He's there
• 2:15:20
  and he has it for the out. Two down, nobody on.
• 2:15:25
  The Tigers still can't get to Nolan Ryan. Young
• 2:15:30
  Sam Corcoran will be the batter. He's fly to
• 2:15:33
  left, single and walk. One for two for Tim. Wearing
• 2:15:42
  Norman Cash's old number, 25. Corcoran got his
• 2:15:49
  start in Bristol and Lakeland in 74, then Montgomery
• 2:15:52
  the next two years, and he started this year
• 2:15:54
  at Evansville. Swings and fouls it away. Out
• 2:16:00
  of play back at third. Tigers signed him as a
• 2:16:03
  free agent off the California State at Los Angeles
• 2:16:06
  campus. Tim spreads out at the plate. Ryan delivers.
• 2:16:17
  There's a ball outside. He fed him a fastball.
• 2:16:19
  One and one to count on Corcoran. Tigers had
• 2:16:24
  a single in the first inning, and then back -to
• 2:16:27
  -back singles in the fourth. They've not had
• 2:16:28
  a hit since then. And a pitch. Swing. Fly ball.
• 2:16:32
  Left field. Rudy going over to his right. And
• 2:16:35
  makes the catch. He fell down, but held onto
• 2:16:38
  the ball. It looked as if he might be having
• 2:16:40
  trouble with the light or something, or maybe
• 2:16:42
  he just slipped. Anyway, he caught it, and it
• 2:16:46
  almost got past him. No runs, no hits, no errors,
• 2:16:50
  and nobody left. We go to the ninth inning. California
• 2:16:52
  2, Detroit 1. You're the designated hitter in
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  the Labatt's baseball trivia game. Here's the
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  pitch. Which Yankee batter holds the team mark
• 2:17:06
  for the highest batting average in a single season?
• 2:17:10
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  for a Yankee is held by the Bambino himself,
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  New York. If you're listening to Radio 76 in
• 2:17:51
  the afternoon between 3 and 6, what you're going
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  to get is the afternoon music hall. Mark Avery
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  inviting you to be part of it here on WJR Radio.
• 2:18:22
  Jocko laid it off in the California ninth inning.
• 2:18:24
  The Angels ahead with two runs, four hits, and
• 2:18:26
  no errors. The Tigers have one run, three hits,
• 2:18:28
  and two errors. Jocko for three. He was at bat
• 2:18:31
  when Flores was caught off first base during
• 2:18:34
  the eighth inning. Left -handed, Hiller delivers.
• 2:18:37
  It's a foul out of play off the middle of May.
• 2:18:40
  Hiller has been brilliant tonight. There's no
• 2:18:42
  question about that. Two Texas League singles
• 2:18:45
  set up for scoring in the second inning. Rudy
• 2:18:48
  led off with one, then took the second on the
• 2:18:50
  single by Bond. Both the same variety. And then
• 2:18:52
  after Baylor fouled out, Jackson single in the
• 2:18:55
  run and the sacrifice by Gritt got in the other
• 2:18:57
  one. Here's a fly ball to right center. Stanley
• 2:19:00
  digging, dives, and he can't come up with it.
• 2:19:03
  Chalk makes a big turn, scoots on back to first
• 2:19:05
  base. Great effort by Stanley. Got his glove
• 2:19:08
  on the ball, but as he slid, it got underneath
• 2:19:10
  him for a base hit by Chalk. That'll be the fifth
• 2:19:15
  hit off Hiller. Rudy's always been a very tough
• 2:19:24
  hitter against the Tigers stepping in right hand
• 2:19:27
  batting outfielder Kirkwood and Hartzell are
• 2:19:43
  throwing in the bullpen now for California the
• 2:19:46
  Tigers have Gurley back in their bullpen Going
• 2:19:51
  to work. Now, time called by the first base umpire,
• 2:19:54
  Jim Evans. Here's Rudy stepping in. And he bumps
• 2:20:13
  the ball down toward third base. Shielded by
• 2:20:15
  Herb. Comes off the mound. Gloves it close to
• 2:20:17
  who it is covering the bag at first. It is a
• 2:20:20
  sacrifice. Moving chalk to second. Manager Norman
• 2:20:24
  Cherry trying to play for that one run at a time.
• 2:20:28
  He's got a one -run lead. He'd like to get another
• 2:20:30
  one. Runs have been hard to come by for each
• 2:20:34
  team in this game. That'll be a sacrifice. The
• 2:20:38
  player will go. The pitcher to the second baseman
• 2:20:40
  covering the bag at first. Looks like they're
• 2:20:47
  going to put him on. Bobby Barnes won't get a
• 2:20:51
  chance. They'll walk in with the first base open.
• 2:20:57
  Choosing to pick today's Baylor and try to get
• 2:20:59
  the double play. Crawford begins to heat up in
• 2:21:06
  the bullpen now alongside Steve Gretting. All
• 2:21:10
  these Tigers have a right -hander and a left
• 2:21:11
  -hander throwing out there. And the walk is being
• 2:21:16
  given now to Bobby Bond. There's ball four. That'll
• 2:21:22
  be the third walk issued by Hiller. Baylor has
• 2:21:28
  this batting record so far. He's fouled a first,
• 2:21:31
  popped a shortstop, and drew a base on ball.
• 2:21:34
  Angels 2, Tigers 1. Night sitting, the Angels
• 2:21:37
  threatening against Hiller. They've got two men
• 2:21:40
  on and one man down. Only in three innings have
• 2:21:46
  they had any runners. Here's a strike on the
• 2:21:50
  inside corner. The Yankees lead Boston in the
• 2:22:02
  ninth at New York six to five. Set and the pitch.
• 2:22:08
  He swings and misses on a high hard one toward
• 2:22:11
  the outside. This one's been close all the way.
• 2:22:17
  Two for California in the second. The Tigers
• 2:22:18
  bounce back with one on the fourth off Nolan
• 2:22:20
  Ryan. And it has gone scoreless since then. In
• 2:22:25
  the ninth inning, now Hill is trying to set him
• 2:22:27
  down. One out and two on for the Californians
• 2:22:31
  in the set by John. The left hander looks to
• 2:22:34
  the second. He pitches. Change up. Pop the mirror.
• 2:22:37
  Back goes Thompson. He's there. Infield fly rule
• 2:22:41
  is called. He makes the catch. The runners hang
• 2:22:43
  on. That will bring up one yesterday. Right -handed
• 2:22:53
  batting first baseman. Who's singled in the game's
• 2:22:57
  first run to second. He's one -handed to the
• 2:23:00
  red. And jumps up to the fifth. And he's going
• 2:23:02
  to walk to the seventh. The Phillies in the ninth
• 2:23:15
  inning cover the Pirates come about the next
• 2:23:17
  day don't do it There's a high foul out of the
• 2:23:21
  ballpark Way over the grandstand back at their
• 2:23:25
  base That one may come on Jackson Second bonds
• 2:23:41
  of a big lead at first base that stopped the
• 2:23:44
  plane behind him and Jackson. When he starts
• 2:24:03
  goes out with a philosophy that he'll throw as
• 2:24:07
  hard as he can for as long as he can. And so
• 2:24:11
  far, he's gone into the ninth inning. John checks
• 2:24:17
  his time with Milton May and the pitch. Swung
• 2:24:19
  on as a long foul fly. Deep left field, way back
• 2:24:24
  upstairs. Scrambling around in section 10 for
• 2:24:32
  that one. Two on, two out. Strike two. The count
• 2:24:41
  on Jackson. Here it comes. The swing to the bounding
• 2:24:48
  ball to Barrager. Deep short. Charges it. Gloved
• 2:24:50
  it. Throw to first. In time. High throw. Thompson
• 2:24:53
  reached up and gloved it. Hiller out of trouble
• 2:24:57
  in the ninth. No runs. One hit. No errors. Two
• 2:25:00
  left. On hand for John Hiller. He comes in. A
• 2:25:03
  magnificent pitching performance. And the goal
• 2:25:06
  the last half of that inning. Angels 2, Tigers
• 2:25:08
  1. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
• 2:26:23
  Briefness of station identification. This is
• 2:26:25
  a Detroit Tiger baseball network. Look for fair
• 2:26:27
  to partly cloudy weather with widely scattered
• 2:26:29
  afternoon and evening thundershowers through
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  Thursday. Low tonight in the mid -60s. Tomorrow
• 2:26:34
  and Thursday's high near 90. At 1030, it's clear
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  and 70. You're listening to WJR Detroit. Bilt
• 2:26:45
  Mayer to lead off on the ninth against Nolan
• 2:26:47
  Ryan. He's gone all the way in this duel with
• 2:26:50
  John Hiller. He holds the upper hand. Two to
• 2:26:53
  one, the Angels. May drove it around with a bounce
• 2:26:57
  off the third and the fourth inning. He walked
• 2:26:59
  from the second his last time up and made a sixth
• 2:27:02
  inning hit in the fourth half. Ryan has stepped
• 2:27:04
  down in the last nine Tigers in a row. Left -handed
• 2:27:08
  batting, milkman at the plate. And he takes a
• 2:27:11
  strike, a high, hard one. Strike one, the count
• 2:27:15
  on milk. Stanley and Verizon are scheduled to
• 2:27:19
  follow in the Tiger 9th inning. Ryan rocks some
• 2:27:25
  pitches and May takes a strike. Boy, I didn't
• 2:27:28
  like that call by the plate umpire, Barnett.
• 2:27:36
  Strike two, the count on nil. Ryan's walked seven,
• 2:27:41
  he struck out nine. The wind up, the pitch. Fastball
• 2:27:47
  wide way outside. He let that one fly. Foucault
• 2:27:52
  throwing in the Tiger bullpen. Hartzell throwing
• 2:27:55
  in the California bullpen. Now the one -two delivery
• 2:28:01
  with May leading off of the Tiger night. He swings
• 2:28:06
  and this is struck him off. Now that's ten strikeouts
• 2:28:10
  for Ryan. And he goes one up on that record now
• 2:28:14
  that he had tied Sam McDowell. Well, maybe that's
• 2:28:21
  10 -plus. Maybe they mean 11 by then. I guess
• 2:28:24
  you do. You've got to get one more before you
• 2:28:26
  can break McDowell's record of 74. I heard with
• 2:28:30
  McDowell. I think what they mean is double figures,
• 2:28:32
  10 or more. I'm willing to give it to him. Here's
• 2:28:39
  Stanley. That's 10 in a row for Nolan Ryan. Mickey
• 2:28:44
  takes a strike. Fastball at her high. Ryan tried
• 2:28:56
  to hold off the Tigers. Ron LaFleur has come
• 2:28:59
  to the on -deck circle to bat for Verizon. One
• 2:29:02
  out of the Tiger Knight fitting. Here's a strike
• 2:29:06
  on the outside corner. Seems as if Ryan sniffs
• 2:29:14
  the old victory here. He's getting tougher. Putting
• 2:29:20
  it all together. 2 -0 on the Angels' lead, ninth
• 2:29:25
  inning. Nolan into action again, and the pitch.
• 2:29:29
  Swing and a miss. He struck him out. He just
• 2:29:32
  blew it past him. Now that's 11. But 75 times
• 2:29:41
  he's had more than 10 to break the old record
• 2:29:45
  that he shared with Sam McDowell. Now Ron LaFleur
• 2:29:48
  is the Tiger hope as he steps in. LaFleur batting
• 2:29:55
  .238 in 33 games. Humphrey goes out to talk with
• 2:29:59
  his pitcher. Tigers have had not too many chances
• 2:30:06
  against Nolan. They left a couple of runners
• 2:30:12
  on in the fourth inning when the inning ended
• 2:30:15
  in a double play after they'd scored a run. That
• 2:30:19
  was their best shot at the fireballing right
• 2:30:22
  -hander. Here's LaFleur at the plate against
• 2:30:26
  Nolan Ryan. 2 -1 Angels, ninth inning. He backs
• 2:30:31
  him away. Ball one, the count. Mankowski waiting
• 2:30:36
  on deck, hoping that LaFleur can keep the game
• 2:30:39
  alive. Batting for Tommy Verizon. And he takes
• 2:30:44
  the ball outside. Taking all the way. Eleven
• 2:30:49
  in the row have gone down before Nolan Ryan.
• 2:30:58
  Wind up from the pitch. It's in for a strike.
• 2:31:01
  He got the outside corner. Two and one on Ron.
• 2:31:06
  Ryan's thrown a lot of pitches tonight. They've
• 2:31:08
  had that full count quite a few times. But he
• 2:31:13
  has been tough when he's had today. Now not quite
• 2:31:17
  ready, and LaFleur decides he'll step away from
• 2:31:20
  the plate. Back in now. Here's the motion by
• 2:31:23
  Nolan Ryan of the pitch. Swing and a ball upstairs.
• 2:31:27
  He got a piece of that one, and that was all.
• 2:31:29
  2 -2, the count on LaFleur. Ryan struck out three
• 2:31:35
  in the opening inning after a lead -out single
• 2:31:38
  by Mankowski. And he's trying to get three strikeouts.
• 2:31:43
  In a row here in the ninth. The climax is pitching
• 2:31:47
  performance tonight. Two to one, the Angels lead.
• 2:31:50
  Two down, the body on. And the pitch. It's a
• 2:31:54
  ball outside. He checks his swing. Full count.
• 2:32:01
  Now Ryan looking back at the outfield. They're
• 2:32:04
  around the right on Ron LaFleur. Waiting on a
• 2:32:09
  3 -2 delivery. Here it comes. He swings and misses.
• 2:32:12
  The game's over. And California wins the opening
• 2:32:16
  game of the series. 12 strikeouts for Nolan Ryan.
• 2:32:20
  He struck out the side. 1 -2 -3 in the ninth
• 2:32:23
  inning. And the final score, the Angels 2, the
• 2:32:25
  Tigers 1.