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1981-Jun-11 - CIN/NYM - Cincinnati Reds vs New York Mets - 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 June 11, 1981,
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  the Cincinnati Reds faced the New York Mets in
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  a Thursday night game at Shea Stadium. This date
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  is significant because it marked the final set
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  of baseball games before the 1981 baseball player
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  strike, which would last for nearly two months.
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  The season resumed in August, and the league
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  decided to split the season into two halves.
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  Teams leading in the standings in each half were
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  declared division winners and given a berth to
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  the postseason. The Cincinnati Reds were managed
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  by John McNamara, who was in his third year with
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  the club. The Mets were managed by Joe Torre
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  in what would be his last season with the team
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  before leaving for Atlanta in 1982. In this game,
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  the Reds sent their longtime ace, Tom Seaver,
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  to the mound to face the Mets' Pat Zachary. This
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  audio recording is from the Cincinnati Radio
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  Broadcast featuring announcers Marty Brenneman
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  and Joe Nuxhall. For Cincinnati, it's Collins
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  in right field, Griffey in center field, Concepcion
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  at shortstop. Foster in left, Dreesen at first
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  base, Knight at third. With Oster at second,
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  Nolan catching, and Sieber on the mound. For
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  the match, to lead off in center field, Mookie
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  Wilson. Bob Baylor will play shortstop in that
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  second. Ellis Valentine in right field will hit
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  third. Batting in the cleanup spot, left fielder
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  Dave Kingman. Rusty Staub will play first base
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  at fifth. Hitting number six at third base, Mike
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  Covitz. Alex Trevino will catch and hit number
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  seven. Batting eighth at second base, Doug Flynn.
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  And batting ninth, the New York pitcher, right
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  -hander, Pat Zachary. Right now from Shea Stadium
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  in New York, our national anthem. Thank you.
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  Again, going over the Mets batting order quickly.
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  Wilson in center field, Baylor at shortstop,
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  Valentine in right field, Kingman in left, Staub
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  at first base, Cubbage at third, with Trevino
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  catching, Flynn at second, and Zachary pitching.
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  This copyrighted broadcast is authorized under
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  broadcasting rights granted by the Cincinnati
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  Reds solely for the entertainment of our listening
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  audience. Any publication, rebroadcast, or other
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  use of the descriptions and accounts of this
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  game without the express written consent of the
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  Cincinnati Reds is prohibited. The announcers
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  on this broadcast are employed by the Cincinnati
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  Reds. Well, as the Reds complete the first leg
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  of the scheduled three -city eight -game Eastern
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  Division road trip, the question on the tips
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  of tongues of everybody, fans, players, management
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  alike, will there be baseball after tonight as
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  far as the major leagues are concerned? As we
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  mentioned earlier during our pregame shows, three
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  negotiating sessions have already taken place.
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  At a downtown Manhattan hotel today, with another
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  one having gotten underway about six minutes
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  ago, where the idea, of course, is of burning
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  a baseball strike that would begin tomorrow throughout
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  the Major League. And I would imagine the feeling
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  among many people close to the situation, or
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  as close as you might be while not being there,
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  although there were a number of players from
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  a number of different teams who were at the negotiating
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  sessions here in New York City today who feel
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  that They will probably be negotiating throughout
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  the night, much in the same fashion as was the
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  case last year when a settlement was reached
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  early in the morning to avoid a baseball strike
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  then. And, Joe, I'm sure that is the hope and
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  the prayer of us and everybody connected with
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  baseball, certainly the fans first and foremost.
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  They don't want to see baseball stop, and I don't
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  think anybody else does either. Marty, I'm very
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  sure that that is the absolute truth, that no
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  one wants to see a strike in this great game.
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  It's a game that the family enjoys, mom and dad
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  bringing the youngsters to the ballpark. It would
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  just be a shame if something should happen that
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  there is a strike. And hopefully they'll be able
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  to get this thing ironed out before tomorrow
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  and we can continue on with the schedule. Because
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  as we were talking to George, things are going
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  right good for this ball club now. They're playing
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  excellent baseball, doing the things that are
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  needed to be done to win baseball games. If we
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  need good pitching, the pitching's been outstanding.
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  If we need some offense, the offense is able
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  to... generate some runs, so the ball club is
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  really playing excellent baseball, and hopefully
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  we'll continue right on. You look at Pat Zachary,
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  of course, Pat, as we mentioned, a 2 -2, one
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  loss record against the Reds last year. He was
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  1 -1. He started four times against Cincinnati
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  last year, beat them 2 -0 on July the 25th of
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  last year when he went all the way, and he beat
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  Paul Bosco on that game. The Reds beat Zach here
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  on May the 7th. of last year. He pitched just
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  three innings, and Tommy Hume picked up the win
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  and relieved Zachary, the loser, and Tom Seaver,
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  we pointed out, he only pitched once against
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  the Mets last year. No decision. Tom worked eight
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  innings in that game, allowing six innings. But
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  we look back on Tom's last start, and it was
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  a 9 -3 win over the Montreal Expos, and if you
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  might remember, Tom was asked about the home
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  run that Gary Carter hit in the first inning.
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  And Tom said, well, you know, I felt that I was
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  just doing kind of a mediocre slider. He said,
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  I found out I better not do that anymore during
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  the course of the game. And from that point on,
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  the Expos rather scored one more run, and that
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  came in the ninth inning when Raines tripled.
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  They scored on a sacrifice bat off the bat of
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  Mike Phillips. So, Tom, this fits very well since
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  coming back off that five problem. Now Pat Zachary
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  has finished his warm -up to catcher Alex Trevino,
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  and it'll be Dave Collins to lead it off as normal
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  for Cincinnati. He was a .313 batting average,
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  a couple of home runs on the season, and a total
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  of 17 runs batted in. So a former Red, Pat Zachary,
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  pitching against a former Met, Tom Seaver, in
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  the wind -up of three here at Chase Stadium.
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  Zachary brings in the pitch. Collins bunts. Third
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  base side. Picked up by Trevino. Throwing to
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  first in the dirt. That's the rest. He sobbed.
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  Digs it out. So the out in this game is underway.
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  Collins really didn't get it out far enough along
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  the third baseline. Trevino was able to go out
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  and make the quick pickup. And although throwing
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  low, the bounce was not really a short hop where
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  it could create a great deal of problem for Stobb.
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  He was able to make the play and Collins is out
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  in the bunt attempt. So one away, and it's 2
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  -3 if you're scoring with us. And here's center
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  fielder Ken Griffey. Griffey batting .294 with
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  16 RBIs and a home run. Zachary with a line,
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  the kick and the pitch, and Kenny takes it high
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  and away. Ball one. Zachary, the co -rookie pitcher
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  of the year in the National League back in 1976
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  when he was a 14 -game winner with the Reds along
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  with a .274 Earned run average. He misses down
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  low with that pitch. He's behind 2 -0. He and,
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  at the time, San Diego relief pitcher Butch Metzger
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  shared the award. Metzger has been out of Major
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  League Baseball for a few years now. Zachary
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  trying to win his sixth game of the season tonight,
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  and he's in with a 2 -0 pitch, a call strike.
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  Cincinnati remaining a game and a half behind
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  Los Angeles with the... 2 -0 victory here last
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  night. The Dodgers knocking off the St. Louis
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  Cardinals on a three -hitter by Jerry Roy. Swung
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  on, ripped into right field, and Ballantyne will
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  have to play that ball on the bounce. Ken Griffey
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  with a one -out single to right field. His fourth
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  hit and eight times up in this series. One -out,
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  one -on. The batter shortstop Dave Concepcion
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  moved back into the number three slot in the
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  batting order last night. He responded with an
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  eighth -inning single to drive in the second
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  and final run of the night for the Reds. His
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  44th RBI trailing George Foster, the Major League
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  leader, by two. And Concepcion batting .308.
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  Stob, Flynn, Baylor, and Covidge at first, second,
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  short, and third for New York as Zachary straightens
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  up on the mound, pours it flayward, and Concepcion
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  takes a strike. In the outfield, Kingman and
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  left, Wilson in center, Ballantyne and right,
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  and Trevino catching. Joe Torrey making still
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  more changes in his lineup tonight in an effort
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  to try and salvage a victory here. Zachary checking
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  Griffey. Now steps off the pitching rubber and
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  throws on to Rusty Staub. Our plate on fire is
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  Lee Weier. Dutch Rennert is at first base, Charlie
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  Williams at second, and Randy March at third.
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  Reds have won the first two games by scores of
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  8 -4 and 2 -0. The pitch inside. One ball and
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  one strike. And we might point out the 12 strikeout
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  that Mario Soto had in the wind last night. That's
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  a high for a National League pitcher in 1981.
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  And, of course, it was his first shutout of the
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  season. One ball, one strike, one out. Griffey
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  at first base. We're in the top half of the first
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  inning. Pat Zachary again will lob one over to
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  first base. Dodgers and the Cardinals close out
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  the series at Busch Stadium tonight. Fernando
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  Valenzuela will be going for his 10th win of
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  the season against right -hander Silvio Martinez.
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  Each of those teams has won a game. Zachary with
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  a long pause, and now Concepcion backs out of
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  the batter's box. Zachary coming set just a little
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  bit too long to suit the batter. Back coming
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  to the Mets on the 15th of June, 1977. So he
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  will have been a New York Met exactly four years,
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  four days from now, as Tom Seaver will have been
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  a Cincinnati Red. There's another throw to first.
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  Zachary working very deliberately here in the
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  first inning. George Foster on deck. Concepcion
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  up eight times in the series, two hits and a
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  run batted in. He grounds it off the leg of Zachary,
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  rolling between second and third. That's going
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  to be a base hit. That ball appeared to hit Zachary
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  somewhere up around the right thigh or right
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  side and tear him over between second and third
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  base. The ball definitely finding the hole between
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  third baseman coverage and shortstop Baylor.
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  Getting Zachary on the right thigh, or the side,
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  upper side of the right leg, and that'll be an
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  infield hit for Concepcion, with Griffey going
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  on to second. So the Reds have two men on, a
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  man out, and they're a top run producer, and
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  George Foster is to play. Foster's had some kind
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  of series here in New York. Five hits and nine
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  times up. A home run, a double, a triple, a couple
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  of singles, and he's driven in two runs. He's
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  now batting. 300 on the season. There's a pitch
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  to him, and Foster takes a breaking ball for
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  a strike. After Collins was thrown out on the
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  butt attempt, Griffey lines a single to right.
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  Concepcion reaches on the infield hit. The infield
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  looking for the ground ball as Zachary kicks
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  and fires, and Foster swings it a pitch away
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  behind two strikes. Reds have three .300 hitters
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  in their lineup, led by Collins at .313, then
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  Concepcion at .308, Foster at .300. Ken Griffey
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  on the rise. He came in batting .294. That average
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  shoots up as a result of the base hit. And Joe
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  Nolan behind the plate batting .288. Of course,
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  Danny Dreesen has also been swinging a hot bat
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  here in this series. Ronnie Oster at 293. So
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  Cincinnati continues to do everything right of
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  late. Two -strike pitch. Foster takes strike
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  three. George Foster caught looking as Ackrey
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  rings up a strikeout as first of the night. He'll
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  pitch now to first baseman Danny Dreesen. Trevino
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  going out to the mound to talk with Ackrey for
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  a moment. Dreesen batting 210. Always interesting
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  things you see at a ballpark, Marty, in the play
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  of a game. On that particular pitch, Torino wanted
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  the ball up and in. And Zach threw it down and
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  away. Whether he meant to do that or not. Sometimes
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  you get away with it and sometimes you don't.
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  Maybe they tricked George. Here's Danny Dreesen
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  now with two outs. Dreesen takes it in the dirt
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  for a ball. 2 -10 the batting average, as we
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  pointed out, but he's batted 533 in the last
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  four games, going 8 for 15 with two doubles,
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  two home runs, and five RBIs, and it would be
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  a safe statement to make right now that Danny
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  Dreesen is on top of his game. Even in making
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  outs, especially last night when he went 1 for
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  4, he hit some balls awfully hard. Up high, two
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  balls and no strike. Griffey's at second, Concepcion
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  is at first, two outs. On deck for the Reds,
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  third baseman Ray Knight. Right -hander looking
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  back at second, brings it up there, and he's
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  behind three balls and no strikes. So Zach, a
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  pitch away from loading him up for Ray Knight.
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  Joe Torre putting Baylor in at shortstop, replacing
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  Tavares for this game, replacing UB Brooks with
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  Mike Cubbage at third base. Rusty Staub getting
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  a start at first for the second straight night
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  and Trevino behind the plate rather than Stearns.
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  There's strike one call. Three and one. Valentine
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  deep and straight away and right. Wilson shading
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  Dreesen to pull and setter as is Kingman and
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  left. From Zachary to Dreesen, that's ball four
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  and that loads the bases. Griffey moves to third,
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  Concepcion to second, Danny with a walk. He's
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  heading down to first base, and here's Knight.
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  Knight batting .246, five home runs, 18 RBIs,
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  only one for eight in the first two games here
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  at Shea with an RBI. That came on a two -base
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  hit here on Tuesday night. Knight waving the
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  bat around as Zachary works out of the windup.
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  He pitches, and Knight swings and drives it into
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  right field, backing on it is Valentine. He's
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  there, and he makes the catch. A couple of steps
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  short of the warning track to end the inning.
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  Cincinnati with a first -inning threat, but comes
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  away with no runs, two hits, three left. After
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  a half -inning of play and a wrap -up of three
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  in New York, the Reds nothing, and the Mets are
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  coming to back. Tom Seaver left the Reds dugout
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  along the third baseline, and as he went to the
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  Shea Stadium now, the move that he has made many,
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  many times throughout his Major League career,
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  he received a standing ovation from the Mets
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  fans. So while he's been gone almost 40 years,
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  they remember Tom Seaver with fond memories for
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  having some just unbelievable years while pitching
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  for this New York Mets team. He's having a fine
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  year with the Reds in 81, six wins and a loss
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  with a .208 ERA. And he's ready to face the center
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  fielder and leadoff batter, rookie Mookie Wilson.
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  Here's a pitch to him, and he shows the butt,
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  takes it away, strike one. So talk about Sieber's
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  last start Saturday when he came back after being
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  down ten days with that left thigh problem. Wilson
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  fouls it off. Gave up the two -run homer to Carter
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  in the first inning and then shut out the Expos
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  until they got that ninth -inning run. He went
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  the distance to win his sixth game of the season.
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  The 2 -0 -8 ERA is fourth best in the National
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  League. Wilson, strike three. Started around.
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  It didn't make any difference. The pitch was
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  there, and Seaver has himself a strikeout. That
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  brings up shortstop Bob Baylor. Baylor has seen
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  action in each of the first two games as a latecomer
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  and has had two hits and three times up on the
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  year, batting .255 against National League pitching
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  with six runs batted in. Former American leaguer
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  Baylor with a ball of Orioles and the Toronto
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  Blue Jays. He takes it low a ball. Drees and
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  Oster, Concepcion and Knight. First, second,
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  short, and third defensively for the Reds. Foster,
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  Griffey, Collins, left center and right in the
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  outfield. Behind the plate, Joe Nolan. And it's
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  two balls and no strikes on a pitch in on Bob
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  Baylor. After two in Montreal, the Expos lead
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  the Atlanta Braves 2 -0. Montreal trying to sweep
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  that series. And this afternoon, the Cubs beat
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  the Giants 6 -1. Swung on, fly ball, headed toward
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  Collins and Wright. Two out. Here's the right
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  fielder, Ellis Valentine. The Cubs winning today
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  have now run off five victories in their last
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  six games and sent the Giants down to their fifth
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  consecutive defeat. Chicago came out smoking
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  against Tom Griffin, who was unable to survive
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  the first inning in the wake of a four -run outburst.
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  The only Giant run coming on a sixth -inning
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  home run by Joe Morgan is fifth of the season,
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  while Cub catcher Jody Davis had his first Major
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  League home run, and Hector Cruz hit his seventh
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  of the season. One ball and no strikes on Ellis
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  Valentine. Randy Mars got the win. Griffin took
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  the loss. Tommy Boggs against Steve Rogers up
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  at Montreal tonight. In there for strike one
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  call, and Seaver with Valentine, a ball and a
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  strike. Two outs. Nothing happening in a scoreless
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  first inning. Swung on and bounced to shortstop.
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  Concepcion to his left for the pickup, and he
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  shoots him down. The Mets are out of order, and
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  after one completed chase, Cincinnati nothing,
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  New York nothing. In the American League tonight,
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  six games on the schedule. Kansas City and Toronto
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  have already started, and it's 1 -0 Royals at
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  the end of an inning. Paul Splittorf against
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  Dave Steve. Texas plays in Milwaukee. New York
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  at Chicago. Detroit at Minnesota. Baltimore in
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  Seattle. And Boston at California. Ronnie Oster
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  to lead things off in the second for Cincinnati.
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  The Reds loaded the bases in the first inning
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  against Zachary on hits by Griffey and Concepcion.
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  And then a two -odd walk to Danny Dreesen, but
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  the inning ended when Zachary got Knight on a
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  fly ball to fairly deep right field on Ellis
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  Valentine. Ronnie Oster batting .293, looking
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  for his first hit here in New York. He's 0 for
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  9. Zachary pitches. Oster takes it inside, ball
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  one. Swung on, ground ball, right side. There's
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  Doug Flynn on the outfield grass to make the
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  play, and he throws him out. Oster grounds out
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  second to first. The batter will be Ketcher Nolan.
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  Poster day with the Reds is pick your poster
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  day this year. Everybody 21 and under gets to
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  choose one of the seven posters in the Reds poster
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  series. The on -hand Sunday, June 28th, the Reds
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  against the Braves on poster day at Riverfront.
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  288 batting average for Joe Nolan with a home
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  run and nine runs batted in. Left -handed batter.
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  Line drive, right center field, a hit. Over to
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  cut it off is Dallas Valentine. Nolan takes a
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  turn, and that's hit number three for Cincinnati.
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  So with one out, Tom Seaver will probably be
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  up trying to move Nolan into scoring position
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  for Dave Collins, and Seaver again gets a big
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  welcome from the Shea Stadium baseball. Mike
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  Covington to step off the grass at third and
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  now coming as Zachary pauses, delivers, receiver
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  squares to Bunt, takes it away, ball one. Zachary,
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  a 6 '5", string bean, 175 -pounder out of Waco,
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  Texas. This one, Bunt at first base side, rusty
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  stop, makes a play, kicks it around, recovers,
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  and now throws on to Doug Flynn at first base.
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  3 -4 sacrifice receiver. With Nolan moving to
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  second, here's Dave Collins for the second time.
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  Out Alex Trevino to Rusty Stubb on a bunt attempt
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  in the first inning. We'll pause for station
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  identification on the Cincinnati Reds baseball
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  network. So why do we call Jim Sager the Beast
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  of Baltimore? Well, you can draw your own conclusions
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  each and every weekday evening from 6 until midnight
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  here at K95. It's the Jim Sager Show, the Beast
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  of Baltimore at K95, WHOK -FM. Lancaster. Collins
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  with Nolan at second, two away, and a scoreless
• 23:53
  game in the second inning. Right -hander kicks
• 23:59
  and throws, and Collins takes it up and in ball
• 24:02
  one. Now the one over the plate. That's inside
• 24:20
  and low. Two balls and no strikes on Dave Collins.
• 24:35
  They said now we'll get a first run of the night
• 24:37
  home as Nolan takes a lead at second. Zachary
• 24:40
  behind and pitching. Collins taking, and that's
• 24:43
  strike one called just below the belt. Two balls
• 24:45
  and a strike. If we do not have the work stop,
• 24:49
  the Jerez are scheduled to open up a three -game
• 24:52
  series in Montreal tomorrow night. Bruce Perenny
• 24:54
  against Charlie Lee. Saturday night it will be
• 24:57
  Mike Lacoste against Ray Burris. And Sunday afternoon,
• 25:00
  to close things out there, Frank Pastore will
• 25:02
  duel Scott Sanderson. 2 -1 pitch. High and outside,
• 25:07
  ball three. In the event there is a strike, we
• 25:10
  might inform all our stations as well as our
• 25:12
  fans along the network line that... Joe and I
• 25:15
  will be doing a one -hour show, a talk show,
• 25:18
  beginning tomorrow night on our flagship station
• 25:20
  in Cincinnati and on our stations along the Red
• 25:23
  Baseball Network, beginning at 8 .05 Cincinnati
• 25:26
  time. That is ball four. Collins flips it out
• 25:31
  of the way and goes on down to first base as
• 25:33
  Zachary has issued his second walk. That would
• 25:35
  be a Monday through Friday nightly show, 8 .05
• 25:39
  to 9 o 'clock, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
• 25:42
  and Friday night. for as long as the strike would
• 25:45
  last. And this Saturday and Sunday, Joe and I
• 25:48
  are scheduled to be in Wichita to broadcast a
• 25:51
  couple of games involving our AAA Farm Club,
• 25:53
  the Indianapolis Indians. We would be on the
• 25:56
  air at 8 o 'clock on Saturday night with a pregame
• 25:58
  show, game time at 8 .30 Cincinnati time, and
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  7 o 'clock on Saturday night with a pregame show.
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  Game time for that one would be 7 .30. Two men
• 26:09
  on, two men out. Second inning. Griffey with
• 26:12
  a hard smash to shortstop, but Baylor plays and
• 26:14
  throws to Flynn for the force out, and Zachary
• 26:16
  gets out of trouble for the second straight inning.
• 26:19
  No runs, one hit, two left. The Reds have stranded
• 26:22
  five in the first two innings, and after one
• 26:25
  and a half, Cincinnati and New York no score.
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  Get set for some exciting baseball coming up
• 26:30
  at Riverfront. The Reds will be back home next
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  Wednesday for the start of the biggest homestand
• 26:34
  of the year, 13 games and a 12 -day stretch.
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  The Mets, the Phillies, the Cardinals, and the
• 26:38
  Braves will all be in town. While we have them
• 26:41
  in, let's take a closer look at that Philly series.
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  It starts Friday, June 19th with a 7 .35 game.
• 26:46
  7 o 'clock game on Saturday the 20th, and then
• 26:48
  the weekend winds up Sunday afternoon, June 21st.
• 26:52
  It's going to be a fun weekend. The Phillies
• 26:53
  are always a favorite opponent at Riverfront
• 26:56
  Stadium with the likes of Pete Rose and Mike
• 26:58
  Schmidt, Larry Boas, Steve Carlton. So make your
• 27:02
  plans now to be on hand for all the action and
• 27:04
  purchase your tickets in advance. Tom Seaver
• 27:09
  standing behind the mound, waiting for Dave Kingman
• 27:11
  to settle in. 13 home runs to lead the New York
• 27:15
  Mets in the power department with 31 RBIs and
• 27:18
  a 219 batting average. Kingman batting in the
• 27:23
  series, two hits and eight times up, and both
• 27:25
  hits came last night. He takes it low, ball one.
• 27:29
  In fact, Kingman had two hits, and Mookie Wilson
• 27:33
  had two. They were four of the six that the Mets
• 27:36
  collected off of Mario Soto. Kingman takes ball
• 27:43
  two. Two balls and no strikes. Been pretty consistent
• 27:49
  in this series. Every time Kingman's been to
• 27:51
  the play where the base is empty, which has been
• 27:53
  often. Ronnie Oster goes to the third base side
• 27:56
  of second along with Concepcion and Knight. 2
• 28:00
  -0 pitch. Kingman with a high, deep drive to
• 28:03
  left field. And Foster at the wall. It's gone.
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  The 14th of the season. And the New York Mets,
• 28:13
  for the first time in this series lead, it's
• 28:17
  1 -0. Beaver got behind 2 -0 and had to come
• 28:27
  in on him, and Dingman took care of it. Homering
• 28:30
  into the Cincinnati bullpen in the left field,
• 28:33
  beyond the left field fence, and the Mets are
• 28:36
  up 1 -0. Marty, that was a fastball right out
• 28:41
  over the plate, and I think Cobb just more or
• 28:43
  less challenging Kingman and didn't quite work.
• 28:46
  Missed by about 10 feet. Here's Rusty Staub.
• 28:53
  Staub takes a strike. The first time in this
• 29:00
  series the Mets have led in the game. Staub hits
• 29:04
  a hard smash, and Concepcion cannot get a base
• 29:07
  at the center field. Now back -to -back hits
• 29:13
  in the second for the Mets. A home run by Kingman,
• 29:16
  a single by Staub, the batter. Third baseman
• 29:18
  Mike Cubbett. Cubbett batting .233 with three
• 29:28
  RBIs, up twice in the first two games with a
• 29:31
  hit. Let's have the Astros in for a series scheduled
• 29:46
  to begin here tomorrow night. And Houston is
• 29:47
  already in town. They finished their series in
• 29:49
  Philadelphia last night. And staying in the same
• 29:53
  hotel the Reds are staying in in Manhattan. Saw
• 29:56
  a lot of them around the hotel today. Pitches
• 29:58
  in for a strike. Of course, the Phillies are
• 30:01
  off tonight before meeting the Atlanta Braves
• 30:04
  in Philadelphia tomorrow evening. If baseball
• 30:07
  is continued, Pete Rose will have the shot going
• 30:09
  into that game of becoming the all -time nationally
• 30:13
  career hit leader after tying Stan Musial's record
• 30:15
  last night with a first -inning single off Nolan
• 30:17
  Ryan. One ball and one strike on the left -handed
• 30:22
  batting coverage. One run is in. Rusty stopped.
• 30:30
  Stationed down at first base. He had a ground
• 30:33
  single at center. Nobody out. Number 41 to the
• 30:42
  plate, and coverage takes it inside. Two balls
• 30:44
  and a strike. Dave Kingman with home run number
• 30:56
  14 of the season. That ties him for National
• 30:59
  League leadership with Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt.
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  Coverage ahead on the count as Seaver kicks and
• 31:08
  fires, and there's ball three. Alex Trevino on
• 31:24
  deck. Danny Dreesen playing behind a runner's
• 31:26
  stop at first base. Swung on and fouled away.
• 31:34
  Straight back of the plate and back up into the
• 31:36
  third deck here. Mario Soto joining Seaver last
• 31:49
  night with a victory as six -game winners on
• 31:52
  the Cincinnati pitching staff. Seaver after his
• 31:56
  252nd career win. He and Bob Gibson are tied
• 32:00
  for 30th place on the all -time victory list.
• 32:02
  Runner going. But Cabbage fouls it out of play
• 32:05
  down the left field line. Of course, Bob Gibson
• 32:07
  here, he is now a member of the Mets coaching
• 32:09
  staff. The man who Fieber is tied with. And Tom
• 32:14
  two wins away from Carl Hubble, who is next in
• 32:17
  line in 29th place with a career victory total
• 32:20
  of 253. But the Mets are leading 1 -0. And a
• 32:30
  three -ball, two -strike count on Mike Kovach.
• 32:32
  Risa now is on the back. Stopped breaking. The
• 32:34
  pitch is swung on. Ripped into right field. Collins
• 32:37
  going back and now comes in a bit and moves off
• 32:40
  to his left to make the catch. Back to first
• 32:43
  goes Dodd. There's one away and here's the catcher
• 32:46
  Trevino. Trevino batting 280. He's knocked in
• 32:52
  eight runs. First time we've seen him in the
• 32:54
  series. Fine -handed batter and a young man that
• 33:09
  a lot of clubs have shown a lot of interest in
• 33:10
  over the last couple of years. He's regarded
• 33:13
  as a pretty good catcher and can swing that bat
• 33:15
  reasonably well. He lines one for a hit in the
• 33:18
  center. Griffey plays it on the bounce as Staub
• 33:20
  moves to second base and Seaver having a relatively
• 33:23
  unimpressive second inning. Home run by Kingman,
• 33:27
  base hit by Staub, a well -hit ball to right.
• 33:30
  The Collins caught off the bat of coverage and
• 33:32
  now a first -pitch line drive single to center
• 33:34
  field from Alex Trevino. Doug Flynn at the plate.
• 33:47
  Flynn checking in at 243 with a home run and
• 33:50
  11 runs batted in. 0 for 7 so far in the series.
• 33:53
  Takes the ball low. Tom Zachary now emerging
• 34:05
  from the New York dugout, moving to the on -deck
• 34:07
  circle. That's a check swing strike. Doug came
• 34:12
  out of the gate very hot when the season unfolded.
• 34:16
  He was up among the hit leaders for quite a while,
• 34:18
  but has of late simply been struggling at the
• 34:22
  plate. His batting average has plummeted all
• 34:24
  the way down to its current .243. Stopped the
• 34:30
  lead runner at second with Trevino at first.
• 34:32
  One away. Seaver to the plate, Flynn swings,
• 34:36
  fly ball, right field. Collins almost in his
• 34:39
  tracks, makes the catch. Staub loves to go to
• 34:43
  third, and Concepcion cuts off the throw, tumbling
• 34:46
  over Staub at second base and almost caught him
• 34:49
  coming back into the bag. Maybe decoying Staub
• 34:55
  pretty well until the last second, hoping to
• 34:57
  maybe grab that throw from Collins and put the
• 35:00
  tag on him before he got back to second. The
• 35:07
  Zachary at the plate with two outs. Pat batting
• 35:18
  .238 this season. He's had five hits all singles.
• 35:21
  He's knocked in two runs. Ball to him. This club
• 35:35
  now with three hits in the game. Pitcher against
• 35:41
  pitcher in the second, and Zachary swings and
• 35:43
  misses. One ball and one strike. Checking the
• 35:56
  pitch. Strike two, swinging. Tell you, aside
• 36:00
  from the time when Pete Rose was on his 44 -game
• 36:03
  hitting streak, there probably are almost as
• 36:06
  many media people right now in New York from
• 36:08
  the sports world and from all over the country
• 36:10
  as a result of the possible player strikes than
• 36:13
  at any other time on the trips that we have made
• 36:16
  in here over the last seven, eight years. Two
• 36:20
  balls, two strikes. They were trying to get Zachary
• 36:29
  at end of second for New York. He pitches, and
• 36:32
  Zachary takes strike three, and that's the inning.
• 36:35
  Tom's second strikeout, a scoring inning for
• 36:37
  the Mets. One run, three hits. They leave a pair.
• 36:41
  And after two complete, New York won the Reds
• 36:44
  nothing. Dave Concepcion will lead off round
• 36:46
  number three for Cincinnati as the Reds enter
• 36:48
  their third inning, trailing New York one to
• 36:50
  nothing. And here with a play -by -play, Joe
• 36:52
  Nuttall. Thank you, Marty. Davey Singel off the
• 36:55
  right side of Pat Zachary in the first inning.
• 36:58
  Dave, a .308 batting average. Four all -runs
• 37:03
  and 44 RBIs. Dave, second to George Foster in
• 37:07
  the National League in RBIs. George leads the
• 37:10
  league with 46. Right to that three -hit top,
• 37:14
  Zachary, through the first two innings. And stranded
• 37:18
  with five baserunners. Dave Concepcion leads
• 37:23
  it off. At Montreal, the Expos leading the Braves
• 37:28
  2 -0, third inning. The American League, Toronto
• 37:32
  leading Kansas City 4 -2. Kansas City at bat
• 37:36
  at the top of the fourth. Zachary ready to work
• 37:40
  to Concepcion, and his breaking pitch misses
• 37:42
  outside. Only one other game to be played tonight.
• 37:48
  That's Los Angeles at St. Louis. 1 -0 pitch.
• 37:55
  A half -swing foul by Concepcion, and it evens
• 37:59
  it 1 -1. Fernando Valenzuela will go for the
• 38:03
  Dodgers and Silvio Martinez for the Cardinals.
• 38:10
  Zachary even to Concepcion, 1 -1. Foster on deck,
• 38:16
  and that'll be Danny Dreesen. Zachary delivers
• 38:25
  the 1 -1. Outside, two balls to strike. Pat has
• 38:29
  walked 37 batters in 73 innings coming into tonight's
• 38:35
  game, and then struck out 41. The 2 -1 delivery.
• 38:42
  Swung on and a one bouncer to coverage at third.
• 38:45
  And his throw on to stop. One away. On down and
• 38:52
  George Foster steps in. George call out on strikes
• 38:56
  in the first inning. Back for his last start.
• 39:04
  He lost to the Houston Astros 6 -2. In Houston
• 39:09
  when he allowed ten hits and six runs. In three
• 39:14
  in the third inning. Walked four in that stretch.
• 39:22
  Foster steps in. Base is empty in and out. The
• 39:25
  pitch. George swings at a breaking ball and chops
• 39:28
  it foul at the plate. Danny Dreesen. Schedule
• 39:40
  a bat next. Outfield playing George about straight
• 39:45
  away. Foster backs away from the plate. Back
• 39:50
  in and Trevino. Bison's assigned. They all want
• 39:55
  the foster. Fastball at the knees in the outside
• 39:57
  corner. And Zachary in front. 0 -2 to George.
• 40:12
  The 0 -2. Swung on and line fouled by third base
• 40:17
  coach Russ Nixon. Russ having to turn to get
• 40:19
  out of the way of it. Count holes. No balls.
• 40:25
  Two strikes. Zachary has the sign. Again, the
• 40:41
  0 -2. Change -up swung on and missed, and that's
• 40:44
  strikeout number two for Zachary, and both times
• 40:48
  it has been George Foster. So two away, and Danny
• 40:52
  Drees in the batting. Danny walked in the first
• 40:57
  inning to load the bases. Before Ray Knight hit
• 41:00
  a fly ball to Valentine in right field to end
• 41:02
  the inning. And batting average up to .210. He
• 41:12
  looks at a strike from Zachary. Zachary delivers
• 41:24
  the 0 -1. Harrison takes it high and outside.
• 41:27
  Not even as a ball of strength. It's on the way.
• 41:39
  It's on and foul down the left side. That will
• 41:42
  settle back into the seat. Down holding of the
• 41:47
  ball. Two strikes to Drees. Manning with five
• 41:50
  all runs and 21 RBIs. Zachary again the one -two.
• 41:59
  That's been the third change. Two balls, two
• 42:02
  strikes. Knackery checking with Trevino. The
• 42:15
  2 -2. Hung on and a fly ball hit into left center
• 42:19
  field. Moving over Mookie Wilson. He's there
• 42:22
  and makes the play. And for the first time in
• 42:24
  the game, the Reds out in order. Middle of the
• 42:27
  third. New York 1, Cincinnati nothing. For New
• 42:32
  York in the bottom half of the third, the top
• 42:34
  of the order, Wilson, Baylor, and Valentine to
• 42:37
  face Don Seaver. New York getting around to the
• 42:40
  second inning when Dave Kingman hit his 14th
• 42:43
  ball of the year on a 2 -0 pitch. The ball just
• 42:47
  dropping over the fence and left field into the
• 42:50
  Cincinnati bullpen. A Mookie Wilson leads it
• 42:57
  off. Wilson called out on strike, leading off
• 43:00
  the game for New York. Deaver delivers. Wilson
• 43:11
  takes. High and outside of ball. I'm back with
• 43:22
  a 1 -0. Wilson swings and doesn't get it. 1 -1.
• 43:32
  Kingman now tied with Mike Smith for the league
• 43:36
  lead in all runs at 14. Low curve hangs high
• 43:40
  to Wilson. Two and one to come. A wide pitch.
• 43:48
  Wilson takes it inside. Three balls to strike.
• 43:59
  Three -one delivery. Wilson takes strike two
• 44:02
  call. A full count now to Mookie Wilson. Payoff
• 44:12
  on the way. Wilson swings and fouls back to the
• 44:16
  screen. Mike Lum, a good day yesterday for the
• 44:25
  Cubs in that second game win, 7 -4 over the Giants.
• 44:30
  Mike went 3 -3 with a home run. Pitch on the
• 44:35
  way. Wilson swings and rounds it up the middle
• 44:38
  right between Severs' legs and on into center
• 44:40
  field. Bolton makes the wide turn, and that's
• 44:44
  the fourth end of the game for New York. Bob
• 44:47
  Severs. And I bring Bob Baylor to the plate.
• 44:55
  Baylor in the first inning, a fly ball to Collins
• 45:00
  in right field. Wilson has ten stolen bases.
• 45:11
  He has been caught four times. The receiver throws
• 45:14
  over to first. Again, the stretch and another
• 45:18
  throw there, and Wilson again back. Ellis Valentine
• 45:21
  on deck. Receiver has struck out two. Another
• 45:28
  throw to first, and this one sounds like it hit
• 45:31
  Wilson in the back. Mookie getting up and holding
• 45:36
  his lower back. Actually, the ball hit him, or
• 45:40
  Wilson would still be running. Tom sets again,
• 45:53
  throws the first, and again, Wilson back safely.
• 45:57
  Bob Baylor at the plate. Baylor a .250 batting
• 46:01
  average. Stretching the pitch, Wilson goes. Here's
• 46:05
  Nolan Stroh, and it's not near a time. Wilson
• 46:08
  has his 11th stolen base for the year. The Mookie
• 46:13
  had a good jump, and he got down there quickly.
• 46:26
  The count to Bob Baylor, 0 -1. That's such a
• 46:30
  called strike. Baylor's sticking his bat out
• 46:33
  over the plate, trying to distract Joe Nolan.
• 46:42
  Wilson now at second. Beaver has the sign from
• 46:46
  Nolan to stretch the pitch. Baylor punts third
• 46:50
  -base side. The ball rolling. Buff of the ball
• 46:52
  to Beaver. It's going quickly to Ron Oster. And
• 46:55
  Ron takes it on the long hop to retire Baylor.
• 46:59
  Good play by Tom Beaver and Ron Oster. Treaded
• 47:04
  Baylor with a sacrifice. He is out 1 -4. Milton
• 47:08
  Wilson moves on to third base. The batter is
• 47:13
  Ellis Valentine. Valentine grounded to Concepcion
• 47:17
  in the first inning. Dave Kingman moves on deck.
• 47:25
  Well, that is Joe Torre trying to put another
• 47:28
  run on the scoreboard here tonight. Beaver works
• 47:32
  for the windup, and Valentine swings and pops
• 47:35
  it up. Shallow into center field. Griffey waiting
• 47:39
  on it, and... And tanking as Wilson, he'll score
• 47:42
  easily, and it's a two -to -nothing ballgame.
• 47:45
  A very high pop into center field, and Wilson
• 47:48
  scores easily. Valentine gets his 17th RBI of
• 47:52
  the year, and the Mets lead it two to nothing.
• 48:02
  Having Dave Kingman on the plate, Dave leading
• 48:07
  off the second inning. Homered into the red bullpen,
• 48:11
  his 14th of the year. He rewinds and delivers,
• 48:17
  and Kingman takes high and inside a ball. Two
• 48:24
  out, the Mets have scored a run here in the third,
• 48:27
  lead it two to nothing. Tom delivers. England
• 48:37
  swings and misses a pitch down, and the count
• 48:40
  evens 1 -1. 1 -1 on the way. Aye. Two alls to
• 48:58
  strike. That's Enfield. Ulster to the left of
• 49:08
  second base. Outfield pulled around to the left.
• 49:12
  2 -1 delivery. High and inside. Three balls to
• 49:16
  strike. 3 -1 the count to Dave Kingman. Seaver
• 49:34
  delivers the 3 -1, and Kingman takes it. On inside,
• 49:39
  a ball, and that's the first walk issued by Tom
• 49:42
  Seaver. Kingman moves on to first base, and the
• 49:46
  batter is Rusty Stobbs. Stobbs single to center
• 49:49
  in the second inning. York leading 2 -0. Kingman
• 50:02
  at first base leads. This throw over to first,
• 50:05
  and Dave steps back. Stretching the pitch, and
• 50:16
  a slider misses inside the stop. Ball one. Mike
• 50:28
  Cubbage, the on -deck batter. 1 -0 to stop. Let's
• 50:32
  see. Tate's blowing inside again. And it's two
• 50:35
  balls, no strike. Well, the Yankees score in
• 50:42
  the first inning of Chicago. White Sox at bat
• 50:47
  in the bottom half of the first. There goes Kingman.
• 50:50
  The pitch is swung on and missed. The throw down,
• 50:52
  not time. And Kingman has the stolen base. Dave
• 50:56
  with a running jump. For Kingman, that is his
• 51:03
  second stolen base of the year. On count two
• 51:07
  and one, the rest is stopped. They were looking
• 51:21
  to Nolan for the sign. He has it. The stretch
• 51:24
  and the pitch. Stop takes strike two on the outside
• 51:28
  corner. The count evens two and two. Kingman
• 51:40
  the second lead. Dave Watson stole second. Seaver
• 51:45
  to the plate. Stomp takes it inside. Full count.
• 52:00
  Tom waiting on the side. Takes one off. Now the
• 52:04
  stretch. And he steps back off the pitching rubber.
• 52:16
  Tom ready. And delivers the payoff. Tom swings
• 52:20
  and fouls it off to the left and back into the
• 52:24
  seat. Tom holding. Three and two. Good crowd
• 52:33
  here at Shea Stadium tonight. Last night we had
• 52:37
  10 ,352, and Tuesday night, 13 ,331. Again, the
• 52:45
  3 -2, swung on, ground ball, foul off the first
• 52:49
  baseline. Ball not missing by much, but Dutch
• 52:54
  runner at the first base on fire holding up his
• 52:57
  hands right away. Tom holds the three balls,
• 53:08
  two strikes to Rusty Stott. He were ready. And
• 53:24
  again, the 3 -2. Stott swings, fouls this from
• 53:27
  straight back. Ball hitting the glass behind
• 53:30
  home plate and bounding all the way out to the
• 53:33
  mound where Tom Seaver picks it up. On set and
• 53:47
  delivered. Cobb swings and a fly ball in the
• 53:50
  right field. Waiting on it, moving in is Collins,
• 53:53
  and that's the inning. The Mets pick up another
• 53:56
  run in the inning on one hit. But no errors,
• 54:00
  and a runner left on at the end of three. New
• 54:03
  York 2, Cincinnati nothing. Ray Knight will lead
• 54:08
  it off as the Reds bat in the fourth inning.
• 54:10
  Ray in the first. A fly ball to the right, but
• 54:13
  the base is bloated. Ray hitting .246, five home
• 54:16
  runs and 18 RBIs. Now Indianapolis at Oklahoma
• 54:21
  City tonight after one inning no score. Charlie
• 54:24
  Liebrand on the mound for the Indians. Charlie
• 54:27
  has won one and lost five. Zachary delivers and
• 54:32
  Knight takes a strike on the outside corner.
• 54:35
  Meanwhile at St. Louis, George Hendrick, a two
• 54:39
  -run homer in the first inning off Valenzuela.
• 54:42
  The Cardinals 2 -0 after 1. Zachary delivers
• 54:49
  the 0 -1. Knight swings and grounds it into deep
• 54:52
  short. Cubbett's backhand drops the ball, and
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  Ray Knight will get a base hit out of that one.
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  Cubbett was there, had it in his glove, and ready
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  to throw. Make that Baylor, Bob Baylor, the shortstop.
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  Cubbett to the third base. On infield single
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  for Ray Knight, the fourth of the game for the
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  Reds, and that'll bring Ron Oster to the plate.
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  Ron grounded to Doug Flynn in the second inning,
• 55:20
  leading off. Oster a .293 batting average with
• 55:24
  a home run, 25 RBIs. Zachary sets and delivers,
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  and Oster swings and hits one well in the right
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  center field, and that's going to get to that
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  one. Knight around second, a bounce is off the
• 55:37
  wall. Right to third. Knight being waved in.
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  He's going to score. Oster on his way to third
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  to throw. He's not in time, and it's a two -to
• 55:45
  -one ball game. Fifth triple of the year for
• 55:48
  Ron Oster. He is 26 by the eye, and Barretta
• 55:52
  back in it just like that. Ray Knight scoring
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  all the way from first base, and Oster with a
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  headlong slide into third, and he represents
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  the tying run of Joe Dole of the batter. Five
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  hits now for the Reds in the game. Okay, Wilson
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  feeling the ball off the fence. Going to Bob
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  Baylor, but the throw a bit high. Ostrand safely
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  at third. A stretch by Zachary of the pitch.
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  And Nolan swings, sends at the center field.
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  A base hit. He's two for two, and it's a tie
• 56:40
  ball game. Oh, three straight hits here in the
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  inning. Ties it up. That'll bring Tom Seaver
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  to the plate. Tom sacrificed in the second inning,
• 56:53
  moving Nolan to second base. Joe Nolan gets his
• 56:59
  tenth RBI of the year. Reds tie it up at 2 -2.
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  Right now, Rusty Stobb talking with Pat Zachary
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  at the mound. He heads back to first base. Cabbage,
• 57:19
  the New York third baseman, already on the grass,
• 57:22
  looking for the punt. Stretched by Zachary, and
• 57:27
  the pitch. Steverer punts first base side, but
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  foul. Four -five, two -to -two. No one at first
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  base, nobody out. So over to first, Nolan steps
• 57:56
  back. The Reds as a team with 24 or 33 sacrificed
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  buttons. Tom squares the button, swings away
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  as Stobb started toward all and then checked
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  when he saw Tom going back to swing. But count
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  0 and 2. Zachary to the belt. And delivers. And
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  Seaver again swings and misses. And he squares
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  the button. Came back to swing. Zachary has his
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  third strikeout. One away. And Dave Collins the
• 58:44
  batter. Collins. 0 -1 officially in the first
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  inning. He put out a punt. The ball was just
• 58:56
  a few feet in front of the plate where Savino
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  peeled it and threw him out, and then he walked
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  in the second inning. Reds scoring two here in
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  the inning so far, and have tied it up 2 -2.
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  Zachary ready. And delivers. Collins takes it
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  low and outside the ball. Rusty Stobb playing
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  off the bag and in front of Joe Nolan. Zachary.
• 59:39
  The 1 -0 to Collins. Dave takes it under the
• 59:42
  knees. It's two balls, no strikes. Well, Montreal
• 59:49
  has picked up another lug on and now leaves the
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  Braves 3 -0. Atlanta's bat to fifth. Zachary
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  ready for 2 -0. Collins swings it, grounds it
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  hard in the right field. That's the main shift.
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  Dolan moves on to second. He'll hold right there.
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  And that's four hits now in the inning. And we
• 1:00:14
  might see some activity down in the... New York
• 1:00:18
  bullpen. It was first hit, and now Rube Walker,
• 1:00:23
  the pitching coach for the Mets, will take a
• 1:00:26
  walk to the mound. He'll have a word with Pat
• 1:00:28
  Zachary. The inning started off with Knight singling
• 1:00:32
  to, in the hole, a shortstop. Then the first
• 1:00:36
  pitch delivered to Ron Oster. He tripled the
• 1:00:39
  right center field, scoring Knight. Oster scored
• 1:00:45
  when Nolan singled to center field. Seaver struck
• 1:00:49
  out, and now the single by Dave Collins brought
• 1:00:51
  Rube Walker out of the New York dugout. He's
• 1:00:54
  still at the mound talking with Trevino and Pat
• 1:00:57
  Zachary. No activity as yet down in the New York
• 1:01:02
  bullpen. Walker back to the Mets dugout. Kenny
• 1:01:14
  Griffey the batter. Kenny single the first to
• 1:01:17
  right and then a hard ground ball to Baylor at
• 1:01:21
  short to force Collins to end the second inning.
• 1:01:25
  Kenny hitting .294. A home run, 16 RBI. Zachary
• 1:01:30
  ready and delivered. Griff swings and hits one
• 1:01:33
  into shallow center field. Coming on is Wilson.
• 1:01:36
  He's there and he has it two away. Two down,
• 1:01:46
  Dave Concepcion the batter. Dave one for two.
• 1:01:52
  In the first inning, he had a hard one -bouncer
• 1:01:54
  back to the mound. It struck Zachary on the right
• 1:01:57
  side, bounced toward shortstop. Dave reaching
• 1:02:01
  first, and then in the third inning, he bounced
• 1:02:04
  to Cubbies at third base. Tied up two to two.
• 1:02:10
  The Reds with Nolan in second, Collins at first,
• 1:02:13
  and two away. Reds have had four hits here in
• 1:02:18
  the inning. Zachary to the belt. Delivers to
• 1:02:34
  Davian. It's swung on and missed. All in one.
• 1:02:46
  I feel playing Concepcion straight away. He was
• 1:02:50
  four home runs on the year. And 44 RBI. The 0
• 1:02:57
  -1 delivery. Check swing and he goes too far.
• 1:03:02
  Zachary in front 0 -2 now to Concepcion. Now
• 1:03:10
  Davey goes beyond deck circle to get the pine
• 1:03:13
  tar right. George Foster. Nolan is second lead.
• 1:03:29
  Collins at first. Zachary has the sign from Trevino.
• 1:03:35
  The stretch and the pitch. That's high. A fastball.
• 1:03:39
  Not missing by much. And the count goes the ball
• 1:03:42
  two strikes to Davis. Coverage deep and third.
• 1:03:54
  Mailer deep and short. It's a one -two pitch.
• 1:04:00
  Kane spun on and missed. And that's four strikeouts
• 1:04:03
  for Zachary. But the Reds get two in the inning
• 1:04:06
  on four hits. So there are no errors. Two runners
• 1:04:09
  left on base. And it's the middle of the fourth.
• 1:04:12
  The Reds two and the Mets two. Now we're tied
• 1:04:16
  up two to two as the Mets bat in the bottom half
• 1:04:18
  of fourth inning. It'll be Mike Covich, Alex
• 1:04:21
  Trevino, and Doug Fled to face Tom Seaver. The
• 1:04:26
  Mets scoring a run in the second on Kingman's
• 1:04:28
  home run. They picked up a run in the third when
• 1:04:31
  Wilson Singles stole second. Moved to third on
• 1:04:36
  a sacrifice by Baylor, and he scored on Valentine's
• 1:04:40
  sacrifice fly to center field. Covich in the
• 1:04:44
  second inning, a fly ball to Collins in right
• 1:04:48
  field. Mike hitting .233, three RBIs and two
• 1:04:53
  doubles. Covey's a left -handed batter. Stever
• 1:04:59
  waiting on Covey to settle in. End of the wide
• 1:05:04
  and the pitch. Covey takes it down low of all.
• 1:05:09
  2 -2 the score here in the fourth inning. Reds
• 1:05:13
  trying to sweep the three games from the Mets
• 1:05:16
  and extend their winning streak to seven straight.
• 1:05:22
  Beavers 1 -0. Covey swings and hits it hard to
• 1:05:25
  right field, but Collins moving forward the line
• 1:05:28
  is able to make the play. A one -way, and Alex
• 1:05:33
  Pervino at the batter. Pervino, single to center
• 1:05:37
  in the second inning. Pervino, a right -handed
• 1:05:41
  batter. Rear to the plate. Trevino takes low
• 1:05:59
  on outside of ball. Come back for the 1 -0. Trevino
• 1:06:09
  swings and misses. Tried to tacky swing on a
• 1:06:12
  slider low on outside. Count evens 1 -1. On the
• 1:06:23
  1 -1. Strike two called. An off -speed pitch.
• 1:06:27
  Siever in front of all two strikes. Tom looks
• 1:06:29
  to be picking up ahead of his team. He delivers
• 1:06:33
  the one -two. That's strike three -four. Third
• 1:06:37
  strikeout for Siever. Two away, and the batter
• 1:06:41
  is Doug Flynn. Now the fly ball to Collins and
• 1:06:46
  right in the second inning. Well, in a .243 batting
• 1:06:58
  average, the home run, the 11 RBIs, Seaver winds
• 1:07:02
  and the pitch. Check swing, ground ball, rolls
• 1:07:06
  foul off the first baseline. Danny Dreesen fuels
• 1:07:09
  the ball and returns it to Seaver. Seaver getting
• 1:07:14
  Pravino on a changeup for a called third strike.
• 1:07:24
  Tom Wines, the 0 -1. Bung on and looped into
• 1:07:28
  shallow right center. Going out, Oster has room.
• 1:07:31
  And Rod makes the play for the second time in
• 1:07:34
  the game. Seaver has retired. The Mets in order.
• 1:07:37
  And after four, Reds 2, New York 2. Morning show,
• 1:07:45
  the Reds, two runs, seven hits, and no errors.
• 1:07:49
  New York Mets, two runs, four hits, and no errors.
• 1:07:53
  For the Reds. Thank you, Joe. You know, I wonder
• 1:08:01
  how Johnny's doing. Yes, sir. Well, let's see.
• 1:08:06
  9 -17. I would say that J .P. is sitting back,
• 1:08:13
  very relaxed, enjoying this fine broadcast of
• 1:08:18
  his favorite team. I'm sure he is. Yes. Thank
• 1:08:23
  you. Here's Foster. It's been all Pat Zachary
• 1:08:29
  against George in this game. Twice he has struck
• 1:08:31
  him out, once looking in the first and swinging
• 1:08:34
  in the third. Now the Reds come off the mat in
• 1:08:37
  the fourth inning to score twice and tie the
• 1:08:39
  score. Here comes Zach's pitch and Foster swings
• 1:08:42
  and he misses. At the end of two in St. Louis,
• 1:08:45
  Cardinals 2, Dodgers nothing. George Hendrick,
• 1:08:48
  a two -run homer in the first, number 10 of the
• 1:08:50
  year for the Cardinal outfielder. Foster now
• 1:08:57
  steps away from the plate. Zachary's been touched
• 1:09:00
  for seven home runs. And that equals the number
• 1:09:03
  that Randy Jones has thrown up. Make that six
• 1:09:06
  homers that Zachary has allowed. Jones gave up
• 1:09:09
  his seventh last night to Foster. George swings
• 1:09:12
  it again, misses. Quickly no balls and two strikes.
• 1:09:16
  Danny Dreesen on deck to be followed by Ray Knight.
• 1:09:29
  Foster's 46 RBIs lead the Major League, but boy,
• 1:09:33
  Buddy Bell. You talk about coming in a hurry.
• 1:09:37
  Over with the Texas Rangers. He has jumped up
• 1:09:40
  over the 40 mark. Foster takes the pitch inside
• 1:09:43
  for a ball. In fact, he had five RBIs last night
• 1:09:49
  in the 12 -5 win over Milwaukee, including a
• 1:09:52
  home run. He has 43 runs batted in this season.
• 1:09:57
  One ball, two strikes. Foster strikes out swinging.
• 1:10:00
  That's the third time Zachary has gotten him.
• 1:10:04
  And for Pat overall, his fifth strikeout. Facing
• 1:10:09
  Danny Dreesen, who walked in the first and flied
• 1:10:12
  to center in the third. Funny, he's talking about
• 1:10:14
  change -ups in our league, and I know we feel
• 1:10:16
  that Mario Soto's got the best in the league,
• 1:10:19
  but I tell you, Pat Zachary's right there with
• 1:10:22
  him. Well, he, of course, came to the big leagues
• 1:10:24
  with a reputation of having an awful good one,
• 1:10:27
  and he's kept it with him all these years. There's
• 1:10:29
  ball one. A 2 -2 tie, top half of the fifth.
• 1:10:41
  Now Zachary goes to the windup and Dreesen calls
• 1:10:43
  time with plate umpire Lee Weier. The Red Cedar
• 1:10:47
  Rapids Club came up with a doubleheader victory
• 1:10:49
  over Burlington last night, 6 -4 in 10 in game
• 1:10:52
  1, 8 -2 in the second game. In the opener, outfielder
• 1:10:54
  Ken Scarface from Western Michigan University
• 1:10:56
  had a two -run homer to tie at the seventh, sending
• 1:11:00
  the game to extra innings. And then catcher Dave
• 1:11:03
  Miley won it with a bases -loaded single in the
• 1:11:05
  10th inning. Two balls and no strike. Zachary
• 1:11:15
  deals, Greeson takes, and that's over. Strike
• 1:11:17
  one called. Greeson waving the bat around. Zachary
• 1:11:30
  checks with Trevino. He pitches, and Danny takes
• 1:11:32
  ball three. That's below the knees, a breaking
• 1:11:34
  ball. Any American League at the end of five
• 1:11:37
  in Toronto, the Blue Jays five, the Kansas City
• 1:11:39
  Royals three, Martinez the homer for the Jays,
• 1:11:41
  McCray home run number... Four for Kansas City.
• 1:11:48
  Zachary behind and pitching to Dreesen, and Danny
• 1:11:51
  takes ball four, and he's on. The second time
• 1:11:54
  that Zachary has walked the Reds' first baseman,
• 1:11:56
  and his third walk overall. The batter, Ray Knight,
• 1:12:02
  got things going in the two -run fourth inning
• 1:12:05
  with an infield single deep in the hole at shortstop.
• 1:12:09
  and then scored all the way from first base on
• 1:12:12
  Ron Oster's triple to deep right center. After
• 1:12:14
  two and a half at Milwaukee, Brewers 1, Rangers
• 1:12:17
  nothing. Gorman Thomas, home run number 15 in
• 1:12:20
  the second. Pete Bukovic going after his eighth
• 1:12:23
  win of the season for the Brewers against Ferguson
• 1:12:25
  Jenkins. The Yankees and the White Sox are tied
• 1:12:28
  up at 1 -1 after an inning and a half. Lou Piniella
• 1:12:30
  homered in the first for New York as second.
• 1:12:32
  Doug Bird, 5 -0 against Steve Trout. Streets
• 1:12:35
  and running. Knight swinging and fouls it off
• 1:12:37
  the end of the bat. In the bottom of the second
• 1:12:40
  in Minnesota, Twins 2, Tigers nothing. Pete Redfern
• 1:12:44
  against Dan Petrie. And two late games. We'll
• 1:12:47
  have Baltimore, Seattle, and Boston in California.
• 1:12:55
  Red's about to hit the net. 7 -4. Neither team
• 1:12:57
  has committed an error, and we've got Dreesen
• 1:12:59
  aboard for a one -odd walk. Zachary delivers,
• 1:13:05
  and Knight bunts third base side. Fair ball,
• 1:13:08
  fair ball, still fair, and now foul as it rolls
• 1:13:11
  across the line. Maybe five or six feet short
• 1:13:14
  of the third base bag. Knight will come back
• 1:13:22
  with a count of no balls and two strikes on him.
• 1:13:33
  Reds trying to extend their winning streak to
• 1:13:35
  seven in a row. This is already the second -best
• 1:13:37
  winning streak of the season. Last month, they
• 1:13:40
  ran off eight straight. They won seven of their
• 1:13:44
  last eight, 11 of their last 14, and 16 out of
• 1:13:48
  their last 20. And being 13 over the 500 mark,
• 1:13:52
  their best total of the season. Reds win tonight.
• 1:13:56
  The Dodgers lost, and we're only a half a game
• 1:13:59
  back. And the Cardinals have the early lead at
• 1:14:01
  St. Louis over L .A., and Fernando Valenzuela
• 1:14:04
  2 -0. Right back at the batter's box, and Zachary
• 1:14:11
  ready to pitch again. But first, he'll throw
• 1:14:13
  to first, driving Griesen back. Pitch. Just missed
• 1:14:30
  with it, and Knight almost went too far. Was
• 1:14:33
  able to hold up on the swing. Ronnie Oster coming
• 1:14:42
  up next. This game in the top half of the fifth
• 1:14:45
  inning. Another throw to first, but this one
• 1:14:51
  just a lob throw onto Rusty Staub. This will
• 1:14:55
  probably be the best crowd of the three Knights.
• 1:14:58
  that the Reds have spent here in New York. And
• 1:15:00
  I would imagine many of them here because of
• 1:15:04
  Tom Seaver's presence on the mound for the Cincinnati
• 1:15:06
  team. One and two and holding on Knight and another
• 1:15:13
  throw to first. And this one had a purpose behind
• 1:15:15
  it as Zachary really brought it over there to
• 1:15:17
  stop. Pat Zachary waging a war on two fronts
• 1:15:28
  with Dreesen at first with Knight at the plate.
• 1:15:30
  In a 2 -2 game in the fifth inning. One man out,
• 1:15:35
  the infield at double play depth. Zachary stretches
• 1:15:38
  and steps off the pitching rubber. Danny meanwhile
• 1:15:49
  edging a little bit farther off the bag against
• 1:15:52
  the holding stop. And a throw to first again
• 1:15:58
  and safe again. That's a 5 -win -6 loss and a
• 1:16:10
  432 -run average. He's been healthy this season,
• 1:16:13
  which is a departure from the way much of his
• 1:16:17
  career has gone since leaving Cincinnati and
• 1:16:20
  coming to New York. He's had a number of injuries
• 1:16:23
  that have kept him out of a lot of starts. Knight
• 1:16:26
  strikes out swinging on a changeup, and that's
• 1:16:28
  the number six of the night for Mr. Zachary.
• 1:16:32
  He struck out Foster, he walked Reese, and he
• 1:16:34
  fans Knight. And Ronnie Oster, one for two, his
• 1:16:39
  first hit in this series, a big one, a fourth
• 1:16:41
  -inning triple to deep right center field that
• 1:16:43
  knocked in a run his 26th of the year, and he
• 1:16:46
  later scored the tying run when Nolan Singleton
• 1:16:48
  hit the center field. Three years ago, Pat suffered
• 1:16:56
  a fracture of his left foot when he kicked the
• 1:17:00
  dugout step after being taken out of the game
• 1:17:03
  here with a red. And was on the disabled list
• 1:17:07
  the rest of the season. There's a throw to first
• 1:17:09
  again to stop. Prior to that, he was on the way
• 1:17:14
  to what possibly would have been his best year
• 1:17:16
  in the big leagues. He had already picked up
• 1:17:17
  ten victories at the time of the injury. He's
• 1:17:26
  working to Oster, and Ronnie takes it high and
• 1:17:28
  away for a ball. 1979, his season was again curtailed
• 1:17:32
  by injury. Before he went out with elbow problems,
• 1:17:36
  he had a couple of victories against the Cubs
• 1:17:40
  and the Phillies, but then developed a tingling
• 1:17:42
  sensation in his right elbow and was on the disabled
• 1:17:46
  list with an irritation of the ulnar nerve. So
• 1:17:49
  Pat Zachary has had more than his share of physical
• 1:17:51
  problems. Two and 0 to count. Another throw to
• 1:18:05
  first base as Zachary continues to pay attention
• 1:18:07
  to Danny Dreesen who drew the one -out walk.
• 1:18:17
  Oster batting 295 after his fifth triple of the
• 1:18:20
  season last inning. That's right, Andrew, with
• 1:18:31
  a motion. He kicks fire. Oster takes a high fastball,
• 1:18:34
  3 -0. Zachary has struck out six. He's walked
• 1:18:41
  three. Ronnie Oster looking at a straightaway
• 1:18:48
  New York outfield as he bids to get on with the
• 1:18:51
  second walk of the inning. Indianapolis trailing
• 1:18:55
  Oklahoma City 1 -0 at the end of two. Oklahoma
• 1:18:59
  City with a run in the second inning. Dreeson
• 1:19:02
  running, pitch is taken high, ball four. So two
• 1:19:04
  men on with two men out as we pause for station
• 1:19:08
  identification on the Cincinnati Reds baseball
• 1:19:11
  network. Country music fans, you'll not want
• 1:19:14
  to miss the K95 Country Countdown each and every
• 1:19:17
  Sunday morning from 9 a .m. until noon. Your
• 1:19:19
  host, Greg Shepard, countdown the top 30 tunes
• 1:19:22
  here in K95 Country. K95 Country Countdown, WHOK
• 1:19:26
  -FM, Lancaster. Here's Joe Nolan who delivered
• 1:19:32
  the tying run home in the fourth inning with
• 1:19:33
  a single, and Joe's two for two tonight. His
• 1:19:37
  batting average has jumped back over 300. It
• 1:19:39
  stands at 301. Takes it down on him for a ball.
• 1:19:48
  Exactly looking out into the on -deck circle
• 1:19:50
  where he sees Tom Sieber, and now he's going
• 1:19:52
  to receive a visit to the mound from pitching
• 1:19:54
  coach Rube Walker. Forest Park's annual community
• 1:19:57
  night with the Reds. That's coming up on Thursday,
• 1:20:00
  June the 25th, when the Reds meet the Cardinals.
• 1:20:02
  We'll look forward to seeing all the folks from
• 1:20:03
  Forest Park at the stadium that night. Zachary,
• 1:20:10
  after picking up a strikeout, walked Dreesen,
• 1:20:14
  and after another strikeout, has walked Ron Oster.
• 1:20:17
  Two men on, two men out in a 2 -2 game, and Nolan
• 1:20:20
  looking for his third straight hit. That RBI
• 1:20:23
  in the fourth is tenth of the season. Here's
• 1:20:37
  the right -hander with a 1 -0 to the plate. Swung
• 1:20:40
  on, ground ball to second. Doug Flynn kicks it
• 1:20:42
  around, recovers, and throws the first in plenty
• 1:20:44
  of time. No runs in the inning, no base hits.
• 1:20:47
  Two men left on. After four and a half, the Reds
• 1:20:51
  and the Mets all locked in at two runs apiece.
• 1:20:54
  Get to meet that time of the year again, Summer
• 1:20:56
  Fair in Cincinnati. It happens just one weekend
• 1:20:59
  every summer on our beautiful Cincinnati riverfront.
• 1:21:02
  This year, it's June 13th and 14th. And again
• 1:21:04
  this year, Kahn's Wieners and Franks are the
• 1:21:06
  official hot dog of Summer Fair. Now, why was
• 1:21:09
  Kahn's selected as the official hot dog? Well,
• 1:21:11
  for the very same reason that Kahn's is the only
• 1:21:14
  hot dog served at Riverfront Stadium. Because
• 1:21:16
  at Kahn's, great meat makes great wieners. And
• 1:21:20
  you know, Kahn's is not only the hot dog of the
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  Cincinnati Reds. Kahn's hot dogs are also featured
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  Park free at the stadium. Have you made your
• 1:22:07
  vacation plans this year? Maybe you're thinking
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  about staying a little closer to home, maybe
• 1:22:11
  driving less, watching your dollars a little
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  more carefully. If so, may we suggest a trip
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  to Cincinnati to see some Reds baseball at Riverfront
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  Stadium and to enjoy all the other fine attractions
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  and things to do in the Queen City. To get a
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  schedule and ticket mail or information, just
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  give a call to the Reds office. And if you'd
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  like some other information about... Things like
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  hotels, motels, restaurants, and all the things
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  to see and do in Cincinnati. Just tell the Reds
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  and they'll be happy to see that information
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  and send it your way. Give a call or drop a note
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  to Cincinnati Reds, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati,
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  Ohio. Matt Zachary will be first up for the Mets
• 1:22:48
  in the home half of the fifth inning. Zebri got
• 1:22:52
  him on a strikeout in the second, won a three
• 1:22:54
  strikeout. The time is recorded tonight. Went
• 1:22:58
  into this dart, six on the all -time strikeout
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  list, and now has a total of 3 ,036. Pitches
• 1:23:08
  in for a strike. Well, we've got a correction
• 1:23:09
  on that Indy Oklahoma City score. Indianapolis
• 1:23:12
  is leading 1 -0 with a run on the second, and
• 1:23:14
  that game now is in the top half of the fourth
• 1:23:16
  inning at Oklahoma City. That team, the Philadelphia
• 1:23:20
  Philly Triple -A Farm Club. Zachary takes it
• 1:23:27
  high, a fastball, 1 -1. They're through three
• 1:23:30
  in St. Louis, cards two, Dodgers nothing. Zachary
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  taking strike two. With a complete game by Mario
• 1:23:42
  Soto last night, that gives the Reds five in
• 1:23:44
  the last six games, and it's interesting to note,
• 1:23:47
  pitches outside for a ball, that the Reds now
• 1:23:52
  have a total of 15 complete games this season.
• 1:23:55
  And that is second best in the National League,
• 1:23:57
  two behind the leading Dodgers. Two balls, two
• 1:24:02
  strikes. They make that three and two on Zachary.
• 1:24:05
  And the Dodgers, as the pitching staff, have
• 1:24:07
  17 complete games. The Reds are second with 15.
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  And Zachary hits one into right center field,
• 1:24:14
  and Grifty will get there to make the catch.
• 1:24:21
  For the third time tonight, it'll be center fielder
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  Mookie Wilson at the plate, and the first he
• 1:24:25
  struck out and the third he single stole a base
• 1:24:28
  and came in to score. So one for two tonight
• 1:24:36
  and three for nine so far in the series. Wilson's
• 1:24:40
  batting .285 with a home run and seven RBIs.
• 1:24:50
  He bunched at it, lost the bat, made contact.
• 1:24:53
  Nolan hung on to it, strike one. This is a young
• 1:25:00
  man whose reputation preceded him to the major
• 1:25:03
  leagues. He had some fine numbers in the Mets
• 1:25:06
  minor league organization. Ground ball, and that's
• 1:25:09
  a fair ball by first. Down the right field line,
• 1:25:12
  Wilson can motor. He's coming to second. He's
• 1:25:16
  going to take the turn and haul right there as
• 1:25:18
  the ball bounced into the seats apparently. So
• 1:25:22
  Mookie Wilson, who had designs on third base,
• 1:25:25
  and he can flat fly now, I'll tell you. Being
• 1:25:30
  forced to stop at second as Dave Collins pointed
• 1:25:34
  into the seats as if to indicate that either
• 1:25:36
  somebody reached over and picked the ball off
• 1:25:39
  or the ball bounced in there. It's out of our
• 1:25:40
  line of vision where we're located. On the press
• 1:25:43
  level here at Shea, Joe Torre is out saying something
• 1:25:47
  to first base umpire Dutch Rennert, who in turn
• 1:25:49
  goes to plate umpire Lee Rennert, Lee Weier.
• 1:25:52
  And now Dutch has gone back to Joe Torre. I don't
• 1:25:57
  know what Joe is saying other than he's saying
• 1:26:00
  that... Mookie would have been a third, but that's
• 1:26:03
  an absolute ground rule double. Anytime the fan
• 1:26:06
  interferes with the ball like that, it's a ground
• 1:26:09
  rule double. It could be all the way to home,
• 1:26:11
  but I think that I might be wrong in this, but
• 1:26:14
  as far as I know, it's an out -and -out ground
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  rule. Just when you're playing in your home park.
• 1:26:31
  Joe Torre knows that as well as anybody. I guess
• 1:26:34
  he figures, what the heck, I'll take a shot.
• 1:26:36
  You never know what might happen. Oh, true. So
• 1:26:40
  the go -ahead runs at second. One away in the
• 1:26:42
  inning. Bob Baylor is 0 for 1 with a sacrifice
• 1:26:45
  punt. Seaver with a look to second, the pitch
• 1:26:52
  to the plate, and Baylor is down a strike. Check,
• 1:27:10
  swing, foul, ball. A little bounce pass and that's
• 1:27:12
  dugout. I'll tell you, there's some fellas in
• 1:27:15
  this league that can really air it out on those
• 1:27:18
  bases. First time we've really gotten a chance
• 1:27:21
  to watch Mookie Wilson do his thing. Think about
• 1:27:25
  him and Tim Raines up at Montreal. Gary Templeton,
• 1:27:30
  who's no slouch in that department. Davey Lopes,
• 1:27:32
  who's been doing it for years in the league.
• 1:27:34
  Dave Collins. This one fouled out of play. The
• 1:27:37
  National League certainly has... its share of
• 1:27:40
  young men who can motor on the bases. Of course,
• 1:27:49
  Rain's just walking away with the stolen base
• 1:27:54
  race in the National League. He's now swiped
• 1:27:56
  48. Billy North, who can pick him up and lay
• 1:27:59
  him down, is second with 25. And Rodney Scott
• 1:28:02
  of Montreal, 22. Here comes Wilson, the third.
• 1:28:04
  Ball is popped up. Now Wilson has to right himself.
• 1:28:07
  Ronnie Oster will make the catch. Wilson had
• 1:28:10
  time to straighten himself out and get back to
• 1:28:12
  second base, but he was on his way toward trying
• 1:28:14
  to steal third base and was on his way with a
• 1:28:17
  pretty good shot at it. I would say he was there.
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  I would agree with you. Two down, Ellis Valentine
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  at the plate, and he has driven in a New York
• 1:28:30
  run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
• 1:28:36
  He's knocked in 17. Now Sabre trying to keep
• 1:28:41
  the 2 -2 tie intact. Valentine rips it down back
• 1:28:46
  upstairs. Well, we've had two pretty good ballgames
• 1:28:57
  here at Shea Stadium. The 8 -4 Reds win Tuesday
• 1:28:59
  night would not reflect that fact unless you
• 1:29:02
  knew the facts, but it was a 4 -4 game until
• 1:29:05
  the Reds broke the tie with four in the ninth
• 1:29:07
  inning. Check swing, low and away. And of course,
• 1:29:10
  last night, Randy Jones was outstanding in a
• 1:29:13
  losing effort. In fact, the Mets out hit the
• 1:29:15
  Reds 6 -5, but Cincinnati got the home run from
• 1:29:18
  Foster. And the run -producing single by Concepcion
• 1:29:21
  to win it behind Soto. Strike two called a valentine.
• 1:29:24
  Tonight, we're tied up at two. Mets got runs
• 1:29:27
  in the second and the third. The Reds tied it
• 1:29:29
  up in the fourth. And about hit New York 7 -5.
• 1:29:36
  One ball, two strikes, Ballantyne. And the pitch,
• 1:29:39
  and he strikes out swinging. Sabre gets number
• 1:29:42
  four. And the Met numbers in the fifth, no runs
• 1:29:45
  a hit. Wilson left at second through five complete.
• 1:29:49
  The Reds two, the Mets likewise. I'm waiting
• 1:29:52
  for you. Joe Nutsall, yours truly, Marty Brenneman,
• 1:30:25
  back at Shea Stadium in New York City as we move
• 1:30:28
  on to the sixth inning. Don Seaver coming out
• 1:30:33
  of the dugout and heading toward the plate to
• 1:30:36
  start things off against Pat Zachary, who...
• 1:30:39
  has been in trouble more often than not tonight.
• 1:30:42
  The Reds have stranded nine runners, left the
• 1:30:45
  bases loaded in the first inning, stranded two
• 1:30:47
  in the second. The only easy inning that he's
• 1:30:50
  had, Zachary was in the third when he retired
• 1:30:52
  the side in 1 -2 -3 fashion, gave up two runs
• 1:30:55
  on four hits with two left in the fourth. There's
• 1:30:58
  a ball to Seaver and then walked two, but got
• 1:31:00
  out of that jam in the fifth inning by getting
• 1:31:02
  Nolan to ground out the second. So it's not been
• 1:31:04
  an easy night for Pat Zachary. Sabre is sacrificed
• 1:31:11
  and is struck out. 1 -0 pitch. High ball two.
• 1:31:34
  Sabre wanted two red pitchers to have clouded
• 1:31:36
  home runs this season. He pops this one up behind
• 1:31:39
  the plate. Coming back is Trevino, and reaching
• 1:31:43
  into the seat has no play at all. It's about
• 1:31:45
  four rows back. Tom Holmert against the Houston
• 1:31:49
  Astros while pitching a shutout that particular
• 1:31:52
  game at Riverfront Stadium, and then Doug Baer
• 1:31:54
  had that big three -run home run at Wrigley Field
• 1:31:56
  a few weeks ago. Two balls and a strike as Pitcher
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  faces Pitcher in the sixth inning. Seaver with
• 1:32:12
  a pop -up that'll be playable. The third baseman
• 1:32:15
  coverage calling. Waiting for that one to come
• 1:32:17
  down. One out. Now Dave Collins, who's one for
• 1:32:26
  two, has been on twice. He's walked and he's
• 1:32:28
  singled. Thrown out trying to bunt his way on
• 1:32:31
  in the first inning. I'd like to send along our
• 1:32:35
  best tonight to Reds fans listening on WLAP in
• 1:32:38
  Lexington, Kentucky, WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, WAVE
• 1:32:42
  in Louisville, Kentucky, and WIFP in Indianapolis,
• 1:32:45
  Indiana. Collins takes a one -bouncer that gets
• 1:32:55
  away from Trevino. Art Howe continues to lead
• 1:32:58
  the National League in batting with a .344 average,
• 1:33:01
  and Pete Rose... His second now at .330 along
• 1:33:05
  with Pedro Guerrero of the Dodgers. He's continued
• 1:33:07
  to hit all season. Billy Madlock up there. Collins
• 1:33:12
  has dropped out of the top ten. He's hitting
• 1:33:13
  a .311. He swings and pops it up back of third.
• 1:33:17
  Foul territory. Racing over is Kingman. Baylor.
• 1:33:21
  And the ball falls out of play. One ball and
• 1:33:32
  one strike. Zachary coming in off the mound now
• 1:33:40
  to get a new baseball and also have a word or
• 1:33:46
  two with Lee Weier. In the seventh inning at
• 1:33:51
  Montreal, the Expos are trying to route the Braves
• 1:33:54
  for the third straight night, leading 7 -0. Expos
• 1:33:58
  have been in double figures the first two games
• 1:34:00
  of that series and got four runs in the sixth
• 1:34:03
  inning tonight to, in all likelihood, blow that
• 1:34:06
  game wide open. Pitches high and outside a ball
• 1:34:10
  to the Expos, and going home, they've gotten
• 1:34:12
  well all of a sudden. Red swept them over the
• 1:34:16
  weekend at Riverfront Stadium, but now they go
• 1:34:18
  back home and are on their way to a third consecutive
• 1:34:21
  victory over Atlanta. Two balls and a strike
• 1:34:24
  on Collins. Checks his swing. It's high. 3 -1.
• 1:34:39
  Ken Griffey on deck with one out in the sixth.
• 1:34:47
  Zachary kicks and he fires. Collins swings and
• 1:34:49
  bounces towards second. Flynn charges, plays,
• 1:34:52
  throws, out. Two away. The batter, Ken Griffey,
• 1:35:00
  had a base hit in the first inning, but since
• 1:35:02
  has hit into a force out and fly to center. And
• 1:35:11
  now the center fielder, Ken Griffey. Zachary,
• 1:35:24
  once earlier tonight, has retired the Reds in
• 1:35:26
  order. Trying to do it for the second time as
• 1:35:29
  he's up with his pitcher ball to Griffey. That's
• 1:35:40
  low and inside. Two balls and no strike. Griffey
• 1:35:56
  rips one by Doug Flynn. That's in the center
• 1:35:58
  field for a base hit. Hit number eight tonight
• 1:36:02
  for Cincinnati and the second for Griffey as
• 1:36:04
  the inning continues for shortstop Dave Concepcion.
• 1:36:12
  Davey has got an infield hit, bounced out third
• 1:36:14
  to first and struck out. It's not hard to see
• 1:36:21
  why the Reds... have the team batting average
• 1:36:26
  that they have this season, a batting average
• 1:36:31
  of 271. You look at those leading the National
• 1:36:34
  League in total base hits. Rose was 73, but then
• 1:36:38
  Collins and Concepcion were tied for second.
• 1:36:41
  Going into play tonight was 66. Foster was tied
• 1:36:44
  for third with 65. And the two hits that Griffey
• 1:36:47
  has had in the game now give him 66. Four players
• 1:36:51
  off the Cincinnati Ball Club. There's a ball
• 1:36:53
  to Concepcion. Collins, Concepcion, Foster, and
• 1:36:58
  Griffey. Kenny at first, two out. Throw by Zachary
• 1:37:09
  to first base. Zachary brings his hands down
• 1:37:24
  to the belt, throws to first, safe again. Now
• 1:37:28
  we're 14 minutes to 10 o 'clock in New York as
• 1:37:31
  you are in Cincinnati. I've heard nothing in
• 1:37:36
  so far as what might be happening at the negotiating
• 1:37:38
  session in downtown Manhattan. That's up high
• 1:37:46
  for a ball, 2 -0. Zachary has started to fall
• 1:37:49
  behind quite a bit now on the hitters. Mike Covage
• 1:37:59
  was playing in a bit of third base, but he is
• 1:38:01
  now backed up to play a deep position there.
• 1:38:05
  Two balls, no strikes. On the stop, Griffey safe.
• 1:38:09
  The call from Dutch Renner. Reds and the Mets
• 1:38:15
  are tied up at 2 -2. Cincinnati bats in the sixth
• 1:38:17
  inning. Zachary retired the first two before
• 1:38:20
  Griffey singled the center. And he throws to
• 1:38:25
  first again. Zach apparently feeling that Griffey
• 1:38:27
  may well be running on the next pitch with Concepcion
• 1:38:30
  out ahead 2 -0. Trevino hangs a sign. Here comes
• 1:38:49
  the pitch. Swing and a miss. I'll tell you, the
• 1:38:54
  way the Cubs have been playing of late, they
• 1:38:56
  are slowly but surely creeping up on the fifth
• 1:38:59
  -place New York team. The victory today by Chicago
• 1:39:03
  over the Giants gives them a record of 15 -37.
• 1:39:06
  New York is 17 -33. Hard smash, but third baseman
• 1:39:13
  Kovic bobbles the ball and will not have a play.
• 1:39:17
  Ball was hit hard, but at him. He booted it away
• 1:39:21
  toward the foul line behind third. And everybody
• 1:39:25
  is safe, and Foster comes to the plate as Rube
• 1:39:27
  Walker heads back toward the mound. Ball was
• 1:39:31
  hit very hard by Davies, but did not appear to
• 1:39:35
  be a difficult ball for coverage to play, and
• 1:39:38
  he's going to be charged with an error. So the
• 1:39:49
  Reds posing a two -out threat on a single by
• 1:39:51
  Griffey. Concepcion's on through the error by
• 1:39:53
  Mike Kovic. Rube Walker, who's been to the mound
• 1:39:56
  a couple of times previous to this one, goes
• 1:39:58
  back to the dugout, and we may see some activity
• 1:40:01
  up in the New York bullpen. George Foster has
• 1:40:07
  struck out three straight times. Looks like right
• 1:40:22
  -hander Dyer Miller has started to throw now
• 1:40:23
  in the New York bullpen. Runners leading at first
• 1:40:26
  and second, two outs. Foster takes the pitch
• 1:40:30
  wide of the play. Ball one. George trying to
• 1:40:43
  get the go -ahead runs in. And swings and misses.
• 1:40:47
  Zachary has pitched George about as well as you
• 1:40:49
  can pitch him. He's kept the ball pretty effectively
• 1:40:51
  away from him. That pitch was out away from the
• 1:40:55
  right -handed batter and it's a ball and a strike.
• 1:41:03
  Griffey second, Concepcion first. Pitch, Zachary,
• 1:41:06
  swung on, fly ball, hit back into left field.
• 1:41:08
  Kingman going back, got a chance, goal! Foster
• 1:41:13
  drills a 1 -1 pitch on a line into the Cincinnati
• 1:41:16
  bullpen. Home run number 14, and the Reds lead
• 1:41:20
  it 5 -2. That one got out of here right now.
• 1:41:26
  It was hard to say if it was going to be high
• 1:41:28
  enough. I knew he got it. It was right there
• 1:41:31
  flooring, but whether it was going to be high
• 1:41:33
  enough, it was. He has now knocked in 49 runs
• 1:41:39
  with that three -run blast to left field, and
• 1:41:42
  the Reds lead by three. So Foster more than makes
• 1:41:51
  up for those three strikeouts with a blast that
• 1:41:55
  breaks the tie. Danny Dreesen takes ball once.
• 1:42:08
  Well, you've got a three -way tie for home run
• 1:42:10
  leadership in the league now. Two balls and no
• 1:42:13
  strikes. Foster, Kingman, and Schmidt have all
• 1:42:21
  hit 14 home runs. Zachary delivers, and Dreesen
• 1:42:31
  takes a strike. Two and one. All of it coming
• 1:42:37
  after the first two men have been retired. Zachary
• 1:42:39
  was looking for an easy six, but it is certainly
• 1:42:43
  not turned out that way. Danny fouls this one
• 1:42:45
  onto the screen. Two and two. Top half of the
• 1:42:54
  sixth inning from St. Louis. Cardinals two, Dodgers
• 1:42:57
  nothing. Treason fouls this one off the left
• 1:43:02
  field line and well back into the seat. Second
• 1:43:14
  home run that Foster's hit in as many nights.
• 1:43:17
  Here's a high fly ball. Headed back in the deep
• 1:43:21
  right, but on the warning track and waiting is
• 1:43:23
  Valentine. That ends the inning. The out came
• 1:43:25
  one, two, one batter too late as far as Zachary
• 1:43:29
  and company are concerned. Three runs, two hits,
• 1:43:31
  one error. And after five and a half, the Reds
• 1:43:34
  over the Mets 5 -2. That's where my heart is
• 1:43:51
  always in. Baseball is like an old friend. The
• 1:44:03
  longer it's part of your life, the more you like
• 1:44:06
  it. That's why so many people come out to see
• 1:44:08
  the Cincinnati Reds play. It feels good. The
• 1:44:12
  Marathon Oil Company loves baseball just like
• 1:44:14
  you do. And the Marathon Oil Company is proud
• 1:44:17
  to be here with the Cincinnati Reds. It's good
• 1:44:20
  to be back here again. Oh, you know it is. This
• 1:44:25
  is the Cincinnati Reds playing baseball. We got
• 1:44:33
  together to do it better. And we did. Hope you're
• 1:44:38
  looking forward to being at Riverfront for a
• 1:44:40
  fun -filled special day coming up next Thursday
• 1:44:42
  night. That'll be cost -cutter night when the
• 1:44:44
  Reds meet the Mets. The Reds and Kroger are teaming
• 1:44:46
  up to give away more than $12 ,000 in groceries.
• 1:44:48
  50 lucky fans will win $100 worth of groceries.
• 1:44:52
  Another 50 winners will take home $50, and 125
• 1:44:55
  fans will be $20 winners. And don't forget those
• 1:44:58
  delicious Kahn's hot dogs. Just a quarter that
• 1:45:01
  night at stadium concessions, fans. We'll be
• 1:45:03
  telling you about lots of other things, too,
• 1:45:05
  in the days leading up to Costco tonight when
• 1:45:07
  the Reds meet the Mets next Thursday. Dave Kingman
• 1:45:12
  to lead off the bottom half of the sixth inning
• 1:45:14
  for New York. He hit his 14th home run of the
• 1:45:19
  year, leading off the second and then walked
• 1:45:21
  in the third. The Mets looking at a three -run
• 1:45:23
  deficit. Here comes Sieber's pitch to him, and
• 1:45:34
  Kingman takes it low and in on him, ball one.
• 1:45:51
  That's over with the knees, the call strike.
• 1:45:58
  Kingman, despite his .222 batting average, has
• 1:46:01
  one of the better slugging percentages in the
• 1:46:03
  National League at .482. He swings and he misses.
• 1:46:07
  George Foster, fourth in the league in that department
• 1:46:10
  with a slugging percentage of .558. Andre Dawson
• 1:46:17
  of Montreal leads the league .592. One ball,
• 1:46:21
  two strikes. Sieber strikes him out, swinging
• 1:46:24
  the ball, gets away from Nolan. He recovers.
• 1:46:26
  And throws on to Greeson to complete the strikeout.
• 1:46:31
  Tom Sieber gets his fifth. As he disposes of
• 1:46:36
  Dave Kingman and will go to work on first baseman
• 1:46:38
  Rusty Staub. Staub is single. He's fly to right
• 1:46:45
  field. Well, the Reds have just announced they've
• 1:46:53
  signed their number four pick in the free agent
• 1:46:55
  draft, Paul O 'Neill, an outfielder, first baseman,
• 1:46:58
  6 '4", 195 -pounder from Brookhaven High School
• 1:47:02
  in Columbus, Ohio. Oh, another youngster in the
• 1:47:07
  fold, so to speak. Stobb takes a slow breaking
• 1:47:13
  ball for strike one. Prior to that, they signed
• 1:47:17
  a number 12 selection. Charles Colclaw, a first
• 1:47:21
  baseman outfielder from Lydia, South Carolina.
• 1:47:24
  And their number 28 pick, Thomas Piller, a third
• 1:47:27
  baseman from Greeley, Colorado. High ball, 1
• 1:47:31
  -1 to Stobb. Reds 5, Mets 2. Home sixth inning,
• 1:47:39
  one out. Stobb with a big bouncing ball to first
• 1:47:42
  reach and backhands it. Takes a left turn. Gets
• 1:47:46
  a put out. Two away. That's another fine play
• 1:47:53
  by Dreesen. We talked, as Joe mentioned with
• 1:47:58
  Danny the other night on the post -game show,
• 1:48:01
  about his defensive ability at first base, and
• 1:48:04
  sometimes you almost have to wonder if the fact
• 1:48:09
  that he makes it look so easy doesn't work against
• 1:48:11
  him. Something's working against him. I think
• 1:48:14
  Danny said the best, though, and he said it's
• 1:48:18
  a popularity contest. I don't think there's any
• 1:48:20
  question about that. There's ball one to coverage.
• 1:48:24
  Fly to right field twice, and both times he's
• 1:48:27
  hit the ball hard. Two balls, no strikes. Tom
• 1:48:42
  Seaver working toward what he hopes to be win
• 1:48:45
  number seven of the season, and he's had some
• 1:48:49
  touch -and -go innings tonight. Covage takes
• 1:48:58
  a strike at the knees. Nobody currently throwing
• 1:49:09
  in the Mets' bullpen, so you figure Zachary's
• 1:49:11
  going to be out there for at least one more.
• 1:49:15
  Covage fouls. Out of play. Behind the plate.
• 1:49:18
  Good catch by a fan down to our left. Two balls,
• 1:49:22
  two strikes. Two outs. The bases are empty. No
• 1:49:33
  sooner do we say the lack of activity in the
• 1:49:35
  Mets' bullpen than they are now going to get
• 1:49:38
  some with left -hander Ray Sirich. Ball three.
• 1:49:44
  Sharp breaking ball down and in. Full count.
• 1:50:00
  Receiver ready to bring the payoff pitch up there.
• 1:50:03
  Cubbage lines to Dreesen right at him. That's
• 1:50:06
  three times in a row Mike Cubbage has hit the
• 1:50:08
  ball hard and has nothing to show for it. The
• 1:50:10
  Mets are out on order and through six. The Reds
• 1:50:13
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  on the Cincinnati Red Baseball Network. It's
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  good times each weekday between 2 and 6 here
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  at K95. It's the MD Show. Two until six each
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  weekday afternoon, MD plays great kickin' country
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  music and passes along the daily dumb rhetorical
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  question at K95, WHOK -FM, Lancaster. Seventh
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  inning with Ray Knight deleted off, five to two,
• 1:51:40
  the Reds lead, and back with a play -by -play.
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  Here's Joe. Thank you, Marty. Ray Knight deleted
• 1:51:45
  off here in the seventh inning, the Reds leading
• 1:51:48
  five to two. Pat Zachary delivers, and Knight
• 1:51:52
  looks at a strike. Ray one for three tonight,
• 1:51:55
  and an infield single in the fourth scored the
• 1:51:57
  first run of the game for the Reds. The Reds
• 1:52:01
  get a little help from the Mets in the sixth
• 1:52:05
  inning when Cubbage bobbled the ground ball off
• 1:52:08
  the bat of Concepcion, and then the final out.
• 1:52:11
  Knight looks at strike two, and then Foster hit
• 1:52:14
  a line drive over the .358 sign and left field
• 1:52:17
  into the Reds' bullpen. For a three -run homer
• 1:52:20
  and a three -run lead for the Reds. Zachary in
• 1:52:26
  front, 0 -2 to Ray Knight. Ron Oster on deck.
• 1:52:36
  Now Knight backs away from the plate. Still out
• 1:52:49
  of the batter's box. Now steps back in. Zachary
• 1:52:55
  delivers the 0 -2. High and inside as Knight
• 1:52:59
  backs away. One ball, two strikes. Dyer Miller
• 1:53:04
  going down in a New York bullpen. Outfield straightaway
• 1:53:12
  tonight. Zachary delivers the 1 -2. And Knight
• 1:53:15
  swings and fouls off to the right. Back into
• 1:53:18
  the seat. Now, Cal holds the ball two strikes
• 1:53:28
  to Ray Knight. Reds have out -hit the Mets 9
• 1:53:32
  -5. Back where he delivers the 1 -2, and Knight
• 1:53:41
  swings the ground ball. Baylor, it's short, plays
• 1:53:44
  it, going on to stop. One away. One out, and
• 1:53:54
  Ron Oster the batter. Ron won for two in a walk.
• 1:53:56
  He tripled in the fourth inning to right center
• 1:53:59
  to drive in ninth, and then scored on Dolan,
• 1:54:02
  single to center. Ron walked in the fifth inning.
• 1:54:11
  Dodgers score a run, swinging a foul by Oster,
• 1:54:14
  and the Cardinals bat the bottom of the half
• 1:54:18
  to six. St. Louis leading the Dodgers 2 -1. Zachary
• 1:54:27
  shakes off the sign, and the 0 -1. Inside. A
• 1:54:31
  ball a strike. On out, base is empty. Zachary
• 1:54:41
  back for the 1 -1. That's down low, and it's
• 1:54:44
  two balls to strike to Oster. Ron hitting .295.
• 1:54:49
  Now has five triples and 26 RBIs. Ackrey delivers
• 1:54:57
  the 2 -1, and Oster swings and sends it down
• 1:55:00
  the left field line. Moving over is Dave Kingman,
• 1:55:02
  and in fair territory, he makes a play. Two out,
• 1:55:08
  and Joe Nolan the batter. Joe, two for three,
• 1:55:13
  single in the second, and single in the fourth,
• 1:55:16
  as we said, to drive in Oster in the fifth inning.
• 1:55:19
  He grabbed it to Flynn in second. Now the catcher,
• 1:55:23
  Joe Nolan. Zachary winds and delivers. Nolan
• 1:55:34
  takes it inside the ball. Foster has driven in
• 1:55:40
  three runs tonight. Oster won and Nolan won.
• 1:55:46
  Zachary to the plate. Nolan swings and winds
• 1:55:49
  it in the right center field. That's extra bases.
• 1:55:52
  Chasing at the wall is Valentine. He's up for
• 1:55:55
  the ball and Nolan enters second base with his
• 1:55:58
  third base hit of the game. For Joe, his ninth
• 1:56:02
  double of the year. Oh, a two out, Nolan at second,
• 1:56:07
  Tom Seaver the batter. That's the tenth hit of
• 1:56:13
  the game for the Reds. Seaver 0 for 2 on a sacrifice
• 1:56:17
  bunt. He had a sacrifice bunt the second inning.
• 1:56:21
  Struck out in the fourth, and in the sixth inning,
• 1:56:25
  pop out to coverage at third base. Tom with a
• 1:56:29
  chance to help himself right here. Zachary sets
• 1:56:32
  and delivers, and Seaver takes a breaking pitch
• 1:56:35
  low and away. Nolan at second lead. Zachary to
• 1:56:44
  the belt. Pitch to Seaver, missing outside, 2
• 1:56:48
  -0 the count. Reds trying to make it three straight
• 1:56:58
  over the Mets and seven overall. And the last
• 1:57:04
  game in San Francisco, the 2 -0 pitch. That's
• 1:57:08
  in at the knees. It's a false strike, 2 -1. After
• 1:57:14
  four innings now at Okie City, the Indians leading
• 1:57:18
  Oklahoma City 1 -0 behind Charlie Lee Brandt.
• 1:57:22
  2 -1 delivery. Seaver swings and a broken bat
• 1:57:25
  bouncer to Baylor at short. Going on to Seaver
• 1:57:29
  and Tom hustling down the line and they just
• 1:57:32
  do get him. A barrel of bat flying all the way
• 1:57:36
  to third base and Baylor came up throwing and
• 1:57:39
  Seaver hustling down the line and I'll tell you,
• 1:57:41
  pretty close play. In the inning for the Reds,
• 1:57:45
  no runs, no errors. One runner left on base in
• 1:57:48
  the middle of the seventh. 695, New York 2. There's
• 1:57:57
  poetry in the West. You can hear it in the way
• 1:58:00
  people talk about everyday things. Like fences.
• 1:58:03
  There's a lot of sorry things can happen to a
• 1:58:06
  fence. Or children. She's cuter than a speckled
• 1:58:09
  pup under a red wagon. The cow hands bunkhouse.
• 1:58:13
  I hung my clothes on the floor so they wouldn't
• 1:58:17
  fall down and get lost. Even personal finances.
• 1:58:21
  I'm so broke I can't even pay attention. Here
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  then is a Bush beer to the best of the West.
• 1:58:27
  The everyday poetry of its people. Bush. Head
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  for the beer that always goes down smooth as
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  a mountain stream. Bush. Brewed just one way.
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  The natural way. For a taste that's always as
• 1:58:43
  smooth as its name. Bush. Head for Bush. Head
• 1:58:48
  for Bush. New York in the bottom half of seventh
• 1:59:00
  will send up Alex Trevino, Doug Flynn, and a
• 1:59:03
  pinch hitter for Pat Zachary. The Reds leading
• 1:59:07
  five to two. Trevino one for two. He singled
• 1:59:12
  the center in the second inning and was called
• 1:59:13
  out on strikes in the fourth. Trevino overall
• 1:59:16
  hitting 280. With eight RBIs and a double. Tom
• 1:59:22
  Seaver looking for his seventh win of the year
• 1:59:25
  in his fifth complete game in 12 starts. I think
• 1:59:38
  George Foster is swinging the bat. The Reds win
• 1:59:42
  this one tonight. That'll be the fourth game
• 1:59:44
  winning RBI for Foster in the last seven games.
• 1:59:52
  Trevino to lead it off. Seaver ready to go to
• 1:59:55
  work. And his first pitch on the way. Trevino
• 1:59:59
  looks at a curveball that's in for a false strike.
• 2:00:05
  Well, the Indians pick up another run and now
• 2:00:07
  lead Oklahoma City 2 -0 after five innings. Trevino
• 2:00:12
  looks at a slider high and it's even at 1 -1.
• 2:00:21
  The receiver is 1 -1. Trevino swings and misses
• 2:00:24
  a high pass ball. Tom in front of all two strikes.
• 2:00:29
  Well, a win for the Reds tonight and a loss for
• 2:00:31
  the Dodgers, and they're just a half a game out
• 2:00:34
  of first place. Trevino takes low and outside.
• 2:00:38
  And the count evens 2 -2. Tom has struck out
• 2:00:47
  five, has walked one. A stretch to the pitch.
• 2:00:56
  That's inside. Full count. Thomas had strikeouts
• 2:01:00
  in every inning excepting the third. They hop
• 2:01:06
  on the way. Covino swings and a fly ball to right
• 2:01:10
  field. Dave Collins waiting on it. He has it.
• 2:01:14
  One out. One away, and that'll bring Doug Gwynne
• 2:01:20
  to the plate. Doug Gwynne goes for two, a fly
• 2:01:22
  ball to the right, and has popped to Oster at
• 2:01:24
  second in his two times up. Ron Hodges moves
• 2:01:38
  on deck to hit for Pat Zachary. That's with a
• 2:01:44
  three -run lead, five to two. Flynn pushes the
• 2:01:53
  bunt. First base side. Dreesen has it, but that'll
• 2:01:55
  be a foul ball. But Danny reaching across the
• 2:01:59
  first base foul line, trying to keep it fair.
• 2:02:03
  And now Dutch Renner smilingly talking with Dreesen
• 2:02:07
  and Seaver. Thankfully, Dreesen... In fair territory,
• 2:02:20
  feeling the ball, but drag it back across the
• 2:02:23
  foul line. Always wanted to count to Doug Flynn.
• 2:02:31
  Fever back to the plate. Flynn swings and fouls.
• 2:02:35
  Straight back and top and front on two. I'm the
• 2:02:56
  0 -2. And that's in the dirt. Bouncing a couple
• 2:03:02
  of feet in front of the plate. 1 -2 to Flynn.
• 2:03:20
  1 -2 pitch. Flynn swings and misses. A pitch
• 2:03:23
  down and away. And that's 6 -4. Receiver two
• 2:03:26
  away and Ron Hodges with it for Pat Zachary.
• 2:03:35
  Hodges hitting .412. That'll hold on three RBIs.
• 2:03:40
  As the pinch hitter, he's one for four. Hodges,
• 2:03:50
  a left -handed batter, steps in. DeLotte base
• 2:03:58
  is empty. Tom Sheets off the sign and now delivers
• 2:04:07
  to Hodges. Looks at a slow curve, but calls strike.
• 2:04:19
  Hodges away from the plate, now steps back in.
• 2:04:25
  The receiver lines and his 0 -1 delivery. Another
• 2:04:28
  slow curve. That's just under the knees. And
• 2:04:31
  that hodge is double hitching on that one. Down
• 2:04:35
  evens 1 -1. The receiver delivers the 1 -1. That's
• 2:04:46
  swung on and lined right at Dave Concepcion.
• 2:04:49
  Reaching above his head to pick it up. That's
• 2:04:53
  the inning, and Tom has now retired eight straight
• 2:04:55
  batters. And after seven, Reds five, Mets two.
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  into a tradition that dates back to 1889. Lee
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  Jeans were just what America needed then, and
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  Lee Jeans. Another living idea from Lee. The
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  Life Insurance. The State Farmway. It's designed
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  for your way of living. For a family. Today's
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  homeowner. The modern woman. Students. Young
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  see State Farm Agent Earl Oatney at 422 North
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  Broad Street or Bill Banfield at 634 North Columbus
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  Street. Now the seven -inning totals show the
• 2:06:07
  Reds five runs, ten hits, and no errors. The
• 2:06:12
  Mets two runs, five hits, and one error. For
• 2:06:15
  the Reds, as they bat in the eighth inning, it'll
• 2:06:18
  be Dave Collins to lead it off. We have a new
• 2:06:20
  pitcher on the mound. for the New York Mets.
• 2:06:23
  And to tell you about him, here's Marty. Well,
• 2:06:25
  Joe, it's a young man making his first appearance.
• 2:06:28
  He's being called up on Monday from the Mets
• 2:06:31
  AAA Farm Club in Norfolk, Virginia, the Tidewater
• 2:06:34
  team. And at the left -hander, his name is Ray
• 2:06:36
  Searidge. This is going to be Searidge's Major
• 2:06:41
  League debut. He is a young man that... The Mets
• 2:06:45
  acquired by their Tidewater Farm Club from St.
• 2:06:48
  Louis for Jody Davis back on the 10th of December
• 2:06:50
  two years ago. So he originally started in the
• 2:06:55
  Cardinals organization and came to the Mets in
• 2:06:57
  1979 and was just called up from Tidewater on
• 2:07:03
  Monday. Ray Searage, spell S -E -A -R -A -G -E,
• 2:07:07
  a left -hander, 6 '1", 180 -pounder from Freeport,
• 2:07:10
  New York. Now makes his home in St. Petersburg,
• 2:07:13
  Florida, and he's on to face the Reds here in
• 2:07:16
  the top half of the eighth inning. It'll be the
• 2:07:19
  top of the order up. Dave Collins, Ken Griffey,
• 2:07:22
  Dave Concepcion, the pitching line on Pat Zachary.
• 2:07:25
  He went seven, allowing ten base hits and five
• 2:07:28
  runs, only two of which were earned. Striking
• 2:07:31
  out six, walking four, and if the Reds' lead
• 2:07:35
  holds up, he would lose his seventh game of the
• 2:07:37
  season. The Reds fell behind 2 -0 tonight, but
• 2:07:44
  then tied it in the fourth inning on a single
• 2:07:46
  by Knight, a triple by Oster, and a single by
• 2:07:48
  Nolan. And then went out in front of the sixth
• 2:07:51
  inning with two down, Griffey singled the setter.
• 2:07:53
  Dave Concepcion reached on an error by third
• 2:07:56
  baseman Mike Cubbage, and Foster exploded a home
• 2:07:58
  run into the Reds' bullpen in left field to bring
• 2:08:03
  the score to its present 5 -2 count. They're
• 2:08:05
  in the last of the seventh at St. Louis. The
• 2:08:08
  Cardinals continuing to lead the Dodgers by a
• 2:08:10
  run at 2 -1. So Joe Torre figuring now is as
• 2:08:20
  good a time as any in terms of letting young
• 2:08:24
  Mr. Surge get his feet wet, Major League Baseball
• 2:08:28
  style. Collins is one for three, a single in
• 2:08:32
  the fourth inning. He was on a little second
• 2:08:34
  through a base on balls. Turning around to hit
• 2:08:40
  as a right -handed batter for the first time
• 2:08:41
  tonight. Here's Searidge's pitch, and Collins
• 2:08:50
  swings and hits it in the air to center field.
• 2:08:52
  Mookie Wilson drifting back, and he'll haul it
• 2:08:55
  in. One out. Again, we remind you in the event
• 2:09:02
  that a strike does come about tomorrow, that
• 2:09:06
  Joe and I will be... On the air at 8 .05 tomorrow
• 2:09:10
  night on our flagship station, WLW Radio in Cincinnati,
• 2:09:13
  as well as our network stations for a one -hour
• 2:09:20
  talk show beginning at 8 .05 Cincinnati time
• 2:09:22
  tomorrow night. And then we will be in Wichita
• 2:09:24
  Saturday night and Sunday night to bring you
• 2:09:27
  play -by -play coverage of the Reds' AAA Farm
• 2:09:29
  Club Indianapolis as they take on the Wichita
• 2:09:31
  team. That'll be Saturday night and Sunday night.
• 2:09:35
  The pitch is in for a call strike. Now the pregame
• 2:09:37
  show Saturday night at 8 o 'clock Cincinnati
• 2:09:39
  time and 7 o 'clock Cincinnati time on Sunday
• 2:09:43
  night. Otherwise, we would hope to be at Olympic
• 2:09:49
  Stadium in Montreal tomorrow night to begin that
• 2:09:52
  pregame weekend against the Expos. Line drive,
• 2:09:54
  base hit, left center field. Ken Griffey enjoys
• 2:09:57
  for himself a three -hit night. That's the 11th
• 2:10:05
  Cincinnati base hit. And it brings up Concepcion.
• 2:10:08
  Davey is one for four. He has scored a run. So
• 2:10:18
  Ken Griffey at first base with three hits and
• 2:10:20
  four times up. I'll make that three for five
• 2:10:23
  on the night. Sears looks for the sign, looks
• 2:10:38
  to first, delivers to the plate, and the fastball
• 2:10:41
  is over for a call strike. That single by Griffey
• 2:10:44
  puts his batting average at an even 300. Kenny
• 2:10:49
  adding some six points to his average tonight.
• 2:10:52
  He came in batting 294. That single puts him
• 2:10:54
  at 300, joining the likes of Dave Collins and
• 2:10:58
  George Foster and Dave Concepcion. 300 hitters,
• 2:11:03
  not to mention Joe Nolan, who also gets there
• 2:11:05
  tonight on the strength of a three -hit performance.
• 2:11:07
  There's a throw to first base. Five to two, the
• 2:11:17
  Reds lead the Mets in the eighth inning. Sears
• 2:11:22
  looking down for the side again from Trevino,
• 2:11:24
  and the one -strike pitch to Dave Concepcion
• 2:11:27
  after the long look at first is on the way. And
• 2:11:30
  that's a breaking ball on inside, 1 -1. Joe Nolan
• 2:11:45
  has jumped his batting average up to 3 -0 -4.
• 2:11:52
  One ball, one strike, one out, and one on, eighth
• 2:11:54
  inning action. And the throw to first base by
• 2:11:59
  the rookie left -hander. Montreal has shut out
• 2:12:03
  Atlanta 7 -0. Steve Rogers picks up his seventh
• 2:12:07
  victory of the season. Tommy Boggs is now 1 -10
• 2:12:10
  with the Atlanta Braves lost. Low and inside,
• 2:12:18
  two balls and a strike. Mike Lacoste scheduled
• 2:12:27
  to go for the Reds in the series opener in Montreal
• 2:12:29
  tomorrow night against right -hander Charlie
• 2:12:31
  Lee. Mike Lacoste, Ray Burris, Saturday, Sunday
• 2:12:35
  afternoon, Frank Pastore and Scott Chanderson.
• 2:12:37
  We hope we're playing. And a throw to first again,
• 2:12:44
  and Surage almost threw that one away. Rusty
• 2:12:47
  Stobb had to reach down and off his left. Hey,
• 2:12:51
  18 ,612. Attendance here tonight, 19 ,712. 19
• 2:13:05
  ,712. That is far and away the best of the three
• 2:13:09
  nights we've spent here at Shea Stadium. Swing
• 2:13:12
  and a miss on a high fastball. Davey was looking
• 2:13:15
  for a heater, and that's what Searidge gave him.
• 2:13:17
  And he was spinning on it, but did not get it.
• 2:13:19
  2 -2. Coming up next, George Foster. That's infield,
• 2:13:36
  a double play depth. The outfield about straight
• 2:13:39
  away for the right -handed batter. He strikes
• 2:13:42
  out swinging. Serge got him with a fastball away.
• 2:13:48
  Foster at the plate with two outs. Foster at
• 2:13:58
  the plate with two outs. George struck out in
• 2:14:03
  the first, did it again in the third, did it
• 2:14:05
  a third time in the fifth, but then turned things
• 2:14:07
  around with a line drive home run to left field
• 2:14:10
  with two on in the sixth inning to break the
• 2:14:11
  tie. Talk about a man that has really been cranking
• 2:14:21
  it up of late. He has now driven in 22 runs in
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  his last 15 games, counting this one. Five doubles,
• 2:14:28
  a triple, six home runs, and 15 runs scored.
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  And the home run extended his batting streak
• 2:14:35
  to nine games. During the nine -game batting
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  streak, he's been hitting at a 4 -12 clip. Trevino
• 2:14:54
  sends out the sign. Foster waiting at the plate
• 2:14:57
  as the left -hander straightens up out of the
• 2:14:59
  stretch position and pours it plateward. It's
• 2:15:02
  a ball low. We certainly don't want to overlook
• 2:15:09
  the fact in talking about Ken Griffey and his
• 2:15:11
  3 -for -5 performance tonight that Kenny is playing
• 2:15:15
  in his 1 ,000th Major League game. This one here.
• 2:15:19
  And has hit safely in 22 now out of his last
• 2:15:22
  27 games. So a milestone for Ken Griffey, Major
• 2:15:26
  League Game number 1 ,000, and he's had a good
• 2:15:28
  night. Foster is ahead two balls and no strikes.
• 2:15:37
  Reds are seeking their seventh consecutive win
• 2:15:40
  and hoping for another Cardinal victory over
• 2:15:42
  the Dodgers. It would allow the Reds to move
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  to within a half a game of firsts. 2 -0 pitch
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  with Griffey at first and two men out. Ground
• 2:15:56
  ball hit hard, but that's Doug Flynn. He, from
• 2:15:59
  a kneeling position, throws on to Bob Baylor
• 2:16:01
  at second for the fourth out. And in the Cincinnati
• 2:16:04
  eighth inning, no runs, one hit and one left.
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  After seven and a half, the Reds lead the Mets
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  5 -2. You can win more when you pick four. The
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  6th Avenue in Lancaster. Top third of the New
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  York batting order as we move to the home half
• 2:17:18
  of the eighth inning. Sam Mahias has replaced
• 2:17:19
  Dave Collins down in the right field position.
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  And Tom Seaver, right now on a roll. He's retired
• 2:17:27
  eight batters in a row. He has limited the Mets
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  to only one hit over the last four innings. They've
• 2:17:34
  had a total of five hits on the night, and three
• 2:17:36
  of them came in the second when they scored one
• 2:17:38
  of their two runs. Only hit over the last four.
• 2:17:43
  A double in the fifth inning by the man leading
• 2:17:45
  off the eighth, Mookie Wilson. He's the last
• 2:17:52
  man to reach base for New York. Receiver climbs
• 2:18:07
  back on top of the mound. Turning around, taking
• 2:18:12
  a look at his defensive alignment as he is wont
• 2:18:14
  to do on occasion. Delivers to Wilson, pass ball
• 2:18:18
  up. Ball one. The winningest pitchers in the
• 2:18:24
  National League right now are Valenzuela and
• 2:18:26
  Carlton. There's a swing and a miss. Carlton
• 2:18:30
  picked up his ninth win last night against only
• 2:18:32
  one defeat when the Phillies came up with five
• 2:18:35
  eighth inning runs to beat Houston. And Valenzuela
• 2:18:38
  with nine wins, shooting for his tenth tonight,
• 2:18:40
  but trailing by a run in the seventh inning at
• 2:18:42
  St. Louis. The only eight -game winner is Dick
• 2:18:46
  Ruthen of the Phillies. He's lost three times,
• 2:18:48
  and Seaver with a win tonight would join Bert
• 2:18:51
  Hoop to the Dodgers as a seven -game winner.
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  Two balls and one strike on Speedy Wilson. Ray
• 2:19:00
  Knight, shallow on the grass at third. Seaver
• 2:19:04
  continues to work quickly, and Wilson with a
• 2:19:06
  bad handle foul back, squares the count at two.
• 2:19:08
  In the eighth at Toronto, Royals seven, Blue
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  Jays five. New York down a run to the White Sox,
• 2:19:14
  three to two after five innings at Comiskey Park.
• 2:19:17
  The Rangers and the Brewers are tied up at three
• 2:19:19
  -three after six and a half. Tigers are being
• 2:19:23
  shut out two to nothing by Minnesota. That pitch
• 2:19:27
  is high for a ball, three and two, and they're
• 2:19:29
  getting rain up at Bloomington. Seaver with a
• 2:19:35
  3 -2 pitch. And Wilson hanging top of the foul
• 2:19:39
  butt. At the present time, both bullpens are
• 2:19:50
  quiet. Again, the payoff pitch. And Wilson slings,
• 2:19:57
  and he misses. He got him. That is 7 for Seaver.
• 2:20:04
  And that is nine in a row that have come and
• 2:20:06
  gone. He'll work to Bob Baylor. Baylor has flied
• 2:20:11
  to right, sacrificed, and popped up to second
• 2:20:13
  base. Baylor grounds one to the left side. A
• 2:20:29
  base hit. Now the ball momentarily bobbled by
• 2:20:36
  Foster, but he recovers in time. Baylor down
• 2:20:39
  three in the late innings. He's not going to
• 2:20:40
  chance being thrown out at second. We'll pause
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  for station identification once again. This is
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  the Cincinnati Reds Baseball Network. Make Mark
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  Clark a regular part of your day. Mark Clark,
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  10 to 2 here at K95. Mark passes along great
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  information, makes way for the midday report
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  of news service at noon, and plays great kick
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  and country music. Mark Clark at K95. W -H -O
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  -K -F -M. Lancaster. Ellis Valentine with Bob
• 2:21:05
  Baylor at first and then out. Gentless in two
• 2:21:08
  official trips. He's had a sacrifice fly. He
• 2:21:11
  takes the ball. Bottom of the eighth inning.
• 2:21:15
  Cardinals 2, Dodgers 1. Valenzuela is out. Left
• 2:21:19
  -hander Steve Howe is now pitching in relief
• 2:21:21
  for Los Angeles. This Mets crowd starved for
• 2:21:30
  something to get excited about. Trying to get
• 2:21:34
  their ball club going. Valentine pops it up.
• 2:21:39
  He slings the bat away as the ball nestles into
• 2:21:42
  the net of third baseman Ray Knight. Two away.
• 2:21:49
  Here's Kingman. As Homer walked and struck out.
• 2:22:13
  Well, now with a runner at first base, they'll
• 2:22:15
  still put the shift on to Kingman. Checks his
• 2:22:21
  swing. It's a ball just off the outside edge.
• 2:22:29
  Now Lee Weier going out toward the mound to take
• 2:22:32
  a look at the baseball. Kingman might have said
• 2:22:37
  something to the plate on fire, and he checks
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  it out and gives it back to Seaver. Cincinnati
• 2:22:50
  bullpen is busy. Tommy Hume, Joe Price. Baylor
• 2:22:58
  leading at first and a 1 -0 pitch to Dave Kingman
• 2:23:00
  is swung on and grounded to third. Ray Knight
• 2:23:02
  has it, looks to second, instead goes to Dreesen.
• 2:23:05
  And the inning is over. No runs, one hit, one
• 2:23:08
  left. We've played eight, and the Reds lead the
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  Mets 5 -2. The names of the places suit the straightforward
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  nature of the people who live there. The Sweetwater
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  River. The Crazy Mountains. Twin Sisters Utes.
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  Last Chance Gulch. Roaring Springs, Texas. Immigrant
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  Montana. Playing up front names that let you
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  the best of the West. The straightforward names
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  and the straightforward people who invented them.
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  smooth as a mountain stream. Bush. Brewed just
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  always as smooth as its name. Bush. Head for
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  Bush. Head for Bush. Head for Bush. Head for
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  Bush. Here we go to the top half of the ninth
• 2:24:19
  inning. Second inning of work for young left
• 2:24:22
  -hander Ray Sirich, who was touched for a one
• 2:24:24
  -out hit in the eighth inning by Ken Griffey,
• 2:24:26
  but then picked up his first Major League strikeout,
• 2:24:29
  retiring Dave Concepcion and getting George Foster
• 2:24:33
  to bounce into a forced play at second base.
• 2:24:36
  Danny Greeson will lead it off. He's walked twice,
• 2:24:38
  flied out to center, and then flied out to deep
• 2:24:41
  right field. That was at his last plate appearance
• 2:24:44
  in the sixth inning. And Seaver would go 7 -1
• 2:24:56
  with a win. Zachary would go 5 -7 with a loss.
• 2:24:59
  And the Reds would have seven consecutive victories.
• 2:25:04
  But we've still got an inning more of baseball
• 2:25:06
  to play here. Danny Dreesen heading toward the
• 2:25:15
  plate. Well, we've had good weather conditions
• 2:25:31
  here in New York, although the first day in here,
• 2:25:33
  and probably more so yesterday when it rained
• 2:25:37
  off and on all day, but then around 6 o 'clock
• 2:25:40
  last night or a little bit later, it started
• 2:25:42
  to lighten up, and by game time, we had nothing
• 2:25:46
  but blue skies. Today was a beautiful day here.
• 2:25:50
  The pitch to Dreesen is taken high of all. Five
• 2:26:00
  runs, 11 hits for Cincinnati. Two runs, six hits,
• 2:26:02
  and a big error for New York, and a big one it
• 2:26:04
  was by Mike Kovic. Dreesen moves away from the
• 2:26:08
  pitch in on him, 2 -0. Danny Dreesen batting
• 2:26:15
  at even 300 against left -handed pitching. 30
• 2:26:19
  at -bats against left -handers and nine base
• 2:26:21
  hits. Swung on and popped up into shallow left
• 2:26:34
  field. Going out Baylor, coming in Kingman. Kingman
• 2:26:36
  calls and makes the catch. One up. Ray Knight
• 2:26:44
  up for the fifth time. He's had one hit. That
• 2:26:48
  was an infield single deep and shortstop to lead
• 2:26:50
  off the fourth inning. If you're looking ahead
• 2:27:02
  to the bottom of the ninth inning for New York,
• 2:27:04
  it's going to be Rusty Staub, Mike Cubbage, and
• 2:27:06
  Alex Trevino. Night grounds one, and to left
• 2:27:13
  field, a base hit by Cubbage, by Bob Baylor.
• 2:27:21
  Second hit off Ray Searidge. And now Ronnie Oster
• 2:27:26
  with a triple and three times on the plate, an
• 2:27:27
  RBI, and a run scored. 2 .95 average for the
• 2:27:31
  Cincinnati second baseman with 25 RBIs and a
• 2:27:34
  home run. That was just a step off the grass
• 2:27:52
  at third as Sherrod looks to first, delivers,
• 2:27:54
  Oster swings and misses. Ronnie, a switch hitter,
• 2:28:03
  up there batting right -handed. Getting .268
• 2:28:08
  from the right side of the plate and .304 from
• 2:28:10
  the left side. Swing and a miss, strike two.
• 2:28:22
  Searidge with a good pitch down and Oster quickly
• 2:28:24
  falling behind 0 -2. We've got a good promotional
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  idea here at Shea Stadium. Collectors cards and
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  series. 62 Mets teams, 69 world champions, 73
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  National League champs, and Mets managers. That
• 2:28:52
  pitch is inside for a ball. Four different days
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  they'll be giving the memory series, the magic
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  memory series, as they call them, away throughout
• 2:29:02
  the course of the season. Imagine the baseball
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  card collectors would probably be more than a
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  little bit interested in that four different
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  series of cards. One ball and two strikes to
• 2:29:20
  count on Oster. Ronnie got around on a breaking
• 2:29:23
  ball, and Searidge has his second strikeout.
• 2:29:30
  So with two out, Ray, our Joe Nolan will be looking
• 2:29:33
  for his fourth hit of the night. Single to the
• 2:29:39
  right center in the second. Knocked in a run
• 2:29:41
  with a base hit to center in the fourth. Grounded
• 2:29:43
  out in the fifth and double to right center in
• 2:29:45
  the seventh inning. Ray Knight aboard with a
• 2:29:58
  one -out hit to left. They're two away now in
• 2:30:01
  the top half of the ninth inning. Nolan with
• 2:30:05
  a smash. Base hit right field. His fourth hit.
• 2:30:09
  Going to second and holding there is Ray Knight.
• 2:30:13
  We've talked so much during the night or certainly
• 2:30:16
  earlier in the early innings about Tom Sieber
• 2:30:19
  starting here against his former club. Not really
• 2:30:24
  by any means overlooking the fact that Tom gets
• 2:30:26
  another big hand from the Shea Stadium crowd
• 2:30:29
  that Joe Nolan started his career in the New
• 2:30:32
  York Mets organization and appeared briefly.
• 2:30:36
  on a number of years with a mess back in the
• 2:30:38
  70s. So you might say that he has come home,
• 2:30:41
  so to speak, tonight and come home in a big way.
• 2:30:43
  Four hits and five trips. Seavers 0 for 3. 9th
• 2:30:56
  to lead runner. He's stationed at 2nd. Nolan
• 2:30:59
  with a hit to right at 1st. The pitch from Sears
• 2:31:08
  to Severs, swung on, fly ball, hit to Wells,
• 2:31:10
  center field, but Wilson gets back on it and
• 2:31:12
  makes the catch. No runs in the ninth, two hits,
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  two left. Home ninth inning coming up, and the
• 2:31:18
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  long -distance gasolines. Best in the long run.
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  New York needing three runs to get even as we
• 2:32:27
  go to the home ninth inning. Tom Seaver three
• 2:32:31
  outs away from his fifth complete game of the
• 2:32:33
  season. And his seventh win overall, Tommy Hume
• 2:32:39
  and Joe Price, as we look into the bullpen, are
• 2:32:43
  back up and getting ready just in the event that
• 2:32:45
  Tom might need some ninth inning help. Rusty
• 2:32:50
  Staub owns one of the six New York kids. That
• 2:32:52
  was a single in the second. Since that time,
• 2:32:55
  he's flied to right and in the sixth inning bounced
• 2:32:56
  out to Danny Dreesen. All around the Reds infield,
• 2:33:05
  and now Sieber gets it back for Murray Knight.
• 2:33:18
  Sieber back behind the mound, hands on hips.
• 2:33:25
  Got off to a somewhat rocky start, but has really
• 2:33:29
  settled down since the fourth inning. The pitch
• 2:33:31
  is in for a strike. From the fourth inning on,
• 2:33:35
  he's given them no runs on two base hits. And
• 2:33:38
  jumps out in front on Staub. No balls and a strike.
• 2:33:46
  That's Lowe. And it's inside. 1 -1. All right,
• 2:33:59
  he underwinds, he kicks and he fires, and Staub
• 2:34:01
  swings and fouls it back. That one got off the
• 2:34:03
  end of Joe Nolan's mitt and then carried on back
• 2:34:05
  to the screen. Ball two strikes. Seavers walked
• 2:34:09
  only one batter, and that was Kingman in the
• 2:34:11
  third inning while striking out seven. Giving
• 2:34:16
  him a seasonal total of 52 strikeouts. And he's
• 2:34:22
  popped Rusty Staub up. Ronnie Oster looking skyward,
• 2:34:26
  backing on the outfield grass one out. Now Mike
• 2:34:35
  Covage will take his shot. It's 0 for 3, but
• 2:34:37
  three straight times he's hit it on the button.
• 2:34:43
  And getting on Covage a little bit, remembering
• 2:34:50
  the error that he committed back in the sixth
• 2:34:53
  inning that paved the way for George Foster's
• 2:34:55
  three -run home run that fractured the 2 -2 tie.
• 2:35:01
  Covage looks at a strike. Mike getting 219, three
• 2:35:13
  RBIs, homerless on the year. Pitch. Slow curve
• 2:35:24
  and just missed for a ball. One ball, one strike.
• 2:35:36
  On deck, Alex Trevino. Seaver bringing it up
• 2:35:41
  there, and this one is popped up. Going out in
• 2:35:45
  shallow center is Dave Concepcion. Griffey calls
• 2:35:48
  him off the ball, and Kenny hauls it in, and
• 2:35:50
  they're two out. Well, now Trevino, as Seaver,
• 2:35:58
  seeks to get the match out in order for the fifth
• 2:36:03
  time tonight. Did it in the first, in the fourth,
• 2:36:06
  in the sixth, in the seventh. And it's an out
• 2:36:09
  away from doing it in the ninth inning to nail
• 2:36:11
  it down. Tom Seitz assigned the line to pitch,
• 2:36:23
  and Trevino checking. It's low at the ball. Almost
• 2:36:27
  went too far, but held up in time. Swing and
• 2:36:39
  a miss. The 35th victory on the year against
• 2:36:45
  21 losses for Cincinnati. In the sweep of this
• 2:36:50
  three -game series against New York. Foul ball
• 2:36:54
  back to the plate by Trevino. A ball, two strikes.
• 2:36:58
  Receiver, a strike away. Now they start to applaud
• 2:37:03
  his efforts here at Shea Stadium. Covino puts
• 2:37:07
  the head of the bat on the plate, cocks it. Seaver
• 2:37:09
  double pumps on the mound, and here it comes.
• 2:37:12
  And he's up high and inside with a curveball.
• 2:37:15
  Two and two. Now they start to stand at Shea
• 2:37:23
  Stadium as he brings it back to the plate. And
• 2:37:25
  a ground ball to shortstop. Concepcion to Danny
• 2:37:28
  Dreesen. And this one belongs to the Reds. Tom
• 2:37:32
  Seaver with another outstanding pitching performance.
• 2:37:36
  As he comes into Shea Stadium and goes the distance
• 2:37:38
  in beating the Mets 5 -2, a sweep for the Reds
• 2:37:41
  in their seventh consecutive victory. We'll be
• 2:37:44
  back in just a moment.