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1983-Jul-24 • KCR/NYY • Kansas City Royals vs New York Yankees - Pine Tar Game · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  The Kansas City Royals faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for a Sunday afternoon game on July 24th, 1983.
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  The Royals entered the game with a 500 record under manager Dick Hauser.
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  The Yankees, managed by Billy Martin, were fighting it out in the AL East with a 52-40 record.
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  This is the infamous pine tar game, named for the controversial ending that involved Billy Martin protesting the condition of George Brett's bat.
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  The protest was later overturned, and we've included the audio from the continuation ending that occurred nearly three weeks later at the end of this broadcast.
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  The recording is from the audio of the local sports channel in New York television broadcast, featuring announcers Frank Messer and Phil Rizzuto.
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  Well, the ballgame just about ready to start. Quickly the lineup for visiting team, the Royals, Willie Wilson leading off, New Orleans, Washington batting second,
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  George Brett third, Hal McCrae fourth, Amos Otis batting fifth, batting sixth, the first baseman John Waffin.
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  Then we'll get Leon Robertson left, Frank White at second, Don Slott catching, and we already have shown you, but black, the left-handed pitcher for the Kansas City Royals.
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  Willie, here are the Yankee lineup, Bert Campanier, Greg Nettles, Lou Pennella, Don Baylor, Dave Winfield playing center field batting fifth, Steve Kemp, Steve Balboni, Roy Smalley, Rick Cerrone, and Shane Raleigh's first pitch is a foul out of play by Wilson.
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  Wilson batting a 280, a home run, 20 runs batted in.
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  This is the final meeting this season between the Yankees and Kansas City, meeting number 12, the Yankees have won six and the Royals five.
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  Shane Raleigh, Bobby Mercer has pitched well in his two starts against Kansas City in Kansas City. He beat them both times.
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  He's won both games. He's 2-0 against Kansas City and seems to have them pretty well tamed. We'll see what happens today.
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  He's done it mostly with fastball. Yeah, well, Shane, if he has any problems, I think it's more or less timing problems.
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  He likes to pitch fast and he likes to get the ball and just turn around and throw it again.
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  It's been very impressive this year, even though he has a 9-8 record.
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  Count remains one ball and two strikes on Willie Wilson. It'll be Wilson, UL Washington, and George Brett against Shane Raleigh.
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  You know what happens when John Amarante sings the national anthem. Yeah, we get 5 pounds worth.
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  You got to work out another week. Well, Rizzuto always gets the cannolis and then he sort of distributes them up here to the rest of our people.
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  Here's a breaking ball that Wilson fouls off his left foot, and that smarts a bit.
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  Hey, Willie Wilson wearing New Balance shoes. You don't see too many of those baseball spikes.
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  I didn't even know New Balance made baseball spikes. They make a good running shoe.
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  That's a change up. Looks like there's room for Balboni and foul territory off first.
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  Went away.
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  Where New Balance tennis shoes once in a while. Pro players wear them all.
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  A lot of shoes around today. A competition of area. UL Washington, the shortstop. He's batting 233 with two home runs and 25 runs batted in.
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  Got some nice syrup today from the Don Chacon family. It's a coin from up in Burlington, Vermont. A lot of Yankee fans up there.
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  Washington takes the strike.
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  Lifetime Raleigh with five wins, two losses against the Royals. That'll be out of play. No chance. It'll make the, uh, predict two strikes on UL Washington as we look at Rick Serrone.
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  By the way, Butch Weininger has a pool groin and he probably will not play unless there's an emergency this afternoon.
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  I don't think that, excuse me, Bill, I don't think that Shane Raleigh had really reached his full potential as a pitcher.
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  I think he's still learning and we take a look at Butch Weininger there who has that slightly poor groin.
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  And he caught him looking. A good fastball. Evidently, Washington either looked for a breaking ball or the ball away and he got the ball on the inside corner.
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  Take a look at it here. It was a fastball that started on the inside part of the plate and was stayed on the inside part. I think that missed.
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  I think that missed. Well, when you got two strikes on you, you can't, uh, you got to become a defensive hitter up there. If anything close, you got to be hacking at it.
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  I think he caught you out Washington off guard. He might have also got Tim McLeod the home plate umpire off guard.
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  Whatever it is, it's a big strikeout. McLeod behind the plate, Drew Cobol at first, Joe Brakeman at second and Nick Bremigan umpiring at third base.
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  And this is George Brett. He's hitting three fifty two nineteen home runs and sixty two runs batted in.
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  George is having a big home run year this year. He's got nineteen home runs. We take a look at it on our screen.
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  He usually hits about fifteen home runs and hits somewhere in the three eighty category as far as average is concerned.
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  So he's having a big home run year this year. Yankees have pitched him away much of the series and he hasn't adjusted.
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  He sort of reached for the ball away instead of charging out there and getting it.
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  Just like that. Yeah. I'll tell you what. In Yankee Stadium, there's no other place to pitch George Brett than away and let him hit it out there towards that four thirty sign.
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  We can see George. Well, he has good weight shift and he would even on that was a change up and I'll speed pitch.
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  He would ride on it. One and two on Brett to watch nobody on just underway from the stadium.
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  Shane Raleigh against the Bud Black and that's a base on that curve ball and Brett gets his base.
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  He'll hold it first base. That's the game first hit. Well, that pitch there also was a change up.
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  But our breaking pitch, excuse me, and it didn't break down and away from George Brett.
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  It just kind of hung up out over the plate and George just lines it right into center field.
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  Here's how McCray, the designated hitter, he's batting three twenty seven and that'll.
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  In time, put out five three and the side is retired.
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  No runs a base hit and one man left on base at the end of one half inning of play.
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  The Royals nothing. The Yankees are coming up.
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  Oh, back of the stadium, but Black will be pitching to the Yankees here in the bottom half of the first setting on the scoreboard.
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  Nice league game. You the Montreal leading Houston to nothing early in the ballgame
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  and the Giants leading Pittsburgh one to nothing in the fifth inning.
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  Well, Billy Yankees have got Greg Meadows back in the lineup now, so we assume that his bruised shoulder is all right.
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  Still have three people on the disabled list. Ken Griffey, Willie Randolph and Rudy May.
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  I think they've all been working out and they all with possible exception.
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  Rudy May might be ready to go, but their roster problems. Yeah, they got some more roster problems.
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  Also, Andre Robertson has a slightly bruised right hand and Oscar Gamble has a slight growing pool, too.
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  So that'll gamble off the bench.
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  Oscar, get on me for that. Yeah, so what I needed. Oh, you're right.
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  Whatever that updates all the injuries on the Yankees. Oscar certainly would like more playing time when he plays.
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  He contributes. I don't blame him.
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  Here's Bert Campanaro's leading off against.
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  But Black, we're playing the first inning of a scoreless ballgame.
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  Campanaro's batting three forty seven, no home runs and six runs batted in.
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  Bert did a fine job last night of filling in a third base for Greg Meadows.
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  Here's Oscar. He's always happy.
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  Happier, though, when he's getting a chance to swing the bat.
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  It's a ball and a strike on Campanaro's.
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  You got to give Billy Martin a lot of credit for giving Bert Campanaro an opportunity to play baseball again.
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  What an asset he has been to the Yankees. He's hitting three forty seven now.
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  He's played like it. He's about twenty three years old.
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  Says he loves the game. Figures he could play three or four more years.
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  Well, I don't know ways playing right now. I wouldn't see why not.
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  He's an old fashioned type player. He gives himself up. He doesn't play for Campanaro's.
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  He plays for the team. He plays to the team and he plays to win.
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  You know, Washington has good range and he throws out Campanaro's.
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  That's a six to three put out for the first out.
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  We'll take a look at it again, Bill. That's a fastball up and in on Campy.
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  Kind of got in on him a little bit.
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  But Black makes a big leap, but could not come up with it.
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  Was not hit that hard, but you know, Washington right behind the second base bag goes ahead and makes an easy play of it.
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  Well, there's one down. Here's Greg Nettles, Yankee captain and third baseman hitting two seventy one with twelve home runs and forty one runs batted in.
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  At Montreal Houston game in the third inning, it's Montreal to Houston. Nothing.
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  Ball one to Nettles. Nettles missed a couple of games with a sore shoulder as we look at the Yankee bench.
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  Believe Martin to the forefront. Got a peek at his cap.
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  Two balls, no strikes on Nettles.
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  I see Robin Yout will be lost for several days to the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  He has a lower back strain that will not help the Brewers.
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  Brewers right now game behind the Yankees in the American League East.
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  See if Brett has room in foul territory. Looks like he does.
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  Right on the top step of the dugout for out number two.
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  Nettles fouls out to Royal third baseman George Brett.
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  Got under. Yeah, he got under and he was just a little bit behind it.
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  And when you do that, you either hit a weak round ball towards the left side of the infield or you do what he did there.
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  He pops the ball up.
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  Here's Luke Pennella batting a 3 0 6 to home run 16 runs batted in a little went 2 for 3 last night and he scored the Yankees first run.
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  Everybody singing Pennella's praises for the job he's doing with the Yankee hitters this year.
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  They ought to because he's helped a lot of those guys out in the Yankee lineup as far as hitting is concerned.
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  Lou doesn't mind talking hitting and he knows a lot about it.
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  And Pennella takes a strike.
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  You know, if you're a guy that's a good hitter and knows a lot about hitting, not a lot of times you can, you know, convey the words to another hitter that they'll understand.
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  But Luke Pennella has that heart.
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  It's a ball on the strike on Pennella.
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  There's Yogi Berra, the Yankee first base coach and Hall of Famer over third base.
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  Don Zimmer.
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  You think Lou will ever manage?
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  Lou said he doesn't want to hang around baseball when it's over.
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  I don't believe him.
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  But that's what he said.
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  I don't believe him either.
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  You think he'd be a good manager?
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  Yeah, because I think he he's tough enough.
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  He'll he's a yell at a screamer.
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  And then for the most part, those guys seem to make better managers.
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  They don't know if he's going to hit him with the batter or hit him with the fister.
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  Two and two on Pennella.
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  We've got some of our Maratis Penolis up here.
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  Bobby Mercer.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Those things away from me, please.
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  Give Jimmy Hunter some.
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  Three balls on the strike on Pennella.
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  Do that.
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  Nobody on no score in the bottom of the first.
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  That'll be out of play.
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  You know, even though the Yankees have a lot of injuries, Bill, and
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  with the depth and the bench that they have, they could just keep putting guys in there and never hurt themselves.
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  That's what they've done.
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  That is a that's a good point for a strong ballclub because in order to play 162 games and
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  win the championship, you've got to have a lot of bench strength.
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  The Yankees do have that.
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  Well, I feel that in September that should be a big plus.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  And nobody should complain about being tired.
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  Bread at third and Pirellas out and that'll retire the side.
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  Three up, three down at the end of one.
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  The Yankees nothing and Kansas City.
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  Nothing.
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  You know, Bill, eight of nine wins that Shane Raleigh has have been complete games.
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  He's a strong he's a strong young gentleman and he seems like he can just throw all day long.
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  He has a lot of pitches during a ballgame to live arm.
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  Otis takes a strike.
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  We're in the second inning, no score.
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  It'll be Otis Wapen and Leon Roberts against Shane Raleigh.
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  Did you get that can only down?
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  Yeah.
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  Otis batting 270 to home runs 24 runs batted in and a strike to Amazonas normally gets a good cut at left handers.
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  Sometimes against right handers, he'll back off a little bit, but he likes left handers.
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  Almost started that right hand up.
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  Well, he went halfway.
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  Yeah, I don't count.
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  No McClellan almost started up.
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  Now watch, watch that right shoulder.
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  Watch that right shoulder.
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  Yeah, he had it halfway and a bitch got on him a little bit over the Yankee bench.
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  And good play by Balboni, Balboni with a good play of first.
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  Glad to see Steve make that play.
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  The other day, a guy hit a ball past Balboni that hurt the Yankees.
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  Well, that's kind of such a bad hop.
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  This was one of those do or die plays and it's just a one hop shot right to the left of Steve Balboni and he dives and makes an outstanding play.
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  I think it didn't feel no matter what the situation is, it's got to always feel the ball is going to be hit to him.
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  And I think sometimes if a right handed batters up a first baseman has a tendency to relax a little bit.
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  You can't do that.
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  What you're saying is that you've got to be ready at all times.
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  Yes.
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  John Waffin and he takes low ball one.
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  Throw a little bit upset with that call. Well, you know, Balboni is a big guy, but he had good reaction on that play.
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  Two balls, no strikes on Waffin. He's batting 272 with one home run and 24 runs batted in.
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  The Yankees on a hot streak with eight of their last nine and they're eight and two on his home stand.
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  Three balls, no strikes on Waffin.
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  And it's three and one.
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  You know, if Shane Riley has a problem, it could be that he goes inconsistent too many times and he just hadn't figured out a way yet that when he is inconsistent that he can work his way out of a jam that he gets himself in.
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  And it'll happen normally one time a ballgame. You'll have one bad inning.
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  Bad inning.
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  That'll be out of place.
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  Rone giving chase, but it's well back in the seats.
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  Three and two on John Waffin.
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  That's the reason I don't think that Shane Riley has reached his potential because as soon as you know he learns to work himself out of those jams when he becomes inconsistent.
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  We'll take a look at Gaylord Perry.
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  The guy that I call the old boy.
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  That's why you're up here.
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  Right. He almost drove me nuts.
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  This guy.
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  About three quarters away.
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  Gone.
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  This is with the slider and that's the first walk of the ballgame Waffin at first base.
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  You got to really watch Wathen.
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  He looks like he cannot run, but he's an excellent base runner and he's an excellent base dealer.
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  They want to keep him. They want to make Wathen stop at first base because he takes like a running jump off of first base.
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  Watching him start walking off there and.
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  He's stolen 18 bases in 22 attempts this year.
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  He's usually when he tries to steal he usually is in motion before the pitchers even throw the ball to the plate.
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  This is Leon Roberts the left fielder who broke up Guidry's shutout bid last night with his third home run of the year.
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  And he had an idea of buddy.
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  But he got the bat back so it's a ball. What an Owen Roberts.
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  Martin doesn't like that call.
• 17:55
  No I think Billy thought that he made an attempt to but we'll take a look at it here.
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  And yeah he kept it down there a long time.
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  That was one of those halfway deals again.
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  So we'll give.
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  We'll give the empire.
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  How to play. Oh and two.
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  Well I tell you if they only missed two all game they've done a good job. Yep.
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  They have a lot of calls to make.
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  Raleigh making sure Wathen stops at first base.
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  You've got to stop him over there because if you don't he'll just keep walking off that bag and the next thing you know he's gone.
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  And a base it up the middle as Wathen was on the move and he'll go on to third base.
• 18:45
  And the Royals on a Leon Roberts single have runners at first and third base with one away.
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  Look like a hit run to me Bill we'll take a look at it.
• 18:55
  Wathen takes off on the pitch and the ball is out over the plate and Leon Roberts.
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  I'm almost positive it was a hit run and they executed it well.
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  And here's Frank White the second base.
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  He's hitting 246 with six home runs and 46 runs batted in.
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  We're in the second inning and the Royals are threatening and the change up the strike.
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  No score in the game.
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  Yankees would like to turn to here on Frank White.
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  And that's out of play two strikes on White.
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  Weather holding down the crowd somewhat.
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  First two games drew in excess of forty thousand each.
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  This game might be a little smaller the crowd.
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  One ball and two strikes on White.
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  Yankees and Kansas City have always had a pretty good rivalry.
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  Many times they played championship games and the Yankees used to kind of dominate them in championship games until 1980.
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  That could be two. There is one.
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  Smalley better hurry did not make it a run score.
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  Wathen scores and the Royals lead one to nothing on the four side at second base.
• 20:19
  Well Frank White has good speed and even though this ball was hit sharply to Burt Campaneras.
• 20:24
  He coming up with the ball and going to go ahead and make the first play to Roy Smalley at second.
• 20:30
  But with the speed of Frank White he beats out that play which allows a run to score and white to pick up a run batted in his forty seventh of the year and the Royals lead one to nothing.
• 20:43
  And that'll bring on Don Slott to catch a two thirty nine hitter and he takes the ball.
• 20:50
  I think a hitter knows that when he's in a double play situation with a guy at third base I think in the back of their mind they know if they hit the double play they don't get that RBI makes them hustle down that line a little more.
• 21:02
  The Yankees needed to there to get out of the ending without the run scoring and just missed it.
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  The ball on the strike on Don Slott.
• 21:22
  Well the Royals come out early doing their type of game.
• 21:25
  That's how they play hitting and running and stealing bases and trying to force the opposing team to make mistakes.
• 21:37
  Well that play by Balboni at first base looms as large.
• 21:42
  They could have had a real big inning going up.
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  Bones he had to make that outstanding play.
• 21:49
  That'll fall base it see if white will try to go to 30 will and but also will have to be under the cutoff man.
• 21:56
  So slot got jammed for a looping single right.
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  White goes to third.
• 22:02
  Once again in the second inning the Royals that runners at first and third this time with two outs and Willie Wilson is the batter.
• 22:10
  Well Raleigh's made some pretty good pitches.
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  He's just been a little unlucky.
• 22:13
  He when he had the double play situation he made a Frank White hit the ball on the ground but they could not go ahead and complete it.
• 22:20
  And he made a good pitch on slot there which he got jammed a little bit and just looped it out in the right field.
• 22:25
  Here's Wilson who followed the Balboni for the opening out of the ballgame.
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  Strike one on Wilson.
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  And Raleigh will take it himself as Balboni went away from the bag and that'll retire the side.
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  The Royals pick up one run on two bases.
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  They leave two men on base at the end of one and a half.
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  The Royals lead the Yankees one to nothing.
• 23:22
  Don Baylor who Bobby Mercer has driven in the game winning run the last three Yankee wins.
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  He'll lead off against Bud Black.
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  Baylor is 10 for 16 in his last four games.
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  So they're getting to hit that ball and hit it hard and get some good big key hits for the Yankees.
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  Scott is batting average up to three oh one with eleven home runs and 44 runs batted in.
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  And Baylor takes the strike.
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  One and one game winning run batted in last night for Baylor was his fifth of the year.
• 24:08
  Dave Winfield leads with twelve game winning runs batted in.
• 24:21
  Leon Roberts pounding the glove and left one away.
• 24:25
  He just got under that ball Bill.
• 24:29
  That ball is right there. He just happened to get underneath it.
• 24:39
  Dave Winfield had a day off yesterday.
• 24:43
  He's back out today with his two fifty two batting average. It doesn't.
• 24:49
  Even though Dave has struggled a little bit lately the last two or three weeks he like you said he leads the American League in game winning RBI's with twelve.
• 24:58
  And he is also tied in triples with seven along with Larry Herndon and Alfredo Griffin.
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  And he is sixth in the American League with sixty one runs batted in and he has 15 home runs.
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  So when he does get a hit it's been productive.
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  Two balls no strikes on Winfield Royals leading one to nothing.
• 25:21
  We're in the bottom of the second one out nobody on for the Yankees.
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  But black who started the season at Omaha.
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  He's won four lost three for the Royals since being called up.
• 25:38
  That's a drive that will not be caught.
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  That is.
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  Winfield anyone in the Yankee bullpen.
• 25:57
  Dave Winfield has just hit his 16th home run of the year and tied the ballgame up.
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  And you know what happens every time a Yankee hits home run.
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  Hey Dave Winfield this bud's for you.
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  That ball might have gone into the enclosure that holds the monument and then we'll take a look out here reminds me of you when you hit from the left side.
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  I mean he didn't know this ball and he didn't hit it any air he hit it right on the line.
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  That ball goes all the way out in the left center and almost into the monuments.
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  I think it did go into the monuments out there.
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  I'd have to hit it twice to get it that far.
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  That's about 450.
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  So Winfield 16th home run.
• 26:35
  We've got a 1 1 tie here in the second inning and Steve Kemp takes the ball.
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  I'm sorry I said that's the way you used to hit him from the left side.
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  You looked at me like you wanted to hit me.
• 26:52
  And kept to a white at second bad hop but it's played and there to us.
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  Oh he got all of that with and Dave is happy.
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  Take a look at it here and see if we can see the ball went right in just dropped right in there where the monuments are.
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  I mean he nailed that ball.
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  Yes he did.
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  Whoo.
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  And this fella can hit that ball in there to Steve Balboa a two thirty one hitter with two home runs and eight runs batted in.
• 27:24
  He really hasn't gotten into a ball yet here at the stadium.
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  I've seen him hit some long balls and especially in the spring training but I've never so far since he's been in the big leagues with the Yankees.
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  I haven't really seen no one like you said that he's capable of Yankees one Royals one were in the bottom of the second and Balboni takes high.
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  I think Balboni's pitch selection is becoming a little better.
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  He's not swinging wildly.
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  He's still swinging and missing but he's not swinging wildly anymore.
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  That's a foul ball off third.
• 28:05
  Well I've said it a few times and probably quit talking about it but Steve Balboni his out pitch is the breaking ball and like I said a little surprised that Steve has not adjusted to it a little more as many of breaking ball pitches that he's seen.
• 28:23
  I think the key is not being able to play every day.
• 28:27
  He's for him to adjust to that.
• 28:30
  He's got to go out there day after day after day and see it in game situations.
• 28:34
  Well the only problem with that you might not be able to do that with the Yankees.
• 28:37
  No two balls and a strike on Balboni.
• 28:46
  You've got Mattingly at first base you've got smally at first base you've got Ken Griffey coming off the disabled is pretty soon.
• 28:52
  Who can also play first base.
• 28:55
  Popped up.
• 28:58
  Brett.
• 29:02
  That's in foul territory and it's out number three the Yankees pick up a run on a Dave Winfield home run his 16th of the year.
• 29:09
  At the end of two Yankees one and the Royals one.
• 29:20
  Third inning a 1 1 tie in the count on you all Washington is no balls on the strike.
• 29:23
  One away.
• 29:38
  You are Washington now 0 for 2 he has struck out and bounced out.
• 29:43
  It was a high pitch he was trying to get on top of it he just got on top of a little too much.
• 29:53
  And here's George bread who single up the middle in the first inning.
• 29:58
  That's hitter in baseball.
• 30:00
  George Brett.
• 30:01
  Yeah.
• 30:03
  How about.
• 30:05
  And I can't say it cruise the best hitter in baseball.
• 30:06
  About that first baseman with Boston.
• 30:08
  No.
• 30:08
  You can sting it.
• 30:09
  No.
• 30:09
  No.
• 30:12
  And Brett takes wide ball one.
• 30:13
  When you get a guy that can hit
• 30:16
  three fifty or close to four
• 30:17
  hundred and hit you twenty or
• 30:19
  twenty five home runs and drive
• 30:20
  you in ninety one hundred runs
• 30:21
  that's what I call the best
• 30:23
  hitter in baseball.
• 30:25
  And the left center and one
• 30:28
  field will let Kemp take charge
• 30:31
  and their two outs.
• 30:34
  Who's the best hitter you've
• 30:35
  ever seen.
• 30:36
  In baseball.
• 30:37
  Who is.
• 30:38
  You've ever seen overall
• 30:39
  throughout your career as a.
• 30:41
  Youngster maybe watching game.
• 30:42
  I have to say.
• 30:44
  George Brett.
• 30:45
  And before George Brett I'd
• 30:47
  have to say Tony Oliva.
• 30:49
  You see Ted Williams.
• 30:51
  There did.
• 30:51
  I know I didn't see Ted Williams.
• 30:53
  You see Hank Aaron.
• 30:55
  Yeah I saw Hank Aaron.
• 30:57
  You see Stan Musial.
• 30:59
  Didn't get to see Stan.
• 31:02
  Flat out hitting usual could hit.
• 31:03
  Just for flat out hitting.
• 31:05
  And.
• 31:07
  Here's how McCrae.
• 31:08
  He's been up once bounced to
• 31:10
  I'm just talking about present
• 31:12
  day players that you've seen and
• 31:14
  been associated with.
• 31:18
  Even though a guy hits for an
• 31:20
  average like Wade Boggs and Rod
• 31:22
  Carew they just don't they don't
• 31:23
  hit that many home runs and they
• 31:24
  don't drive that many runs in.
• 31:25
  They're just an average hitter.
• 31:26
  They don't have all the
• 31:27
  components that you need to be
• 31:29
  an outstanding.
• 31:30
  Or the best hitter in baseball.
• 31:31
  George Brett is.
• 31:32
  In the game.
• 31:35
  It's two balls no strikes on
• 31:37
  Macrae.
• 31:43
  When one McCrae trying to pull
• 31:45
  it doesn't often try to pull a
• 31:46
  ball normally hits a ball to a
• 31:47
  right center field.
• 31:49
  It's two and one.
• 31:54
  And that's high three balls and
• 31:56
  a strike.
• 31:57
  There's Macrae.
• 32:00
  Came from the Cincinnati Reds to
• 32:02
  the Kansas City Royals quite a
• 32:04
  few years ago and has really
• 32:05
  done well in the American League.
• 32:08
  Ball for McCrae walks.
• 32:10
  One thing when he was younger
• 32:11
  McCrae used to be a threat to
• 32:12
  steal but as he's gotten older he
• 32:15
  has stopped trying to steal
• 32:17
  Well he he's still got pretty
• 32:19
  good speed and he will steal a
• 32:21
  base here and there but like you
• 32:23
  said he does not try to steal as
• 32:25
  much now as he used to.
• 32:27
  There might be a reason for that
• 32:28
  to.
• 32:31
  The cows are my now won't him
• 32:32
  stealing too many bases to try
• 32:34
  to save himself.
• 32:35
  I don't know you never know.
• 32:37
  Amos Otis has been up once and
• 32:38
  Balboni made a fine play on his
• 32:40
  ground ball was in the second
• 32:42
  inning leading off strike one on
• 32:44
  Otis.
• 32:46
  Well the Reds lead the Mets
• 32:47
  three nothing that ball game just
• 32:49
  underway it's in the second
• 32:50
  inning.
• 32:51
  March off picked up another run
• 32:53
  they lead Houston three nothing
• 32:54
  in the fifth inning like two on
• 32:59
  Otis Raleigh just ran back and
• 33:02
  throwing fastballs were in the
• 33:05
  top of the third a 1 1 tie
• 33:07
  between the Yankees and the
• 33:08
  Kansas City Royals and time is
• 33:18
  called there he is again stepping
• 33:20
  He does that a lot.
• 33:23
  Does it too often if I were a
• 33:24
  pitcher.
• 33:30
  He don't like Jim music either.
• 33:32
  No.
• 33:33
  Otis.
• 33:34
  They're going to come inside but
• 33:36
  a bit low.
• 33:37
  One and two on Otis.
• 33:39
  Serone tried to steal the pitch
• 33:41
  and Raleigh shakes his head.
• 33:44
  Well this is one of those
• 33:45
  borderline pitches that just
• 33:46
  happened to be down just a hair
• 33:48
  below the knees.
• 33:56
  Minnesota is leading Cleveland
• 33:57
  six to two that ball game in the
• 33:59
  fifth inning as the American
• 34:01
  League score has not come up on
• 34:02
  the board.
• 34:04
  It's two and two on a Masotas
• 34:07
  ex Yankee coach Mike for always
• 34:09
  having who's the manager of the
• 34:10
  Cleveland and he's having some
• 34:11
  problems on there for his first
• 34:13
  rookie season as a manager.
• 34:15
  And Raleigh makes the catch out
• 34:18
  of retirement side.
• 34:20
  No runs no hits a walk and a man
• 34:22
  left on base.
• 34:24
  We're going to the bottom half
• 34:25
  the third inning.
• 34:26
  The Yankees one Kansas City one
• 34:31
  and Roy Smalley leads off against
• 34:33
  Bud Blacks Molly's batting 269
• 34:35
  10 home runs 31 runs batted in
• 34:40
  and the Yankees one.
• 34:41
  Good curve ball on the corner.
• 34:45
  It'll be small a Rick's own and
• 34:46
  Bert Campaneras Yankees one run
• 34:52
  on Dave Winfield's home run the
• 34:54
  Royals one run on three hits
• 34:58
  ball on the strike on Roy Smalley
• 35:02
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• 35:03
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• 35:05
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• 35:06
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• 35:19
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• 35:22
  Two balls and a strike on Smalley
• 35:26
  and the center Wilson with a late
• 35:29
  jump but makes a catch.
• 35:30
  He's got to get it.
• 35:32
  He's got to get it.
• 35:33
  He's got to get it.
• 35:35
  He's got to get it.
• 35:36
  He's got to get it.
• 35:38
  With a late jump but makes a
• 35:40
  He's got great speed.
• 35:41
  Only Willie Wilson can make a
• 35:43
  play like that with the speed
• 35:45
  that he has because Roy did not
• 35:47
  it was one of those full swings
• 35:50
  and gets in on him a little bit
• 35:52
  Willie kind of took a step back
• 35:54
  but with his tremendous speed
• 35:55
  he's able to catch up with the
• 35:56
  ball and make a diving
• 35:59
  outstanding catcher.
• 36:00
  He's got to make a play that
• 36:02
  Otis has less ability than
• 36:04
  Wilson but Otis playing a deep
• 36:05
  center field would never have
• 36:06
  gotten to that ball.
• 36:07
  Now Otis does not have to say
• 36:09
  anything about his ability but
• 36:10
  he doesn't have the speed that
• 36:11
  Willie Wilson has.
• 36:13
  Here's Rick's own and that'll
• 36:16
  look foul into the seats down the
• 36:18
  The Royals have been trying for
• 36:19
  a couple of years to move Wilson
• 36:21
  from left field to center but
• 36:23
  when they first proposed that
• 36:25
  move by Amos Otis was upset by
• 36:27
  it and he didn't like it and
• 36:29
  he didn't want to be there.
• 36:31
  Well I don't know why he would
• 36:32
  be would be there that upset
• 36:34
  because Willie Wilson definitely
• 36:36
  can cover more ground than Amos
• 36:38
  Otis can but still when you move
• 36:40
  Amos Otis to right field he's
• 36:41
  got the better arm or the two.
• 36:44
  So right field would be more of
• 36:45
  a position for Amos Otis with
• 36:49
  the acquisition his arm out
• 36:52
  So straight away center and
• 36:55
  there are two outs two outs
• 36:58
  and the Yankees won and Kansas
• 37:00
  City won and we'll start all
• 37:01
  over again with Bert Campaneras.
• 37:03
  You know you talk about Willie
• 37:04
  Wilson playing center field in
• 37:05
  Kansas City the ball doesn't
• 37:07
  carry that well out there in
• 37:10
  Royal Stadium and with the speed
• 37:12
  that Willie Wilson has and those
• 37:14
  those balls that can hit be hit
• 37:16
  in the gap out there he can run
• 37:17
  right under and run them down
• 37:21
  Campaneras is all for one in the
• 37:23
  game bounce to short his first
• 37:25
  strike and he's going to come
• 37:28
  up batting 344 two balls no
• 37:38
  strikes on Campaneras Willie
• 37:40
  Wilson there he might have hurt
• 37:42
  his shoulder when he's making a
• 37:43
  diving catch out there trying to
• 37:45
  keep it loose.
• 37:46
  He's kind of hanging it down
• 37:47
  there like it's bothering him
• 37:49
  that's a strike laid on the
• 37:51
  outside corner two and one on
• 37:53
  Campaneras out of play upper deck
• 38:04
  right side to and to I am sure
• 38:07
  the the Yankee players have
• 38:11
  noticed Wilson shaking his arm
• 38:13
  out there and I'm pretty sure
• 38:14
  the Royals will take another
• 38:15
  look at it here as he makes that
• 38:17
  catch and goes right down on his
• 38:19
  elbow looks like he might have
• 38:20
  jammed his arm up against his
• 38:21
  shoulder his elbow.
• 38:23
  I think you try to use that arm
• 38:24
  to cushion his ball and that
• 38:26
  took the impact out of play
• 38:28
  Campaneras boiling an excellent
• 38:30
  pitch on the corner.
• 38:31
  But if you notice something like
• 38:32
  that and you are the Yankees and
• 38:34
  he stays in the ballgame and
• 38:35
  he's not that bad and you're a
• 38:38
  baserunner you can maybe take an
• 38:40
  extra base on because he won't
• 38:41
  be able to throw the ball that
• 38:42
  well you watch him see if he's
• 38:43
  going to throw between innings
• 38:44
  when he goes out next inning
• 38:48
  just the little things.
• 38:49
  Yeah he's still he acts like
• 38:54
  he's in pretty good pain out
• 38:55
  there.
• 38:56
  He might not continue this game
• 39:02
  there's Dick Houser.
• 39:04
  He don't seem to be too
• 39:05
  I'm sure he'll ask Billy Wilson
• 39:07
  when he comes in after the
• 39:08
  ending is over.
• 39:11
  They said let's see how Wilson
• 39:13
  gets a ball in here Bobby.
• 39:14
  He's sort of holding that.
• 39:17
  That hurts a little bit.
• 39:18
  Yeah it hurts him a little bit.
• 39:20
  I think Willie would probably I
• 39:23
  am surprised as much as Willie
• 39:25
  has done that that the trainer
• 39:26
  from the Royals has not gone out
• 39:28
  and talked to him.
• 39:29
  Maybe they don't feel he's
• 39:30
  hurting or can hurt.
• 39:34
  Well by watching his actions he
• 39:36
  looks like he's hurt pretty good.
• 39:42
  Well Campanera singles up the
• 39:43
  middle with two outs that'll
• 39:44
  bring on Greg Nettles who's been
• 39:46
  up once and fouled out scores
• 39:49
  tied 1 1 here in the third strike
• 39:51
  went on Nettles.
• 40:03
  You know Wilson's a former
• 40:04
  football player too and he he's
• 40:06
  got to really hurt to hurt
• 40:10
  him.
• 40:13
  Football players a lot more than
• 40:14
  baseball players are used to
• 40:16
  playing her.
• 40:17
  There's a trainer of the Royals
• 40:19
  I think he's on that top step
• 40:21
  waiting for Willie Wilson to
• 40:22
  come back in after the inning.
• 40:25
  You know Nettles started the
• 40:27
  season with a mustache he's
• 40:28
  since shaved it off.
• 40:30
  He went into kind of a slump
• 40:32
  about a month ago and he blamed
• 40:33
  it on a mustache.
• 40:34
  Well he decided to change a few
• 40:35
  things around maybe because of
• 40:39
  the mustache.
• 40:40
  No I don't think that was true.
• 40:42
  In fact that pit that pitch right
• 40:43
  there if he had the mustache he
• 40:45
  got shaven right there.
• 40:47
  One and two on Nettles with two
• 40:49
  outs that was going right for the
• 40:50
  mustache.
• 40:53
  Campanella is at first base a 1 1
• 40:55
  tie and black wants to keep
• 40:57
  camp in his close to first hit
• 41:01
  by camp in errors the Yankees
• 41:02
  second against the left hander
• 41:04
  the first one a big hit.
• 41:05
  Winfield 16th home run of the
• 41:07
  year tying the ballgame up in
• 41:08
  the second base.
• 41:13
  You might look for Campanella
• 41:14
  to take a chance and steal this
• 41:16
  base.
• 41:17
  Greg Nettles has got one ball
• 41:19
  and two strikes so he's in the
• 41:20
  hole against the pitcher but
• 41:21
  black.
• 41:22
  He might take a chance or camp
• 41:24
  he might take a chance to try
• 41:25
  to steal the base.
• 41:29
  Whoa.
• 41:30
  Two and two on Nettles.
• 41:32
  There's Zimmer Don Zimmer the
• 41:33
  third base coach who would give
• 41:37
  the stop sign to camp in errors.
• 41:39
  I understand some Yankees have
• 41:41
  the green light all the way.
• 41:42
  The only time that they cannot
• 41:43
  run is when Billy Martin puts up
• 41:45
  the red light.
• 41:46
  Otherwise they can run whenever
• 41:47
  they want.
• 41:52
  There's three things they'll
• 41:55
  they're either on their own
• 41:57
  either Billy gives them the sign
• 41:58
  to go on that particular pitch
• 42:00
  or like you said he puts up the
• 42:02
  stop sign doesn't want them going
• 42:04
  at all.
• 42:10
  He's going this time but is it
• 42:11
  right back to black and that'll
• 42:14
  retire the side.
• 42:15
  No runs a base hit the man left
• 42:17
  on base on the McDonald's
• 42:18
  scoreboard to score at the end of
• 42:19
  three.
• 42:20
  The Yankees won the Kansas City
• 42:21
  Royals one.
• 42:25
  Let's pause 10 seconds along the
• 42:27
  Yankee baseball network for
• 42:28
  station identification.
• 42:40
  I John Watson who walked and
• 42:42
  scored his first time up is the
• 42:43
  batter and swings and misses its
• 42:45
  strike two.
• 42:47
  Where's Bobby Mercer.
• 42:49
  Just want to show you this Bobby
• 42:51
  this little boy was named after
• 42:53
  you Bobby Ray Erda.
• 42:56
  Isn't that a cute picture.
• 42:58
  He's got a Yankee uniform on.
• 42:59
  He was born on June 22nd 1983
• 43:02
  seven pounds two ounces.
• 43:05
  Looks just like Bobby said.
• 43:08
  And his parents are great Yankee
• 43:10
  fans and wanted their first child
• 43:12
  if a boy named after their
• 43:13
  favorite player.
• 43:15
  They didn't know how to spell
• 43:16
  resuto so they said Bobby Ray
• 43:18
  Mercer foul back.
• 43:28
  It's two and two and you know
• 43:29
  where that's from the Bingham
• 43:30
  Ten area and we got met.
• 43:32
  We got such great Yankee fans up
• 43:34
  there.
• 43:35
  Oh you got to go up and see Matt
• 43:37
  Botnick and Scottie Gow and all
• 43:39
  the Yankee fans up there.
• 43:42
  I tell you they love you.
• 43:44
  They said rip the right center
• 43:46
  field by Wathen and Winfield
• 43:50
  ready to fire it in in a hurry.
• 43:54
  Wathen takes the little
• 43:57
  protector off fourth hit for the
• 44:01
  Royals and Leon Roberts the
• 44:04
  batter and a man just as big if
• 44:06
  not bigger than Leon Roberts is
• 44:08
  sitting next to me Frank message.
• 44:10
  Are you bigger than Leon Roberts.
• 44:12
  Well I have to look up Robert's
• 44:14
  size here scooter and tell you
• 44:16
  in just a moment.
• 44:17
  All right.
• 44:19
  A 1 1 ballgame on a tremendous
• 44:22
  home run by Dave Winfield wrote
• 44:28
  a first but he's back.
• 44:30
  I got Leon by about an inch.
• 44:32
  OK then I'm right for a change.
• 44:34
  All right.
• 44:35
  Robert who had a home run
• 44:37
  yesterday chewing on that
• 44:38
  tobacco foul in and out of the
• 44:41
  Yankee dugout and there goes
• 44:43
  Gamble wave in a towel.
• 44:45
  Oscar's got a groin ball he
• 44:47
  almost had a lump from the line
• 44:49
  drive.
• 44:50
  Let's see that's Milborne next
• 44:52
  to him.
• 44:53
  Yeah.
• 44:55
  A lot of little nagging injuries
• 44:57
  on the Yankee club scooter and
• 44:59
  wine to go with a groin ball.
• 45:01
  Oh there's Sammy Ellis the
• 45:02
  pitching coach going out.
• 45:03
  Hope that Raleigh didn't do
• 45:05
  anything.
• 45:07
  I hope not cause Robert split his
• 45:09
  bat went back for a new bat and
• 45:12
  maybe Sammy's telling them about
• 45:14
  Watson at first we remark what a
• 45:16
  great base theory is especially
• 45:17
  for a catcher and maybe he wants
• 45:20
  him to shorten that kick.
• 45:22
  OK.
• 45:23
  They got Jay Howler do it very
• 45:24
  well Frank.
• 45:25
  Yeah they really have a short
• 45:27
  net kick bring the pitch release
• 45:28
  perhaps just a little quicker.
• 45:30
  Yep.
• 45:31
  You know last time Watson was on
• 45:32
  scooter they had a hit and run
• 45:33
  He got such a great break had
• 45:34
  Roberts not swung at the pitch
• 45:36
  Watson would have stolen second
• 45:37
  without sliding you're right.
• 45:40
  One strike and they want to keep
• 45:44
  them close.
• 45:45
  But you watch the way Raleigh
• 45:47
  lifts that leg and if you time
• 45:48
  it just right get some jump.
• 45:51
  There he goes.
• 45:52
  Check swing foul.
• 45:54
  Yep.
• 45:55
  He double swung and he hit his
• 45:57
  back twice.
• 45:58
  Yes.
• 45:59
  Only counts as one strike though
• 46:00
  Yeah only counts as one strike
• 46:01
  and even though the ball wound
• 46:02
  up fair ground it was well and
• 46:06
  again Watson had that excellent
• 46:08
  He really did.
• 46:09
  He had a big lead.
• 46:10
  He would have had the base
• 46:11
  stolen again at Roberts not
• 46:12
  smart.
• 46:14
  Unbelievable for a catcher broke
• 46:16
  the record for a stolen bases
• 46:18
  for a catcher last year and he
• 46:20
  stole an 18 this year and 22
• 46:22
  drives slice foul.
• 46:28
  He quick pitched him a little
• 46:30
  bit that time but I hope it
• 46:32
  doesn't affect Raleigh's
• 46:33
  pitching a lot of times when you
• 46:35
  concentrate on getting rid of
• 46:36
  the ball quickly you don't have
• 46:38
  as much on it.
• 46:40
  Well you better have it on it
• 46:41
  with Roberts he's hit a home
• 46:42
  run in this area.
• 46:43
  He's strong.
• 46:46
  Bouncer in the hole by Campanaro
• 46:49
  and Watson's going to go to
• 46:51
  third and he's going to make it
• 46:53
  and a throw to second he's out
• 46:55
  at second base.
• 46:56
  All right.
• 46:57
  Great play by Greg Nettles.
• 47:00
  He knew he couldn't get the
• 47:01
  runner at third Frankie went out
• 47:03
  and got the ball and fired it
• 47:04
  to small you put the tag on him.
• 47:06
  Let's watch it again.
• 47:07
  This is a good play.
• 47:08
  The pitch is up.
• 47:09
  I don't know how Roberts beat
• 47:10
  that ball down on the ground.
• 47:12
  First of all Campanaro's cannot
• 47:14
  get it but now watch Pennella.
• 47:18
  He throws it all away on the
• 47:19
  fly which helps Nettles.
• 47:21
  Here's Watson coming into
• 47:22
  right right.
• 47:23
  He's in there.
• 47:24
  Nettles now moves out for the
• 47:25
  throw and rips it back to
• 47:27
  second base and there's the tag
• 47:30
  applied by Smalley as Roberts is
• 47:32
  out at second.
• 47:33
  It'll be a single and he is out
• 47:35
  nine five six five.
• 47:39
  Frank White and Yankees have the
• 47:41
  infield in a 1 1 ballgame.
• 47:44
  White bounce the second first
• 47:45
  time up.
• 47:46
  Oh he had a way off stride with
• 47:48
  that change.
• 47:49
  Strike one.
• 47:51
  That's one reason I think that
• 47:53
  Raleigh has been really more
• 47:54
  effective as a starting pitcher
• 47:56
  than he was as a reliever because
• 47:57
  he will throw that change as a
• 48:00
  starter when he came out of the
• 48:01
  bullpen he'd never use the
• 48:02
  change right.
• 48:05
  Oh he got him.
• 48:06
  Yes sir.
• 48:07
  He swung at that.
• 48:09
  It's 0 and 2.
• 48:10
  He tried to check it but
• 48:11
  couldn't do it.
• 48:16
  There it is pitchers almost in
• 48:17
  the dirt.
• 48:18
  He had a completely full some
• 48:20
  hitters get a little over
• 48:21
  anxious with runners on and the
• 48:22
  infield in just missed.
• 48:26
  Oh that was close.
• 48:27
  As the score 1 and 1 the Royals
• 48:30
  with five hits the Yankees with
• 48:32
  two and as Wathen at third we
• 48:39
  told you is an excellent base
• 48:40
  runner bounce and Nettles makes
• 48:45
  a great play but it'll be a base
• 48:47
  hit.
• 48:48
  He would not have been able to
• 48:49
  get Wathen at home it was right
• 48:50
  over the bag.
• 48:52
  It'll be a base hit and the
• 48:54
  Royals lead 2 to 1.
• 48:56
  Well that's white second RBI and
• 48:58
  Wathen second run scored here
• 48:59
  it is again.
• 49:02
  Hard shot right down the line
• 49:04
  that was knocks it down holds it
• 49:07
  to a single by knocking the ball
• 49:09
  down but the run will score and
• 49:11
  it's a basic.
• 49:13
  So the Royals take a 2 to 1 lead
• 49:15
  here in the top of the fourth one
• 49:17
  man out and they'll have to keep
• 49:20
  an eye on white here is Don
• 49:21
  Slott the catcher single right
• 49:23
  his first time up.
• 49:27
  Another base hit ripped to left
• 49:29
  field and that's the seventh
• 49:31
  base hit for the Royals and
• 49:34
  almost looks like a replay of
• 49:37
  Ray Fontana's game Frank when
• 49:39
  they started hitting the young
• 49:41
  left hander.
• 49:42
  Yep.
• 49:43
  And the bullpen will go to work.
• 49:44
  That is Dale Murray who will
• 49:45
  start drawing four hits here in
• 49:48
  the inning.
• 49:49
  The only man retired has been
• 49:50
  Robert's trying to stretch a
• 49:53
  well not trying to stretch a
• 49:54
  single into a double trying to
• 49:55
  advance from first base to
• 49:57
  second following his base hit on
• 49:58
  a throw to third and Dale Murray
• 50:00
  has done an excellent job
• 50:01
  Frank in his last two outings at
• 50:03
  least.
• 50:04
  Well they've changed his
• 50:05
  mechanics around he pitches
• 50:06
  completely off the stretch
• 50:08
  position although he winds up
• 50:09
  when he warms up in the bullpen
• 50:14
  Willie Wilson has popped the
• 50:17
  first and bounced back to the
• 50:20
  pitcher one out.
• 50:24
  It's like all the Royals like to
• 50:26
  leave two of their buttons open
• 50:29
  on their shirts.
• 50:32
  Wow.
• 50:33
  Got a little bit of sarong there.
• 50:36
  Yeah they do.
• 50:38
  Well the Yankee has been a
• 50:39
  Yankee tradition over the years
• 50:40
  to leave one one up and yeah
• 50:42
  like every one of them at those
• 50:44
  two buttons open Willie's a
• 50:48
  bubblegum sure and blower
• 50:53
  caponeras broke for the bag so
• 50:55
  Raleigh steps off the mound
• 50:57
  talking about Watham a moment
• 50:58
  Scooter he stole thirty six
• 50:59
  bases last year and broke Ray
• 51:01
  Shocks record for stolen bases
• 51:02
  by a catcher.
• 51:03
  Hmm.
• 51:04
  Shock stole 30 and had the
• 51:05
  record until last year a bunt
• 51:09
  bounced up and hit him.
• 51:10
  Sharon said it hit him in fair
• 51:12
  territory.
• 51:13
  The plane on fire says no and
• 51:15
  that is a very difficult play to
• 51:17
  call.
• 51:18
  Well the plane on fire doesn't
• 51:19
  call that place good or that's
• 51:20
  called by Joe Brakeman that
• 51:21
  second and Brakeman made the call
• 51:23
  right away.
• 51:24
  I don't believe he was out of
• 51:25
  the box Frank.
• 51:26
  He's fast but he's not that
• 51:27
  fast.
• 51:29
  You see that.
• 51:30
  Right there he's in the box.
• 51:31
  Now you see at the top of your
• 51:33
  screen second base on fire
• 51:34
  Brakeman waving a foul.
• 51:35
  It's Brakeman's call as the
• 51:37
  plate umpire is blocked out on
• 51:39
  it.
• 51:40
  Billy does.
• 51:41
  Well he he can argue but he does
• 51:43
  not have a valid point to argue
• 51:45
  there.
• 51:50
  It's a very deceiving play.
• 51:53
  Now if Wilson had been on home
• 51:55
  Blake he would have been out.
• 51:56
  He would have been out because
• 51:57
  home plate is in fair territory
• 51:59
  of course.
• 52:00
  But I believe he was still in
• 52:01
  the batter's box and I think the
• 52:02
  replay show I do too Frank.
• 52:04
  I had own two on Willie Wilson
• 52:07
  played on fire put two hands up
• 52:08
  in the air but he was saying I
• 52:09
  don't know.
• 52:10
  Right.
• 52:11
  So Rowan jumped up and Rick
• 52:13
  never knew where the ball went.
• 52:14
  He was looking up in the air
• 52:15
  down third outside and Serone
• 52:21
  bluffs a throw to first and
• 52:23
  diving back a slot.
• 52:42
  I had one ball two strikes one
• 52:44
  out.
• 52:45
  Royals leading two to one just
• 52:49
  outside two and two struck come
• 53:05
  out.
• 53:06
  Good pitch by Shane Raleigh
• 53:10
  who strikes out the tough Willie
• 53:15
  Wilson.
• 53:16
  It is again this pitch I believe
• 53:18
  will be out of the strike zone
• 53:19
  low.
• 53:20
  Yep.
• 53:21
  As Wilson tried to uppercut the
• 53:22
  ball Raleigh gets a big big
• 53:24
  strikeout there.
• 53:25
  That's his second of the ball
• 53:26
  game and here's the other man
• 53:28
  he struck out U.L. Washington
• 53:30
  was struck out and bounced his
• 53:31
  second.
• 53:32
  You know it surprises me scooter
• 53:33
  that Willie Wilson leads the
• 53:35
  Royals in strikeouts.
• 53:36
  No kidding.
• 53:37
  Yeah.
• 53:38
  We know he's swinging a lot
• 53:39
  of the ball.
• 53:40
  He's got a lot of power.
• 53:41
  He's got a lot of power.
• 53:42
  He's got a lot of power.
• 53:43
  He's got a lot of power.
• 53:44
  He's got a lot of power.
• 53:45
  Frank and he is pressed right
• 53:46
  one.
• 53:47
  I don't see why I don't either.
• 53:48
  He's not a home run hitter.
• 53:49
  His home runs will be inside the
• 53:50
  park.
• 53:51
  He'll lay out his home runs and
• 53:53
  he has struck out now 52 times
• 53:58
  U.L. Washington with the
• 54:01
  proverbial toothpick.
• 54:03
  I used to know guys Frank that
• 54:05
  had a gold toothpick.
• 54:08
  Don't ever mess around with a
• 54:09
  toothpick.
• 54:12
  He says whoever used a gold
• 54:14
  toothpick had wooden teeth.
• 54:15
  That was George Washington
• 54:18
  outside one on one.
• 54:23
  Toothpick Jones.
• 54:24
  Yeah.
• 54:26
  He go through a box of my ball.
• 54:27
  That's right.
• 54:28
  He used to pitch because you've
• 54:29
  got to bear down every time you
• 54:30
  throw your break one just about
• 54:32
  they say the mound would have a
• 54:33
  little pile of broken to the
• 54:34
  place after the game.
• 54:35
  I never saw him pitch though.
• 54:37
  He's got to be a good pitcher.
• 54:39
  And that should do it.
• 54:41
  And now it goes back back and
• 54:43
  falls down and holds on to the
• 54:45
  ball.
• 54:46
  Holy cow.
• 54:47
  Penelope saw Mumford do that
• 54:49
  yesterday.
• 54:50
  It looks so good on TV.
• 54:51
  Lose this side and watch this.
• 54:55
  Oh man.
• 54:57
  And the score now at the end of
• 54:59
  three and a half is the Royals
• 55:01
  two and the Yankees one.
• 55:03
  I don't know how he held out on
• 55:05
  it.
• 55:06
  He's got to be Penelope made
• 55:08
  that sensational falling catch
• 55:10
  all twinkle toes out there.
• 55:12
  Frank watch it.
• 55:13
  Here it is again.
• 55:15
  But I'll ask to dig back.
• 55:16
  He was playing the hitter very
• 55:17
  shallow and right there as he
• 55:20
  hits the warning track his foot
• 55:22
  slips but he makes the catch as
• 55:24
  he hits the deck rolls over
• 55:26
  hangs on Mumford.
• 55:28
  Same thing in last night's ball
• 55:30
  game.
• 55:30
  Yep.
• 55:31
  Exactly the same.
• 55:32
  And they both caught the ball
• 55:35
  and Penelope who bounced his
• 55:38
  third his first time up.
• 55:39
  Well lead it off Yankees trail
• 55:41
  to the one.
• 55:55
  Let's see what stance he uses
• 55:56
  this time.
• 55:57
  Scooter.
• 55:58
  All right.
• 55:59
  You had a number last time
• 56:00
  Frank.
• 56:00
  Well he started out with five
• 56:02
  forty one and changed it to
• 56:03
  seventy two.
• 56:05
  All right.
• 56:06
  Let's see.
• 56:07
  He doesn't like anyone
• 56:08
  comfortable.
• 56:10
  You're absolutely right.
• 56:11
  You know he's got to be exactly
• 56:13
  comfortable and in time his
• 56:16
  swing forward come up and takes
• 56:19
  it outside and high ball one.
• 56:21
  He just before the pitch came he
• 56:23
  moved the left foot just a
• 56:24
  little bit.
• 56:25
  Yep.
• 56:28
  Very few hitters can change
• 56:30
  stances as often as Penelope
• 56:32
  does.
• 56:33
  He's got to continue to hit
• 56:34
  well.
• 56:35
  But I think the important thing
• 56:36
  is to be comfortable at the
• 56:37
  plate.
• 56:42
  Bounces it foul nice play done
• 56:44
  Zimmer old shortstop.
• 56:47
  As ever a man of many
• 56:48
  positions.
• 56:49
  Yes.
• 56:50
  I shouldn't say he played a
• 56:51
  short second third even caught a
• 56:54
  little bit.
• 56:55
  Yep.
• 56:56
  He bounced that straight down
• 57:00
  the line.
• 57:02
  Black on the mound black is not
• 57:14
  a strikeout pitcher.
• 57:16
  Oh rip the left field but
• 57:17
  curving foul.
• 57:22
  Look at Lou.
• 57:25
  I said it.
• 57:26
  Lose says that's my best shot.
• 57:27
  Why does it have to be foul.
• 57:29
  I mean it's a good shot.
• 57:31
  You know getting back to Don
• 57:32
  Zimmer.
• 57:33
  You mentioned shortstop.
• 57:34
  He got third he played second
• 57:36
  he caught.
• 57:37
  He also played first.
• 57:38
  No kidding.
• 57:39
  He played left field right
• 57:40
  field center field and pitched.
• 57:42
  He played all position and he's
• 57:44
  coached and he's managed.
• 57:45
  Yep.
• 57:46
  Look at him.
• 57:47
  Don Zimmer and he loves to talk
• 57:49
  baseball.
• 57:50
  He'll chew your ear off.
• 57:51
  He'll talk day and night.
• 57:52
  Great story teller is Mr.
• 57:54
  Zimmer.
• 57:58
  He's got a good curve that
• 57:59
  Penelope golf and he is one of
• 58:01
  the best low ball hitters in
• 58:03
  baseball.
• 58:04
  Mr. Penelope.
• 58:05
  Yep.
• 58:06
  Another thought on Mr. Zimmer.
• 58:08
  He married his childhood
• 58:09
  sweetheart.
• 58:10
  Now we'll watch Penelope swing
• 58:12
  at this one that curve ball he
• 58:14
  ripped in Elmira New York at
• 58:17
  home plate home plate.
• 58:18
  They used to do that a lot in
• 58:19
  the minor leagues.
• 58:20
  It really helped because you
• 58:21
  never had any money playing in
• 58:22
  the minor leagues in those days
• 58:24
  and they'd outfitch anyway give
• 58:25
  you furniture.
• 58:27
  He's got a good curve.
• 58:28
  He's got a good curve.
• 58:29
  He's got a good curve.
• 58:30
  He's got a good curve.
• 58:31
  Bounces it over the pitchers
• 58:32
  head but you well Washington
• 58:34
  quick flip has got him one away.
• 58:37
  It's one of the few times you'll
• 58:39
  see Penelope reach for a low
• 58:40
  outside pitch and pull it.
• 58:43
  There it is again bouncing over
• 58:46
  black but Washington is a good
• 58:48
  shortstop.
• 58:50
  You say he may be a little bit
• 58:52
  underrated.
• 58:53
  And so yes as a fielder yes as a
• 58:55
  fielder.
• 58:56
  But he's not going to have to
• 58:57
  run away.
• 58:58
  He's hitting so low switch hitter
• 59:01
  he should be right up in the
• 59:02
  two seventies as fast as he can
• 59:04
  run down bail a flight the left
• 59:05
  first time up ball one.
• 59:09
  I got a card our organist is the
• 59:11
  young man from Philadelphia area
• 59:13
  filling in Freddie Leighton.
• 59:15
  What's his name Paul Richards
• 59:16
  Paul Richards fouled back and
• 59:19
  out of play he's played two
• 59:20
  Italian numbers for the last two
• 59:22
  hitters Penelope and Bela.
• 59:23
  I don't know whether he's
• 59:24
  confused or he thinks it's good
• 59:25
  to have a good pitch at the
• 59:26
  bottom of the fourth round.
• 59:27
  It's a good pitch for the
• 59:28
  Rondy one of them on the count
• 59:38
  and the Yankees trail by one
• 59:40
  here in the bottom of the fourth
• 59:50
  pretty good pitch that time by
• 59:51
  black right in on the hands one
• 59:53
  ball two strikes.
• 59:54
  He's got a good pitch open up
• 59:57
  was pitchers do make mistakes.
• 59:59
  They do.
• 1:00:00
  This kid has not walked anybody
• 1:00:04
  and we mentioned he is not the
• 1:00:05
  strikeout type a little low to
• 1:00:08
  and to get pitch a good game
• 1:00:11
  against the Yankees on Kansas
• 1:00:12
  City.
• 1:00:13
  He went nine innings gave up two
• 1:00:15
  runs six hits walk for and
• 1:00:17
  struck out two and the Royals
• 1:00:19
  won that game and extra innings
• 1:00:21
  he did not get the decision
• 1:00:22
  to go to the bottom of the fourth
• 1:00:23
  round.
• 1:00:24
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:25
  Ball out of play in the upper
• 1:00:28
  deck.
• 1:00:31
  Johnny Mano gets 70 years old
• 1:00:33
  today.
• 1:00:34
  Happy birthday Johnny a bouncer
• 1:00:51
  and he's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:52
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:53
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:54
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:55
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:56
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:57
  He's got a good pitch.
• 1:00:58
  So a Don turn around a look at
• 1:01:00
  what the umpire called him but
• 1:01:01
  he was out.
• 1:01:02
  That is again.
• 1:01:03
  White has to back up that ball
• 1:01:04
  was hit toward the middle and he
• 1:01:06
  doesn't get a whole lot on the
• 1:01:07
  throw but there is an up look
• 1:01:11
  like Wathen got stepped on
• 1:01:12
  almost very close.
• 1:01:16
  Well here he is.
• 1:01:18
  Dave Winfield gave him a day's
• 1:01:20
  rest of the day's rest of the
• 1:01:21
  day's rest of the day's rest of
• 1:01:23
  that game in the night's
• 1:01:24
  rest of the game.
• 1:01:26
  So a good ending order.
• 1:01:27
  All right.
• 1:01:29
  A little angry at not being in
• 1:01:30
  the number four spot.
• 1:01:32
  Hope he's still mad.
• 1:01:36
  One.
• 1:01:37
  Look at Dave.
• 1:01:38
  He thought that pitcher was
• 1:01:39
  going to be inside.
• 1:01:40
  You know it.
• 1:01:41
  He was.
• 1:01:42
  It was a little bit but not a
• 1:01:43
  knock down pitch.
• 1:01:44
  No.
• 1:01:45
  A purpose pitch as they call it
• 1:01:47
  that home run what do you say
• 1:01:49
  I've seen all year and one of
• 1:01:50
  the hardest I've ever seen.
• 1:01:51
  Yes because it was a line drive
• 1:01:53
  and for it to carry that far
• 1:01:56
  carry the fence and hit right
• 1:01:58
  back where the monuments are
• 1:02:00
  unbelievable poke right one to
• 1:02:11
  one two out nobody on bottom of
• 1:02:12
  the fourth Royals leading two to
• 1:02:14
  one right to the shortstop and
• 1:02:31
  Washington throws him out.
• 1:02:33
  So three ground outs that inning
• 1:02:35
  at the end of four it's the
• 1:02:37
  Royals two in the Yankees one well
• 1:02:47
  we move on to the fifth inning
• 1:02:48
  here at Yankee Stadium the
• 1:02:49
  Royals lead two to one and
• 1:02:50
  George Brett will be the lead
• 1:02:52
  off batter that Hal McCrae and
• 1:02:53
  Amos Otis against Shane Raleigh
• 1:02:55
  scooter.
• 1:02:56
  All right Frank and Brett is one
• 1:02:58
  for two is single center and
• 1:03:00
  flying to left Yankee pitching
• 1:03:03
  scooby Yankee pitching has done
• 1:03:04
  a pretty good job on Brett in
• 1:03:05
  this series.
• 1:03:06
  He's got a good shot.
• 1:03:07
  He's got a good shot.
• 1:03:09
  He sure have grounded his
• 1:03:10
  shorts Molly throws him out one
• 1:03:13
  away.
• 1:03:14
  Brett is now three for 16 in the
• 1:03:16
  series.
• 1:03:17
  That's unbelievable the way he
• 1:03:19
  swings that bad.
• 1:03:23
  Roy was touched up for seven
• 1:03:25
  hits for them last inning.
• 1:03:30
  A designated hitter but the
• 1:03:32
  Royals scored only one run his
• 1:03:34
  first pitch in the series.
• 1:03:44
  Full foul on a good change
• 1:03:45
  strike one.
• 1:03:47
  And how about that pitching job
• 1:03:48
  by Ron Guidry last night.
• 1:03:50
  I tell you Frank that's the
• 1:03:51
  Louisiana Lightning of 78.
• 1:03:53
  Wasn't it though.
• 1:03:54
  He came on so strong in those
• 1:03:56
  late innings.
• 1:03:57
  I won him on he struck out eight
• 1:04:03
  and one.
• 1:04:04
  Fly ball center field Winfield
• 1:04:06
  coming on makes the catch.
• 1:04:09
  I tell you it doesn't look like
• 1:04:11
  Winfield's moving but with those
• 1:04:12
  strides of his he eats up the
• 1:04:14
  ground.
• 1:04:17
  How about that divot that Willie
• 1:04:19
  Wilson dug up out there.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah.
• 1:04:21
  That great diving catch.
• 1:04:22
  Hmm.
• 1:04:23
  And Leon Roberts replaced it
• 1:04:24
  for.
• 1:04:25
  Oh that's very nice of him.
• 1:04:26
  Shook his hand and went over and
• 1:04:28
  replaced the divot.
• 1:04:28
  Yep.
• 1:04:29
  Must play a little golf.
• 1:04:31
  And he's got a great shot.
• 1:04:32
  Here's Amos Otis Otis robbed of
• 1:04:37
  a base hit twice once by Balboni
• 1:04:40
  on a great diving play and once
• 1:04:41
  on a liner back to Raleigh.
• 1:04:46
  All one.
• 1:04:48
  Now let's see if Otis pulls his
• 1:04:49
  trick here.
• 1:04:50
  He does it at least one time at
• 1:04:52
  every time at bat just as Raleigh
• 1:04:53
  is ready to pitch your last the
• 1:04:55
  time.
• 1:04:55
  And the umpires don't have to
• 1:04:56
  give him time if he calls it
• 1:04:58
  that late.
• 1:04:58
  I don't think they should allow
• 1:05:00
  him to do that.
• 1:05:01
  Yep.
• 1:05:02
  Now I don't know whether you
• 1:05:03
  don't play granted him time.
• 1:05:06
  He he just does that to
• 1:05:08
  aggravate the pitcher.
• 1:05:10
  And me.
• 1:05:11
  Well last time he did it Raleigh
• 1:05:12
  came inside down around his
• 1:05:13
  ankles and then he hit the line
• 1:05:15
  drive right back in Raleigh's
• 1:05:16
  glove.
• 1:05:17
  Ball two to nothing.
• 1:05:21
  Another footnote on Guidry last
• 1:05:23
  night's good with his eight
• 1:05:24
  strikeouts.
• 1:05:25
  He passed Bob Schalke and is in
• 1:05:28
  fifth place on the all time
• 1:05:29
  record.
• 1:05:30
  There's a strike.
• 1:05:34
  Guidry now has one thousand
• 1:05:35
  one hundred and sixty four
• 1:05:36
  strikeouts.
• 1:05:38
  It's two balls in a strike.
• 1:05:41
  Fly ball center field
• 1:05:42
  Winfield another good jump.
• 1:05:44
  Well you know he can't get it.
• 1:05:46
  That ball must have been a
• 1:05:47
  sinking line driver it tailed
• 1:05:49
  away.
• 1:05:49
  It looked like Dave thought he
• 1:05:50
  had it.
• 1:05:51
  He's talking to Penelope right
• 1:05:52
  now.
• 1:05:52
  I think the ball tailed away
• 1:05:53
  from him.
• 1:05:54
  Winfield may have misjudged that
• 1:05:55
  ball scooter.
• 1:05:56
  Uh huh.
• 1:05:57
  There you go.
• 1:05:57
  You see him on the run for it
• 1:05:58
  right there.
• 1:05:59
  He's trying to change his
• 1:06:00
  direction just a bit.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah he started sideways try to
• 1:06:03
  come in.
• 1:06:04
  It was too late.
• 1:06:04
  Yep.
• 1:06:07
  He may not have seen it right
• 1:06:08
  off the bat.
• 1:06:08
  We of course won't know until
• 1:06:10
  you ask Winfield after the ball
• 1:06:11
  game.
• 1:06:14
  All right.
• 1:06:14
  A two out single and his John
• 1:06:15
  Watson who has scored both of
• 1:06:17
  the royal runs a walk and a
• 1:06:19
  single takes the strike.
• 1:06:23
  Wearing the protective shin guard
• 1:06:26
  on the left leg.
• 1:06:27
  That's the leg he broke last
• 1:06:28
  time.
• 1:06:29
  He's got a lot of ball off of
• 1:06:30
  it.
• 1:06:30
  Wow.
• 1:06:31
  All out of play.
• 1:06:32
  Even more amazing to think that
• 1:06:34
  he set the all time stolen base
• 1:06:37
  record for a catcher.
• 1:06:39
  And in the meantime was out for
• 1:06:40
  a lot of the season with the
• 1:06:42
  broken ankle there from a
• 1:06:44
  fouling a ball down off his
• 1:06:45
  ankle.
• 1:06:48
  I think he stole the bases first
• 1:06:51
  game back from the broken ankle.
• 1:06:54
  Nobody figured he'd run those
• 1:06:56
  against the Yankees.
• 1:06:57
  He's got the ball and he's got
• 1:06:58
  it up and camping Harris back
• 1:07:02
  calling for it.
• 1:07:03
  Can't be makes the catch.
• 1:07:06
  No runs a hit nowhere as a man
• 1:07:08
  left at the end of four and a
• 1:07:10
  half the Royals two in the
• 1:07:11
  Yankees one.
• 1:07:17
  Well you heard that little
• 1:07:18
  chuckle at the end of that Toyota
• 1:07:20
  commercial that was a lot of fun
• 1:07:22
  for Bill White and me out here
• 1:07:25
  at Yankee Stadium.
• 1:07:25
  And that little fluff of bills
• 1:07:27
  that the producer liked it so
• 1:07:28
  much.
• 1:07:29
  He asked Bill if he could leave
• 1:07:30
  it in.
• 1:07:31
  Bill said of course and he
• 1:07:34
  could never count message.
• 1:07:35
  He used to miss the sign all the
• 1:07:37
  time.
• 1:07:37
  Why don't stick up for me.
• 1:07:40
  That's the commercial that I
• 1:07:41
  missed and I wanted to be in so
• 1:07:43
  badly.
• 1:07:48
  Quick word I was talking about
• 1:07:49
  getting a strikeout scooter
• 1:07:50
  before folks start asking why
• 1:07:51
  do you for it is the all time
• 1:07:52
  strikeout leader for Yankee
• 1:07:53
  pitchers with one thousand
• 1:07:55
  nine hundred and fifty six.
• 1:07:56
  Then Red Ruffing a thousand
• 1:07:58
  five hundred and twenty six.
• 1:07:59
  Lefty Gomez struck out a thousand
• 1:08:01
  four hundred and sixty eight
• 1:08:02
  Mel Stottlemeyer one thousand
• 1:08:04
  two hundred and fifty seven.
• 1:08:06
  And now Ron Guidry with one
• 1:08:07
  thousand one hundred and sixty
• 1:08:09
  four.
• 1:08:12
  Very impressive.
• 1:08:15
  There he is.
• 1:08:15
  Louisiana Lightning.
• 1:08:18
  Don't suppose he knew I was
• 1:08:20
  talking about him.
• 1:08:21
  No.
• 1:08:23
  Those pitchers really stick
• 1:08:24
  together on the bench.
• 1:08:27
  All right Steve Kemp.
• 1:08:28
  Good breaking pitch strike one.
• 1:08:32
  Steve bounced a second his first
• 1:08:34
  time up.
• 1:08:40
  Fly ball left field Roberts is
• 1:08:42
  right there.
• 1:08:44
  One hands it one man out.
• 1:08:47
  So Rosetta going back to your
• 1:08:48
  playing days how about a sky
• 1:08:50
  like this that buttermilk sky we
• 1:08:51
  refer to it is that tough to
• 1:08:53
  know.
• 1:08:53
  This is perfect.
• 1:08:54
  Oh yeah.
• 1:08:55
  Anytime the sun is hidden and
• 1:08:58
  it's overcast you can really
• 1:09:00
  pick up the ball.
• 1:09:01
  All right.
• 1:09:03
  Steve Balboni.
• 1:09:06
  Popped the third first time up.
• 1:09:07
  Oh.
• 1:09:09
  Good pitch there strike one.
• 1:09:14
  Yankees trailing two to one
• 1:09:15
  bottom of the fifth.
• 1:09:19
  Outside one on one.
• 1:09:22
  We need a run here and there's a
• 1:09:23
  little girl Kimberly Basshart up
• 1:09:27
  in kinder hook which is near
• 1:09:29
  Albany had a litter of rabbits
• 1:09:31
  name one after me call him the
• 1:09:33
  scooter.
• 1:09:34
  Rep foul almost got done Zimmer
• 1:09:38
  and he's got a Yankee cap on
• 1:09:41
  cute little rabbit.
• 1:09:46
  And I'm wondering if that's the
• 1:09:48
  same rabbit that's eating all my
• 1:09:50
  plants in the backyard outside
• 1:09:59
  to and to keep saying Balboni
• 1:10:08
  is overdue to show the Yankee
• 1:10:10
  fans just how far he can hit a
• 1:10:12
  ball.
• 1:10:14
  I'll get back to and to how
• 1:10:18
  Bonnie has just seemed to have
• 1:10:19
  trouble adjusting to the off
• 1:10:20
  speed pitch here in the major
• 1:10:22
  leagues.
• 1:10:23
  He's got a lot of curve balls
• 1:10:24
  and off speed pitches in the
• 1:10:25
  International League but he just
• 1:10:28
  can't seem to adjust to them
• 1:10:29
  here.
• 1:10:30
  I don't know what I can't figure
• 1:10:31
  it out but again he doesn't play
• 1:10:33
  day in and day out and play a
• 1:10:36
  couple of days and you sit on
• 1:10:37
  the bench a few days and Bud
• 1:10:41
  Black been in control of this
• 1:10:43
  ballgame.
• 1:10:46
  Look out how that missed him.
• 1:10:48
  I don't know if I was going to
• 1:10:49
  hit him on the elbow.
• 1:10:54
  Here it is again.
• 1:10:56
  That's bearing right on and he
• 1:10:57
  just did get the elbow out of the
• 1:10:58
  way.
• 1:10:59
  All right.
• 1:11:00
  Full count now on Balboni.
• 1:11:04
  I'd like to see him hit just
• 1:11:06
  one.
• 1:11:06
  That's all.
• 1:11:07
  Just one the way we saw him hit
• 1:11:10
  in the minor leagues.
• 1:11:14
  Got under it and it's out of
• 1:11:16
  play though Roy Smalley looking
• 1:11:20
  at it with Don Slott the
• 1:11:21
  catcher where they get the mud
• 1:11:23
  out of their spiked shoes with
• 1:11:25
  the shin guards that that's
• 1:11:27
  caked a little too hard.
• 1:11:33
  Well the threatening weather
• 1:11:33
  here today is good.
• 1:11:34
  They had the infield covered.
• 1:11:35
  Neither team took batting
• 1:11:36
  practice.
• 1:11:39
  Well I hope the weatherman's
• 1:11:40
  wrong although he said any time
• 1:11:42
  between noon and six o'clock we
• 1:11:44
  would have a thunderstorm but
• 1:11:47
  looks like it could miss us.
• 1:11:51
  Yankees will be flying out right
• 1:11:52
  after the ballgame heading for
• 1:11:53
  Arlington Texas to start an 11
• 1:11:56
  game 11 day road trip three
• 1:12:00
  different parts of the country
• 1:12:02
  southwest the Midwest and the
• 1:12:05
  northeast.
• 1:12:07
  That's right.
• 1:12:07
  Texas Chicago and Toronto.
• 1:12:09
  Oh he struck him out his first
• 1:12:11
  strike out of the ballgame ball
• 1:12:12
  was tailing away from Balboni
• 1:12:14
  and he tried to pull it.
• 1:12:17
  We have seen Steve Frank hit
• 1:12:19
  home runs to the opposite
• 1:12:20
  fields.
• 1:12:21
  Yes we have.
• 1:12:25
  Two out now Roy Smalley who was
• 1:12:27
  robbed of a base hit on that
• 1:12:28
  great play by Willie Wilson.
• 1:12:31
  That was the divot play.
• 1:12:32
  Yep.
• 1:12:35
  That was the divot play.
• 1:12:36
  Yep.
• 1:12:36
  Did he lay off.
• 1:12:38
  No he went around.
• 1:12:43
  Messes got those good eyes
• 1:12:44
  strike one.
• 1:12:46
  Didn't even have to appeal on
• 1:12:47
  that one.
• 1:12:51
  And loops went in his center.
• 1:12:53
  Wilson's not going to get that
• 1:12:54
  one.
• 1:12:55
  That's what you call a dying
• 1:12:56
  quail.
• 1:12:58
  Right off the end of the base
• 1:12:59
  hit.
• 1:13:00
  And he's got a good eye on the
• 1:13:02
  ball that's what you call a dying
• 1:13:06
  quail right off the end of the
• 1:13:08
  badgers went out and sat still
• 1:13:11
  out the center field.
• 1:13:13
  That's only the third hit for
• 1:13:14
  the Yankees or black.
• 1:13:19
  Rick's around.
• 1:13:21
  So wrong fly to center his first
• 1:13:23
  time up.
• 1:13:25
  Hey while Sarone steps in very
• 1:13:26
  interesting article in the New
• 1:13:28
  York Times today by Joe Durso
• 1:13:30
  and the Yankees are both leagues
• 1:13:32
  asking among other things for
• 1:13:34
  them to name their favorite
• 1:13:36
  ballparks to play in and outside
• 1:13:43
  ball one.
• 1:13:44
  Well Royal Stadium in Kansas
• 1:13:45
  City was voted the favorite in
• 1:13:47
  the American League with Yankee
• 1:13:51
  Stadium right up there in fourth
• 1:13:53
  place.
• 1:13:55
  All right.
• 1:13:56
  Municipal Stadium in Cleveland
• 1:13:57
  was voted the worst part to
• 1:14:00
  play in.
• 1:14:01
  I figured that even the Indian
• 1:14:03
  ballplayers moan about it and
• 1:14:05
  they play 81 games.
• 1:14:07
  Well they were overwhelming in
• 1:14:08
  their vote against their own
• 1:14:10
  stadium.
• 1:14:12
  No to nothing.
• 1:14:14
  They were also asked to name
• 1:14:15
  their ones they thought were the
• 1:14:17
  best umpires in both leagues and
• 1:14:20
  Steve Palermo was voted number
• 1:14:22
  one umpire in the American
• 1:14:23
  League.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah Steve besides being an
• 1:14:27
  umpire is one of the classiest
• 1:14:29
  dresses amongst the umpires
• 1:14:32
  outside three and nothing.
• 1:14:34
  Palermo has improved so much
• 1:14:36
  from his early days in umpire
• 1:14:38
  and he works hard.
• 1:14:39
  Oh he does.
• 1:14:40
  He works very very hard.
• 1:14:44
  All right.
• 1:14:44
  Three and Otis are on two out
• 1:14:46
  the Royals lead two to one
• 1:14:47
  bottom of the fifth right one
• 1:14:53
  three and one.
• 1:14:55
  I believe Dutch runner was
• 1:14:56
  the leading vote getter in the
• 1:14:58
  National League.
• 1:15:03
  I don't know those nationally
• 1:15:04
  umpires.
• 1:15:10
  That's that pitch tailing away
• 1:15:12
  from the right hand batter and
• 1:15:13
  when they try to pull it they
• 1:15:15
  either miss it or pop it up
• 1:15:17
  three and two small he will be
• 1:15:19
  released at first base and
• 1:15:21
  Wathen playing in back of them.
• 1:15:23
  That's a very important pitch
• 1:15:24
  for this young left handed
• 1:15:25
  guy.
• 1:15:27
  And a big pitch.
• 1:15:27
  Oh yeah.
• 1:15:28
  He's got a lot of outside a lot
• 1:15:31
  of ground balls.
• 1:15:35
  That goes small.
• 1:15:36
  Hard ground a lot of play by
• 1:15:38
  Brett.
• 1:15:39
  Holy county throws to run up
• 1:15:42
  great play by George Brett on a
• 1:15:44
  bullet hit by Sir own no runs
• 1:15:48
  ahead.
• 1:15:48
  Nowhere is a man left at the end
• 1:15:50
  of five on the cannon camera
• 1:15:52
  scoreboard.
• 1:15:53
  It's the Royals two and the
• 1:15:54
  Yankees one.
• 1:15:57
  You can always get Yankee
• 1:15:58
  tickets at all ticket drawn
• 1:15:59
  locations or by calling charge
• 1:16:01
  it as well as right here at the
• 1:16:03
  Yankee Stadium advanced ticket
• 1:16:04
  windows.
• 1:16:06
  Sixth inning coming up scooter
• 1:16:07
  and the Royals leading two to
• 1:16:08
  one and Leon Roberts two for two
• 1:16:10
  in the ballgame.
• 1:16:12
  All right.
• 1:16:12
  The big right hander facing
• 1:16:14
  Shane Raleigh and check swing
• 1:16:15
  bouncer.
• 1:16:16
  I have to hurry small a gets rid
• 1:16:19
  of it and gets him.
• 1:16:21
  That's a tough play for a guy as
• 1:16:23
  small as you Frank have to go
• 1:16:25
  down that low get the ball come
• 1:16:27
  up straight enough.
• 1:16:28
  That's right.
• 1:16:28
  And throw a little guy can get
• 1:16:31
  down and get it and throw from
• 1:16:32
  down there.
• 1:16:32
  But small he just can't do it.
• 1:16:34
  He's got to come up and take an
• 1:16:36
  extra step.
• 1:16:37
  Yep.
• 1:16:41
  One away is Frank White who is
• 1:16:42
  driven in both runs one on a
• 1:16:46
  ground out where the Yankees
• 1:16:47
  didn't turn to the double plan
• 1:16:49
  another on a spectacular save by
• 1:16:51
  Nettles which he got a base hit
• 1:16:53
  and a strike one a Frank White
• 1:16:58
  here's another guy I can't
• 1:16:59
  believe Frank is down at two
• 1:17:00
  forty seven.
• 1:17:01
  No I can't either rip to left
• 1:17:04
  field and going back camp and
• 1:17:07
  he's not going to get it.
• 1:17:08
  It's off the wall.
• 1:17:09
  You better hurry or whites going
• 1:17:11
  to have a triple he's going to
• 1:17:12
  make it.
• 1:17:13
  Camp had trouble picking up the
• 1:17:14
  ball the throw went over small
• 1:17:17
  he said but they still would not
• 1:17:18
  have gotten him a triple for
• 1:17:21
  the Yankees and he's going to
• 1:17:23
  have to get a triple.
• 1:17:24
  He's going to have to get a
• 1:17:24
  triple.
• 1:17:25
  He's going to have to get a
• 1:17:25
  triple.
• 1:17:26
  He's going to have to get a
• 1:17:27
  triple.
• 1:17:27
  Frank White Tony his third hit
• 1:17:30
  of the series in 16 at bat you
• 1:17:32
  see camp going but he'll not
• 1:17:34
  catch up with this one short
• 1:17:36
  hops off the wall and bounds
• 1:17:38
  away from him.
• 1:17:40
  Frank White with a play in front
• 1:17:42
  of him now camp will throw the
• 1:17:44
  ball over the head of small the
• 1:17:46
  cutoff man and Frank White
• 1:17:48
  coasts on into third base with a
• 1:17:50
  double and a triple.
• 1:17:51
  He's going to be hitting the
• 1:17:53
  infield in Don Slaughter who is
• 1:17:54
  two for two single right and
• 1:17:56
  single left will be the batter
• 1:18:01
  only one man out ball one and
• 1:18:16
  Seron bluffed a throw to third
• 1:18:18
  with nettles breaking over there
• 1:18:19
  and he's going to be the
• 1:18:20
  greatest combination I ever saw
• 1:18:22
  on that catcher at a third
• 1:18:24
  pickoff Thurman Munson and Greg
• 1:18:26
  Nilsen Greg Nittell Greg would
• 1:18:27
  give the sign and Munson would
• 1:18:28
  fire that ball down there and
• 1:18:30
  many many times they picked
• 1:18:31
  runners off.
• 1:18:32
  Oh Thurman had that quick
• 1:18:33
  release popped it up but it'll
• 1:18:37
  be out of play I believe
• 1:18:39
  Balboni will run out of room
• 1:18:42
  well back into the seats.
• 1:18:44
  Well the wind is blowing that
• 1:18:45
  way and it may be a true breeze
• 1:18:47
  this afternoon.
• 1:18:48
  The wind is blowing from left in
• 1:18:51
  toward the right field foul on
• 1:18:52
  a lot of us hitting us here in
• 1:18:54
  the booth I might add well
• 1:18:57
  there's a chill in the air here
• 1:18:59
  in New York certainly is just a
• 1:19:00
  raw damp day sort of a misty
• 1:19:03
  type day.
• 1:19:04
  But nonetheless a lot of great
• 1:19:07
  Yankee fans out here at Yankee
• 1:19:08
  Stadium.
• 1:19:09
  Oh yes.
• 1:19:10
  You know you say Misty and I
• 1:19:11
  right away I think of Johnny
• 1:19:12
  Mathis singing that song pitch
• 1:19:14
  out squeeze was not on two balls
• 1:19:17
  and he's got to take one slot
• 1:19:25
  has not laid down a sacrifice
• 1:19:27
  but this year they whistle them
• 1:19:29
  out of the batter's box and now
• 1:19:31
  this could either be something
• 1:19:33
  to confuse Billy Martin and the
• 1:19:35
  Yankees or maybe to squeeze his
• 1:19:37
  arm.
• 1:19:37
  We'll wait and see he's coming
• 1:19:41
  and a great job by slot as he
• 1:19:45
  almost dove to file that ball
• 1:19:47
  off and protect the runner.
• 1:19:49
  And that's what the Yankees
• 1:19:50
  going to have to do.
• 1:19:51
  Well one was caught napping.
• 1:19:52
  Right.
• 1:19:52
  Here it is again.
• 1:19:53
  You'll see him right there.
• 1:19:56
  That was not a pitch out but the
• 1:19:57
  pitch was well away from him.
• 1:19:58
  Now he's got to stay in the
• 1:19:59
  batter's box right.
• 1:20:00
  Not step on home plate or cross
• 1:20:02
  home plate.
• 1:20:03
  The best I've seen do that was
• 1:20:04
  Sir.
• 1:20:05
  Just recently and got an RBI
• 1:20:08
  RBI did not get a sacrifice
• 1:20:09
  because they made a play on the
• 1:20:11
  runner from first to second.
• 1:20:12
  But he got a run batted in and
• 1:20:15
  Sirone was almost perpendicular
• 1:20:17
  in the air when he laid the bat
• 1:20:18
  on it.
• 1:20:20
  Perpendicular perpendicular
• 1:20:24
  very good horizontal which was
• 1:20:25
  all right sideways.
• 1:20:30
  I like that slot just trying to
• 1:20:36
  slap that ball which is always a
• 1:20:37
  good idea with the infield in
• 1:20:39
  so I have to hit the ball hard.
• 1:20:41
  Sorry I use that word now I've
• 1:20:42
  got myself confused.
• 1:20:43
  I'm not sure if that's the right
• 1:20:45
  word for you.
• 1:20:45
  No no that's all right Frank.
• 1:20:47
  I can spell it but I don't know
• 1:20:49
  exactly what it means and he
• 1:20:56
  bounces one they got a letter
• 1:20:57
  roll and it goes foul.
• 1:20:59
  Now there's alert base running
• 1:21:01
  by Frank White.
• 1:21:02
  A lot of runners that third
• 1:21:04
  would kind of hesitate not know
• 1:21:05
  whether to go in or not.
• 1:21:06
  He broke immediately.
• 1:21:07
  They'd have never had a chance.
• 1:21:11
  Superstitious that you make sure
• 1:21:13
  you're not going to say I don't
• 1:21:17
  know who are the most
• 1:21:19
  superstitious people whether
• 1:21:21
  they be athletes or show people
• 1:21:23
  and that's true.
• 1:21:25
  That one line would show
• 1:21:27
  business people still gets me
• 1:21:29
  break a leg.
• 1:21:29
  Yeah sure.
• 1:21:31
  Means have a good night or
• 1:21:32
  something.
• 1:21:32
  Supposed to be bad luck to say
• 1:21:33
  good luck.
• 1:21:34
  Yeah.
• 1:21:37
  To and to the count one out and
• 1:21:41
  he filed it off.
• 1:21:42
  He's got a pretty good job up
• 1:21:43
  there protecting the plate.
• 1:21:45
  He's a tough man wants to strike
• 1:21:47
  out ratio Frank.
• 1:21:50
  He hasn't played really that
• 1:21:51
  much.
• 1:21:52
  He heard a lot this year he
• 1:21:52
  struck out only 14 times and a
• 1:21:55
  hundred and fifteen at bats.
• 1:21:58
  So one every 10 times.
• 1:22:01
  Yep.
• 1:22:09
  All right.
• 1:22:09
  Two balls two strikes just missed
• 1:22:15
  that inside corner.
• 1:22:16
  Boy he's looking for the ball
• 1:22:18
  away trying to slap it and
• 1:22:20
  Raleigh almost snuck it by him.
• 1:22:23
  Well he had a good idea there
• 1:22:24
  will watch that pitch again.
• 1:22:26
  He's slaught going into the
• 1:22:27
  pitch.
• 1:22:28
  But it was inside it's three and
• 1:22:30
  two.
• 1:22:30
  And that's a two.
• 1:22:39
  That'll get the run in and it's
• 1:22:42
  also over the head of
• 1:22:43
  Winfield.
• 1:22:44
  Holy cow.
• 1:22:46
  And slot's going to go for three
• 1:22:48
  and he's going to make it
• 1:22:51
  unbelievable back to back
• 1:22:53
  triples.
• 1:22:54
  And that's a two and a three
• 1:22:57
  and a four.
• 1:23:01
  Here comes Billy Martin.
• 1:23:06
  You know Phil was it.
• 1:23:08
  Bill the Royals have 10 hits in
• 1:23:10
  the ballgame and five of them
• 1:23:12
  are from their number eight and
• 1:23:13
  nine hitters.
• 1:23:14
  Frank White has two hits and two
• 1:23:16
  runs batted in slot has three
• 1:23:17
  hits and a run batted in.
• 1:23:19
  And then how about Roberts right
• 1:23:20
  above him.
• 1:23:21
  Roberts.
• 1:23:21
  That's right.
• 1:23:22
  He's got two more hits and set
• 1:23:24
  him up for the first to third.
• 1:23:26
  Well that's going to be all for
• 1:23:27
  Shane Raleigh Billy Martin asked
• 1:23:29
  for the baseball rally leaves.
• 1:23:33
  With the Royals out in front by
• 1:23:34
  a score of three to one.
• 1:23:37
  The Yankees will host the Detroit
• 1:23:39
  Tigers for a big three game
• 1:23:40
  weekend series August 5th through
• 1:23:42
  seventh highlighted by Skoll
• 1:23:44
  Bandit Yankee tote bag night and
• 1:23:46
  Bobby Mercer day here at Yankee
• 1:23:48
  Stadium.
• 1:23:49
  All fans attending the game on
• 1:23:51
  Saturday night August 6th will
• 1:23:53
  be honored with a tote bag
• 1:23:54
  compliments of Skoll Bandit and
• 1:23:57
  on Sunday afternoon August 7th
• 1:23:59
  one of the most beloved Yankees
• 1:24:00
  of all time Bobby Mercer will be
• 1:24:02
  honored here at Yankee Stadium
• 1:24:04
  when it'll be Bobby Mercer day.
• 1:24:06
  Don't miss these two special
• 1:24:08
  days.
• 1:24:11
  Billy Martin Yankee Captain
• 1:24:13
  Greg Nettles and catcher Rick
• 1:24:15
  Sirong await the arrival of Dale
• 1:24:18
  Raleigh the Royals are leading
• 1:24:24
  three to one and they have 10
• 1:24:25
  base hits already in the ball
• 1:24:27
  game.
• 1:24:28
  We're just in the top half of
• 1:24:29
  the sixth inning.
• 1:24:32
  Royals have left seven men on
• 1:24:34
  base.
• 1:24:35
  Raleigh.
• 1:24:36
  Pardon me.
• 1:24:37
  While going five and a third
• 1:24:38
  giving up 10 hits.
• 1:24:40
  I have him down for two walks
• 1:24:41
  and two strikeouts.
• 1:24:45
  And one of the two men he walked
• 1:24:47
  in the first half of the season
• 1:24:48
  and he's got a two score.
• 1:24:51
  Murray's record two and one
• 1:24:53
  run run average four point 69
• 1:24:56
  Murray had a really had a bad
• 1:24:57
  first half of the year.
• 1:24:59
  But I talked when we're on the
• 1:25:01
  last road trip scooter I talked
• 1:25:02
  to Jeff Talbot as we started the
• 1:25:06
  second half of the season I asked
• 1:25:07
  Jeff to sort of recap the first
• 1:25:08
  half and project his thoughts on
• 1:25:10
  the second half.
• 1:25:11
  And he said certainly the bullpen
• 1:25:13
  the middle relief pitching in
• 1:25:15
  the second half of the year
• 1:25:17
  right.
• 1:25:18
  But he said that this man Dale
• 1:25:20
  Murray had been working very
• 1:25:21
  very diligently in the bullpen
• 1:25:24
  trying to get his mechanics
• 1:25:26
  down.
• 1:25:27
  Jeff said it was a matter of
• 1:25:28
  mechanics.
• 1:25:29
  So what they had Raleigh do was
• 1:25:31
  work just off a stretch or what
• 1:25:33
  they had Murray do his work off
• 1:25:35
  just a stretch and set position.
• 1:25:37
  I talked to Dale Murray about
• 1:25:38
  it and he said yes he's fine.
• 1:25:40
  He found that he could not pitch
• 1:25:43
  in the bullpen and certainly he
• 1:25:45
  cannot wind up because he comes
• 1:25:47
  in with people on base right.
• 1:25:48
  So he has limited his deliveries
• 1:25:51
  off the stretch and set position
• 1:25:54
  even though we saw him wine go
• 1:25:55
  into a full motion when he
• 1:25:56
  warmed up there.
• 1:25:57
  It'll be interesting to see now
• 1:25:59
  if he sticks to that stretch and
• 1:26:00
  set with the runner at third and
• 1:26:02
  one out and we're going to have
• 1:26:05
  a pinch hitter Pat Sheridan for
• 1:26:08
  Willie Wilson.
• 1:26:09
  How do you like that.
• 1:26:10
  That's surprising.
• 1:26:11
  Very surprising.
• 1:26:12
  Although this young man has heard
• 1:26:14
  the Yankees in just about every
• 1:26:15
  game he's played either with the
• 1:26:17
  batter in the field or on the
• 1:26:18
  bases.
• 1:26:23
  He's batting 266 three home is
• 1:26:25
  15 RBI the Yankee infield still
• 1:26:27
  in with slaughtered third and
• 1:26:31
  just one man out in the royals
• 1:26:32
  leading three to one.
• 1:26:36
  Sheridan hurt the Yankees with
• 1:26:37
  his head out in Kansas City.
• 1:26:38
  Right.
• 1:26:41
  Strike one.
• 1:26:42
  When it was a pinch runner stole
• 1:26:44
  second and the throw to second
• 1:26:45
  base bounced off his head.
• 1:26:46
  He scrambled up and came on in
• 1:26:49
  to score the winning run in the
• 1:26:50
  12th inning slice foul back into
• 1:27:00
  the seats in the mezzanine.
• 1:27:01
  It's own to that sort of a
• 1:27:03
  modified version of the Joe
• 1:27:05
  Morgan arm flask.
• 1:27:07
  Elbow.
• 1:27:08
  I don't know whether he does it
• 1:27:08
  every time or not.
• 1:27:15
  I'm not right now.
• 1:27:16
  Wait a minute.
• 1:27:19
  Struck out on three pitches.
• 1:27:22
  Holy cow.
• 1:27:22
  What a job by Dale Murray right
• 1:27:25
  there.
• 1:27:26
  No better time for a strikeout
• 1:27:28
  Frank.
• 1:27:29
  Well that's very true.
• 1:27:29
  You can't take a chance on a
• 1:27:30
  ground ball or a fly ball.
• 1:27:31
  You can't take a chance on a
• 1:27:32
  ground ball or a fly ball.
• 1:27:34
  You can't take a chance on a
• 1:27:34
  ground ball or a fly ball.
• 1:27:35
  You can't take a chance on a
• 1:27:37
  ground ball or a fly ball.
• 1:27:38
  Fly ball is going to get the run
• 1:27:39
  in the ground ball would unless
• 1:27:40
  it was hit right at the one of
• 1:27:42
  the drawn in infielders.
• 1:27:43
  So Murray went for the strikeout
• 1:27:45
  and got it.
• 1:27:46
  All right.
• 1:27:47
  He's you well Washington who is
• 1:27:48
  struck out bounce to second and
• 1:27:50
  flying out to Pennella who made
• 1:27:52
  that circus catch off him
• 1:27:54
  falling down and holding on to
• 1:27:55
  the ball.
• 1:27:56
  And that's the end of the game.
• 1:28:07
  Ground ball right at Smalley and
• 1:28:09
  Murray does his job beautifully.
• 1:28:12
  Saves a big run.
• 1:28:14
  Royals pick up a run on two hits
• 1:28:16
  nowhere as a man left at the end
• 1:28:18
  of five and a half Royals three
• 1:28:20
  in the Yankees one.
• 1:28:24
  I never thought I'd see the day
• 1:28:26
  when he was out in center field
• 1:28:27
  right now.
• 1:28:29
  He could have hurt himself on
• 1:28:31
  that diving catch out the
• 1:28:32
  outfield but soon as we find out
• 1:28:34
  we'll let you know.
• 1:28:35
  Top of the Yankee order
• 1:28:36
  Campaneras Nettles and Pennella
• 1:28:38
  to face black.
• 1:28:45
  That's exactly what happened.
• 1:28:47
  Jimmy Hunter very alertly called
• 1:28:49
  that on that great diving catch
• 1:28:51
  by Willie Wilson his shoulders
• 1:28:53
  stiffened up.
• 1:28:53
  And that's the end of the game.
• 1:28:58
  Rip file again it almost got
• 1:29:00
  Zim.
• 1:29:01
  A shooting form today.
• 1:29:03
  Zimmer was hit hard.
• 1:29:06
  I think it was was about the
• 1:29:07
  camp in Kansas City or.
• 1:29:09
  Yeah.
• 1:29:14
  Winfield hit one that hit the
• 1:29:15
  umpire and then he hit one that
• 1:29:17
  got Zimmer.
• 1:29:20
  Outside a ball and two strikes
• 1:29:22
  on campy.
• 1:29:23
  And that's the end of the game
• 1:29:24
  for the Yankee.
• 1:29:25
  And the Yankees are in the
• 1:29:26
  field.
• 1:29:28
  Batting three fifty one.
• 1:29:30
  This is some comeback story on.
• 1:29:33
  Campanella.
• 1:29:35
  Bounces it in the hole.
• 1:29:36
  I mean Campanera that's a base
• 1:29:37
  hit.
• 1:29:38
  No chance for you.
• 1:29:39
  Well Washington did I say
• 1:29:41
  Campanella.
• 1:29:42
  I meant Campaneras.
• 1:29:43
  So campy starts things off in
• 1:29:45
  the bottom of the six with an
• 1:29:46
  infield hit Frank.
• 1:29:47
  And.
• 1:29:50
  U.L. Washington a lot of range.
• 1:29:52
  Will back end the ball but he
• 1:29:54
  knows he can't throw him out.
• 1:29:56
  Does.
• 1:29:57
  Holds on to it.
• 1:29:58
  All right.
• 1:29:58
  That's only the fourth hit for
• 1:29:59
  the Yankees but now.
• 1:30:01
  It brings up the potential
• 1:30:02
  tying run Greg Nettles.
• 1:30:04
  Who is popped a third and hit
• 1:30:06
  back to the box.
• 1:30:08
  It's always an encouraging side
• 1:30:10
  when your lead off hitter gets
• 1:30:11
  on base when you're behind in a
• 1:30:12
  ballgame.
• 1:30:13
  That's the first inning the
• 1:30:15
  Yankees have been able to do
• 1:30:16
  in the Yankees game.
• 1:30:19
  Oh he gave Nettles his pitch and
• 1:30:21
  Greg missed it.
• 1:30:22
  I slider.
• 1:30:27
  As Campanera said first Waffen
• 1:30:29
  holding him on.
• 1:30:39
  Foul in the upper deck on the
• 1:30:41
  third base side.
• 1:30:42
  And.
• 1:30:45
  Oh and two.
• 1:31:02
  Got him on another high slider
• 1:31:04
  and Nettles is struck out.
• 1:31:07
  It's only the second strikeout
• 1:31:08
  for black.
• 1:31:10
  Here's the pitch again.
• 1:31:12
  Like that'll swung right through
• 1:31:14
  it.
• 1:31:14
  Yeah.
• 1:31:15
  I looped Pennella will be the
• 1:31:17
  battle who twice has bounced out
• 1:31:18
  to third base.
• 1:31:20
  You know Scooter the Royals are
• 1:31:21
  in desperate need of pitching.
• 1:31:23
  I'm sure that Dick Hauser the
• 1:31:24
  Royals manager is happy with the
• 1:31:26
  job he's getting from this young
• 1:31:27
  man.
• 1:31:27
  But black this afternoon.
• 1:31:29
  I'm not sure that the two times
• 1:31:30
  the Yankees have seen him.
• 1:31:31
  He's been rough as you mentioned
• 1:31:32
  before.
• 1:31:34
  All right.
• 1:31:35
  Penelope now with Campanera said
• 1:31:36
  first and this is about the time
• 1:31:38
  Lou will shoot one between first
• 1:31:40
  and second.
• 1:31:42
  A big gap there with Wathen
• 1:31:44
  holding Campanera's on and white
• 1:31:46
  over near second.
• 1:31:53
  I outside ball one.
• 1:32:02
  I think in a situation like this
• 1:32:03
  but not until unless he gets two
• 1:32:05
  strikes on we'll just look for a
• 1:32:07
  pitch he can drive.
• 1:32:09
  He will.
• 1:32:12
  Happy narrows back.
• 1:32:15
  No time to get picked off in his
• 1:32:16
  spot.
• 1:32:21
  One ball no strikes on Penelope
• 1:32:24
  and no time for a ground ball
• 1:32:25
  either.
• 1:32:25
  No less it finds a hole.
• 1:32:31
  Black made Penelope wait now
• 1:32:32
  lose making black weight.
• 1:32:33
  He's got a little game of
• 1:32:36
  psychology right here.
• 1:32:46
  Back upstairs and out of play.
• 1:32:48
  One on one.
• 1:32:50
  But I was trying to go to right
• 1:32:51
  field with that.
• 1:32:51
  Yes he was.
• 1:32:54
  He'll do it at least till he has
• 1:32:55
  two strikes on him unless black
• 1:32:57
  comes way inside to him.
• 1:33:01
  Lose been losing his helmet
• 1:33:02
  swinging must have got a haircut
• 1:33:05
  now that a little loose.
• 1:33:19
  And again Lou pulled in Amos
• 1:33:21
  Otis right there.
• 1:33:22
  Just as black was ready to pitch
• 1:33:24
  Lou as the time.
• 1:33:25
  And he's got a little game.
• 1:33:34
  They say rip the center field.
• 1:33:37
  I'd said Penelope's got an idea
• 1:33:39
  every time he goes the bad.
• 1:33:42
  He really does.
• 1:33:44
  Happy narrows down a second base
• 1:33:45
  the Yankees have the tag runs on
• 1:33:47
  now and the guns are coming up
• 1:33:50
  Baylor and Winfield.
• 1:33:52
  Yogi Bearer have a little chat
• 1:33:53
  with Manila and they're going to
• 1:33:55
  be ready to pitch the win field
• 1:33:57
  the bullpen is going to get hot
• 1:33:58
  in a hurry.
• 1:33:59
  A black has not pitched a
• 1:34:00
  complete game this year.
• 1:34:01
  He had pitched only 72 innings
• 1:34:03
  at his first 11 starts which
• 1:34:07
  averages out to less than seven
• 1:34:11
  innings per ballgame.
• 1:34:13
  Let's pause 10 seconds along the
• 1:34:14
  Yankee baseball network for
• 1:34:15
  a quick look at the Yankees
• 1:34:32
  well you caught a quick look.
• 1:34:34
  Mike Armstrong right hander
• 1:34:36
  warming up in the Royal Bullpen
• 1:34:37
  he's a young man from this area
• 1:34:39
  from Andes New York which is on
• 1:34:41
  a long island and Boyers taking
• 1:34:44
  the lead well the Yankees will
• 1:34:47
  host that he tried Tigers for
• 1:34:48
  three games August 5th through
• 1:34:49
  7th highlighted by Skoll Bandit
• 1:34:52
  Yankee tote bag night on
• 1:34:54
  Saturday night August 6th and
• 1:34:55
  Bobby Mercer day on Sunday
• 1:34:57
  afternoon August 7th.
• 1:34:59
  Keep those dates in mind.
• 1:35:02
  Poussin Barry is also going to
• 1:35:03
  get up in the Royal Bullpen.
• 1:35:04
  All right.
• 1:35:05
  Don Baylor is open to he's flying
• 1:35:07
  to left and bounce the second
• 1:35:10
  on Bobby Mercer day.
• 1:35:11
  Bobby sends him a gift of a
• 1:35:14
  solid could be gold plated
• 1:35:17
  spittoon for him to get rid of
• 1:35:20
  his skull.
• 1:35:23
  Drive that deep left field.
• 1:35:26
  Oh.
• 1:35:27
  Oh.
• 1:35:28
  I.
• 1:35:28
  Want to tie up the ballgame.
• 1:35:31
  Campanero.
• 1:35:31
  Sponsor.
• 1:35:32
  Panellist.
• 1:35:33
  Sponsor.
• 1:35:33
  And.
• 1:35:34
  Ball is in for the.
• 1:35:34
  Triple.
• 1:35:35
  We've got a tie ballgame.
• 1:35:36
  And.
• 1:35:38
  We've got a tie ballgame.
• 1:35:44
  I got to talk more about this
• 1:35:46
  spintone from person.
• 1:35:47
  Because he has been.
• 1:35:49
  We're going to look at it again
• 1:35:50
  first though.
• 1:35:51
  All right.
• 1:35:52
  That pitchers out over the
• 1:35:53
  plate.
• 1:35:53
  That's where they don't want to
• 1:35:54
  pitch Baylor.
• 1:35:55
  Let him open up and he can drive
• 1:35:57
  that ball.
• 1:35:58
  He drives this one four hundred
• 1:35:59
  and thirty feet off the wall.
• 1:36:03
  Right there.
• 1:36:04
  Short hopped off the wall.
• 1:36:05
  And.
• 1:36:07
  He's got a three to four.
• 1:36:11
  You are Washington plays the
• 1:36:12
  ball the third as Bonilla scores
• 1:36:14
  and Baylor has a triple two runs
• 1:36:16
  about it in.
• 1:36:17
  And it's a brand new ballgame.
• 1:36:19
  What Baylor's band has come
• 1:36:20
  alive of late.
• 1:36:21
  Good.
• 1:36:22
  Unbelievable.
• 1:36:23
  And Dave Winfield about it.
• 1:36:25
  But just the last thought on
• 1:36:26
  Bobby Mercer's spittoon because.
• 1:36:28
  He's been using cups that we
• 1:36:31
  drink coffee in.
• 1:36:32
  And I have nightmares thinking I
• 1:36:34
  don't know what to do.
• 1:36:38
  All right.
• 1:36:38
  The infields in this is dangerous
• 1:36:40
  with Winfield up.
• 1:36:42
  He takes a strike.
• 1:36:45
  I'm surprised they don't call
• 1:36:46
  time out.
• 1:36:48
  And go and check their insurance
• 1:36:50
  policy.
• 1:36:50
  Yeah.
• 1:36:51
  And also.
• 1:36:54
  Bring the right hander in a
• 1:36:55
  pitch to Winfield.
• 1:36:58
  Well Quisenberry is not throwing
• 1:37:00
  the ball.
• 1:37:05
  Oh go in the seats.
• 1:37:07
  Watson over but he's going to
• 1:37:08
  run out of room.
• 1:37:15
  Nothing in true on Dave
• 1:37:16
  Winfield.
• 1:37:19
  One man out and.
• 1:37:20
  That quickly we have a tie ball
• 1:37:22
  game.
• 1:37:25
  I get the feeling Bill that.
• 1:37:27
  Even though this young man
• 1:37:28
  pitched a.
• 1:37:28
  Strong nine innings against the
• 1:37:30
  Yankees.
• 1:37:30
  They.
• 1:37:31
  Have a pattern of running out of
• 1:37:33
  gas.
• 1:37:34
  All right.
• 1:37:35
  There's Bailor at third Zimmer
• 1:37:36
  telling him.
• 1:37:38
  Heads up don't be picked off.
• 1:37:48
  And Winfield's gone in a second
• 1:37:49
  he's out but they run scores on
• 1:37:51
  the base hit.
• 1:37:53
  And the Yankees take a four to
• 1:37:54
  three lead.
• 1:38:03
  It is again.
• 1:38:04
  Hard at ball Brett was handcuffed
• 1:38:06
  by it.
• 1:38:07
  And Leon Roberts as Baylor scores
• 1:38:09
  Roberts will make a strong throw
• 1:38:11
  in the second base.
• 1:38:14
  And even though Winfield goes
• 1:38:16
  head first.
• 1:38:18
  He is tagged out.
• 1:38:19
  By Frank White.
• 1:38:20
  And.
• 1:38:23
  Boy an exciting inning.
• 1:38:25
  Yankees lead it now four to
• 1:38:27
  three.
• 1:38:28
  And Steve kept the batter.
• 1:38:31
  Why did deep left center.
• 1:38:34
  Sheridan.
• 1:38:36
  A one hands it.
• 1:38:38
  Oh they did tattoo black that
• 1:38:39
  inning.
• 1:38:40
  Three big run.
• 1:38:43
  On four hits nobody left at the
• 1:38:46
  end of six as Frank Messer will
• 1:38:47
  carry you along.
• 1:38:48
  And.
• 1:38:50
  Four in the Royals three.
• 1:38:57
  We got to the seventh inning
• 1:38:58
  here at Yankee Stadium with the
• 1:39:00
  Yankees out in front for the
• 1:39:01
  first time in the ballgame four
• 1:39:02
  to three the Yankees four run
• 1:39:04
  seven hits the Royals three runs
• 1:39:05
  10 hits and it has been an
• 1:39:07
  errorless ballgame.
• 1:39:09
  My Yankee fans are really happy
• 1:39:10
  aren't they.
• 1:39:13
  Well Dale Murray has the lead
• 1:39:15
  now let's see if he can hold it
• 1:39:16
  off the set position and nips
• 1:39:18
  the outside corner on Brett.
• 1:39:20
  He did some job Frank when he
• 1:39:21
  came in Dale Murray did when he
• 1:39:23
  came in to replace Shane Raleigh
• 1:39:24
  back in the sixth inning.
• 1:39:27
  Boy did he struck out Sheridan
• 1:39:29
  on three pitches and got
• 1:39:30
  Washington on a ground ball off
• 1:39:31
  his glove.
• 1:39:32
  And that will be a base hit.
• 1:39:41
  That number 11 here it is again.
• 1:39:43
  Well Dale just did not react to
• 1:39:45
  it and off the tip end of his
• 1:39:47
  glove and bounces out the Roy
• 1:39:49
  Smalley a shortstop but no play
• 1:39:51
  in first base.
• 1:39:55
  Well just as I mentioned in the
• 1:39:56
  bottom half of the sixth if
• 1:39:58
  you're trailing in a ballgame
• 1:39:59
  it's always a good sign and that
• 1:40:00
  leadoff man gets on now the
• 1:40:01
  Royals have their leadoff man on
• 1:40:03
  and their guns are out McRae and
• 1:40:05
  Otis to follow.
• 1:40:09
  Well it could be a little
• 1:40:10
  different story both of those
• 1:40:11
  guys are right handed hitters
• 1:40:13
  and now we've got a right handed
• 1:40:15
  pitcher out there and Dale
• 1:40:16
  Murray.
• 1:40:18
  Inside Dale might have found
• 1:40:20
  out what his problem was
• 1:40:21
  pitching from the stretch.
• 1:40:23
  Well he told me Bobby that he
• 1:40:24
  found out he could not pitch
• 1:40:26
  both ways he could pitch winding
• 1:40:27
  up or he could pitch off the
• 1:40:28
  stretch but he couldn't pitch
• 1:40:29
  from both positions and they
• 1:40:31
  settled with his work in the
• 1:40:33
  bullpen with Jeff Torborg and
• 1:40:36
  Dobbs Gala.
• 1:40:37
  We got to give Scala some credit
• 1:40:38
  out there for going out and
• 1:40:40
  working with these pitchers.
• 1:40:42
  They found out that his
• 1:40:43
  mechanics came back to him just
• 1:40:45
  working off the set position.
• 1:40:49
  Well whatever it is let's hope
• 1:40:50
  he keeps it up.
• 1:40:51
  Well I'll tell you.
• 1:40:54
  Took him half a season to find
• 1:40:56
  out what it was but if he can
• 1:40:57
  pitch the second half of the
• 1:40:59
  year as we know he has pitched
• 1:41:00
  in the past going to be a big
• 1:41:03
  big plus there's the ground ball
• 1:41:06
  if they can help.
• 1:41:08
  Yeah they do get to.
• 1:41:09
  I don't know.
• 1:41:10
  McCrae didn't seem to get down
• 1:41:11
  the line too well.
• 1:41:12
  Small had trouble getting the
• 1:41:14
  ball out of his glove.
• 1:41:15
  He was not.
• 1:41:15
  McCrae was not running well at
• 1:41:17
  all.
• 1:41:17
  I don't know if he's got a bad
• 1:41:18
  leg or what.
• 1:41:19
  Small he kind of hesitates a
• 1:41:20
  little bit as he flips the ball
• 1:41:22
  on over to Campaneras at second
• 1:41:24
  base and he completes the double
• 1:41:27
  play easily and McCrae really
• 1:41:29
  wasn't running that well Frank.
• 1:41:31
  I when small I had trouble
• 1:41:32
  getting the ball out I had no
• 1:41:33
  idea that they would get the
• 1:41:34
  double play.
• 1:41:35
  I looked out and see McCrae is
• 1:41:36
  not anywhere near first base and
• 1:41:41
  Brad had made a big hard slide
• 1:41:43
  into second base too.
• 1:41:46
  So maybe the Cray does have a
• 1:41:49
  slightly pulled muscle or
• 1:41:50
  something.
• 1:41:52
  And now Otis fouls one away off
• 1:41:53
  the right side.
• 1:41:54
  Either that or he was mad for
• 1:41:56
  hitting the ball on the ground
• 1:41:58
  shortstop and only McCrae would
• 1:42:02
  know Otis is one for three in
• 1:42:10
  this game.
• 1:42:11
  Great play by Balboni retired
• 1:42:12
  him in the second the balls and
• 1:42:18
  two strikes Yankees are leading
• 1:42:19
  four to three Dale Murray is now
• 1:42:34
  the pitcher of record Murray
• 1:42:42
  will throw that good sinker
• 1:42:43
  you'll throw a fork ball that
• 1:42:45
  was a fork ball right there and
• 1:42:46
  it was an excellent fork ball
• 1:42:47
  it they broke about look like 10
• 1:42:51
  feet.
• 1:42:52
  I know that's exaggerating a
• 1:42:52
  little bit but that's the way it
• 1:42:53
  looked.
• 1:42:58
  I'll back.
• 1:43:01
  Forkball will come I guess at
• 1:43:03
  about the same speed each time
• 1:43:05
  on a Bobby or can he change
• 1:43:06
  speeds on it.
• 1:43:08
  I think Dale Murray throws his
• 1:43:09
  fork ball the same speed he he
• 1:43:12
  throws a harder fork ball than
• 1:43:15
  and normal guys a lot of guys
• 1:43:18
  don't throw it as hard as he
• 1:43:19
  does.
• 1:43:23
  And it's fouled away back over
• 1:43:24
  the dugout.
• 1:43:25
  That'll be well back in the
• 1:43:26
  seats.
• 1:43:27
  In fact it made the upper deck
• 1:43:31
  who was the first pitcher of
• 1:43:38
  note to have the fork ball.
• 1:43:40
  Delroy face throw a fork ball.
• 1:43:42
  Yes that's right.
• 1:43:43
  He may not have been the first
• 1:43:44
  one of note really but that's
• 1:43:45
  where I first started hearing
• 1:43:46
  about it when face compiled that
• 1:43:48
  great relief record.
• 1:43:53
  Chuck him out.
• 1:43:55
  So Murray does the job here in
• 1:43:57
  the seventh and in the middle of
• 1:43:59
  the seventh inning the score the
• 1:44:00
  Yankees for the Royals three.
• 1:44:12
  Well we'll have a new program
• 1:44:13
  for the Yankees.
• 1:44:14
  Well we'll have a new pitcher
• 1:44:15
  for the Kansas City Royals Mike
• 1:44:18
  Armstrong and while he warms up
• 1:44:19
  I'll have a chance to tell you
• 1:44:20
  the Yankees will host the Detroit
• 1:44:22
  Tigers for a three game weekend
• 1:44:24
  series August 5th through 7th
• 1:44:26
  highlighted by Skoll Bandit
• 1:44:27
  Yankee tote bag night and Bobby
• 1:44:29
  Mercer Day here at Yankee
• 1:44:30
  Stadium.
• 1:44:31
  All fans attending the game on
• 1:44:33
  Saturday night August 6th will
• 1:44:34
  receive a Yankee tote bag
• 1:44:36
  compliments of Skoll Bandit and
• 1:44:38
  on Sunday afternoon August 7th
• 1:44:39
  one of the most beloved Yankees
• 1:44:41
  of all time Bobby Mercer will be
• 1:44:43
  on the Yankee tote bag night.
• 1:44:44
  We'll have a look at the Yankee
• 1:44:46
  tote bag game on Bobby Mercer
• 1:44:47
  Day.
• 1:44:51
  Mike Armstrong.
• 1:44:54
  Right here in the greater New
• 1:44:56
  York area.
• 1:44:58
  And these New York with a record
• 1:45:00
  of four wins five losses and two
• 1:45:02
  saves making his 32nd relief
• 1:45:05
  appearance.
• 1:45:07
  That the eight any speech is
• 1:45:08
  allowed forty seven.
• 1:45:11
  One twenty five struck out twenty
• 1:45:13
  seven.
• 1:45:14
  No it is not Frank and.
• 1:45:18
  I'm not sure that Dick Houser
• 1:45:19
  might be just one or two batters
• 1:45:21
  short on Mike Armstrong.
• 1:45:24
  And a couple of right handed
• 1:45:25
  hitters in the last inning when
• 1:45:27
  the Yankees took the lead and
• 1:45:29
  they left they chose to leave
• 1:45:31
  but black out there the left
• 1:45:32
  handed pitcher to take care of
• 1:45:33
  those right handed hitters.
• 1:45:35
  And now Mike Armstrong comes in
• 1:45:40
  he'll be pitching to Don
• 1:45:41
  and he will pinch it for Steve
• 1:45:44
  Balboni.
• 1:45:45
  Not only has a nine game
• 1:45:47
  hitting streak batting two ninety
• 1:45:48
  three one home run eleven runs
• 1:45:50
  batted in.
• 1:46:00
  Ball one.
• 1:46:02
  You know you talk about Mattingly
• 1:46:03
  nine game hitting streak and the
• 1:46:04
  way he sprays the ball around
• 1:46:06
  he's a good hitter.
• 1:46:08
  Billy Martin is going to have
• 1:46:10
  to make some decisions to make
• 1:46:11
  when he gets Griffey and Randolph
• 1:46:12
  back off the disabled list.
• 1:46:14
  I'm glad I don't have to make
• 1:46:15
  those decisions.
• 1:46:18
  Two balls and no strikes.
• 1:46:20
  No speaking of Mattingly is
• 1:46:22
  hitting streak.
• 1:46:23
  He's a contact hitter he does
• 1:46:25
  not strike out much.
• 1:46:26
  He sprays the ball around and.
• 1:46:30
  Makes a lot of contact.
• 1:46:31
  That makes it two and one there
• 1:46:41
  are the figures on Mattingly
• 1:46:42
  very impressive.
• 1:46:47
  Big arms.
• 1:46:48
  And the left field ball three
• 1:47:03
  the figures on Mike Armstrong
• 1:47:14
  and the left field but right at
• 1:47:15
  the left fielder Leon Roberts
• 1:47:17
  who's a left fielder.
• 1:47:25
  Bryce Molly will turn around
• 1:47:27
  and become a left hand batter.
• 1:47:29
  He went one for two.
• 1:47:32
  Against Bud Black.
• 1:47:36
  Almost had two for two but
• 1:47:37
  Willie Wilson made a great catch
• 1:47:39
  on him and Wilson hurt his
• 1:47:40
  shoulder in making that diving
• 1:47:42
  catch and eventually had to leave
• 1:47:44
  the ballgame.
• 1:47:44
  And the ball out in a straight
• 1:47:45
  away center field center fielder
• 1:47:47
  Sheridan hardly has to move for
• 1:47:49
  it.
• 1:47:50
  And there are two out.
• 1:47:56
  But black went six innings gave
• 1:47:57
  up four runs all earned seven
• 1:48:00
  hits.
• 1:48:00
  He did not walk anybody and he
• 1:48:01
  struck out to.
• 1:48:07
  And Rick's own batting in the
• 1:48:08
  number nine spot he's flying to
• 1:48:10
  center.
• 1:48:11
  And robbed of a base hit on a
• 1:48:13
  play by George Brett at third.
• 1:48:22
  In the dirt.
• 1:48:29
  In addition to the three men the
• 1:48:30
  Yankees have on the disabled
• 1:48:32
  list they have other nagging
• 1:48:33
  injuries that have not disabled
• 1:48:34
  players.
• 1:48:36
  Whinegar and gamble both with
• 1:48:37
  groin injuries.
• 1:48:38
  And.
• 1:48:39
  The.
• 1:48:39
  Reds.
• 1:48:40
  Right.
• 1:48:44
  Andre Robertson with a.
• 1:48:46
  Bruised hand.
• 1:48:52
  Reds lead the Mets 4 to 2 in the
• 1:48:53
  eighth inning.
• 1:48:55
  There we see.
• 1:48:56
  Bob surely the left hander and
• 1:48:58
  Jay how the right hander warming
• 1:48:59
  up for the Yankees now.
• 1:49:03
  And Serone takes a low breaking
• 1:49:04
  ball two and one.
• 1:49:05
  The Yankees did well as a
• 1:49:09
  winner.
• 1:49:09
  The Yankees took a low breaking
• 1:49:10
  ball as defeated Houston 7 to
• 1:49:12
  3.
• 1:49:14
  Pittsburgh beat the Giants 3 to
• 1:49:16
  1 in the first game of a double
• 1:49:17
  header no report on the second
• 1:49:18
  game cardinals lead the Dodgers
• 1:49:20
  three nothing and they're on the
• 1:49:21
  eighth inning now.
• 1:49:24
  And it's the Cubs for the
• 1:49:26
  Padres 2 in the seventh.
• 1:49:29
  3 and 1 on Serone.
• 1:49:30
  And kind of gloomy all day the
• 1:49:32
  trying to burn his way through
• 1:49:33
  your right bomb.
• 1:49:35
  So wrong draws a walk.
• 1:49:38
  Well the Yankees have a runner
• 1:49:40
  with two outs and that is the
• 1:49:41
  first one.
• 1:49:42
  Issued to a Yankee batter this
• 1:49:44
  afternoon.
• 1:49:57
  We're told that Yankee trainer
• 1:49:59
  Gene Monahan.
• 1:50:00
  Aided in the rehabilitation of
• 1:50:02
  Dale Murray.
• 1:50:03
  With a special diet Murray shed
• 1:50:05
  a few pounds six.
• 1:50:06
  I'm told to be exact.
• 1:50:09
  Which has.
• 1:50:11
  Possibly been a help.
• 1:50:13
  Campanaro sits a fly ball to
• 1:50:14
  right field and that should
• 1:50:16
  retire the side.
• 1:50:18
  Picked off by Otis.
• 1:50:19
  No runs no hits a walk a man
• 1:50:21
  left we completed seven with a
• 1:50:23
  score the Yankees four and the
• 1:50:24
  Royals three.
• 1:50:32
  We'll take a quick look at the
• 1:50:33
  Texas series for the Yankees the
• 1:50:35
  pitcher tomorrow night will be
• 1:50:36
  Dave Brigetti against Mike
• 1:50:38
  Smithson.
• 1:50:39
  Tuesday night Ray Fontana against
• 1:50:40
  Frank Tanana and Wednesday night
• 1:50:42
  three Matt Keough against Charlie
• 1:50:44
  Huff.
• 1:50:45
  We will televised the ballgame
• 1:50:46
  Tuesday night here on the Yankee
• 1:50:49
  television network Don Mattingly
• 1:50:50
  is in the ballgame at first base.
• 1:50:52
  I also see Willie Mays Aikens
• 1:50:54
  come out on the on deck circle
• 1:50:56
  for the Royals so we might have
• 1:50:58
  a pinch hitter.
• 1:50:59
  For Leon Roberts there is
• 1:51:01
  Willie Mays Aikens.
• 1:51:05
  And Wathen becomes a key man
• 1:51:07
  right here for the Royals.
• 1:51:08
  He takes a strike on the first
• 1:51:10
  pitch from Murray.
• 1:51:18
  Both times Wathen has been on
• 1:51:19
  base this afternoon he has
• 1:51:20
  scored he reached on a walk and
• 1:51:22
  then single and came into score
• 1:51:25
  runs number one and two driven
• 1:51:27
  in both times by Frank White to
• 1:51:32
  strikes on Wathen there was the
• 1:51:40
  forkball it looked like to me
• 1:51:43
  although I'm a lot of way away
• 1:51:44
  from it more like a fastball.
• 1:51:46
  One of those sinking fastballs
• 1:51:48
  that there's Jean Monahan who
• 1:51:51
  has put as you said Dale Murray
• 1:51:53
  on a special diet and if I keep
• 1:51:57
  ballooning up I'm gonna have to
• 1:51:58
  go down and have my hand put me
• 1:51:59
  on a diet.
• 1:52:00
  I should have gone to him but
• 1:52:02
  15 years ago let's see 15 years
• 1:52:11
  ago I guess Jean Monahan might
• 1:52:12
  have still been battling with
• 1:52:13
  the ball for the Fort Lauderdale
• 1:52:16
  ballclub.
• 1:52:19
  You'd have to go all the way
• 1:52:19
  down to Fort Lauderdale.
• 1:52:21
  Yeah.
• 1:52:24
  That's where he started and to
• 1:52:28
  start you on your program he
• 1:52:30
  might have had you run down to
• 1:52:31
  Fort Lauderdale.
• 1:52:32
  Fifteen years ago I could have
• 1:52:34
  got part of the way I could do
• 1:52:35
  it anymore.
• 1:52:36
  But.
• 1:52:36
  Oh and to count on John Watson
• 1:52:43
  I'll be back and stays alive
• 1:52:45
  all right with an upstairs
• 1:52:46
  fastball Bobby Mercer a big day
• 1:52:48
  coming up for you here at Yankee
• 1:52:49
  Stadium.
• 1:52:50
  You're looking forward to it on
• 1:52:51
  the 7th of August.
• 1:52:53
  I never thought that there would
• 1:52:56
  be a day for me here at Yankee
• 1:52:58
  Stadium and I can see that
• 1:53:01
  there's a lot of people out there
• 1:53:03
  who are going to be here.
• 1:53:03
  I've been here for a long time
• 1:53:06
  and I've been here at Yankee
• 1:53:07
  Stadium and I consider it the
• 1:53:10
  biggest honor that I've ever had
• 1:53:11
  in my life.
• 1:53:14
  Well I have to agree it's going
• 1:53:15
  to be a tremendous honor for you
• 1:53:17
  Bob and I'm just happy it's
• 1:53:20
  going to be coming up August 7
• 1:53:21
  Bobby Mercer day here at Yankee
• 1:53:23
  Stadium.
• 1:53:31
  I'll tell you I've seen your
• 1:53:33
  players for several years give
• 1:53:35
  you that standing ovation
• 1:53:37
  whether you got a hit or not.
• 1:53:38
  And I know they're all going to
• 1:53:39
  be out here on August 7th.
• 1:53:41
  I have a few Oklahoma news here
• 1:53:42
  too.
• 1:53:43
  All right.
• 1:53:44
  Oh no.
• 1:53:45
  Kevin Harris is right there.
• 1:53:48
  What.
• 1:53:51
  Would have Oklahoma and speak in
• 1:53:53
  Oklahoma.
• 1:53:53
  Right.
• 1:53:54
  Yeah.
• 1:53:57
  There's Willie Mays Aiken so
• 1:53:58
  he's going to come into the game
• 1:53:59
  and take the place of Leon
• 1:54:01
  Lowe not in the field but at the
• 1:54:07
  plate.
• 1:54:08
  Yep.
• 1:54:09
  Now he won't take his place on
• 1:54:11
  the outfield.
• 1:54:14
  Mr.
• 1:54:14
  Aikens is batting three twenty
• 1:54:16
  four nine home runs thirty three
• 1:54:17
  runs batted in.
• 1:54:24
  He is two for ten in the series
• 1:54:26
  and he's going to be the first
• 1:54:30
  to strike one.
• 1:54:35
  What a difference in Dale Murray
• 1:54:37
  over the early part of the
• 1:54:38
  season.
• 1:54:45
  A strike.
• 1:54:47
  It could have happened better
• 1:54:48
  for the Yankees the Yankees got
• 1:54:49
  three key guys hit the ball now
• 1:54:51
  when field Baylor and Kip and
• 1:54:53
  now it looks like they've got
• 1:54:54
  a stretch run that's got to be
• 1:54:57
  a big plus for the Yankees in
• 1:55:01
  the air the left field campus
• 1:55:03
  after it.
• 1:55:04
  Up his full body catches up to
• 1:55:06
  it.
• 1:55:07
  I don't know the camp lost that
• 1:55:08
  ball for just a second or not or
• 1:55:10
  whether he's just fooled by it
• 1:55:11
  but he put on that late burst of
• 1:55:13
  speed and caught up with it.
• 1:55:15
  Well I think he lost the ball in
• 1:55:17
  the sun the sun is trying to
• 1:55:18
  peek through the clouds now and
• 1:55:20
  left field is the sun field here
• 1:55:21
  at Yankee Stadium during the
• 1:55:22
  daytime.
• 1:55:23
  And he did lose it there for a
• 1:55:24
  minute but he recovered quickly
• 1:55:26
  and makes an easy play of it.
• 1:55:28
  He flipped those glasses down
• 1:55:29
  that's when I think he picked
• 1:55:30
  the ball up again after he flipped
• 1:55:32
  the glasses then when he started
• 1:55:33
  really digging hard for it.
• 1:55:35
  There are two outs and Frank
• 1:55:37
  White the batter he's driven in
• 1:55:38
  two runs with a single and a
• 1:55:39
  triple and a ground out.
• 1:55:41
  Kemp asked Dave Winfield I said
• 1:55:42
  what about where I play guys in
• 1:55:44
  left field.
• 1:55:45
  They says just look for my brown
• 1:55:47
  spot where I play.
• 1:55:49
  The big brown spot left field
• 1:55:51
  where Dave Winfield stands and
• 1:55:52
  most of the left fielder the
• 1:55:54
  bot picked up bare handed and he
• 1:55:56
  throws him out.
• 1:55:57
  Nice fielding play by Murray and
• 1:55:59
  that will retire the side in
• 1:56:01
  order.
• 1:56:02
  And in the middle of the eighth
• 1:56:04
  inning the score remains the
• 1:56:05
  Yankees four in the Royals three
• 1:56:14
  space.
• 1:56:15
  All right Frank we've got some
• 1:56:16
  changes Willie Mays Aikens who
• 1:56:18
  went into him for Leon Roberts
• 1:56:20
  goes into first base and just
• 1:56:21
  a little bit of a
• 1:56:26
  little bit of a space base and
• 1:56:27
  John Walton who was playing
• 1:56:28
  first base moves out the left
• 1:56:30
  field in place of Leon Roberts.
• 1:56:33
  All right Bobby and we'll go to
• 1:56:34
  the bottom half of the eighth
• 1:56:35
  inning with Nettles but now
• 1:56:36
  and Baylor is scheduled up
• 1:56:37
  against right hander Mike
• 1:56:39
  Armstrong.
• 1:56:40
  Greg is all for three popped up
• 1:56:43
  bounce to the pitcher and struck
• 1:56:44
  out.
• 1:56:49
  Did that was was Willie Mays
• 1:56:50
  Aikens strange thing about it.
• 1:56:56
  It's been noted that Willie
• 1:56:58
  Aikens does not like the name
• 1:57:00
  Willie Mays Aikens.
• 1:57:02
  I really don't know why and what
• 1:57:03
  does he like Willie Willie.
• 1:57:10
  Well if I can think of it I will
• 1:57:12
  call him Willie Mays Aikens
• 1:57:13
  anymore.
• 1:57:14
  I'll try to call him Willie.
• 1:57:15
  I'll try to call him Willie.
• 1:57:21
  Take a look at the pitcher.
• 1:57:23
  Armstrong.
• 1:57:29
  Ball and two strikes on Greg.
• 1:57:31
  A lot of pitchers like to move
• 1:57:32
  that ball around in their hand
• 1:57:33
  that they're trying to get that
• 1:57:36
  feel of the ball and they'll
• 1:57:38
  wiggle and move the ball around
• 1:57:39
  in their hands a lot just to
• 1:57:40
  get that feel of the ball that's
• 1:57:45
  doing to the way that Armstrong
• 1:57:52
  delivers a ball to the plate he
• 1:57:53
  could be pretty tough on
• 1:57:55
  right handers he's kind of a
• 1:57:56
  sidearm sling it.
• 1:57:58
  Hi pitcher.
• 1:58:02
  And he works the count fall.
• 1:58:05
  He throws both the break in
• 1:58:06
  pitch and his fastball from
• 1:58:08
  basically the same position
• 1:58:09
  that he's got on his sidearm.
• 1:58:13
  That means the left hand hitter
• 1:58:14
  would get a better look at it.
• 1:58:15
  Right.
• 1:58:19
  Walked in.
• 1:58:24
  Second walk given up by
• 1:58:25
  Armstrong and the Yankees have
• 1:58:26
  the lead off man on the Yankees
• 1:58:28
  are out in front of three and
• 1:58:31
  Lupin on will step in who made
• 1:58:37
  the sixth inning when Baylor hit
• 1:58:40
  that ball deep to left center
• 1:58:42
  and he'd already made up his
• 1:58:44
  mind that they were going to
• 1:58:45
  catch it.
• 1:58:45
  That's the reason he was able to
• 1:58:46
  score on that triple.
• 1:58:51
  Good judgment on the bases
• 1:58:56
  strike one he will run or the
• 1:58:58
  bump but I don't know if he was
• 1:58:59
  going to slap at it or but it
• 1:59:22
  he wants it and foul.
• 1:59:26
  What was that act but I'll put
• 1:59:27
  on down there.
• 1:59:28
  I don't know.
• 1:59:29
  That was a delayed bunt swing.
• 1:59:31
  We'll take a look at it here.
• 1:59:34
  He.
• 1:59:36
  He knew that he made a mistake
• 1:59:37
  so he decided to take it out of
• 1:59:39
  the dirt.
• 1:59:41
  That's a kind of a funny way to
• 1:59:42
  but I don't know the Lou Bunt's
• 1:59:44
  very much.
• 1:59:46
  Normally a guy will slide the
• 1:59:48
  top hand up towards the barrel
• 1:59:50
  of the bat to.
• 1:59:51
  Tempt the bump.
• 1:59:54
  Well he has not bonded this
• 1:59:55
  year.
• 1:59:56
  He's got a lot of balls.
• 1:59:58
  We know that.
• 2:00:01
  Those is bad at that one and
• 2:00:02
  files it back.
• 2:00:04
  Well we're getting everything
• 2:00:05
  from Lou Padilla today.
• 2:00:10
  That's what you call a
• 2:00:11
  protection swing.
• 2:00:18
  Might ask you which stance
• 2:00:19
  vanilla is using now Bobby what
• 2:00:21
  number stances.
• 2:00:22
  Let me just take one quick look
• 2:00:24
  at the
• 2:00:30
  looks like.
• 2:00:32
  Yep that's 3 14 3 4 3 14.
• 2:00:35
  OK.
• 2:00:40
  In the air the center field that
• 2:00:42
  will not advance the runner
• 2:00:44
  Nuttles does go back and tag
• 2:00:45
  he'll force a throw from the
• 2:00:46
  center fielder Sheridan.
• 2:00:48
  But the throw is true to second
• 2:00:50
  baseman Frank White and Nuttles
• 2:00:52
  will not advance the runner
• 2:00:54
  Nuttles will not advance the
• 2:00:56
  runner.
• 2:00:56
  He'll stand three four teams for
• 2:00:58
  a week or so.
• 2:01:02
  There's the there's our
• 2:01:04
  attendance this afternoon thirty
• 2:01:05
  three thousand nine hundred and
• 2:01:07
  forty four.
• 2:01:08
  So the three openings against
• 2:01:09
  Kansas City have drawn one
• 2:01:10
  hundred and fifteen thousand
• 2:01:12
  six hundred.
• 2:01:19
  Baylor pops it up on the right
• 2:01:21
  side of the field.
• 2:01:22
  Two down.
• 2:01:24
  I'm sure of the weather had not
• 2:01:25
  been threatening all morning and
• 2:01:27
  we had some heavy rain all
• 2:01:28
  around the area earlier today
• 2:01:30
  that this crowd would have been
• 2:01:32
  the third consecutive 40
• 2:01:34
  thousand plus crowd for the
• 2:01:35
  series.
• 2:01:40
  Here's Dave Winfield.
• 2:01:41
  Minnesota is now defeated.
• 2:01:47
  Who are they playing a change in
• 2:01:48
  the.
• 2:01:48
  I'm not sure.
• 2:01:50
  I'm not sure.
• 2:01:51
  I'm not sure.
• 2:01:51
  I'm not sure.
• 2:01:52
  Excuse me.
• 2:01:52
  Cleveland.
• 2:01:53
  Seven to five.
• 2:01:55
  I was looking up and I looked
• 2:01:56
  away and then James the board on
• 2:01:58
  me.
• 2:01:58
  And Cincinnati beat the Mets
• 2:02:00
  four to two.
• 2:02:01
  We told the earlier Montreal
• 2:02:03
  trip Houston up seven to three.
• 2:02:06
  Cardinals beat the Dodgers
• 2:02:07
  threes at Winfield up.
• 2:02:12
  Had an average attendance of
• 2:02:13
  thirty eight thousand five
• 2:02:14
  hundred and thirty three four
• 2:02:15
  game per game for this three
• 2:02:18
  game.
• 2:02:19
  That's a little too shabby.
• 2:02:20
  Now somebody tell me how far
• 2:02:22
  Winfield hit that home run into
• 2:02:23
  the monuments out there his
• 2:02:24
  first time up.
• 2:02:25
  Got to be 450 or 460.
• 2:02:27
  Yeah.
• 2:02:28
  At least.
• 2:02:29
  Scooter said he thought about
• 2:02:30
  470 to 75.
• 2:02:34
  Broke his bat.
• 2:02:34
  He's going to get a base hit.
• 2:02:37
  Splittered the bat and that
• 2:02:38
  also is going to go to third.
• 2:02:40
  When field goes halfway to
• 2:02:42
  second and retreats as the throw
• 2:02:43
  comes in.
• 2:02:44
  Winfield has his third hit of
• 2:02:45
  the game.
• 2:02:50
  Well we'll take a look at it.
• 2:02:51
  He was fooled a little bit.
• 2:02:52
  The pitch was way on the outside
• 2:02:54
  part of the plate.
• 2:02:54
  He just actually just threw his
• 2:02:55
  bat at it.
• 2:02:57
  And but he happened to get a
• 2:02:59
  good part of the ball and we see
• 2:03:00
  Greg Nettles going from first to
• 2:03:02
  third.
• 2:03:03
  The ball was not hit that hard
• 2:03:05
  out in the center field and it
• 2:03:06
  took the center fielder Sherrod
• 2:03:08
  in a long time to get to it.
• 2:03:11
  Well that's where Winfield's
• 2:03:12
  home run went Bobby.
• 2:03:15
  Well we've got it covered we
• 2:03:16
  saved 450 460 or 470.
• 2:03:18
  So take your pick.
• 2:03:21
  I just settled for a six dollar
• 2:03:22
  cab ride.
• 2:03:27
  Winfield may not have been too
• 2:03:28
  happy being dropped down to the
• 2:03:30
  number five spot on the
• 2:03:31
  batting order.
• 2:03:31
  Took it out on the baseball this
• 2:03:32
  afternoon and the Royals
• 2:03:33
  pitchers.
• 2:03:35
  Steve Campbell for three runners
• 2:03:37
  first and third two outs.
• 2:03:38
  Mr. Armstrong spins the ball
• 2:03:40
  around.
• 2:03:40
  Gets the right grip he wants.
• 2:03:44
  All one to camp.
• 2:03:54
  Camp went for four one game of
• 2:03:56
  the series.
• 2:03:57
  Don Hood is up for Kansas City.
• 2:03:59
  Don Hood is now up in the Kansas
• 2:04:01
  City Royal bullpen.
• 2:04:08
  Nice play by the Kansas City
• 2:04:10
  Royal bullpen.
• 2:04:10
  Nice play by the catcher slot.
• 2:04:13
  And the Yankees seem to have
• 2:04:15
  some action out in their bullpen
• 2:04:16
  it looked like George Frazier a
• 2:04:17
  right hander and Bob Shirley the
• 2:04:19
  left hander.
• 2:04:21
  We'll take a look at this.
• 2:04:23
  Pitch down in the dirt and a
• 2:04:25
  nice play by the catcher slot.
• 2:04:28
  There's Bob Shirley.
• 2:04:29
  Excuse me that's Jay Howell the
• 2:04:30
  right hander warming up.
• 2:04:36
  Two ball no strikeout on camp he
• 2:04:38
  has a great play by the Yankees
• 2:04:40
  on the right.
• 2:04:41
  Ball for four night for Steve.
• 2:04:45
  Hopped it up on the left side
• 2:04:47
  and third baseman Brett hardly
• 2:04:51
  had to take a step that will
• 2:04:53
  retire the side the Yankees get
• 2:04:55
  no runs have one hit they leave
• 2:04:56
  two on and at the end of eight
• 2:04:58
  it's the Yankees for the Royals
• 2:05:00
  three.
• 2:05:05
  All right Frank we've got some
• 2:05:06
  changes in the Yankee outfield
• 2:05:08
  and the Yankees are in the
• 2:05:09
  middle of the field.
• 2:05:11
  Jerry Muffrey now goes in to
• 2:05:12
  play centerfield for the Yankees
• 2:05:14
  and Dave Winfield moves from
• 2:05:17
  centerfield back in his old
• 2:05:19
  position left field.
• 2:05:21
  So he'll pick up the brown spot
• 2:05:22
  out there now.
• 2:05:23
  He knows exactly where it is and
• 2:05:25
  as I look at him he's playing
• 2:05:26
  right on it.
• 2:05:26
  Yes he is.
• 2:05:28
  Don slot leads up and evidently
• 2:05:32
  took the bat away no strike call
• 2:05:34
  and he's got a good shot I
• 2:05:39
  remember when Frank Howard played
• 2:05:40
  left field for the Washington
• 2:05:42
  Senators he would move back and
• 2:05:43
  forth and have a patch of grass
• 2:05:45
  just worn completely out.
• 2:05:46
  He never stood still a second
• 2:05:48
  the most nervous man I ever saw
• 2:05:50
  in the outfield two balls and no
• 2:05:53
  strikes.
• 2:05:54
  Well he was a big enough guy to
• 2:05:55
  wear a patch out or a big wear a
• 2:05:57
  hole in the one he comes spring
• 2:06:00
  training put weights on his
• 2:06:02
  back and forth with all spring
• 2:06:04
  training put about a three five
• 2:06:07
  pound weight on each who grounds
• 2:06:09
  it right at Smalley Roy waits on
• 2:06:11
  it knows he has plenty of time
• 2:06:13
  and throws him out one away the
• 2:06:17
  Yankees are leading by a score
• 2:06:18
  of four to three one away here
• 2:06:20
  in the top of the night unless
• 2:06:21
  the Frank Howard way 300 right
• 2:06:25
  around 300 I think she listened
• 2:06:27
  his plane weight somewhere
• 2:06:27
  around 270 280.
• 2:06:29
  Goodness he didn't need any leg
• 2:06:31
  training.
• 2:06:32
  He would do that to take off
• 2:06:34
  weight really in spring
• 2:06:35
  training as the story was
• 2:06:36
  circulated.
• 2:06:37
  Two guys seem to come off will
• 2:06:39
  have a good spring training
• 2:06:40
  with Frank Howard and Morgue
• 2:06:41
  Powell.
• 2:06:42
  Yeah.
• 2:06:42
  Paul come came in one year at
• 2:06:44
  300 pounds that sure it is the
• 2:06:51
  first man Murray faced when he
• 2:06:53
  relieved Shane Raleigh in the
• 2:06:54
  sixth inning and he struck
• 2:06:55
  out on three pitches ball and a
• 2:07:02
  strike.
• 2:07:03
  Del Murray's got good location
• 2:07:04
  on his ball.
• 2:07:05
  Now he threw him a good fork
• 2:07:06
  ball on the outside part of the
• 2:07:07
  plate and he tried to bust the
• 2:07:09
  fastball in on him.
• 2:07:12
  He looks comfortable on the
• 2:07:13
  mound that's in the upper deck
• 2:07:18
  out of play ball and two strikes
• 2:07:21
  I never did like to face Del
• 2:07:22
  Murray.
• 2:07:24
  I didn't like it.
• 2:07:25
  I didn't like that for ball and
• 2:07:26
  he had I didn't like that hard
• 2:07:28
  sinker that he threw.
• 2:07:29
  What was what pitch was it you
• 2:07:30
  hit for the home run that broke
• 2:07:31
  his consecutive fastball
• 2:07:32
  fastball.
• 2:07:33
  Yeah that evens account to and
• 2:07:40
  two three and two two hundred
• 2:07:57
  and forty seven and a third
• 2:07:58
  innings without allowing a home
• 2:08:00
  run until he threw a fastball
• 2:08:01
  game.
• 2:08:02
  That's a lot of innings pitched
• 2:08:11
  madly.
• 2:08:11
  How about that play.
• 2:08:15
  I never thought he'd get that
• 2:08:16
  one.
• 2:08:18
  Well look at the high fives on
• 2:08:19
  the stands over that one.
• 2:08:20
  Well this is a line drive right
• 2:08:22
  at Mattingly and he times this
• 2:08:24
  ball perfectly and makes a
• 2:08:27
  tremendous leap in the air and
• 2:08:30
  saves a double for the Yankees
• 2:08:34
  race play by Don Mattingly.
• 2:08:36
  He's a good defensive first
• 2:08:37
  baseman.
• 2:08:39
  He came to play it any.
• 2:08:42
  All right.
• 2:08:43
  There are two down.
• 2:08:45
  Oh what a play by Mattingly.
• 2:08:46
  I don't think Mattingly likes
• 2:08:48
  Columbus said well he probably
• 2:08:49
  likes the town but he knows that
• 2:08:51
  there's only one place to play
• 2:08:52
  and that's in the big leagues.
• 2:08:53
  That's right.
• 2:08:54
  Well he's got that 100 percent
• 2:08:56
  right.
• 2:08:56
  He's got that 100 percent right.
• 2:09:02
  You are Washington tries to
• 2:09:04
  put himself on and fouls it up.
• 2:09:07
  UL is 0 for 4 and 1 for 17 in
• 2:09:10
  the series.
• 2:09:14
  You know George Brett was 0 for
• 2:09:16
  10 before he got his single up
• 2:09:18
  back in the first inning.
• 2:09:18
  Yeah.
• 2:09:19
  0 for 10 is like a major slump to
• 2:09:21
  a guy like George Brett.
• 2:09:22
  That's right.
• 2:09:23
  He's got that one count back a
• 2:09:24
  little bit in the right field.
• 2:09:27
  So it appeared.
• 2:09:28
  Kim took a couple of the thing
• 2:09:30
  you want to do here Frank is not
• 2:09:32
  let anybody was take a look at
• 2:09:33
  Billy Martin there and we don't
• 2:09:35
  want to give anybody an extra
• 2:09:36
  base hit if they can afford not
• 2:09:38
  to.
• 2:09:39
  So they'll try to play a little
• 2:09:41
  deeper now the outfielders were
• 2:09:42
  then they then they would early
• 2:09:44
  in the ballgame because they
• 2:09:45
  want to keep the ball in front
• 2:09:46
  of them.
• 2:09:48
  Now Billy wants to have to go
• 2:09:50
  more towards center and move to
• 2:09:51
  his right.
• 2:09:52
  He's not going to get a ball.
• 2:09:53
  Yep.
• 2:09:55
  Sightling to his right.
• 2:09:59
  No ball to strikeout on
• 2:10:00
  Washington.
• 2:10:01
  Two outs the Yankees lead for
• 2:10:03
  three.
• 2:10:05
  Listen to the fans in the
• 2:10:06
  background.
• 2:10:09
  And look at them.
• 2:10:10
  They want this strikeout Frank
• 2:10:11
  and I know Del Murray wants to
• 2:10:13
  do.
• 2:10:15
  Ground ball and Smalley cannot
• 2:10:17
  get a base hit for Washington.
• 2:10:18
  What a big base hit by U.L.
• 2:10:20
  Washington.
• 2:10:21
  The reason for that is is because
• 2:10:23
  it brings up George Brett.
• 2:10:30
  Billy Martin is on his way out
• 2:10:32
  to the mound.
• 2:10:38
  And we take a look at goose
• 2:10:39
  Gossett who is now up in the
• 2:10:41
  Yankee bullpen.
• 2:10:43
  Looks like Billy has signaled to
• 2:10:46
  the bullpen and I assume that it
• 2:10:50
  will be this guy.
• 2:10:51
  He will be coming in this
• 2:10:52
  ballgame.
• 2:10:54
  That's who he wants and it will
• 2:10:55
  be gossip.
• 2:10:56
  No Dale Murray will leave and
• 2:10:58
  Gossett will come in.
• 2:11:01
  Murray who relieved in the sixth
• 2:11:02
  inning has just given up only
• 2:11:04
  his second hit for that ball by
• 2:11:09
  Sheridan was hit hard.
• 2:11:10
  The one that magically made the
• 2:11:11
  great play out and Billy may feel
• 2:11:14
  that Murray has run out of gas
• 2:11:15
  here.
• 2:11:16
  I don't know.
• 2:11:17
  Anyway he wants Gossage to
• 2:11:18
  pitch to Brett with a tie run at
• 2:11:20
  first base and two outs.
• 2:11:22
  This is going to be a challenge
• 2:11:25
  Gossage and Brett.
• 2:11:26
  They've had it before.
• 2:11:27
  Yep.
• 2:11:28
  And Gossage has won some and
• 2:11:29
  Brett has won some.
• 2:11:30
  It's probably even up.
• 2:11:33
  Well while we wait for the goose
• 2:11:34
  to come in I'll remind you that
• 2:11:38
  the Yankees will host the
• 2:11:40
  Detroit Tigers for a big three
• 2:11:41
  game weekend series August 5th
• 2:11:43
  through 7 highlighted by Skoll
• 2:11:45
  Bandit Yankee tote bag night
• 2:11:47
  and Bobby Mercer day here at
• 2:11:49
  Yankee Stadium.
• 2:11:50
  All fans attending the game on
• 2:11:52
  Saturday night August 6 will
• 2:11:54
  receive a Yankee tote bag
• 2:11:56
  compliments of Skoll Bandit and
• 2:11:58
  on Sunday afternoon August 7th
• 2:12:00
  one of the most beloved Yankees
• 2:12:02
  of all time Bobby Mercer will be
• 2:12:04
  honored here at Yankee Stadium
• 2:12:06
  but it will be Bobby Mercer day
• 2:12:08
  so don't miss these two special
• 2:12:10
  days something that I'm glad to
• 2:12:13
  see Frank the fans gave Dale
• 2:12:16
  Murray a big hand here he's
• 2:12:20
  pitched well for the Yankees the
• 2:12:21
  last four or five outings that
• 2:12:22
  he's had and as everybody know
• 2:12:25
  that he struggled throughout the
• 2:12:27
  first part of the season and the
• 2:12:30
  fans coming to their feet let
• 2:12:32
  Dale Murray know that they
• 2:12:34
  appreciate the job that he's
• 2:12:36
  done.
• 2:12:37
  You know Bobby Mercer as a
• 2:12:38
  player you know it as a
• 2:12:39
  broadcaster I know it Yankee fans
• 2:12:42
  are the most knowledgeable in
• 2:12:43
  the world and true when when you
• 2:12:45
  don't perform well they will get
• 2:12:47
  down on you but they're not
• 2:12:50
  front runners when you perform
• 2:12:52
  well they're with you.
• 2:12:53
  I think they can they can
• 2:12:55
  appreciate they can appreciate
• 2:12:56
  an injury.
• 2:12:57
  They can appreciate a player
• 2:12:58
  going out there when he's hurt
• 2:13:00
  and giving every effort he has
• 2:13:01
  got any.
• 2:13:02
  And I think it's the fans here
• 2:13:05
  in New York City are just really
• 2:13:06
  great great fans.
• 2:13:08
  They're the greatest fans and
• 2:13:10
  they're the best fans in the
• 2:13:12
  world.
• 2:13:12
  They're the best fans in the
• 2:13:13
  world.
• 2:13:14
  They're the best fans in the
• 2:13:15
  baseball and all the sports
• 2:13:17
  probably like you said they're
• 2:13:21
  very knowledgeable and probably
• 2:13:23
  the most knowledgeable sports
• 2:13:24
  fans around anywhere in the
• 2:13:25
  country.
• 2:13:27
  When you do bad they let you
• 2:13:28
  know when you do good they
• 2:13:29
  certainly like you know too.
• 2:13:30
  That's right.
• 2:13:31
  They do.
• 2:13:33
  And for the most part they are
• 2:13:34
  very very fair.
• 2:13:36
  All right.
• 2:13:36
  Here's the challenge Brett with
• 2:13:38
  the bat and got hit with the
• 2:13:40
  bat.
• 2:13:41
  The tag run is at first base and
• 2:13:43
  two up.
• 2:13:46
  Deep left field but slicing
• 2:13:49
  foul.
• 2:13:54
  And both got to John I can give
• 2:13:57
  us I have relief.
• 2:14:05
  U.L. Washington back to first
• 2:14:07
  base.
• 2:14:07
  The Yankees with a one run lead
• 2:14:23
  and now the Royals have the one
• 2:14:25
  run lead George Brad has just
• 2:14:38
  home heard and Billy Martin and
• 2:14:40
  the Yankees want the bat.
• 2:14:42
  Look at Martin.
• 2:14:42
  Well what they're talking about
• 2:14:43
  Frank is that he's got too much
• 2:14:45
  pine tar and you've got to have
• 2:14:48
  a certain amount of distance
• 2:14:49
  from the trademark of the bat
• 2:14:51
  and the pine tar and that'll
• 2:14:53
  leave in the field as if the game
• 2:14:54
  is over.
• 2:14:55
  Now he's just coming in.
• 2:14:57
  I'm not sure.
• 2:14:58
  They might have a legitimate
• 2:15:00
  bribe and the umpires are going
• 2:15:03
  to get together.
• 2:15:04
  George Brett looking around and
• 2:15:05
  want to know what's going on and
• 2:15:06
  the umpires are going to get
• 2:15:07
  together and talk about this
• 2:15:08
  thing.
• 2:15:11
  Well Billy Martin bounce right
• 2:15:12
  out of the done I've seen a call
• 2:15:14
  before Frank.
• 2:15:16
  You are not allowed to have a
• 2:15:17
  substance of any of any kind
• 2:15:20
  above the trademark.
• 2:15:21
  And I can't tell from here
• 2:15:23
  because everybody's huddled
• 2:15:24
  around the bat.
• 2:15:26
  I cannot tell from here if it's
• 2:15:28
  up too far.
• 2:15:28
  And now they're both they're
• 2:15:29
  out there feeling it seems as
• 2:15:30
  if there's some sticky stuff
• 2:15:31
  around there.
• 2:15:33
  That's Nick Bremigan with the
• 2:15:34
  best is going to be an
• 2:15:35
  interesting call.
• 2:15:41
  Well Brett isn't sure whether he
• 2:15:42
  has a home run yet or not.
• 2:15:46
  Now the umpires are going to
• 2:15:47
  walk away and talk about this
• 2:15:49
  and go over the rules and
• 2:15:51
  examine the bat.
• 2:15:53
  See where the pine cars in the
• 2:15:54
  label the trademark is.
• 2:15:57
  See the brown substance there.
• 2:15:58
  It does look like it's a pine
• 2:16:00
  tar.
• 2:16:01
  It looks like it is.
• 2:16:03
  Now you are not allowed to have
• 2:16:05
  that pine tar up that far on the
• 2:16:07
  bat.
• 2:16:09
  Billy Martin walking around
• 2:16:11
  waiting for the which might be
• 2:16:14
  an important decision.
• 2:16:17
  First time in a long long time
• 2:16:18
  I've seen the umpires huddle
• 2:16:20
  this long and have a meeting
• 2:16:21
  over.
• 2:16:22
  Well they're going to see what's
• 2:16:23
  going to happen.
• 2:16:23
  They're going to.
• 2:16:28
  Now that is the plate umpire
• 2:16:30
  Tim McClellan with the bat in
• 2:16:31
  his hand.
• 2:16:37
  Now they're going to measure it
• 2:16:38
  across home plate.
• 2:16:40
  I've never I've never seen this.
• 2:16:42
  I never have either.
• 2:16:44
  I don't know what I don't know
• 2:16:45
  what they're measuring.
• 2:16:45
  Right away.
• 2:16:48
  They might be going to call
• 2:16:51
  look at this but is out and
• 2:16:54
  teammate man is out.
• 2:16:57
  And having to be.
• 2:16:59
  Forcibly.
• 2:16:59
  Restrained from hitting.
• 2:17:01
  Light on buyer Temma.
• 2:17:03
  wheels.
• 2:17:07
  Four to three that is called out
• 2:17:09
  for using the illegal bat.
• 2:17:12
  Redfield now batting.
• 2:17:13
  the illegal substance on the
• 2:17:15
  bat.
• 2:17:16
  Like I said I have seen this
• 2:17:18
  before Frank and Gaylord Perry
• 2:17:21
  just took the bat away from the
• 2:17:22
  whole point of our Jim McLaughlin
• 2:17:24
  he's going to take the bat
• 2:17:26
  they're going to take it so they
• 2:17:27
  cannot take it into the
• 2:17:28
  American League office or
• 2:17:31
  wherever they take it to big
• 2:17:32
  salmon.
• 2:17:34
  Well the Yankee security person
• 2:17:36
  and one of the umpires quickly
• 2:17:38
  are chasing whoever has the bat
• 2:17:41
  hostages.
• 2:17:42
  Who ever has the bat Jose
• 2:17:43
  Martinez is holding Brett Bobby
• 2:17:45
  I've never seen this in my life.
• 2:17:47
  Well I've seen players called
• 2:17:49
  out for using an illegal bat
• 2:17:52
  but never never saw an important
• 2:17:55
  hit by a home run and have been
• 2:17:57
  called out to put the Royals
• 2:17:58
  ahead.
• 2:18:05
  George Brett was fighting man
• 2:18:06
  and whether he has a cause to be
• 2:18:09
  mad or not I don't have any idea
• 2:18:12
  the umpires made a decision.
• 2:18:15
  Bobby let me say this to you the
• 2:18:17
  fact that they tried to take the
• 2:18:20
  bat away and secrete the bat
• 2:18:24
  lends credence to the umpires
• 2:18:26
  call in my estimation it could
• 2:18:28
  be because what will happen
• 2:18:29
  Frank is that the umpires will
• 2:18:31
  take that bat and examine it and
• 2:18:33
  we still see Dick Houser and
• 2:18:35
  George Brett they're still
• 2:18:39
  arguing the call now with Rocky
• 2:18:41
  Colivino has moved in there.
• 2:18:45
  If I have to feel the fact that
• 2:18:47
  they would not allow the bat to
• 2:18:49
  be played by the umpires would
• 2:18:52
  certainly lend credence to the
• 2:18:54
  decision to call Brett out.
• 2:18:56
  I would have to agree with you
• 2:18:57
  Frank because they took a long
• 2:18:59
  time to make this decision.
• 2:19:01
  They talked it over two or three
• 2:19:03
  times we take a look at home
• 2:19:05
  plate umpire Jim McLeod who made
• 2:19:08
  the call and he might be waiting
• 2:19:12
  there for that bat to be
• 2:19:13
  retrieved.
• 2:19:15
  I'm sure with a controversial
• 2:19:16
  call like this and they will try
• 2:19:18
  to take this bat and have the
• 2:19:20
  American League office or
• 2:19:22
  whoever might be concerned they
• 2:19:24
  probably want that bad exam.
• 2:19:30
  What a call.
• 2:19:31
  I like you said I have never
• 2:19:33
  seen a call made like that for
• 2:19:35
  for it to be such an important
• 2:19:37
  call and deciding a ballgame.
• 2:19:39
  I never have either.
• 2:19:40
  I have seen.
• 2:19:41
  Well I saw Greg Nuttles lose a
• 2:19:43
  base hit but his bat split and
• 2:19:45
  they discovered Cork in the bat.
• 2:19:47
  I broadcast that game.
• 2:19:49
  I think that is the only other
• 2:19:51
  time I have seen an illegal bat
• 2:19:54
  discovered during the course of
• 2:19:55
  the game.
• 2:19:56
  I've also seen bats that have
• 2:19:57
  nails that have been put in it to
• 2:19:59
  hold it.
• 2:19:59
  They can keep it from chipping
• 2:20:01
  but for a foreign substance to
• 2:20:03
  be on a bat which they concluded
• 2:20:05
  I guess that the pine tar was too
• 2:20:07
  far up on the bat and not allowed
• 2:20:09
  to be around and that close to
• 2:20:11
  the trademark.
• 2:20:12
  And the fact they laid the bat
• 2:20:13
  across on blade is just like
• 2:20:15
  using the yardstick or a tape
• 2:20:16
  measure.
• 2:20:17
  They know exactly how well I
• 2:20:18
  want what I think happened there
• 2:20:19
  was Frank is that they were trying
• 2:20:22
  to decide if the contact of the
• 2:20:24
  ball made any contact with the
• 2:20:26
  pine tar being that far up on the
• 2:20:27
  bat.
• 2:20:29
  In other words judging George's
• 2:20:30
  red stance to where he would have
• 2:20:32
  made contact with the ball.
• 2:20:34
  So I'll be darned I have never
• 2:20:36
  in my life seen anything like
• 2:20:38
  this.
• 2:20:39
  I've said it Bobby so many many
• 2:20:40
  times you never go to a ball
• 2:20:42
  game that you don't see something
• 2:20:44
  you've never seen before.
• 2:20:45
  Not as dramatic as this granted
• 2:20:47
  but I have never seen it before.
• 2:20:49
  We'll be back.
• 2:20:50
  But well we for the benefit of
• 2:20:53
  our network the final score the
• 2:20:55
  Yankees for the Royals three
• 2:20:56
  will be back.
• 2:21:09
  Well I'll say it again to Bobby
• 2:21:12
  Mercer I've never seen anything
• 2:21:13
  like this in my life.
• 2:21:14
  Let me make it very definite to
• 2:21:16
  all our viewers the Yankees have
• 2:21:18
  won the ballgame by a final
• 2:21:20
  score of four to three as George
• 2:21:24
  Brett hits what appeared to be
• 2:21:26
  a leading home run that would
• 2:21:29
  give the Royals a five to four
• 2:21:30
  lead.
• 2:21:31
  I've got it.
• 2:21:32
  I've got to feel Bobby that Rick
• 2:21:34
  Sarone may have been the first
• 2:21:36
  one to complain about the bat.
• 2:21:38
  Now you of course you won't do
• 2:21:39
  it until the man gets it.
• 2:21:40
  If Brett had made out they
• 2:21:41
  would have said anything.
• 2:21:42
  That's a very good point.
• 2:21:43
  And I know that during the days
• 2:21:45
  when I played that if we fought
• 2:21:47
  a guy who was using an illegal
• 2:21:49
  an illegal bat that if there was
• 2:21:51
  a base hit that's when they would
• 2:21:54
  have the umpire check it out if
• 2:21:55
  they didn't get a base that they
• 2:21:56
  wouldn't say anything about it.
• 2:21:58
  All right.
• 2:21:58
  Let's go back to the replay
• 2:21:59
  quickly.
• 2:22:00
  Don Carney is going to show it
• 2:22:02
  again.
• 2:22:02
  Here is Brett at the plate.
• 2:22:05
  Now there was no doubt that when
• 2:22:08
  George Brett hit that ball that
• 2:22:10
  it was going to be a home run.
• 2:22:13
  And I'm sure when the umpires
• 2:22:15
  measured the bat across the
• 2:22:17
  plate they were trying to
• 2:22:18
  determine whether the ball hit
• 2:22:20
  the part of the pine tar if the
• 2:22:22
  pine tar had any connection with
• 2:22:24
  the ball when it hit the bat
• 2:22:26
  because they were judging his
• 2:22:28
  stance the distance where he
• 2:22:29
  would be striding into the ball
• 2:22:30
  to make contact.
• 2:22:32
  Well there's Brett down the
• 2:22:33
  line steps on the plate and
• 2:22:35
  everybody thought by now.
• 2:22:36
  So Ron and Martin are out there
• 2:22:39
  now.
• 2:22:39
  So Ron is the one I'm sure of
• 2:22:40
  that alerted the umpire to the
• 2:22:43
  fact that he thought Brett was
• 2:22:44
  using an illegal bat.
• 2:22:46
  A lot of times.
• 2:22:47
  And we can see the umpire Jim
• 2:22:49
  McClellan the home plate umpire
• 2:22:51
  taking the bat out and now the
• 2:22:52
  umpires are going to go out and
• 2:22:54
  have their first meeting.
• 2:22:56
  And George Brett is looking on
• 2:23:00
  right now.
• 2:23:00
  Nobody knows what the decision
• 2:23:02
  is going to be.
• 2:23:02
  But I I can guarantee you there's
• 2:23:04
  probably from the Royals going
• 2:23:06
  to be protest upon protest about
• 2:23:08
  this play.
• 2:23:09
  Well I have one question.
• 2:23:11
  We do not know the answer to is
• 2:23:12
  whether or not the bat was
• 2:23:14
  reclaimed by the umpire.
• 2:23:16
  The last time I saw the bat it
• 2:23:17
  was in the hands of one of the
• 2:23:19
  Royals headed for we presume the
• 2:23:22
  clubhouse with a Yankee security
• 2:23:24
  person in hot pursuit along with
• 2:23:27
  an umpire.
• 2:23:27
  Well I'm not sure that it makes
• 2:23:29
  any difference because it's a
• 2:23:30
  it's a judgment call by the
• 2:23:32
  umpires and it's strict.
• 2:23:35
  The facts are that you cannot
• 2:23:37
  use an illegal bat and have
• 2:23:38
  forged substance on it which
• 2:23:40
  makes it an illegal bat.
• 2:23:41
  And they're determining trying
• 2:23:43
  to determine whether or not the
• 2:23:45
  umpire is going to be reclaimed
• 2:23:47
  by the Yankees.
• 2:23:48
  So they're meaning trying to
• 2:23:49
  determine now whether that
• 2:23:50
  foreign substance which I assume
• 2:23:53
  that is pine tar is up too far
• 2:23:56
  up on the bat towards the label.
• 2:23:59
  Meanwhile everybody relaxed on
• 2:24:01
  the Kansas City Royals bench but
• 2:24:03
  they won't be relaxed for long
• 2:24:05
  Billy.
• 2:24:05
  Now the umpires have told Martin
• 2:24:07
  and the Yankee players just to
• 2:24:08
  leave them alone and let them
• 2:24:09
  decide this themselves.
• 2:24:11
  And side of blue in the middle
• 2:24:14
  of the picture there with his
• 2:24:15
  arms folded now McClellan
• 2:24:19
  walking back toward home plate
• 2:24:21
  with bat in hand.
• 2:24:22
  Remington and Brinkman with him
• 2:24:25
  we can almost tell there by
• 2:24:26
  Billy Martin's reaction that
• 2:24:28
  there was going to be some kind
• 2:24:29
  of a call in favor of the
• 2:24:30
  Yankees.
• 2:24:33
  Now that's where they're
• 2:24:34
  measuring the bat Frank and
• 2:24:36
  trying to determine where George
• 2:24:39
  Brett stance is.
• 2:24:40
  They're trying to measure the
• 2:24:41
  bat.
• 2:24:41
  They're trying to measure the
• 2:24:42
  bat.
• 2:24:43
  They're trying to measure the
• 2:24:43
  bat though the opposite way
• 2:24:44
  Brett the left hand hitter I
• 2:24:46
  think they might have measured
• 2:24:46
  it.
• 2:24:47
  No they don't.
• 2:24:47
  They don't measure it from
• 2:24:48
  there to been too far out there
• 2:24:49
  trying to determine whether
• 2:24:50
  there is a call.
• 2:24:51
  That was the out call and here
• 2:24:52
  comes Brett.
• 2:24:54
  Now the only the only thing
• 2:24:56
  about it is and you know George
• 2:24:58
  is not too happy and I can see
• 2:25:00
  why he wouldn't be too happy as
• 2:25:01
  he's restrained by the other
• 2:25:02
  umpires that I don't know if he
• 2:25:06
  made contact with any of the
• 2:25:07
  other umpires there.
• 2:25:08
  So we'll have to wait and see
• 2:25:09
  what happens.
• 2:25:10
  We'll tell everybody and we'll
• 2:25:12
  be back with more on this ball
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  game.
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  The final score Yankees four
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  and Royals three.
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  Well Bobby Mercer my last words
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  on that telecast of July 24th
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  where the Yankees have won the
• 2:25:28
  ballgame four to three whether
• 2:25:29
  you agreed with me or not I
• 2:25:31
  don't really remember but as you
• 2:25:33
  know we sort of followed that
• 2:25:34
  one up ladies and gentlemen we
• 2:25:36
  kind of tried to straighten it
• 2:25:37
  out tonight.
• 2:25:37
  The Yankees did not win the
• 2:25:38
  game.
• 2:25:40
  They were in the lead.
• 2:25:41
  The lead president Lee McPhail
• 2:25:43
  ruled it was a legal home run
• 2:25:44
  by George Brett and that's why
• 2:25:46
  we're here at Yankee Stadium
• 2:25:47
  tonight to pick up this game in
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  the top half of the ninth
• 2:25:49
  inning with two outs and the
• 2:25:53
  Royals now leading five to four
• 2:25:56
  you know it was early in the
• 2:25:57
  day we weren't going to play
• 2:25:58
  this ball game and then all of
• 2:25:59
  a sudden after another ruling
• 2:26:02
  by a higher judge I guess one
• 2:26:05
  of them by the American League
• 2:26:06
  and his say was the number one
• 2:26:09
  say so here we are today to
• 2:26:11
  finish this ballgame and we have
• 2:26:12
  a new theme song here at Yankee
• 2:26:14
  Stadium that he late and quickly
• 2:26:16
  learned how to play in the Blue
• 2:26:17
  Ridge Mountains of Virginia on
• 2:26:19
  the trail of the Lonesome Tide.
• 2:26:23
  Let's take a look at the Yankees
• 2:26:24
  defensive alignment right now
• 2:26:26
  which may furnish you a surprise
• 2:26:27
  or two.
• 2:26:28
  Ken Griffey is at first base.
• 2:26:31
  Don Mattingly is at second base.
• 2:26:34
  But Cabaneras was there Roy
• 2:26:35
  Griffey was at shortstop.
• 2:26:37
  He was there in the original
• 2:26:38
  game at a third base.
• 2:26:39
  Greg Nuttles Dave Winfield is in
• 2:26:42
  left field.
• 2:26:43
  Now watch this next shot.
• 2:26:44
  Ron Goodry is in center field.
• 2:26:47
  That's good replaying center and
• 2:26:50
  the right fielder is Steve Kemp.
• 2:26:54
  The catcher has to be but
• 2:26:56
  Schweinegger because Rick's
• 2:26:57
  around has an eye infection.
• 2:26:59
  So Ron was in the July 24th
• 2:27:01
  game but unable to play tonight
• 2:27:03
  and on the mound for the
• 2:27:04
  Yankees.
• 2:27:04
  The Yankees have a chance to
• 2:27:05
  play under George Frazier and
• 2:27:08
  he'll be pitching to Hal McCrae
• 2:27:11
  who was on deck when Brett gets
• 2:27:13
  the two run home.
• 2:27:15
  That's quite a lineup.
• 2:27:16
  Frank I guess for one out I who
• 2:27:21
  knows this might be something
• 2:27:22
  new.
• 2:27:23
  This might be the turnaround.
• 2:27:24
  This is the second dive in his
• 2:27:25
  career.
• 2:27:25
  Ron Goodry has played center
• 2:27:26
  field his career in the major
• 2:27:28
  league.
• 2:27:28
  You remember who he took out of
• 2:27:29
  center field and a field play
• 2:27:31
  the first base.
• 2:27:32
  Well we must tell this a lot.
• 2:27:34
  Here comes Martin.
• 2:27:35
  Well we must tell this to fans
• 2:27:37
  this that these are not the same
• 2:27:39
  up hiring crew that was here
• 2:27:41
  before.
• 2:27:42
  Tonight's umpiring crew is Dave
• 2:27:45
  Phillips George Maloney Rick
• 2:27:47
  Reid and Tim Wilkie who were the
• 2:27:49
  umpires of the last night's game
• 2:27:53
  and the series before they're
• 2:27:54
  going to build a second base
• 2:27:55
  down.
• 2:27:56
  Smally steps on second and again
• 2:27:58
  the guy that I got.
• 2:28:00
  I thought I could come out and
• 2:28:01
  say how do you know that Brett
• 2:28:05
  touch second base because you
• 2:28:06
  were not here.
• 2:28:07
  That's right.
• 2:28:07
  They cannot officially.
• 2:28:09
  I don't think they can officially
• 2:28:10
  give him a rolling because they
• 2:28:11
  were not here so they didn't see
• 2:28:12
  it.
• 2:28:14
  Now the last umpires that were
• 2:28:15
  here before this before the
• 2:28:17
  original game was Tim McClellan
• 2:28:19
  he was behind the plate who
• 2:28:20
  cobalt Nick Brimigan and Joe
• 2:28:22
  Brinkman and those four
• 2:28:24
  gentlemen are not here tonight.
• 2:28:25
  This is a new up hiring crew.
• 2:28:27
  So Billy Martin is out there I
• 2:28:29
  think is the only one who's
• 2:28:32
  making a protest saying look we
• 2:28:36
  say that Brett missed the basis.
• 2:28:38
  I have an idea that Dave
• 2:28:39
  Phillips right there Bobby may
• 2:28:41
  have a sworn affidavit from one
• 2:28:42
  of the umpires of the other
• 2:28:43
  crew.
• 2:28:44
  Of course the umpires and the
• 2:28:45
  league office if we knew this
• 2:28:47
  was going to happen I'm sure
• 2:28:48
  they knew it was going to
• 2:28:49
  happen.
• 2:28:50
  So we add just a little more
• 2:28:52
  drama to the infamous Pines are
• 2:28:55
  game.
• 2:28:56
  We might not be through yet.
• 2:28:57
  But we're going to be through
• 2:28:58
  this game.
• 2:29:01
  Well a handful of people here at
• 2:29:02
  Yankee Stadium of course the
• 2:29:03
  judge did not rule until about
• 2:29:05
  quarter of four this afternoon
• 2:29:07
  the final ruling that the game
• 2:29:09
  would be played.
• 2:29:09
  Well I would assume that's
• 2:29:11
  going to be played under protest
• 2:29:12
  and just got the sign there it
• 2:29:14
  is the P sign from the plate
• 2:29:16
  umpire in this case George
• 2:29:17
  Monali that Billy Martin has
• 2:29:19
  protested this ballgame on
• 2:29:22
  Valley that was not a sworn
• 2:29:23
  affidavit from one of the other
• 2:29:27
  umpires.
• 2:29:31
  Well I don't think any of us are
• 2:29:33
  surprised that Billy did that or
• 2:29:35
  the other guy that now he would
• 2:29:37
  have a right to do that because
• 2:29:40
  this is a different umpiring
• 2:29:41
  crew and there's the crowd here
• 2:29:44
  tonight all 34 of them and Billy
• 2:29:47
  Martin just returned back to the
• 2:29:49
  dugout after making that protest
• 2:29:51
  and we will get this first pitch
• 2:29:53
  underway.
• 2:29:55
  What do you guess we'll get this
• 2:29:55
  game finished.
• 2:29:57
  Finally out of the books.
• 2:30:00
  Tell everybody they had the
• 2:30:00
  tarp on right about 10 minutes
• 2:30:02
  before this game started there
• 2:30:03
  was a thunder shower in the
• 2:30:04
  area.
• 2:30:06
  And a strike is called on Hal
• 2:30:08
  McCrae as we do start playing
• 2:30:10
  the first pitch of this game was
• 2:30:11
  thrown at six minutes past two
• 2:30:13
  o'clock on Sunday July 24.
• 2:30:15
  And the game is called on the
• 2:30:17
  books.
• 2:30:23
  Go down in the books as long as
• 2:30:25
  game in history.
• 2:30:26
  No not really.
• 2:30:27
  There have been suspended games
• 2:30:28
  picked up after a greater length
• 2:30:30
  of time.
• 2:30:32
  I say I've never seen anything
• 2:30:34
  like it.
• 2:30:34
  I've been connected with
• 2:30:36
  baseball in some capacity for
• 2:30:38
  well let's see 30 years now and
• 2:30:40
  we're going to play a ball on a
• 2:30:46
  strike on the play McCrae in
• 2:30:47
  this game has gone over three
• 2:30:50
  rather the third walk fly the
• 2:30:51
  center and grab it into a double
• 2:30:53
  play this might be the shortest
• 2:30:56
  televised game that you've ever
• 2:30:57
  done though.
• 2:30:59
  I'll play.
• 2:31:02
  Now we got the first nine
• 2:31:04
  innings I mean in one particular
• 2:31:06
  day I'm not going to get
• 2:31:07
  technical please.
• 2:31:08
  I'm not going to get technical
• 2:31:09
  please.
• 2:31:10
  I'm not going to get technical
• 2:31:11
  please.
• 2:31:11
  I'm not going to get technical
• 2:31:12
  please.
• 2:31:13
  That might be the replacements
• 2:31:15
  for we might mention that George
• 2:31:17
  Brett and Rocky Colabino and
• 2:31:20
  Gaylord Perry are not here
• 2:31:21
  tonight.
• 2:31:22
  They were they were they were
• 2:31:24
  ejected from the ballgame and
• 2:31:26
  suspended from this game.
• 2:31:27
  So they are not here tonight.
• 2:31:28
  Dick Houser also is not in
• 2:31:30
  uniform.
• 2:31:30
  He was rejected to if McCrae
• 2:31:33
  gets a base hit he'll have a 15
• 2:31:34
  point lead for the book I'll
• 2:31:38
  tell you the one of the owners
• 2:31:41
  of the Kansas City Royals is
• 2:31:42
  here watching the ballgame.
• 2:31:45
  Averon Pogelman who bought 49
• 2:31:47
  percent of the stock from Ewing
• 2:31:50
  Kaufman earlier this year Billy
• 2:31:52
  Martin the Yankee skipper
• 2:31:56
  Colabino and Perry are on their
• 2:31:58
  way to Baltimore.
• 2:31:58
  The Yankees are back in the
• 2:32:04
  top half of the ninth inning the
• 2:32:06
  Royals scored two runs on two
• 2:32:08
  hits.
• 2:32:08
  There were no Yankees errors
• 2:32:10
  and nobody left on base in the
• 2:32:12
  middle of the night.
• 2:32:13
  Five Kansas City for the Yankees
• 2:32:17
  the announcement was made that
• 2:32:18
  the four umpires who were here
• 2:32:20
  for the original game McClellan
• 2:32:22
  Cobol Brinkman and Remagen did
• 2:32:24
  sign a notarized affidavit
• 2:32:26
  stating that George Brown touched
• 2:32:28
  every base on his home run.
• 2:32:36
  Well I guess we've covered all
• 2:32:37
  the legal ramifications of this
• 2:32:39
  ballgame.
• 2:32:39
  Well you reckon we have.
• 2:32:41
  I don't know if we don't.
• 2:32:43
  We'll find out later.
• 2:32:46
  Here's the catcher.
• 2:32:47
  He is Don Swat.
• 2:32:50
  And the pitcher is supposed to be
• 2:32:54
  Mike Armstrong but that is
• 2:32:55
  the reason Barry.
• 2:32:57
  They have announced that
• 2:32:58
  Armstrong would start by
• 2:33:00
  Quillen Barry is on the mound.
• 2:33:03
  There's a lot of drama around
• 2:33:05
  the first Yankee hitter Don
• 2:33:06
  Mattingly will lead off the
• 2:33:08
  bottom half of the ninth inning
• 2:33:09
  if Mattingly should get a base
• 2:33:11
  hit by the Mercer he would
• 2:33:13
  establish a new record for
• 2:33:15
  consecutive game winning streak
• 2:33:17
  for a rookie in the major league
• 2:33:20
  if he gets a base in here we are
• 2:33:22
  told it would count as a
• 2:33:24
  continuation of his hitting
• 2:33:25
  streak which would give him 25
• 2:33:27
  the streak now ended the previous
• 2:33:31
  record twenty three consecutive
• 2:33:33
  games by Mike Vail of the Mets
• 2:33:35
  in seventy five.
• 2:33:40
  Well it was straight in streak
• 2:33:41
  his last hitting streak about
• 2:33:42
  fifteen games right.
• 2:33:44
  And so this will be a
• 2:33:45
  continuation if he gets a hit
• 2:33:47
  now of another 10 games that
• 2:33:49
  lapsed in between that period of
• 2:33:50
  time right.
• 2:33:51
  This is the one game out of the
• 2:33:52
  twenty five he did not have a
• 2:33:54
  hit he's been to bat only once
• 2:33:56
  and it's a ball and a strike
• 2:33:58
  Mattingly lined out to lap after
• 2:34:01
  replacing Steve Balboni he came
• 2:34:04
  to bat in the seventh inning
• 2:34:20
  and I'm sure both teams feel
• 2:34:21
  like we're going to win this
• 2:34:22
  game.
• 2:34:23
  If we're going to be here we
• 2:34:24
  might as well go ahead and win
• 2:34:25
  it.
• 2:34:28
  That will end the streak
• 2:34:33
  Sheldon is there for the catch
• 2:34:35
  and Mattingly is hitting streak
• 2:34:36
  unless the Yankees tie it up and
• 2:34:38
  he should come to bat again his
• 2:34:40
  hitting streak has ended one out
• 2:34:41
  in the bottom half of the night
• 2:34:45
  and now Royce Molly Oscar
• 2:34:50
  will bat for good read small he
• 2:34:55
  has played the entire game we're
• 2:34:57
  dead on the 24th all the way at
• 2:34:59
  shortstop fly the center single
• 2:35:01
  the center and fly the center
• 2:35:02
  again I suppose you could have
• 2:35:12
  done one or two things at the
• 2:35:14
  first two guys got on you might
• 2:35:16
  have been let get me but the guys
• 2:35:17
  over put out prison barrier this
• 2:35:22
  one that is including the game
• 2:35:25
  since the night when he was
• 2:35:27
  night before last when he last
• 2:35:29
  pitch was in various one five
• 2:35:31
  lost one and saved thirty two
• 2:35:33
  games he this is his fifty first
• 2:35:37
  appearance hundred and six
• 2:35:40
  innings ninety eight hits ten
• 2:35:41
  walks thirty eight strikeouts
• 2:35:47
  two balls on a strike the count
• 2:35:49
  to Royce Molly we might mention
• 2:35:57
  that Willie Wilson was in and
• 2:35:58
  out of this game so was Leon
• 2:35:59
  Roberts so they're not eligible
• 2:36:04
  and they had a left field and
• 2:36:07
  they were on the right field and
• 2:36:11
  Simpson on the warning track to
• 2:36:15
  down two outs in the bottom half
• 2:36:26
  of the night the royals are
• 2:36:27
  leading by a score of five to
• 2:36:28
  three Oscar Gamble will pass for
• 2:36:37
  Rod Gimli I was sitting to eighty
• 2:36:40
  six well after all this time and
• 2:36:46
  after all the media attention
• 2:36:47
  and everything that's going on
• 2:36:49
  in the court it comes down to
• 2:36:52
  one man Oscar Gamble the Yankees
• 2:36:54
  all on all the drama was built
• 2:37:02
  up to this particular point
• 2:37:03
  right now.
• 2:37:04
  Well down to a gamble and
• 2:37:09
  Quillen Barry gamble has hit
• 2:37:11
  seven home runs this year.
• 2:37:13
  Twenty two are the eyes and that
• 2:37:22
  may do it right.
• 2:37:25
  Over to John Woffin and the
• 2:37:26
  fine.
• 2:37:29
  The Yankees are three up three
• 2:37:30
  down here in the bottom half of
• 2:37:31
  the ninth inning.
• 2:37:33
  The final score the Kansas City
• 2:37:35
  Royals five and the New York
• 2:37:36
  Yankees for I think.