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1962-May-30 - LAD/NYM - G1 - Los Angeles Dodgers vs New York Mets - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons
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  .com for more sports history. On May 30, 1962,
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  the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the New York Mets
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  in a Wednesday doubleheader at the Polo Grounds.
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  The Dodgers entered the game on a hot streak
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  with a 31 -15 record, although they were still
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  a game behind the Giants. They were managed by
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  Walt Alston in his ninth year as skipper. The
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  Mets, managed by Casey Stengel, were struggling
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  in their inaugural season with a 12 -27 record.
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  In this first game of the doubleheader, the Dodgers
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  sent 26 -year -old Sandy Koufax to the mound
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  to face the Mets' Jay Hook. This audio recording
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  is from the New York Radio Broadcast featuring
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  announcers Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, and Ralph
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  Kiner. Well, hi everybody. This is Bob Murphy
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  with Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner, all set
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  to bring you all the action from the jam -packed
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  polo grass this afternoon as the New York Mets
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  welcome back into New York. the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Now in just a very few moments, the entire Los
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  Angeles Dodgers squad, the coaches and manager
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  Walter Alston, will be presented to the standing
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  room crowd at the polo ground. Right now would
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  up a Viceroy. Viceroy's not too strong, not too
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  light. Viceroy's got the taste that's right.
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  That's right. Now it's just about game time,
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  so settle back with a tall, cold glass of Rheingold,
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  and we'll check the starting lineup. and the
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  batting order for the opening game. Right now,
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  at home plate, our broadcasting colleague, Ralph
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  Kiner, is introducing the entire Los Angeles
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  Dodgers squad to the big crowd here at the polo
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  ground. The Dodgers batting order will have Maury
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  Wills at short leading off. Jim Gilliam will
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  be at third, batting second. Willie Davis in
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  center field, batting third. Johnny Davis will
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  be in left field, batting fourth. Ron Fairley
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  will be at first base, batting fifth. Frank Howard
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  in right field, batting sixth. Johnny Roseboro
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  behind the plate, hitting seventh. Larry Burright
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  will be at second base, batting eighth. Pitching
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  and batting ninth, the strikeout king from Brooklyn,
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  Sandy Kofai. In right field and leading off for
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  the New York Mets will be Joe Christopher. Julio
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  Chacon will be at shortstop batting second. Cliff
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  Cook will be at third base batting third. Frank
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  Thomas in left field batting cleanup. Gil Hodges
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  will be at first base hitting fifth. Jim Hickman
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  in center field batting sixth. Felix Mantilla
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  will be at second base hitting seventh. Sammy
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  Taylor behind the plate, batting eighth. Pitching
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  and batting ninth, right -hander Jay Hooks. The
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  umpiring assignment today, Ed Sudoil works the
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  plate in the opening game. Al Foreman will call
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  the plays around first. Tom Gorman, head of the
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  umpiring team, will be facing the second. And
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  Big Bill Joukowsky will be calling the plays
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  around third. Ed Sudol, Al Foreman, Tom Gorman,
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  and Bill Zukowski of the Men in Blue for today's
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  big Memorial Day doubleheader here at the polo
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  ground. And every seat is going to be taken.
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  The Dodgers and the Giants coming into the polo
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  ground for seven games in five days. We certainly
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  hope you're planning to be a part of the excitement
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  here at the polo ground. We are continuing with
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  the introduction of the Los Angeles Dodgers to
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  the fans here at the Polo Grounds. In the opening
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  game, Sandy Koufax will be on the mound for the
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  Dodgers. Sandy has won six and lost two this
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  year. His last time out, he struck out 16 in
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  beating the Philadelphia Phillies to win his
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  16th game. And already this year, Sandy has struck
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  out 100 men in 83 innings. Big ovation for Duke
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  Snyder as the Duke is introduced to the crowd.
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  Tremendous ovation for Duke Snyder as Duke gets
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  his introduction and moves out on the third base
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  line to take his place with his Dodger teammates.
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  As yet, the coaches and manager Walter Alston
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  have not been introduced, but now Ralph is introducing
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  the coaches. Big hand now for Pete Riesler. Leo
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  DeRosa. Following the introduction of the Dodgers
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  squad, we will have a moment of silence in honor
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  of our war dead and then the playing of our national
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  anthem. That completes the introduction of the
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  Dodgers to the crowd here at the polo ground.
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  The Dodgers swept the series on the West Coast,
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  but two of the three games were tense, bitter,
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  and exciting ball games. As a matter of fact...
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  Now here are the Mets moving out to the field.
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  New York Mets moving out to the playing field.
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  Jay Hook moving to the mound. He'll be caught
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  by Stanley Taylor. time out against the San Francisco
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  Giants. That was the opener of the series in
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  San Francisco. The game, Felix Mantilla put the
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  Mets in front in the 10th inning with a home
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  run, only to have Willie Mays come back with
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  his second home run of the game to win it for
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  the Giants 7 -6 in the last half of the 10th
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  inning. A ball game that Jay pitched all the
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  way. Jay Hook has been pitching real good baseball
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  for the New York Mets. Hook and Miller for the
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  last three weeks have been outstanding. Now the
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  crowd here at the photograph is being asked to
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  rise for a moment of silence on this Memorial
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  Day and then our national anthem. baseball excitement
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  here at the polo ground. Jay Hook throwing in
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  his final warm -up tosses for Sammy Taylor. Setting
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  up the New York Mets defensively, Gil Hodges
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  playing first, Felix Mantilla at second, Elio
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  Chacon at short, and Cliff Cook will be at third.
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  In the outfield, Frank Thomas in left, Jim Hickman
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  in center, and around and right, Joe Christopher.
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  Hook on the mound, and Sammy Taylor behind the
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  plate. And on this Memorial Day... San Francisco
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  will be playing a doubleheader against the Phillies
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  in Philadelphia. The St. Louis Cardinals and
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  Pittsburgh Pirates play a single game at Pittsburgh.
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  The Houston Colts 45s and Chicago Cubs have a
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  single game at Wrigley Field, Chicago. The Cincinnati
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  Reds and Milwaukee Braves play two games in Milwaukee.
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  The Yankees have a noon game and a 9 o 'clock
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  tonight game against the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis.
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  The White Sox and Tigers play two in Detroit.
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  Cleveland and the Orioles two in Baltimore. Washington
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  and Kansas City two in Kansas City. The Red Sox
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  and the Angels two on the West Coast. And now
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  we are all set to get going as Maury Wills steps
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  in to lead off in the game. Maury hitting at
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  239. He's off to a tremendous start. in base
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  stealing. Jay Hook out of his land at the first
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  pitch of the game. He runs up the bun and misses.
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  Strike one. Maury Wills has already stolen 23
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  bases this year. Anytime he gets on, it creates
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  a ballpark full of excitement. Cliff Cook in
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  very close at third against the switch hitting
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  Maury Wills. The outfield, not too deep, maybe
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  a step toward right. The windup pitch by Hook.
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  Inside and low. One ball, one strike. The Dodgers
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  have stolen 50 bases in 46 ballgames. The runner
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  -up to Maury Wills in stolen bases is Willie
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  Davis with 11. Next pitch to him, a ground ball
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  base hit through the hole going into right field.
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  Joe Christopher up with it. And Maury Wills is
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  on, leading off with a doubleheader with a base
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  hit to right. Here's Jim Gilliam. A happy return
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  to New York for Jim Gilliam and the other members
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  of the Dodgers who have fond memories from their
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  playing days at Ebbets Field. Gilliam hitting
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  left -handed against Jay Hook. Leo DeRocher on
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  the coaching lines at third and Greg Malevia
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  coaching at first. Now throw to first by Jay.
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  Wilson usually comes back to the base head first
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  and does so. Gilliam hitting a .267 with 17 RBIs.
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  Now Hook delivers to the plate. Blazing fastball
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  taken inside down around the knees. Gilliam laying
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  off of it. Now checks with Leo DeRozan. The Dodgers
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  have won 16 of their last 20 ballgames. They're
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  a red -hot team. Today they are starting an 18
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  -game road trip. They are riding an eight -game
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  winning streak. First, but it's not in time.
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  One ball and no strikes on Jim Gilliam. Now Jay
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  up in pitching position. Hodges holding against
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  Maury Wills. Here comes the pitch and it's taken
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  outside. He lays off of it. Two balls and no
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  strikes. Anytime Maury Wills is on base, it puts
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  a lot of pressure on that pitcher to keep Wills
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  close, to keep an eye on him, and at the same
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  time, to get that pitch in the strike zone with
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  something on it. 2 -0 delivery. Gilliam takes
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  it, and it's right in there for a call strike.
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  Two balls and one strike. Jay Hook, hard -throwing
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  right -hander from Grayslake, Illinois. Jay's
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  just 25 years old. And with Jay Hook, Bob Miller,
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  and Al Jackson, the Mets feel they have three
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  very fine young pitchers for a long time. Now,
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  Jay varying the things that he does on the mound
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  to make it difficult for Maury Wills to read
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  him. Two balls and a strike. Now hook up in pitching
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  position, makes the stop. Wells holding up the
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  pitch. Ball three, just out of the strike zone,
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  and now the count goes three and one. Let's check
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  that umpire. Ed Sudol says the count is two and
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  one. Scoreboard count says three and one. Elias
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  Cohen shaded a bit towards second. Cliff Cook
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  playing even with the bag, wide of the line at
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  third. Mantilla up a couple of steps on the right
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  side of the infield. A throw to first, and it's
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  not in time. There he goes. A high fly ball at
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  the short left field. Frank Thomas walking in
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  to settle under this one. Makes the catch. One
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  man down. Maury Wells was running, and now he
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  comes back to first base. One man away, that'll
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  bring up the flying Willie Davis. Willie hitting
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  at .331. He took six home runs and knocked 17
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  runs in. Many people consider Willie the fastest
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  man in the game today. Left -hand hitter. The
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  left side of the infield will be pulling up a
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  bit for him to allow for that speed. Night game
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  with the Dodgers tomorrow night. There are good
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  seats available. Certainly hope you're planning
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  to be on hand. The Giants are here Friday night,
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  two games, Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Willie
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  Davis, tall, center, left -hand hitter, stands
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  upright, feet close together. Holds the bat straight
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  up and down. There goes Maury Wells, the ground
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  ball hits the second base. Mantia has but one
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  play. Over to Gil Hodges in time, getting Willie
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  Davis. The Dodgers playing hit and run on the
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  first pitch to Willie, and he bounces out. Now
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  there are two away, and coming up to hit will
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  be Tommy Davis. He had a hot bat against the
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  New York Mets on the West Coast. Tommy hitting
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  a .324, and he leads the Dodgers in the power
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  department with 10 home runs and 45 runs batted
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  in. Orlando Cepeda of the Giants leads the National
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  League in RBIs of 49, and Tommy Davis is the
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  runner -up with 45. Giants have three men in
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  the top five and runs batted in. Pitched by Jay
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  Hook. A pop -up outside first and fouls around.
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  Gil Hodges moving over, moving over to the warning
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  path. He's there and makes the catch. Dodgers
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  are out with no runs, one hit, no errors, one
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  left on. The score in the middle of the first
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  inning, the Los Angeles Dodgers nothing and the
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  New York Mets coming to bat. And now coming right
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  glass of Rheingold Extra Dry. Enjoy it along
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  with our doubleheader. Sandy Koufax on the mound
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  for the Dodgers in the opener of the doubleheader.
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  Johnny Padres will be pitching the nightcap against
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  the New York Mets' Bob Miller. Sandy, of course,
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  is striking out hitters at a faster pace than
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  anybody in Major League history. A lot of wonderful
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  fans here at the polo grounds, wasting no time
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  in trying to get some action going. Joe Christopher
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  stepping in to lead off against Vandy Koufax.
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  Vandy has won six, lost two. His last time out,
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  he struck out 16 as he went the route to beat
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  the Philadelphia Phillies. Now, Vandy, as he's
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  signed, the wind -up and pitch to Christopher
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  in there at the knee is a call strike one. Setting
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  up the Dodger defense, Ron Fairley at first,
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  Larry Burry playing second, Maury Wills at short,
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  and Jim Gilliam at third. Sandy out of his windup
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  pitches. An off -speed delivery taken outside
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  by Joe Christopher. One ball, one strike. In
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  the outfield, Tommy Davis in left, Willie Davis
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  in center, and Frank Howard is in right field.
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  Tophax on the mound with Johnny Roseboro working
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  behind the plate. Pitching one and one. Off speed
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  again outside. Two balls and a strike. Last year,
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  Sandy won 18, lost 13. This is his first appearance
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  against the New York Mets. He has had three previous
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  appearances at the polo grounds. Lost one game
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  as a starter back in 56. A high infield pop fly.
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  Jim Gilliam in behind the mound is under it waiting.
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  And Gilliam takes it, retiring Joe Christopher.
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  One away, nobody on. That brings up little Elio
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  Chico. One out, nobody on. Elio stepping in.
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  Here's the windup. In comes the pitch to him.
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  Inside, down around the knee, it's ball one.
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  Elio was very concerned as to how he would be
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  treated here at the polo grounds after his scrap
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  with Willie Mays out in San Francisco. Willie
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  being such a great favorite here, he's afraid
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  the crowd might look with disfavor on it. But
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  he got a very nice reception as he came up. Two
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  balls and no strikes. Now Elio checking with
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  Sally Hemus. Sally coaching at third and Cookie
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  Lavagetto coaching at first. Sandy Colfax winds
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  and pitches. Blazing fastball popped a mile high
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  in the air and fouled on the third baseline.
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  Gilliam is waved off by Maury Wills, and it goes
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  out of reach at the last moment just beyond the
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  tarp and into the field boxes, no play. Cliff
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  Cook waiting in the on -deck circle, and then
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  Frank Thomas. Walter Alston brings a red -hot
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  Dodger ball club into the polo grounds. They've
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  won eight straight, 16 of their last 20. Yep,
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  they've been unable to close the gap on San Francisco.
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  Curve is over, strike three called. Check that
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  strike two, beg your pardon, two and two. Even
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  count to two on Elio Chacon. Pitching two and
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  two. Inside and low, it's ball three. Sandy really
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  came into his own last year in posting 18 wins
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  for the Dodgers. Not once but twice, Koufax has
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  struck out 18 in one game. 3 -2 delivery, a little
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  bit outside, ball four, and Chaton walks. Amazing
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  but true about Sandy Koufax is the fact that...
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  34 times during his brilliant career, he has
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  struck out 10 or more batters. He's done it three
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  times already this season. Now, Elio Chacon on
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  first, Cliff Cook waiting. A face through the
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  hole, a base hit to left field. He hit a curveball.
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  Chacon around second is going to try for third.
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  Here's the throw coming in. The slide head first.
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  He's safe on the second goal, Cook. When Conley
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  Davis, the left fielder, juggled the ball just
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  for a moment, Chacon took off like a shot for
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  third base. Davis fired towards third, and Elio
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  left his feet and made a long hit first slide
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  to get in there, and Cook goes to second base.
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  We'll wait for the official scoring on the play.
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  Frank Thomas coming up to hit with runners on
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  second and third, one down. by Tommy Davis. He
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  just kind of juggled it just for a moment, and
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  that was all Saccone needed. It will be scored
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  as a hit and an error. Play scored one and one,
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  a base hit and an error, and they're going to
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  put Thomas on. Frank Thomas will get the intentional
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  pass, and that will bring up Gil Hodges. The
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  Dodgers want to fill that open base at first
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  and set up a possible double play. and also eliminates
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  Frank Thomas, who is in the midst of a tremendous
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  hot streak. Frank has hit safely in 17 straight
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  ballgames. His 13 home runs, back 30 runs in.
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  Now Gil Hodges comes up with the bases loaded.
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  A wonderful reception for Gil Hodges. Gil hitting
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  a 3 -0 -4. He's done a remarkable job considering
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  that he has had to play on a very sore knee.
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  A knee that on some days really bothers him a
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  lot, and there never is a day that it doesn't
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  hurt him. Crowd really enthusiastic now. Three
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  runners take a lead. One man down. Last of the
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  first, no score. Kofax winding. Here's the pitch.
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  Ball one. The overhand fastball outside and low.
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  Hodges batting with Jim Hickman on deck. Now
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  Koufax has his fan from Roseboro, the pitch.
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  Curve outside and low, ball two. 2 -0. Sandy
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  Koufax, a seven -year veteran at the age of 26,
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  trying to pitch out of a jam here in the last
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  half of the first inning. Two balls and no strikes
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  to Gil Hodgins. Now Sandy, into his windup, here's
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  the pitch. And the ball is popped high in the
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  air to short left field. Infield fly rolling,
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  not invoked. Under the ball now, Maury Wills,
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  he grabs it for the out. Elio Chacon just draws
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  the throw and then scampers back to third. Ball
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  carried deep enough into left field so that the
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  infield fly ruling was not invoked. Now there
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  are two away, and Jim Hickman comes up with the
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  bases loaded. Jim hitting a .250. Jim hit a three
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  -run homer off Mike McCormick in the second game
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  of the Sunday doubleheader in San Francisco.
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  It was his sixth homerun of the year. 25 -year
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  -old long striding outfielder bats him right
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  -handed. Dodger infield back deep and straight
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  away. The pitch by Koufax. Swing and a miss.
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  Strike one. Ed Soudal taking time to brush the
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  plate off now. No score. Base is loaded. Two
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  down. Last half of the first inning. Sandy starts
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  winding, now the pitch. Checked swing and a foul
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  ball hit him behind Cookie Lava Jetto. No balls
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  and two strikes down to Jim Hickman. So Jim Hickman
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  has his work really cut out for him now, behind
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  on Koufax, two strikes. Andy winds and pitches.
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  Just off the outside corner, a blazer. One ball
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  and two strikes. Helio Chacon, the lead runner
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  on third. Cliff Cook on second, Frank Thomas
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  on first. Two walks and a base hit by Cook, loading
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  the bases. Now Koufax working in front of Jim
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  Hickman. Around comes the left arm and it's bounced
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  foul. He just got a piece of it to stay in there.
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  The count remaining at one ball, two strikes.
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  Jim Hickman came out of the St. Louis Cardinal
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  organization. The expansion draft, 25 -year -old
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  outfielder from Henning, Tennessee. He has been
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  a very pleasant development and surprise to the
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  New York Mets. Pitching one and two. Changeup.
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  He started to go, then held up just in time,
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  and it breaks outside. Two balls and two strikes.
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  Off -speed curve thrown by Sandy Koufax. That
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  changeup has been a great deal of help to Sandy
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  Koufax, and he credits Norm Sherry with convincing
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  him that he should go more with that changeup,
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  and it's made a much better pitcher out of him.
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  Count two and two on Jim Hickman. Chacon leading
• 29:34
  down from third. In comes the pitch. Foul ball,
• 29:37
  right straight back, no play. The first game
• 29:45
  at Philadelphia today is Juan Marichal against
• 29:47
  Cal McLeish. Giants nothing and the Phillies
• 29:50
  nothing at the end of two and a half innings.
• 29:52
  They'll have a single game at Pittsburgh with
• 29:54
  Ray Washburn for the Cardinals and Earl Francis
• 29:56
  pitching for the Parrots. Pitching 2 -2. Fouled
• 30:03
  again, right straight back. Ed Hickman in his
• 30:06
  duel against Sandy Koufax stays in there, two
• 30:08
  balls and two strikes. And now Johnny Roseboro
• 30:11
  goes about halfway out to the mound to see Sandy
• 30:13
  Koufax. With one out, Elio Chacon walked on three
• 30:18
  and two. Cliff Cook then hit the first pitch,
• 30:20
  a curveball into left field for a base hit. When
• 30:23
  Tommy Davis juggled the ball for a moment and
• 30:25
  left, Elio Chacon went on to third, and Cook
• 30:27
  took second. They intentionally passed Frank
• 30:30
  Thomas. Then Koufax got Gil Hodges on a high
• 30:33
  fly to short left field. Two balls and two strikes
• 30:45
  to Jim Hickman. Koufax out of his wind at the
• 30:50
  pitch. A high fly, the scoring foul hit down
• 30:54
  the left field line and into the feet. He had
• 30:58
  a real polo ground stroke on that one. Pull the
• 31:01
  ball up into the seats, but it was foul probably
• 31:03
  by about eight or ten yards. And that one draws
• 31:07
  the excitement. Pickman has a real good stroke
• 31:13
  for the polo ground. Beautiful sight to see today.
• 31:19
  You can't find an empty seat anywhere. Now he
• 31:43
  winds. Here's the pitch. Outside, it's ball three.
• 31:48
  Now something has to give. Three and two to Jim
• 31:52
  Hickman. Bases loaded. Two men down. And three
• 32:06
  and two. Everybody will be running. The runners
• 32:08
  start going. The full windup. Now the pitch.
• 32:10
  Foul back into the screen. Koufax used a full
• 32:13
  windup, and by the time the ball was fouled back
• 32:16
  by Jim Hickman, Cliff Cook was practically on
• 32:19
  third. Elio Chacon drifting back into foul territory
• 32:22
  to be out of the way of the full hitter was practically
• 32:24
  home. One of the great Dodger favorites of all
• 32:32
  time just came in, too. Watch today's doubleheader,
• 32:35
  Roy Campanella. This time, Kofax will work off
• 32:44
  the stretch. Here's the pitch. Fouled again back
• 32:47
  into the screen as Hickman really wages a war
• 32:49
  against Randy Kofax. Well, it's nice to see Campy
• 32:55
  here for the big doubleheader. He'll enjoy renewing...
• 33:02
  Acquaintanceship with all his old buddies on
• 33:03
  the Dodgers. Count remains, three and two. Bases
• 33:10
  loaded, two down. Hickman the batter, the runner's
• 33:12
  lead. Here's the pitch. Struck him out, swinging.
• 33:16
  But Koufax wins the duel. He got him with a high
• 33:18
  hard one. And the Mets threaten, but fail to
• 33:21
  score in their half of the first. No runs, one
• 33:23
  hit, one error, and three left on. No runs, one
• 33:28
  hit, one error, and three left on. So at the
• 33:31
  end of one, the score, the Mets nothing and the
• 33:34
  Badgers nothing. Well, on a day like that, we're
• 33:38
  certainly all mighty glad to have National League
• 33:41
  Baseball back in town. And of course, the people
• 33:44
  at Liebman Breweries are as happy about bringing
• 33:46
  you the New York Mets on radio and TV as well
• 33:49
  as we are about bringing you refreshing Rheingold
• 33:52
  on tap in cans and bottles. New York is certainly
• 33:55
  taking to the Mets the way they've taken to Rheingold.
• 33:58
  You know, Rheingold is New York's largest selling
• 34:01
  beer year after year after year. And you've made
• 34:04
  it that way. What's the reason for such popularity?
• 34:07
  Two little words tell you. Extra dry. They tell
• 34:11
  you that Rheingold is brewed the long, slow,
• 34:14
  costlier way with a clean, clear taste that is
• 34:17
  Rheingold's alone. So what do you say, fans?
• 34:20
  Why not join me in toasting New York's new favorites,
• 34:23
  the Mets, with a glass of Rheingold, the longtime
• 34:26
  favorite of New Yorkers. And people everywhere.
• 34:48
  At the end of five innings at Metropolitan Stadium
• 34:52
  in the Twin Cities, the New York Yankees are
• 34:54
  leading the Minnesota Twins 5 -1. Johnny Blanchard
• 34:58
  hit a two -run homer in the third inning. Bill
• 34:59
  Stafford pitching for the Yankees. Joe Bonacoski
• 35:02
  was the starter for the Twins and lefty Jack
• 35:04
  Kralik relieved in the sixth inning. That's the
• 35:07
  only American League score to post right now.
• 35:10
  The only thing going in the National League right
• 35:12
  now, Giants nothing and the Phillies nothing
• 35:13
  after two and a half. Ron Farrelly swings and
• 35:19
  misses on a curve, strike one. Farrelly wielding
• 35:23
  a hot bat. He sits safely in 10 straight ballgames
• 35:25
  for the largest... Longest hitting streak by
• 35:27
  a Dazzer this year. Fairly hitting at .320. Hit
• 35:31
  .322 over the full season last year. Former Southern
• 35:35
  Cal star left -hand batter waiting. A high fly
• 35:38
  hit deep to left center. Back at full speed goes
• 35:40
  Hickman. Way back, way back. It's over his head
• 35:43
  for an extra base hit. Back on the warning path
• 35:45
  and left center. Fairly around second going to
• 35:47
  third. The relay by Chacon. He is in safely with
• 35:50
  a triple. Long triple hit deep to left center
• 36:07
  field. The ball landed right on the edge of the
• 36:10
  warning pass. Hickman, after a long run, found
• 36:13
  the ball just a little bit out of his reach.
• 36:16
  Ron Fairley has let off here on the second with
• 36:19
  a three -way fifth. That brings up big Frank
• 36:21
  Howard. He's been on a batting rampage. He's
• 36:24
  now hiked that batting average to .317. But as
• 36:28
  you can imagine, the entire Dodger ball clip
• 36:30
  has been hot. You don't win 16 out of 20 unless
• 36:32
  everybody does a lot. Hook into the windup, now
• 36:36
  the pitch. A ground ball hit hard, a base hit
• 36:39
  beyond the reach of Elio Chacon. Burley comes
• 36:41
  in to score, and Howard's down with a run -scoring
• 36:43
  base hit. So the Dodgers quickly have a run home
• 36:51
  on the 18th RBI of the year for Frank Howard.
• 37:02
  Nobody out. Frank Howard on first and Johnny
• 37:05
  Roseboro coming up. Johnny Roseboro stepping
• 37:17
  in now to bat against Jay Hook. Roseboro hitting
• 37:21
  a .264. Frank Howard leading off first. Hodges
• 37:29
  back about a stride off the bat. Quickly moves
• 37:31
  up. For a pickoff play that brings Howard back,
• 37:34
  no throw was made by Jay Hook. Missed defense
• 37:37
  in the event of a bunt, and the pitch is outside.
• 37:39
  Ball one. Leo DeRocher on the lines of third.
• 37:52
  Greg Mulledy coaching at first. Now hook up in
• 37:59
  pitching position. Checks the runner. The pitch
• 38:02
  thrown. A high fly. Hit deep to right center.
• 38:05
  It's a mile out there. Running hard to Pickman
• 38:07
  and Christopher. It's over their head and bounces
• 38:09
  up into the crowd. It bounces up into the crowd.
• 38:17
  For a ground rule double. And that means Frank
• 38:21
  Howard will have to go back to third. The Mets
• 38:25
  got a good bounce on that one. Howard easily
• 38:27
  would have scored on the play. Oh, did he ever
• 38:29
  hit that. Over the head of Jim Hickman in right
• 38:32
  center, the ball landed on the warning path and
• 38:34
  bounced up into the center field bleachers. It
• 38:38
  is a ground rule double for Johnny Roseboro.
• 38:41
  He undoubtedly, had the ball not bounced into
• 38:43
  the crowd, would have had a triple and a run
• 38:45
  would have scored. Ron Farrelly and Johnny Roseboro
• 38:50
  have hit long, long drives, both reaching the
• 38:54
  warning path. First in left center and then in
• 38:59
  right center. Three hits in a row off Jay Hook.
• 39:11
  Dave Hillman giving the sign now to start warming
• 39:13
  up for the New York Mets. The batter is the second
• 39:16
  baseman, Larry Burright. He's hitting a .317.
• 39:19
  Infield playing at halfway. The pitch to Burright,
• 39:22
  a curve over a strike one call. Dave Hillman
• 39:29
  cranking up in the bullpen as the Dodgers tee
• 39:31
  off on Jay Hook here on the top of the second.
• 39:34
  Two booming 400 -foot triples. And a single by
• 39:38
  Howard sandwiched in between. Chopper off the
• 39:42
  plate, coming off the mat of Hook. He holds the
• 39:43
  runner at third. He throws to first in time.
• 39:45
  They've got Burright. One man away. Baltimore
• 39:48
  Chopper, the ball hitting home plate and going
• 39:50
  high in the air. One man away, runners on second
• 39:56
  and third, and the hitter now will be Sandy Koufax.
• 40:00
  Sandy has three for 32 on the year. Cook made
• 40:11
  a good pitch on Burr -Wright. He had him fooled.
• 40:13
  Burr -Wright tried to check up and bounded the
• 40:16
  ball into the plate. Sandy batting right -handed
• 40:21
  must have the infield in close now. Frank Howard
• 40:26
  on third, Johnny Roseboro on second, one down.
• 40:30
  Curve over, strike one call. Jay Hook going with
• 40:34
  that curveball, trying to pitch out of this,
• 40:36
  Jim, on the top of the second. As Jay looks around
• 40:43
  before getting up on the pitching slab. Hook
• 40:51
  into his windup to pitch to Koufax. Strike called.
• 40:53
  He slowed up on it, got the outside corner with
• 40:56
  it, and the count strike, too. They will be reaching
• 40:59
  back for that little something extra, trying
• 41:01
  hard to strike out Koufax in this spot. Mari
• 41:13
  Wills is the on -deck batter. Winding and pitching.
• 41:20
  Inside and low. Koufax lays off of it. One ball
• 41:23
  and two strikes. The Giants got a run off Cal
• 41:27
  McClish at the time of the fourth inning to lead
• 41:29
  the Phillies 1 -0 at the end of three and a half.
• 41:36
  That's with the infield in tight. Howard on third.
• 41:38
  Roseboro on second. Now the pitch. Downer hits
• 41:42
  slowly down the first baseline. Will it roll
• 41:43
  foul or letting it roll? Foul ball. Foul ball.
• 41:47
  That ball was off the plate. and just trickled
• 41:50
  down the first baseline. Since Jay Hook had no
• 41:53
  chance at all to get Howard at the plate, he
• 41:55
  let the ball roll when he saw it might go foul,
• 41:57
  and it did. So the count remains at one ball
• 42:01
  and two strikes for Sandy Koufax. Here are the
• 42:05
  warm -ups at Milwaukee. Jim O'Toole for surging
• 42:07
  Cincinnati, and for the Milwaukee Braves, Ron
• 42:10
  Fouché. A two -run homer by Dick Stewart in the
• 42:14
  first inning, and the Pirates lead the Cardinals
• 42:15
  2 -0 at the end of one. Washburn against Francis.
• 42:23
  One ball and two strikes on Sandy Koufax. The
• 42:26
  Dodgers lead one to nothing. Runners on second
• 42:29
  and third one out. The pitch down to Koufax.
• 42:33
  Breaking ball taken up high. Two balls and two
• 42:35
  strikes. They've gone six and a half now in Minnesota
• 42:49
  with the Yankees leading the Twins by a score
• 42:51
  of six to one. Here's Hook into his windup, pitch
• 42:56
  to Koufax. Bouncing ball, slowly hit toward third.
• 42:59
  Cook grabs it, juggles the ball, throws to first
• 43:01
  in time. He had a play at the plate, but he couldn't
• 43:04
  get the ball out of his glove. He had to pick
• 43:05
  at it about three times. By the time he got it
• 43:08
  out of his glove, he lost his chance on Frank
• 43:10
  Howard. He then fired the ball to Gilhoud just
• 43:12
  in time, getting Koufax. They'll give Koufax
• 43:18
  an RBI on the play. Dodgers lead 2 -0. Roseboro
• 43:22
  moving over to third. And Maury Wells comes up
• 43:25
  to hit. Cook wanted to make the play at the plate.
• 43:36
  Howard was running. But he couldn't get the ball
• 43:39
  out of his glove in time to make the throw. Ball
• 43:58
  setting with a runner on third, two men down.
• 44:00
  Maury's single to right field leading off in
• 44:01
  the game. Dodgers two and the Mets nothing, half
• 44:04
  -half of the second. Jay into his wind -up pitches.
• 44:14
  A little bit low, ball one. Jay hurried his wind
• 44:17
  -up that time when he caught Roseboro streaking
• 44:19
  down the line from third. Dodgers with tremendous
• 44:27
  speed. Looks like the Dodgers are pitching in
• 44:33
  the speed against the Giants' power. Now the
• 44:36
  pitch on the way. Inside and low to Maury Wills.
• 44:38
  Two balls to dust right. Night game against the
• 44:46
  Dodgers tomorrow night. Giants come in Friday
• 44:48
  night. Two games Saturday. Single game Sunday.
• 44:55
  Maury left -hand hitter standing close to the
• 44:58
  plate. Slightly open stand. The pitch by a hook.
• 45:00
  Ground ball hit down to first. Gil Hodges knocks
• 45:03
  it down. It'll be close at first. Out at first
• 45:05
  base. Hodges to Hook in time. The ball was good
• 45:09
  hard into the midsection of Gil, but he recovered
• 45:11
  in time to flip to Jay Hook. Hook can run fast,
• 45:14
  and he had to to get over there ahead of Maury
• 45:16
  Wells. In the second inning, the Dodgers get
• 45:18
  two runs. There were three hits. No errors as
• 45:22
  such, and one man left on. And now at the end
• 45:25
  of an inning and a half, the score of the Dodgers
• 45:27
  2 and the Mets nothing. Well, tavern owners all
• 45:32
  over town have dusted off their welcome mats,
• 45:34
  given their glasses a little extra shine. Yes,
• 45:37
  sir, they're all set to welcome you during National
• 45:40
  Tavern Month with the same friendly hospitality
• 45:43
  they show all year round. Be sure now to drop
• 45:46
  into your neighborhood tavern soon. Plenty of
• 45:49
  relaxing atmosphere and always on tap. Plenty
• 45:52
  of cold, refreshing Rangold Extra Dry. Rangold
• 45:57
  is beer as beer should taste. And dry tells you
• 46:01
  why. It tells you that Rheingold is brewed the
• 46:03
  long, slow, costlier way for a taste that's brisk
• 46:07
  and bright and clean, clear through. What better
• 46:11
  way to fillet National Tavern Month than with
• 46:13
  a glass or two of Rheingold Extra Dry? Enjoy
• 46:17
  some today. Now, before Felix Mantilla comes
• 46:24
  out to bat in the last of the second, let's pause
• 46:26
  for station identification. This is WGY, the
• 46:31
  General Electric Station's connectivity. 810
• 46:33
  on your radio dial. On behalf of the second inning
• 46:48
  now, a man to lead off against Andy Koufax. Koufax
• 46:52
  pushed out of a tough jam in the last half of
• 46:54
  the first inning. It's to Felix, the foul ball
• 46:58
  back, strike one. Felix hitting a 3 -0 -1. The
• 47:05
  opener of that game out in San Francisco, the
• 47:07
  Saturday game, Willie Mays hit a home run on
• 47:11
  the eighth inning, tied the game 5 -5, and Felix
• 47:13
  came up with a home run into that strong wind
• 47:15
  to put the Mets in front 6 -5, only to have Willie
• 47:19
  come back with a two -run number in the last
• 47:20
  of the tenth inning to win it for the Giants.
• 47:28
  and low. One ball, one strike. The last time
• 47:31
  Mantea faced Dodger pitching, he had four for
• 47:34
  four. The one run pitch by Koufax. An off -speed
• 47:41
  delivery taken. Ball two, two, and one. Dodgers
• 47:49
  two runs on four hits, one error. New York Mets
• 47:51
  no runs, one hit, and no errors. Now Koufax with
• 47:59
  his sign winds and pitches to Mantilla, and it's
• 48:02
  a fly ball at the left center field. Moving over,
• 48:04
  the left fielder, Tommy Davis, into the alley
• 48:06
  in left center. He makes the catch for the out.
• 48:10
  On the way, nobody on. Tommy Taylor coming up.
• 48:18
  And Jay Hook moves out of the on -deck circle.
• 48:33
  Sammy Taylor. Left -hand hitter. Facing Sammy
• 48:39
  Koufax. Fastball inside. One ball and no strike.
• 48:44
  Sammy hitting a 2 -0 -6. Feet wide apart. Chokes
• 48:52
  up just a little bit on the handle of the bat.
• 48:54
  Swing and a miss. One ball, one strike. Dodgers
• 49:01
  starting on an 18 -game trip as the New York
• 49:03
  Mets open their homestand. The 1 -1 delivery.
• 49:08
  Blazer in there, strike two calls. One ball and
• 49:11
  two strikes. The Mets loaded the bases with one
• 49:14
  out in the first inning, but Sandy Koufax got
• 49:17
  Gil Hodges on a fly ball. The short left fielder
• 49:20
  then struck out Jim Hickman. Breaking ball over,
• 49:25
  strike three calls. And that's the second strikeout
• 49:29
  for Koufax. Two outs, nobody on. Jay Hook coming
• 49:32
  up. Now Jay Hook batting for the first time in
• 49:53
  the game. Jay hitting a .273. Oh, did he ever
• 49:58
  hum that one. A blazing fastball right in there
• 50:00
  for a call strike. Two outs, nobody on. The windup
• 50:10
  and pitch by Koufax. Strike two, another fastball
• 50:13
  zipped right in there. He is really firing. Two
• 50:22
  strike delivery. Strike three called. He went
• 50:25
  to a curveball and broke it over. Randy Koufax
• 50:28
  looking as sharp as you can look. Gets Mantilla,
• 50:33
  Taylor, and Hook in order. No runs, no hits,
• 50:35
  no errors, then left on. And now at the end of
• 50:38
  two, the score of the Dodgers 2 and the New York
• 50:40
  Mets, nothing. Night game with the Dodgers tomorrow
• 50:47
  night, and there are good seats available. We
• 50:49
  certainly hope you're planning to be here. Tickets
• 50:51
  are on sale, of course, at the Advanced Ticket
• 50:53
  Window on 8th Avenue here at the Polo Grounds.
• 50:55
  They're also on sale at Grand Central Station
• 50:58
  at the 42nd and Vanderbilt Ramps and the Long
• 51:01
  Island Waiting Room of the Penn Station. Remember,
• 51:03
  too, that for all home games here at the Polo
• 51:05
  Grounds, ticket reservations may be made at all
• 51:08
  Howard clothes stores in the New York area. And
• 51:11
  if you find it even more convenient to purchase
• 51:13
  your tickets by mail, select any plan that you
• 51:15
  like, any number of games. any particular nights
• 51:20
  or days, and address your correspondence to Ticket
• 51:24
  Manager, the Polo Grounds, New York 39. Box seats
• 51:28
  are $3 .50, reserve seats $2 .50, include $0
• 51:30
  .25 for postage and handling. Of course, the
• 51:34
  Dodgers are here tomorrow night. Sid Alvin Dark
• 51:36
  brings the first -place San Francisco Giants
• 51:38
  in on Friday night, two Saturday and one Sunday.
• 51:41
  That winds up the homestand. The Mets then will
• 51:43
  have a brief road trip. They'll be gone until
• 51:45
  June 15th. But on the 15th of June, they'll open
• 51:48
  a homestand here at the Polo Grounds. And the
• 51:51
  Chicago Cubs, the Milwaukee Braves, and the Houston
• 51:53
  Colt 45s will all be coming in. So we're planning
• 51:57
  ahead now to catch the New York Mets in action
• 51:59
  right here at the Polo Grounds. Right now we're
• 52:02
  going along to the third inning. Jim Gilliam
• 52:04
  is standing close by as Jay Hook throws in his
• 52:06
  one -up tosses for the third. The Dodgers two
• 52:09
  and the Mets nothing. The third inning coming
• 52:11
  up, and coming up to detail every exciting play
• 52:13
  for you, Ralph Kainer. Hey, Bob, you got a couple
• 52:19
  of tickets for some friends of mine here today?
• 52:24
  Ralph, I think for the list of things, they'll
• 52:26
  have to sit here in the booth with us. Boy, there
• 52:28
  certainly isn't any seats. Oh, it's a 2 -0 game
• 52:32
  as we move through two. Dodgers scored two in
• 52:34
  the second inning. Ron Fairley led off with a
• 52:37
  triple to left center field. He was scored by
• 52:39
  Frank Howard when he singled the left. And John
• 52:41
  Roseboro moved Howard to third base with a long
• 52:44
  double, a round road double, the ball bouncing
• 52:46
  in the stands. And Koufax helped his cause when
• 52:49
  he brought Howard in from third when he grounded
• 52:52
  out to third. Junior Gilliam, the first batter
• 52:55
  here in the top of the third. Jay hooked the
• 52:58
  pitcher, and his first pitch is a high slider
• 53:01
  that does not come down, ball one. Gilliam batting
• 53:07
  for the second time, quite out to left field
• 53:09
  in the first inning. He brought a .267 average
• 53:12
  into New York City. Fastball that's fouled away.
• 53:16
  One ball, one strike. Dodgers have an eight -game
• 53:21
  winning streak going, and they have won 16 of
• 53:23
  their last 20 -ball games. Ironic. Part of it,
• 53:28
  the four games they lost in that 20 -game span,
• 53:30
  all to the St. Louis Cardinals. The right -hander
• 53:34
  back with a change of pace that's outside. Ball
• 53:36
  two. Two balls and one. Dodgers trail the league
• 53:42
  -leading San Francisco Giants by one and one
• 53:45
  -half games. Cook returns to the play with a
• 53:51
  fastball, and again it's fouled straight back
• 53:54
  for strike two. Two balls and two strikes. Gilliam
• 53:58
  leading off in the top of the third inning. He'll
• 54:00
  be followed by Willie Davis, then Tommy Davis.
• 54:15
  Jay Hook with a 2 -2 pitch. Up a little bit too
• 54:18
  high. Ball three. So the cast goes full on Junior
• 54:21
  Gilliam. It's a 2 -0 game. Dodgers lead. Ed Sudol,
• 54:33
  a home plate umpire. Setting behind Sammy Taylor.
• 54:38
  The 3 -2 pitch to Gilliam is low. Ball four.
• 54:41
  That's the first walk issued by Jay Hook. And
• 54:45
  Gilliam gets first base free as he leads off
• 54:48
  here in the top of the third. And the batter
• 54:49
  coming on now, Willie Davis. Willie Davis grounded
• 54:57
  out to the second baseman. He is 0 for 1. Came
• 55:00
  in at 331. Left -handed batter. Playing in center
• 55:08
  field. Throw to first base, a lob draw, and Gilliam
• 55:15
  is back with no trouble. First pitch to Davis
• 55:26
  is lined to right field, but going foul. Into
• 55:28
  the lower outfield area, in the lower deck, but
• 55:32
  fouled by about 20 feet. Willie Davis getting
• 55:36
  around in a curveball, pulling the ball too much.
• 55:39
  So, Junior Gilliam, now known as... Jim Gilliam
• 55:42
  returns to first base, and it's a strike one
• 55:45
  count. In 1959, Tommy Davis, the on -deck batter,
• 55:58
  led the Pacific Coast Lincoln hitting. Then Willie
• 56:00
  Davis followed the next year and led it. Next
• 56:04
  pitch to Davis as he squares around to beat out
• 56:07
  a bump, but he takes for ball one. One ball,
• 56:09
  one strike. Tommy Davis for Spokane hit .345
• 56:17
  to lead the league in 1959. There's a drive deep
• 56:25
  to right. It could go all the way. Christopher
• 56:27
  back by the wall. He can't get to it. There it
• 56:29
  goes. Deep to right center field into the upper
• 56:47
  day. And that's his seventh home run of the year.
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  And he has driven in two runs with a home run
• 56:52
  his 19th. So the Dodgers now out in front. Four
• 56:57
  to nothing. And Dave Hillman is up in the bullpen
• 57:03
  for the New York Mets. Now the batter, Tommy
• 57:13
  Davis. He's a right -handed batter. 0 for 1.
• 57:15
  And the first pitch is a high curve that goes
• 57:17
  over the top of his head. Ball one. Back to the
• 57:29
  plate. Ball two. So Jay Hook now trailing 4 -0.
• 57:34
  Balling behind Tommy Davis. Two balls and no
• 57:37
  strike. Tommy Davis batting .224 at the start
• 57:47
  of the ballgame. He lives in Brooklyn. Next pitch
• 58:02
  to him is high. Actually, he has moved from Brooklyn.
• 58:05
  He lives in Thompson, California. He was born
• 58:07
  in Brooklyn. 3 -0 pitch to Tommy Davis. He takes
• 58:17
  it automatically. Strike one, call. The cannon
• 58:20
  now, three balls and one strike. Still low enough.
• 58:22
  Two runs are in. The score, 4 -0 in favor of
• 58:25
  the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jay Huck looking for
• 58:35
  his fourth win of the season. Comes back with
• 58:37
  a high slider that slides out of his hand. Goes
• 58:39
  over the top of Davis' head. It's walk number
• 58:42
  two. Tommy Davis getting first base. And the
• 58:46
  batter is Ron Fairley. Fairley tripled to deep
• 58:55
  left center to score the first run in the second
• 58:57
  inning. And here comes manager Casey Stengel.
• 59:03
  Dave Hillman has been warming up in the bullpen
• 59:06
  for the Mets. He was up in the last inning when
• 59:08
  the Dodgers scored two. He's also been up since
• 59:12
  Davis' home run here in this inning. And there's
• 59:18
  the sign. Casey Stengel with the hook to Jayhook,
• 59:21
  taking him out of the ballgame. It'll be Dave
• 59:26
  Hillman coming in. So officially, Jayhook worked
• 59:33
  two innings. He gave up all four of the runs
• 59:36
  in the ballgame, allowing five hits. He struck
• 59:39
  out none, and he walked two. He is, at this moment,
• 59:46
  the pitcher of record. Well, don't forget the
• 59:54
  New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers will
• 59:56
  be playing here in a night game tomorrow night.
• 59:59
  Then it will be the San Francisco Giants moving
• 1:00:03
  in to the polar grounds for a night game Friday
• 1:00:05
  night, a doubleheader on Saturday, and, of course,
• 1:00:07
  a single game on Sunday. Four big games with
• 1:00:09
  the Giants. And it looks as though Roger Craig,
• 1:00:13
  who was involved with the Giants in that good
• 1:00:15
  Donnybrook out in San Francisco, will be the
• 1:00:18
  starting pitcher in the Friday night game. You
• 1:00:22
  can purchase tickets to all these games at three
• 1:00:24
  locations downtown. Polar Grounds, Grand Central
• 1:00:29
  Station, over on the Vanderbilt Ramp side, Pennsylvania
• 1:00:34
  Station, and the Long Island Rating Room. You
• 1:00:37
  can also make ticket reservations at all the
• 1:00:39
  Howard Groban stores throughout the New York
• 1:00:40
  area. Bob, what have you got in the score? At
• 1:00:46
  the end of two and a half, Ralph, Pittsburgh
• 1:00:48
  leading the Cardinals two to nothing on Dick
• 1:00:50
  Stewart's two -run homer. That's Washburn against
• 1:00:51
  Francis. Cincinnati and Milwaukee no score at
• 1:00:55
  the end of one or two against the Shea in their
• 1:00:56
  first game. Roy Seavers homered in the first
• 1:00:59
  inning off Juan Marichal to tie up the Giant
• 1:01:02
  Philly game at 1 -1 at the end of five. Here
• 1:01:05
  are the warm -ups for Chicago. Dean Stone, a
• 1:01:07
  left -hander for the Colt 45s, and rookie Cal
• 1:01:10
  Koontz, a right -hander for the Chicago Cubs.
• 1:01:12
  In the American League. They are being held up
• 1:01:16
  because of rain now at the end of 7 in Minnesota
• 1:01:19
  with the Yankees leading the Minnesota Twins
• 1:01:21
  6 -1. Bill Stafford for the Yankees. Kralik relieved
• 1:01:24
  Bonikowski. Johnny Blanchard hit a two -run homer.
• 1:01:27
  Nothing yet on Washington at Kansas City. Here
• 1:01:30
  are the warm -ups at Detroit for the White Sox,
• 1:01:32
  Johnny Bazzard, and for the Detroit Tigers, Phil
• 1:01:34
  Regan. They're underway in Baltimore. Cleveland
• 1:01:37
  nothing. The Orioles nothing. Pedro Ramos pitching
• 1:01:40
  for Cleveland and Chuck Estrada on the mound
• 1:01:42
  for the Baltimore Orioles. The remaining action
• 1:01:47
  in the American League, the Red Sox meet the
• 1:01:49
  Los Angeles Angels on the West Coast, and that,
• 1:01:52
  of course, will be much later in the day. Well,
• 1:01:55
  the Yankees, they are playing a noon game, which
• 1:01:56
  has gone 7, with the Yankees in front 6 -1, now
• 1:01:59
  being delayed because of rain, and they will
• 1:02:01
  play a game that starts at 9 o 'clock tonight
• 1:02:03
  in New York. So that's the complete rundown on
• 1:02:06
  the scores of other games, and right here with
• 1:02:08
  our pitching change made, Dave Hellman, just
• 1:02:11
  about warmed up and ready to go, and all set
• 1:02:13
  to follow the action along for you again, Ralph
• 1:02:14
  Kiner. Well, Jay Hook, who had pitched complete
• 1:02:17
  games in his last two starts, losing 3 -2 at
• 1:02:19
  Houston and 7 -4 in 10 innings at San Francisco,
• 1:02:22
  is now out. He's the pitcher on record. And in
• 1:02:25
  the ballgame, Dave Hillman. Dave, a right -hander,
• 1:02:28
  is making his 10th appearance of the year, his
• 1:02:31
  eighth for the New York Ball Club. He has worked
• 1:02:36
  a total of 12 and one -third innings, and he
• 1:02:38
  has a record of no wins and no losses. And his
• 1:02:41
  first man will be Ron Farrelly. He goes to first
• 1:02:43
  base to... Move Tommy Davis back there. No one
• 1:02:50
  out. A runner at first to score 4 -0 in favor
• 1:02:52
  of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Curve ball to Ron
• 1:02:56
  Fairley. That's just too low. Ball one. One ball
• 1:02:58
  and no strike. Sammy Taylor, the catcher, thought
• 1:03:02
  he had that one. It's Gil Hodges at first. At
• 1:03:05
  second base, Felix Mantia. The shortstop, Elio
• 1:03:08
  Chacon. The third baseman, Cliff Cook. The outfield,
• 1:03:11
  Thomas, Hickman, and Christopher left to right.
• 1:03:18
  Now Hellman back with a 1 -0 pitch. It's swung
• 1:03:20
  on and fouled back, straight back of home plate
• 1:03:22
  for strike one. One ball and one strike. Hellman
• 1:03:25
  with a high fastball. Hellman was obtained from
• 1:03:43
  Syracuse after being sent there. After trial
• 1:03:46
  by the Cincinnati Reds in spring training. He's
• 1:03:52
  back with a fastball. It's down the line. It
• 1:03:54
  could be in the stands. It's over by the wall,
• 1:03:56
  and it's a home run. Ron Fairley with the so
• 1:04:06
  -called proverbial Chinese home run. It dropped
• 1:04:09
  into the upper deck right near the foul line,
• 1:04:12
  and the Dodgers lead 6 -0. Bobby Davis scoring
• 1:04:16
  in front of him. Guard one of the runs to Jay
• 1:04:34
  Hook. He's tried now with five. The other two,
• 1:04:37
  Dave Hillman. And the batter now, Frank Howard.
• 1:04:42
  Her ball to Frank Howard, catching on the outside
• 1:04:44
  corner, strike one. That's Ron Fairley's first
• 1:04:49
  home run of the year. He now has 17 runs batted
• 1:04:52
  in. Howard with a drive to right center. Christopher
• 1:04:58
  going deep there. It's way back, and he makes
• 1:05:01
  the catch right on the warning track. Frank Howard
• 1:05:06
  chasing Joe Christopher right into the warning
• 1:05:08
  track about two steps from the wall and deep
• 1:05:11
  right center. And that's out number one. Well,
• 1:05:18
  the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have actually won
• 1:05:20
  their ballgames this year on speed and not much
• 1:05:23
  power, showing plenty here today in the photo
• 1:05:25
  ground. They have had two home runs, a triple
• 1:05:28
  and a ground rule double. And the batter now
• 1:05:31
  is John Roseboro. First pitch to him, a curve
• 1:05:36
  that's in the dirt. Ball one. Roseboro, his first
• 1:05:40
  time up. doubled into the deepest area in the
• 1:05:44
  ballpark, and the ball bounced on the warning
• 1:05:47
  track into the stands for a ground rule double.
• 1:05:50
  Left -handed batter, and Hillman comes back with
• 1:05:52
  a curve, swung on and missed, strike one. Well,
• 1:06:01
  there's only been one ball hit into the center
• 1:06:03
  field stands here at the Polar Grounds in regular
• 1:06:05
  season play, and that was by Joe Adcock. Curve
• 1:06:11
  high, ball two. But if there is one person who
• 1:06:14
  might be able to do it, it's Frank Howard right
• 1:06:17
  here with a Los Angeles ball club and possibly
• 1:06:19
  another. Orlando Cepeda, both those boys with
• 1:06:22
  tremendous power to center field. And, of course,
• 1:06:25
  they'll be playing here throughout this weekend.
• 1:06:31
  Hillman with a curve that's low, ball three.
• 1:06:33
  Three balls and one strike. It's a 6 -0 game,
• 1:06:37
  top of the third inning. 3 -1 pitch to Roseboro,
• 1:06:49
  grounder down to Hodges. He takes it, will go
• 1:06:51
  all the way, makes the tag at first base himself
• 1:06:53
  for out number two. Two men down now, and the
• 1:06:59
  batter is Larry Burright. The Dodgers went out
• 1:07:08
  in front in the second inning when Marilyn Howard
• 1:07:11
  scored. Now they've added four more here in the
• 1:07:15
  top of the third. Larry Burride, a right -handed
• 1:07:20
  batter, takes a curve. It's in the dirt for ball
• 1:07:22
  one. Burride came in the ballgame, hitting 317.
• 1:07:25
  He is 0 for 1. Rookie second baseman for the
• 1:07:32
  Los Angeles Dodgers. Tries to check his swing,
• 1:07:38
  but goes too far. It's strike one. One ball,
• 1:07:41
  one strike. Dave Hillman on the mound for the
• 1:07:58
  Mets in relief of Jay Hook. Next pitch to Burlight.
• 1:08:04
  Lined in the center field. A base hit. Coming
• 1:08:06
  over to field the ball, Joe Christopher. And
• 1:08:09
  now the Dodgers have a man on first base with
• 1:08:12
  two outs in the batter, Sandy Kopach. Seventh
• 1:08:15
  base hit in the ballgame. The second one given
• 1:08:17
  up by Dave Hillman. The Mets played three games
• 1:08:25
  with the Dodgers prior to this one. Two of them
• 1:08:28
  decided in the eighth inning. The other was a
• 1:08:30
  course around. Danny Koufax didn't participate
• 1:08:34
  in any of those three games. This is his first
• 1:08:36
  start. He's a right -handed batter. First start
• 1:08:41
  against the Mets. He is 0 for 1, but he has driven
• 1:08:45
  in one of the six runs. Curveball, it's in the
• 1:08:50
  dirt, dug out by Sammy Taylor. Nice play. Holding
• 1:08:53
  at first base. Larry Burright. Two men down.
• 1:09:01
  As Hellman goes into the stretch. He throws the
• 1:09:06
  first base and Burright dives back in, he says.
• 1:09:18
  Back to the play to call strike. One ball and
• 1:09:21
  one strike. Hillman catching with a fastball,
• 1:09:26
  knee -high in the outside corner. Sandy Koufax
• 1:09:32
  brought a 094 batting average into the ballgame.
• 1:09:35
  He has had three hits this year, 32 times at
• 1:09:38
  bat. That's to him, swung on and missed, strike
• 1:09:40
  two. So the count now, one ball, two strikes.
• 1:10:03
  One and two to Sandy Koufax. And the pitch is
• 1:10:08
  taken outside. Ball two. Two and two with two
• 1:10:11
  outs. Dave Hellman on the mound looking for his
• 1:10:23
  first victory as not lost one so far this year.
• 1:10:29
  And he returns to the plate with a runner starting
• 1:10:31
  to go and holding, and he gets him on a strikeout
• 1:10:33
  for strike three. No average hours aside, that's
• 1:10:36
  the first strikeout by Dave Hellman and in the
• 1:10:39
  ballgame. And in the top of the third inning,
• 1:10:45
  the Dodgers score four runs on two hits. There
• 1:10:51
  were no errors. One man left in the score at
• 1:10:53
  the end at two and one -half innings of play.
• 1:10:55
  The Los Angeles Dodgers six, the New York Mets.
• 1:10:58
  Nothing. You know, going through the rule book
• 1:11:02
  the other day, we took up a Ringo Riddle for
• 1:11:05
  all you baseball fans. Now, you may know that
• 1:11:08
  when a base runner is hit by a batted ball, a
• 1:11:10
  batter automatically gets credit for a hit, and
• 1:11:13
  the runner, of course, is automatically out.
• 1:11:15
  But who gets credit for the put -out? Think about
• 1:11:18
  that one. Well, if you know your baseball, you
• 1:11:22
  may have known that the fielder nearest the runner
• 1:11:25
  gets the credit for the put -out. And if you
• 1:11:27
  know your beer, you'll surely know this. Two
• 1:11:31
  little words, Extra Dry, tell you why Rheingold
• 1:11:33
  has a taste no other beer can match. They tell
• 1:11:36
  you that Rheingold is brewed the long, slow,
• 1:11:38
  costlier way for a taste that's brisk and bright
• 1:11:41
  and clean, clear through. So why not find that
• 1:11:44
  out for yourself? Enjoy a cool, refreshing glass
• 1:11:47
  of Rheingold Extra Dry today, right along with
• 1:11:50
  the game. And now while we have time before the
• 1:11:52
  bottom of the third starts, we pause for station
• 1:11:54
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  Station's connectivity 810 on your radio dial.
• 1:12:09
  Danny Koufax to Joe Christopher in his first
• 1:12:12
  pitch to swung on a miss, strike one. Motto of
• 1:12:16
  a third with the Mets hitting six to tie. Joe
• 1:12:19
  Christopher batting for the second time, popped
• 1:12:21
  up to the third baseman, Jim Gilliam, in the
• 1:12:23
  first inning. He is 0 for 1. Fast ball that's
• 1:12:27
  fouled away. Strike two. Koufax, who started
• 1:12:35
  slowly in the first inning and worked the six
• 1:12:37
  batters, getting Jim Hickman on the strikeout
• 1:12:40
  after he had hit a foul home run where the base
• 1:12:44
  was loaded. And the second he worked through
• 1:12:47
  it, one, two, three with two strikeouts. A big
• 1:12:49
  curveball at town long. One ball and two strikes.
• 1:12:54
  Koufax has the biggest and best curveball, I
• 1:12:57
  believe, in the major leagues. Also has a fine
• 1:13:02
  fastball to go along. There's a curve, but that
• 1:13:05
  one hung high. Ball two. Two balls and two strikes.
• 1:13:08
  This curveball, a lot like Max Lanier's curveball,
• 1:13:11
  and Max pitched back in the early 40s for the
• 1:13:15
  St. Louis Cardinals. Right off the top. It rolls
• 1:13:20
  right off the table. Last year, Koufax struck
• 1:13:27
  out 269 batters. Fastball drilled to left field.
• 1:13:31
  This one moves Tommy Davis deep to left field,
• 1:13:33
  but he has room, and he makes a catch. That ball
• 1:13:38
  hits deep, away from the wall, and straightaway
• 1:13:41
  left field for out number one. Now one is down,
• 1:13:51
  and Elio Cho comes in. Elio Chacon. Elio walked
• 1:13:55
  in the first inning. Got as far as third base
• 1:13:58
  on an error by Tommy Davis in left field. Right
• 1:14:01
  -handed batter playing shortstop. First pitch
• 1:14:04
  to him, a fastball that's low inside. Ball one.
• 1:14:13
  Now Ed Sudol asks to take a look at the ball.
• 1:14:16
  And he throws it out. Go back. last year with
• 1:14:23
  his 269 strikeouts, broke a record set back in
• 1:14:27
  1903 by Christy Matthews. Four strikeouts in
• 1:14:31
  the season. One -all pitch to Chacon, lined in
• 1:14:38
  the center field, a base hit. Elio going to first
• 1:14:41
  base, wound deep there, and holds as Willie Davis
• 1:14:44
  comes up with the ball. That is hit number two
• 1:14:47
  off Sandy Koufax, and Chacon is safe at first
• 1:14:49
  base with one out, and the batter is Cliff Cook.
• 1:15:02
  left field his first time up. He came in at 2
• 1:15:05
  -0 -8. Right -handed batter playing third base.
• 1:15:08
  It's a 6 -0 game. Dodgers at the end of two and
• 1:15:13
  one -half innings of play. The goal not being
• 1:15:16
  held on. The first pitch to Cook is swung on
• 1:15:18
  a miss. Strike one. in his last outing struck
• 1:15:33
  out 16 Philadelphia Philly batters. Flashball
• 1:15:37
  is fouled away and the Cavs will go to 0 -2.
• 1:15:43
  So far through the season, Sandy has pitched
• 1:15:49
  84 and one -third innings. And in that time,
• 1:15:54
  he has struck out 102 batters. He's the only
• 1:15:59
  pitcher in... Major League history. You have
• 1:16:03
  averaged more than nine strikeouts a game throughout
• 1:16:07
  a career. Next pitch is low. One ball, two strikes.
• 1:16:13
  In his first ball game, his first Major League
• 1:16:15
  start, he struck out 14 batters. And he did all
• 1:16:20
  that on strictly a fastball. Cliff Cook swings
• 1:16:31
  at his next pitch, and it's popped up and going
• 1:16:33
  foul out of play. Strange thing about Koufax,
• 1:16:50
  last year was the first year that Koufax ever
• 1:16:52
  won a ball game in April. Her ball swung on,
• 1:16:57
  bouncing in the dirt. Runner holding there. It's
• 1:17:00
  strike three. That ball bounced just about on
• 1:17:03
  home plate. That curve snapped right off and
• 1:17:06
  right on down. So it's strikeout number four
• 1:17:08
  by Sandy Kopach. Out number two in the batter's
• 1:17:11
  flank, Thomas. Thomas was given an intentional
• 1:17:22
  walk in the first inning, which loaded the bases
• 1:17:27
  up. had runners at second and third at the time.
• 1:17:30
  So he is still batting 335, which was his average
• 1:17:38
  at the start of the game. Go back to Thomas with
• 1:17:41
  a high fastball, ball one. Thomas has hit safely
• 1:17:52
  in his last 17 games over that period. He hit
• 1:17:57
  it at a .386 clip. Had five home runs, three
• 1:18:00
  doubles, and two triples. Strike called. A throw
• 1:18:03
  pass comes in down around the knee. One ball,
• 1:18:05
  one strike. Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson from
• 1:18:24
  the polar grounds in the first game of two here
• 1:18:27
  in Memorial Day. And the first of a three -game
• 1:18:30
  series with a loss on the Dodgers. Curveball
• 1:18:33
  swung on a miss by Thomas. Roseboro catching
• 1:18:37
  the ball, moving out towards first base. There's
• 1:18:39
  a throw there. Chacon on first with two outs.
• 1:18:44
  Dodgers with two runs in the second, four in
• 1:18:46
  the third. Lead it six to nothing. There's a
• 1:18:50
  good curve, but just inside. Ball two. And Colfax
• 1:18:53
  thinks that he had that one. He comes off the
• 1:18:56
  mound, walks halfway in to Ed Sudol. Now Sudol
• 1:18:59
  with his mask off, look out, walking out in front
• 1:19:02
  of home plate. Now he's back, and the mask goes
• 1:19:08
  on, so everything is all right. When that mask
• 1:19:10
  comes off, you've got to get careful. They leave
• 1:19:16
  it on, you're not in too much trouble. 2 -2 pitch
• 1:19:20
  to Thomas. A change -up at just too high. Ball
• 1:19:23
  three. To the count of four, Secona's first base
• 1:19:25
  will be going with two men out. And the score
• 1:19:32
  of the ball game, 6 -0 in favor of the Hawkeye
• 1:19:35
  Massagers. The first shift that we know about,
• 1:19:41
  and possibly not the first of all time, but in
• 1:19:43
  modern days, was put on against Ted Williams
• 1:19:45
  by Lou Boudreau when he was the manager of the
• 1:19:48
  Cleveland Indians. And they used the reverse
• 1:19:50
  of this shift, leaving the left side open and
• 1:19:53
  covering on the right. Williams, the left -handed
• 1:19:56
  batter. 3 -2 pitch. A curveball. Got him looking.
• 1:20:02
  Strike three. And that's strikeout number five.
• 1:20:06
  Oh, that was a big curve that rolled right off
• 1:20:09
  the table. So at the end of three. After the
• 1:20:14
  Mets have no runs on one hit. There were no errors,
• 1:20:18
  and they left one on the score. The Los Angeles
• 1:20:21
  Dodgers, six. On seventh, the Mets, no runs on
• 1:20:26
  two. Well, plenty of action coming your way.
• 1:20:33
  Another game here today, and just in case you're
• 1:20:36
  buying nearby, you can drop in. I think you can
• 1:20:38
  squeeze in here somewhere, but plenty of excitement
• 1:20:40
  coming off. You know, you can mail in for tickets
• 1:20:43
  throughout the season, especially convenience
• 1:20:45
  here. All you have to do is be sure to tell how
• 1:20:49
  many tickets you want and the type. Box seat
• 1:20:52
  to 350, reserve seat to 250. Send a check or
• 1:20:57
  money order and include an additional 25 cents
• 1:21:01
  to handle the mailing charges. And mail to ticket
• 1:21:05
  manager, Hall of Grounds, 39 New York. Be sure
• 1:21:10
  to specify the date. And to specify the number
• 1:21:14
  of tickets you want in coverage with the price
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  and its additional $0 .25. Plenty of baseball
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  action coming your way. The Mets here with the
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  Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants.
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  And then, after a short trip, they come back
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  on June 15th. Well, at the top of the fourth
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  inning, the score is 6 -0 in favor of the Dodgers.
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  And the first pitcher, first pitch by David Hellman,
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  the pitcher is hit on the ground through the
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  hole in the right field by Maury Wells. Coming
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  up with the ball is Joe Christopher, and Wills
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  comes up with his second base in. He now has
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  two for three. Major league leader in stolen
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  bases. That first base in the batter is Jim Gilliam.
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  Batting left -hander, he just switches her. Batting
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  from the left side against the right -hander.
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  Hillman with his first pitch. It's outside low.
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  Ball one. Dodgers now with eight bases in the
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  ballgame. The gold arm with his sixth run. Gilliam
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  has walked and fired out to left field. He also
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  has scored a run. So to first base, Wills dives
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  back in, but he is there way before the tag.
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  Gil Hodges holding. Wills has stolen 18 consecutive
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  bases before the Mets broke his streak in Los
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  Angeles. He goes now. The pitch is outside. Taylor
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  Stroll is up on the shoulder of Wills in the
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  center field, and it goes to stolen base, and
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  Wills holds at second. Amore Wills now with his
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  24th stolen base. And he had quite a jump and
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  beat the throw at second by quite a margin. Now
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  warming up in the bullpen for the Mets, Bob Moorhead.
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  Junior Gilliam with a count of one ball and no
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  strike. Make that two balls in those strikes.
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  And with Maury Wills out at second base. No one
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  out in the top of the fourth. The score is 6
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  -0 Dodgers. Dave Hillman looking at Wills. Now
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  returns to the plate. It's lined on the right
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  field line. A base hit off of the wall. Bouncing
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  into Joe Christopher's hands. He can't make a
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  play home as he picks the ball up and holds Gilliam
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  at first base. Score of the ball game now, 7
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  -0, as Gilliam picks up his first run batted
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  in. Hit number nine, and the score now, 7 -0,
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  as Bob Moorhead continues to throw in the bullpen
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  for New York. Now the batter, Willie Davis, who
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  has a two -run home run to his credit and two
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  times up. Willie with his seventh home run of
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  the season, a left -handed batter playing in
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  center field. No one out. Gilliam at first base.
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  Dave Hillman to the mound with a curveball. It's
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  hit down through the hole in the right field
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  of base hit. Gilliam going to third base. Does
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  not draw a throw as Christopher comes in with
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  the ball. And Willie Davis gets his second base
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  hit. That's three in a row here in the top of
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  the fourth inning. And it brings manager Casey
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  Stengel out of the dugout. Raleigh Davis came
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  into the ballgame batting .331. He has picked
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  up two hits and three times up, so that will
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  certainly aid to his batting average. At the
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  start of today's action, Orlando Cepeda was the
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  National League leading hitter, followed by Bill
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  Williams of the Chicago Cubs. Opened American
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  League, Jimenez. Manny Jimenez with the Kansas
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  City Bar Club, formerly a Milwaukee player, was
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  way on top. He was up around .398. Well, we're
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  going to have a change in pitchers as Casey Stengel
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  uses the hook for the second time. It'll be Bob
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  Moorhead. Hillman officially pitched one inning.
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  He came in in relief of Jay Hook after Hook had
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  given up a walk, a home run, and a walk at the
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  start of the third. Hillman allowed a home run
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  to run fairly, which scored two runs. One of
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  the runs being charged to Jay Hook. And then
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  he got the side out. Here in the top of the fourth,
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  Roy Wills went off with a single. Stone's second
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  scored when Gilliam lined a single off the base
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  of the wall by the foul line. And then Willie
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  Davis moved Jim Gilliam to third with a single.
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  Complete inning. Gave up five hits. All out two
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  runs. Struck out two and walked none. Bob, what
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  have you got in the scores? St. Louis 2 -0 on
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  Dick Stewart's two -run homer. That's Washburn
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  against Francis. Cincinnati scored two off Ron
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  Pache in the top of the second. The Reds lead
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  the Milwaukee Braves 2 -0. That's the first game
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  of their Memorial Day doubleheader. They have
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  gone six innings in Philadelphia. The Giants
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  and Phillies tied at 1 -1. Mound due between
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  Juan Marichal and Cal McClish. Roy Seavers homered
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  in the fifth to tie up the game. They're underway
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  at Wrigley Field. The Colt 45s did not score
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  against Cal Coons in the first. Dean Stone pitching
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  for Houston. In the American League, they're
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  in the ninth inning now at Minneapolis with the
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  Yankees leading the Minnesota Twins 6 -1. Bill
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  Stafford hurling for the Yankees. Miranda on
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  a relief now in the ninth inning. Johnny Blanchard
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  hit a two -run homer. It'll be Washington playing
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  at Kansas City. Chicago at Detroit in a doubleheader.
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  Bazaard in the first game for the White Sox against
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  Phil Regan. Cleveland playing at Baltimore. And
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  in the third inning, Pedro Ramos and Al Leplow
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  have hit home runs. That Cleveland ball club
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  is really hitting home runs. So the Indians have
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  moved out in front by at least three to nothing
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  in the third inning at Baltimore. with home runs
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  off Chuck Estrada, one by Ramos, the other by
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  Al Leplo. In the other action in the American
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  League, it'll be Boston playing at Los Angeles
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  in a doubleheader on the West Coast. So that's
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  the complete rundown on our scoreboard. Right
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  here, Bob Moorhead, the big blind right -hander
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  from LeMoyne, Pennsylvania, has been called in
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  by Casey Stengel to try and cool off the red
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  -hot Dodger bats. And as play resumes, here again
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  is Ralph. Thank you, Bob. And the batter will
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  be Tommy Davis. Bob Moorhead, a right -hander,
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  will be making his 13th appearance. And he, too,
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  has no record, no wins and no losses. Throw to
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  first base, and Willie Davis dives back in. Moorhead
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  has pitched 32 innings, giving up 33 hits, allowing
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  24 runs, 18 of those earned. His first pitch
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  to Tommy Davis is low outside, ball one. Bob
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  Moorhead, the third pitcher used in the game
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  by manager Casey Stengel. Jay Hook worked the
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  first two, then Dave Hillman, now Bob. The right
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  -hander back to the plate, a bouncing ball back
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  to the mound. Moorhead goes to second, now to
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  first, but the throw pulls Hodges off the bag
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  and a run scores. Junior Gilliam coming in from
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  third base and the score of the ball game now,
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  8 -0. Felix Mantia, in throwing to first base,
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  pulled Hodges off the bag, which allowed Tommy
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  Davis, the fast man, to get in. No error in the
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  play, and the run is earned. So Tommy Davis,
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  who leads the club and runs battered in, has
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  picked up his 46. He's second in the National
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  League to Cepeda. And the score is 8 -0, and
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  the batters run fairly. Curveballs to Farrelly.
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  He's fouled down in the dirt. Strike one. Farrelly
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  hit his first major league home run of the 1962
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  season in the third inning. He also has a triple
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  to go along. He's had a perfect day. Two for
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  two. to the left -handed batter with a curveball
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  that drops over letter high. Strike two. No balls
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  and two strikes. One out. Score eight to nothing.
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  Dodgers. The two -strike pitch to Farrelly is
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  inside. A ball. Farrelly started to go in the
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  curve and then held up. Ball breaking off of
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  the plate. One ball, two strikes. Tommy Davis
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  at first base. Moorhead now tossing over to first
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  base, but Davis gets back. One -two pitch to
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  Fairley. Swung on and grounded down in the dirt
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  again. So the count will stay at one ball and
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  two strikes. And while we have time, we pause
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  for station identification. This is WGY, the
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  General Electric Station's connectivity 810 on
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  your radio dial. Ralph Kiner along with Bob Murphy
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  and Lindsey Nelson from the polar grounds. The
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  score of the ball game 8 -0 in favor of the Dodgers.
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  And they're batting here in the top of the fourth.
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  One two pitch is low. Ball two. Two balls and
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  two strikes. This is the longest batting streak
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  of the season for any Dodgers. And during the
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  stretch, he was 18 for 31. And he has raised
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  his average from 136 to 320. The 2 -2 pitch to
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  Farrelly. Lying in the center field of Bayton.
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  Tommy Davis going to second now. Moves over to
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  third base as... Hickman comes up for the ball
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  and throws to Mantee at second. That puts runners
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  at first and third with one out. And the batter
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  is Frank Howard. Boy, this is a big man. He's
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  bigger than Cliff Hartung was, and he was large.
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  First pitch to Frank. Line into left center field.
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  Base hit as Hickman goes over. Falls down. Going
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  in the third base is Ron Fairley. Now Howard
• 1:33:37
  going for second. Now Fairley continues on home.
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  And two runs scored. Tommy Davis going from third
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  base and Fairley all the way from first. Howard
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  hits one to left center field. And a goal as
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  a two -base hit. 10 -0, and the batter is John
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  Roseboro. One out, and Frank Howard out in second.
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  Roseboro, left -handed batter, waiting now as
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  Morehead returns to the plate. He hits the next
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  pitch down to the second base of Mantia. Mantia,
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  the first base for out number two, and moving
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  over to third, Frank Howard. So two are down
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  now, and the batter is Larry Burright. Larry
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  Singel to center field and two times up today.
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  Playing at second base, a right -handed batter.
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  And the first pitch to him is a called strike,
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  a slider over on the outside corner, letter high.
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  Dodgers with two in the second, four in the third,
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  and four here in the top of the fourth. Last
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  ball at 2 -0, ball one. One ball and one strike.
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  Now Moore heads back with a 1 -1 pitch. A swing
• 1:35:21
  and a foul tip into the catcher's glove. Strike
• 1:35:23
  two. For the ball game, the atmosphere here at
• 1:35:26
  the ballpark, just like a World Series. They
• 1:35:28
  had movie cameras, photographers, writers from
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  all over. And manager Walt Alston saying, this
• 1:35:38
  certainly reminds me of 1959. One -two pitch
• 1:35:42
  is called, strike three. No more head strikes
• 1:35:44
  out for White. Got him looking to retire to side.
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  In the inning for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Four
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  runs on five hits. There were no errors. One
• 1:35:59
  man left in the score at the end of three and
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  one half innings of play. The Los Angeles Dodgers
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  10, the New York Mets nothing. Moving to the
• 1:36:13
  bottom half of the fourth inning with the Dodgers
• 1:36:15
  leading 10 to nothing and coming up to bat, Gil
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  Hodges. Picks up a great aim wherever he plays,
• 1:36:29
  now in the batter's box. The ovation for Gill
• 1:36:31
  out in Los Angeles when he made his first appearance
• 1:36:33
  for the first time out of a Dodger uniform ever
• 1:36:36
  was certainly heartwarming. There's a strike
• 1:36:40
  call as Koufax comes back on the 1 -0 count.
• 1:36:42
  One ball, one strike. 1 -1 pitch to Gill as it's
• 1:36:52
  high in the air right down the left field line.
• 1:36:54
  Watching there is Tommy Davis. It's going to
• 1:36:57
  be a home run of its fair. It's called a home
• 1:36:59
  run. Gil Hodges crossing home plate with his
• 1:37:17
  367th home run. That one was on top of the roof,
• 1:37:21
  right on top of the foul ball. Now arguing at
• 1:37:24
  third base, Jim Gilliam and Georgetown boy Will.
• 1:37:28
  And Sandy Kovacs coming over to take a look right
• 1:37:32
  down the foul line. The tough part about the
• 1:37:36
  decision on that one is that the ball was in
• 1:37:39
  fair territory as it went down the line and the
• 1:37:41
  wind blowing towards left field curved it to
• 1:37:44
  where it hit on the roof it was. in foul territory.
• 1:37:48
  But as it went by, the foul line pulled. It was
• 1:37:53
  decided that the ball was a fair ball. The third
• 1:37:57
  base umpire, Bill Jachowski, signaling a home
• 1:38:00
  run for Gil Hodges. So the game now 10 -1 in
• 1:38:03
  favor of the Dodgers. And Gil now with 367 major
• 1:38:07
  league home runs. That's his sixth of the season.
• 1:38:12
  And now the batter is Jim Hickman, and he takes
• 1:38:15
  low for ball one. in the left field. Hickman
• 1:38:31
  rounding that first base. Now going for two.
• 1:38:34
  The throw by Tommy Davis. Offline and Hickman
• 1:38:36
  has a stand -up double. Two hits in a row and
• 1:38:49
  the New York Mets fans hear some 40 -some thousand
• 1:38:54
  finally getting a chance to cheer. And that's
• 1:38:58
  what they came out here for. And as you can tell
• 1:39:02
  right now, they're getting a good chance. Here's
• 1:39:05
  Felix Mantia. He takes goal, ball one. Charlie
• 1:39:14
  Neal has just come in from the clubhouse in center
• 1:39:17
  field, which means he has returned from Longview,
• 1:39:20
  Texas, attending the funeral of his uncle, who
• 1:39:24
  is very close to him. Coach Johnny Neal is now
• 1:39:27
  available for action. Line drive, the left field,
• 1:39:30
  a face hit. Tommy Davis there takes it on the
• 1:39:33
  first bounce, fires in to Wills and holds it
• 1:39:35
  at first base, Mantia. And a throw to first base
• 1:39:37
  gets by Farrelly. Going from third now, Jim Hickman
• 1:39:41
  is going to second base, Mantia. That'll be an
• 1:39:48
  error, Judge, the more he will. Hickman batted
• 1:39:54
  in as the runner had held up a third. And then
• 1:39:58
  after the throw got by at first base, as Wells
• 1:40:00
  tried to get Mantia after he rounded there, after
• 1:40:04
  the throw had gotten by thoroughly, Hickman came
• 1:40:06
  in from third. For Sammy Taylor, the catcher,
• 1:40:29
  it'll be Harry Chitty. Going to ballgame now,
• 1:40:32
  10 -2. A pinch hitter for the catcher, Sammy
• 1:41:01
  Taylor. And the first pitch to him is a fastball
• 1:41:03
  called a strike at the knee. Murray batting .333.
• 1:41:09
  Has eight hits and 24 times hit the plate. Wide
• 1:41:14
  -handed batter and a catcher on the slot. Now
• 1:41:17
  Koufax with a one -strike pitch. It's outside.
• 1:41:20
  Ball one. Finnegar Van Meisel warming up at the
• 1:41:27
  bullpen for the Mets. The on -deck batter is
• 1:41:32
  the pitcher Bob Moorhead. A 1 -1 pitch to Harry.
• 1:41:38
  One on, foul tip off the glove of John Roseboro.
• 1:41:41
  To the count now, one ball, two strikes. Felix
• 1:41:45
  Mangia out at second base. There's no one out.
• 1:41:50
  The Mets now with two runs in the bottom of the
• 1:41:52
  fourth inning. Off -counter back to Chidi with
• 1:42:02
  a curve that just misses up high. Ball two. Two
• 1:42:06
  balls and two strikes. Koufax back to the plate.
• 1:42:21
  A fastball. One on a miss. Chidi goes down swinging
• 1:42:25
  for strikeout number six by Sandy Koufax. One
• 1:42:29
  man is now out, and we'll see who they're going
• 1:42:31
  to send up. It's going to be Bob Moorhead to
• 1:42:39
  bat for himself. And sitting down now, out in
• 1:42:43
  the bullpen for the Mets, Finnegar Ben Mizell.
• 1:42:46
  So Bob Moorhead batting for himself. He's a right
• 1:42:48
  -handed batter. Sandy Koufax to Bob Moorhead.
• 1:43:10
  It's a fastball called strike one. Koufax has
• 1:43:16
  won six so far this year, losing only two. This
• 1:43:22
  is his first start against the Mets. Curveball
• 1:43:25
  that breaks right over the heart of the plate.
• 1:43:27
  Strike two. Big curve. No balls and two strikes
• 1:43:35
  to Bob Moorhead. Mantia out at second base and
• 1:43:38
  one out. And it fits back to the plate. A fastball.
• 1:43:41
  It's fouled away. So the Cavs will stay at 0
• 1:43:44
  -2. Mets with two runs in here in the bottom
• 1:43:51
  of the fourth inning. Now the left -hander back
• 1:44:03
  with a curveball. Swung on and missed. Strike
• 1:44:05
  three. Joe Moorhead goes down. He's the seventh
• 1:44:09
  strikeout victim of Sandy Koufax, and the batter
• 1:44:11
  now is Joe Christopher. Joe is last time up,
• 1:44:21
  fly deep to left field. He also has popped up
• 1:44:23
  to third, 0 for 2. His drive to left, chasing
• 1:44:28
  Tommy Davis, all the way back on the warning
• 1:44:31
  track, and deep, deep left field. Christopher
• 1:44:34
  playing in right field, bats from the right -hand
• 1:44:36
  side. Two men down now to score 10 -2 Dodgers,
• 1:44:42
  and the first pitch to Christopher, a big curveball,
• 1:44:44
  strike one called. Boy, this fella really rolls
• 1:44:49
  it off the top. Now Koufax looking at his runner.
• 1:45:03
  Back to the plate with a curve. It's in the center
• 1:45:05
  field. A base hit. Ante a rounding turn. Will
• 1:45:08
  score. The throw comes in the second base. The
• 1:45:11
  ball game now 10 -3. One of them a home run by
• 1:45:36
  Gil Hodges. And the batter is Helio Chacon. Helio
• 1:45:45
  singles to left center field in the third inning.
• 1:45:48
  He is one for one. He also has a walk to go along.
• 1:45:52
  A right -handed batter. Christopher first base
• 1:45:54
  not being held on. And the first pitch to Chacon.
• 1:45:56
  A fastball inside. Ball one. Koufax back to the
• 1:46:13
  plate with a low fastball. Ball two. And John
• 1:46:17
  Roseboro now walking halfway out to talk to Sandy
• 1:46:20
  Koufax. Koufax comes in, meets him halfway. and
• 1:46:42
  no strikes to Ilya Chacon with two outs in the
• 1:46:45
  bottom of the fourth. And the next pitch is high.
• 1:46:47
  Ball three. No action in the bullpen for the
• 1:46:58
  Dodgers. They lead by seven. But the Mets with
• 1:47:01
  a rally going in the fourth inning. The 3 -0
• 1:47:04
  pitch to Chacon. A fastball that screws strike
• 1:47:06
  one. For the count now, three balls and one strike.
• 1:47:12
  The on -deck batter is Cliff Cook. Chacon now
• 1:47:16
  looking twice for the sign. A hit -or -take sign
• 1:47:19
  from Salahemis. Elia Chacon, a runner at first,
• 1:47:27
  and the 3 -1 pitch is strike two. Chacon taking
• 1:47:31
  all the way as a full count at three balls and
• 1:47:33
  two strikes. Joe Christopher at first base will
• 1:47:37
  be moving on the pitch. Now Farrelly comes in
• 1:47:42
  to hold him on. Koufax looks at first, goes to
• 1:47:47
  the plate. Christopher runs. The ball is hit
• 1:47:50
  in the center field. A pace hit. Christopher
• 1:47:52
  going over to third base on the play. The throw
• 1:47:54
  comes in. The throw right at second. So now the
• 1:47:57
  runners are at first and third, and that brings
• 1:48:00
  out Walt Austin. Tits off of Sandy Koufax. And
• 1:48:18
  Walt Alston now talking to Sandy Koufax on the
• 1:48:22
  mound. And Ed Robuck is up in the bullpen for
• 1:48:32
  the Los Angeles Dodgers. Walt Alston, yesterday,
• 1:48:41
  said he thought he had the best team he's had
• 1:48:43
  in quite some time this year in the Dodgers.
• 1:48:46
  He figures the San Francisco Jazz to beat that.
• 1:48:50
  Also the Cincinnati Reds. But he feels this team
• 1:48:54
  can go all the way during the 1962 season. Now
• 1:49:00
  Alston going back to the dugout. He's effectively
• 1:49:04
  known as Smokey Alston. Was the first baseman
• 1:49:08
  in the minor leagues for many, many years. He
• 1:49:11
  was at that one time in the major leagues. And
• 1:49:14
  he was struck out by Laram Warnicke. Walt Alston.
• 1:49:20
  Now we're all set to go. Cliff Cook is the batter.
• 1:49:23
  The pitcher is Sandy Koufax. The Mets with runners
• 1:49:26
  at first and third. And the first pitch to Cook
• 1:49:28
  is popped up high in the air. Wills at shortstop
• 1:49:31
  is signaling for the ball. And he makes the catch
• 1:49:34
  to retire the time. In the inning, the New York
• 1:49:38
  Mets pick up three big runs. On five hits, there
• 1:49:43
  were no errors. Two men left in the score. Collection
• 1:49:47
  one error in the inning, and the score... The
• 1:49:51
  Los Angeles Dodgers, 10 runs on 12 hits. The
• 1:49:54
  New York Mets, three runs on seven. And now as
• 1:49:57
  we move along to the top of the fifth inning,
• 1:50:00
  once again, to tell you all about it, and I guess
• 1:50:04
  we've got a pretty good seat in this full house,
• 1:50:05
  is Bob Murphy. Thank you very much, Ralph. And
• 1:50:16
  now it is a 10 -3 ball game. The Mets breaking
• 1:50:19
  through against Sandy Koufax, and they hit Koufax
• 1:50:21
  hard. Walter Alston, after making a trip to the
• 1:50:24
  mound and staying out there about as long as
• 1:50:26
  he could to give Roebuck time to get ready. But
• 1:50:33
  Sandy got Cliff Cook on a high pop fly to retire
• 1:50:36
  the side, and now the one -up action subsides
• 1:50:38
  in the Dodger bullpen. We move along to the theft
• 1:50:43
  hunting, and for the Dodgers, They will have
• 1:50:45
  Sandy Koufax coming out to lead off. Eight men
• 1:50:53
  came up for the New York Mets. In the fourth
• 1:50:57
  inning, as they scored three runs on five hits
• 1:50:59
  with one error and two left on. Harry Chidi batted
• 1:51:02
  for Sammy Taylor, and now Harry stays in the
• 1:51:04
  game to catch Bob Moorhead. At the end of five
• 1:51:09
  and a half, Pittsburgh leading the St. Louis
• 1:51:11
  Cardinals 3 -1. At the end of three and a half,
• 1:51:14
  the Cincinnati Reds lead the Milwaukee Braves
• 1:51:16
  three to one. They're in the ninth inning in
• 1:51:19
  the first game in Philadelphia with the Giants
• 1:51:21
  leading the Phillies by a score of three to one.
• 1:51:26
  Houston four, the Cubs nothing at the end of
• 1:51:29
  two and a half. Now Sandy Koufax leading off
• 1:51:35
  against Bob Moorhead in the top of the fifth
• 1:51:37
  inning. Sandy hitting for the third time, he's
• 1:51:40
  over two. Head right in there for a call. Strike
• 1:51:43
  one. The day game at Minneapolis. The Yankees
• 1:51:48
  on a seven -hitter by Bill Stafford. Beat the
• 1:51:50
  Minnesota Twins 10 -1. Outside and low. One ball,
• 1:51:56
  one strike. Yankees breaking out. Got ten runs
• 1:51:59
  on 16 bases, including a two -run homer by Johnny
• 1:52:02
  Blanchard. Tigers two and the White Sox nothing
• 1:52:08
  at the end of two. Cleveland three, the Orioles
• 1:52:11
  nothing after four and a half. Pitch to Koufax,
• 1:52:15
  a ground ball past the mound to his right man,
• 1:52:18
  Pia. Felix up with it, takes the Hodges in time.
• 1:52:20
  Koufax is out. What a way nobody on now in the
• 1:52:27
  top of the fifth inning. And the hitter will
• 1:52:28
  be Maury Wills, the shortstop and leadoff batter.
• 1:52:32
  Maury has been up three times, singled twice
• 1:52:34
  to right field. And in the fourth inning, he
• 1:52:36
  stole second. He has 24th stolen base. So here's
• 1:52:41
  Maury Wells, who has stolen 24 bases, and the
• 1:52:44
  season is only about a fourth of the way along.
• 1:52:57
  Bob Moorhead, third pitcher used today by Casey.
• 1:53:00
  Wines and pitches. Inside at the knees. One ball
• 1:53:03
  and no strike. Now more head cranking up. The
• 1:53:18
  pitch to Maury Wills. A drive in the air to right
• 1:53:19
  field. Running back is Joe Christopher. He can't
• 1:53:22
  get it. It's beyond him and rolling back to the
• 1:53:24
  deepest point in right center field. Watch this
• 1:53:26
  when it may try to go all the way. Maury Wills
• 1:53:29
  is being waved around third. He's going to come
• 1:53:31
  in to score standing up without a throw. the
• 1:53:48
  park home run. In a hard line drive, Christopher
• 1:53:52
  running back into right center tried to catch
• 1:53:54
  the line drive by cutting over on it. Couldn't
• 1:53:57
  reach it and the ball then rolled to the deep
• 1:53:59
  point in right center beyond the bullpen. Maury
• 1:54:02
  Wells, who really flies, came in easily standing
• 1:54:06
  up with it inside the park homer. By the time
• 1:54:09
  Christopher could fire the ball back to Mantilla
• 1:54:11
  for a relay, he had no play. So the Dodgers lead
• 1:54:15
  11 -3 and the hitter is Jim Gilliam. Inside at
• 1:54:19
  lowest, ball one. That's the third home run in
• 1:54:21
  the game for the Dodgers. Next pitch to Gilliam,
• 1:54:32
  a swing and a miss. One ball, one strike. Gilliam
• 1:54:35
  has flied to left, drawn a walk, and singled
• 1:54:37
  a right, and Jim has scored two runs. Maury Wills
• 1:54:44
  now is three for four. The 1 -1 pitch, taken
• 1:54:49
  high by Gilliam, two balls and a strike. One
• 1:54:56
  of the few inside the park home runs I've ever
• 1:54:58
  seen where you could almost tell they had no
• 1:55:00
  chance at all to get him. 2 -1 pitch, right in
• 1:55:07
  there, a call strike, 2 -2 on Jim Gilliam. The
• 1:55:12
  Dodgers now have three hits, three runs of Bob
• 1:55:14
  Moorhead. They have a total of 11 runs, 13 hits
• 1:55:17
  in the game. Gilliam containing the bat around.
• 1:55:25
  In comes the pitch by Moorhead, a foul ball off
• 1:55:27
  the fist, back toward the screen, no play. Sensational
• 1:55:31
  crowd here at the polo grounds, every seat taken,
• 1:55:34
  and around the top of the upper deck and out
• 1:55:36
  in center field, up behind the bleachers, many
• 1:55:39
  are standing. Bob Moorhead pitching 2 -2. Breaking
• 1:55:51
  ball taken inside and low by Jim Gilliam, and
• 1:55:53
  the string is on 3 -2. Well, I don't know where
• 1:55:57
  you could possibly find a greater reception than
• 1:55:59
  the Mets have received. Mets coming home off
• 1:56:02
  an eight -game losing streak and not a seat to
• 1:56:04
  be found on the polo ground. The Dodgers have
• 1:56:07
  hit three home runs, Willie Davis, Ron Farrelly,
• 1:56:09
  and Maury Wills connecting, and Gil Hodges connected
• 1:56:12
  for the New York Mets. Gil now has 367. He's
• 1:56:17
  only two behind Ralph Kiner in the all -time
• 1:56:19
  home run derby. When he passes Kiner, he will
• 1:56:22
  have hit more home runs than any right -hander
• 1:56:23
  in National League history. Inside, it's ball
• 1:56:26
  four, and Gilliam walks. Jim Gilliam walks on
• 1:56:36
  three and two. That brings up Willie Davis. Willie
• 1:56:39
  has grounded out second to first. belted a long
• 1:56:43
  two -run homer in the upper deck and right center,
• 1:56:45
  and single to right field, two for three. Willie
• 1:56:52
  Davis off to a great start. Ground ball passed
• 1:56:56
  the pitcher towards second. Mantilla goes over,
• 1:56:58
  flips to Chacon, fourth at second base. Close
• 1:57:01
  play at second. Mantilla had to go to his right
• 1:57:03
  on a rather slow grounder, and when he got to
• 1:57:06
  it, all he could do was just flip it in the same
• 1:57:08
  motion to Elio Chacon, and they forced Jim Gilliam.
• 1:57:15
  Now there are two away, and the hitter is the
• 1:57:17
  cleanup batter, Tommy Davis. Tommy has fouled
• 1:57:20
  out to Hodges, drawn a walk and scored a run,
• 1:57:22
  reached on a fielder's choice but knocked in
• 1:57:24
  a run, and then scored again. 11 -3, Dodgers
• 1:57:30
  leading, we're in the top of the fifth inning.
• 1:57:37
  There goes the runner, swing and a miss, the
• 1:57:39
  peg by Chidi, the slide, he is saved, but second
• 1:57:42
  with a stolen base. Willie Davis steals second.
• 1:57:56
  Second stolen base in the game for the Dodgers.
• 1:57:59
  They've stolen 52 bases in 47 games. Willie Davis
• 1:58:03
  is the runner -up on the Dodgers. Tamari Wills,
• 1:58:05
  and that for Willie, is his 12th stolen base
• 1:58:07
  of the year. One strike count on Tommy Davis.
• 1:58:15
  Willie Davis on second with two men down. One
• 1:58:20
  run in in the fifth inning, and that was on the
• 1:58:21
  inside of the park, home run to right center
• 1:58:23
  by Maury Wills. There goes Willie to third, a
• 1:58:26
  ground smash up the middle for a base hit. Tommy
• 1:58:28
  Davis singles to center. That scores Willie Davis,
• 1:58:31
  and the Dodgers now go in front 12 -3. Willie
• 1:58:34
  Davis was running on the pitch. He broke for
• 1:58:37
  third, but Tommy singles to center, and he could
• 1:58:39
  virtually... Slow up to a trot, a rounding third
• 1:58:42
  and coming in. So Tommy Davis has his second
• 1:58:46
  RBI of the game. That gives him 47 for the year.
• 1:58:49
  He's the runner -up to Orlando Cepeda. The Dodgers,
• 1:58:57
  a sizzling hot ball club. They have hit each
• 1:59:00
  of the three pitchers that Casey has had in the
• 1:59:01
  game. Ron Fairley, the batter, and he pops one
• 1:59:05
  up to short right field. Mantia gliding into
• 1:59:08
  shallow right. Turns around and makes the catch.
• 1:59:10
  The bat is out. In the fifth inning, the Dodgers
• 1:59:14
  add two more runs. On two hits. No errors. One
• 1:59:22
  left on. So we've come halfway at the end of
• 1:59:25
  four and a half innings. The score now is the
• 1:59:27
  Dodgers 12 and the New York Mets 3. Now we'll
• 1:59:38
  have a change for the Dodgers. Andy Carey will
• 1:59:41
  rest Jim Gilliam at third. Gilliam was one for
• 1:59:53
  two. Through two walks, Jim was on three times
• 1:59:56
  out of four. Andy Carey now playing third in
• 2:00:00
  the last of the fifth innings. And the banner
• 2:00:02
  is Frank Thomas. Frank drew an intentional walk
• 2:00:05
  to load the bases with one down in the first.
• 2:00:07
  He then took a called third strike in the third
• 2:00:09
  inning after hitting several real shots that
• 2:00:11
  were foul. Koufax winds and pitches. Swing and
• 2:00:15
  a miss and a breaking ball. Sandy Koufax with
• 2:00:19
  that blazing fastball and he has a great curveball.
• 2:00:23
  Koufax has walked two, struck out seven. Allowed
• 2:00:26
  three runs, seven hits. After Andy winding, here's
• 2:00:33
  his pitch on the way. Another curve, and it's
• 2:00:35
  over. Strike. Gil Hodges on deck, and then Jim
• 2:00:42
  Hickman. Mets broke through against Kofax for
• 2:00:46
  five hits in the fourth inning. A check swing,
• 2:00:48
  slow grounder, racing forward is Andy Carey.
• 2:00:50
  He's up with it, throws on to Farrelly, in time,
• 2:00:53
  and Thomas is out. Thomas didn't mean to hit
• 2:00:57
  that one. He was trying to hold up. But Andy
• 2:00:59
  Carey cut across the edge of the infield draft
• 2:01:01
  going to his left to throw him out. Gil Hodges
• 2:01:05
  coming up. Gil hit one down the left field line
• 2:01:16
  and way up high for a home run in the fourth
• 2:01:18
  inning. Gil now has one for two. That was his
• 2:01:22
  sixth home run of the season. Despite the fact
• 2:01:26
  that Gil... Has been held a part -time action
• 2:01:28
  with an ailing knee. Ball one. Knee is very sore.
• 2:01:33
  It bothers him a lot. It's hard for him to stride
• 2:01:35
  properly, but nonetheless, Gillis stayed over
• 2:01:37
  that 300 mark. Koufax out of his wind at the
• 2:01:43
  pitch. Fastball in there for a call strike. One
• 2:01:45
  ball, one strike. Last of the fifth inning, Dodgers
• 2:01:49
  12 and the Mets 3. Now Sandy Koufax winds and
• 2:02:00
  pitches a ground ball toward the hole. Terry
• 2:02:01
  cuts it off, going to his left. Now throws in
• 2:02:04
  time and Gillis out. Now before Jim Hickman comes
• 2:02:08
  up to hit, let's pause for station identification.
• 2:02:11
  This is WGY, the General Electric Station's connectivity
• 2:02:14
  810 on your radio dial. Bob Murphy with Lindsey
• 2:02:25
  Nelson and Ralph Kanner from the polo grounds,
• 2:02:27
  last half of the fifth inning. Jim Hickman laced
• 2:02:30
  a double to left field his last time up. A fly
• 2:02:33
  ball high in the air, not too deep to right center.
• 2:02:35
  Willie Davis calling for it in right center,
• 2:02:38
  and Willie has it to retire the side. So the
• 2:02:41
  Mets are out in order in their half of the fifth
• 2:02:43
  inning with no runs, no hits, no errors, none
• 2:02:45
  left on. And now five innings complete to score
• 2:02:48
  the Dodgers 12 and the New York Mets 3. Now it's
• 2:02:56
  the sixth inning at the photo ground. Rod Keneal
• 2:02:59
  will replace Gil Hodge as the first base for
• 2:03:01
  the remainder of the ballgame. Gil, of course,
• 2:03:05
  playing on a very sore knee, and the Mets treading
• 2:03:08
  by nine runs. Casey wants to give Gil a chance
• 2:03:10
  to rest the remainder of the game, hoping perhaps
• 2:03:12
  to be able to play him in the second game. Frank
• 2:03:16
  Howard leading off against Bob Moorhead at the
• 2:03:18
  sixth inning. Howard has really ripped the ball.
• 2:03:21
  Two for three. The only time they got him out,
• 2:03:23
  he hit a line drive to right field. He's big
• 2:03:27
  enough to go bear hunting with a buggy whip.
• 2:03:29
  Here's the wind that pitched to him. Blazer in
• 2:03:31
  there for a call strike one. Howard was married
• 2:03:34
  in a batting slump about two weeks ago, but he
• 2:03:36
  came out of it. And since he came out of it,
• 2:03:38
  he has been getting a rash of hits in just about
• 2:03:40
  every game. More hits pitched to him as a breaking
• 2:03:45
  ball outside and low. One ball, one strike. Howard
• 2:03:54
  came into the game hitting a 3 -17, and he's
• 2:03:56
  two for three. Bob Moore has won one pitch to
• 2:04:02
  Howard, a swing and a miss. He really gave that
• 2:04:04
  one the big sweeping swing. One ball and two
• 2:04:07
  strikes. The Dodgers have lacked for anything.
• 2:04:13
  With all the talent that they have assembled,
• 2:04:15
  it has been a right -hand home run power. Swing
• 2:04:19
  and a miss. He struck him out. Bob Moorhead stands
• 2:04:23
  Frank Howard. A lot of baseball men think that
• 2:04:31
  one of these days Frank Howard will break out
• 2:04:33
  and hit them. A lot of home runs. One out and
• 2:04:41
  nobody on now in the sixth inning. The batter
• 2:04:43
  is Johnny Roseboro. Johnny doubled to right center
• 2:04:46
  field in the second with a tremendous drive.
• 2:04:48
  Ball that landed on the warning path and deep
• 2:04:50
  right center and bounced up into the crowd, something
• 2:04:52
  you might see about once a year. Ground ball
• 2:04:55
  slashed to short. Chacon to his right. Plancy
• 2:04:57
  spikes. The long peg in time to Rod Caneo. Two
• 2:05:02
  up and two set aside by Bob Moorhead. I don't
• 2:05:08
  know where you're going to find any flashier
• 2:05:10
  play than Elio Chacon has given the New York
• 2:05:13
  Mets. Elio, a young ball player with tremendous
• 2:05:21
  desire. Casey feels that he's going to develop
• 2:05:25
  into a real good one. Outside and low to Larry
• 2:05:29
  Burright, the rookie second baseman. One ball
• 2:05:31
  and no strikes. Burright has one for three. Single
• 2:05:34
  to right center field in the third inning. Pitched
• 2:05:40
  by Moorhead. A line drive. Knocked down by Camille.
• 2:05:43
  He picks it up. Nobody there to cover. And so
• 2:05:46
  Burr ride us on. Moore had undoubtedly thought
• 2:05:49
  the ball was going into right field for a base
• 2:05:51
  hit and didn't break off the mound to cover.
• 2:05:53
  Canelo left the ground to jump high, knocked
• 2:05:55
  it down with his first baseman's mitt, picked
• 2:05:58
  it up and had no one to throw to. Whether he
• 2:06:03
  could have thrown him out or not is problematical.
• 2:06:05
  It'll be an error charge to ride Canelo on the
• 2:06:07
  play. We'll double check the scoring. It actually
• 2:06:18
  has not been officially posted, so let's hold
• 2:06:20
  off. It is an error on the play charge to Keneal.
• 2:06:27
  Mandy Koufax up, starts after it, then holds
• 2:06:30
  up at the strike. Ball actually fooled Keneal
• 2:06:37
  a little bit. It was not quite as high as he
• 2:06:39
  thought it was going to be. It was hit hard by
• 2:06:41
  Burr Wright. A throw to first, and not in time.
• 2:06:45
  Rod Caneel has been a real handyman for the New
• 2:06:48
  York Mets. He's played every position in the
• 2:06:50
  infield and also been in the outfield. A throw
• 2:06:53
  to first, he sprawls back in first safely. Swing
• 2:07:03
  and a miss, strike two to Sandy Koufax. Sandy
• 2:07:06
  0 for 3, has grounded out third to first, been
• 2:07:09
  struck out and grounded out second to first.
• 2:07:13
  Dodgers 12 runs on 14 hits. The New York Mets
• 2:07:15
  three runs on seven hits. Bob Moorhead working
• 2:07:27
  in relief. The two -strike pitch. Strike three.
• 2:07:29
  He got him. Koufax knew it. Sandy started after
• 2:07:32
  it, and then he held up. No runs, no hits. One
• 2:07:37
  error, one left on. And now at the end of five
• 2:07:40
  and a half, the score. The Los Angeles Dodgers,
• 2:07:42
  12. And the New York Mets, 3. If your filtered
• 2:07:46
  cigarette is tasting too strong, don't you sometimes
• 2:07:49
  wonder if your brand is wrong? Well, Viceroy
• 2:07:52
  tastes the way it's like a filtered cigarette
• 2:07:54
  to taste. Not too strong. Not too light. Viceroy's
• 2:07:59
  got it. The taste that's right. That's right.
• 2:08:02
  That's right. Norm Sherry takes over behind the
• 2:08:12
  plate, replacing Johnny Roseboro as the game
• 2:08:14
  goes down to the last half of the sixth inning.
• 2:08:17
  Walter Austin making a second change in the game.
• 2:08:19
  In the fifth inning, he put Andy Carey in to
• 2:08:21
  relieve Jim Gilliam. Meninger Ben Mizell continues
• 2:08:27
  to warm up in the bullpen for the New York Mets.
• 2:08:29
  The Mets will have the tail end of their batting
• 2:08:31
  order coming up. Here in the last of the sixth
• 2:08:34
  inning with Felix Mantilla leading off against
• 2:08:36
  Andy Koufax. Sandy's pitch on the way is inside
• 2:08:41
  ball one. Felix got a base hit his last time
• 2:08:44
  up. Mentea has been over the 300 mark just about
• 2:08:52
  all year long. Now Sandy has his sign from Sherry,
• 2:09:03
  the wind -up and touch. A drive in the air to
• 2:09:05
  left field. It's fairly deep. Back goes Tommy
• 2:09:07
  Davis. He has room and makes the catch on the
• 2:09:10
  warning pass. Ball was well hit by Mantilla,
• 2:09:15
  and Davis back on the warning pass right in front
• 2:09:18
  of the left field wall grabbed it. One out and
• 2:09:22
  nobody on. That'll bring up Harry Chidi for his
• 2:09:24
  second time at bat. Harry came up to hit for
• 2:09:26
  Sandy Taylor. In the fourth inning, it was fanned
• 2:09:29
  by Koufax. Blazer right in there. Call strike
• 2:09:38
  one. Next pitch by Koufax. Foul tip. He just
• 2:09:51
  got a piece of that one on the count. Strike
• 2:09:53
  two. Early on, last half of the sixth inning,
• 2:10:11
  Dodgers leading 12 -3. Curve is fouled into the
• 2:10:16
  plate and coming back out of play over toward
• 2:10:18
  the Dodger dugout. So the count stays at strike
• 2:10:20
  two on Harry Chidi. Koufax winding the pitch
• 2:10:35
  on the way. Swing and a miss. He struck him out.
• 2:10:38
  He got him with a breaking ball, and that's for
• 2:10:39
  Fandy Koufax as his eighth strikeout of the game.
• 2:10:44
  So Fandy now is taking dead aim on Tenor Moore
• 2:10:47
  in the game, which he has already accomplished
• 2:10:49
  three times this year. Bob Moore had coming out
• 2:10:59
  to hit. This will be the second time up for Bob.
• 2:11:02
  He was struck out in the fourth inning by Koufax.
• 2:11:10
  A high pop foul. Norm Sherry flipping the mask
• 2:11:13
  to the side, trailing back toward the Dodger
• 2:11:15
  dugout under it. He has it for the out. Side
• 2:11:18
  retired in the last half of the sixth inning.
• 2:11:20
  No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on. Very
• 2:11:24
  strong inning for Koufax. After giving up five
• 2:11:26
  hits in the fourth inning, he has come back to
• 2:11:28
  set down seven straight hitters. And now at the
• 2:11:31
  end of six, the score is the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 2:11:33
  12 and the New York Mets 3. And now coming on
• 2:11:38
  to... Follow all the action for you the remainder
• 2:11:40
  of the way, a man who always gives you a good
• 2:11:42
  call of a ballgame, Lindsey Nelson. Thanks very
• 2:11:46
  much, Bob Murphy. We'll be going here to the
• 2:11:54
  top half of the seventh inning. Waiting for action
• 2:12:06
  to resume, here's a sports bulletin at Indianapolis
• 2:12:08
  today. Roger Ward won the Indianapolis 500. That's
• 2:12:13
  the second time that Roger Ward has won, and
• 2:12:15
  he set a new time record today. He won in 1959
• 2:12:18
  also. He took the lead from Farnelli Jones shortly
• 2:12:21
  after the 300 -mile mark and went on to win.
• 2:12:25
  Roger Ward is the winner of the famed Indianapolis
• 2:12:29
  500. In the top half of the seventh inning here,
• 2:12:40
  the Los Angeles Dodgers will have the head of
• 2:12:42
  the batting order up. Maury Wills, Andy Carey,
• 2:12:45
  and Willie Davis. Defensively, the New York Mets
• 2:12:49
  now have Rod Kinneal at first base, Felix Manti
• 2:12:52
  at second, Elio Chacon at short, and Cliff Cook
• 2:12:54
  at third. Mike Thomas on the left, Jim Hickman
• 2:12:58
  in center, Joe Christopher on right. Harry Chidi
• 2:13:01
  is the catcher, and Bob Moorhead is the pitcher.
• 2:13:12
  Switch hitter batting left. And pitches in there
• 2:13:16
  for a called strike. Wills has three base hits
• 2:13:23
  today. He's three for four. Pitch is low for
• 2:13:31
  the ball. One and one to count through Murray
• 2:13:34
  Wills. The Dodgers are leading here by a score
• 2:13:37
  of 12 -3. Playing a ground ball to the right
• 2:13:50
  side. Taken by Mancia. He plays up to Camille
• 2:13:52
  in time and he's out. One away and Andy Carey
• 2:13:58
  is coming up. This is Carey's first time up.
• 2:14:05
  He was brought on here to relieve Jim Gilliam.
• 2:14:07
  Carey, of course, very familiar to New York baseball
• 2:14:09
  fans. He played a lot of years at third base
• 2:14:11
  for the New York Yankees. Bob Moorhead is the
• 2:14:15
  third pitcher of the day and his first game of
• 2:14:17
  doubleheader for the New York Mets. Fitch goes
• 2:14:20
  higher for a ball. Fitch is in there for a called
• 2:14:37
  strike to Andy Carey. This afternoon, in case
• 2:14:45
  you have joined us along the way, the New York
• 2:14:46
  Mets loaded up the bases in the bottom half of
• 2:14:48
  the first inning, but could not manage to push
• 2:14:50
  across a run. So the Dodgers came on to the top
• 2:14:53
  of the second and got two, and then the Dodgers
• 2:14:55
  were off to the races. They got four in the top
• 2:14:57
  of the third, and they added four more in the
• 2:14:59
  top of the fourth to make it ten runs. But the
• 2:15:01
  Mets battled back, and in the bottom half of
• 2:15:03
  the fourth inning, the Mets pushed across three
• 2:15:05
  runs. The Dodgers coming right back in the top
• 2:15:08
  of the fifth to get two more to make it 12 -3,
• 2:15:10
  and that's where we stand right now. The Dodgers
• 2:15:13
  have 14 hits and the Nets have seven up to right
• 2:15:16
  now. Andy Carey, a right -hand batter, has the
• 2:15:23
  plate. Bob Moorhead looking in for a sign from
• 2:15:26
  Harry Chidi. Wines and fires and has a swing
• 2:15:29
  and a fly ball to right field. Joe Christopher
• 2:15:31
  will have a long run. He's still coming over
• 2:15:33
  near the line. And he cannot hold it. It's a
• 2:15:36
  fair ball. Going to second is Andy Carey. The
• 2:15:39
  ball is fired in and holding at second is Carey.
• 2:15:41
  Christopher had the long run. He did get a glove
• 2:15:44
  on it at the line, but could not hang on. As
• 2:15:48
  it dropped in, and Andy Carey pulled up at second
• 2:15:50
  base. It is a base hit. It is scored as a double
• 2:15:53
  for Andy Carey. It would have been a tremendous
• 2:15:57
  catch if Christopher had managed to pull it off
• 2:15:59
  because he had the long run on the right -hand
• 2:16:01
  batter. The ball was right down the line, was
• 2:16:04
  touched in fair territory. And that will bring
• 2:16:10
  up Willie Davis. Davis is two for four. He's
• 2:16:15
  had a home run and a single, and he's driven
• 2:16:16
  in three runs here today. Coming up now with
• 2:16:19
  a runner at second base and one man out. Here's
• 2:16:26
  the pitch to Davis. It goes high for a ball.
• 2:16:29
  Greg Malevy is coaching at first for the Dodgers,
• 2:16:31
  and Leo DeRocher is in the coaching box at third
• 2:16:34
  for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The very place where
• 2:16:38
  he stood. The afternoon he was managing the New
• 2:16:41
  York Giants and saw Bobby Thompson. Hit that
• 2:16:44
  home run in 1951 into the lower deck of the left
• 2:16:47
  field stands to win the pennant for his Giants.
• 2:16:49
  And if you recall, Eddie Steinke left the bench
• 2:16:52
  and went right down and jumped right up on top
• 2:16:53
  of him as he stood there and rode him all the
• 2:16:56
  way to the plate. There's a swing and a fly ball
• 2:17:00
  to the left. Frank Thomas with the sunglasses
• 2:17:02
  down moves over. Takes it. No advance by Kerry
• 2:17:06
  at second base. Willie Davis reached out there
• 2:17:08
  and punched that one to left. To a way around
• 2:17:11
  the second, and Tommy Davis coming up. And seeing
• 2:17:14
  DeRocha there in the coaching box at third reminds
• 2:17:16
  us, of course, that the old -timers game will
• 2:17:18
  be held at the Polo Grounds on July 14th. Players
• 2:17:21
  of the old Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers who participated
• 2:17:23
  in that dramatic pennant playoff in 1951 are
• 2:17:26
  being invited. Bobby Thompson has accepted. Ralph
• 2:17:28
  Franca has accepted. Leo will be here because
• 2:17:31
  the Mets play the Dodgers that day. Duke Snyder
• 2:17:33
  will be here. Of course, Gil Hodges will be here.
• 2:17:36
  They'll play a two -inning game before the regular
• 2:17:38
  games. July 14th. Mark that one on your calendar.
• 2:17:41
  As a pitch to Tommy Davis. It goes high for a
• 2:17:43
  ball. This is the longest winning streak that
• 2:17:48
  the Dodgers have ever had since they left Brooklyn
• 2:17:50
  and went to Los Angeles. This is popped up to
• 2:17:59
  the right side. Felix Mantia going out into short
• 2:18:02
  right field, shading his eyes with the glove,
• 2:18:03
  waits for it to come down and takes it to the
• 2:18:05
  out. That retires the side. So in the top of
• 2:18:08
  the seventh, the Dodgers got no runs on one hit,
• 2:18:10
  no errors and one left. And at the end of six
• 2:18:14
  and one -half innings of play at the Polo Grounds
• 2:18:16
  in New York, the score is the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 2:18:19
  12 and the New York Mets 3. Well, folks, the
• 2:18:23
  Mets may be New York's brand -new team, but they've
• 2:18:26
  got a few famous New York names going for them,
• 2:18:28
  as you know. New York baseball fans certainly
• 2:18:31
  are familiar with many of the well -known names
• 2:18:33
  from the past, such as Gil Hodges. And what about
• 2:18:38
  Rheingold Beer? Now, there's a famous New York
• 2:18:41
  name, Rheingold, the largest -selling beer in
• 2:18:44
  town, year after year after year. Why is Rheingold
• 2:18:48
  so popular? Because it's more refreshing, naturally.
• 2:18:52
  And why is it more naturally refreshing? Because
• 2:18:55
  it's dry. That's right. Dry tells you why Rheingold
• 2:18:59
  has a taste all its own. It tells you that Rheingold
• 2:19:03
  is brewed the long, slow, costly way to taste
• 2:19:06
  brisk and bright and clean, clear through. Why
• 2:19:09
  not try a glass of Rheingold along with the game
• 2:19:12
  and see that there is a difference, a difference
• 2:19:15
  you can really taste. You'll join the millions
• 2:19:18
  who already say, my beer is Rheingold. The driver.
• 2:19:26
  And now, in order to allow our stations to identify
• 2:19:29
  themselves, we pause now for station identification.
• 2:19:33
  This is WGY, the General Electric Station, Schenectady
• 2:19:36
  810, on your radio dial. This is Lindsey Nelson
• 2:19:46
  with Ralph Kanner and Bob Murphy at the Polo
• 2:19:48
  Ground. Where the Mets are coming up in the bottom
• 2:19:50
  half of the seventh inning, leading out for the
• 2:19:51
  top of the batting order, right -hand batter
• 2:19:53
  Joe Christopher. Sandy Koufax winds and fires,
• 2:19:56
  and the pitch is low for a ball. Koufax, the
• 2:20:00
  strikeout king of the National League, has eight
• 2:20:02
  strikeouts to his credit thus far in the six
• 2:20:04
  innings that he has worked. Pitch is high for
• 2:20:14
  a ball. After the Dodgers scored ten runs when
• 2:20:18
  the Mets pushed across three and had a couple
• 2:20:19
  of runners on in the bottom half of the fourth,
• 2:20:21
  manager Walter Olsen came out to the mound to
• 2:20:25
  talk to Koufax, and he had Ed Robux going in
• 2:20:28
  the bullpen at that time. Here's a pitch in there
• 2:20:30
  for a golf strike for Christopher. It's two and
• 2:20:32
  one. Christopher Singler driving a run in the
• 2:20:41
  bottom half of the fourth. Otherwise, he's 0
• 2:20:42
  for 2. He makes him 1 for 3 for the day. Playing
• 2:20:47
  a drive, going into left field for a base hit.
• 2:20:49
  Christopher gets his second hit. Down on one
• 2:20:52
  knee, Tommy Davis comes up with the ball, relays
• 2:20:54
  it in. And Christopher is on at first with a
• 2:20:57
  sharp single to left field. Elio Chacon coming
• 2:21:00
  up. He's been up three times. He's been on base
• 2:21:02
  all three times. He walked me singles wide. Now
• 2:21:05
  umpire Ed Soudal asks Koufax to let him see the
• 2:21:08
  ball. And Soudal walks about halfway to the mound
• 2:21:10
  to receive the shot. Going to throw that one
• 2:21:12
  out and gives another ball out there to Sandy
• 2:21:14
  Koufax. This crowd came to enjoy the baseball
• 2:21:24
  game, and as you can hear, they are enjoying
• 2:21:27
  it. The Dodgers lead by a score of 12 -3, but
• 2:21:30
  there's noise and enthusiasm aplenty here, which
• 2:21:33
  is inside for Ball. It's in there for Carl Sykes.
• 2:21:54
  Chacon watched it over. He choked up on that
• 2:21:56
  bet just a little bit. Cliff Cook now moves him
• 2:21:59
  beyond that circle, kneeling there. It's 2 -1
• 2:22:11
  now. The counter, Elio Chacon. That pitch is
• 2:22:26
  taken high for Baum. Three balls and one strike
• 2:22:30
  now to Elio Chacon as he turned and walked out
• 2:22:32
  of the batter's box. Looks down to Salahemis,
• 2:22:37
  the coach at third. See what he's doing on the
• 2:22:41
  3 -1. He had him taken on 3 -1 a few months before.
• 2:22:43
  Elio's got a good eye. It's in there for a call
• 2:22:51
  strike. He had him taken again. It's 3 -2 now.
• 2:22:54
  Nobody out, and Joe Christopher is the baserunner
• 2:22:56
  at first. So once again, there's action in the
• 2:23:02
  bullpen for the Los Angeles Dodgers. With a 12
• 2:23:07
  -3 lead, Roebuck up and throwing the pitches
• 2:23:10
  high of all four. He walked in. Christopher was
• 2:23:12
  running on the pitch. Chacon has been on base
• 2:23:16
  four straight times today. That is the third
• 2:23:20
  walk issued by Kovac. First baseman Ron Fairley
• 2:23:24
  walking over to the mound to talk to Sandy Koufax.
• 2:23:27
  As Cliff Cook comes around, ready to step into
• 2:23:29
  the batter's box. Cook single in the first inning.
• 2:23:32
  Struck out and popped to short. He is one for
• 2:23:35
  three. Murray Wilson short is coming to the mound
• 2:23:45
  also. Roebuck is up and throwing in the bullpen
• 2:23:50
  for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Norm Sherry, the
• 2:23:52
  catcher, turns and looks into the dugout where
• 2:23:54
  manager Walter Alston is standing hands -on hips
• 2:23:56
  at the corner of the dugout. The oldest manager
• 2:23:59
  in the National League in point of continuous
• 2:24:01
  service with one ball club. Now this is nobody
• 2:24:04
  out for the match. Cook steps in, steps out,
• 2:24:07
  steps back in. Let's enter Sandy Koufax. Looking
• 2:24:13
  in to get a shot from catcher Norm Sherry. Runners
• 2:24:21
  leading. Here's the pitch. And it's low for Ball.
• 2:24:26
  Jerry calls time. Walks out toward the mound.
• 2:24:30
  Andy Carey, the third baseman, comes into the
• 2:24:32
  mound. Again to check with pitcher Sandy Koufax.
• 2:24:36
  Giving up a single to Christopher. And a walk
• 2:24:38
  to Elio Chacon. Taking the mask off now. Umpire
• 2:24:46
  Ed Sudol says, let's break it up, fellas, and
• 2:24:48
  get back to the ball game. This is the first
• 2:24:50
  game of a doubleheader schedule here at the Polo
• 2:24:53
  Gons on this Memorial Day. One ball and no strikes.
• 2:25:04
  The shot is took. The crowd is alive here at
• 2:25:06
  the Polo Gons in the bottom half of the seventh
• 2:25:08
  inning. This is a fastball. Blazed in there.
• 2:25:11
  Taken for call. Strike one. It's one and one.
• 2:25:14
  Mike Thomas is in the on -deck circle for the
• 2:25:16
  New York Mets. The swing and a fly ball to left
• 2:25:28
  field. Willie Davis, the center fielder, moves
• 2:25:31
  over. Tommy moves over. Both have called. Tommy
• 2:25:33
  waves him off and takes it down. No advance.
• 2:25:37
  First Willie Davis called, and then Tommy waved
• 2:25:39
  him off and took it himself out in front of the
• 2:25:40
  bullpen. Took a slide to left. One away. Runners
• 2:25:44
  holding it first and second. And Mike Thomas
• 2:25:45
  coming up. Mike walks, struck out, and grounded
• 2:25:49
  out. Nothing for two in a walk. Thomas facing
• 2:25:59
  Jalessi Sandy -Sofak. Swing and a foul ball coming
• 2:26:11
  back. Norm Sherry is giving it a run, hoping
• 2:26:13
  for a play. He gets back to the barrier, but
• 2:26:15
  doesn't have one. It's off the screen. Coach
• 2:26:18
  Leo DeRocher of the Los Angeles Dodgers up on
• 2:26:20
  the top step of the dugout. Observing the field
• 2:26:26
  of play. Coach Salahima for the New York Mets
• 2:26:29
  leaves the coaching lounge at third. Move out
• 2:26:32
  a step or two and yell something to Joe Christopher,
• 2:26:34
  his baserunner at second. Elio Chacon is the
• 2:26:37
  baserunner at first. Plenty of speed on the bases
• 2:26:39
  for the New York Mets here in the bottom half
• 2:26:40
  of the seventh inning. Strike one count to Frank
• 2:26:44
  Thomas. We want a hit is the cry that's going
• 2:26:50
  up from the fans here at the polo ground. Now
• 2:26:53
  the swings and fouls it down past Sully. He misjudges
• 2:26:56
  it. And Sully wisely waves at that one as it
• 2:26:59
  passes by. That's sort of a smash to take barehanded.
• 2:27:03
  Two -strike countdown. is scheduled to go for
• 2:27:19
  the Mets in the second game today, and Johnny
• 2:27:21
  Padres is scheduled to pitch for the Los Angeles
• 2:27:23
  Dodgers. Thomas takes it high, took the stride,
• 2:27:38
  but didn't unleash the bat. It's one and two.
• 2:27:50
  The robot continues to throw in the bullpen for
• 2:27:52
  the Dodgers. All is quiet in the Mets bullpen
• 2:27:56
  at this time. With one away, the Mets have runners
• 2:28:02
  at first and second. Go back to fish to Thomas.
• 2:28:06
  One run has a drive down the left of the line.
• 2:28:08
  And it is going one hop to the wall. One run
• 2:28:12
  has scored. Chacon is at third. He is held up
• 2:28:15
  there. Thomas pulls up at second base. with a
• 2:28:19
  drive down the left field line. He keeps his
• 2:28:21
  consecutive game hitting streak alive at 18 straight
• 2:28:23
  games now. Mike Thomas has hit safely at 18 consecutive
• 2:28:28
  games. He blasted Utlin down the line to drive
• 2:28:33
  and a run. That will bring up Rod Caneel. Makes
• 2:28:45
  the score 12 -4. That is the second and third.
• 2:28:51
  One man out, and Keneal is coming up for his
• 2:28:53
  first time in this game. He came in to relieve
• 2:28:55
  Gil Hodges. Hodges, of course, is troubled by
• 2:28:58
  a knee condition. And with the Mets trailing,
• 2:29:02
  and the ball again, Keneal was inserted to relieve
• 2:29:04
  him at first base. Keneal watches high for a
• 2:29:06
  ball. This is a rookie who played his way onto
• 2:29:09
  the squad at spring training in St. Petersburg,
• 2:29:11
  and then came on to... of foul balls, we started
• 2:29:26
  to say Canelo came on to set an amazing record
• 2:29:29
  as a pinch runner, bringing in the tying run
• 2:29:33
  and the winning run on numerous occasions. The
• 2:29:36
  game came to be regarded as something of a lucky
• 2:29:38
  piece for the New York Mets. One and one is the
• 2:29:46
  count to Canelo at the plate. As the right -hand
• 2:29:49
  batter faces left -hander Sandy Kofai. Action
• 2:29:54
  is stopped in the Dodger bullpen as Obak watches
• 2:29:56
  the action at the plate. Here's a swing and a
• 2:29:57
  foul ball. Back onto the screen. It's one and
• 2:30:00
  two now. Jim Hickman is on deck for the Mets.
• 2:30:09
  The Mets hang in there battling back here. They
• 2:30:11
  pushed across one run in the bottom half of the
• 2:30:13
  seventh inning. Strikeout number nine for Sandy
• 2:30:35
  Koufax. Run is holding at second and third. And
• 2:30:40
  Jim Hickman, right -hand batter, is coming up.
• 2:31:02
  into today's ballgame, leading the majors in
• 2:31:04
  strikeouts with 183 innings. And he has, coming
• 2:31:08
  into the ballgame, 1 ,052 strikeouts and 1 ,031
• 2:31:11
  lifetime National League innings. Here's a pitch
• 2:31:18
  in there for a called strike. The 18 consecutive
• 2:31:29
  game hitting streak by Frank Thomas is the longest
• 2:31:32
  in the National League this year. Great flood
• 2:31:34
  of the St. Louis Cardinals hit safely in 17 consecutive
• 2:31:36
  games. There's a swing and the ball is popped
• 2:31:39
  up out in front of the plate. Now Norm Sherry
• 2:31:42
  chases it over to foul territory, backed up by
• 2:31:44
  Koufax, and Norm Sherry makes the catch of the
• 2:31:47
  foul pop -off to batter Hickman to retire the
• 2:31:48
  side. In the bottom half of the seventh inning,
• 2:31:51
  the New York Mets got one run on two hits. There
• 2:31:55
  were no errors and two men left. And at the end
• 2:31:57
  of seven full innings of play at the Polo Grounds,
• 2:31:59
  the score is the Los Angeles Dodgers 12 and the
• 2:32:02
  New York Mets 4. So now we'll take a look at
• 2:32:05
  scores of other games. At the end of eight innings
• 2:32:09
  of play in Pittsburgh, Pilots still lead the
• 2:32:12
  St. Louis Cardinals 3 -1. Earl Fatch has started.
• 2:32:14
  He's still going in there for Pittsburgh. Ray
• 2:32:17
  Washburn started for the Cardinals. Ed Baroda
• 2:32:19
  in the fifth and Don Ferresi in the seventh.
• 2:32:21
  Nick Stewart over to the first inning with one
• 2:32:23
  on. The end of five innings in Milwaukee. The
• 2:32:27
  Reds and the Braves are tied 3 -3. O'Toole against
• 2:32:29
  Pichet. Robinson homing in the second with one
• 2:32:31
  on for Cincinnati. Frank Robinson. In Philadelphia,
• 2:32:36
  going to the bottom of the tenth. The Giants
• 2:32:39
  and the Phillies are still tied 3 -3. Juan Marichal
• 2:32:42
  for San Francisco. For the Phillies, Sal McLeish
• 2:32:46
  started. Balsher in the ninth, short in the tenth.
• 2:32:48
  Beavers homing for Philadelphia. And Davenport
• 2:32:51
  homing for the Giants. That's the first of two.
• 2:32:53
  And a single game in Chicago at the end of three
• 2:32:55
  innings. The Cubs four and the Houston Colts
• 2:32:57
  45s four. Stone went in the third for Houston.
• 2:33:01
  Coontz Anderson in the fourth for Chicago. Mousetown
• 2:33:03
  a hundred and a third with one on for the Houston
• 2:33:05
  Colts 45s. In the American League at the end
• 2:33:07
  of three and a half, Detroit Tigers two and the
• 2:33:09
  Chicago White Sox nothing. Bazaar against Reagan.
• 2:33:13
  And here's the final score. Cleveland defeated
• 2:33:16
  Baltimore seven to nothing. Pedro Ramos pitched
• 2:33:20
  the shutout. Estrada was the loser. Ramos had
• 2:33:22
  two home runs in the ballgame himself. We're
• 2:33:25
  going now to the top half of the eighth inning,
• 2:33:27
  and Ron Fairley is up to lead off for the Dodgers.
• 2:33:30
  Morehead pitches inside for a ball. In a morning
• 2:33:33
  game, the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins
• 2:33:35
  10 -1. Bill Stafford, the winner, he went all
• 2:33:37
  the way, and Bonikowski was the loser. Blanchard
• 2:33:39
  homered him to third with one on for the Yanks.
• 2:33:41
  A pitch to Fairley. Check swing, foul ball. It's
• 2:33:45
  1 -1. In Kansas City, the Washington Senators
• 2:33:49
  got four runs in the top half of the first inning.
• 2:33:50
  Kansas City now coming to bat in the bottom of
• 2:33:52
  the first. Osteen started against Rocco. Pfister
• 2:33:55
  in the first inning for the A's. Rester homed
• 2:33:57
  in the first with two on for the Senators. And
• 2:34:00
  Boston is on the coast to play the Angels, a
• 2:34:02
  doubleheader. So that's the way things are going
• 2:34:06
  elsewhere. Change of speed, and there's a ground
• 2:34:08
  ball to the right side. Taken by Keneally, makes
• 2:34:10
  the play unassisted. To get Farrelly. What a
• 2:34:13
  day Farrelly's had. He's had a single, a triple,
• 2:34:16
  and a home run, but was out on the ground all
• 2:34:17
  that time. Frank Howard coming up. He's had a
• 2:34:20
  single and a double and driven in three runs
• 2:34:22
  in four trips. The score here, the Dodgers 12
• 2:34:27
  and the New York Mets 4. That pitch is high for
• 2:34:42
  a ball. Jerry Hook was the starting pitcher for
• 2:34:46
  the New York Mets and is the pitcher of record.
• 2:34:47
  Bob Miller is scheduled as a pitcher in the second
• 2:34:49
  game. Swing and a foul ball right down into the
• 2:35:00
  dirt off the bat of Frank Howard. and nobody
• 2:35:18
  on for the Dodgers. Moyer's pitch flung on. It's
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  a ground ball going up the middle and through
• 2:35:23
  for a base hit. Jim Hickman charging, comes up
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  with it, barehanded. Hickman turns and holds
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  it first with, or rather Howard turns and holds
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  it first with his third base hit of the day.
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  And coming up now is Norm Sherry, coming up for
• 2:35:37
  the first time. Sherry came down to relieve the
• 2:35:39
  starting catcher, John Roseborough. Norm Sherry.
• 2:35:46
  Half of the brother battery of the Los Angeles
• 2:35:48
  Dodgers, Larry and Norm Sherry. Moorhead now
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  working from a stretch position as Howard leads
• 2:35:58
  it first. Camille holds him on, swing and a ground
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  ball foul. Pull down past Leo DeRocher, coaching
• 2:36:03
  it serious. DeRocher turns, looks around the
• 2:36:12
  crowd here at the polo gown. He's a familiar
• 2:36:15
  sight down there in the coaching line. Spent
• 2:36:20
  lots of time right there during his baseball
• 2:36:24
  career. Pitch goes high for Ball. It's one and
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  one. Dodgers have 16 hits. The Mets have nine
• 2:36:41
  up to right now. In case you've joined us along
• 2:36:45
  the way, the New York Mets saw Gil Hodges get
• 2:36:49
  a home run this afternoon, the 367th of his Major
• 2:36:53
  League career. It's your time for a ball. And
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  the New York Mets are the only team in the majors
• 2:37:02
  who have not been shut out this season. It has
• 2:37:10
  been the character of the ball club that it does
• 2:37:12
  not die, regardless of what the odds may be.
• 2:37:16
  They're trailing now by a score of 12 -4, but
• 2:37:18
  they've been battling right along. Swung on and
• 2:37:21
  fouled off the bat at Sherry and into the stands,
• 2:37:23
  down back to third foul ball. The count is 2
• 2:37:31
  -2 to catch a non -Sherry. With second baseman
• 2:37:34
  Larry Burright on deck. off to the right side.
• 2:38:01
  So the count holds it 2 -2 to non -cherry. Charlie
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  Neal was not here at the start of today's ballgame.
• 2:38:10
  He was called from San Francisco to his home
• 2:38:12
  in Longview, Texas by the death of his uncle
• 2:38:16
  who actually reared him. So Charlie went to Longview
• 2:38:20
  for the funeral and arrives here after the start
• 2:38:23
  of the ballgame. He is dressed and is now in
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  the Med -Dugout. Playing a foul ball. Count hold
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  at 2 and 2 to know I'm Sherry. Bet your Harry
• 2:38:45
  Chidi walks out in front of the plate to fire
• 2:38:46
  the ball back to Bob Moorhead. These same two
• 2:38:51
  teams meet here tomorrow night. Game time, 8
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  p .m. We'll be on the air as usual at 7 .55 p
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  .m. New York time. As the fly ball punches out
• 2:39:05
  into center field, and Jim Hickman makes the
• 2:39:06
  run, and he's underneath waiting. He takes it,
• 2:39:09
  and Frank Howard, halfway on the fly ball to
• 2:39:10
  center, returns to the bag at first. Two men
• 2:39:14
  out. And Larry Burlight's coming up. He has won
• 2:39:19
  before. He's been on base twice today. We're
• 2:39:26
  in the top of the eighth of the first game of
• 2:39:29
  today's Memorial Day doubleheader at the Polo
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  Guns. There'll be another doubleheader here on
• 2:39:32
  Saturday afternoon. It'll be the San Francisco
• 2:39:35
  Giants in here for that one. Pitch is in there
• 2:39:40
  for a called strike. There is something about
• 2:40:03
  the turnout of a large crowd like this which
• 2:40:05
  enhances the ballgame itself. Here's a swing
• 2:40:08
  and a miss. Two strikeout before the ballgame.
• 2:40:11
  Some of the Los Angeles Dodgers were looking
• 2:40:13
  around and newspaper photographers were around.
• 2:40:16
  Newsreel cameramen were around. Newspaper reporters.
• 2:40:19
  The stands were filled. And they said for all
• 2:40:22
  the world it looked like the opening game of
• 2:40:23
  the World Series. 0 -2 the count to Larry Burright
• 2:40:31
  at the plate. She's outside for a ball. He is
• 2:40:56
  taken for a called strike three. Started to flank,
• 2:40:59
  hard to check it. It's a strikeout for Bob Moyard.
• 2:41:03
  And in the top half of the eighth inning, the
• 2:41:04
  Los Angeles Dodgers got no runs on one hit, no
• 2:41:07
  errors in one left. And at the end of seven and
• 2:41:09
  one half innings of play at the Polo Gons in
• 2:41:11
  New York, the score is the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 2:41:13
  12 and the New York Mets 4. Now a message from
• 2:41:16
  Ryan Golex to drive told completely with music.
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  thinning of this first game of today's Devil
• 2:42:26
  Header and coming in here to take you the rest
• 2:42:27
  of the way once again, Ralph Kiner. Thank you,
• 2:42:31
  Lindsey Nelson, and on the mound for the Los
• 2:42:33
  Angeles Dodgers as they lead 12 -4 Sandy Koufax.
• 2:42:37
  And Sandy right now has struck out nine batters.
• 2:42:41
  He has given up nine hits and allowed only four
• 2:42:44
  runs. And he'll be pitching to Phoenix Mantea.
• 2:42:47
  The first pitch is hit on the ground now to the
• 2:42:49
  third baseman, Andy Carey. Andy up and over to
• 2:42:51
  first base, out number one. Sandy Koufax has
• 2:42:58
  struck out 10 or more batters in 34 games in
• 2:43:01
  his career. He's done it three times this year.
• 2:43:05
  So he needs one more strikeout to run that total
• 2:43:09
  up to 35 games. Now the batter in the batter's
• 2:43:14
  box is Harry Chitty. Harry came in the ballgame
• 2:43:19
  as a pinch hitter in the fourth inning. He struck
• 2:43:21
  out. Then again struck out in the sixth. He is
• 2:43:24
  0 for 2. He takes a fastball for call strike
• 2:43:26
  one. Now the left -hander back to the right -handed
• 2:43:37
  batter. A change of pace that's inside. Ball
• 2:43:39
  one. One ball, one strike. At Philadelphia, the
• 2:43:45
  San Francisco Giants, who lead the league by
• 2:43:48
  one and a half games, all tied up at the end
• 2:43:50
  of 11. There's the strike call to Harry Chitty.
• 2:43:53
  One ball and two strikes. It's a 3 -3 ball game.
• 2:44:01
  Marichal still in the game for the Giants. Short
• 2:44:04
  now pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies. A
• 2:44:08
  1 -2 pitch to Harry. Swung on and fouled back
• 2:44:11
  in the screen. So the count will stay at 1 -2.
• 2:44:13
  And again out in the bullpen for the New York
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  Mets. Vinegar Ben Mizell up and drawing. of the
• 2:44:26
  eighth inning to score 12 -4 in favor of the
• 2:44:28
  Los Angeles Dodgers. Curveball just a little
• 2:44:32
  low. Ball two. Two balls and two strikes. In
• 2:44:39
  the second game, it will be Johnny Padres going.
• 2:44:41
  He has a 3 -3 record. He needs only four more
• 2:44:44
  strikeouts to reach the 1 ,000th mark. 2 -2 pitch
• 2:44:50
  to Chidi. Swung on and missed strike three. So
• 2:44:53
  Harry goes down swinging for the third time.
• 2:44:55
  And that is strikeout number 10. So Sandy Koufax
• 2:44:59
  has now struck out 10 or more batters in 35 games
• 2:45:06
  in his career. And that's the fourth time he
• 2:45:08
  has done it in 1962. Now announced as a pinch
• 2:45:20
  hitter for Bob Boyd, Richie Ashburn. So Vinegar
• 2:45:23
  Ben Mizell will come in the ballgame. He takes
• 2:45:26
  a called strike, strike one. Now Koufax back
• 2:45:37
  with a side -on turn to hit the right field.
• 2:45:39
  Coming on fast is Frank Howard, and he makes
• 2:45:41
  the catch to retire the side. So in the eighth
• 2:45:45
  inning, Koufax makes a quick one, three up and
• 2:45:48
  three down, and the score, at the end of eight
• 2:45:50
  innings of play, the Los Angeles Dodgers 12 -1
• 2:45:53
  on 16 hits. They have made two errors. The New
• 2:45:57
  York Mets, four runs on nine hits. They have
• 2:46:00
  made one error. While looking down here at the
• 2:46:05
  Los Angeles Dodgers in their first return engagement
• 2:46:07
  here at the Polar Grounds, I guess it's about
• 2:46:10
  time to remind you that they'll be back in town
• 2:46:12
  and there will be especially important added
• 2:46:16
  traction in the next ballgame they play here
• 2:46:19
  on July 14th. That will be all -timers day. And
• 2:46:24
  they will re -enact the famous dramatic pennant
• 2:46:28
  playoff of 1951. And all the people who were
• 2:46:31
  in that are invited to make their appearances.
• 2:46:33
  There have been two who have accepted the two
• 2:46:36
  most important men who were involved in that
• 2:46:38
  great pennant win for the Dodgers. Bobby Thompson,
• 2:46:50
  who hit the home run. And also Ralph Baranca,
• 2:46:53
  who was the pitcher, pitching for the Dodgers
• 2:46:58
  that the home run was hit off of. It's always
• 2:47:00
  a great win for the Giants, a win that was heard
• 2:47:02
  around the world. They went on to win the World
• 2:47:06
  Championship. Old Diamonds will play a two -inning
• 2:47:12
  game prior to the regularly scheduled game that
• 2:47:14
  afternoon between the New York Mets and the Los
• 2:47:16
  Angeles Dodgers. So you can pick up your tickets
• 2:47:19
  for this ballgame. at any of three convenient
• 2:47:24
  locations right here at the Polar Grounds at
• 2:47:26
  the Advanced Reservation window, downtown and
• 2:47:29
  Grand Central Station. That's over on the Vanderbilt
• 2:47:32
  -Glantz side. And you can also pick them up in
• 2:47:38
  Pennsylvania Station in the Long Island Waiting
• 2:47:40
  Room. You can make your reservations at all the
• 2:47:43
  holler -trolling stores throughout the area.
• 2:47:47
  Now in the ballgame, a change in the battery.
• 2:47:49
  Winninger Ben Mizell on the mound for the Mets.
• 2:47:53
  He'll be the fourth pitcher used. And catching
• 2:47:55
  in the ballgame, Hobie Landry. Quick check of
• 2:48:00
  the scores on the final game. San Francisco -Philadelphia
• 2:48:03
  all tied up at the end of 11 -3 -3. No final
• 2:48:07
  there. In the American League. Cleveland 7, Baltimore
• 2:48:13
  nothing as Ramos fits a three -hitter and hits
• 2:48:16
  two home runs in that ballgame for his own cause.
• 2:48:20
  And, of course, the Yankees 10 -1 over Minnesota
• 2:48:22
  with the winning pitcher Stafford. The loser
• 2:48:25
  was Bonacowski. Blanchard had a home run that
• 2:48:30
  ballgame in the third with one on. Those are
• 2:48:32
  the finals. We'll bring you up to date after
• 2:48:34
  the ballgame on all the others. Now we're all
• 2:48:37
  set to go as Laker Ben Mizell gets on the mound.
• 2:48:40
  He'll be pitching to Sandy Koufax. First pitch
• 2:48:48
  to Koufax. Dribble down to third. Up with the
• 2:48:50
  ball as Ducky goes over to first base. Keneal
• 2:48:53
  in time for out number one. So Mizell gets his
• 2:49:00
  first man. And the next batter is Maury Will.
• 2:49:05
  Morey taking plenty of time to allow Sandy Koufax
• 2:49:08
  time to rest up for the ninth inning. Morey's
• 2:49:15
  had himself quite a day here. He has singled
• 2:49:18
  two times, and he hit an inside -the -park home
• 2:49:21
  run his first of the year. He also picked up
• 2:49:23
  a stolen base. That was his 24th. Three hits
• 2:49:28
  and five times up. He's batting right -handed
• 2:49:30
  against Mizell. The first pitch is fouled away.
• 2:49:33
  Strike one. Will's a switch hitter. Now the big
• 2:49:56
  left -hander into the windup, and the one -strike
• 2:49:59
  pitch is a curveball hit down the line, but going
• 2:50:01
  foul. And it lands on top of the roof. So it's
• 2:50:07
  a long strike, strike two on Maury Wells. Bob
• 2:50:13
  Miller will oppose Johnny Padres in the second
• 2:50:17
  game. In this first game of the doubleheader,
• 2:50:24
  Jay Hook was the starter, and he's the pitcher
• 2:50:26
  of record. Change of pace, hit down the third
• 2:50:31
  base side, but again fouled. So the Cowboys stay
• 2:50:34
  at 0 -2 with one man out. It's a 12 -4 game,
• 2:50:36
  the Dodgers lead. In the last eight games, which
• 2:50:46
  the Dodgers won, Dodger pitchers have allowed
• 2:50:49
  only 13 earned runs. Last ball, it's inside.
• 2:50:54
  One ball and two strikes. They have really been
• 2:51:00
  hot, both in the hitting and pitching departments.
• 2:51:04
  Departments. One -two pitch to Wills. It's deep
• 2:51:10
  to left field. Way back there. Thomas is back
• 2:51:12
  in the warning jack. He is by the wall, and he
• 2:51:14
  watches it go in the stands for a home run. The
• 2:51:18
  ball catching on the upper deck. A long home
• 2:51:20
  run by Maury Wills. And that's his second home
• 2:51:23
  run of the game, his second of the year. Fourth
• 2:51:30
  home run of the ball game by the Dodgers, and
• 2:51:32
  the Dodger players sitting in the dugout doing
• 2:51:34
  nothing. They're giving him the silent treatment.
• 2:51:36
  No action at all. Well, it isn't often that Roy
• 2:51:39
  Wills hits a home run, and so the Dodgers, having
• 2:51:42
  a little bit of fun, gave him the silent treatment.
• 2:51:44
  He came in the dugout. No one said a word. No
• 2:51:46
  one got up. Finally, they all got up and shook
• 2:51:48
  his hand, and a big smile broke out of his face.
• 2:51:51
  A home run by Roy Wills at 13 -4. And the next
• 2:51:54
  batter takes low and outside. Andy Carey, ball
• 2:51:56
  one. Wills last year had one home run for the
• 2:52:05
  year, so you can see he's not used to that treatment.
• 2:52:07
  There's a long drive to left, but going foul.
• 2:52:10
  So the countdown, Andy Carey, one ball and one
• 2:52:12
  strike. In fact, the two home runs here today
• 2:52:22
  by Will topping his major league total in his
• 2:52:25
  major league history. He had only one home run
• 2:52:28
  in his major league career up till today. Won't
• 2:52:31
  change a face outside. Ball two. Two balls and
• 2:52:34
  one strike. Well, as we've said before, anything
• 2:52:46
  and everything happens here at the Polo Ground.
• 2:52:51
  High pop -up over towards the first base side
• 2:52:54
  going into the lower box seat. Well, they count
• 2:52:57
  now. Two balls and two strikes. One thing about
• 2:53:02
  the polar ground, you never know when the game
• 2:53:04
  is over. With the short fences down the line
• 2:53:07
  and, of course, the long area in center field,
• 2:53:09
  just about every type of ball can be hit here.
• 2:53:13
  Every type of hit can be picked up. Change of
• 2:53:17
  pace. One on a miss. Strike three. Andy Kier
• 2:53:19
  out in front. And Mizell picks up his first strikeout.
• 2:53:23
  That's out number two. The Mets pitchers have
• 2:53:27
  struck out six Dodger batters. Bob Moorhead,
• 2:53:30
  who worked five innings, picking up four strikeouts.
• 2:53:35
  Dave Hillman had one. Now Mizell won. And here
• 2:53:38
  is Willie Davis. Willie, a left -handed batter.
• 2:53:45
  And the first pitch to him. Hits Joplin through
• 2:53:48
  the hole in the right field at base end. Well,
• 2:53:51
  Willie Davis now, with three base hits in the
• 2:53:54
  ballgame, one of them a two -run home run. He
• 2:53:58
  is three for six. And coming in the batter's
• 2:54:04
  box, Tommy Davis. Tommy, one for three. Make
• 2:54:08
  it one for four in the ballgame. On right -handed
• 2:54:10
  batter. 13 -4 Dodgers, top of the ninth inning.
• 2:54:25
  First game of two, and the first pitch to Tommy
• 2:54:28
  Davis, outside and low, ball one. Change of pace,
• 2:54:46
  that's down low again, ball two. Two balls and
• 2:54:48
  no strikes. Obie Landers, a catcher. He has replaced
• 2:54:53
  Terry Petey. Mets have used three catchers in
• 2:54:56
  the ballgame. Sammy Taylor was a starting catcher.
• 2:54:59
  And they have used four pitchers. Trying to stem
• 2:55:03
  the red -hot Los Angeles Dodgers. Her ball is
• 2:55:07
  fouled, sliced into the right field seat for
• 2:55:10
  strike one. Two balls and one strike. A 2 -1
• 2:55:30
  pitch is called strike two. So Mizell with a
• 2:55:33
  quick one over at the knees. Two balls and two
• 2:55:36
  strikes to Tommy Davis. Two outs at first base,
• 2:55:39
  Willie Davis. Willie had a stolen base in the
• 2:55:43
  fifth inning. Now the 2 -2 pitch is lined in
• 2:55:51
  the left field. A base hit. Coming over is Thomas.
• 2:55:53
  He cuts it off before it gets to the wall. And
• 2:55:55
  holding the second base is Willie Davis. So the
• 2:55:58
  Davis boys on at first and second, and the batter
• 2:56:00
  coming on is Ron Fairley. Three hits in this
• 2:56:04
  inning off of Mizell. And 19 hits in the ballgame
• 2:56:13
  by the Dodgers to go along with their 13 runs.
• 2:56:16
  Mets have four runs on nine hits. And Ron Fairley,
• 2:56:21
  who took a 10 -game consecutive game streak.
• 2:56:24
  Into this ballgame, now up at bat. He has three
• 2:56:27
  for five. Left -handed batter, and he takes high
• 2:56:31
  ball. Vaughn hit his first major league home
• 2:56:41
  run of this season. In the third inning, he also
• 2:56:44
  has tripled in singles. Mizell back with a curve
• 2:56:52
  that drops over. Strike one. One ball and one
• 2:56:54
  strike. Fairley not counting his three for five
• 2:57:01
  here today. Has raised his average from 136 to
• 2:57:04
  320 over the past ten games. He's hit at an average
• 2:57:08
  of 581. The 1 -1 pitch to Fairley is high ball
• 2:57:16
  two. with a record of one win and two losses.
• 2:57:33
  Making his fifth appearance for the New York
• 2:57:36
  Mets. This is his ninth, including his Pittsburgh
• 2:57:39
  game. Fastball, calls, strike two, right through
• 2:57:42
  at the knees. Two balls and two strikes. The
• 2:58:06
  2 -2 pitch to Farrelly. Swung on and missed.
• 2:58:08
  Strike three. Though Mizell strikes out two men
• 2:58:12
  in the ninth inning, but he gave up one run on
• 2:58:17
  three hits. There were no errors in the inning.
• 2:58:20
  Two men were left. And the score at the end of
• 2:58:26
  eight and one -half innings of play. The Los
• 2:58:30
  Angeles Dodgers 13, the New York Mets 4. And
• 2:58:35
  now a word from Vice Roy Cigarettes. The last
• 2:58:40
  of the night. Score 3 -0. The bases were loaded.
• 2:58:43
  Then wouldn't you know, two men fanned. They
• 2:58:45
  missed by a mile. Then Casey stepped up to the
• 2:58:48
  plate with a smile. Now Casey smokes filters,
• 2:58:50
  but knows it's true that even some filters are
• 2:58:53
  rough on you. While other brands in the filter
• 2:58:55
  crowd are just like smoking a warmed -over cloud.
• 2:59:01
  But Viceroy tastes the way you'd like a filter
• 2:59:04
  cigarette to taste. Not too strong, not too light.
• 2:59:08
  Viceroy's got the taste that's right. That's
• 2:59:11
  right. Well, Casey won the game with his longest
• 2:59:14
  homer yet. The manager's daughter said... Have
• 2:59:16
  a cigarette? Today they're a family with a girl
• 2:59:19
  and a boy, and it all began with a Viceroy. That's
• 2:59:22
  right. So Casey wants you to know, and he'll
• 2:59:24
  take all bets, if you smoke all seven filter
• 2:59:27
  cigarettes, you'll find some too strong. Some
• 2:59:29
  too light. But vice -wise, guys, the pace, that's
• 2:59:33
  right. That's right. That's right. That's right.
• 2:59:40
  Moving now to the bottom half of the ninth inning.
• 2:59:45
  And the Mets need nine to tie. Their first man
• 2:59:48
  up will be Joe Christopher. He's the leadoff
• 2:59:50
  man in the batting order, followed by Eddie Chacon
• 2:59:52
  and Cliff Cook. Danny Koufax on the mound. And
• 2:59:55
  his first pitch to Christopher, a called strike
• 2:59:57
  at the knees, a fastball. Joe two for four here
• 3:00:01
  today. He has singled his last two times up.
• 3:00:05
  He has scored a run and batted one in. Colfax
• 3:00:10
  working through eight innings has struck out
• 3:00:12
  ten men. And the next pitch to Christopher is
• 3:00:14
  down low. Ball one. One ball and one strike.
• 3:00:31
  and the pitch is called a strike, strike two.
• 3:00:34
  One ball and two strikes to Joe Christopher.
• 3:00:40
  Norm Sherry, the catcher, he replaced John Roseboro
• 3:00:43
  in the bar game. And Andy Sherry at third base
• 3:00:46
  in place of Jim Gilliam. A one -two pitch to
• 3:00:50
  the right -handed batter. Curve that stays high.
• 3:00:52
  Ball two. Two balls and two strikes. It's the
• 3:00:56
  first game of a doubleheader here in Memorial
• 3:00:58
  Day. Now Koufax back to the plate with a 2 -2
• 3:01:04
  pitch. Just too low. Ball three. Three balls
• 3:01:06
  and two strikes. 13 -4 game in favor of the Dodgers
• 3:01:23
  as Koufax looks for the sign on the full count
• 3:01:25
  pitch. And here it is. A fastball lined to the
• 3:01:28
  middle of a pitch. Joe Christopher rounding at
• 3:01:31
  first base, holds there, and he has now three
• 3:01:33
  hits in the ballgame. That's hit number 10 off
• 3:01:36
  Sandy Koufax. Joe Christopher leads off here
• 3:01:43
  in the 10th inning. That's needing nine runs
• 3:01:47
  to tie the ballgame with an ace hit. And the
• 3:01:50
  batter is Elio Chacon. Elio, a perfect day today.
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  A watch, a base hit, a base hit, and a watch.
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  Two for two. Ineos started the game with a .240
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  average. Now Christopher's first base leading
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  off on the pitch to Chacon. There's a strike
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  call that Chacon watches it go by. Von Fairley
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  at first base, not holding Christopher on with
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  the big lead. Colfax returns a curveball that's
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  inside and high. Ball one. One ball, one strike.
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  It is the cone who was worried about whether
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  or not he would be accepted back in New York
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  after his fight with Willie Mays, who is recognized
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  as the king here in New York. He was well -received.
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  There's a beautiful punt. Colfax coming over,
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  picks it up, throws late the first base. The
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  cone, a base hit. And moving down to second base,
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  Joe Christopher. So Elias Chacon, three for three
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  now with a perfect punch. And on the throw to
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  first base, Ron Fairley had to jump high to pull
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  it down. Runners at first and second, and the
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  batter is Cliff Cook. So the Mets, as they have
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  done all through the season, still fighting back,
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  never giving up in the ballgame. They have been
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  a tough club in the latter inning. Right here,
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  though, it's a tough fight as they need nine
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  runs to tie. They were only out of two ballgames
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  on the entire 12 -game road trip. First pitch
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  to Cook is taken high, ball one. No one up in
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  the bullpen for the Dodgers. Sandy Koufax with
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  a 1 -0 pitch. Again, high, ball two. Few balls
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  and no strikes. Cliff took the batter. Now Koufax
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  into the stretch. He has runners at first and
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  second and no one out. There's a strike call.
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  The fastball right through the heart. For the
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  count now, two balls and one. Joe Christopher
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  at second base. He leers the cone at first. The
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  2 -1 -6 to Cook is hit high in the air. An infield
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  fly. There's the sign. The batter is automatically
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  out. Coming in to make the catch is Fairley,
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  and he does. Out number one. So one man is down
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  now, and the batter is Frank Thomas. Frank walked
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  in the first inning, then was called out on strikes
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  in the third. Running out to third in the fifth.
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  His last time up, he needed a base hit to continue
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  his consecutive game hitting streak. He doubles
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  to left field, and he has now hit an 18 consecutive
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  ball game. That's the high for the National League
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  this year. Frank also drove in his 31st run with
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  that base hit. First pitch to him, a big curve
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  that's dug out of the dirt. Swung on a miss.
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  Strike one. Here's the final score, Pittsburgh
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  3, St. Louis 1. The winning pitcher, Francis,
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  for the Pirates. Washburn was the loser for the
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  Cardinals. Stewart had a home run in that ballgame
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  in the first inning with one on. Right here at
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  13 -4, Dodgers. And the next pitch to Thomas
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  is down low, ball one. One ball, one strike.
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  After eight and one half innings, Cincinnati
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  and Milwaukee all tied up at 3 -3. O'Toole and
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  Pache. Now Sandy Koufax with a 1 -1 pitch to
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  Thomas. Fastball right through the heart of the
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  plate. Strike two, right around the knee. One
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  ball, two strikes. Koufax had plenty on that
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  one. At the end of 11 innings, San Francisco
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  and Philadelphia all tied up 3 -3. Miller now
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  in the ballgame for San Francisco. Short pitching
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  for Philadelphia. One -two pitch, a curveball
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  popped up in the air. In foul territory. Andy
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  Carey moving over. Now makes the catch for out
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  number two. Go after Joe Christopher and Elias
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  DeCone. Picked up base hits, put runners at first
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  and second. Andy Koufax now has picked up Tiff
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  Cook and Frank Thomas for two outs. And the batter
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  now is Rod Ganeel. Rod came in the ballgame as
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  a replacement for Gil Hodges. Gil giving a little
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  rest because of the sore knee. Gil had previously
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  hit his 367th major league home run. First pitch
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  to Keneal is ball one. Curve ball, it's small.
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  Rod has all for one. He was the ninth strikeout
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  victim of Sandy Kofan. Next pitch to him, a fastball.
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  Threw at the knees, strike one. One ball, one
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  strike. Two men out now. The Mets need nine to
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  tie. They have runners at first and second. The
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  score 13 -4 in favor of the Dodgers. There's
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  a base hit in the center field. Christopher will
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  score from second base. Going to second base
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  and holding there. Elias is called. So Rod Caneel
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  picks up his first base hit and drives in a run
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  in the Mets now. At five runs to 13 by the Dodgers.
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  And the batter coming in is Jim Hickman. Hit
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  number 12 off Sandy Koufax. But he's been coasting
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  with a big lead all through the ballgame ever
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  since. The third inning when the Dodgers let
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  it 6 -0 at that point. First pitch to Hickman
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  is a called strike. Jim with a double and four
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  times up. A right -handed batter. Just missed
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  the bases on the home run in the first inning
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  when he hit one on top of the roof. Foul by about
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  10 feet. A check and a swing. Low ball one. One
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  ball and one strike. reading the sign from his
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  catcher, Norm Sherry, and the 1 -1 pitch to Hickman.
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  Hit sharply by the shortstop in the left field.
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  Here comes Chacon around third base. He will
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  score. And holding at second base, Rod Ganil.
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  And now the Mets with two runs in to score 13
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  -6. 13 -6, and Ron Fairley now talking it over
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  with Sandy Koufax on the mound. Still no one
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  throwing in the bullpen for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Mets with two runs in and four hits here in the
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  bottom half of the ninth inning. And the batter
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  now, Felix Mantia. And Koufax into the windup,
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  and the pitch is hit high in the air to left
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  field. Coming on there, Tommy Davis by the line,
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  and he makes the catch. That ends the ball game.
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  So the Los Angeles Dodgers win their first encounter
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  with the New York Mets in the polo ground. And
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  that's the first time they've played here since
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  1957. The final score of the ball game. The Dodgers
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  13 runs on 19 hits, 2 errors. They left 10 men
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  on. The Mets 6 runs on 13 hits, 1 error. They
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  left ten on.