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- 0:07Speaker 1: We are live at the Baseball Hall of Fames Military
- 0:10Speaker 1: Classic today and boyle boy, you want to talk about
- 0:13Speaker 1: a star started lineup for this classic, holloring two hundred
- 0:16Speaker 1: and fifty years, all of our military and of America
- 0:19Speaker 1: on the mound right now, former All Star and you
- 0:22Speaker 1: know world champion Charlie Morton. First pitch, I'll hine in
- 0:29Speaker 1: the Count's one and oh. But look at the lineup
- 0:31Speaker 1: out there today for both the team stars and the stripes.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Coming from the press box here at Doubleday Field, Nick
- 0:38Speaker 1: Ahmed leading off at short, Johnny Gomes at left, Curtis
- 0:42Speaker 1: Pride former Yankee.
- 0:43Speaker 2: John and Lucroi former Yankee Chaine Spencer as well.
- 0:46Speaker 1: That one is the Dirk, the counts two and oh,
- 0:50Speaker 1: Kenny's lest Derek Victor, Britney Apgar and Rick Monday. Of
- 0:54Speaker 1: course Monday say the American flag in center field.
- 1:00Speaker 2: That's striking the count is two in one. Charlie Morton.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I mean, what can you say about a legendary career
- 1:13Speaker 1: with the brains tamper here the pitch popped up Hi
- 1:17Speaker 1: in the enfield and charging it making the oh, can't make.
- 1:23Speaker 2: The catch up?
- 1:23Speaker 3: First is Todd Ze old former met of course, wearing
- 1:31Speaker 3: his number twenty seven, by the way, interesting a bit
- 1:35Speaker 3: of a former met infield.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Here to Todd.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Zeal at first, Danny Murphy at third, Charlie Coulberson a short,
- 1:42Speaker 1: Zack reckson right field.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Ken mentioned the age. I'm Carlo at.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Second lane, Gaudet at the left and behind the plate,
- 1:52Speaker 1: Ulyssa's Anilmore m on first.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Now nobody out.
- 1:57Speaker 1: The rain has picked up a little bit here on
- 2:02Speaker 1: the World Day weekend. Here's the pitch.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Two bones, you're not even bothering them, little light up.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Here's the pitch. I'm Gary Thorn. As I mentioned, it
- 2:29Speaker 2: will be a one one count. Now here's a bitch
- 2:34Speaker 2: and it's want a miss. But at second it's a
- 2:37Speaker 2: stolen base there for look, I'm at and into center
- 2:40Speaker 2: field and it goes to third.
- 2:43Speaker 1: And now team stars as a runner at third with
- 2:47Speaker 1: nobody out.
- 2:50Speaker 3: M H.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Morton deals swung on and miss and that's a strike
- 3:05Speaker 1: out for Charlie something we we always saw from him
- 3:08Speaker 1: in the major leagues. And all these players they have
- 3:14Speaker 1: connections to veterans.
- 3:16Speaker 2: That's how they're here.
- 3:17Speaker 1: It's cause they're also they're connections to their FIM members
- 3:21Speaker 1: were vents. Curtis Pride, a former Yankee up down by
- 3:25Speaker 1: the left side m strike when he counts on one.
- 3:29Speaker 1: You wanna know how legendary today is Tony Laruss is
- 3:32Speaker 1: managing his team alongside coaches Wade Vogg's, Todd Helton and
- 3:36Speaker 1: Jack Morris. Here's the pitch, swung on a missed.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Lefty and it's river oh and two Morton deals. I
- 3:53Speaker 2: remember when Curtis Pride, we've got his first homer at.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Yankee City, the old one, and it was such a
- 4:01Speaker 1: special boone friend, really a team player and that guy
- 4:07Speaker 1: but likes this like having seen it that one. Oh my,
- 4:11Speaker 1: it's grounded to second Pride fell.
- 4:16Speaker 2: And it's r B I. But there are two away now.
- 4:23Speaker 1: But a little bit if it's a little of sloppy there,
- 4:26Speaker 1: but he ranted out Runner scores.
- 4:28Speaker 2: It's an r B I and John and Lucroy.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Scores one former.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Lucroy a former twin from what I remember most about him.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Here he is on the stock line up, the star
- 4:57Speaker 2: Sun the line up. Really if you're a right hm
- 5:09Speaker 2: important deal a pie and the Count's warn 'em. Here's
- 5:24Speaker 2: the pitch.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Its trigger the knees and the count's warn um tail.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I mean you talk about a career for Charlie Morning
- 5:32Speaker 1: a hundred forty seven wins, that those stellar clutch.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Outings for Atlanta in that postseason. Specifically, here's the pitch
- 5:45Speaker 2: now back.
- 5:51Speaker 1: It's one nothing team stars up at the Baseball Hall
- 5:54Speaker 1: of Fame. One like a balx Madia is here on
- 5:58Speaker 1: the scene over a here from the m v P
- 6:02Speaker 1: lay Lucroy from the right side of.
- 6:04Speaker 2: The dish, and here's the pitch inside. LUCROI slammed a
- 6:27Speaker 2: hundred homers in his career. That one's inside. He draws
- 6:30Speaker 2: a walk there eleven hundred tents, really good.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Run in, down, run around, and Spencer.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Shane, Spencer's up.
- 7:19Speaker 1: And Spencer launches this one und let field at the
- 7:24Speaker 1: base head.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Wanna goes to third, Spencer stays at first, first and
- 7:28Speaker 2: third with two out.
- 7:34Speaker 1: It's awesome when these guys still have it years after
- 7:37Speaker 1: they're playing days, that's for sure.
- 7:40Speaker 2: And now as Kenny celestes up.
- 7:51Speaker 1: A really good crowd for this, the grand stand is
- 7:53Speaker 1: filled up here at Doubleday Field, steps away from the
- 7:57Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame, and here's the pitch ball in
- 8:05Speaker 1: accounts one and all.
- 8:12Speaker 2: And it was of course, by the way, that's the
- 8:18Speaker 2: left that was outside. The count's too old. He plays
- 8:33Speaker 2: with the LS Warriors amputee baseball team.
- 8:40Speaker 4: And uh.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Shortstop, a highly committive teamate of military veterans, wounded warriors
- 8:46Speaker 1: and activity personnel.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Kenny's Celestia Selective participated in this year's.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Classic, and that would have smoked foul down the left
- 8:54Speaker 1: field line.
- 8:57Speaker 2: But it's pretty cool to announce an ampute batter here
- 9:03Speaker 2: and a veteran at that.
- 9:05Speaker 1: It's from World Day weekend, and that one gets away
- 9:22Speaker 1: not too far, but it's a walk anyway.
- 9:25Speaker 2: So bases are loaded with two APPEs here.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Flex bull down.
- 9:38Speaker 2: And Victor.
- 9:51Speaker 3: What do you think?
- 9:53Speaker 2: And Morton feels and the count is one and oh,
- 10:13Speaker 2: bases loaded still on the top half of the first
- 10:22Speaker 2: here's the pitch that one lifted in the air, too
- 10:25Speaker 2: short and cot for the third out one runners couple
- 10:35Speaker 2: hits and the Stripes coming up to back alright, Charlie
- 10:42Speaker 2: Colberson's up to lead off the bottom of the first
- 10:46Speaker 2: four team stop for a team of Stripes on the mound.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Four team Stars is actually former ray Edwin Jackson that
- 10:59Speaker 1: one's a pot.
- 11:00Speaker 2: The counts one to them, Jackson.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I seen a lot of over the years at Yankee
- 11:06Speaker 1: Stadium taking on the Yanks. Leave me pitch when they
- 11:10Speaker 1: were managed by the by Loupanella. Actually you're gonna there's
- 11:15Speaker 1: a pitch that swung on and missed.
- 11:17Speaker 2: The counts one, one, four strikes and Colberson low when
- 11:33Speaker 2: the count's two and one.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I recognize the name is Charlie Coulberson, but I'll give
- 11:41Speaker 1: you a little bit more about him in the second.
- 11:44Speaker 1: All these stats thinks to Baseball Reference, by the way,
- 11:48Speaker 1: gotta shout.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Them out for any reference to these guys. And as
- 11:58Speaker 2: the ring comes down, Colberson launched thirty homers in his career.
- 12:05Speaker 2: He was with Colorado, the Dodgers, the Braves, that the Rangers,
- 12:09Speaker 2: and ended with the.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Braves flying to the backstop. And I love this the
- 12:28Speaker 1: i'm's giving the bat to one of the kids in
- 12:31Speaker 1: the crowd. How cool is that the third base umpire.
- 12:34Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 12:37Speaker 1: This is what baseball it's about to be, getting the
- 12:41Speaker 1: fans involved. As Colberson steps back up on the right
- 12:44Speaker 1: side of the dish, I gotta tell you the reserves
- 12:49Speaker 1: also on these teams. You might recognize them too, Ryan
- 12:56Speaker 1: Dempster for Team Stars.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Here's the pitch, Alman with it I into left and foul,
- 13:13Speaker 2: Mitch Harris, he and Kennedy.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Former Yankee diamondback David Robertson who just retired this past year.
- 13:21Speaker 2: Got to see him at Penstroke Pride.
- 13:23Speaker 4: Twenty twenty six.
- 13:24Speaker 2: And Alex Wilson. Here's the pitch all back over the stadium. Actually, Holy.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Is God.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Then on the other side, Jeremy I Felt, Albumbrie, Mark Dewey,
- 13:42Speaker 1: Jake Pete, and brend Zieler Bilford.
- 13:48Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys, here's the.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Pitch rounded too short buyers over the first one away.
- 14:02Speaker 2: That was Nick on me in short to first.
- 14:10Speaker 1: I wonder if Tod is gonna do his classic batting
- 14:13Speaker 1: stance with the bat just resting on his shoulder.
- 14:24Speaker 2: As Zach Rex is up. Now, here's the pitch swung
- 14:30Speaker 2: by a mess that's a it's like a basketball there,
- 14:34Speaker 2: but that one good speed on it. One one. Here's
- 14:42Speaker 2: the pitch outside and he counts one and one.
- 14:45Speaker 4: Here's the one one, Oh, that really counts one of too.
- 15:03Speaker 2: H Rex played.
- 15:20Speaker 1: For the Dodgers and the Rangers, and he is now
- 15:26Speaker 1: hitting coach with the Arizona Complex.
- 15:28Speaker 2: League Dodgers, rookie level affiliate of four of the Dodgers.
- 15:33Speaker 2: All right, Jackson dealing strike threes, looking on the outside corner,
- 15:43Speaker 2: there's two away.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I think you beat.
- 15:51Speaker 4: God.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Thanks Craig.
- 15:54Speaker 1: For having this up us up now. And he said
- 15:58Speaker 1: they're gonna make every effort to play today. And sure enough,
- 16:00Speaker 1: even though it's raining.
- 16:01Speaker 2: We're playing. And Jackson takes a ball, throws a ball
- 16:08Speaker 2: low in the count one though doctors and threw on
- 16:25Speaker 2: the on the on that side of the Doug guy.
- 16:27Speaker 1: By the way, Scott Rowland is one of the coaches
- 16:30Speaker 1: Ferdie Jason Jenkins managing the home team that's low and
- 16:34Speaker 1: outside of the count's two and out. And Scott Roland,
- 16:37Speaker 1: I see him right there, s coaching third for the
- 16:43Speaker 1: home team today. Way Bog is also coaching at third
- 16:47Speaker 1: for the visiting team who's playing with ice.
- 16:52Speaker 2: There's a pitch swung on in the dirt on the
- 16:55Speaker 2: County two and one.
- 17:08Speaker 1: I've been up to Cooperstown once before to see Ryan
- 17:12Speaker 1: Samberg got inducted back in two thousand and five.
- 17:15Speaker 2: Twenty one years ago. Foul back way back down the
- 17:19Speaker 2: first grade side.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Sharp five and it was my dad and I. It
- 17:26Speaker 1: was a hot summer day in July. Gary Thorn was
- 17:29Speaker 1: doing the MC work and my dad's favorite player, ron Zemberg.
- 17:34Speaker 1: We got game, get inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Here's the pitch, Hella and the counts.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Three and two. I want side.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I mean they have bleachers out here. Dimensions are three twelve,
- 17:53Speaker 1: three ninety to right and shuder.
- 17:58Speaker 2: And the left. I think I saw four or thirteen
- 18:00Speaker 2: or something. Here's the pitch outside and Reddick draws a
- 18:06Speaker 2: walk and it will be up next Dan Murphy Daniel
- 18:20Speaker 2: Murphy twenty fifteen NLCS MVP.
- 18:26Speaker 1: I mean, what can you not say about his performance
- 18:29Speaker 1: that whole postseason and especially in the NLCS outside council
- 18:32Speaker 1: one or other. And that's why I cracked up from
- 18:35Speaker 1: the mic, cause when you ever gonna chance to call
- 18:37Speaker 1: any of these.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Guys ever again?
- 18:39Speaker 1: So why not even if they are not in the
- 18:41Speaker 1: league as an active player, to call it Daniel Murphy
- 18:46Speaker 1: at bats pretty damn coll. Here was the pitch long
- 18:50Speaker 1: into right field and right center, and it drops in
- 18:53Speaker 1: and its all the way to the wall.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Here comes Reddick and he scores. Murphy holds on at first,
- 19:00Speaker 2: and it's a time all.
- 19:03Speaker 4: One one.
- 19:11Speaker 1: D it's all you've seen a live or two.
- 19:13Speaker 2: Down first, Kevin minches up. Kevin menches up, foul back
- 19:26Speaker 2: off his foot. He counts all one. He've done different
- 19:32Speaker 2: types of games with former players. Look, it's the first
- 19:34Speaker 2: time of the military. It's awesome.
- 19:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:45Speaker 2: One one to mention that one's laced in the left
- 19:48Speaker 2: field all the way to the wall and Murphy Boon
- 19:53Speaker 2: wave home.
- 19:56Speaker 3: He will score.
- 19:59Speaker 2: It's an R B I double where Kevin minch.
- 20:05Speaker 1: And the.
- 20:10Speaker 2: And the Stripes are up.
- 20:11Speaker 4: Two to one.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Here as now up.
- 20:19Speaker 1: And someone I grew up watching on both teams, James
- 20:22Speaker 1: and Mets, but primarily Mets, Todd Zeal. Let's see if
- 20:27Speaker 1: he has that classic stance here there it is the
- 20:32Speaker 1: bat resting on his shoulder, striking the council all in one.
- 20:40Speaker 1: We'll talk about a nostalgia trip right now. This is
- 20:43Speaker 1: bring me back a bit.
- 20:45Speaker 2: M Zeal now s n y postgame pregame analyst takes
- 20:55Speaker 2: a high and uh.
- 21:00Speaker 4: And my friend was like, says, I'm bias calls.
- 21:06Speaker 2: And it's kind of full circle here.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Gary Thornton used to announce Todd z a on pix eleven,
- 21:10Speaker 1: and here we go, announcing zeal again.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I love these kind of moments in baseball.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Here's the pitch that one's grounded past the pitcher charging it, throw.
- 21:22Speaker 2: It first in time by the third baseman.
- 21:26Speaker 1: But uh n, I sit there for Daniel Murphy, for
- 21:29Speaker 1: Kevin Mintz, and we are fortunately