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1972-Apr-26 - OAK/NYY - Oakland Athletics vs New York Yankees - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  .com for more sports history. were considered
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  an average team in the early 1970s, having missed
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  the postseason for seven consecutive seasons.
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  In this game, the Athletics' Denny McLean took
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  the mound against the Yankees' Mike Kekich. This
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  audio recording is from the New York radio broadcast
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  featuring announcers Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto,
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  and Bill White. on another well sort of a chilly
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  evening with a breeze blowing toward right field
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  and tonight the New York Yankees will try to
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  get back on the winning track after losing last
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  night's ball game to the Oakland A's in 12 innings
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  by a score of 4 to 3 on a pinch hit double by
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  former Yankee teammate Mike Egan and Phil Rizzuto
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  I'd have to say tonight the Yankees will certainly
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  have their work cut out for them because they're
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  going against Dennis McLean, and even though
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  McLean was a 22 -game loser for the Washington
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  Senators last year, I've got the feel that with
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  A winning ball club, a contending ball club,
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  which Oakland is, McClain will come back and
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  very possibly reverse that one -loss record.
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  Well, I'm sure you're right, Frank. I expect
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  Denny McClain to have a big year this year. He
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  won his first start for Oakland. They said he
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  didn't have his good stuff, but with that impeccable
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  control that he has, with a club like he has
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  behind him, he's going to be rough. And as we
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  look down his lifetime mark against the Yankees,
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  he's won 15 in lower state. So as you say the
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  Yankees got their work cut out for them one thing
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  they know that he's around the plate and he's
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  a fellow like You don't have to worry too much
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  about you can really dig in that good control
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  And if it's not too good, we might see a little
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  extra hitting tonight. That is probably the reason
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  that McLean has, in the past, led the league
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  in home runs given up by a pitcher. Absolutely,
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  thanks. Same thing happened to Robin Roberts,
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  who was a big winning pitcher, but yet year after
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  year he'd lead the league in giving up home runs.
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  Okay, Phil, we'll be back with the starting lineups
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  the need arises. All right, a reminder right
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  now that this program is authorized under rights
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  area. So listen closely, because your group may
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  be a lucky recipient. Well, we go to the lineups
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  now. for Oakland, and they won a tough ball game
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  from the Yankees last night in 12 innings. It'll
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  be Burt Campanaris leading off and playing shortstop.
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  In left field, batting second, Joe Rudy. Reggie
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  Jackson will be the right fielder, batting third.
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  Hitting in the cleanup spot at third base, Sal
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  Bando. Bobby Brooks, the center fielder, batting
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  fifth. Catching tonight and batting sixth, Dave
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  Duncan. Mike Epstein will be at first base, batting
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  seventh. Larry Brown will be playing second base
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  batting eighth. Remember last night, Dick Green,
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  after laying down a beautiful bunt, had trouble
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  with his back and was barely able to get off
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  the field under his own power, so he is not in
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  the ball game. Larry Brown will be playing second
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  batting eighth. And Denny McLean pitching and
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  batting ninth. For the Yankees, Morris Clark
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  leads off at second base. Catching and batting
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  second, Thurman Monson. Bobby Mercer in center
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  field, hitting third. In the cleanup spot in
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  left field, Roy White. Felipe Alou will be at
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  first base batting fifth. The right fielder batting
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  sixth, Johnny Callison. Rich McKinney will be
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  at third base batting seventh. The shortstop
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  hitting eighth, Gene Michael. Pitching and batting
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  ninth, Mike Kekich. And as the men in blue come
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  out, the umpires, along with Dick Williams, the
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  skipper of the Oakland A's, and Ralph Hopp will
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  be out there. There he is, right in the middle
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  of the umpires. It'll be Ron Luciano calling
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  balls and strikes, Frank Umott at first base,
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  Jim Odom the umpire at second, and Don Denkinger
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  at third. This is the New York Yankee baseball
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  network we pause now for station identification.
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  Well, they break up the huddle at home plate.
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  And Frank Messer, it's just a shame the Yankees
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  have been in every ball game so far this year.
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  But with the way Baltimore is, can you imagine
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  Baltimore getting beat three games in a row?
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  No, I can't. No, that's right. But Yankees could
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  have really picked up some ground. Yes, they
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  could have. Baltimore lost two out of three in
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  the last two in a row in Cleveland. And then
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  the Orioles were beaten again last night. by
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  Kansas City. In fact, they were shut out by Kansas
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  City last night, three to nothing. Now, ladies
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  and gentlemen, we hope you'll join with Robert
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  Merrill in our national anthem. begins his warm
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  -up throws. We'll take a look at other games
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  for you. Minnesota defeated Boston 3 -1 this
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  afternoon. Dick Woodson got the win. Dave LaRoche
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  saved it for him. And Ray Culp was the loser.
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  Baltimore, Kansas City tonight. The Orioles have
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  lost three straight, as Phil just remarked. The
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  Chicago White Sox trade for Dick Allen paid off
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  again this afternoon, as the former Richie, now
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  Dick Allen. hit a tempting two -run homer to
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  carry the White Sox to a 7 -5 win over Cleveland.
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  Earlier in the ball game, Mike Andrews had hit
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  a grand slam homerun to tie it up 4 -4 at the
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  end of 7. The winning pitcher was Steve Keely,
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  and the loser was Steve Mingori. Detroit at Texas
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  tonight. California beat Milwaukee 3 -1 this
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  afternoon, as Ricky Clark, with help from Allen
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  and May, Rudy May working in relief, saving the
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  ball game for him. defeated Bill Parsons, who
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  started for the Milwaukee Brewers. California
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  3, Milwaukee 1. And looking at the National League
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  this afternoon, the San Francisco Giants defeated
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  the Philadelphia Phillies 8 -6 on a 10th inning
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  home run by Bobby Bonds. The Phillies had scored
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  two runs in the top half of the 10th inning to
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  go out in front 6 -4. The Giants got four runs
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  in the bottom half of the tenth and won it eight
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  to six. And Kingman had two more home runs for
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  the Giants. He's hit four for the year now. The
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  rest of the game for tonight, we'll check those
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  scores as they come in. First pitch of this ball
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  game to Kampenaris, butted back to the mound,
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  fielded by Kakechi, throws to first and throws
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  him out. Though this game gets underway in a
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  hurry with Kampenaris. Trying to butt himself
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  on and check it pops on that ball quickly and
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  throw him out One pitch and one away and here
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  comes Joe Rudy Silver's little you remarked last
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  night that this Joe Rudy is one of the more improved
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  ball players in the league He is and didn't he
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  lay down a beautiful bunt last night, too. He
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  certainly did the Oakland A is wearing the Well,
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  they're not wedding gown white anymore. What
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  is that, the shade of white? It's if white had
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  different shades, but it does. Curb ball to Rudy
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  is up high, ball one. Rudy, a right -hand hitter.
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  A very white white. Yeah, but they still do have
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  the wedding gown white complete uniform, which
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  I think they wear at home. Oh, is that right?
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  Down low comes Kekich. Ball two -two and out
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  of the right -hand -hitting Joe Rudy. Bill Kane
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  said they lead the league in uniforms. All right.
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  And that's true. They have at least three different
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  sets, possibly four. They are wearing the Kelly
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  Green jerseys with the Fort Knox gold undershirts.
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  Line drive base hit the left field. Michael had
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  short started for it. The ball hit like a bullet
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  was past him. And Rudy is on with a one -out
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  single here in the first inning. It will bring
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  up Reggie Jackson, the right fielder. for Joe
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  Rudy based at number nine on the young season.
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  And nobody in the starting lineup has any more.
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  Sal Bando has nine hits. Reggie Jackson getting
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  off to a slow start is four for 25. Left hand
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  hitter. Jackson always a threat to hit the ball
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  out of the ballpark, however. Kekich comes to
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  the belt and deals up high, ball one. Kekich
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  has a lifetime record of no wins and two losses
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  to Oakland as Reggie Jackson looks down to his
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  third base coach, former Yankee herb, Norrin.
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  Jerry Adair coaches it first. And the 1 -0 pitch.
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  Kripball is in there for a call strike, beautifully
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  drawn by Kekich. Sal Bando is on deck. Reggie
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  Jackson went 0 for 4 last night. Struck out once.
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  Hit one line drive caught in right field by Callison,
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  the pitch. Strike two, ball. A ball and two strikes
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  to the left hand hitting Reggie Jackson. Mustachio,
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  Reggie Jackson. Right down on the end of the
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  bat waiting Ben slightly at the waist Kekich
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  checks first and deal side on Jackson strikes
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  out on a side on delivery from Mike Kekich. He
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  really came down with that one Bill Said it had
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  something new Steve Klein has been going in that
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  side on pitch quite a bit and now Kekich have
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  been very effective Here's Sal Bando Bando has
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  nine hits he's batting 333, 9 for 27. Right hand
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  hitter. Can play a good third base for you, too.
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  He's the team captain. Caggage checks first,
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  Alou holding the runner on. Drops a curve low,
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  gets away from Munson, but he recovers quickly.
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  And Rudy does not try to go. Caggages have wide
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  and left. Mercer in center, and Johnny Callison
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  in right. They're spread out on Vando. So is
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  the infield. The pitch. Get right back up the
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  middle. That's going to get through there for
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  a base hit. Rudy around second base now stops
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  as Mercer charges the ball, gets it back to the
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  infield. And Vando rips one right back up the
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  middle for a single into center field. Base hit
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  number two of the inning. And with runners at
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  first and second, here comes the rookie, Bobby
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  Brooks. Brooks playing center field, Angel Banwall,
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  down to the minors, working out an injury. And
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  I'll tell you, this kid Brooks looked pretty
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  good last night, Bill. First time I'd seen him.
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  He didn't have a base hit, but he showed us good
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  foot, and he hit the ball well, although it was
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  caught every time, right? He's a right -hand
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  batter, holds the bat down on the end. Swings
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  on a curve, it's a fly ball to deep center. Mercer
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  going back, turns under it now. Glove up, and
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  Bobby has it. Rob Brooks drives Mercer to deep
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  center field to take his fly ball. For the Oakland
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  A's, no runs, two hits, no errors. The two are
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  left. At the end of the top half of the first,
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  it's Oakland nothing, and the Yankees coming
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  got a big weekend coming up. The slugging Minnesota
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  Twins will be here at Yankee Stadium for a big
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  four game series, single game Friday night, April
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  28th at 7 .30. Afternoon game on Saturday the
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  Your first chance to come out and see Arm and
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  Killer Girls. Tony Oliva, expected to be back
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  in action. That youngster Bobby Darwin. Who is
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  off to a red hot start hitting home runs. Rod
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  the counter at Old Yankee. Check it out. Thank
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  you. All right, Bill here is Denny McQuain ready
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  to work to Hoss Clark. Clark has nine base hits.
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  He and Thurman Munson lead the club in base hits.
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  They're both nine for 27. And the first pitch
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  is high for ball one. Denny McLean in nine years
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  in the American League has won 128 ball games.
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  He misses outside, two balls and no strikes.
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  High ball three, three and oh. McLean probably
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  does not throw as fast as he used to, but as
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  Phil mentioned earlier, He is a control pitcher.
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  He did not walk anybody in his first and only
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  other start this year. He comes high at a clock
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  and walks him on four pitches. So you start talking
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  about a guy's control, and what does he do? Well,
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  he walks the leadoff man on four deliveries.
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  Seven months in. Nine for 27. The other star
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  was against the Kansas City Royals. He gave up
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  eight hits, but no earned runs. The A's won the
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  ball game three to two. He comes low to Munson.
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  That's ball five. Well, I'll tell you, it looks
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  like he's aiming that ball, Frankie. He hasn't
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  really cut loose yet with a good fastball. He's
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  behind Munson 1 -0. Clark at first. Epstein holding
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  him on and throw over there and Clark gets back.
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  Remark last night looking down there at Epstein
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  about how much weight he had lost. Billy told
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  me 25 pounds. Said he thought it might help him
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  in August. The last couple of months of the season.
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  He and George Scott both have taken off I guess
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  about that same amount. Scott took off so much
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  weight he doesn't look good. I don't know. That's
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  right. So used to seeing that big husky guy come
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  up there. All right, the 1 -0 pitch down to Munson.
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  Here it comes. Swung on. Ground ball through
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  the hole and a left field base hit. It's all
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  seven. Munson keeps it going. He has done it
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  every game of the year. That's his eighth ball
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  game. And he has hit it all, eight of them. We
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  asked Thurman on the Yankee warm -up show, Phil.
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  We were talking about his hitting streak. And
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  my last question was, Thurman, are you superstitious?
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  I said, if you don't get a hit tonight and the
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  streak is broken, you're going to blame me. And
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  he said, no, if it's got to end sometime, nobody
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  ever hit 162. But he's got eight. Of course,
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  it won't be 162 game season this year. It'll
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  be, what, 155 as far as the Yankees are concerned.
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  or possibly less depending on the weather. Right
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  now, Bobby Mercer steps in with runners at first
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  and second and nobody else. McLean deals outside
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  to Mercer. Bobby is hitting 259. At action already
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  in the Oakland A's bullpen, John Blue Moon Odom
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  has begun to warm up. He's a right -hander. The
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  next pitch, fastball. Porn right through for
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  the strike, one and one. No, I didn't say porn.
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  There's no such word. Ball of the strike. No
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  score. Just underway. Bottom half of the first
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  inning. He's got two hits off Kekich, but he
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  left the man stranded. They're playing Mercer
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  to the right side. McClain delivers. Mercer swings,
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  looks it into left field. Rudy's after it. He's
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  under it now. And Joe Rudy makes the catch. So
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  Bobby Mercer going the other way flies out to
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  Rudy one down. It will bring up Roy White, the
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  Yankee left fielder, with a batting average of
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  259. You know, this is, look at this, Bill. I
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  didn't realize this until just now. Clark leading
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  off 9 for 27. Then Munson is 9 for 27. Mercer
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  is 7 for 27. And White's 7 for 27 coming into
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  this game. Mary White will bat left. They play
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  him as they play Mercer, shaded around to the
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  right side. Larry Brown at second base, well
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  over in the hole between first and second. Kapaner
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  is the shortstop behind Clark, who is leading.
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  Drag is called over at the knees. Bando wide
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  of the bag and even with the bag at third base.
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  Rudy's shallow in left field. Brooks over toward
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  the alley. And Reggie Jackson tucked away toward
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  the right field corner. Well, they fail Lewis
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  on deck. McClain ready, kicks and deals, and
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  he misses high. One and one. McClain walks off
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  the reverse slope of the mound, blows on his
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  pitching hand. One ball, one strike, one out.
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  Runners at first and second. The pitch. Wong
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  on. Raps sharply down the first face line. Feel
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  it by Epstein. He goes to the shortstop, Campaneras,
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  for the fourth on Munson at second. No return
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  throw. Munson is out on the fourth play at second.
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  Three -six, Epstein to Campaneras. Clark goes
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  to third. White reaches on the fourth out. They
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  were lucky on that play Frank Mike didn't have
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  a good grip on the ball looked like he was going
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  to hit the runner right in the middle of the
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  back Kevin Harris was lucky to see that ball
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  and make the fourth place It brings up what he
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  failed Oh, we play playing first for the injured
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  Ronnie Bloomberg Bloomberg has a flying ball
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  on the right side He pinched it safely last night,
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  hitting over 600, just a shame he can't play.
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  And the A's are without Dick Green, their second
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  baseman, who has a back problem. All those swings
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  on the first pitch, Bob off on right center field.
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  Bobby Brooks is there, should surround it, and
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  he's got it to retire to the side. So on the
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  first inning, both teams threatened neither score.
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  The Yankees get no runs, one hit, there were
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  no errors and two left. And at the end of one,
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  the score, the Yankees nothing and the A's nothing.
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  some scores again. Minnesota beat the Red Sox
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  3 -1. Baltimore, Kansas City later on. The White
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  Sox 7, Cleveland 5 in 10 innings. And Dick Allen
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  got his third home of the year in the tenth with
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  one on the winner. Detroit at Texas later on
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  the angels beat the Brewers 3 to 1. Metzger at
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  San Diego later on. The Giants beat the Phillies
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  8 to 6 and that game was in 10 innings. Bobby
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  Bonds home run and with the man on won it and
• 26:56
  the rest of the game tonight, right? Dave Duncan
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  the catcher leads off a right hand batter the
• 27:03
  first pitch to him. Curve ball is hit high and
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  he had a left field. Roy White. Coming in now,
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  after starting back, he's under it, and White
• 27:11
  makes the catch. One pitch, one away. Duncan,
• 27:15
  going after that first pitch, didn't have a chance
• 27:17
  to tell you he was sitting 214, but he has two
• 27:20
  home runs. Here's Mike Epstein. Epstein, four
• 27:30
  for 20, 200. Mike said losing the weight he thought
• 27:34
  would help him in the latter stages of the season.
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  He said last year he just couldn't seem to hit
• 27:38
  in the last part of the campaign. He feels the
• 27:41
  first one foul back on the screen. And last season,
• 27:45
  Epstein tied a record held by several of home
• 27:50
  runs in four consecutive times at bat. Not in
• 27:54
  the same game, however. Two in one game, two
• 28:00
  in the other. Two off left -handers, two off
• 28:02
  right -handers. He's left and back. Swings to
• 28:06
  this one, splices it off toward the alley. Let's
• 28:08
  let it feel. White is there and cannot get to
• 28:10
  it. The ball drops in front of him. Roy White
• 28:13
  seemed to pull up, but I really thought that
• 28:17
  ball would be caught. It looked like it should
• 28:19
  have been caught unless the white gave, the light
• 28:22
  gave Roy White a little bit of trouble. The ball
• 28:29
  fell just in front of Roy. So it goes as a base
• 28:32
  hit. Puts Epstein on at first base, and it brings
• 28:35
  up Larry Brown filling in for the injured Dick
• 28:37
  Green. Green came up with a back spasm last night
• 28:42
  after bunting. And the finish. Plung on and sliced
• 28:48
  foul. This is Larry Brown's first time at bat
• 28:52
  this year. He went into play second base when
• 28:55
  Green came up with the injury last night. And
• 28:58
  Green says that he kept feeling that cool wind
• 29:02
  all night. He said the back began tightening
• 29:05
  up. He told Larry Brown about the 7th inning
• 29:09
  to loosen up because he said, I'm going to have
• 29:12
  to have you. I don't think I'll be able to finish.
• 29:15
  And sure enough, he couldn't finish. The 0 -1
• 29:16
  pitch. Dribble on it. Swung on it. And this strikes
• 29:19
  two. No score in this ball game. Both teams threatened
• 29:24
  in the first. The A's had bases from Rudy and
• 29:29
  Vando, but Kekich stranded them. And the Yankees
• 29:35
  had a walk to Clark and a single by Munson, their
• 29:38
  first two men up. But they couldn't score. Now
• 29:43
  we have one out here in the top of the second.
• 29:46
  Fair of his low this time. One ball and two strikes.
• 29:50
  The pitcher, Denny McLean, who swings hard, is
• 29:54
  on deck. By that, I mean, when he makes contact
• 29:59
  with the ball, he can give it a pretty good ride.
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  No, I knew exactly what you meant, Frank. One
• 30:11
  ball, two strikes, one out, one on. A little
• 30:13
  holding on the base runner, Epstein at first.
• 30:16
  Yankees hope for the double play ball. Here comes
• 30:18
  the pitch. Missing low for a 2 -2 count. You
• 30:23
  see the way that Epstein's taking that lead with
• 30:25
  the left hand on the hip. Probably hasn't felt
• 30:29
  his bones in so long since he's taken off that
• 30:31
  25 pounds that he just likes the feel of the
• 30:35
  new body. Alright. 2 -2 pitch here. Curveball
• 30:44
  is fouled off. Deckage keeps curving. The right
• 30:48
  -hand hitting Larry Brown trying to induce the
• 30:51
  ground ball and hopeful of the double play. McKinney
• 30:54
  is deep at third toward the line. Michael in
• 30:58
  about one -third of the way it's short and the
• 31:00
  same goes for Clark at second. The outfield is
• 31:03
  fanned out with the deep man Roy White at left.
• 31:07
  Munson flashes the side. Kekich takes it. Left
• 31:12
  -hander looks over to first. Sees up steam, hand
• 31:15
  on hip, and the pitch fouled back off the mass
• 31:18
  played on by Ron Luciano. He's still looking
• 31:25
  for the ball and it went all the way to the ball
• 31:28
  boy who puts it in his mask and he gets it in.
• 31:32
  That jarred him a little bit Frank, he couldn't
• 31:34
  locate it. He's showing Don Denginger now about
• 31:40
  how it felt. He's sort of shaking his head as
• 31:42
  if he's shaking a cobweb shot. Let's take a second
• 31:46
  look at that baseball. Luciano's big. Another
• 31:51
  2 -2 pitch. Runner going. Check swing. A ball.
• 31:54
  Throw to second base. He is out. took the throw
• 32:02
  and made the tag at second as Thurman Munson
• 32:04
  fired that ball quickly to get Epstein and that
• 32:07
  had to be a hit and run and Larry Brown head
• 32:10
  down did not take a cut at it. That was a tough
• 32:14
  play Frank he had two balls two strikes on him
• 32:17
  you're supposed to protect the runner you're
• 32:18
  absolutely right but the ball was almost in the
• 32:21
  dirt and if Epstein had made a hook slide to
• 32:24
  the inside part of the dime and he might have
• 32:26
  beat that out. 3 -2 pitch. Long on and fast foul
• 32:31
  past Noren. I thought it had to be a hit -and
• 32:34
  -run. I was indicating that I'm sure they wouldn't
• 32:37
  have Epstein stealing. Even with 25 pounds off
• 32:40
  of him. Mike is a lot stronger than he is speed.
• 32:50
  3 -2 pitch again. Hit on the ground, a short
• 32:53
  stop. Michael to his left has it. Throws on to
• 32:56
  first base and the side is retired. Well, the
• 32:59
  pitcher McLean will have to lead off the third
• 33:01
  inning, which is in Kekich's favor. For the Oakland
• 33:05
  A's, no runs, the base hit, no errors. And with
• 33:08
  Munson throwing Epstein out, nobody left. At
• 33:11
  the end of the top of the second, it's the Yankees
• 33:13
  nothing, and the A's nothing. They'll show you
• 33:59
  how Schaefer stays consistently crisp and bright
• 34:02
  glass after glass. And that's when you'll want
• 34:05
  to switch to Schaefer. the Yankees play up at
• 34:28
  West Point tomorrow, then the Minnesota Twins
• 34:30
  come in Friday night, Saturday, big cap day,
• 34:32
  double headed Sunday, and off day Monday, May
• 34:35
  1st, and then the California Angels in. Tuesday
• 34:38
  night, May the 2nd, and Wednesday afternoon,
• 34:41
  May the 3rd. Johnny Callison up here in the bottom
• 34:47
  half of the second. It'll be Callison, McKinney,
• 34:49
  and Michael. McClain's pitch, big hook serve
• 34:52
  is high. Ball one. Callison has but one hit.
• 34:57
  He's been up 15 times. Right -hander Denny McLean
• 35:05
  ready again. Deals a fastball for a strike and
• 35:07
  it's one and one. No score here. Bottom half
• 35:16
  of the second. Denny McLean winds, kicks and
• 35:18
  delivers. Fastball again and he misses this one.
• 35:22
  Two balls and one strike. They play Callison
• 35:26
  to pull in the outfield. Reggie Jackson, deep
• 35:28
  and right, back toward the warning track, over
• 35:31
  toward the corner. Larry Brown backs up at second.
• 35:34
  This pitch is low. Ball three, three and one.
• 35:40
  Rich McKinney, very wide in third, and Campanaro
• 35:43
  shaded over toward the back. Joe Rudy again in
• 35:45
  shallow. Rudy plays a shallow left field out
• 35:49
  there, Phil, but they haven't hit one over his
• 35:50
  head yet. 3 -1 pitch coming. Swung on, hit the
• 35:56
  straightaway center at Steve. Back goes Bobby
• 35:59
  Brooks, still going back. He's there now and
• 36:01
  he makes the catch. So Callison is retired on
• 36:05
  a fly ball to rather deep center. One down. It
• 36:09
  brings up Rich McKinney, the Yankee third baseman.
• 36:12
  McKinney is batting 259, 7 for 27. The Yankees
• 36:17
  have three men in the starting lineup tonight,
• 36:20
  batting 7 for 27, 259. Mercer, White, and McKinney.
• 36:36
  McClain's first pitch, outside, ball one. On
• 36:42
  deck is shortstop Gene Michael. There's no score
• 36:47
  in the ball game, bottom half of the second inning.
• 36:50
  Dennis McLean in his second start for Oakland
• 36:53
  delivers again and ball two says Ron Luciano
• 36:59
  McLean and Duncan thought that was a little closer
• 37:07
  McLean turns it loose and he's got a strike this
• 37:15
  time as McKinney was taking 21 but 10 while losing
• 37:28
  22 last year for the Senators. Fastball hit on
• 37:31
  the ground at 3rd. Vando gobbles it up. On the
• 37:34
  first base to retire Rich McKinney. This is the
• 37:37
  New York Yankee baseball network. We pause now
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  for station identification. This is Steve Fitzgerald,
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  Schenectady. Gene Michael will step in left -handed
• 38:03
  against McLean. First pitch. Last ball for a
• 38:09
  strike. Michael is hitting 125. Two for 16. Four
• 38:14
  runs butted in for Michael. He won one ball game
• 38:17
  with a basis -loaded triple. This one is bounced
• 38:20
  to second. Charged by Larry Brown. He's got it.
• 38:22
  The throw to first to side is out. One, two,
• 38:26
  three go the Yankees. At the end of two, the
• 38:28
  score. New York nothing and Oakland nothing.
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  accessories or not. Well, maybe I don't need
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  the power sun visors. Another look at the scoreboard.
• 39:42
  Minnesota over the Red Sox 3 -1. Woodson the
• 39:44
  winner, Colt the loser. Baltimore, Kansas City
• 39:46
  later on. The White Sox in 10 and he's defeated
• 39:49
  Cleveland 7 -5. Keely the winner, Mingori the
• 39:52
  loser. Andrews had a grand slam home run in the
• 39:55
  7th. Dick Allen is thirded here in the 10th with
• 39:57
  one on the winner. Detroit at Texas later on
• 40:00
  California beat Milwaukee three to one clock
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  the winner Parsons the loser New York at San
• 40:05
  Diego later on the Giants in ten innings beat
• 40:08
  the Phillies eight six Johnson the winner Brandon
• 40:11
  the loser Kingman two homers and Bobby bonds
• 40:13
  the winning homer in the tenth with one on right
• 40:16
  Dennis McClain leads off the third and takes
• 40:18
  a strike. Kekich hits the ball over just above
• 40:21
  the knees. McClain has been up three times this
• 40:24
  year without a base hit. Right hand batter. Next
• 40:27
  pitch to him. Her ball is swung on and missed
• 40:30
  right to her. No score. The Oakland A's have
• 40:34
  three bases. The Yankees have one. The A's got
• 40:38
  two men out in the first inning. Bobby Brooks
• 40:41
  then hit a long fly ball that was caught by Mercer.
• 40:45
  A ball is inside to McLean and the count is one
• 40:47
  and two. McLean does not choke up on the bat.
• 40:54
  He's right down on the end of it. takes a big
• 40:57
  cut when he cuts and looks at a called third
• 40:59
  straight. Second strikeout for Mike Kekich. He
• 41:04
  got the fastball right past the plate. One down,
• 41:08
  now the top of the order. Burt Cabaneras tried
• 41:10
  to bunt himself on leading off the game and was
• 41:12
  thrown out on a good fielding play by Kekich.
• 41:17
  Joe Rudy comes out undone. Cabaneras right hand
• 41:22
  batter. Here comes the pitch to it. Had his second
• 41:28
  for a strike. He was looking all the way. I'm
• 41:31
  surprised that Campanaris was not a switch hitter.
• 41:34
  Oh boy, wouldn't he be something? You know, he
• 41:36
  can throw with either arm. Uh -huh. He can throw
• 41:39
  left -handed as well as right -handed. Pitch
• 41:43
  to it. Curveball. Hit off the end of the bat
• 41:44
  down the first baseline. Alou comes up with it.
• 41:47
  Tags the bag in front of Campanaris. Two down.
• 41:56
  Two quick outs and it brings up Joe Rudy, who's
• 41:59
  single to left field in the first inning. Rudy
• 42:03
  had a solid line shot to left for his ninth base
• 42:08
  hit of the year. Rudy is going to make Keckage
• 42:19
  wait. Now he gets in. That's out of a closed
• 42:22
  stance. Left foot in front. of the right foot.
• 42:30
  Kekich takes the side. Rocks, kicks, and deals.
• 42:33
  Fastball missing. Low ball one. Kekich takes
• 42:50
  the side with both feet on the rubber. Delivers
• 42:53
  a breaking pitch for a strike one and one. A
• 42:55
  lot more motion than there was pitch that time.
• 42:59
  One ball, one strike. They were looking forward
• 43:02
  to going up to West Point tomorrow. That's always
• 43:05
  a great day. Fun day. The game's going to be
• 43:11
  played, I believe, starting at 3 o 'clock. 1
• 43:13
  -1 pitch. Swann not in this. Strike two. I don't
• 43:19
  believe it's going to start at three. I know
• 43:20
  it's going to start at three. That's what Bill
• 43:24
  Cain had in the note he handed me. Two outs,
• 43:28
  nobody out, no score. Top half of the third inning
• 43:30
  in Yankee Stadium. Dekich working to Joe Rudy.
• 43:36
  High. Two balls, two strikes. Yankees have won
• 43:42
  two and lost five this year. The A's have the
• 43:45
  reverse record, five wins and two losses. Yankees
• 43:49
  trying to climb out of the cellar. The A's trying
• 43:51
  to stay on the roof. And the 2 -2 pitch. Fastball
• 43:57
  popped up on the right side. Alou is calling
• 44:00
  for it. Near the bag at first base. And he makes
• 44:04
  the catch to retire the side. Three up, three
• 44:07
  down. Nothing across for Oakland. At the end
• 44:10
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  under, accompanied by an adult, get a genuine
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  Yankee cap, Frank. All right, just as McClain
• 45:39
  had to lead off the top half of the inning, Yankee
• 45:41
  pitcher Kekich leads off the home half. And he
• 45:45
  looks for the high pitch ball one. Kekich, although
• 45:48
  a left hand pitcher, is a right hand batter,
• 45:50
  like McClain, he has been up three times without
• 45:52
  a base hit. Fastball is in there for a strike,
• 45:56
  one and one. Reggie Jackson is playing very shallow
• 46:04
  and right and over towards the line. This pitch
• 46:07
  low and outside, backhanded out of the very spot,
• 46:10
  Dave Duncan, the catcher. Bobby Brooks, the center
• 46:13
  fielder, shades the alley and he's shallow. And
• 46:16
  Joe Rudy plays a shallow, straightaway left field.
• 46:21
  Two ball, one strike pitch coming, it is. Fastball
• 46:24
  is lined out toward center, but Bobby Brooks
• 46:27
  is right there, backs off a couple of paces and
• 46:29
  puts it away. One out and it brings up the top
• 46:33
  of the order. Hey, next time you come out to
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  Yankee Stadium for a night game, just check out
• 46:40
  our new lighting facilities. Dedication ceremonies
• 46:45
  of the dramatic new Yankee Stadium area lighting
• 46:48
  facilities took place this evening at 7 o 'clock
• 46:51
  before the start of this game. He's represented
• 47:00
  by President Mike Burke and pitcher Mel Fuddlemeyer.
• 47:07
  Off clock up there batting left -handed takes
• 47:09
  high, ball one. Vando in on the grass down the
• 47:12
  line at third. There's a strike and the count
• 47:21
  evens one and one. Yes, sir. The new lighting
• 47:32
  system out here around the outside. Very good.
• 47:35
  Pitch taken high by Clark. That's the second
• 47:40
  major step in the redevelopment of the stadium
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  area. During the winter, you might have noticed,
• 47:46
  if you were out here for any of our games, the
• 47:48
  old garage and shops on the East 157th Street
• 47:51
  side were removed. Clark gets the ball down the
• 47:56
  first baseline foul. Epstein -Doleport could
• 47:59
  not come up with it, but the ball was just foul.
• 48:03
  So -called first base umpire, Frank Umach. Sir,
• 48:11
  the Yankees move right along. The city and everybody
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  helping out in the redevelopment here extended
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  the parking area and now got the new lights up
• 48:19
  to show you how to get into it. And there'll
• 48:24
  be more improvements. Two balls, two strikes
• 48:27
  to Hoff Clark. McClain turns it loose. Pass ball
• 48:30
  is fouled. Back to the left side and into the
• 48:33
  seat. Got a hole, two and two. Clark walked in
• 48:41
  the first inning. McClain walked him on four
• 48:44
  pitches. He was just a bit erratic to get started.
• 48:49
  Munson followed with a single. Clark going to
• 48:51
  second, but then... Mercer flying out, White
• 48:54
  ratted into a force, Adalou flying out, and the
• 48:56
  Yankees did not score. 2 -2 pitch. Up high with
• 49:01
  a breaking ball, and the count is 4 -3 -2 on
• 49:04
  Hoss Park. Thurman Munson is on deck. Lane has
• 49:17
  retired seven in a row since Munson's hit. Bark
• 49:20
  at this one in the outer right center not these
• 49:22
  Brooks started back now comes in he's calling
• 49:25
  for the center fielder has it First time bill
• 49:29
  of the two -game series on the ball fit toward
• 49:32
  center field of Brooks has made a false step
• 49:35
  That's right. He picked a good time to do it
• 49:36
  as you said Frank a towering fly had plenty of
• 49:39
  time to recover He's had four put outs already
• 49:42
  having a busy night out there. That's a good
• 49:45
  jump on that ball We remarked last night, and
• 49:48
  he's got good speed Here's Thurman. He has the
• 49:53
  only Yankee base hit. And it extended his hitting
• 49:57
  streak through the season. Yankees have, this
• 50:02
  is their eighth game and Munson has hit in all
• 50:04
  eight. First offering. Sidearm curve up under
• 50:09
  the chin almost hit him. Playing game around
• 50:15
  from third base with that one. One ball no strike.
• 50:26
  Wayne rocks again and delivers. Strike ball one
• 50:30
  and one. Bobby Mercer waiting on deck. And the
• 50:49
  one -one pitch. Get back up the middle and that
• 50:52
  one is going to get through for a base hit. Saw
• 50:54
  Munson swinging a hot bat for the Yankees. Has
• 50:58
  another base hit. He is two for two on those
• 51:01
  with the only two Yankee hits. Bobby Mercer the
• 51:07
  batter. Munson now has 11 hits to most of any
• 51:18
  Yankee. Bobby Mercer fly to left. He went the
• 51:25
  other way, but Joe Rudy caught up with it in
• 51:27
  the first inning. Epstein will hold Munson on
• 51:31
  it first. Mercer batting out of a crouch. There
• 51:39
  goes Munson. The pitch is lined to right field.
• 51:41
  Bayes hit. Munson around second. Diggs for third.
• 51:44
  He'll make it. Jackson's throw is into second
• 51:46
  base. And Bobby Mercer in a rope to right. Yerster
• 52:00
  Munson broke with the pitch, and Mercer lined
• 52:03
  it to right field. So the Yankees have runners
• 52:05
  at first and third, and Roy White has a chance
• 52:09
  to put the Yankees on the board. Roy's been a
• 52:16
  sharp grounder to Epstein in the first inning,
• 52:18
  that the first baseman turned into a forced out
• 52:20
  at second. So White is 0 for 1. Felipe Alou moves
• 52:27
  on deck. There is no score here in the bottom
• 52:29
  half of the third. Second time in the game, the
• 52:33
  Yankees are runners at first and third. There
• 52:41
  are two ups. Bando tightens up at third. Campanaro
• 52:45
  shades toward the bag at second, and Larry Brown
• 52:48
  deep in the hole between first and second. The
• 52:50
  pitch, low and away, ball one. Rudy is shallow
• 52:54
  in left. Brooks not deep out there in right center.
• 52:57
  Reggie Jackson is the deep man on the outfield
• 53:00
  as he swings over towards the corner and right.
• 53:04
  Epstein, left foot on the bag, right foot on
• 53:07
  the bag, holding the runner on. The pitch is
• 53:10
  in the dirt, blocked by Duncan. Two balls and
• 53:13
  no strikes to Roy White. Good speed at first
• 53:31
  in Bobby Mercer. And at the plate in Roy White.
• 53:34
  Of course, Thurman -Hunst at third base can move
• 53:37
  very well, too. Do nothing such coming. Kerrball
• 53:42
  is high on the air down the right field line.
• 53:45
  Jackson over near the foul ball. Looking, reaching.
• 53:48
  He cannot get it. It's a foul ball. Foul ball
• 53:53
  in the seat. That ball right down the line, Phil,
• 54:05
  is always an exciting play because you're never
• 54:08
  sure till the last second whether the outfielder
• 54:11
  can catch it or whether it's going to be fair
• 54:13
  or foul. I don't know whether it's going to hit
• 54:15
  that foul pole, which has happened so often here.
• 54:21
  Foul pole is in fair territory. Any ball that
• 54:24
  hits the foul pole is a home run. The pitch to
• 54:28
  White, swung on and missed, two and two. I wonder
• 54:36
  why they don't call it the Fair Pole. I don't
• 54:40
  know. Start a new trend. Yeah. Sudden victory
• 54:53
  in the Fair Pole. 2 -2 pitch to white. Low one
• 54:57
  outside. A full count. That will release Bobby
• 55:01
  Mercer from first. Elton Howard reminded. Three
• 55:03
  and two count. Two out. And Epstein will back
• 55:07
  off now and weigh the line instead of holding
• 55:09
  the runner on. Frank Steele, our engineer, says,
• 55:14
  call it the unfoul fold. Three and two to Roy
• 55:19
  White. The set by McClain. Here's his pitch.
• 55:24
  Wong on. Hit in the air to left center. Rudy
• 55:27
  coasting over to the left side. He's under it.
• 55:30
  And the left fielder puts it away and a retire
• 55:32
  the side. Again, a threat for no score. The Yankees
• 55:36
  get no runs out of two hits. There were no errors
• 55:38
  in two left. At the end of three, the totals
• 55:41
  look like this. For both teams, zero, three,
• 55:43
  and zero. Nothing to nothing end of three. Just
• 55:49
  throw a few words at you as we go to the fourth
• 55:51
  inning. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Phil Vizzuto.
• 55:53
  Okay, Frank and Reggie Jackson, who struck out
• 55:56
  his first time up, swings and misses a good curve
• 56:00
  by Mike Kekich, strike one. Bill White sits down.
• 56:11
  Lovely yellow. Oh, he's colorblind. I am a little
• 56:16
  bit. He gouts one of shallow right fields. Coming
• 56:19
  in fast and going back clock. Look out, a clock
• 56:22
  makes a beautiful play. It looked like a certain
• 56:25
  collision between Taliesin and Clark. Reggie
• 56:29
  Jackson golfed the ball, it didn't hit it hard,
• 56:33
  and Callison broke back, came in, looked like
• 56:35
  they were going to run together, but Clark made
• 56:37
  the catch and Johnny stopped. Fine play by Horace
• 56:40
  Clark, 1 -0. No, it's a black leather jacket.
• 56:43
  I saw it say yellow. I don't know why. It's blue.
• 56:47
  Blue? I really am colorblind. Sal Bando, who's
• 56:52
  singled his first time up, takes the strike.
• 56:54
  Say that word. OK. Don't score on the top of
• 56:58
  the fourth. It must be this cold weather. My
• 57:00
  eyes are watering. The Czechs are swinging it
• 57:04
  slow one -on -one. I wonder what the Cardinals
• 57:07
  are thinking now with that Steve Carlton pitching
• 57:09
  a one -hitter and he's 3 -0. How about Jerry
• 57:11
  Royce? Someone said he's 2 -0 down at Houston.
• 57:14
  That is right at Houston, right? Curve in there,
• 57:17
  one ball, two strikes. I said do you make deals
• 57:22
  like that? Then you keep your fingers crossed
• 57:25
  that they don't do too well. Steve Carlton, 14
• 57:29
  strikeouts and a one -hitter. Change up just
• 57:34
  outside, two and two. One out, nobody on. Top
• 57:38
  of the fourth, no score. On deck, Bobby Brooks.
• 57:47
  Right hand hitting Sal Bando, crouching over.
• 57:50
  Swings, bounces, one is short. Team Michael gets
• 57:52
  a nice big hop. And throws Vando off, there are
• 57:55
  two away. That'll bring up Brooks who fly deep
• 57:59
  to center field his first time up. Brooks to
• 58:07
  batter and Dave Duncan on deck. Wind blowing
• 58:17
  out towards right field. Brooks right hand batter
• 58:24
  holds that bat straight up and down. Takes a
• 58:26
  pitch outside, ball one. Mike rocks back. Change
• 58:40
  up in the dirt. Gets away from Munson. It's ball
• 58:42
  two, two and up. Airman hustles back to get it.
• 58:57
  Teckens and Munson, as are McLean and Duncan,
• 59:01
  two men that move around more and are warmer
• 59:04
  than anybody. This is a foul off Luciano's chest
• 59:07
  protector and it's two balls and a strike. Everybody
• 59:18
  must have been listening to that game up in Boston.
• 59:21
  Yeah, my words were getting around. My foul was
• 59:23
  my buddy done and I told him to get on. The 2
• 59:27
  -1 pitch. Swing and a miss. Two balls, two strikes.
• 59:35
  Got a good cut at that pitch, but Kekes has got
• 59:37
  a good breaking ball tonight. I think Mike's
• 59:42
  throwing more breaking balls than fastballs so
• 59:44
  far tonight. The 2 -2 delivery. Low and inside,
• 59:52
  3 and 2. Mike is about three bases. Brook out
• 59:56
  two has not walked anybody. Right now there are
• 59:59
  two out, nobody on, and a full count on Bobby
• 1:00:02
  Brook. The very off pitch. Foul. Back on the
• 1:00:10
  screen and out of play. to play Brooks straight
• 1:00:27
  away. Again the 3 -2 delivery. Low and he walked
• 1:00:33
  him. The first walk of the ball game by Keckens.
• 1:00:38
  Still with two out, Brooks is at first and now
• 1:00:41
  Dave Duncan will fly into left field his first
• 1:00:43
  time up. Felipe Alou holds the bag against Brooks.
• 1:01:01
  Brooks is fast. We'll see if he tries to steal
• 1:01:03
  a base there. It's tough to get a good jump off
• 1:01:05
  a left -hand pitcher. But with two out, he just
• 1:01:09
  might try it. Stretched by Kekich. Runner does
• 1:01:14
  not go. The changeup is low and outside ball
• 1:01:16
  one. Mike Epstein on deck. Duncan looks down
• 1:01:23
  at Irv Noren, who is flashing some signs in the
• 1:01:26
  coaching box. Gary Adair, the coach at first.
• 1:01:34
  Dunk in the right hand better. Stretched by Kekich.
• 1:01:40
  His curve is hit deep to left foot foul, got
• 1:01:43
  out in front of a breaking pitch. One ball, one
• 1:01:48
  strike. Bobby Brooks back to first base. No score
• 1:01:59
  in the top of the fourth inning. 1 -1 count to
• 1:02:07
  Dave Duncan. Beckett's ready. Hit down the right
• 1:02:17
  field line and slicing foul. So Duncan pulled
• 1:02:20
  one curve deep to left. Tried to hit another
• 1:02:24
  curve to right, got them both foul. This guy
• 1:02:31
  has two home runs so far this year. He isn't
• 1:02:36
  hitting over 200 on, but he leads the ball club
• 1:02:39
  this early with a couple of home runs. So he
• 1:02:42
  has some power. He does with that bat. He's right
• 1:02:46
  down the end of it. All right, Mike is ready.
• 1:02:49
  Brooks leads the way. It's by Kekich low and
• 1:02:56
  outside, two and two. The way Dick Williams talks,
• 1:03:01
  Oakland might use one of these catchers, either
• 1:03:05
  Tennes or Duncan, as part of a deal. They have
• 1:03:12
  two pretty good catchers. Tennes did a home run
• 1:03:15
  last night. All right, now the 2 -2 delivery.
• 1:03:22
  Curve line, a left field for a base hit. And
• 1:03:26
  Brooks around second stop. No, he's going to
• 1:03:28
  go to third. He gave him the decoy. And going
• 1:03:30
  into second base as Michael threw to third, and
• 1:03:33
  Gene was decoyed. Nobody yelled for him to throw
• 1:03:36
  to second base. Bobby broke around his second,
• 1:03:39
  stopped, and then split into third base. And
• 1:03:42
  as Roy Weiss threw the ball to Gene Michael,
• 1:03:44
  Gene turned and whipped it to third. And Dave
• 1:03:47
  Duncan continued to second base. So it's a single
• 1:03:49
  to left. And went to second on the throw to third.
• 1:03:55
  That was a high curve ball. And he jumped all
• 1:03:58
  over. And now Mike Epstein, who's single to left
• 1:04:00
  center field in the second inning, then was thrown
• 1:04:02
  out trying to steal. Two out, two on, no score
• 1:04:08
  in the top of the fourth. Bobby Brooks leads
• 1:04:17
  off third. He's got a big lead. And Keckett's
• 1:04:21
  looking at him. Brooks Fakes coming down the
• 1:04:23
  line, stops the pitch to Epstein, hits deep to
• 1:04:26
  right center. Bobby Mercer digging hard, digging
• 1:04:28
  hard and makes a diving catch and held on to
• 1:04:32
  the ball. What a play by Bobby Mercer. A sinking
• 1:04:37
  line drive to deep right center field. Beautiful
• 1:04:40
  play by Bobby. Saved two runs there easy. So,
• 1:04:46
  four Oakland, no runs, one base hit, no errors,
• 1:04:49
  two men left. And now at the end of three and
• 1:04:52
  a half, it's Oakland nothing and the Yankees
• 1:04:54
  nothing. You know how it is with that first cold
• 1:05:00
  beer. It goes down so easy and it tastes so good.
• 1:05:06
  Now wouldn't it be great if your second beer
• 1:05:08
  tasted just the same? Just as smooth and just
• 1:05:12
  as bright. And imagine getting all that first
• 1:05:15
  beer pleasure every beer through. Man, that'd
• 1:05:20
  be some kind of beer. And Schaefer Beer is. Bye
• 1:05:27
  bye! Special announcement for fans 14 years of
• 1:06:07
  age and under. This Sunday, April 30th, is the
• 1:06:09
  new date for the Yankees' popular Cap Day, originally
• 1:06:12
  scheduled in the canceled Baltimore series. Now,
• 1:06:14
  if you bought tickets for the original Cap Day
• 1:06:16
  with Baltimore, it would be necessary to exchange
• 1:06:19
  your tickets. But in any event, don't miss this
• 1:06:21
  big event. Plus a big doubleheader on Sunday,
• 1:06:24
  April 30th. Okay, Bill, Felipe Alou takes one
• 1:06:28
  high and tight ball one. Felipe flies to center
• 1:06:31
  field his first time up. McLean got out of two
• 1:06:34
  jams in the first and third innings. Yankees
• 1:06:37
  had runners at first and third both times. Couldn't
• 1:06:40
  get that base hit. A slider outside is ball two,
• 1:06:42
  two and nothing. He retired the Yankees in order
• 1:06:45
  in the second inning. McLean really not fast
• 1:06:50
  tonight. What a good pitcher. He's spotting the
• 1:06:54
  ball on the corners. The 2 -0 pitch is popped
• 1:07:01
  up right near the plate. Coming back Dave Duncan.
• 1:07:03
  He's under it and makes the catch. Almost ran
• 1:07:06
  by it. Hit him right off the hand and it's 1
• 1:07:11
  -0. That'll bring up Johnny Callison who'll fly
• 1:07:15
  deep to center field his first time up. A scoreless
• 1:07:18
  ball game in the bottom of the fourth. All these
• 1:07:23
  teams coming in here have been pitching Callison
• 1:07:25
  away, and they've kept him in the center field
• 1:07:28
  area. They haven't allowed him to pull too much.
• 1:07:30
  He just will curveball on a left -hander, just
• 1:07:32
  missed the right field pole. Wow. And he's been
• 1:07:36
  hitting him deep to Santa, but as we know, it's
• 1:07:38
  Depp Valley. He broke to one and left. Well,
• 1:07:41
  now we'll wait. Yes, it's in for a base hit.
• 1:07:43
  Johnny's going to try for two. The throw to second.
• 1:07:47
  Not in time, and Callison in with a hustling
• 1:07:49
  double. Oh, he must've heard Bill White. They've
• 1:07:53
  been pitching him away, and Johnny's been trying
• 1:07:55
  to pull it and hitting the center field. So,
• 1:07:58
  Callison went the opposite way, pulled Joe Rudy
• 1:08:01
  out there, and Johnny kept hustling and is in
• 1:08:04
  with a double. His first double of the year,
• 1:08:07
  his second base hit of the season. Little huddle
• 1:08:11
  out on the mound. Bando, Duncan, and McLean,
• 1:08:16
  and with one out the bat of Rich McKinney, who
• 1:08:18
  bounced the third his first time up. The more
• 1:08:22
  I see that Sal Bando, the more impressed you've
• 1:08:25
  got to be with him. He not only hits the ball
• 1:08:27
  well for Oakland, he catches everything, but
• 1:08:29
  he seems to be the on -the -field leader. He's
• 1:08:32
  always out there when somebody gets in trouble.
• 1:08:34
  Just a minute ago, I saw him move left fielder
• 1:08:37
  Joe Rudy into left field where he got white ball.
• 1:08:41
  All right, he is a good field general. All right,
• 1:08:46
  McLean set. Tonight on Pitch to McKinney outside
• 1:08:49
  ball one. Lane keeps blowing on his hand. Denny
• 1:09:02
  ready again. Low, ball two, two and nothing.
• 1:09:15
  Outfield straight away on Rich McKinney. One
• 1:09:18
  man out, no score on the bottom of the fourth.
• 1:09:23
  Denny Calliton with a good lead at second. McLean's
• 1:09:27
  pitch is a breaking pitch, but outside ball three,
• 1:09:30
  three and upping. On deck, Gene Michael. Time
• 1:09:33
  is called now, as Dave Duncan wants to have a
• 1:09:35
  word with Denny McLean. Meanwhile, this is the
• 1:09:38
  New York Yankee baseball network, and we pause
• 1:09:40
  for station identification. This is your guy,
• 1:09:44
  High Agent. Join me for your kind of music, weekdays
• 1:09:47
  three to seven, here on the fresh air sound of
• 1:09:49
  Radio 81, WGY Schenectady. All right, McLean
• 1:10:00
  is ready. Three and all the count to McKinney.
• 1:10:03
  There's one right in there. It wasn't a fastball,
• 1:10:05
  it was a breaking pitch. Three balls and a strike.
• 1:10:13
  McLean has walked one man. That was Horace Clark
• 1:10:15
  leading off in the bottom of the first. The 3
• 1:10:20
  -1 pitch. Breaking pitch just outside. McLean
• 1:10:23
  didn't like that call, but it's ball four. Second
• 1:10:27
  walk given up by Denny. And it brings up Gene
• 1:10:30
  Michael. The stick bounced to second base his
• 1:10:32
  first time up. Callison at second. McKinney at
• 1:10:36
  first with one out. Joe Rudy playing very shallow
• 1:10:42
  in left. Bobby Brooks shallow in center. And
• 1:10:45
  Reggie Jackson moves in a bit in right field
• 1:10:47
  now. They got three fine throwing arms out there.
• 1:10:50
  And Callison will really have to hustle on a
• 1:10:53
  base set to score. All right, Gene Michael, a
• 1:11:01
  switch hitter batting left -handed against McLean.
• 1:11:05
  And he comes to the belt. His pitch is hit high
• 1:11:08
  in the air to right field, going way back. Jackson
• 1:11:11
  back, a home run for Gene Michael. Holy cow.
• 1:11:16
  Again, with Reggie Jackson playing shallow. Gene
• 1:11:21
  Michael hit it over his head, into the seat.
• 1:11:24
  A big three -run home run for Gene Michael. His
• 1:11:28
  second three. RBI hit of this year, he had a
• 1:11:32
  triple with the bases loaded earlier in the year.
• 1:11:35
  And the Yankees go out front three to nothing.
• 1:11:39
  Bill, look at that crowd. Well, some other kids
• 1:11:42
  are going to be happy. The St. Michael's home
• 1:11:44
  at 1380 Arthur Hill Road in Staten Island. They'll
• 1:11:49
  get nine baseball gloves, compliment of ABCO.
• 1:11:58
  All right, Bill, on the first pitch to Mike Hecky
• 1:12:01
  is strike one cause. Isn't that apropos St. Michael's
• 1:12:05
  home and Gene Michael hit it? He checks his swing
• 1:12:08
  and files it off. It's nothing in two. So Gene
• 1:12:13
  Michael now with seven RBIs to take the team
• 1:12:17
  lead in that department. A triple with the bases
• 1:12:22
  loaded to drive in three, a home run with two
• 1:12:24
  on to drive in three more. McLean winds his pitch,
• 1:12:31
  strike three called, and then Kekich is out of
• 1:12:34
  there, so that walk was a big one. First strikeout
• 1:12:38
  for McLean, two men are out. And the batter,
• 1:12:42
  Horace Clark, who has walked and flied to center.
• 1:12:50
  So Gene Michael, he has only three base hits,
• 1:12:55
  including this home run, but seven runs batted
• 1:12:57
  in. Pitch to Harris, high ball one. McLean winds,
• 1:13:17
  fast ball, slight foul down the left field line,
• 1:13:19
  back into the seats out of play. That ball really
• 1:13:25
  carried that Michael Hitzbill. Yeah, I was just
• 1:13:28
  wondering if Michael had ever hit a home run
• 1:13:30
  into the right field seat here before. I know
• 1:13:33
  he didn't last here, of course he only hit the
• 1:13:35
  one down the left field line is powerful. Strike
• 1:13:37
  two, ball and two strikes. He beat somebody with
• 1:13:40
  that home run. He did. In the last of the night.
• 1:13:43
  He makes his homeless count. He doesn't hit many.
• 1:13:46
  But they are clutch home runs. A ball, two strikes,
• 1:13:51
  two out. The Yankees in front, three to nothing.
• 1:13:57
  High ball two, two and two. Blue Moon Odom up
• 1:14:02
  and warming up for the Oakland A's on left field.
• 1:14:08
  Odom had gotten up in the first inning also when
• 1:14:11
  the plane got in trouble. Slight foul down the
• 1:14:17
  left field line, back into the seats again and
• 1:14:19
  out of play. Harris going with the pitch. And
• 1:14:24
  the count is two and two. On deck Thurman Munson
• 1:14:34
  who is two for two tonight. McLean's pitch is
• 1:14:42
  hit deep to right field but it's curving and
• 1:14:46
  goes foul. Clark got a round on a breaking pitch.
• 1:14:52
  That went out of another home run for the Yankees.
• 1:15:01
  Wind up by McLean. Low and inside. Ball three,
• 1:15:05
  three and two. Duncan throws the ball over the
• 1:15:11
  head of McLean and Larry Brown comes in from
• 1:15:13
  second base to retrieve it. The payoff pitch
• 1:15:24
  to Harris. Low ball four. So McLean having a
• 1:15:29
  rough inning here. Walking two, giving up a double
• 1:15:35
  and a home run. And now Thurman -Munson, who
• 1:15:38
  is two for two, single or left in the first,
• 1:15:40
  single or center in the third. Thurman, who was
• 1:15:43
  hit in eight straight ball games. All the games
• 1:15:48
  the Yankees have played this year. With a good
• 1:16:01
  lead at first, McLean sets, throw to first base,
• 1:16:05
  Clark dives back in time. Thurman asking for
• 1:16:19
  time as he gets ready. Now he sets throw to first
• 1:16:22
  and Clark is back again. stretched by McLean.
• 1:16:36
  There goes Clark. The ball is fouled back in
• 1:16:38
  the upper deck and out of play. What a jump Horace
• 1:16:41
  had. But Thurman had a nice slow curve ball and
• 1:16:44
  with Larry Brown breaking from second base, he
• 1:16:47
  had a big hole between first and second. Tried
• 1:16:50
  to slap it there, but got under it and fouled
• 1:16:53
  it back in the upper deck. Dickhouser flashes
• 1:16:57
  the sign to Thurman -Munson and Horace Clark.
• 1:17:06
  One strike on Muntz. Two out, the Yankees lead
• 1:17:10
  3 -0. In the bottom of the fourth inning. McLean
• 1:17:14
  ready. There goes Clark again. Another one fouled
• 1:17:17
  back and out of play. And again, Clark had the
• 1:17:19
  base stolen. And you hear the roar as the fan
• 1:17:24
  in the upper deck had it, dropped it, it came
• 1:17:26
  back on the net and onto the field. Nothing and
• 1:17:33
  to the count. Todd McLean looks in for the sign.
• 1:17:53
  Stretched by McLean. He's pitching to pitch out,
• 1:17:56
  but that time Harris was not going. Then Dick
• 1:18:05
  Hauser goes through five or six signs. Hudson
• 1:18:08
  now has to protect the plate. He's got a ball
• 1:18:10
  and two strikes on him. Quick throw to first.
• 1:18:16
  Clark is back. McLean ready. Strike three, Munson
• 1:18:27
  caught looking. That was a weird inning for McLean.
• 1:18:30
  Two strikeouts, two walks, two hits. But the
• 1:18:33
  Yankees pick up three runs on the two bases.
• 1:18:37
  No errors and a man left. And at the end of four
• 1:18:40
  full innings, it's the Yankees three, Oakland
• 1:18:42
  nothing. says that Henry Aaron has hit his 643rd
• 1:18:55
  home run of his career. That gives Atlanta a
• 1:19:00
  2 -1 lead over St. Louis after one inning of
• 1:19:03
  play. So that's Aaron's fourth home run of this
• 1:19:09
  season and his 643rd as Atlanta leads St. Louis
• 1:19:14
  2 -1 at the end of one inning of play. All right,
• 1:19:19
  Bill Larry Brown bounced the shortest first time
• 1:19:21
  out takes the curve low ball one afternoon, Minnesota
• 1:19:25
  beat Boston 3 to 1 and Kansas City's playing
• 1:19:30
  Baltimore the birds have lost three strings Chicago
• 1:19:34
  beat Cleveland 7 -5 on Rich Allen's attempt home
• 1:19:37
  10th inning home run Richie's third of the year
• 1:19:43
  No score Detroit at Texas California beat Milwaukee
• 1:19:47
  3 to 1 And that's all we have here. Okay, Bill,
• 1:19:52
  a 1 -1 count on Larry Brown. Mike Jalivis is
• 1:19:54
  inside, two balls and a strike. I heard Redwood,
• 1:20:03
  Dick Allen said that he's very happy in Chicago
• 1:20:07
  playing for the White Sox and this is it. He's
• 1:20:10
  traded again, he's going to quit. That's what
• 1:20:13
  he said at Los Angeles about this time last year.
• 1:20:18
  And two years ago, he said the same thing at
• 1:20:21
  St. Louis. It's amazing. That guy has a good
• 1:20:25
  year every year. I guess I'd better start calling
• 1:20:28
  him Dick, too. Yeah. Yeah, he is better than
• 1:20:33
  I am. Two balls, two strikes. On right hand,
• 1:20:37
  hitting Larry Brown. Curve, hit on the ground,
• 1:20:40
  in the hole. Michael backhands it. Throw it to
• 1:20:43
  first. They got him, holy cow, what a play by
• 1:20:47
  the six. I mean, he came up firing. Now, that
• 1:20:51
  was a difficult play. He was going full speed
• 1:20:53
  in the hole, deep on the edge of the grass, came
• 1:20:57
  up throwing it throughout Larry Brown. And let's
• 1:21:02
  see, we have a pinch hitter now. Coming on. Hendrick
• 1:21:15
  is coming on to bat for McLean. George Hendrick.
• 1:21:30
  Played with Iowa and Oakland last year. With
• 1:21:37
  Iowa that is 333 -21 home run. Ice is one foul.
• 1:21:42
  Boy, he whips that bat. He's loose as a goose
• 1:21:45
  up there. He looks like Aaron, huh? He gets that
• 1:21:48
  bat and wraps it behind his ear. Big right -handed
• 1:21:50
  hitter. Lean. Looks to be about, what, 6 '3"?
• 1:21:54
  Oh, let's see what it is here. 6 '3"? You hit
• 1:21:58
  it on the nose. All right, how about the weight?
• 1:22:00
  You got those... 175. 195. Would you believe
• 1:22:04
  it? Aye, one -on -one. Is he that big? That's
• 1:22:09
  what it says here. 6395 pounds. Boy, he is tall.
• 1:22:16
  Hey, he looks like Don Quinn Dennis. We should
• 1:22:18
  play with him. Just a little bit. One -one delivery.
• 1:22:21
  Broke. Brown ball up the middle and back at second.
• 1:22:23
  That'll be a face hit. Clark's up with it, but
• 1:22:25
  can't make the throw. So the play by Michael
• 1:22:29
  now looms even larger. They'd have had runners
• 1:22:32
  at first and second. An infield hit. Clark backhanded
• 1:22:35
  the ball over the bag, but was going towards
• 1:22:37
  left field. Couldn't throw it. That's the fifth
• 1:22:40
  hit for Oakland. And now Bert Campanaro hits
• 1:22:44
  to the box and bounced out to first base. Yankees
• 1:22:52
  in front three to nothing here in the top of
• 1:22:54
  the fifth. One out. Infield in double play depth,
• 1:23:05
  with the exception of Alou, who's holding the
• 1:23:07
  bag against George Hendricks. Mr. Campanarity,
• 1:23:13
  front foul in the Yankee dugout. In this series,
• 1:23:17
  Oakland has used three pinch hitters, and they've
• 1:23:20
  come through with three base hits. Three for
• 1:23:21
  three. Yankees doing very well in the pinch hitting
• 1:23:25
  department, too. Five for eight, and a sacrifice
• 1:23:31
  fly. One strike on Campaneras. The stretch by
• 1:23:46
  Mike. And he was going to bunt again, but this
• 1:23:48
  one is low on his one -on -one. Alou and McKinney
• 1:23:55
  were charging in that time. Campaneras with outstanding
• 1:23:58
  speed. One man out. Hendrick leads to a first
• 1:24:09
  base. Curve is high, ball two, two and one. You
• 1:24:18
  know, one thing about this Oakland club, Phil,
• 1:24:20
  they don't try to get all their runs at once.
• 1:24:22
  You were yet last night with Rudy up on a man
• 1:24:25
  on first, Keith Bunnett. That sets that whole
• 1:24:27
  ball game up because Bando came through with
• 1:24:30
  a triple to tie the ball game. Absolutely. With
• 1:24:34
  a club like this, as you say, they figure a run
• 1:24:36
  here, run there, then a long ball. The pitch
• 1:24:40
  bounced slowly to third, or they're going to
• 1:24:42
  have to hurry to get him. McKinney throws. Safe!
• 1:24:45
  Safe at first base. I tell you, he can fly. That
• 1:24:50
  brief one second of hesitation, where the technique
• 1:24:53
  was going to pick it up on McKinney, caught him.
• 1:24:55
  That base hit. He had tried a bunt twice, and
• 1:24:59
  that one was a swinging bunt. There's actually
• 1:25:03
  no such thing as a swinging bunt, but it had
• 1:25:05
  the same effect. He gets an infield hit. He can
• 1:25:09
  really get down that line. I still say the play
• 1:25:15
  by Gene Michaels so far has kept Oakland from
• 1:25:18
  having a real big inning. Instead of the bases
• 1:25:21
  loaded and nobody on, they have runners at first
• 1:25:24
  and second and one out. Joe Rudy, single or left,
• 1:25:27
  and popped to first base. Yankees lead 3 -0 top
• 1:25:32
  of the fifth. Hendrick at second, Campanaris
• 1:25:39
  at first. Stretched by Kekich. Mike Kicks delivers
• 1:25:49
  a curve hit deep to left center field, way out
• 1:25:52
  there. Roy White is back there though and Mercer
• 1:25:55
  and Mercer makes the catch. Both runners could
• 1:25:58
  have tagged up in advance, but they didn't they
• 1:26:00
  played it halfway and a long drive by Joe Rudy
• 1:26:04
  caught by Bobby Mercer And deep left center field
• 1:26:07
  the wind blowing from left toward right field
• 1:26:11
  held that ball up That have been a long run in
• 1:26:14
  a lot of ballpark, but not Yankee Stadium Reggie
• 1:26:19
  Jackson struck out in the first was robbed of
• 1:26:21
  a base hit on a fine over -the -shoulder catch
• 1:26:23
  by Horace Clark in the fourth Two out and two
• 1:26:27
  on. Yankees out in front three to nothing. Mike
• 1:26:36
  is ready, comes to the belt. Curve is a little
• 1:26:41
  bit high, ball one. They play Jackson way around
• 1:26:53
  towards right. Another curved swing and a missed
• 1:27:00
  one -on -one. Jackson does not get cheated on
• 1:27:06
  his swing. He really swings hard. Mike gets the
• 1:27:20
  sign from Munson. Runners lead away. The curve,
• 1:27:25
  check to swing that time and it's low. Two balls
• 1:27:28
  and a strike. Tekich is keeping that ball in
• 1:27:36
  good spots on Jackson. Either down and in or
• 1:27:39
  down and away. Doesn't want to give one up to
• 1:27:42
  him. Yankees leading 3 -0 top of the fifth. Two
• 1:27:48
  out and two on. Mike, with a long look in, has
• 1:27:57
  the sign. His pitch swing and a miss. Two balls,
• 1:28:06
  two strikes. And I tell you, he had good motion
• 1:28:08
  on that one. He had to have good motion because
• 1:28:10
  the pitch was up around the letters. If I were
• 1:28:14
  Reggie Jackson here, I'd be looking for that
• 1:28:17
  sidearm curve ball. He got him on that one the
• 1:28:20
  first time up. Two balls, two strikes, two out,
• 1:28:26
  two men on. He's probably throw the fastball
• 1:28:31
  right by it. Stretched by Kekich. He looks. Breaking
• 1:28:38
  pitch and it's low. Three and two. So he did
• 1:28:41
  not come side on but would not give in and throw
• 1:28:44
  the fastball. He has not thrown a fastball. He's
• 1:28:47
  thrown five pitches to Jackson, all breaking
• 1:28:49
  pitches. Now the runners will be off with the
• 1:28:52
  pitch. Three and two and two up. They lead away
• 1:29:02
  and that Campanaris can fly. Taking a big lead.
• 1:29:06
  The stretch. Mike looking at Campanaris. There
• 1:29:11
  they go. The curve is high. Ball four on the
• 1:29:13
  bases to load it. I said you lose daughter to
• 1:29:16
  sneak in behind campaign errors a quick throw
• 1:29:19
  over there would have picked them off Second
• 1:29:22
  walk given up by tech it and the bases are loaded
• 1:29:25
  Two men are out and here's that man Bando. He's
• 1:29:30
  single a center in the first bounce is short
• 1:29:32
  in the fourth But it was his big triple last
• 1:29:36
  night that tied up the ballgame drove in two
• 1:29:39
  runs Red Bean gets up in the Yankee bullpen.
• 1:29:53
  Hendrick at third. Campaneras at second. Jackson
• 1:29:56
  at first. Hendrick coming down the line, but
• 1:30:01
  Keckett's not even looking at him. And time is
• 1:30:03
  called as Bando has something in his eye. Oh,
• 1:30:10
  he's got it out. And we're ready to go. All right,
• 1:30:20
  Mike rocks back. Mr. Bando almost hit him, and
• 1:30:25
  Munson, they had a play on his third, and the
• 1:30:27
  ball popped out of Munson's glove. Ball one on
• 1:30:34
  Sal Bando. Bando has a double, a triple, and
• 1:30:41
  three runs batted in on the year. Mike ready
• 1:30:47
  again. Curve outside, ball two, two and up it.
• 1:31:04
  Face on balls, cross McLean in the bottom of
• 1:31:09
  the fourth inning. The 2 -0 pitch, ground ball
• 1:31:14
  hit the third, McKinney is up with it, goes to
• 1:31:16
  clock in time for the fourth play. And that Jackson
• 1:31:20
  went at the clock and split about ten feet past
• 1:31:23
  them, but Harris jumped over them. They get the
• 1:31:27
  fourth from third to second and four Oakland.
• 1:31:29
  No runs, two base hits. No errors, three men
• 1:31:33
  left. And at the end of four and a half, it's
• 1:31:36
  the Yankees three and Oakland nothing. The new
• 1:31:42
  pitcher for the Oakland A's is Johnny Lee Blue
• 1:31:45
  Moon Odom. A fellow from Macon, Georgia. Blue
• 1:31:48
  Moon last year had a bit of arm trouble. He did
• 1:31:52
  get into 25 ball games, completed only three.
• 1:31:57
  He won 10 games and lost 12 for the Oakland A's.
• 1:32:03
  Blue Moon, Odom. That surgery on his right elbow
• 1:32:07
  was a 1970 bill? Mm -hmm. That's rough there.
• 1:32:12
  Not too many pitches come back after surgery
• 1:32:14
  on their pitching elbow. Would you like to see
• 1:32:18
  this young kid do well? He's quite a competitor.
• 1:32:28
  He'll be facing Mercer wide and aloof. Wears
• 1:32:34
  number 13 on his back, so he's not the least
• 1:32:37
  bit superstitious. All right, he's ready to go.
• 1:32:51
  So, Denny McLean worked four innings. He gave
• 1:32:54
  a five -hit, walked three, struck out one, checked
• 1:32:58
  that, struck out two, and allowed three runs.
• 1:33:02
  The first earned run scored off Denny McLean
• 1:33:04
  this year. Bobby Mercer lined to left and lined
• 1:33:10
  a single to right. Yankee's out in front three
• 1:33:14
  -nothing. We're in the bottom of the fifth inning.
• 1:33:30
  Blue moon ready. Fastball is low. Ball one. He
• 1:33:34
  threw that ball hard. Right hander into the windup.
• 1:33:51
  Fastball outside. Ball two. Two and nothing.
• 1:33:59
  Sometimes the weather like this, some pitchers
• 1:34:01
  who've had arm trouble worry about it, but this
• 1:34:04
  fellow is cutting loose. It's good to see him
• 1:34:06
  do that. The 2 -0 pitch. Line to right field,
• 1:34:10
  curving, foul. Boy, Bobby was looking for the
• 1:34:13
  fastball. Got it. Drilled it deep into the seats,
• 1:34:16
  but fouled by about 20 feet. On the big scoreboard,
• 1:34:23
  the Yankee RBI lead is Gene Michael with 7, Bobby
• 1:34:26
  Mercer with 5. And now Bobby has the time at
• 1:34:35
  the plate. Bottom of the 50, Yankees lead 3 -0.
• 1:34:48
  Wind up by Blue Moon. Fastball is low and it's
• 1:34:51
  3 and 1. to see him sign up the way he drew people
• 1:35:09
  in the ballpark. On the road, he had quite a
• 1:35:14
  year. Foul to the left of the plate, it's three
• 1:35:17
  and two. Jim Woods, the Oakland announcer, said
• 1:35:21
  he was talking to Willie Mays, and Willie has
• 1:35:23
  a way to get blue into the league. He said, why
• 1:35:26
  doesn't blue do the same thing I did with Sonam?
• 1:35:28
  Sign for 50 and borrow 50. Pay the 50 back over
• 1:35:31
  10 years, but don't make any payments on the
• 1:35:34
  last 50. How do you like that the payoff pitch
• 1:35:40
  strike three called Bobby Mercer called out on
• 1:35:44
  strike So blue moon autumn first man he faces
• 1:35:49
  the tough Mercer he strikes him out and now raw
• 1:35:52
  white bounce to first and fly to luck I don't
• 1:36:00
  know where the Finley would go for that though
• 1:36:04
  Evidently, he stole them, didn't he? Yeah. I
• 1:36:11
  won out. Nobody on. Hold them into the windup.
• 1:36:19
  Foul out of play. Back in the upper deck. Well,
• 1:36:23
  I gotta tell you, Bill, laid down today with
• 1:36:28
  a fella named... ...Liddy. Tom Letty, and he
• 1:36:35
  had a hole in one. It's one of the prettiest
• 1:36:39
  sights and one of the most exciting things you
• 1:36:41
  ever want to see. Even for you non -golfers,
• 1:36:45
  a hole in one pitches high, and it's one on one.
• 1:36:51
  On the longest par three hole on our course,
• 1:36:54
  he hit a forward, and you could see it all the
• 1:36:56
  way. Hit on the green, take two bounces, and
• 1:36:59
  disappear right in the cup. You ever got a hole
• 1:37:03
  in one? I got one hole in one. Oh, and it's something.
• 1:37:08
  Lowball 2 -2 -1. You gotta buy drinks. Yes, sir.
• 1:37:12
  You gotta buy everybody who has played golf,
• 1:37:16
  or had played that day, a drink. But it really
• 1:37:20
  doesn't cost you, because everybody puts up a
• 1:37:22
  dollar and you get whatever the pot is. He got
• 1:37:24
  about $240. Not bad. In case the internal revenue
• 1:37:30
  is... Listening in. That pitch low inside. Ball
• 1:37:34
  three. Three and one. I want to tell you what
• 1:37:39
  was so tough about it. He was not my partner.
• 1:37:42
  He got a shot. He got a stroke on that hole so
• 1:37:45
  he had zero for the hole. How can you beat that?
• 1:37:48
  He can't even tie it. It cost me a few bob but
• 1:37:54
  I was very happy. Had a couple of Dr. Peppers
• 1:37:59
  and that was it. Ground ball to first base that's
• 1:38:02
  being up with it runs over makes the play unassisted
• 1:38:05
  and there are two away And now fully Bayaloo
• 1:38:15
  line to center and foul to the catcher To out
• 1:38:25
  Yankees in front three to nothing we're in the
• 1:38:27
  bottom of the fifth inning Johnny Callison, which
• 1:38:49
  is low inside, ball one. The 1 -0 delivery. Little
• 1:39:08
  bit high, ball two, 2 -0. Question marks on the
• 1:39:16
  pitching staff for Oakland. Blue moon, Odom one.
• 1:39:21
  Dobson, another one. 2 -0 pitch, fouled again
• 1:39:30
  and got Luciano. That's three times that Ron
• 1:39:34
  Luciano has been hit with foul tips. Twice on
• 1:39:38
  the mask, once on the chest protector. Dave Duncan
• 1:39:53
  gives the sign to Odom. His pitch is fouled back
• 1:40:00
  in the upper deck and out of play and the count
• 1:40:02
  is even at two and two. It looks like the Yankees
• 1:40:10
  hitters are just looking for that number one,
• 1:40:12
  that fastball, and they're really getting good
• 1:40:15
  rips at it. They are. I guess they figure with
• 1:40:19
  the cold weather and blue moon. We mentioned
• 1:40:22
  before, maybe a little worried. Doesn't want
• 1:40:24
  to throw too many breaking pitches. A little
• 1:40:28
  chilly here tonight. Denny McLean was blowing
• 1:40:30
  on his hand, going to his mouth just about after
• 1:40:32
  every pitch. The 2 -2 pitch, just outside another
• 1:40:38
  blazer that time. It's 3 -2. Well, you know,
• 1:40:44
  Felipe will be looking for the fastball here.
• 1:40:48
  Three balls, two strikes, two outs. Total mind.
• 1:40:54
  Passball is low and inside, and Alou gets a walk.
• 1:40:58
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• 1:41:00
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• 1:41:05
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• 1:41:08
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• 1:41:10
  sound of Radio 81, WGY Schenectomy. Johnny Callison,
• 1:41:22
  who started the big three run uprising for the
• 1:41:24
  Yankees in the fourth inning with an opposite
• 1:41:26
  field double, is up there. Johnny also applied
• 1:41:29
  deep to center. He's one for two on the night.
• 1:41:33
  Alou leads away. Pitch to Callison. Swing and
• 1:41:36
  a foul to the left of the plate. Strike one.
• 1:41:42
  Johnny has that right hand. Well, it's stinging
• 1:41:46
  a little bit right now. He hit it off the end
• 1:41:48
  of the bat. making a fist. It's the kind of night
• 1:41:57
  you got to hit him right on the trademark. Best
• 1:42:02
  ball pulled, he got that one on the trademark,
• 1:42:04
  but just bowled down the right field line. Nothing
• 1:42:10
  and two. Epstein holding the bag against Duluth.
• 1:42:22
  Yankees with all three runs in the fourth on
• 1:42:24
  the three -run homer by the stick, Gene Michael.
• 1:42:35
  Odom leans over to get the sign. Callison now
• 1:42:40
  has the time. Odom ahead of him, 0 -2. Still
• 1:42:55
  nothing in two. Oh, another new ball thrown out
• 1:43:08
  to Odom. On deck, Rich McKinney. Odom is ready.
• 1:43:28
  for a base hit. A loser on second. He's going
• 1:43:32
  to third. The throw comes in at third, not in
• 1:43:34
  time. And I want to tell you, that was as pretty
• 1:43:38
  a play as you'd want to see. I don't know whether
• 1:43:42
  it was a blooper pitch, but it was a high, slow
• 1:43:45
  change -up curve. And Johnny Callison just backhanded
• 1:43:49
  like a tennis stroke over Vando's head. You can
• 1:43:52
  see the look on Vando's face, Bill. Johnny waited
• 1:43:55
  on that ball. Well, it just looped it out there.
• 1:43:58
  Usually on a pitch like that, if you're trying
• 1:44:00
  to pull the ball, you're out in front. You either
• 1:44:02
  pop it up or hit it on the ground in second base.
• 1:44:05
  So when you can handle a pitch like that after
• 1:44:08
  being thrown so many basketballs and still waiting
• 1:44:11
  to hit it out there, your timing is coming around
• 1:44:14
  pretty good. That's for sure. So the Yankees
• 1:44:17
  have run it at first and fair. And I tell you,
• 1:44:20
  Felipe hasn't lost any speed because Rudy made
• 1:44:23
  a great throw in the third but Alou kept going
• 1:44:25
  and slid in safely. Now Rich McKinney bounce
• 1:44:27
  the third and walk. Pops it up. The catcher Dave
• 1:44:32
  Duncan in foul territory coming back near the
• 1:44:34
  screen. Makes the catch. So the Yankees are out
• 1:44:38
  of there. No runs. A base hit. No errors and
• 1:44:42
  two men left. And now at the end of five full
• 1:44:44
  innings it's the Yankees three and Oakland nothing.
• 1:44:51
  Bobby Brooks. Line to base hit the left field.
• 1:44:55
  He hit a bullet past McKinney. Roy White up with
• 1:44:58
  it and Brooks is on. Brooks had fly to center
• 1:45:02
  and walk before singling sharply to left. That's
• 1:45:06
  the seventh base hit. For Oakland, it brings
• 1:45:09
  up Dave Duncan who has fly to left and single
• 1:45:11
  to left. I think he's leading 3 -0 top of the
• 1:45:22
  sixth. Stretched by Mike. His pitch fouled back
• 1:45:29
  off the screen, strike one. On deck, Mike Epstein.
• 1:45:41
  Mike has hit the ball hard twice tonight. Bobby
• 1:45:55
  Brooks leading off first. Alou playing in back
• 1:45:59
  of the runner. High and outside, one -on -one.
• 1:46:04
  And we're going to get some action now in the
• 1:46:05
  Yankee bullpen. Duncan looks down at Irv Noren,
• 1:46:16
  coaching at third. Change -up, hitting the ground
• 1:46:25
  a third, could be two. McKinney to Clark, back
• 1:46:28
  to first, double play! And Horace Clark hung
• 1:46:32
  in there that time, with the speedy Bobby Brooks
• 1:46:35
  right on top of him and sliding in to Horace.
• 1:46:37
  Horace got rid of it, completed the double play,
• 1:46:40
  and then was knocked down. This is the new Horace
• 1:46:44
  Clark we're seeing this year, big double play.
• 1:46:49
  And they were two out, and a batter now. The
• 1:46:53
  single was cut down trying to steal in the second
• 1:46:55
  and then robbed of a base hit on a great play
• 1:46:58
  by Mercer in the fourth. Side armor to Epstein
• 1:47:06
  in there, strike one call. Time is called, Epstein
• 1:47:17
  wants Luciano to look at the ball. He does and
• 1:47:21
  says nothing wrong with it. He's still leading
• 1:47:28
  three to nothing. Another side armor, but this
• 1:47:38
  one is a little low, breaking pitch, and it's
• 1:47:40
  1 -1. 1 -1 pitch outside, 2 -1. has been in there
• 1:48:08
  all the way. Denny McLean started for Oakland,
• 1:48:11
  went four innings. There's a fastball right down
• 1:48:14
  the middle, two and two. Two balls, two strikes,
• 1:48:28
  two outs. Kekich into the windup. Down by a low.
• 1:48:43
  Epstein hung in there that time as Kekes came
• 1:48:45
  by the way of first base. And we'll have a 2
• 1:49:04
  -2 pitch coming up. Here it is and it's a curve
• 1:49:08
  low. ground hard base hit to right field. Epstein
• 1:49:33
  has done very well against the left -hand pitcher
• 1:49:36
  tonight. He's hit the ball hard three times,
• 1:49:38
  two base hits. And that's base hit number eight.
• 1:49:42
  So you can see how important that double play
• 1:49:44
  was now, just as Michael's fielding play in the
• 1:49:48
  fifth inning was. And here's Larry Brown, who
• 1:49:51
  was robbed of that base hit in the fifth and
• 1:49:54
  bounced out to Michael, his first time up. Allier
• 1:50:03
  is on deck. And the event that Larry Brown gets
• 1:50:08
  on, Allier will pinch hit for Blue Moon Odom.
• 1:50:12
  There's a pitch in there. Strike one call. Two
• 1:50:21
  men are out. Yankees leading 3 -0 in the top
• 1:50:24
  of the sixth. momentarily. The Oakland bench
• 1:50:36
  getting on Ron Luciano and he's just thrown Dick
• 1:50:39
  Williams out of the game I do believe. Dick Williams
• 1:50:42
  really getting on Ron Luciano and he's been ejected
• 1:50:46
  from the ball game. And Dick Williams who has
• 1:50:51
  really let his hair grow long like some of his
• 1:50:55
  ballplayers was getting on Luciano and That's
• 1:51:01
  enough, and Williams kept talking and Luciano
• 1:51:04
  waved him out. So now Williams comes out to have
• 1:51:07
  another say. But it's too late now, he has been
• 1:51:11
  thrown out of the game. Trying to get a $25 worth.
• 1:51:15
  Yeah. Stay too long, it might cost you 50 though.
• 1:51:21
  That's right. Because here comes Frank Umont.
• 1:51:30
  He's got a nickel word in though before he left.
• 1:51:32
  He's got 25 dollars and five cents worth. Alright
• 1:51:39
  Bill. So Dick Williams is out of the game. It's
• 1:51:46
  one strike on Larry Brown. Stretched by Kekich.
• 1:51:51
  Kich is outside one -on -one. One ball, one strike.
• 1:52:12
  Curve hit on the ground is short. Gene Michael
• 1:52:14
  up with it, flips the clock for the fourth play.
• 1:52:18
  Oh, the Yankees with good defense tonight. For
• 1:52:22
  Oakland, no runs, two hits, no errors, a man
• 1:52:24
  left. At the end of five and a half, it's the
• 1:52:26
  Yankees three and Oakland nothing. Mitchell just
• 1:52:38
  informed us, Bill, that that's Williams' second
• 1:52:41
  ejection of the season. So that's going to cost
• 1:52:43
  him more than 25. Uh -huh. Looks like that's
• 1:52:47
  kind of a year. Here he is, the hitting star
• 1:52:50
  for the Yankees, Gene Michael. Bounced a second
• 1:52:53
  his first time up, but in the fourth inning with
• 1:52:55
  two men on, he home it into the right field seat
• 1:52:57
  for all three runs. And Gene takes the pitch,
• 1:53:01
  low ball one. and the Yankees in front three
• 1:53:11
  -nothing. Wind up by Odom. Outside ball two.
• 1:53:19
  Odom, when he delivers, kind of falls towards
• 1:53:21
  first base. Here's the two -all pitch. Right
• 1:53:34
  down the middle, strike called. Two and one on
• 1:53:39
  deck, Mike Kekich. Two -one pitch high, ball
• 1:53:51
  three, three and one. Oakland out hitting the
• 1:53:57
  Yankees eight to six. But as we told you, the
• 1:53:59
  big home run by Michael accounting for all three
• 1:54:03
  runs. 3 -1 delivery, Gene taking all the way
• 1:54:11
  at slow ball four. Second walk, given up by Odom.
• 1:54:17
  And now Mike Hekkichup, and his job is to advance.
• 1:54:22
  Michael is second with a sacrifice putt. Epstein
• 1:54:25
  comes over now to talk with Blumo. You know,
• 1:54:30
  with Larry Brown in there, Phil, I wonder if
• 1:54:32
  they'll try the play they tried last night with
• 1:54:34
  the second baseman, Green, coming in. I got it.
• 1:54:39
  Brown is not nearly as quick as Dick Green. I
• 1:54:43
  imagine Epstein will come in and Brown will go
• 1:54:45
  over and cover first. You gotta be quick to do
• 1:54:49
  that. They're creeping in and Kekich bunched,
• 1:54:52
  bunched it hard. Epstein, they're gonna go to
• 1:54:54
  second and it's gonna be late and every... Oh,
• 1:54:56
  he called him out! Holy cow did he miss that
• 1:55:00
  play. Jim Odom. Michael had slid his foot, was
• 1:55:06
  on the... the inside part of the bag, and Campanaris
• 1:55:12
  had a reach for it. Gene had beaten the play,
• 1:55:14
  but Odom called him out. So it goes to the fourth
• 1:55:19
  play from three to six. Epstein got in there
• 1:55:23
  quickly, but did not make a good throw. And Gene
• 1:55:27
  Michael with a good jump and a burst of speed
• 1:55:29
  was in the second base. One away. Harris clots
• 1:55:33
  the batter. Harris has walked twice and flied
• 1:55:35
  to center. Kekes with the jacket on at first.
• 1:55:48
  Standing in front of, staying there. The stretch
• 1:55:53
  and the pitch outside ball one. Bill White, you
• 1:55:57
  know, watching Kekes there, I noticed when I
• 1:56:00
  was playing there was some big guys would stand
• 1:56:02
  in front of our first baseman on a play like
• 1:56:04
  this. Didn't that bother you a little bit? It
• 1:56:07
  does. Right, it does. You can't see well. All
• 1:56:12
  right, the 1 -0 delivery. Low ball 2, 2 -0. Virginia
• 1:56:24
  Citizens Day at Saturday at 2 p .m. when the
• 1:56:27
  Yankees play the Minnesota Twins. Our first one
• 1:56:32
  of the year. 2 -0 pitch outside, ball 3, 3 -0.
• 1:56:41
  One thing here, Phil, I'm sure Mike wanted to
• 1:56:44
  get the guy over. second but I'm also sure he
• 1:56:47
  didn't want to be out there on that base himself
• 1:56:49
  standing around in this cold weather. Right he
• 1:56:52
  wanted to get in that dugout where those heaters
• 1:56:54
  are. Stay warm. We know on our clock he'll be
• 1:57:00
  taken all the way. The pitch is right down the
• 1:57:03
  middle three balls and a strike. Herman Munson
• 1:57:08
  on deck. Ready for the 3 -1 pitch. It's right
• 1:57:20
  in there, strike two, three and two. Well, let's
• 1:57:27
  see if Mike will be off and running. Only one
• 1:57:30
  out. They're not paying too much attention to
• 1:57:35
  him there at first base. The stretch, he does
• 1:57:40
  not go and the ball is outside, ball four. Walked
• 1:57:45
  two men in this inning. His third since he came
• 1:57:48
  in the ball game in the fifth. Beckett's walking
• 1:57:52
  slowly to second. Clark is at first. Thurman
• 1:57:54
  -Munson who is two for three. Single to left
• 1:57:57
  in the first. Single to center in the third and
• 1:57:59
  struck out in the fourth. On deck, Bobby Merson.
• 1:58:06
  Yankees leading three nothing. Bottom of the
• 1:58:08
  sixth. One out. Breaking pitch, ball one. Only
• 1:58:39
  one out. Mackey's trying to add to their three.
• 1:58:46
  Hold them to the belt. Ball two, little bit inside.
• 1:58:54
  Epstein's going to come over, and Bando started
• 1:58:56
  in from third, but Epstein got there first. Little
• 1:59:03
  action in the Oakland bullpen. Two balls, no
• 1:59:18
  strikes on Munson. His pitch is ball three. Three
• 1:59:38
  balls, no strikes. So, Blue Moon Odom in a jam
• 1:59:50
  here. Walk through this inning already, and there's
• 1:59:55
  the strike on the inside part of the plate. Three
• 1:59:57
  and one. On the scoreboard, the Yanks wish the
• 2:00:02
  Knicks the best of luck at Los Angeles tonight.
• 2:00:06
  The first game of that important playoff series
• 2:00:09
  between the Knicks and the Lakers. The don't
• 2:00:14
  turn on your TVs doesn't start till after ten.
• 2:00:20
  The stretch and the pitch pop foul back and out
• 2:00:23
  of play. Green two. Matter of fact, If they might
• 2:00:29
  delay the start of that game, I heard on the
• 2:00:32
  radio because President Nixon is going to dress
• 2:00:34
  the country tonight at 10 o 'clock. If they delay
• 2:00:41
  it too long, they'll be starting the season again.
• 2:00:44
  Looks like they start basketball in June, though.
• 2:00:50
  And hockey. Gotta wish the Rangers luck, too.
• 2:00:56
  They'll be meeting the Boston Bruins. Second
• 2:01:04
  base orb was a good throw there to have Kekich.
• 2:01:07
  They had the pickle play on. Larry Brown came
• 2:01:10
  over, but Blue Moon Odom threw it high, and Kekich
• 2:01:14
  was able to dive back in. A lot of times that's
• 2:01:18
  a count play. The pitcher will watch the catcher,
• 2:01:21
  and when the catcher, or in this case, Dave Duncan,
• 2:01:25
  sees Brown, the second baseman, positioned, he'll
• 2:01:29
  maybe give the pitcher a quick fist to the old
• 2:01:31
  wheel and throw there. Right on the nose. As
• 2:01:44
  Munson gobs a low fastball. That Rudy really
• 2:01:49
  bouncing around in left field. Two outs. Bobby
• 2:01:51
  Mertz to the batter. Bobby is flying to left,
• 2:01:53
  single right and struck out. These guys have
• 2:01:59
  more conferences than anybody. There's Bando
• 2:02:01
  out there again with his catcher Duncan. They
• 2:02:04
  do a lot of talking. I guess that's what you
• 2:02:06
  need though with a veteran ball club. Soft aim's
• 2:02:09
  over. Well, it looks like they've been stalling
• 2:02:12
  to get somebody loose out in the bullpen, Bill.
• 2:02:14
  That's Bill Posedale, who evidently has taken
• 2:02:17
  over for Dick Williams. Williams was kicked out
• 2:02:20
  for arguing a ball strike count with Ron Luciano.
• 2:02:26
  So Bill Posedale out there now talking to his
• 2:02:29
  pitcher, Lou Monodam, and they're gonna, looks
• 2:02:32
  like they're gonna bring a left -hander in to
• 2:02:34
  pitch to Bobby Mercer. Dick Hauser. goes out
• 2:02:41
  and says something to Mike Tankett. She tells
• 2:02:42
  him to be careful down there. Mike almost got
• 2:02:45
  picked off. While we're waiting on the new pitcher,
• 2:02:48
  let's go over the scores again for you. Minnesota
• 2:02:50
  beat Boston 3 -1. The winning pitcher was Dick
• 2:02:54
  Woodson, the loser Ray Cope. No score. Baltimore,
• 2:02:58
  Kansas City at the end of three innings of play.
• 2:03:01
  McNally against Al Kenton. Baltimore's lost three
• 2:03:04
  games in a row. Chicago White Sox. Dick Allen's
• 2:03:10
  third home run of the year in a 10th of one on
• 2:03:12
  edge to Cleveland 7 -2. That's the Chicago 7th
• 2:03:19
  straight win. Texas is playing host to Detroit.
• 2:03:22
  There's no score there at the end of two and
• 2:03:24
  a half innings of play. California beat Milwaukee
• 2:03:27
  3 -1. The winner, Clark. The loser, Parsons.
• 2:03:33
  In the National League, San Francisco beat Philadelphia
• 2:03:36
  8 -6. I think at the end of five, St. Louis leads
• 2:03:45
  Atlanta now eight to three at the end of three
• 2:03:49
  and a half innings of play. Henry Aaron got his
• 2:03:51
  643rd home run of his career in that ball game.
• 2:03:58
  Houston leads Chicago, the Cubs three to two.
• 2:04:01
  The Cubs have lost seven straight and the Astros
• 2:04:03
  surprisingly have won eight straight. Montreal
• 2:04:06
  and Los Angeles, that game tonight and we have
• 2:04:09
  no score on that yet. I'll tell you about the
• 2:04:18
  many ways to buy tickets to Yankee games. There
• 2:04:21
  are more than 200 ticket outlets in Yankee land.
• 2:04:23
  First there is the Yankee Stadium's advanced
• 2:04:26
  ticket office. That's open every day of the season
• 2:04:28
  from 9 in the morning until 5 p .m. and until
• 2:04:31
  at least a half hour after the close of the game
• 2:04:33
  at Yankee Stadium. You can also order any time
• 2:04:37
  by mail simply send your ticket request, check,
• 2:04:39
  or money order together with your name and address
• 2:04:41
  to the ticket manor. New York Yankee, Yankee
• 2:04:43
  Stadium, Bronx, New York. Okay, Bill and Jim
• 2:04:56
  Rowland, a big left -hander comes on to do the
• 2:04:58
  pitching. This is his second appearance of the
• 2:05:00
  year, has no one or loss reckoned. Pitching to
• 2:05:03
  Bobby Mercer with runners at first and second,
• 2:05:05
  two out in the Yankees leading 3 -0. Almost a
• 2:05:08
  wild pitch. A good play by Dave Duncan as Rowland
• 2:05:12
  came side on. Ball one to Mercer. Rollin' at
• 2:05:21
  6 -2, 200 pounds. Kekich at second, Clark at
• 2:05:30
  first, two up. Through the belt. Pitch low, ball
• 2:05:38
  two, he almost stumbled that time. Fixing the
• 2:05:42
  mound out there. On deck, Felipe Alou. Nope,
• 2:05:50
  check that, Roy White. Felipe bats after White.
• 2:05:59
  2 -0 on Bobby. Switched by Rowland is low, ball
• 2:06:05
  three. And Rowland wanted that one. 3 -0 to count.
• 2:06:18
  That's the score of the game, too, 3 -0. Yankees'
• 2:06:21
  favor. Stretch by Rowland. 3 -0 pitch. Strike
• 2:06:32
  one call, 3 -1. Look at him. He's got hands up.
• 2:06:45
  He's got two strikes and a ball. He's got to
• 2:06:47
  adjust the opposite. But it's three and one here.
• 2:06:52
  All right. Ready for the 3 -1 pitch. Bobby will
• 2:06:54
  be ready for that fastball. He hits it deep to
• 2:06:58
  right field. That ball's going to be in for a
• 2:07:00
  base hit. Bounces in the seats for a ground roll
• 2:07:03
  double. And Tekich scores. Block has to stop
• 2:07:06
  and go back to third. And Bobby Mercer in with
• 2:07:09
  a stand -up double. The Yankees are out in front
• 2:07:12
  four to nothing. You know, that's got to be a
• 2:07:17
  great feeling, Bill. A new pitcher coming in.
• 2:07:21
  He's behind three and one. And the almost 99
• 2:07:25
  percent sure he's going to come in with a fastball.
• 2:07:27
  You're going to get that fastball. And Bobby
• 2:07:29
  hung with it and lined it down the right field
• 2:07:31
  line. And actually, the ball hadn't bounced in
• 2:07:33
  the seat. Bobby might have gotten another RBI
• 2:07:35
  because Clark was hustling around second. Yes,
• 2:07:38
  he was. By two men around, Roy White the batter.
• 2:07:42
  Roy has bounced to first twice and flying to
• 2:07:44
  left. Mercer at second, Clark at third. Rowland
• 2:07:51
  will take the full windup. Mr. White fouled back
• 2:07:55
  and out of play. That run, by the way, will be
• 2:08:04
  charged to Blue Moon Odom. Mike Kekich scoring.
• 2:08:17
  One strike pitch just outside 101. Clark also
• 2:08:23
  is the responsibility of Odom. Harris has had
• 2:08:30
  three walks in this ballgame. Number last year,
• 2:08:35
  Harris got a lot of walks. As a matter of fact,
• 2:08:36
  got more walks than he's gotten in any other
• 2:08:38
  year in the big leagues. Curve looped in a shallow
• 2:08:42
  right field. Nobody's going to get this, but
• 2:08:44
  it'll go into the seat. Epstein chases it, but
• 2:08:47
  it goes way back into the seat. One ball, two
• 2:08:50
  strikes. Harris now has five bases on balls for
• 2:08:58
  the year. Mark had 64 last year and ours is noted
• 2:09:10
  as a man was tough to walk cause he would swing
• 2:09:12
  at just about anything but he's really got that
• 2:09:16
  eagle eye now. The pitch high and outside the
• 2:09:26
  count is even a two and two. Two balls, two strikes,
• 2:09:29
  two out, two men on. And at halftime, the New
• 2:09:34
  York Nets 63, the Virginia Squires 52. Go Nets
• 2:09:38
  on the scoreboard. The 2 -2 pitch. Foul over
• 2:09:44
  our heads. How about that? A young boy got that
• 2:09:57
  one. Showed me a lot of courage there because
• 2:09:59
  it's cold tonight and that was a solid foul ball
• 2:10:02
  line drive. Two and two. Rolling winds. Pitch
• 2:10:12
  low and inside, full count, three and two. Three
• 2:10:27
  balls, two strikes. Yankees in front, four -nothing.
• 2:10:30
  And the bottom of the sixth. The background and
• 2:10:37
  the back goes out to the mound. So does the ball
• 2:10:39
  and Roland throws the ball at first base and
• 2:10:42
  they got him. But the Yankees pick up a run on
• 2:10:46
  just one base hit. No errors and two men left.
• 2:10:51
  And now at the end of six full innings is the
• 2:10:53
  Yankees four and Oakland nothing. We're getting
• 2:10:59
  ready to go at the top of the seventh before
• 2:11:01
  we go to the top of the seventh though. Here
• 2:11:03
  is Bill White with a very important announcement.
• 2:11:07
  Bill, let's pause now. This is the New York Yankee
• 2:11:10
  baseball network. Let's pause for station identification.
• 2:11:14
  This is your guy, High Agents. Join me for your
• 2:11:16
  kind of music, weekdays, 3 to 7, here on the
• 2:11:20
  fresh air sound of Radio 81, WGY Schenectady.
• 2:11:31
  As we go into the top of the 7 with the Yankees
• 2:11:34
  ahead 4 -0, We have a pinch hitter, Frank Mutter.
• 2:11:39
  Yes, Brett Algate. Well, that for the pitcher,
• 2:11:44
  Jim Rowland. And the A's, as Ewen Phil mentioned
• 2:11:48
  earlier, have been very successful in this series
• 2:11:51
  with their pinch hitters. A little while ago,
• 2:11:53
  George Hendrick had an infield hit as a pinch
• 2:11:55
  hitter. The Oakland pinch hitters are three for
• 2:11:59
  three in this series, Bill. All right, techage
• 2:12:01
  is ready. D was the first pitch. A curve ball
• 2:12:03
  that's too low. Two years with the Minnesota
• 2:12:12
  Twins. Picked up over the window by open. Down
• 2:12:16
  low ball. Two balls and no strikes. Aldi, a big
• 2:12:22
  right -handed hitter. He's 6 '3", weighs 215.
• 2:12:26
  Attended Hofstra College. Looks down on his third
• 2:12:29
  base coach, Irv Norn. Tag that just ready now.
• 2:12:32
  The 2 -0 pitch. Ball three inside. It'll be Aldi,
• 2:12:40
  then Burt Campanier. and then Joe Rudy as we're
• 2:12:45
  in the top of the seventh. Gackage has given
• 2:12:48
  up eight hits. Pitch is too low, ball four. Walked
• 2:12:52
  him on four pitches. So in this series, the Oakland
• 2:13:00
  Pitch Hitters have all gotten on base. Three
• 2:13:02
  hits now, walk to Brant Algea. Algea not addressing.
• 2:13:08
  The Yankees lead 4 -0. The hitter is Burt Campanero.
• 2:13:11
  Campi's been up three times. He's won for three.
• 2:13:14
  Bounce to the pitcher. Bounce to the first base.
• 2:13:16
  And got an infield single off the glove for Rich
• 2:13:18
  Bacchetti. Gekkage stretches. Comes to the plate
• 2:13:21
  too high. A ball. At activity in the Yankee bullpen,
• 2:13:27
  Bill, Fred Bean, right -hander, and Rich Hinton,
• 2:13:30
  a left -hander, both warming up. Kekich had trouble
• 2:13:34
  with Milwaukee in the later innings, but John
• 2:13:36
  Briggs got him for a home run. So Ralph Hough
• 2:13:39
  is going to try to not let Mike go too far. The
• 2:13:42
  1 -0 pitch. There's a strike on the outside corner.
• 2:13:45
  Ball and a strike. The Aggie infield, Alou is
• 2:13:49
  holding Alier there at first. Horace Clark at
• 2:13:53
  second base. Gene Michael at short. They're looking
• 2:13:55
  for two. Rich McKinney's enclosed at third, looking
• 2:13:58
  for the punch. Kekich comes to the bell. He doesn't
• 2:14:02
  have a big lead. Pitch. Line drive, base it up
• 2:14:05
  the middle. That had to take it ducking. Alney
• 2:14:10
  will hold it second base as Mercer comes up with
• 2:14:12
  a base ball and that brings Ralph Houk out of
• 2:14:15
  the deck out. Campanier's hit a 1 -1 pitch and
• 2:14:22
  lined a single up the middle for his second base
• 2:14:24
  hit. Bran Alye stopped his second. Now Ralph
• 2:14:30
  Houk out talking to Thurman Munson and Mike Kekich.
• 2:14:35
  And there's some action out in right field. Ralph's
• 2:14:37
  going to leave. He's going to let Kekich stay
• 2:14:39
  in there. Joe Rudy's a hitter. Yankees ahead
• 2:14:44
  4 -0. Rudy's been up three times. He's singled
• 2:14:51
  to left field his first trip up, popped to the
• 2:14:53
  first base, and a Lou and he's flied to center
• 2:14:55
  field. So he's 1 for 3. One thing about this
• 2:14:59
  ball Kekich has had good support behind him.
• 2:15:02
  Great play by Gene Michael. And a good catch
• 2:15:04
  in deep center by Bobby Mercer on Rudy back in
• 2:15:08
  the fifth inning. Saved some damage. A double
• 2:15:11
  play in the sixth inning got him out of potential
• 2:15:13
  trouble. All right, Rudy Batts right -handed.
• 2:15:18
  Go out. Kekich will stretch. Text out yet second.
• 2:15:25
  takes a long look at him comes to the plate a
• 2:15:27
  curve ball gets the outside corner called strike
• 2:15:30
  but Kenny backs up just a bit at third base the
• 2:15:32
  outfield plays Rudy straight away Roy White fairly
• 2:15:37
  deep in left field Oakland now with nine hits
• 2:15:43
  but as Frank Messer mentioned the Yankees have
• 2:15:45
  come up with some fine fielding plays here's
• 2:15:49
  your one pitch to Rudy change up cut on had him
• 2:15:54
  fooled with a high change. Rudy with an extremely
• 2:15:59
  closed hand missed a high change up and the count
• 2:16:06
  runs down no balls in two strikes. Now Kekich
• 2:16:29
  is ready. Here's the 0 -2 pitch. Best ball lined
• 2:16:35
  to center field. Mercer's back now. He's probably
• 2:16:37
  started in. He one -hands the ball. Allier tags
• 2:16:41
  the second. He'll go to third. Campanaris was
• 2:16:44
  late getting back to first, so he'll have to
• 2:16:46
  stay there. Rudy hits the ball hard. Mercer backed
• 2:16:50
  up one -handed it. Alertly threw the ball to
• 2:16:53
  second. The whole of Campanaris at first base.
• 2:16:56
  As Allier tag... Second and second and one on
• 2:16:58
  the third. One out now. Runners at first and
• 2:17:01
  third and the hitter is a powerful Reggie Jackson.
• 2:17:08
  Jackson struck out. Popped up to Clark. Hoss
• 2:17:11
  made a fine running catch. About 25 yards out
• 2:17:15
  in right field there. Right in front of Johnny
• 2:17:18
  Callison. And Jackson's walked. So Reggie is
• 2:17:24
  0 for 2. That's left handed. Has a quick bat.
• 2:17:29
  And Callison plays in deep and right field. Alou
• 2:17:32
  is holding Campanier's on it first. Allier leaves
• 2:17:36
  from third. Pitch. It's the outside corner, it's
• 2:17:39
  right. Kekich gets ahead of Jackson. They play
• 2:17:52
  Reggie to full. Bursar deep and right center
• 2:17:55
  field. White and left center and deep. The 0
• 2:18:01
  -1 pitch. Swung on, bounced foul outside first
• 2:18:04
  base line. So it's no balls and two strikes.
• 2:18:11
  Alier goes back to third base. Campanier is first
• 2:18:14
  to first. Campy talking to his first base coach.
• 2:18:18
  Gerrier there. Now Kek is looking in at Munson.
• 2:18:31
  Mike takes a peek at Aliyah leading him third,
• 2:18:33
  comes to the belt, looks at the popular as a
• 2:18:35
  third. Sidearm curveball, come on! And this struck
• 2:18:39
  him out on three pitches. So Kake picks up strikeout
• 2:18:44
  number, let's see, three. He's gotten Jackson
• 2:18:49
  now twice. And that was a big one. So two outs
• 2:18:53
  and Sal Bando's in. Bando's one for three. He's
• 2:18:58
  single to center his first drip, bounce. short
• 2:19:00
  and also bounced into a four shot. Sal Fando,
• 2:19:04
  that's right -handed. He's a tough out, especially
• 2:19:06
  with men on base. And he has Alye down at third
• 2:19:10
  camp and errors at first. Yankee still ahead
• 2:19:12
  4 -0, top of the seven. Kekich deals a change
• 2:19:16
  up to two low. Fando backing out on that change.
• 2:19:21
  Sal Fando looking for a ball inside on deck.
• 2:19:23
  Bobby Brooks. Outfield straight is up for Bando.
• 2:19:29
  They play him straight away. Clark shades him
• 2:19:32
  towards second just a bit. Back on the grass
• 2:19:35
  there. 1 -0 pitch. Curve ball's inside. Two balls
• 2:19:44
  and no strikes. Keckage is struggling just a
• 2:19:49
  bit. They count 2 -1 -0 on Bando with runners
• 2:19:54
  at first and third for the Oakland Daves. Now
• 2:20:00
  Mike's ready. And there goes Campanier. Keckage
• 2:20:04
  steps off, goes to first phase. Campy gets back
• 2:20:07
  there. Keckage was in his stretch. Campanier
• 2:20:13
  started toward second. Mike alertly stepped off
• 2:20:16
  the bag, off of the mound. And took a couple
• 2:20:22
  of steps toward Campanier. Campanier stopped,
• 2:20:25
  went back and beat the throw there. Kekich was
• 2:20:28
  watching that runner over there at third base,
• 2:20:30
  too, to be sure he wasn't going to try to break
• 2:20:32
  Alguez. Oh, Campanera's still there at first
• 2:20:38
  base. Alguez at third. Two outs, two balls, no
• 2:20:44
  strikes on Bando. Here's the pitch. Two high
• 2:20:48
  ball, three. Three and 0. Evidently, that worried
• 2:20:51
  Mike just a bit. I don't know where Campy was
• 2:20:55
  going. They're behind 4 -0. But he almost got
• 2:21:00
  it off, he almost pulled it off. Mike comes to
• 2:21:08
  the bell. Here's a 3 -0 pitch to Bando. That's
• 2:21:12
  a strike right down the heart of the plate. 3
• 2:21:15
  -1. Bando takes a look down at his third base
• 2:21:20
  coach, Irv North. And Kekich now is ready. Here's
• 2:21:28
  a 3 -1 pitch. High ball, four. Base is loaded
• 2:21:32
  now as Bando jogs down the first base. Campanier
• 2:21:36
  goes into second. Alier down at third. Two outs
• 2:21:41
  and the hitter is Bobby Brooks, the center fielder.
• 2:21:45
  Brooks is one for two. He's flying to center
• 2:21:47
  field, he's walked, and he's single to left.
• 2:21:50
  This little fella's about 5 '8". That's right
• 2:21:55
  -handed. Ralph Howe looking down, looking out
• 2:22:03
  over the field. He's been off the seed package
• 2:22:07
  once, isn't he? Mike Nowell winds up. Time's
• 2:22:12
  called, he wants him rosin'. Townsend runners
• 2:22:17
  on base, they're three out there. Bad nose at
• 2:22:21
  first. Camp and there's the second. Here's the
• 2:22:26
  fish to brook. Curve ball, one hopper to Michael,
• 2:22:28
  fantastic base hit. One run scores. Around third
• 2:22:32
  base is Campanaris. He'll score easily. Bando
• 2:22:35
  holds it second. And the Yankee lead has been
• 2:22:39
  cut in half. Brooks with a single pass. Gene
• 2:22:44
  Michael just to his left towards second base.
• 2:22:46
  Just out of his reach. So Brooks drives in two
• 2:22:52
  runs. He gets Allier in from third. Campanaris
• 2:22:55
  in from second. Bando stops it second. And Oakland
• 2:23:00
  picks up two runs now. They have 10 hits. The
• 2:23:03
  Yankees have four runs on seven hits. Ralph Auk
• 2:23:12
  out there again. This time, that's going to be
• 2:23:15
  all for Mike Kekich. OK, Bill, you can keep an
• 2:23:19
  eye on the bullpen. So he was coming in here,
• 2:23:20
  and with Dave docking up there, I would imagine
• 2:23:24
  Fred Bean. And Bobby Brooks with one swing of
• 2:23:27
  the bat gets as many runs batted in as he had
• 2:23:30
  all season. Say, you know, every day or so we
• 2:23:34
  like to tell you about the many easy ways to
• 2:23:36
  buy tickets for Yankee games. There are more
• 2:23:38
  than 200 ticket outlets in Yankee land. First
• 2:23:42
  there is Yankee Stadium's advanced ticket office,
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  open every day of the season from 9 in the morning
• 2:23:47
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  Fred Bean, who generates a lot of power from
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  a small frame, comes on the pitch for the New
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  York Yankees and back to Bill White. All right
• 2:25:55
  Franklin, Bean's in his second appearance for
• 2:25:58
  the Yankees and he'll have to face Dave Duncan.
• 2:26:02
  Bando is at second, Brooks at first, Yankees
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  ahead 4 -2, two outs here with the top of the
• 2:26:07
  seventh. Bean stretches, comes to the play, a
• 2:26:13
  curve ball misses outside. Duncan's been up three
• 2:26:16
  times. He's fly to left field, single to left,
• 2:26:20
  and he's bounced into a double play. Dave has
• 2:26:28
  power. He has two home runs this year. Badendo
• 2:26:34
  takes a big lead down a second. He'll be checked
• 2:26:36
  by Bean, takes a long look at him, delivers a
• 2:26:40
  slider, gets the plate, one and one. Yankees
• 2:26:49
  play Duncan straight away. White in left, Mercer
• 2:26:53
  in center. Johnny Taliesin out in right field.
• 2:26:56
  Now the stretch. The runners lead. 1 -1 pitch.
• 2:27:00
  Hurt ball fouled off. That hit Duncan on the
• 2:27:04
  toe. Went out in fair territory, Munson bounced
• 2:27:06
  on it, but the home plate umpire Ron Luciano
• 2:27:09
  immediately stopped the play, so they count the
• 2:27:12
  ball and two strikes on Duncan. Now McKinney
• 2:27:15
  moves back at third just a bit. Sal Bando down
• 2:27:21
  at second. Bobby Brooks at first. They count
• 2:27:26
  one ball and two strikes on Dave Duncan. Duncan
• 2:27:33
  cocks that fat over his right shoulder. As Dean
• 2:27:37
  looks at it much. Now the little right -hander's
• 2:27:39
  ready. One -two pitch. Curve ball hit up in there
• 2:27:42
  left field. White digging in for it. Now he has
• 2:27:45
  the range, waits on it, and has it for the third
• 2:27:47
  out. So Fred Dean comes in and pitches to Dave
• 2:27:52
  Duncan, and he gets him on a lazy, lofty fly
• 2:27:56
  ball to left field. But Oakland picked up two
• 2:28:01
  runs on one two -hit. There were no Yankees errors,
• 2:28:07
  and two A's left on base. At the end, now of
• 2:28:11
  six and a half innings of play, the New York
• 2:28:13
  Yankees four, the Oakland A's two. Tomorrow,
• 2:28:20
  the Yankees are looking for a good day to go
• 2:28:22
  up to West Point and play the cadets up at the
• 2:28:27
  U .S. Military Academy. And then for the weekend,
• 2:28:31
  they'll be right back here at Yankee Stadium
• 2:28:33
  to meet the Minnesota Twins Friday night at 7
• 2:28:36
  .30, Saturday afternoon at 2 o 'clock, and the
• 2:28:39
  big cap day doubleheader Sunday starting at 1.
• 2:28:43
  Chance for you to come out and... Here's the
• 2:28:44
  Harman Killebrew Rod Carew, Cezar Tovar, and
• 2:28:48
  the rookie home run sensation Bobby Darwin. Now,
• 2:28:51
  Darwin is a rookie, true, but I think he's like
• 2:28:55
  a 29 -year -old rookie. He was around, what was
• 2:28:58
  it, Bill White, the Dodger organization as a
• 2:29:01
  pitcher for several years? I believe so, right?
• 2:29:03
  Right. And now he's converted to the outfield.
• 2:29:09
  And, well, he had a sensational spring. with
• 2:29:13
  the twins down in Florida. I'm looking forward
• 2:29:15
  to seeing them. We hope you'll be out here. That's
• 2:29:17
  this weekend, the Yankees and the twins. All
• 2:29:22
  right, Franklin, it'll be a Lou Callison McKinney
• 2:29:24
  in the last of the sevens as the Yankees carry
• 2:29:27
  a 4 -2 lead here. The new pitcher for the A's
• 2:29:34
  is Joe Horland, and he misses inside. Joe picked
• 2:29:38
  up by the Oakland A's from the Chicago White
• 2:29:41
  Sox. Orland was released there just before the
• 2:29:47
  baseball strike. 1 -0 pitch to Alou. Popped up
• 2:29:50
  in foul territory. The catcher, Dave Duncan,
• 2:29:53
  is back. He throws his mask down and grabs the
• 2:29:56
  ball for the first time. So Alou fouls out to
• 2:29:59
  the catcher, Duncan. Orland was released by the
• 2:30:02
  White Sox. There's a little bit of controversy
• 2:30:04
  over it. But I was trying to show before the
• 2:30:08
  ball game tonight. And he feels this could be
• 2:30:12
  quite a break for him to be released by Chicago
• 2:30:14
  and picked up by the Oakland A's, coming to a
• 2:30:17
  club that, well, is figured to be more of a contest
• 2:30:20
  really than Chicago. Now he pitches to Johnny
• 2:30:24
  Callison. Down low ball. Callison's been up three
• 2:30:27
  times. He's two for three. Fly deep to center
• 2:30:31
  field. He doubled down the left field line and
• 2:30:33
  he singled the left field. So John's been going
• 2:30:36
  to the opposite field. Portland's ready. One
• 2:30:38
  old pitch to Callison. curve ball looped to left
• 2:30:40
  field, that's going to curve foul. Bando's after
• 2:30:43
  Thomas Campanero is going to get back in the
• 2:30:45
  seats. So the count's one and one on Callison.
• 2:30:52
  Coleman, of course, excited about being with
• 2:30:54
  another ball club, especially when he was out
• 2:30:56
  of work there for that brief time. But he said
• 2:30:59
  you can't count the White Sox out. He said they're
• 2:31:01
  going to have a good ball club this year and
• 2:31:02
  they could make their presence very much felt.
• 2:31:05
  Well, they already made their presence felt.
• 2:31:08
  Dick Allen? Wilbur would 1 -1 pitch to Callison,
• 2:31:13
  misses outside a breaking ball. They have, Chuck
• 2:31:16
  Tanner has done a great job of molding that ball
• 2:31:19
  club, that young club. They've got Carlos May.
• 2:31:23
  I think they'll be in here in June sometime.
• 2:31:26
  Be able to see Dick Allen on June 13th. 2 -1
• 2:31:31
  pitch to Callison, bounce right back to Horan.
• 2:31:34
  Fitcher has it. He'll go to first base near two
• 2:31:36
  outs here in the seventh. What about the White
• 2:31:41
  Sox? Well, they've won seven in a row with that
• 2:31:43
  10th inning win today on Dick Allen's home run.
• 2:31:47
  They are moving right along. Go along with that
• 2:31:51
  big Bill Melton, the third baseman. Carlos May,
• 2:31:55
  who's a good hitter. They're going to be trouble.
• 2:31:59
  Unless you've got a guy like Wilbur Wood who
• 2:32:01
  you know is going to go out there and pitch at
• 2:32:02
  least twice a week, sometimes three. And win.
• 2:32:07
  Here's McKinney. He pops the first pitch up and
• 2:32:09
  foul territory, no it's in fair territory. The
• 2:32:12
  first baseman Epstein right on the line and it's
• 2:32:16
  called a fair ball and he has it for the third
• 2:32:20
  up. So McKinney pops to the first baseman Mike
• 2:32:23
  Epstein. The Yankees miss seven, three up and
• 2:32:26
  three down. Now at the end of seven full innings
• 2:32:28
  of play, the Yankees four, the Oakland A's two.
• 2:32:35
  Ralph Halt makes some changes now as Rusty Torres
• 2:32:39
  comes on to play right field and Hal Lanier will
• 2:32:43
  come on to play third base with Rich McKinney
• 2:32:45
  and Johnny Callison out of the ball game. Fred
• 2:32:48
  Bean on the mound. He came on in relief in the
• 2:32:51
  last inning when Kekich gave up a couple of walks,
• 2:32:54
  a couple of base hits and a couple of runs and
• 2:32:56
  he got Dave Duncan on the fly ball to shuttle
• 2:32:59
  left. So we'll see what transpires here in the
• 2:33:02
  last two innings as the Yankees try to hold on
• 2:33:05
  to and perhaps improve a four to two lead, Bill.
• 2:33:08
  All right, Frank. Think Mike Epstein's a hitter.
• 2:33:10
  Mike's two for three. He's hit the ball hard.
• 2:33:13
  Payne gets a curve ball too low. Epstein singles
• 2:33:16
  the left -center field back in the second. He
• 2:33:19
  hit a long fly to right -center field where Mercer
• 2:33:23
  Dobin got it in the fourth, and he's single the
• 2:33:25
  right field in the sixth. 1 -0 pitch to Big Mike
• 2:33:28
  outside and high ball to two balls and no strikes
• 2:33:33
  They play Epstein to pull Taurus deep in right
• 2:33:38
  field Bobby Mercer in right center Roy white
• 2:33:41
  deep and left center for spark now move back
• 2:33:43
  on the grass at second base 2 -0 pitch outside
• 2:33:46
  ball free Beans missed three straight times here
• 2:33:51
  on deck is Mike Egan Sky broke up the ball game
• 2:33:56
  last night with a double. Back in the 12. 3 -0
• 2:34:00
  pitch to Epstein. And there's a strike on the
• 2:34:03
  outside corner. 3 -1. Epstein looks at his third
• 2:34:12
  base coach, Herb Norton. Times call. Now we're
• 2:34:18
  ready. Here's a 3 -1 pitch from B. That ball
• 2:34:22
  is too high. Epstein throws his bat away and
• 2:34:27
  jogs on down to first base. And Mike Hegan will
• 2:34:33
  hit for Larry Brown. Oh, he's being called back
• 2:34:36
  now. Kurt Bleffrey's also swinging a bat. Luciano
• 2:34:40
  is asking Herb Norton if that's the finish that
• 2:34:43
  he wants, and it'll be Mike Hegan. Last night
• 2:34:58
  won the ball game for the A's. You know, Yankee
• 2:35:03
  bullpen coach Jim Higgins was asked by a couple
• 2:35:06
  of the reporters how he thought about it. He
• 2:35:08
  said, well, I'll tell you, last year, he said
• 2:35:09
  we had the perfect situation. He said, Mike came
• 2:35:12
  up in a similar situation, got a base hit, but
• 2:35:15
  Bobby Mercer threw the runner out of the play.
• 2:35:18
  First pitch to Higgins, a breaking ball too low.
• 2:35:23
  One ball and no strikes. Higgins bats left -handed.
• 2:35:28
  He's pinch -hitting for Larry Brown. Yankee pitchers
• 2:35:34
  haven't gotten the open, uh, pinch -hitters out
• 2:35:37
  so far this season. Epstein leaves. Louis Blank
• 2:35:39
  behind. That breaking ball gets a play. One and
• 2:35:42
  one. On deck is Kurt Flepper with calling flank,
• 2:35:50
  but he doesn't like to be called flank. Bean
• 2:35:55
  looking at it much. He comes set. Check step
• 2:35:59
  stitch. Curve ball cut on and missed one and
• 2:36:02
  two. The Yankees have a Lewitt first, Clarket
• 2:36:13
  second, Gene Michael a couple steps from second
• 2:36:17
  base there shortstop and the third baseman now
• 2:36:19
  is Hal Lanier as Bean is ready. One two pitch.
• 2:36:24
  Misses outside. Counts even two balls and two
• 2:36:26
  strikes. The Yankees lead this ball game four
• 2:36:28
  to two. We're in the top of the eighth. The A's
• 2:36:36
  have ten hits. The Yankees seven. Now the strike.
• 2:36:41
  Here's a two -two pitch. Swung on, bounced foul.
• 2:36:44
  That'll be in the Yankee dugout. Counts even
• 2:36:47
  two balls and two strikes. now on the backside
• 2:36:55
  of the mound. Rubs the ball up. The fella doesn't
• 2:36:59
  use much rosin. Of course, as cold as it is,
• 2:37:03
  rosin won't do you any good out there. Hagan
• 2:37:11
  chokes up just a bit on the bat. Here's the 2
• 2:37:15
  -2 pitch. Misses outside. Full count now to Hagan.
• 2:37:21
  Epstein at first base. He's looking around for
• 2:37:23
  a sign. He will even move now with the Yankees
• 2:37:28
  ahead 4 -2. Now we're ready. Epstein leads. He's
• 2:37:35
  not running. Curve ball is fouled up. Breaking
• 2:37:40
  ball with 3 -2 -15. He has quite a bit of confidence
• 2:37:42
  in his ability to get the ball and the ball all
• 2:37:44
  over the plate. Chalice in the field, Mercer's
• 2:38:06
  after it, really digs in, Bobby loses his hat,
• 2:38:08
  but he has the reins now and has it for the first
• 2:38:11
  time. first pitch last night I asked him after
• 2:38:44
  the game I ran into him and said why don't you
• 2:38:47
  start swinging at the first pitch and he said
• 2:38:49
  when I was come up as a pinch hitter with my
• 2:38:51
  hands cold. Kurt batting left -handed Epstein
• 2:38:56
  leads pitch is too low a ball. Alou is not holding
• 2:39:02
  Epstein at first base the Yankees enjoy a two
• 2:39:05
  run lead and they're winning four to two there's
• 2:39:08
  one out and they play They play Bluffery to pull.
• 2:39:16
  Too low, he started at a breaking ball, held
• 2:39:18
  up. Two balls in those strikes. Bluffery has
• 2:39:24
  always had a fantastic eye for the strike zone.
• 2:39:26
  He very seldom swings at a bad pitch. In fact,
• 2:39:29
  when he first came up, they tried to get him
• 2:39:31
  to do this. They said he was taking pitches for
• 2:39:33
  balls that he could get out of the ballpark for.
• 2:39:36
  So then they were prompting him to be quite a
• 2:39:37
  slugger. Here's a 2 -0 pitch to him. That breaking
• 2:39:40
  ball just misses the outside. corner, three balls
• 2:39:43
  and no strikes. Blepharie backs out, looks down
• 2:39:45
  at Irv Noren, Noren looks in, he's getting the
• 2:39:48
  sign from somebody. Dick Williams has been kicked
• 2:39:51
  out of the ball game, but you can be sure he
• 2:39:53
  is not too far from that Oakland dugout. Now
• 2:40:00
  the 3 -0 pitch to Blepharie. There's a strike,
• 2:40:04
  drilled right in there. We've heard you and Phil
• 2:40:07
  mention earlier, Bill, that Dick Williams...
• 2:40:10
  would contemplate a trade for either dunking
• 2:40:13
  or tennis. Now this fellow Bluffery can rely
• 2:40:15
  on that luxury. Bluffery can go in there and
• 2:40:17
  catch for him. Right. Right. Epstein leads from
• 2:40:20
  first. The pitch. Curve ball. Cut all on it,
• 2:40:23
  Miss. Three and two. Hey, one thing. That bean
• 2:40:26
  isn't afraid to throw the breaking ball when
• 2:40:28
  he's behind. Throw it three -two to Heaton. Just
• 2:40:33
  throw it behind three -to -one and Bluffery got
• 2:40:35
  it over. Now the stretch. Here's a payoff pitch.
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  Curve ball, swung on and missed. Struck him out.
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  Big strikeout for Fred Bean. That's out number
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  two. Bean throwing a breaking ball from behind.
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  That's Fleffery on. Two straight curve balls.
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  And that'll bring in Bert Campanaris. Campi's
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  having a good night. He's two for four. Bounced
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  out twice. Got an infield hit, and he singled
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  and scored a run back in the seventh. Lanare
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  third, moves in for him. He tries to putt, misses
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  it. And it's a strike. Alou now holds Epstein
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  on. Felipe feeling that he'll have to protect
• 2:41:27
  that first baseline for a putt anyway. Might
• 2:41:31
  as well hold Epstein there. Lanare in close to
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  third. field straight away for Campaneros. Now
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  Bean comes to the belt. Checks Epstein. U01 pitch.
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  Curve ball, flung on and missed. No balls and
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  two strikes. We're seeing a gutty performance
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  here from little Fred Bean. Bean came on in the
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  seventh and ticed Dave Duncan, hitting a little
• 2:41:55
  soft looper to wide left field. And after walking
• 2:42:00
  Epstein this inning, he's struck out a guy. The
• 2:42:11
  walking Epstein got Mike Egan to fly to Mercer
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  and Center, struck out Kurt Bleffrey. Then he
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  caught Kurt Campanaris looking at a third strike
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  and he gets out of the inning. No runs, no hits,
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  no error. There was one walk and one man left
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  on base. At the end now of seven and a half innings
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  of play, the Yankees four, the Oakland A's. second
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  baseman at a new pitcher. The pitcher will be
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  Darrell Knowles, and out at second base, a bit
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  of a surprise to us up here will be Kurt Bluffery.
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  Kurt Bluffery playing second. And Kurt Bluffery
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  last year did play second base. He had played
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  second base in the minor leagues, but very, very
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  sparingly. I'd say maybe a game or two. It's
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  not a completely foreign position, but it's an
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  unfamiliar one to him, Bill White. Well, Dean
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  Michael will be the Yankee hitter. It'll be Micah.
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  Michael. And then B. And then Hall -Clark. Yankees
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  ahead 4 -2. Noles gets down low a ball. Darrell
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  Noles, a left -hander, is the fifth pitcher for
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  Oakland. McLean started. Odom fits an inning
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  and a third. Rowland fits a third of an inning.
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  Joe Rowland fits one inning. Now Darrell Noles.
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  This ball's hit out on the right field. It shouldn't
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  be easy for Reggie Jackson. Fades to his right,
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  waits on the ball, and gloves it for the first
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  half. Dick Williams using his fifth pitcher tonight.
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  He used four last night in picking up the four
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  to three win. Of course, last night's game went
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  to 12 innings. But this time here, you know,
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  manager doesn't hesitate to go to that ball plant
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  because he's got a lot of men that don't get
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  much work in. Here's little Fred B. His first
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  appearance late Noles is ready swung on and missed
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  the first ball of fastball. Feeling shifts toward
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  right field for Bean. Bean bats right -handed
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  and they're in shallow. Noles over the head,
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  dual one pitch. Misses outside, one and one.
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  One out, nobody on. Yankees lead 4 -2 in the
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  last half of the eighth inning. Yankees picked
• 2:44:36
  up three runs in the fourth. Gene Michael did
• 2:44:38
  his first home run of the year. A three run job.
• 2:44:42
  You give them a three nothing lead. They added
• 2:44:44
  one more in the sixth. This pitch is fouled off.
• 2:44:49
  One and two on beam. Oakland picked up their
• 2:44:55
  two runs in the seventh. Also got rid of Mike.
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  All in two strikes. Bean came on and he's done
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  a heck of a job. Nose doesn't like the sign.
• 2:45:24
  Now he's ready. One -two pitch. Hit up in the
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  air down the right side. It'll be in foul territory
• 2:45:30
  and it'll be in the seat as Epstein and Jackson
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  and also Bluffery all down there in the right
• 2:45:38
  field quarter. Ball went back two seats, two
• 2:45:43
  rows. The A's infield now has Epstein at first.
• 2:45:51
  Kurt Bleffrey, who pinched it last inning, stayed
• 2:45:54
  in the ball game. He's down at second. Now we're
• 2:45:59
  ready. One, two, pitch to B. Swung on and missed.
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  Struck him out. He walked in the first, popped
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  to the center fielder back in the third, walked
• 2:46:29
  in the fourth, walked again in the sixth. Clark
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  has a good eye. Clark doesn't want to swing it
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  better. His hand is with it. That gets you outside
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  corner. That's right. Outfield straightens the
• 2:46:47
  way for Clark. Swung on, looped the right field,
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  Jackson's there, comes in now, and one hand's
• 2:46:57
  the ball. Reggie got a slow start on that ball,
• 2:47:01
  but once he picked up speed, he picked it up
• 2:47:04
  full tilt. So that's it for the Yankees in the
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  eighth. No runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody
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  left. At the end now of eighth full inning to
• 2:47:12
  play, the New York Yankees, four. The Oakland
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  A's, two. You remember, and the service you already
• 2:47:56
  expect with a Terry Morris name. As always, Morris
• 2:47:59
  gives you more. Prices like these. 1972 Mavericks,
• 2:48:03
  1995. 72 Pintos, 1815. 72 Torinos, 2325. 72 Mustangs,
• 2:48:11
  2455. See why everyone is excited? Terry Morris
• 2:48:14
  is back. See Ford's newest twin dealer, Morris
• 2:48:18
  Ford of Mercury, one mile north of the Burnt
• 2:48:20
  Hills traffic light on Route 50. and Milan Avenue
• 2:48:23
  in downtown Boston's far. Well, we're going out
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  of the top half of the ninth inning, and some
• 2:48:33
  big men for Fred Dean to face, the heart of the
• 2:48:36
  batting order, Joe Rudy, Reggie Jackson, and
• 2:48:39
  Sal Bando. Minnesota for Boston, 3 -1. Baltimore
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  and Kansas City still scoreless in the fifth
• 2:48:44
  inning. And Detroit scored five in the fifth
• 2:48:47
  for a 5 -1 lead over Texas. California over Milwaukee
• 2:48:51
  3 to 1 and Chicago beat Cleveland 7 to 5. And
• 2:48:56
  in the National League, 8 to 6 San Francisco
• 2:48:58
  over Philadelphia, the Cincinnati Reds lead Pittsburgh
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  5 to 1 in the seventh. And it is St. Louis 9,
• 2:49:05
  Atlanta 4 at the end of five innings. All right,
• 2:49:09
  Frank, we're ready for Rudy. And Bean gets a
• 2:49:12
  breaking ball in for a call strike. Rudy's one
• 2:49:15
  for four. single to left field. He's popped to
• 2:49:19
  the first baseman and Clyde outflies to Mercer
• 2:49:21
  in center. Joe Batch right hand. Al Lanier is
• 2:49:26
  trying to take the bun away from him. He's in
• 2:49:28
  close to third. He bunched the third base. Lanier
• 2:49:30
  is in, gloves the ball, goes to first base and
• 2:49:33
  the ball was inside the line but Alou grabbed
• 2:49:36
  the ball and he and Rudy collided there and the
• 2:49:41
  runners out. He hit pretty hard. Rudy, the throw
• 2:49:46
  was in. Lanier was playing in close. He took
• 2:49:48
  the bunt away from Rudy. Rudy bunted anyway.
• 2:49:51
  Lanier made a fine pick up through inside the
• 2:49:54
  baseline. And Rudy ran smacking to Felipe Alou.
• 2:49:59
  In doing that, he tagged himself. So there's
• 2:50:02
  one out. And here's Reggie Jackson. That breaking
• 2:50:07
  ball gets the outside corner called strike. Yankees
• 2:50:12
  lead this ball game four to two and they're only
• 2:50:15
  two outs away. No wind. Jackson struck out twice,
• 2:50:21
  popped up and walked. Another curve ball cut
• 2:50:24
  on and missed. 0 -2. Bean with a good breaking
• 2:50:30
  ball, good motion. Ball is really dipping. They
• 2:50:33
  play Jackson. Now the 0 -2 pitch. Curve ball
• 2:50:39
  flung on and missed like three. So Bean, with
• 2:50:44
  his third strikeout here, has two outs in the
• 2:50:50
  ninth. And all he has to do now is get out of
• 2:50:53
  tough style. Bando. Bando is singled, bounced
• 2:50:58
  out, forced out, and he's walked. So he's won
• 2:51:00
  for three. Bando bats right -handed. He's working
• 2:51:03
  quickly. Get the fastball inside. Yankees lead
• 2:51:13
  four to two with two outs and nobody on top of
• 2:51:18
  the ninth. Curve ball misses outside. Two balls
• 2:51:24
  and no strikes. Bobby Brooks and Leon Dexter
• 2:51:34
  being looking at it much. Now he's ready. Wines,
• 2:51:38
  two -oh pitch, two high ball, three. Hudson slows
• 2:51:43
  him down now, all or something out there to him.
• 2:51:47
  Bean backs off on the back part of the mound,
• 2:51:49
  rubs the ball up. Here's a 3 -0 pitch. And it's
• 2:52:00
  a strike on the inside corner. 3 -1. Now this
• 2:52:04
  fella is showing some kind of guts here. He'll
• 2:52:07
  throw the breaking ball from behind. 3 -1 pitch.
• 2:52:11
  Strike two call. Bando taking all the way. Fred
• 2:52:16
  Bean now one pitch away from a save. See what
• 2:52:22
  happens. Bando's waiting. Now we're ready. Here's
• 2:52:24
  the 3 -0 -2 pitch. Curve ball given to left field.
• 2:52:28
  That should be easy for white. Roy's back about
• 2:52:31
  five steps. Waits on the ball and Cradles it
• 2:52:33
  in as well, but his ball game is over. Fred Bean
• 2:52:37
  being congratulated out there by Thurman Munson.
• 2:52:41
  For Oakland in the ninth inning, three men up
• 2:52:45
  and three men down. Frank Lesher will give you
• 2:52:49
  the wrap -up, but the final here, the New York
• 2:52:54
  Yankees four, the Oakland A's two. Shafer. Shafer
• 2:53:38
  pleasure stays first beer smooth, first beer
• 2:53:42
  bright, first frosty glass to last. You see,
• 2:53:46
  we started practicing on more than one beer thirsts
• 2:53:49
  back before most brewers even started brewing,
• 2:53:52
  and practice makes perfect. the Western Division
• 2:54:10
  defending champion Oakland A's in this two -game
• 2:54:12
  series at Yankees Stadium. Oakland winning last
• 2:54:14
  night 4 -3 in 12 innings. And the Yankees zipping
• 2:54:17
  right back tonight 4 -2 over Oakland in the regulation
• 2:54:21
  8 .5 for a winning home team. Yankees four runs,
• 2:54:25
  seven hits and no errors. Oakland two runs, ten
• 2:54:27
  hits and no errors. The win goes to Mike Kackage,
• 2:54:32
  making him the Yankees' first two -game winner.
• 2:54:34
  His record is 2 -0. And Denny McClain, who started
• 2:54:38
  for you. the Oakland A's will be the loser. His
• 2:54:41
  record is 1 -1. And you credit Fred Bean with
• 2:54:45
  a save his first of the year. And this his second
• 2:54:48
  appearance for the Yankees. And the Yankees tonight
• 2:54:51
  showed offense, a home run by Gene Michael, accounting
• 2:54:56
  for three of the four runs. Bobby Mercer driving
• 2:55:00
  in the other run with a double that bounced into
• 2:55:02
  the seats in right field. And the Yankees came
• 2:55:06
  up with some good defense behind Keckage and
• 2:55:09
  behind Bean, especially behind Mike Keckage.
• 2:55:14
  And we look to Bobby Mercer in the fourth inning,
• 2:55:19
  who made a spectacular catch on Mike Epstein
• 2:55:23
  with runners at second and third. And two men
• 2:55:32
  out. Prior to that, Horace Clark had made a fine
• 2:55:35
  catch on Reggie Jackson. Horace going way back
• 2:55:39
  in the right field. And then Mercer's catch on
• 2:55:43
  Epstein in the fourth inning. Also, a fine defensive
• 2:55:50
  play by Gene Michael and the fifth on Larry Brown.
• 2:55:54
  Michael going deep to his right, came up with
• 2:55:57
  Brown's ground ball way back in the hole. Turned
• 2:56:00
  around and threw him out. And that was a big
• 2:56:03
  play because the Oakland A's then got two infield
• 2:56:06
  hits, a long fly ball to center field off the
• 2:56:09
  bat of Joel Rudy that was dropped. A double play
• 2:56:13
  back to Keg HF in the sixth inning after a leadoff
• 2:56:17
  single by Bobby Brooks. Duncan hit the ball down
• 2:56:20
  to third baseman Rich McKinney and he turned
• 2:56:24
  it into a third to second to first double play.
• 2:56:28
  That DP was a big one because that Epstein got
• 2:56:31
  a base hit to right, but he was forced by Larry
• 2:56:34
  Brown. The Oakland A's got their two runs in
• 2:56:38
  the seventh on a combination of a walk to Pinscher
• 2:56:42
  or Brent Alier. And then a single by Burt Campanaris.
• 2:56:49
  A walk to Sal Bando, a single by Bobby Brooks,
• 2:56:52
  which drove in the two runs. That single by Brooks
• 2:56:56
  brought... Fred Bean to the relief of Mike Kekich
• 2:57:00
  and Bean just sort of mowed him down with a combination
• 2:57:03
  of curveballs and fastballs. He used the curveball
• 2:57:06
  very effectively, gained three strikeouts en
• 2:57:10
  route to his first Yankee save. And as we said,
• 2:57:14
  the Yankee attack featured a three -run homer
• 2:57:16
  by Gene Michael in the fourth. Gene is leading
• 2:57:18
  the Yankees and runs butted in with seven now,
• 2:57:21
  getting six of the seven on two swings of the
• 2:57:24
  bat. A base is loaded triple. to beat Milwaukee
• 2:57:28
  and the three round homer tonight. Bobby Mercer
• 2:57:32
  driving the other run in with a double. Mercer
• 2:57:35
  had two hits and Thurman Munson continued his
• 2:57:37
  hitting streak through eight games with a couple
• 2:57:40
  of base knocks. Well that's it. The Yankees won
• 2:57:42
  it. And the final score once again here at Yankee
• 2:57:46
  Stadium was the New York Yankees four and the
• 2:57:49
  Oakland A's two. And now this is Frank Messer
• 2:57:53
  speaking for Bill Rizzuto and for Bill White.
• 2:57:56
  For our producer and statistician Bill King and
• 2:57:59
  for engineer Frank Steele, saying so long from
• 2:58:02
  Yankee Stadium in New York.