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- 0:07On October 19, 1976, the Cincinnati Reds visited the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 3 of the 1976 World Series.
- 0:15The Reds led the best of seven series two games to none, and this is the CBS radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Marty Brenneman and Wynn Elliott.
- 0:25Game 3, Yankee Stadium with Elliott with Marty Brenneman, and it's about to happen.
- 0:31At the plate right now, P. Rose, captain of the Cincinnati Reds, has handed out the lineup for his squad.
- 0:36Billy Martin, unlike the first two games, is out in person to hand the New York Yankee squad to the umpires.
- 0:42Billy Williams behind the plate on third base. The American Leafs, Dave Phillips.
- 0:46Bill Deegan of the Sand League is on first base. Lou DeMuro of the American League is down the race field line.
- 0:51Bruce Froming, second base. And Lee Weier of the National League is out in left field.
- 0:56The umpires are now distorting themselves around the field. The Yankees have gone back into their dugout.
- 1:03A couple of them were up loosening up. Fred Stanley, they've been standing around during the introductions, and it's a little cold down there.
- 1:10The first ball tonight is going to be thrown out by none other than the incomparable Joe DiMarcio.
- 1:17Joe, whose last series here was in 1951. I see him. He's standing right in front of Louis Kuhn, the commissioner, just this side of the Yankee dugout.
- 1:27Joe's just shaking hands with the commissioner. He's going to throw out the ball. It was back in 51.
- 1:33And so apropos, that was the 51st series game that he had played in his career.
- 1:39Back in 1951, Joe DiMarcio's last World Series.
- 1:44As he gets ready to throw the ball out, he does so, just like one month ago.
- 1:49Now a repeat. Now Tham takes the balls and reclaims them to Joe, a Hall of Famer of course.
- 1:57I'll never forget 51. It was the end of DiMarcio's career as he repeats for the photographers.
- 2:05If you remember who began that year? For the New York Giants, a kid who used to run out of his cap in center field.
- 2:12Came up from the cotton fields of Alabama. One of the great all-around players of all time, Willie Mays.
- 2:18And for the Yankees that year, it was the buster, Mickey Mantle, the beginning of a new baseball era.
- 2:25But now, we're just moments away from the beginning of the third game of the World Series here in Yankee Stadium,
- 2:32where it'll be Doc Ellis pitching to Thymond Mumsum with Pete Rose, first to back for the Cincinnati Reds.
- 2:38The Reds lead the series, two zip. Let's place them again. Metals, third, Stanley Short.
- 2:44Willie Randolph at second. Shambles at first base. Roy White on left, Mickey Rivers and Oscar Gamble.
- 2:52And it'll be Doc Ellis and Thymond Mumsum behind the plate.
- 2:58Billy Williams of the National League, Pete Rose taking a few preliminary swings.
- 3:04And Marty Brownemans, who normally spends his time in that lovely city of Cincinnati.
- 3:09I can't help think, Marty, it's too big to be a small town and it's too small to be a big town,
- 3:14so they settle for being just right. We love them.
- 3:17Well, I have to agree with you, Will. It's, I guess, the best kept secret in the United States, Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 3:23Well, we're doing our bit now to unlock that secret. It's a great town.
- 3:31Doc Ellis taking his warm-ups to his catcher Thymond Mumsum.
- 3:34When Elliot, of course, setting the stage for this, the third game of the 1976 World Series.
- 3:39And while a lot of folks among the news representatives are talking right now about a possible Cincinnati sweep,
- 3:45I don't think that at this point, despite the fact the Yankees are down two games to none,
- 3:49you could say they had their backs to the wall.
- 3:51Although, Sparky Anderson said earlier today, when? If we win tonight, we're going to sweep this World Series.
- 3:56If we lose tonight, it's going to go six and possibly seven.
- 3:59Well, Doc Ellis is a pitcher that keeps the ball low, which is, of course, valuable on this kind of natural breath,
- 4:05because the ground balls are going to be slowed down.
- 4:08The whole thing about Doc is what will his temperament determine?
- 4:12Will he be calm enough to pitch his game, or will he, it wouldn't be too uncommon to be upset or nervous for the time like this.
- 4:22Pete Rose standing off just to the right of home plate.
- 4:25Doc Ellis has finished his warm-ups, and Rose will leave things off for Cincinnati as he did throughout 162 games during the regular season,
- 4:32three over the Phillies in the playoffs, and now for the third straight time in the 76th World Series.
- 4:37Ellis to the wide, the pitch is taken for a strike, and this game is underway.
- 4:43And that was the loudest strike of the year. That, in fact, it was.
- 4:47Rose, of course, a switch hitter batting left-handed against Ellis, with the doctor getting quickly out in front on strike two ball on the outside quarter.
- 4:56Ken Griffey is in the on-deck circle. He'll be followed by second baseman Joe Morgan.
- 5:01Ellis sites the side for Munson and in with a two-strike delivery.
- 5:05Just missing down and in to Rose, who steps away from the plate and says something to play-dump fire Billy Williams.
- 5:11The outfield for the Yankees giving Rose a lot of real estate in right center.
- 5:15Oscar Gamble playing him straight away in right.
- 5:18That one hit to shallow right center. It'll fall for a base hit.
- 5:22So Rose takes a big turn at first base as Gamble quickly whips it all back into the infield,
- 5:27and Rose has opened this game with his first base hit in this 1976 World Series.
- 5:33Not his most robust. I thought it shot him right on the handle.
- 5:36Doc was trying to jam him, but he had enough handle hit in there to mop it right over the head of Willie Randolph.
- 5:41And if not running, at least the Reds are off. That'll bring up Ken Griffey.
- 5:46He also is without a hit up to this point. Griffey's been to the plate eight times.
- 5:49No hits. He's not going to run.
- 5:52Third baseman Greg Nettles plays him in on the edge of the grass as Ellis checks Rose
- 5:56and gets a strike over at the knees on the outside quarter.
- 5:59Around the Yankee infield, they've got Shambles at first, Randolph the rookie at second base.
- 6:03At shortstop, Brett Stanley, the third baseman, as we mentioned, Greg Nettles.
- 6:08The infield from left to right, Roy White, Vicki Rivers, Oscar Gamble, and Munson behind the plate.
- 6:13Here's a throw to first. Rose is back.
- 6:17Ellis, 6'3", 31 years old, born in Los Angeles, California, now makes his home in Pittsburgh.
- 6:24He misses outside as the count evens to Griffey at one ball and one strike.
- 6:29The Reds winning the first two games of this series at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati,
- 6:335-1 the first game final, and 4-3 on Sunday night as they bested the Yankee ace
- 6:38catfish hunter on Tony Perez's bottom of the ninth inning single.
- 6:43Griffey a bouncing ball. Shambles has to leap. He'll have only one play and retires Griffey.
- 6:48He looked for it second base, but Rose had any play there beaten, and then had to quickly recover,
- 6:54go quick left to beat Griffey to the bag. So the Reds have a runner in scoring position on one-off.
- 6:59It'll bring up second base with Joe Morgan.
- 7:03Joe's had an interesting series, probably the two most important blows he struck in the series.
- 7:08He didn't touch the ball. He was intentionally walked.
- 7:12That was the last play, or the next to last play in Cincinnati in the ninth inning in the second game.
- 7:17And you remember the walk he got just before Perez hit to Dick Allen. Marty, here's the pitch.
- 7:22Rose at second base. The pitch comes high to Morgan, of all.
- 7:27Joe has had three hits. He's been up eight times, has exploded the only home run in this World Series,
- 7:32first inning game one off Doyle Alexander.
- 7:36They outfield play in him pretty much straight away.
- 7:39That was a backward glance at second. In with a 1-0 pitch.
- 7:43Ball two is low. Two balls in those strikes.
- 7:46Joe took a look at the latefield porch here at Yankee Stadium, and the Reds worked out last night
- 7:53talked about the glee of being able to play in this park for half of a 162-game season.
- 7:59He could pull that ball.
- 8:01But Ellis right now is a pitch away from walking him as he comes high on ball three.
- 8:09Seventeen-game winner Doc Ellis labeled bad news in his days with the Pittsburgh Pirates
- 8:14coming over to the Yankees under no-nonsense manager Billy Martin.
- 8:17And boy, had himself some kind of first year in the American League.
- 8:21At one time, Marty, he won seven straight, and he was probably the best pitcher on the Yankee staff midseason.
- 8:27He needs a strike on Morgan. Joe with a green light, a bouncing ball, the first play by Shambles.
- 8:33He gets the out on Morgan. His rolls rolls into third base standing.
- 8:37So two down. As Marky Anderson from the Cincinnati dugout third base side did something that time,
- 8:42he's done very, very often over the course of the season.
- 8:46And that's given his big hammers a green light on the 3-0 pitch.
- 8:51And both the outs in this inning, peculiarly enough, have been unassisted.
- 8:56High bounces almost Baltimore chops to Shambles at first.
- 9:00And here's the big gun of the 1976 series.
- 9:03They call him the big dog in Cincinnati, veteran Tony Perez, five for nine, as Wynn said,
- 9:08the most proficient hitter so far, swinging in a foul ball on Ellis' first offering.
- 9:14Five hits and nine times up. He's knocked in a pair of runs and has an opportunity to do just that right here.
- 9:20If he can come up with a two-out base hit on Doc Ellis. We're in the top of the first inning, no score.
- 9:25Game three of the 1976 World Series from Yankee Stadium.
- 9:29Rose with a lead. They outfield, punching the alleys on Perez, who swings on an Ellis fastball, and again fouls it on. Strike two.
- 9:38You know him better than I, Marty, but Perez being the biggest guy on the squad seems to be the most affable.
- 9:44There's always a grin on that big face.
- 9:46Wynn, I'll tell you, he's probably the classiest athlete I've ever come in contact with.
- 9:50I don't know that anybody who's ever come in contact with Tony Perez doesn't just simply love the guy.
- 9:56Waiting on the 0-2 pitch. He sends a high pop into shallow right field. Randolph back, gamble is in. Who's going to play it?
- 10:04Randolph's second base hit squeezes it, and the Reds are out on the first inning.
- 10:08No runs, one hit. Rose lets Randolph at third.
- 10:12After a half inning of baseball, the Cincinnati Reds nothing. The New York Yankees are coming to bat.
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- 11:20I can tell you what you heard at the completion of that first inning. I'm a fan of old standing.
- 11:25I can't tell you what the baseball player feels down there because I threw my arm out when I was only knee-high to a peanut plant.
- 11:32But I can tell you what it's like to be in the stands rooting or standing or sitting in your living room now,
- 11:37catching this game on radio and biting your fingernails.
- 11:40If you're a Yankee fan, you did silently at home what the 54,000 folks did here in the studios.
- 11:47They just let their breath go in a ooh when that butterfly went the right field.
- 11:53Because the Yanks looked like they might be had on the first inning with Z-Bros on third.
- 12:00And now long, tall, lean. I love to listen to those cartridges in the dressing room.
- 12:06Pat Vackery is out to base. Mix it quick.
- 12:09And you can hear a different kind of exhalation now.
- 12:13D-H-A-R-G-E is what it says on the board.
- 12:17Okay, Marty.
- 12:19Okay, it's Mickey Rivers standing in with Rose playing an extremely shallow third base.
- 12:24Zachary delivers. Mickey Rivers' bouncing ball foul, pass first base.
- 12:28When you talk about the keys so far in this World Series, you talk about the ability of Ratch pitching to keep Mix the Quick Rivers off the base bat.
- 12:37He's been up nine times officially. He has come away with nothing.
- 12:40And this is one of the big things that Sparky Anderson talked about coming in.
- 12:44Here's a bust, third base side. Zachary quickly up throwing and he got it.
- 12:49Oh, Perez dropped the ball.
- 12:52The throw was to the inside of the bag, right into the oncoming river.
- 12:57Perez had it and then he didn't have it.
- 13:00And Mickey Rivers is going to be on as he drops one off the left side of the mound.
- 13:04Zachary came up, had time to get him, but his throw was to the inside.
- 13:08And Mickey Rivers on the coughed up ball by Tony Perez is on it first.
- 13:12Actually he added Marty, but as he ran by, Perez's glove was still out there in front with the ball and Rivers' body brushed the arm of Perez and knocked the ball out of his head.
- 13:23It was not deliberate. It just happened that way.
- 13:26So we're awaiting the official scoring ruling on that play.
- 13:30Will it be a base hit for Rivers? Will it be an error charged on the play?
- 13:33Here's Roy White, the Yankee left fielder.
- 13:36Two hits and seven times up in the series.
- 13:39And they've scored an error on the pitcher, a throwing error against Pat Zachary.
- 13:44Zachary delivers to White down and away for a ball.
- 13:48Tony Perez at first as we set the reds defensively.
- 13:51Joe Morgan at second.
- 13:52David Concepcion at shortstop and Rosen on the grass at third.
- 13:56On outfield, the foster left.
- 13:58Geronimo Center, Griffey Wright.
- 14:00Betts sets a target behind the plate for Zachary who turns and throws onto first.
- 14:05Rivers, who stole 43 bases in 50 tries during the regular season, is on.
- 14:11Has attempted one steal in this World Series, was gunned down by Johnny Betts in Cincinnati.
- 14:17The outfield giving, switch hitting Roy White a lot of room in left center.
- 14:21There's the throw and they've got him picked off. Woohoo!
- 14:24They caught Mickey Rivers leading the wrong way and Zachary with that good move for a right hander
- 14:29had him dead to Wright's coming back.
- 14:33I was about to say, Marty, that you can always tell when Mickey is going to steal.
- 14:37He loosens up his wrists and hands and lets them flap.
- 14:40Just as Zachary was turning to throw, Mickey was faking a move towards second.
- 14:45And you know how impossible it is to change all your musculature to come back.
- 14:49He was not able to do a second time thrown out.
- 14:52Two balls and no strikes and a high and away fast ball to Roy White.
- 14:58So Pat Zachary can now direct full attention to the man at the plate and that he has picked off Mickey Rivers.
- 15:05The kick and the pitch swung on and fouled down the first baseline.
- 15:09Two balls and a strike got him.
- 15:11With catcher Thurman Munson in the New York Yankee on deck circle.
- 15:15Marty, the so-called pressure tactics of both these champion teams
- 15:19hasn't been the most brilliant this series.
- 15:22Three reds have stolen, two were thrown out and Rivers of course twice.
- 15:27Two on delivery, down and inside and Pat Zachary on the miss breaking ball is behind Roy White at three and one.
- 15:36Yankee Stadium jams the capacity.
- 15:38This is the first of three scheduled games, tomorrow night, Thursday night if necessary.
- 15:42And then should it go further than that, the series will shift back to Cincinnati.
- 15:47Strike is called.
- 15:48Better high fast ball.
- 15:50Full count, Pat Zachary against Roy White.
- 15:52Marty, Pat was saying in the dressing room the other night,
- 15:55he's going to throw as hard as Don or as with as much guile as lefty Norman.
- 16:00What is his stock in trade?
- 16:01Well, he's got a good sinking fast ball wind that he tails away from the hitters.
- 16:06Here's a high pop on the three-two pitch.
- 16:09Now Zachary directing traffic signals for Pete Rose to play it as he comes between the mound and the plate to squeeze it for out number two.
- 16:17You know they say it's the job of the pitcher to direct the action around the plate on a pop like that.
- 16:22Pat was a little indecisive because when the ball went straight up, he pointed to Johnny Betch.
- 16:29Then when he saw Johnny back off, he changed his mind and pointed to Pete Rose.
- 16:33Well, Pete was coming in like it was Christmas anyway, as he always does.
- 16:38That'll bring up Thurman Munchen with two odds.
- 16:40We're talking about Zachary's repertoire.
- 16:42He's got a slider.
- 16:43He's got an outstanding change-up, which really was, well, had a whole lot to do with the fact that he won 14 games this season
- 16:49and included among those 14 wins was five victories over the Dodgers.
- 16:54Fast ball is up and in to the right-handed batting Thurman Munchen.
- 16:58Munchen two for eight, a run bad of this.
- 17:00The outfield for Cincinnati will play him straight away.
- 17:03Geronimo may be a step or two toward the gap in left center.
- 17:05Strike is called.
- 17:07By plate umpire Billy Williams, it's one and one.
- 17:10No score at the bottom of the first inning.
- 17:12Two Yankees are out, although Mickey Rivers reached on a Zachary throwing error
- 17:16before the Reds' rookie right-hander picked him off of first base.
- 17:19White a popped a rose off a 3-2 pitch, and now Zachary one-wining to Munchen.
- 17:24Bouncing ball will be foul off third.
- 17:26Zachary is very, very high strung, young man, from Richmond, Texas.
- 17:37He now makes his home in Waco, Texas.
- 17:39But realizing a dream come true tonight as he starts game three of the World Series,
- 17:48quite a climax to his rookie year.
- 17:51Here's a bouncing ball over the mound by Morgan, base hit Munchen, center two.
- 17:55And that's the first hit for the New York Yankees in game three here at Yankee Stadium.
- 18:05For Munchen, it's his third out of nine tries, so he's batting a flat 3-3-3.
- 18:10Up comes the guy that Marky Anderson says is the guy they fear the most, Shambliss.
- 18:16They pitch him outside. He's been hitting it in the left center.
- 18:19And of course we all know he can pull.
- 18:22Big strong left-handed batting, Chris Shambliss with Munchen at first base.
- 18:26Thurman Munchen, by the way, has now hit safely in all eight of the Yankee postseason games.
- 18:31Batting 4-0-6 with 13 hits and 32 times up.
- 18:35Two down, Munchen with a short lead against a holding Tony Perez.
- 18:40Off-speed pitch missing away to Shambliss a ball.
- 18:49On deck is the designated hitter, Carlos May.
- 18:53Zachary with a slow come down of about the kick and the pitch.
- 18:57Ball two, two balls and no strikes.
- 19:00Chris has hit safely in his last 16 games, Marty. He's been on a terrific streak.
- 19:06He's a guy, of course, who ended it all against Kansas City with that ninth inning leadoff home run
- 19:11in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series.
- 19:15Swing at a foul tip to Johnny's bench is met and Chris Shambliss, in the inimitable words of
- 19:21Red Second baseman Joe Morgan, was spinning on that pitch.
- 19:25Trying to take Zachary out of here. Two balls and a strike.
- 19:31Shambliss levels a bat, now waiting.
- 19:35The pitch on the way to the plate. Low and outside, ball through.
- 19:40At times this past season, Pat Zachary had a problem early with getting his control together.
- 19:48I can see one of his main problems is himself. On that pitch, which was wide, he disgustedly
- 19:54had everybody in the park know he was disgusted. There was a signal from the bench.
- 19:58Calm down and he nodded okay.
- 20:00Three one fifth. That ball is hit off the left field foul line and will carry back into the upper deck here at Yankee Stadium.
- 20:08So Pat Zachary has gone as far as he can go and now Yankee manager Billy Martin has come out and is
- 20:14involving himself in a conversation with first base umpire Bill Deegan.
- 20:18Howard the Yankee first base coach is also involved and Billy Martin is really upset.
- 20:24I think the motion that Martin has made to the umpire on first base, which is Bill Deegan of the American League,
- 20:31is that Zachary is not coming to a complete stop before he pitches to the plate.
- 20:36That is part of the modern baseball rule. You have to come to a complete stop before you can throw to the plate.
- 20:43If you're going to throw to first base, you must face first base. Your foot, the lead foot, must face in that direction
- 20:49before you can make the throw. Martin, who is a master at misdirection, may believe that Zachary is balking.
- 20:58On the other hand, he may know that Zachary has not got the most equal of temperament and he's out there
- 21:04possibly to upset the kid with a count three and two and shamblers at the plate.
- 21:09You'll never know because Billy won't tell you, but this is the kind of, this is the way Martin manages.
- 21:15If he can get any kind of an edge within the rules, and within the rules, he'll do it.
- 21:21Well, he's gone back to the Yankee dugout.
- 21:25That's Zachary looking down to Johnny Vetch three and two on Chris Shambler's two-odd months in the first base.
- 21:31And the pay-off pitch with a runner going, he's putting him out with a high fastball.
- 21:36The Yankees are done and hitting number one. They come away with no runs or hits.
- 21:40One Cincinnati era and one Yankee Munson left at first base. At the end of one full, the Wrench nothing, the Yankees likewise.
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- 22:48So it's the first inning over here at Yankee Stadium on the third game between the Reds and the Yaks.
- 22:53Both teams threatened somewhat in the first half of the first. Pete Rose single, then two infield ground balls got him to third,
- 23:02and the dangerous Tony Perez was taken out on a fly ball to right field.
- 23:08Then for the Yankees, a late throw or an errant throw by the pitcher Zachary as Mickey Rivers attempted to get on by a bunt.
- 23:16It was called an error. I think it was one of those things.
- 23:19The ball arrived in time, was right on the bag, but Rivers and Bruckney Perez knocked the ball out of his hand.
- 23:25What are you going to do? So you call it an error.
- 23:27Then a fly out by White, a single by Sarman Munson.
- 23:30Oh, Rivers was picked off immediately after getting on, and then the strikeout by Champless.
- 23:36And so as we go to the top of the second party, it's nothing, nothing.
- 23:40Danny Drayson, the designated hitter for the Cincinnati Reds for openers against Doc Ellis, pitches high for a ball.
- 23:46This, of course, the first look for American League fans at a designated hitter for the National League.
- 23:51Cincinnati fans saw it for two straight days.
- 23:54Drayson looks at it low and outside, ball two.
- 23:58Danny had a double and an infield hit in game two of the series on Sunday night.
- 24:04Left-handed batter, and there's a strike in taken by Drayson, two balls and one strike.
- 24:09George Foster is on deck, and then it will be the Reds catcher Johnny Bench.
- 24:14Nothing in the top of the second. Ellis working quickly.
- 24:17Drayson with a swing and a foul ball that will roll to the near end of the Yankee dugout.
- 24:23The Reds trying to do something that no National League team has done in 54 years, and that's win back-to-back World Championships.
- 24:30John McGraw's New York Giants in 1921 and 1922, the last team to do it.
- 24:35Ball three and a full count.
- 24:41Drayson trying to get on to open the Cincinnati second inning.
- 24:45Ellis kicks and throws, and that pitch is hit off the pitcher's glove, but fielded by Willie Randolph.
- 24:50Quick throw is high, and Drayson is going to be safe.
- 24:53It took Shambles off the bag and really had to climb the ladder to keep that ball from ending up in the seats behind the Yankee dugout.
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- 25:15They scored that one to then field a hit for Danny Drayson. The ball deflected off the glove of Doc Ellis that took some of its momentum away,
- 25:22but it looked like Willie Randolph had enough time with a good throw to get the out at first base.
- 25:26It was high, and Drayson has gotten a hit for himself.
- 25:29I would have given it an hour. That will bring up George Foster. Right-handed batting power hitter.
- 25:37Drayson is going to be running on a pitch, and the ball gets away from Munson.
- 25:41Now the question is, was it bunted by a foul by Foster, or whether Munson just allowed the ball to get away?
- 25:47Apparently no contact made, and Drayson has been credited with a stolen base.
- 25:54From our position behind the plate, that was a real tough one to see whether it actually hit the bat,
- 25:59but of course the umpire being right there, Billy Williams said no, and Drayson has his stolen base.
- 26:06That is the fourth of the series for the Reds.
- 26:08And for the second time in as many innings, the Reds have a runner in scoring position.
- 26:12Pitch to Foster taken for a strike. They've got nothing in two on the board.
- 26:17That cannot be right. If it was a foul ball, Danny Drayson could not have ended up at second base with a steal.
- 26:23That would be one ball and one strike. Foster three for seven in the first two games.
- 26:28He's knocked in a run. Nobody had a runner at second base, and now as Ellis comes set and straddles a pitching rubber,
- 26:33he steers Drayson back toward the second base bag.
- 26:40Ellis into his stretch, and the pitch. Foster fouls this one back out of the netting behind home plate.
- 26:46One ball and two strikes. Johnny Fetch will be up next. The Reds trying to become the first club in this third game to dead home plate.
- 26:57Pete Rose as far as third base in the first inning, but Perez with a pop up to Willie Randolph at second
- 27:03to get Doc Ellis out of that little bit of a problem.
- 27:07And now again dealing to George Foster. Here's a fly ball hit well to right center field.
- 27:12Gamble on his horse will not be able to run it down. That's going to get Drayson around third and onto the plate
- 27:18as Foster goes in standing up at second base.
- 27:21So the Reds have scored on an infield hit by Danny Drayson at stolen base and a double of the right center field gap by George Foster
- 27:29to give the Cincinnati Reds a one-nothing lead.
- 27:32And that was a well hit shot. Just to the right is the 385 mark. It jumped high over the wall, hit the concrete,
- 27:39and came back on the playing field. And the American League umpire in right field, Udu Muro, raised his arm.
- 27:46That's all. And that's all that Foster would have gotten at any rate.
- 27:49So a ground rule double, an RBI double for Foster. Here's a line drive. Off the glove of the first baseman,
- 27:54Shambliss through the first and that is time.
- 27:58Doc Ellis coming off that mound like a shot. He got to first base with a Shambliss leap that hit off the end of that big first baseman's
- 28:05mid-brand off on the outfield grass came up with it. The throw did not get Johnny Bench and George Foster moves on to third.
- 28:12So the Reds, who have scored one time in the inning, have sent three batters to the plate and all three have reached safely against Doc Ellis
- 28:20and the New York Yankees. The batter will be center fielder Cezanne Geronimo.
- 28:25And if baseball is a game of inches, that one was a hit of a half-inch because it did tear him off the glove of Shambliss.
- 28:34Big guy that he is was quite not able to sky hook it. Geronimo, left-handed batter, hit.307 during the season the first time in his
- 28:42professional career that he's been a.300-plus hitter. Way outside from Ellis of all.
- 28:49We've got activity underway in the New York Yankee bullpen out in deep left center field. It's left-hander Grant Jackson throwing.
- 28:56Nettles plays even with the back at third as Foster leads that way. Johnny Bench comes off the back at first. Randolph Stanley a double play depth.
- 29:06And Doc Ellis digging a big, big hole for himself as he drops down to Geronimo with two balls and no strikes.
- 29:14A run is home for the Reds. We're in the top of the second. It is one-nothing Cincinnati.
- 29:20Geronimo takes the strike.
- 29:24David Concepcion is on deck. The Cincinnati shortstop and number nine batter.
- 29:29Geronimo taking a look at third base coach George Sugar to pick up the sign. And now Ellis ready with the next pitch.
- 29:36And here it comes. It's ball three.
- 29:42So Doc Ellis having problems in the second.
- 29:46Three balls and a strike to count on Geronimo.
- 29:51Outfielder Mickey Rivers who can pick them up and lay them down with the best of them in Major League Baseball playing Geronimo the other way.
- 29:58The pitch coming swung out and fouled and the count is full.
- 30:03It has been most surprising to the Cincinnati Reds the defensive alignment of the New York Yankee outfield in this World Series to a number of their hitters.
- 30:12Of course the walkie talkies much in evidence tonight down to our left. Client King, Carl Keele manning the microphones or the headsets you might say to Yankee coach Gene Michael in the New York dugout.
- 30:24Here's a smash on one hot play by Stanley onto Randolph. Throw the first. Not in time and a run is home.
- 30:32Now the multitude of umpires behind the first base back contending that Randolph's quick throw to Shambles beat Geronimo but not so says Bill Deegas.
- 30:40With Foster in from third the Reds up the lead to 2-0 as the force out is made on Johnny Vetch at second base.
- 30:47A good play by Freddie Stanley on a hard hit one hopper.
- 30:50An excellent play and that was the third time this inning that there's been a play around first base that has been of some controversial nature.
- 30:57The very first batter in the inning Dan Greesen hit one off the glove of Ellis. The shortstop did or did not reach in time.
- 31:04Then there was the ball that went off of Shambles glove and here's the action.
- 31:07Geronimo running on the pitch, Concepciona foul back.
- 31:13Credit Geronimo with a RBI score to Fielder's Choice. Bench cut down at second base Stanley to Randolph 6-4.
- 31:20And now Greg Nettles coming in from third base to talk with Doc Ellis who requests and gets a new baseball from plate umpire Billy Williams.
- 31:29Dimensions here at Yankee Stadium 3-10 down the left field line or 3-12 rather down the left field line, 3-10 to right.
- 31:373-87 as it juts out from the left field foul pole then 4-30.
- 31:41The deepest point of the park out in deep left center by the Yankee ball path.
- 31:45Throw to first base by Ellis.
- 31:474-17 to straightaway center.
- 31:493-85 to the power alley and right center field.
- 31:53Concepciona right handed batter.
- 31:55The pitch coming from Ellis and it's taken for a strike on the inside corner 0-2.
- 32:03As it was in the old days an excellent park for dead pole hitters.
- 32:08And in Cincinnati's case Johnny Bench and as we mentioned earlier Joe Morgan a right handed hitter and a left handed hitter.
- 32:14Would love to be able to play in this ball park.
- 32:16The runner goes the pitch is swung on and foul.
- 32:18Concepciona just throwing his bat at the ball almost in order to make contact.
- 32:23Is Marky Anderson doing what he said he would do in this World Series and that is test the arm of Thurman Munson.
- 32:29Which at times can be very erratic and it is something that has shown up at times so far in this series.
- 32:35But Marty so far in this inning it hasn't been a particularly robust attack that's gotten these runs.
- 32:41It's the champions taking advantage.
- 32:44Throw to first base and Geronimo has to dive back ahead of the swipe tack by Shambler.
- 32:49Grant Jackson continues his deliberation to the Yankee bullpen.
- 32:54The Reds have scored twice in this inning.
- 32:57There is only one man out.
- 33:00Geronimo getting quite a lead at first base.
- 33:04Ellis stretches the runner goes they call for a pitch out.
- 33:07Here is the throw to second and Stanley lets the ball get away from him.
- 33:11They had him out by a country mile at second base.
- 33:14And Stanley allowed the ball to hit off the heel of his glove and picked up by Willie Randolph.
- 33:20That should be scored an error on Stanley because it was a no contest play at second base.
- 33:26Munson guests right he called for a pitch out but they scored a stolen base.
- 33:30That's the third time tonight I've disagreed with the official score.
- 33:34There was no question that the play was there.
- 33:36Stanley in his eagerness to get the ball down had the ball hit the thumb of his glove and it went off.
- 33:41There was daylight between the base and the base runner but there he is on second and in scoring position again.
- 33:48So Concepcion with a count of 1-1 the pitch is swung on and fouled.
- 33:52And I've got to concur with you when we've seen three plays here that certainly would appear to have been scored another way.
- 33:59The Reds will now have gained credit for two stolen bases in this inning.
- 34:04Which in tomorrow morning's newspaper will look like a slam against the arm of Thurman Munson.
- 34:09But at least in that case that's not so at all.
- 34:12Ellis with the advantage.
- 34:14Here's the fly ball hit to left center field.
- 34:16Charging is the left fielder white as Geronimo gets the green light coming around third and on into the play.
- 34:22And now the ball getting away from Stanley on the throw in but picking it up is settled so whole Concepcion at first.
- 34:28It is 3-0 Cincinnati.
- 34:31And I know that Billy Martin must be inside a little bit irate
- 34:36because he talked in the two games in Cincinnati about the flares that the Reds had in that pair of games at Riverfront Stadium.
- 34:43And Cincinnati is flaring Doc Ellis and the Yankees to death here in the second.
- 34:49By a flare that's a fancy name for a half-hearted Texas leaguer that just flukes over the infield.
- 34:57In fact Roy White charged the ball as though he were afraid it was going to bounce over his head like it normally would have in Cincinnati.
- 35:03And he let it bounce to him.
- 35:05He rose up for the second time in his many innings.
- 35:08He looks the ball into Munson's mitted slow for ball one.
- 35:11Griesen open with an infield hit to second.
- 35:14Stole second base.
- 35:15Foster with the only well-hit ball in the inning.
- 35:17A double to the right center field alley to make it 1-0.
- 35:21This one is bounced to the left side.
- 35:23Stanley backhand.
- 35:24Flips to Randolph one.
- 35:25Throw to Chambley.
- 35:26That's a double play and that's the inning.
- 35:29David Concepcion rolling around at second base as he tried to take Randolph out.
- 35:34But apparently he's all right.
- 35:36Although Concepcion's shaking his left arm as he came in hard on Randolph.
- 35:41And he may be a little bit shaken up.
- 35:43In the inning, the Reds get three runs on four bases.
- 35:48No Yankee errors.
- 35:49And one, nobody left on base.
- 35:51So at the end of an inning and a half, it's the Reds three, the Yankees nothing.
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- 36:56As in the first game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, the second inning has proven fruitful indeed for the Cincinnati Reds.
- 37:03In each game they had four hits and scored three runs.
- 37:06The first game, however, they're hitting a little more robust.
- 37:09Today it was taking advantage of everything that happened on the infield.
- 37:12The one blow that really was worth it was that blow to right center field by George Foster.
- 37:17The rest were singles that died over the infield or were thrown erratically or were beaten out along the base path.
- 37:25No matter how you did it, the Reds always do it.
- 37:28And they lead breathing up there as the Yankees come up for their second turn at times.
- 37:33As it was in the top of the inning, it'll be the designated hitter leading things off.
- 37:36Carlos May, we might tell you that Davey Concepcion is all right.
- 37:40Not a short stop for Cincinnati.
- 37:42The pitch to the left-handed Batting Bay, a call strike.
- 37:45Reds trainer Larry Starr was out for quite some time during our commercial breakaway,
- 37:49and Concepcion now flexing that left arm was judged to be well enough to remain in the game.
- 37:55The 0-1 to May.
- 37:57Swung on and that's bounced just off to the left of foul ball as Johnny Betts comes up with it on a hop.
- 38:03That's Zachary being touched for a two-out hit in the first inning by Thurman Munson
- 38:07after allowing Rivers to get on through his own throwing error,
- 38:09but promptly picked Speedy Mickey Rivers off the first base bag
- 38:13and into the inning with a flourish, a high fast ball that got Chris Schambler struck out swinging.
- 38:19Here's a ground ball to Bruce Perez backs a step.
- 38:21He waved Zachary off and Beats made it a bag and a foot race. One down.
- 38:27You know, Marty, Mickey Rivers being picked off first base in the first inning
- 38:30might be the height of frustration for the New Yorkers.
- 38:33In the previous games, he wasn't able to get there, and here he did get there,
- 38:37and before you could take a breath, he was out.
- 38:39And unless Rivers is on those base paths to upset the pitcher,
- 38:43and in this case the young Zachary, a good deal of the Yankee attack is signed off.
- 38:48He makes things happen for this New York club.
- 38:50Here's another man who makes things happen, and Greg Nettles.
- 38:52He led the American League in home runs with 32.
- 38:55Left-handed batter starts to go around on a breaking ball,
- 38:58but checks the swing in time as Billy Williams gets help from third base umpire Dave Phillips.
- 39:034-1.
- 39:05I think it's only fair to note that in this series so far Greg has hit in the two double plays.
- 39:11One for seven is a hitter.
- 39:13Two RBI.
- 39:15The one-oh to it. That's a fast ball high, ball two.
- 39:20Swinging a bat in the Yankee on-deck circle is right fielder Oscar Gamble.
- 39:26Base coaches for the Yankees, Elston Howard at first, Dick Hauser at third base.
- 39:31A slow coming, and that is one on a high deep drive, but it'll be foul down the right fielder line.
- 39:36The Cincinnati book on Greg Nettles, a high ball hitter, and Zachary threw one up in his eyes that time,
- 39:42and it could well have cost him.
- 39:46Nettles blowing into his hands on a very, very cool night in New York City.
- 39:52Back in the batter's box as Zachary sends in the 2-1.
- 39:56That has grounded the first base and foul between the bag and the coaching box.
- 40:00They had a hot water bottle in the Yankee on-deck circle earlier,
- 40:05but as we look down now at Oscar Gamble we see no evidence of it.
- 40:08Well, they have portable heaters under the seat.
- 40:12I don't know what the implication of that is, but at least it keeps them warm.
- 40:16I don't know what portion of the Yankee anatomy is getting the good of it, but it is under the seat.
- 40:22Two and two the count on Nettles. Here's a pitch.
- 40:25He checks the swing on a slider inside. Full count.
- 40:29It is 3-0 Cincinnati as we play baseball in the bottom of the second.
- 40:34They have bounced out to Tony Perez on assistant and Tony now playing deep for Nettles.
- 40:41Here comes the payoff, and it's high and away as Nettles is on with the first walk allowed by Zachary in the game.
- 40:49Marty Gregg is not only the home run champion of the American League,
- 40:53but he has a very settled idea of what he's worth.
- 40:55He played well over half the season, you know, without signing with the Yankees.
- 40:59He was one of the option players, and then finally he and Yankee management came to an agreement.
- 41:04So he pretty much knows who he is and what he can do,
- 41:09and he has had a fantastic year at third base as a fielder.
- 41:14I haven't seen anybody play the bag as well since the halcyon days of Brooks Robinson.
- 41:18Now that may be a little sacrilegious, but he was diving and swooping.
- 41:22He was great at third base this year.
- 41:24Oscar Gamble, the batter, Joe Morgan came in from second base to talk with Pat Zachary.
- 41:29Gamble batted only 232 during the season, but he can play long ball.
- 41:33He had 17 home runs and knocked in 57.
- 41:39One on, one on. Zachary with a check of the runner at first base.
- 41:43He pitches and Gamble swings and fouls. This one out of play.
- 41:47I think Oscar hit the longest ball out of Yankees, certainly a hit this year,
- 41:50way up on that second deck where I see a sign out. So pervasive is the idea of,
- 41:55winning may not be everything, but it certainly ameliorates one's feelings.
- 41:59There's a sign out there that says Brooklyn loves the Yankees.
- 42:03Took a long time for a sign like that to, I guess, be flown in this ballpark since the tree grew there.
- 42:13In field, a double play, Depp.
- 42:16Gamble takes the strike. And so Zachary will be advantage if nothing in two.
- 42:22Tomorrow night it's going to be right-hander Gary Nolan for Cincinnati,
- 42:25the winningest pitcher on the Reds' staff. He had 15 of them.
- 42:28One of 10 or 7 pitchers to be in double figures wind-wise for the Reds.
- 42:33And it'll be single, singer baller Ed Siguroa, a right-hander for the Yankees.
- 42:37Pitch is up high, one ball and two strikes.
- 42:41Zachary certainly has a hitty, hirky, jerky movement,
- 42:44especially when he wants to really put the mustard on it.
- 42:47He screws up his arm and then he comes over with a wrist snap.
- 42:51More often than not, it's off target.
- 42:55He pitches, and the off-speed pitch is low for ball two.
- 42:59So he has gambled in a hole and two strikes, and now will be delivering the two two-pitch.
- 43:05You referred to him in the pre-game show win as cadaverous,
- 43:08and I think that's a pretty good description of it.
- 43:10I didn't mean that negatively. 6'5", 175 pounder Zachary.
- 43:16Here's a flat ball to center field.
- 43:18Geronimo started in, now drips a bit back and off to his right, the spirit.
- 43:22Gamble hit it on the button, but Geronimo flagged it down,
- 43:25and there are two Yankees out here in the second.
- 43:27And stepping in is second baseman Willie Randolph.
- 43:31Marty, what I meant is when you reach a certain age and certain parts of you go to pot,
- 43:36you look with some scant at a young man who can still wear a belt size 30, you know.
- 43:43But he did remind me of Lefty Grove in a quarter of a century ago, long tall, and with an Adam's apple.
- 43:49Second baseman Randolph, one hit six times up in the World Series.
- 43:53Pass ball is high, ball one.
- 43:59The Reds score three times in the top of the inning.
- 44:02May bounced out to begin the Yankees second.
- 44:04There was a walk to Nettles, gamble is lined to center.
- 44:08Randolph a right-handed batter.
- 44:11He swings and he misses.
- 44:12Bench comes up as if to throw down to first base.
- 44:15Nettles had blocked the break toward second, but quickly pulled up short and went back into the bag.
- 44:21One ball and one strike.
- 44:24Willie Randolph briefly with the Pittsburgh Pirates last year.
- 44:27In fact, he made the final out in the three-game sweep by the Reds over the Pirates
- 44:32in the 75 League Championship Series.
- 44:34Ply ball, left field, lost her tracking and pounds a glove and that's the end of it.
- 44:40The second inning numbers for New York.
- 44:42No runs, no hits, they stray into one.
- 44:44At the end of two, complete at Yankee Stadium.
- 44:46Cincinnati three and New York nothing.
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- 45:43We're going to the top of the third inning with the Cincinnati Reds,
- 45:47as they did in the first game, holding a three-run lead.
- 45:50They have taken the lead in each of these three games.
- 45:53However, tonight, with Doc Elison the mound for the New York Yankees,
- 45:58this big crowd of 54,000-plus hopes that he regains his composure.
- 46:03He will set the Reds down from here on in and can stay in the game.
- 46:07This is a designated hitter, makes that possible, while his Yankees conceivably can chip away at Zachary.
- 46:13That's what they hope and pray.
- 46:16Mr. Grippy, Ken, by first name, comes to the plate.
- 46:19That's a few things to say to Ken Grippy.
- 46:23Billy Williams, the plate umpire, they doodle around, clean up things.
- 46:27You can see the black rim on the outside of the plate, that beveled edge.
- 46:32The speedy Ken Grippy, a 29th draft choice, 29th round.
- 46:39A young man who certainly looms as one of the superstars of the future in the National League,
- 46:44to pitch high a ball to him.
- 46:46He batted 336 and lost a batting title on the last day of the season
- 46:50when cup third baseman Billy Matlock had four base hits,
- 46:53but still a super year for this kid from Denora, Pennsylvania.
- 46:57And that should ring a bell, ball two.
- 47:01Dan Musial, of course, from that Pennsylvania city,
- 47:03and this young man trying to make a name for himself in this game of baseball is off and running.
- 47:09Marty, you had to have brains to trade for Foster and Morgan,
- 47:12but you had to have luck to pick this kid up.
- 47:14Absolutely win. No question about that.
- 47:17Here's a strike taken by the left-handed batter, two and one.
- 47:21He bounced down to first baseman Chambliss in the opening inning.
- 47:27So Don Gullis trying to get his packets together after a rough second,
- 47:31as Grippy checking his swing and it cost him a strike, two and two.
- 47:37As I recall it, the only first draft choice that's due with this current red organization is Don Gullis.
- 47:43Johnny Bench was the number two choice.
- 47:45That's exactly right. Bernie Carbo, that year that Bench was drafted number two, was drafted number one.
- 47:51Three balls and two strikes on the pitch wall and outside.
- 47:55And when he hit that three-run home run in the eighth inning of the sixth game last year,
- 47:58I'm sure he didn't rank that high with the Cincinnati Red organization.
- 48:02He was going to be bitter for the Red Sox.
- 48:04payoff pitch is chopped to third baseman Nettles.
- 48:07Nice pick up on the short hop and his throw is in time.
- 48:10That's the kind of play by Greg Nettles against very, very quick running Jen Griffiths.
- 48:16That's the kind of play that he has been pulling off all year.
- 48:20That was a bouncer on the Cincinnati turf.
- 48:23For lack of it, it would have gone a mile in the ears.
- 48:26It was. Nettles, who was playing him quite far back, had to come in on the dead run,
- 48:30scoop it up with the glove hand and without breaking stride, gut it over to Chambliss
- 48:34and that's what you call an eyelash play.
- 48:37Last year's national league most valuable player and, well, you talk to many of the folks
- 48:42who are charged with the responsibility of voting, says he's going to do it back to back
- 48:45and that's second baseman Joe Morgan.
- 48:47The change from Ellis' high of all.
- 48:50If anything, he had a better year in 1976. He hit 27 home runs.
- 48:55He batted 320.
- 48:57Here's a foul strike into the middle of Monson, one and one.
- 49:01And knocked in 111 runs to rank second behind teammate George Foster.
- 49:07All that in a total of 141 games, which means he missed completely 21 more games.
- 49:15Two and one.
- 49:19Ellis and the Yankees trailing Zachary in the reds, three to nothing.
- 49:22We're in the top of the third.
- 49:26Both feet planted firmly on the rubber has his sign and has Morgan fouling it off
- 49:31over toward the Cincinnati dugout.
- 49:34Count even at two balls and two strikes as Morgan converses with Yankee catcher Thurman Monson.
- 49:42Did not have a hit, Joe Morgan, in the three-game sweep over the Philadelphia Phillies.
- 49:53He's hitting on a two-two pitch from right-hander Doc Ellis.
- 49:57It's on the way to the plate. It's cut on and bounced right side.
- 50:00Randolph has it. He throws the first two outs.
- 50:06Out or not, Morgan is an example of doing the best you can with what you've got.
- 50:11Of course, he's got everything, but it's all wired together.
- 50:14Electronically, the signal's all meshed.
- 50:17And what does he weigh, 160?
- 50:19165 pounds on a 5'7 frame, and it's hard to envision a guy who can pack that kind of power into that kind of physical build.
- 50:26The opposite is this guy, Tony Perez.
- 50:33Pitch to him, swing and a miss.
- 50:36Perez popped out to Randolph in the first.
- 50:39Down five for ten in the World Series.
- 50:44It's been either feast or famine for Tony Perez in World Series play. Last year, he was 0 for 15 before getting a hit.
- 50:50Sight to swing it.
- 50:53But when he came out on it against the Boston Red Sox in game five at Riverfront, he came out with a vengeance with two home runs.
- 50:59And of course, it's a big two-run homer in game seven off that Bill Lee blooper pitch that erased the three-nothing Boston Leeds.
- 51:06He strikes out, and impressive.
- 51:09One, two, three, three for Doc Ellis.
- 51:12The Reds are out of order.
- 51:14And to the roar of this Yankee Stadium crowd at the end of two and a half, Cincinnati three to Yankee seven.
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- 52:36Right now all of Rome are concerned with the top of the third inning or the bottom of the third inning.
- 52:41And the New York Yankees do trail 3-0, and their sparkling shortstop, Wed Stanley, who by midseason had won a competition with Mason as to who was going to be the Yankee shortstop.
- 52:54And in the latter part of the year, despite his reputation as a light hitter, docked in with a lot of consequential blows, which we could keep up right now.
- 53:05According to the Yankee fans, they'd be delighted.
- 53:08So Stanley, the number nine batter in the Yankee lineup, is ready to go, and so too is Pat Zachary, the psychos call.
- 53:179-1 and 2 for the Yankees in the third inning, Stanley to be followed by Mickey Rivers and Roy White. The Yankees looking up on the 3-0 deficit.
- 53:25That pitch is low, and the count is one ball and one strike. Stanley 1 for 4 in RBI.
- 53:36Zachary rocks to the line. The pitch, strike two called on the outside corner, and that pitch right there is the pitch that made Zachary a 14-game winner. A slider away, and at times he had a sold-out sign on that outside corner against right-handed batters.
- 53:53He has Stanley swinging on the pitch, and it's going to fall back into the seat.
- 53:57Marty, he was the best pitcher for the Reds in a lot of part of the season. Far and away when, he started out the season in the Cincinnati Bullpen, he got an opportunity to strike one a game in Wrigley Field, and had back-to-back starts against the Dodgers before over-full crowds.
- 54:11One in Cincinnati, one in Dodger Stadium, and one handily both times. Here's the chopper to the mound. Zachary definitely cradles it in his midsection, and flips on to Perez, one down.
- 54:22I had the feeling, and I don't attempt to read Sparky Anderson's mind, but I had the feeling that had not Zachary been the comparative youth that he is at 24, he would have started him in the playoff series as the first pitcher. I think on the basis of quality, he deserved this spot.
- 54:39Well, he was far and away the most consistent starter from beginning until end for Cincinnati.
- 54:45Mason, Mickey Rivers who reached on Zachary's throwing out of the first swing and a miss. There's a change that had Rivers way out in front.
- 54:54Mickey looking to Dick Houser in the third base coaching box.
- 54:58Rose again as he has been every time this man has come to the plate playing shallow at third, and Rivers bounces that way, but it finds its way to the Cincinnati dugout. Strike two.
- 55:12The only two regulars in this World Series without a base hit, Mickey Rivers is one, and Ken Griffey, the Cincinnati right fielder, is the other one.
- 55:21But Griffey is more than made up with it, with his feet, as he did in the ninth inning in Cincinnati to force the error by the shortstop and eventually came home with a winning run.
- 55:31Going two on the way to Rivers. Swing and a foul. Johnny Best could not hang on to it. That's the only thing that kept Rivers from being struck out, so the count holds at two strikes.
- 55:42The Yankees trying to become the seventh team in World Series play to bounce back from a 2-0 deficit. The last team to do it was the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971 against Earl Weaver's Baltimore Orioles.
- 55:55Rivers strikes out swinging. Betts drops the ball, trying to tag Rivers, and now throws on to Tony Perez to complete the strikeout, the second of the game for Pat Zachary.
- 56:06Marty, just before the last game of the Kansas City Series, the owner, George Steinbrenner, of the Yankees had a private conference with Mickey Rivers, and he came out and had four straight hits, and the presumption was that he was all excited and urged on by the owner.
- 56:21I understand they had the same kind of a meeting last night. And apparently there were conflicting viewpoints on the meeting. Steinbrenner felt like it was profitable. Mickey Rivers seemed to be a little bit perturbed over it.
- 56:32Call strike is in to Roy White.
- 56:35Rivers was quoted in the New York newspapers this morning as saying, some people get into a slump and there's nothing you can do about it.
- 56:42One ball and one strike. The title of that turn is Cry Me a River.
- 56:47White popped out to Rose in the first inning. Zachary trying to retire him and order the Reds lead in this game, 3-0.
- 56:58Strike two called. Zachary throwing bullseye. The Yankee hitters in the third.
- 57:08White out of the batter's box now climbs back in as Johnny Bench sends out the sign and Zachary sends in the pitch. Check swing, ground ball foul at first.
- 57:20The Yankee crowd has not had a whole lot to get excited about. Cincinnati sending six batters to the plate in a three-run second. And as wind pointed out, the second inning has become a good luck charm for the Cincinnati Reds in this World Series.
- 57:39One ball and two strikes. This thing outside Zachary, two and two. And for those who have a second inning in the pool, maybe they want enough to build one. I would think so.
- 57:52White looking at a straightaway Cincinnati outfield. He checks his swing on a change of five, all three. Zachary has gone three-two to a number of Yankee batters here in the early inning.
- 58:05Marcus Barky Anderson pays a great deal of attention to and of course with a man by the name of Raleigh Eastwick in his bullpen. When you get to the late innings talking about the eighth and ninth, you can look for that possibility.
- 58:16Here's ball four high. Zachary is surrendered his second walk. That will keep the Yankee third going for Katja Thurman-Munson who is the possessor of the only New York kid at first and he's single to center two.
- 58:34Alrighty, this guy can pull the ball under the left field stand but recently, because they've been pitching him outside as an intelligent hitter, which he is, he's been riding the ball to right with power.
- 58:47It's not impossible for him to reach the stands but he has also been reaching the empty part of the green. Now Pat Zachary is down on his right knee pointing to the bottom of his left.
- 59:00Evidently it's nothing physical. It's probably the spikes. He's taken the spade out and cleaned out the spikes. The shortstop and Katja Bench are immediately out there with memories of Don Gullit and the ripped tendon there.
- 59:14But he's okay as the young man from Texas.
- 59:18The inevitable comparison has been made in this World Series between the two catchers who claim to be the best in baseball, Johnny Bench and Thurman-Munson.
- 59:26Munson will not have any talk at all concerning that subject. He says Johnny Bench does his thing and I do my thing.
- 59:33And both have a strong argument in their own right.
- 59:37So a runner at first is white on the two-odd walk and here's Zachary's pitch to Thurman, a swing and a miss.
- 59:44Munson, a much more disciplined hitter than Johnny Bench in the sense of exactly what Wynn Elliott was talking about just a moment ago. He will go to right field.
- 59:53Johnny Bench, the book on him, a dead pole hitter. He feels like he's paid to hit home runs and drive in runs and on a rare occasion will go to right as we saw earlier in the series in Cincinnati.
- 1:00:05Swing and a miss. Zachary effectively keeping that ball down to Munson with good results at two strike count.
- 1:00:15In the last two World Series catchers have been emotionally so important. Who will ever forget the catcher for the Boston Red Sox in his home run Carlton Fisk in the sixth inning rather than their sixth game?
- 1:00:27Munson has had three hits in nine times up. He hits one to center but Geronimo should play it and he does to end the inning.
- 1:00:37The Yankees still runs, no hits. One man left on and after three pulls it remains Cincinnati 3 and New York nothing.
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- 1:01:45Want to know what designated hitters do between innings? Well if you're Carlos May and you're the Yankee designated hitter, you go up and warm up the pitcher until Darman Monson could get the tools with his trade back on.
- 1:01:58Speaking of Monson, catchers have been so prominent in World Series play. A guy in the Yankee dug-off in the name of Yogi Miller. Almost impossible to strike him out.
- 1:02:08Almost impossible to throw a pitch anywhere in the park that he wouldn't go after. And Elton Howard, the first base coach. We mentioned his first appearance in a World Series first time at bat. He hit a home run.
- 1:02:19I don't want to go back into the ice age, but I remember Gabby Hartnett with that home run just before the sky fell in to win the year's play for the Chicago Cubs.
- 1:02:30It set them in and Bill Dickey winning a World Series was to go on and on, but I'm not going to because the first batter is up, Marty.
- 1:02:38That batter will be Danny Dreeson, the designated hitter who's opened up the three run second with an infield hit to second base. A pitch to him is wide a ball.
- 1:02:46When you talk about the 29th round draft choice Ken Grippi some years back, this man out of Hilton Head, South Carolina, was signed as a pre-agent by Cincinnati.
- 1:02:55He swings and hits one at a time. Deep right center field and it's out of here for a home run. Danny Dreeson taking the ground to her as he jumps on a fastball from Doc Ellis.
- 1:03:07And deposits that shot into the seats in right center, the second home run of this World Series, and the Reds shoot their lead out to a 4-0 count.
- 1:03:15Marty, I think it would be a real test of character now to ask Parky Anderson what he thinks of the designated hitter. If he were to jump up and down in his gentlemanly manner like he does and say I think it's an abomination,
- 1:03:29I would respect him as a man above and beyond the call of duty, but right now I think he feels a little warm about the ball thing.
- 1:03:38That will bring out George Foster. Of course the Reds have been outspoken in their denial of the designated hitter. They do not like it and they would hope that it never comes to the National League.
- 1:03:48I think in the next year or so they're going to be disappointed in that feeling. The pitch is in for a strike to Foster.
- 1:03:55But I've said it before, but I think the designated hitter is more honest than those cheap triples that bounce off the Reds turf, those fly balls that land ten feet in the back of the shortstop and then bounce equally high over the fielders head.
- 1:04:09Here, you can't have it both ways. No, that's true. One strike on Foster.
- 1:04:15Allison with a pitch. Foster hits a line drive fielded on a hop deep behind second by Randolph. He throws and he got it. Super play by Willie Randolph.
- 1:04:27If you're a second baseman you can't make a better play than this young man from Brooklyn, New York, just paid.
- 1:04:34And Marty, where the Yankees as a result of the home run by Threeson could be at the point of disintegrating at least spiritually, that's the kind of a play, mentally, that could bring you back in and say well all is not lost.
- 1:04:44We can still make a play like that. We can still do it.
- 1:04:47And you talk about the comparisons between playing on natural grass and artificial turf. That ball's a base hit in Cincinnati.
- 1:04:54Here's Johnny Bech foul at third. They've got double barrel action in the Yankee bullpen.
- 1:05:00Dick Tidro, a right-hander, has joined left-hander Grant Jackson.
- 1:05:07The Reds four, the Yankees nothing. A Threeson home run to the bleachers in right center to kick off this fourth inning.
- 1:05:14And Foster thrown out on an out of sight play by Willie Randolph deep behind the second base bat.
- 1:05:20Bech goes to right field. That's going to be a base hit. Slicing drive away from Gamble. Bech has taken the turn and he's in a hole.
- 1:05:27As Gamble shotgun one back to the infield and Freddie Stanley.
- 1:05:31Cotton has bounced out of the Yankee dugout and we may well be in line for a New York Yankee fishing change right here.
- 1:05:38I don't think there's any doubt about it. The Yankees cannot afford to go down three-zips.
- 1:05:45They are well on their way now trailing four-nothing amidst the third inning.
- 1:05:51Only one out, Johnny Bech, confounding the Yankee dual.
- 1:05:55Had a wrong anticipation of the kind of a hit he is. Flap the line drive single into the corner in right field.
- 1:06:03His second right field hit of the series. The previous one in Cincinnati.
- 1:06:08A screaming drive. The parabola of which looked like it was going into the stands at the last second little English and came down and bounced off the wall.
- 1:06:16And his second hit in this World Series through the right field corner.
- 1:06:21At the moment we're not sure who's coming in because the tableau at the plate, or rather at the rubber, is still Stanley Munson, manager Billy Martin.
- 1:06:34And now making the long tour around the perimeter of the Yankee right field.
- 1:06:40It will come down the first base side and when the door opens it will be number 25 Jackson.
- 1:06:48The New York Yankees.
- 1:06:54Here he comes, Grant Jackson coming out.
- 1:06:58Grant, who came to the Yankees in a trade from Baltimore for Rudy May and Chippy Martinez.
- 1:07:06He came along with Kenny Holtzman. Kenny Holtzman, of course, the forgotten man in this series.
- 1:07:11He neither would leave nor started. And for a man with all that World Series experience,
- 1:07:17Holtzman has said he would do whatever the managers told him to do. And so far the managers told him to just sit there like little Jack Horner.
- 1:07:25But Grant Jackson, who in the latter part of the season, Marty, was the most effective New York Yankee reliever.
- 1:07:33And by that I mean he could go six and seven innings.
- 1:07:36He's now come in, I believe this is his second appearance in the series, his first. He appeared in the playoffs and was effective then.
- 1:07:47Now then Alexander, Lyle, Hunter, Ellis and Grant Jackson. I know, excuse me.
- 1:07:56And Grant was up on his feet so many times in the bullpen when Hunter was staggering in that second game.
- 1:08:02Here's Grant, left-hander. He's closed smoke, as we used to say in the old days. Now it's velocity.
- 1:08:09I think because so many college kids have come into the big leagues, the language has sort of been upgraded.
- 1:08:16It's now velocity instead of speed. It's location instead of control.
- 1:08:21The one thing I wish they would change, I don't know why they say you go three, four, four.
- 1:08:27When we were kids we said three out of four. The three, four, four is the biggest flag that I don't buy.
- 1:08:34But let's see what Grant Jackson can do with the rest of this Cincinnati lineup, Marty.
- 1:08:39He's going to be facing Cesar Geronimo, who reached on a field of his choice in the second inning to pick up an RBI.
- 1:08:44Johnny Betch at first base, a run in, one out. Fits, missing high of all.
- 1:08:49Jackson, a native of Ohio, he hails from Fasdoria, Ohio. Six feet, 190 pounder.
- 1:08:57That makes his home in Cago as Puerto Rico.
- 1:09:02He gets the inside corner as Geronimo steps away from the plate. The count evens at 1-1.
- 1:09:08Wynn talked about his pitching exploits during the season. Overall he was 7-1 with a 2.54 earned run average and 34 appearances, all but two in relief.
- 1:09:17Before dealing with the plate, he deals to Shamless and Betch with a quick step back.
- 1:09:21Dick Tidro continues to loosen up in the Yankee bull pass.
- 1:09:26And now they've got Betch picked off. The throw to Shamless, the throw to Stanley, and Betch is out sliding.
- 1:09:33Now Johnny Betch was going on the fifth. Jackson threw that way and Betch is a dead duck. 1-3-6.
- 1:09:43You can go half a year and not see anybody picked off, Basin. In this game tonight in the first four innings, we've seen two picked off.
- 1:09:50Mickey Rivers and the Anks and now Betch.
- 1:09:53So now two away. And this pitch is inside a big breaking ball, two balls and a strike.
- 1:09:58Geronimo, in addition to batting home a run in the second, also scored one of the Cincinnati three runs.
- 1:10:05He swings and hits one to right coming in gamble. He makes the cut, Jeff Dye, and that's all for Geronimo and that's all for the Reds.
- 1:10:13One run on two-base hit. The run scoring hit the home run by Dreesen.
- 1:10:19And after three and a half, it's the Reds four and the Yankees nothing.
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- 1:11:24The left-handed meat of the New York Yankee batting order
- 1:11:32is coming up here to play the fourth inning.
- 1:11:34Chris Chambers, Merlin May, Greg Meadows, and Oscar Campbell.
- 1:11:38And with that porch, within reaching distance of all of them,
- 1:11:43may I be allowed to say that they like their porch chopped?
- 1:11:47No, I don't think I'd better say.
- 1:11:50Marty, you better come on.
- 1:11:52That's Zachary securing the knowledge,
- 1:11:55and he has a four-run lead with which to work.
- 1:11:59Get ready to deal with Chambers for the second time.
- 1:12:02Zachary won the first inning battle as he struck him out on a 3-2 bounce ball.
- 1:12:08And they are up in arms at Yankee Stadium.
- 1:12:11They want to see some offense from the Bronx Bombers.
- 1:12:14Here's Chambers and here's Zachary.
- 1:12:16Swung on five-a-mound, makes it 6-0-3.
- 1:12:19The seventh game straight game, and with Chris has hit safely.
- 1:12:26He set two records in the late championship series of 0-5-11.
- 1:12:32He rose hell that record in 1972.
- 1:12:34He came up with nine.
- 1:12:36And Chambers batted all-mate runs to break a record formally held by Henry Aaron,
- 1:12:42who had seven in 1969.
- 1:12:44Carlos Faye grounds it out to Tony Perez as the lead-off batter in the second.
- 1:12:50He's in now with Chambers at first.
- 1:12:56Zachary ready.
- 1:12:58The pitch taken over the plate but below the knees, ball one to Carlos Faye.
- 1:13:03Whatever a welcome is, the New York crowd is now making it ring.
- 1:13:08And they are.
- 1:13:1050 seats in this place tonight, I'll tell you.
- 1:13:14Like his call, one-on-one.
- 1:13:17That base hit for Chambers is fourth in the World Series.
- 1:13:20Johnny Benchley and everybody was sixth.
- 1:13:23Tony Perez has five, and Foster joins Chambers with four apiece.
- 1:13:29One-warning.
- 1:13:30Swing and a foul on the screen.
- 1:13:34So Zachary, a head-on designated, hitter, Carlos Faye, one ball and two strikes.
- 1:13:38That hit by Chambers, only the second in the game for New York,
- 1:13:41the other being a first-inning single by Thurman Munson.
- 1:13:44While the Yankees, or rather the Reds, have had seven in scoring their four runs off the departed Doc Ellis.
- 1:13:50Right-winging, and that's a strikeout for Zachary, his third in this game.
- 1:13:57Mark one-up for the kid in that instance because Carlos Faye is not an easy strikeout.
- 1:14:02He's a very discriminating hitter and very often will take two to wait for the one.
- 1:14:07That time he never found it.
- 1:14:10One down now with Greg Nettles, who was a base runner in the second inning through one of two runs that Pat Zachary has given up.
- 1:14:17The infield, a double play depth, the fastball is up.
- 1:14:20Four-one.
- 1:14:25Zachary seemed to slip a bit on the mound that time.
- 1:14:27Marty, he looks back at it as though to say nasty.
- 1:14:32Checking in with Johnny Bench.
- 1:14:35Down and in. Two balls in those three.
- 1:14:42Don Gullick, the first game winner for Cincinnati.
- 1:14:45He of course suffered the dislocated tendon that eliminates him from any more World Series competition in 76.
- 1:14:55Swing and a foul that will be out of here, back into the upper deck behind the plate.
- 1:14:59Jack Millingham retiring eight batters in a row in relief. Freddie Norman under frigid weather conditions in Cincinnati Sunday night picked up the game two victory.
- 1:15:10And now Zachary trying to do it here against the Yankees to give the Reds a three-nothing lead in this World Series.
- 1:15:17They lead it four-nuffing. Outside and high, three-and-one.
- 1:15:21You know Marty, with a four-run lead and a man on first base and you've got one out, it's not the most dramatic of moments.
- 1:15:29Yet the fanaticism of the crowd, their constant murmur, their egging on the Yankees has put this a little out of context I think for the young pitcher.
- 1:15:38He's going too hard. He needs a strike and he does not get it.
- 1:15:42He walks right back over to the high heater.
- 1:15:45Sending Shambler's on down to second base and now the Yankees are trying to serve something up at the forefitting with two eyes.
- 1:15:52One out and Oscar Gamble at the plate. I think the crowd has done it.
- 1:15:57Now the pitching coach Larry Shepard has come out. I think he feels it too.
- 1:16:02It's a constant din, this hubbub. The emotion of the crowd has gotten to Pat Zachary.
- 1:16:08Like I said before, a man on first, you've got a four-run lead, one out. You're not going to trip into position because of that.
- 1:16:17But with Netto's up and he of course knows he's got the 30-plus home runs, Zachary's started reaching back and letting it fly.
- 1:16:26Well all of the very best of the pitchers, the most experienced, can maintain their location or their control in that kind of a situation.
- 1:16:35So Larry Shepard has come out. I presume to tell him don't act your age. Act like the tough pitcher you are.
- 1:16:44Now this Gamble is coming up. He's a free swinger.
- 1:16:48I'll try to jam it over there. Make it nibble. Make him make the mistake. Stay with it.
- 1:16:56Okay Marty. Okay, here's Gamble. Zachary checking Shambler's at second. The pitchers in for strike one call.
- 1:17:03This man has the capabilities as we pointed out earlier tonight with one swing of the bat to get his club back to within one run.
- 1:17:10They've got Shambler's at second base. They've got Greg Nettles at first with one out.
- 1:17:16Zachary ready with the 0-1 delivery. That's up high for a ball. When he gets back down and rears it, he goes high all the time, Marty.
- 1:17:27I'm sure Larry Shepard was out talking prime early with his follow through and just what you're speaking of here when the fact that he has been up with so many of his pitches.
- 1:17:36And this Yankee club, a predominantly high ball hitting team. Two balls and a strike. That's just was on.
- 1:17:42Johnny Bich looking into the Cincinnati dugout. We might tell you that with a 4-0 lead despite the Yankees having two men on, nobody yet throwing into Cincinnati bullpen.
- 1:17:55Waiting is Oscar Gamble. He swings and pops it back behind the plate, but Johnny Bich watching it right out of here.
- 1:18:05Apparently somebody missed out on the souvenir because that ball was in the upper deck and now it dropped down out of the screen just below us.
- 1:18:13And a momentary release in the tension that the Yankee fans have themselves created and I think with effect on the young pitcher.
- 1:18:21The kind of thing builds within you and here they come again. The infield looks for the bouncing ball. The two-fifth.
- 1:18:28Checkswing foul ball. Gamble hesitated on it, not knowing exactly what to do with it.
- 1:18:35And he gains a reprieve of sorts on the checkswing foul, a count holding at two balls and two strikes.
- 1:18:41New up next, second baseman Willie Randolph. The first threat that the Yankees have posed in this game.
- 1:18:51Gamble swings and again fouls. He's proven to be a tough customer for Pat Zachary as Zachary continues out to throw strikes and Gamble wastes him with foul balls.
- 1:19:01And everybody's forgotten that it's cold out. I would say that is a most accurate statement.
- 1:19:08It's actually not as cold as it was in Cincinnati on Sunday night. The wind has died down considerably in New York City.
- 1:19:17Here's a line drive into center field. That's a hit. Here comes a run around and third.
- 1:19:21Geronimo Franks it forward to play. Cut off by Tony Perez. The run is in.
- 1:19:27A face into center field by Oscar Gamble and it's four to one as the Yankees have come up with their first run.
- 1:19:35Devils goes to second base. Willie Randolph will be the batter.
- 1:19:42And New York trying to battle back in game three as they did in Cincinnati in game two when they fell behind three to nothing.
- 1:19:50And that pitch seemed to me to be high but little out over the plate.
- 1:19:54Gamble instead of trying to pull it into the porch in right field, stroked it on a line into center field and it came within a whistler of bouncing over the head of Geronimo.
- 1:20:04That has gone way out to the 417 mark. That would have been two in and Gamble at least on third.
- 1:20:11And now the exuberant Yankee patrons and the porch in right field absolutely that Yankee sally with some ticker tape.
- 1:20:22Well it's wider than ticker tape. I guess it's softer than ticker tape. It ain't ticker tape.
- 1:20:32We've got activity for the first time tonight in the Cincinnati bullpen. Right hander Pedro Borbón is throwing along with left hander Will McEnany.
- 1:20:42Now we've got Ellie Hendricks running in for the Yankee bullpen in left center field toward the dugout.
- 1:20:49So Billy Martin maybe thinking this should be sometime in this inning. We'll have to wait and see.
- 1:20:56Hendricks has now reached the Yankee dugout and has gone to the rack where they have the helmet. Here's a picture Randolph down and away for a ball.
- 1:21:05Hendricks has been through the mill minding of the member of the Orioles. He's a left handed batter. He can reach the porch and I presume he has more patience or at least as much as the weak hitting by Stanley.
- 1:21:17The one-o to Randolph. Swung on and popped up. That's going to be playable by Johnny Betch as he comes toward the red line deck circle and beyond and he's got it.
- 1:21:26Throughout number two.
- 1:21:33Randolph a high foul pop to Johnny Betch. As Pat Zachary begins to breathe a little bit easier and while Fred Stanley is the scheduled batter he will not hit.
- 1:21:43It will be Ellie Hendricks coming on as the Yankee pinch hitter. Now we're going to get a convention of Cincinnati players around the mound.
- 1:21:50Johnny Betch, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan all crowding around 6'5 Pat Zachary to talk over I'm sure the book on Ellie Hendricks.
- 1:22:01Hendricks was more or less a throw in in the deal with Baltimore. The main of Chattel's of course were Holtman and Doyle Alexander.
- 1:22:11But he came along as part of the package and gave the Yankees their third catcher. They have Fran Healy from Kansas City.
- 1:22:18And Ellie Hendricks of course the one with the most experience. Much more experienced than Healy.
- 1:22:24As I say Hendricks has been through the mill. The championship mill is a member of the championship of Baltimore Orioles.
- 1:22:30He is a left handed hitter. He is slightly and spindly of build but he can put it together like Morgan can and if he gets all the synos on it he'll go.
- 1:22:41And he's done it before and of course that's the whole theory right now. Do it again. Four home runs on the year 9 RBIs.
- 1:22:50That at all what 160. But in this spot experience.
- 1:22:55Hendricks waiting and the pitch is outside ball one. Well the book on Hendricks he's a low inside fastball hitter.
- 1:23:02So that's the area in which Pat Zagre does not want to throw the baseball.
- 1:23:07A run in, two on, two off. Pitch on the way to the plate. Swung on and hits very high.
- 1:23:13Into left center field Foster is under. Waiting and makes the catch for the inning ending out.
- 1:23:19For the Yankees in the fourth inning a run. On a couple of hits they lead two on.
- 1:23:25Through four complete. Cincinnati four, New York one.
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- 1:24:29As we go into the top of the fifth inning here at Yankee Stadium when Elliott and Marty Brown,
- 1:24:34there will be a defensive change for the Yankees of course.
- 1:24:37We have Fred Stanley out because of Henrik Stinch inform. In to play shortstop for the Yankees will be Jim Mason.
- 1:24:44Mason actually started off the year as the regular Yankee shortstop and was displaced by Stanley.
- 1:24:50So we have Mason at short. And similar to how to left field I see various patches of more green, greener than green.
- 1:24:56Which is the result I suspect of the ground keepers replacing some of the torn up turf after Shamblers put the Yankees in the World Series.
- 1:25:04Marty. When I was told earlier today they put down approximately 1500 square feet of new turf as a result of the exuberant Yankee fans after Shamblers' home run.
- 1:25:15Here's David Concepcion who delivered a run scoring single in the second. He takes a strike from Lefty Jackson.
- 1:25:22So Grant Jackson beginning his first inning after coming on in relief of Ellis in the last frame.
- 1:25:27Full breaking ball is outside. One ball and one strike.
- 1:25:35Sit down the way. Swing and a foul back to the screen.
- 1:25:39One ball and two strikes to count. Let's pause ten seconds for station identification. This is a CBF radio network.
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- 1:25:55Jackson pitching to Concepcion and the ball again is fouled.
- 1:25:59Marty it doesn't seem to me as though Concepcion is favoring the left elbow at all.
- 1:26:05No it doesn't. I'm sure that gave Sparky Anderson a great deal of concern momentarily when Davey fell.
- 1:26:12He strikes out swinging on a pitch out away from him.
- 1:26:16Good pitch by Grant Jackson. He had Concepcion chasing a bad ball.
- 1:26:22So Jackson rings up his first strike out and the second for Yankee pitching in the game as we go back to the top of the red batting order for Pete Rose.
- 1:26:31I wonder if the best designated hitter in the history of the National League will stay in there now that they have a left handed pitcher.
- 1:26:38Well if Jackson stays in our listeners can look massively to Bob Bailey to come on and hit.
- 1:26:44We'll have to wait and see. Call a strike to Rose who's had a hit in two times up.
- 1:26:48In the second he ended that inning with a ground into a double play.
- 1:26:53He swings and chops one along the first baseline. Up Hudson throwing to Chandler.
- 1:26:58Tell her to two out.
- 1:27:04So Grant Jackson has saved three batters. He's retired them all as Pete Rose says something going by the mound to Jackson and or a third baseman, Greg Nettles, who is standing over there.
- 1:27:14Kenny Griffith still without a hit in the series he bounced the first. He was robbed of an infield in the third inning and an out of sight play by Greg Nettles.
- 1:27:24That's four Yankees one were in the top of the fifth. Swing and a fly ball left center field.
- 1:27:29Vicki Rivers. He'll watch Roy White play it and that ends the inning.
- 1:27:34The Reds are out one two three for the second time tonight. We are halfway through game three of the nineteen seventy six World Series.
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- 1:28:50Four and a half innings to go.
- 1:28:52The first half innings will bring up the New York Yankees who threatened in the last inning, got their one run on two hits,
- 1:29:01had the crowd roaring as Ellie Hendricks came up with two on to pinch it from the left side of the plate
- 1:29:07but couldn't do it wide out to left field.
- 1:29:10So this should have put a winner to the 1976 third game series go on.
- 1:29:15And once again the Yankee Rooters come to it to exhaust their team on.
- 1:29:24First up, the guy that's gotta do it, if the Yankees are gonna do it at all, Nicky Rivers.
- 1:29:31And you can hear the expected roar in the background from jam-packed Yankee Stadium fans as Rivers cuts on the first pitch
- 1:29:37and sends it back to the screen a foul ball.
- 1:29:41Nicky 0 for 2 was on in the first inning through a throwing error by Pat Zachary, was picked off and then struck out swinging in the third.
- 1:29:53Pat Zachary, Robson Deals, swung on, Luper, Concepcion back, reaches up, Yankees face it left field.
- 1:30:01So Nicky Rivers has finally solved the riddle with a fly ball to the shallowest part of left field.
- 1:30:10Concepcion gave it a run for its money but the ball just fell over his outspread glove for a wrong field single to left.
- 1:30:17And I thought I heard the splintering of Rivers' bat on that play.
- 1:30:21He just reached out and just placed it, a wee Willie Keeler type hit, just over the outstretched hands of Concepcion
- 1:30:29who then fell rather heavily on his left side but he got up without any ascension being taken.
- 1:30:36You wanna manage a little bit, you send Rivers with your club three runs down, we'll see.
- 1:30:41Here's the pitch low to Roy White.
- 1:30:45White popped out in the first inning, Rose squeezed it, got a walk in the third.
- 1:30:50And once again we've got activity in the Cincinnati bullpen with left-hander Will McEnany up for the second time in his many innings.
- 1:30:57He's not gonna go this time.
- 1:31:00Ball is high, ball two.
- 1:31:02I think I'll have to be seconded in the way Rivers holds his body as to whether he's gonna go or not gonna go.
- 1:31:08I'll go out on a limp, that time I knew he wasn't gonna go. Let's watch him.
- 1:31:12If you watch the plate, I'll watch him.
- 1:31:14Zachary behind, two and nothing on the left and the right.
- 1:31:18He's not gonna go.
- 1:31:20That one is high and inside, ball three.
- 1:31:25Well right now Pat Zachary having a hard time enjoying his prosperity.
- 1:31:33He is leading by three runs, he's got a little bit of a lead in the first inning.
- 1:31:40Now Pat Zachary having a hard time enjoying his prosperity.
- 1:31:48He is leading by three runs, but he saw the Yankees get the plate on him in the last inning.
- 1:31:52Has given up an opening single of Rivers here in the fifth and is a pitch away from walking Roy White.
- 1:31:59Joe Morgan has been to the mound, he now goes back to his second base position.
- 1:32:09He's lost no strikes, Dermot Munson will be up next, the fifth.
- 1:32:13That's ball four.
- 1:32:20Zachary has just surrendered his fourth ball.
- 1:32:26And I think the crowd is speaking for itself.
- 1:32:30Now there's action in the Cincinnati bullpen.
- 1:32:33Will McAdanny as we reported out is drawing.
- 1:32:37Dermot Munson who tonight is single and lined out to center field is the Yankee batter.
- 1:32:47Zachary trying to get it together.
- 1:32:49Munson taking his time, moving into the batter's box.
- 1:32:51Zachary has a little bit more time on the mound to think about what's happening here.
- 1:32:58Rivers takes his walking lead at second.
- 1:33:02Roy White is off the first base bag and the pitch to Dermot Munson is on the way.
- 1:33:06Swung on line drive, Perez has it, goes to second, double play.
- 1:33:13Things have gone all Cincinnati's way in this World Series and again it happened.
- 1:33:19As Munson, it's a slicing line drive that Perez played and a quick throw to Concepcion makes Vicki Rivers a dead duck at second.
- 1:33:27And only because Rivers is so fast and was taking advantage of this moment and was so far off second, he was unable to get by.
- 1:33:35And what's to say?
- 1:33:42Here's Chris Jambliss.
- 1:33:50Swing and a miss.
- 1:33:51Missed down and out of the way for the big left handed batter.
- 1:33:55Jambliss born in Dayton, Ohio which is just up the road about 40 miles or so from Cincinnati.
- 1:34:01The son of a Navy chaplain and a man swinging a torrid bat for the New York Yankees.
- 1:34:08One ball and one strike to it.
- 1:34:12Well, they'll be shoulda, coulda, wouldn't that play in the dressing room later.
- 1:34:15A half foot higher from Munson that would have been in the right field at least one run.
- 1:34:22As it is two out with White still at first base.
- 1:34:25This one fouled away by Jambliss.
- 1:34:28One and two the count.
- 1:34:34The Yankees trailing the Reds four to one.
- 1:34:36Cincinnati getting a three spot in the second.
- 1:34:38A solo home run for Danny Dreeson in the fourth.
- 1:34:40The same inning in which the Yankees scored their only run to date.
- 1:34:46Missing with the Fitz, two and two.
- 1:34:48Pat Zachary against Chris Jambliss.
- 1:34:54Zachary a visit to the rising bag on the back slope of the pitching mound.
- 1:35:01Yanks have reached him for four hits.
- 1:35:03A reg of that seven off of starting pitcher Doc Gellis.
- 1:35:06Grant Jackson has not given up anything in relief.
- 1:35:09The break even pitches on the way.
- 1:35:11He's struck him out swinging with a change up.
- 1:35:13He dropped down a bit on Jambliss and pulled a string on him to record strikeout number four.
- 1:35:19New York's fifth inning, no runs.
- 1:35:21One base hit, one man is left.
- 1:35:24And as we move to the Cincinnati sixth inning, it's the Reds four and the Yankees one.
- 1:35:29The top of the sixth inning.
- 1:35:31Marty?
- 1:35:32Okay, well Joe Morgan will start it off with the Reds.
- 1:35:35He's batting 300 in the World Series.
- 1:35:37Three hits in ten times up.
- 1:35:38Two for extra bases, a home run of triple.
- 1:35:41Grant Jackson delivers to the left handed batting second base for the Bulls.
- 1:35:46Jackson has faced four batters, he has retired four straights.
- 1:35:51As Morgan taking the inside high fastball, two and nothing.
- 1:35:57Here's a man you have to pitch to.
- 1:35:59Joe Morgan, one of the most disciplined hitters and knowledgeable hitters insofar as that strike zone is concerned.
- 1:36:07Every year walks over a hundred times.
- 1:36:09He's just taken a strike on the inside edge.
- 1:36:11Two balls, one strike with Jackson dealing.
- 1:36:13Swing and a miss.
- 1:36:16Came right overhand with that big breaking ball.
- 1:36:20You could call that pitch a curve change that Jackson throws.
- 1:36:24And he has Morgan out in front, two and two.
- 1:36:27And now Joe's stepping out as Jackson goes to the windup.
- 1:36:35Batter and pitch are ready.
- 1:36:37Morgan with a bat handle foul ball that will be out of the screen.
- 1:36:45Tony Perez watching the action from the Cincinnati on deck circle.
- 1:36:51Munson hanging a sign and now with Jackson taking too much time on the mound, Morgan steps away once again.
- 1:36:57The activity that has been so prevalent for Cincinnati both and Will McEnany has now ceased.
- 1:37:04He pops him up. Let's see if Munson has a play as he races to the base of the screen and it falls on top and out of his reach.
- 1:37:10You know, Marty, Joe Morgan is not only the complete baseball player physically, but mentally he is so much the realist.
- 1:37:18He faces things as they are.
- 1:37:19In the dressing room the other night somebody asked him, how about this series?
- 1:37:22You're two up and now. He says, I savored the moment as of the moment.
- 1:37:25I don't know how long this team is going to stay together, how long I'll be with it.
- 1:37:29So I live and I love this moment. Tomorrow is another day.
- 1:37:33Pretty good philosophy.
- 1:37:36Again the 2-2 pitch. That's a fastball and that's a strikeout.
- 1:37:41Morgan is arguing with Billy Williams.
- 1:37:43Williams calls him out as Morgan's turning around and Joe felt like he was able to check his swing, but Williams says, no you did not.
- 1:37:51Making two strikeouts tonight for Grant Jackson as a very disgruntled Joe Morgan goes back to the Cincinnati dugout pocket to himself.
- 1:38:01Jackson doing the job for Billy Martin's Yankees.
- 1:38:07Tony Perez is over two.
- 1:38:10There's a change up that stays high for ball one.
- 1:38:14Perez is popped out to the second baseman Randolph.
- 1:38:17He gets struck out swinging.
- 1:38:21Up and in ball two.
- 1:38:32Swung on and knocked down by Jackson. He picks it up third base side of the mound and throws him out.
- 1:38:37Good play by Grant.
- 1:38:42Ball was hit hard. He deflected it off to the third base side of the pitching mound.
- 1:38:47Perez a grin on his face as he runs by Jackson and onto the Cincinnati dugout.
- 1:38:52I can imagine. He knew one that time.
- 1:38:57Before the series started it was down at the batting cage with Perez and company and even though you can hardly understand him, he really gives up with the ribs.
- 1:39:08Danny Dreeson two for two tonight. Jackson drops down on him with a fastball that eludes Thurman Munson.
- 1:39:15After reaching on an infield hit and all of a sudden scoring in the second, Holmer to the right center field bleachers in the fourth inning strike his call.
- 1:39:22And he remains the only designated hitter in the history of the National League. He was not replaced by Bailey.
- 1:39:32Ball bouncing up there. Munson playing it on the hot ball too. Two and one.
- 1:39:36So the Cincinnati offense has quieted down considerably after doing all of its damage against other Doc Ellens.
- 1:39:43Jackson having trouble with the left handed batter. Danny Dreeson with a count of three and one and Foster on deck.
- 1:39:51We're in the top of the sixth inning. The Reds lead the Yankees by three.
- 1:39:58Jackson collecting his thoughts, bends at the waist to get the sign and comes with a pitch.
- 1:40:04Swung on, flat ball, right center, rivers in. He'll not be able to play it. He short hopped the ball and here comes Dreeson to second.
- 1:40:11He's going to be safe.
- 1:40:14Play at second base. As Jim Mason took Mickey Rivers' throw and Danny Dreeson will be credited with a two base hit.
- 1:40:23Mickey Rivers was not supposed to have an arm but twice in this series his throws have been right on the money but not with the velocity required to nip the man.
- 1:40:34A throw to the plate he was beaten. And now a throw to second.
- 1:40:38Had he had a little more muscle you remember he had hurt his shoulder in the latter part of the year and he's not been able to throw as well as he usually does.
- 1:40:45But that was just an eyelash away from catching that man at second.
- 1:40:50Now the Reds felt like they could run not only on Mickey Rivers but also on Roy White and just about anybody else that Billy Martin sent to the Yankees' outfield and so far that scouting report has been most accurate.
- 1:41:02And attention Sparky Anderson, the designated hitter that you don't like has got three hits tonight.
- 1:41:08That he does. It is many times up. Here's George Foster. Foster is one for two. A double a knock home a run.
- 1:41:17And Rob DeVoevayson on the play by Randolph his last time up. Now as Jackson stretches Foster as he did so many times during the season steps out on the pitcher.
- 1:41:28Greason checking the whereabouts of Randolph and Mason. The fits to the plate. That is high. Four one.
- 1:41:38Foster batting four forty four. Four for nine.
- 1:41:43All nine Reds by the way in this World Series have at least one RBI.
- 1:41:49Swing and a miss.
- 1:41:52And Jackson simply playing good old fashioned hardball with Foster on that pitch.
- 1:41:58Count his level to the ball in one strike. Foster has knocked in two runs in this series.
- 1:42:03Trying to get Greason home to again give the Reds a four run lead. Low end side ball two.
- 1:42:15Foster getting a firm toehold with that back right foot. Waving the bat around and now has it cocked.
- 1:42:23He swings and pops it in the air. That could be a problem. Randolph going out. Gamble coming in. It's going to be caught by Oscar Gamble a running catch.
- 1:42:31As he ventured forward the foul line in right field. To get Foster's fly ball and end the Cincinnati six. No runs one hit one left.
- 1:42:40They play five and a half. It remains the Reds four the Yankees one.
- 1:42:45After the six inning here at Yankee Stadium Marty Bremelman and Wynn Elliott as the Yankees come to bat trailing four to one.
- 1:42:54Young Pat Zachary has held them in check with just four hits in the first five at bats for the Yankees.
- 1:43:00Where as a combination of Yankee patroos Doc Ellis and Brad Jackson have given up eight.
- 1:43:05Despite the three run lead by Cincinnati they have not dominated the game as such.
- 1:43:10They got three runs in the second inning very quickly with four hits.
- 1:43:14Then a home run by Dreeson a counter for all four of their runs.
- 1:43:18The Yankees have threatened twice in addition to getting their run.
- 1:43:22And of course the fulmination by the crowd has made it seem like the Yankees have perhaps done more than they actually have.
- 1:43:29But you get the feeling the game is closer and that anything can happen in this latter part of the game.
- 1:43:35All right Marty. Okay Wynn Carlos May 0 for 2 a ground out to first a strike out swinging.
- 1:43:41Dueling Pat Zachary to lead off the Yankees six and it's in there for strike one.
- 1:43:47New York has been relegated to a one run four hit roll to the first five rounds off this young Texan.
- 1:43:55Swing fly ball center field there Cesar Geronimo he's got it one away.
- 1:44:05I don't mean to animate that Geronimo reminds me of Damage you in the sense that as his all around capacity as a player.
- 1:44:12But he moves like Joe used to and the fluidity of his steps.
- 1:44:16I found out as a kid that if you run on your heels out there you know the ball jumps up and down.
- 1:44:22And it's not going to hit you in the face as well as catch it.
- 1:44:25You have to run on your toes and that's the way he does it.
- 1:44:29Greg Nettles with a drive to deep right field but the ball curving and it'll be fouled into the upper deck.
- 1:44:37Zachary has had all sorts of trouble tonight with this man.
- 1:44:40He is walking twice once in the second once again in the fourth.
- 1:44:44Nettles from beautiful San Diego California now makes his home in Costa Vista.
- 1:44:51The strike one pitch swing and a miss Zachary has struggled through two rough and rocky innings.
- 1:44:58The Yankees scored a run against him in the fourth inning.
- 1:45:01They put their first two men out of the fifth before he incites Munson to line into a double play and retire Shambles on a strikeout.
- 1:45:07He has just struck out medals on three pitches.
- 1:45:10That's his fifth of the game and as he works on a possible one two three six he'll go to work on Oscar Gambler.
- 1:45:17What are the percentages Marty because you watch the teams every day.
- 1:45:22When a guy hits a foul home run like Nettles did then not by much he almost never comes back and gets a base hit.
- 1:45:29Well if he's a smart pitcher he'll put that back in his memory bank and remember not to throw it again.
- 1:45:34And in that case Zachary did not. He was able to get the ball down.
- 1:45:38Got him on strike two swinging on an off speed pitch and then punched him out with a fastball away.
- 1:45:44Ball is high to gamble.
- 1:45:47One for two a run scoring single in the fourth inning.
- 1:45:53Reds over the Yankees four to one two outs Yankees sixth inning swing fly ball shallow right Morgan racing out.
- 1:46:01Ripley coming in Morgan falls and that's the inning.
- 1:46:04The Yankees are out in order for what is the first time in this game.
- 1:46:09And as we move to the final three innings of action at the Reds over the Yankees four to one.
- 1:46:19Proving that the exception proves the rule if I may be redundant.
- 1:46:23The next batter up Johnny Betch was a guy who hit a foul home run.
- 1:46:27I think it was in 1972 in the National League playoffs against the Pirates.
- 1:46:32The most exciting moment which he set in his career.
- 1:46:36He hit a foul home run against the Pirates. Remember he told a story that his mother was in the first row and said get one with it Johnny.
- 1:46:42And he said I wish it was that easy.
- 1:46:45On the next pitch he straightened it out and tied up the National League playoffs.
- 1:46:51Much as he did against the Philadelphia Phillies just the other day.
- 1:46:56And this is Johnny Betch Marty.
- 1:46:58He's riding a hot bat win two for two tonight.
- 1:47:01Grant Jackson comes with that curve change at Mrs. Low.
- 1:47:05Betch had an infield hit in the second inning.
- 1:47:08And then lined a single to right in the fourth.
- 1:47:10It was probably thrown out stealing.
- 1:47:13Two balls and no strikes.
- 1:47:15He's had his physical problems this year as may Marty.
- 1:47:18Well it's pretty much a carry over from what he had last year.
- 1:47:21He had shoulder surgery in Oklahoma City at the end of last season.
- 1:47:26Strike is called to it.
- 1:47:28And Ted Kwasuzki the Reds batting instructor says that the bad habits that Betch fell into as a result of that problem shoulder last year.
- 1:47:34He was not able to get out of this season.
- 1:47:37Two and two on a swinging strike.
- 1:47:39But I'll tell you, Frankie Anderson predicted that he would have a fine playoff and a fine World Series.
- 1:47:44And the man has proven to be a prophet in the case of Johnny Betch.
- 1:47:47Because he is swinging a hot bat for Cincinnati.
- 1:47:50Is that that angry looking red weld on his left shoulder?
- 1:47:53Yes.
- 1:47:55Jackson is even with him at two and two.
- 1:48:00Taking a long time to get Munson's sign now delivers and Betch stays alive with a foul back.
- 1:48:08Nobody has scored since the fourth inning when Greesen played long ball for Cincinnati and the Yankees came back to get a run.
- 1:48:16We're in the top of the seventh inning.
- 1:48:19Doc Ellis started for New York was relieved by Jackson in the fourth.
- 1:48:26And the two two pitch is coming.
- 1:48:28That's low.
- 1:48:30We talked about the temperature earlier.
- 1:48:32They say it's gone up a degree or so.
- 1:48:34It's now at 50 degrees here in New York City.
- 1:48:36I think partly because of the Yankee fans.
- 1:48:41Hey, Off-Bitch.
- 1:48:43Here's a high fly ball but full foul into the upper deck along the third base side.
- 1:48:57So Grant Jackson with a new baseball and Johnny Betch is about to climb back into the batter's box.
- 1:49:06Young man who has made the town of Finger, Oklahoma nationally famous.
- 1:49:12He hits one.
- 1:49:13Nice play by Jackson.
- 1:49:15He throws the first and I'll tell you he fielded that ball with his back to it.
- 1:49:20He stuck out his glove and took a hard hop.
- 1:49:23It's stuck in the webbing of his head and he turned it into, well for want of a better term, a routine out at first base.
- 1:49:30He never saw it.
- 1:49:32He never saw it.
- 1:49:33He just had that glove behind him just below his posterior as he was ducking to his right and the ball stuck in the webbing of his glove.
- 1:49:40And he turned around and said, how do you do?
- 1:49:43And he threw it over the first base.
- 1:49:45He defied Johnny Betch of what would have been a continuing perfect night at the place.
- 1:49:50This pitch a breaking ball that goes off Munson's glove and it's ball one on Geronimo.
- 1:49:55Geronimo with a couple of nicknames on this incident.
- 1:49:58He clothed the Chief in reference to his last name and they also referred to him as Tony Blake.
- 1:50:04Call strike.
- 1:50:06Tony Blake, the magician of TV fame.
- 1:50:09Bill Bixby played the role a couple of years back and that's where his innate ability to get base hits anywhere between the white chalk lines.
- 1:50:16You'll go to left field on you, right field on you.
- 1:50:19There is no area that is untouched by a Geronimo baseball.
- 1:50:25And he has the ball on center field wherever it goes too.
- 1:50:28He's one of the best fielders in the game.
- 1:50:30He's behind at one and two.
- 1:50:32Breaking ball inside.
- 1:50:37One out in the Cincinnati seventh inning.
- 1:50:40Geronimo hit listen two times up in the game.
- 1:50:44Swings and fouls.
- 1:50:46In the series he's one for seven.
- 1:50:49Has an RBI.
- 1:50:59Jackson kicks and throws.
- 1:51:01Geronimo swings and another foul ball that will be out of play.
- 1:51:09The Reds had five hits in the first couple of innings.
- 1:51:12Since that time in the last four turns they have had three and two of them came in the fourth inning.
- 1:51:17One of them a recent home run.
- 1:51:19Curve stays in tight to the left hander battered full count.
- 1:51:28Doc Ellis was not able to do it but Grant Jackson has.
- 1:51:34The three two pitch.
- 1:51:36Stuck in on swinging with a good fastball.
- 1:51:40Jackson has his third.
- 1:51:44And the two out hitter will be David Concepcion.
- 1:51:48He's single and not going to run in the second.
- 1:51:51He's stuck out swinging against Jackson in the fifth.
- 1:51:58I thought I was right.
- 1:51:59Geronimo came to this club along with Joe Morgan in that trade to Houston.
- 1:52:03Ball one.
- 1:52:05Jack Dillingham, Joe Morgan, Cesar Geronimo, Ed Armbrister and Dennis Menke.
- 1:52:12For Tommy Helms and Lee May.
- 1:52:14Foul is out of here.
- 1:52:16Flying down the right field line one and one.
- 1:52:18One of the biggest trades.
- 1:52:21I guess you could say win of all time in terms of putting everything together.
- 1:52:25The missing ingredients, that's when the Reds took off.
- 1:52:30Geronimo actually was a throw in of the deal.
- 1:52:36Jackson with a one one pitch.
- 1:52:39Concepcion started to go but held up in his ball two.
- 1:52:43The Yankees have pulled off some pretty good trades that have made this club from the angels.
- 1:52:47They've got Figueroa on their center field of rivers.
- 1:52:51That will be played in center field as River is racist back.
- 1:52:55He camps under it and Grant Jackson has done it again.
- 1:52:58The Reds are out in order.
- 1:52:59No runs, no hits, nobody left on.
- 1:53:01We move to the New York seven.
- 1:53:03The Reds four, the Yankees one.
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- 1:54:09Well, Grant Jackson has done his job as a relief pitcher as he's come in here for the Yankees in three and a third innings.
- 1:54:15He's only given up a single hit and no runs.
- 1:54:18He's had a magnificent play on Johnny Betts in the last inning when he stabbed his backhand without seeing it.
- 1:54:25In fact, after he made the stop, he looked at the ball, looked at his glove sort of unbelievably, saw he had it and threw him out.
- 1:54:32Now that Jackson has held the reds, the Yankee fans on their feet in this last half of what they hope will be the seventh inning, they trail four to one.
- 1:54:42Marty.
- 1:54:44Okay, here's Willie Randolph as the Yankee fans have taken the traditional seventh inning stretch.
- 1:54:52Randolph is 0 for 2, a fly ball lap to pop out and foul ground, collared by Johnny Betts.
- 1:54:59Call strike on the outside corner.
- 1:55:04Rose is in on the grass at third base.
- 1:55:12He's trying to come back with the same pitch but missed with it, blowing outside, and there's one ball and one strike.
- 1:55:19Jim Mason is on deck.
- 1:55:22And then they lead off batter Mickey Rivers.
- 1:55:27They fool him with that pitch up and in and Randolph more or less swung at it in self-defense and fouls the back of the Yankee dugout.
- 1:55:37Zachary has given up four hits. He has struck out five. He has walked four.
- 1:55:43And he's ahead of the second baseman Randolph at one and two.
- 1:55:47Knock in his head to pick up Johnny Betts' side and to the plate.
- 1:55:52Check swing foul ball.
- 1:56:00You cannot like the Yankee chances very much if they go down and defeat tonight. And they're trailing by three runs in the seventh.
- 1:56:07He's struck him out.
- 1:56:10Randolph's turning around trying to hold up but committed himself and Zachary now showing signs of gaining a second win.
- 1:56:17He has retired six batters in a row since the fifth inning walk to Roy White.
- 1:56:26And that was a gee I wish I had it back swing by Willie Randolph, just an indication of the tension on the part of the young kid,
- 1:56:33knowing that they've only got three more riddings and they trail by three runs.
- 1:56:38Facing an equally young Pat Zachary, just 24, and Pat has done his job, at least so far.
- 1:56:45Held him to four hits in one run and just as soon as it seems as though the Yankee crowd is going to get him up, he brings him down to earth.
- 1:56:54Here's Jim Mason, the shortstop up for the first time in this game and in the World Series of Ball Joy.
- 1:57:01Mason, 26 years old from Mobile, Alabama.
- 1:57:06Left handed batter.
- 1:57:11Swing, fly ball, deep right field, Griffey watches it go out of here. Home run.
- 1:57:21That may well be the biggest thrill in this young man's major league career.
- 1:57:25A World Series home run, a line drive to the lower deck and right field and it's four to two.
- 1:57:30And he came into the game as a replacement for the man who's nested him for the position, Fred Stanley.
- 1:57:37I have remarked at the time that Mason had the job at the beginning of the year.
- 1:57:41He's always been a better hitter than Stanley, but in no sense a home run hitter.
- 1:57:46But Stanley, the better fielder, along with Randolph, has given the Yankees a real adroit second base double play combination.
- 1:57:55And if you're going to have a championship team, that's what you need.
- 1:57:58You don't need a home run hitter at shortstop unless your name is a Joe Cronin or a Brent Stephens or a Honus Wagner, but those are long gone.
- 1:58:06What you need is a fancy fielder, the guy that will hit his 260, 270.
- 1:58:12That's what Stanley had done, so Stanley had won the job.
- 1:58:17But Billy Martin, in the fourth inning, sensing an opportunity for a Yankee rally, removed Fred Stanley with two men on and inserted Elrod Hendricks, the left-handed catcher.
- 1:58:31Hendricks was unable to come through.
- 1:58:34I was at the point of saying that the key point in the game from a Yankee stadium, from a Yankee standpoint, was in the fifth inning when Mickey Rivers singled by just plopping the ball over the shortstop's head.
- 1:58:47White had walked, and with the crowd coming to the moment and big Thurman Munson up, Thurman went with the ball, slashed it down the first base line, but not high enough to get out of the clutches of Tommy Perez.
- 1:59:00He caught it and doubled Mickey Rivers on second base.
- 1:59:04That seemed to put the Yankees to sleep until just now when Jim Mason line-drived it into the right field stands.
- 1:59:12And here is Mickey Rivers up, one in, one out.
- 1:59:16Rivers won for three, pitches high for ball one.
- 1:59:20They were forced away as the ground crew here at Yankee Stadium had to come out and tidy things up a bit.
- 1:59:26toilet paper being thrown out from the upper deck in right field as a result of Mason's haul run.
- 1:59:32Up high and away, ball two. Jim Mason, by the way, hit only one home run the entire regular season.
- 1:59:39And that shot he hit to right field was going to turn off Pat Zachary, who may be a bit unnerved by it all.
- 1:59:47Ball three.
- 1:59:49And once again, we witness them stirring around in the Cincinnati bullpen.
- 1:59:55Johnny Betch sauters out to the mound to talk with Pat Zachary.
- 2:00:00As right-hander Raleigh Eastwick will get up, or rather Will McEnany make it, left-hander McEnany now throwing for Cincinnati.
- 2:00:12How quickly the complexion can change in this national part-time call baseball.
- 2:00:18In the opening of this inning, the crowd came to its feet as the young Willie Randolph came to the bat.
- 2:00:24He couldn't restrain his eagerness and he shoulder struck at a third strike.
- 2:00:29And so it seemed like the inning as it started might end.
- 2:00:33But then Jim Mason with one whack has put the Yanks back in. They trail four to two.
- 2:00:39And Mickey Rivers is off. He gets a walk.
- 2:00:47Zachary has now walked five batters.
- 2:00:53Roy White will be at the plate, concept the own.
- 2:00:57Out in front of second base, saying something to Pat Zachary as he grows started in from third to the mound.
- 2:01:08Marty, I don't think the Rivers will go.
- 2:01:12This crowd would love to see him take a shot at it.
- 2:01:16Roy White looks at a strike.
- 2:01:19He's gone on two times with walks. In fact, White and Greg Nettles are the two men that Zachary has had the most trouble with control-wise.
- 2:01:27He's walked both batters twice in the game.
- 2:01:30He would now like to get White to hit the ball on the ground at somebody.
- 2:01:34Throw to first, but safely back at Rivers.
- 2:01:42Cincinnati four, the Yankees two and the bottom of the seventh inning.
- 2:01:48The O-one pitch to White, a check swing ground ball. Rose comes up throwing to second base, and that's all they're going to get, the four shot on Mickey Rivers.
- 2:01:56Rose with a nice play on his glove side. The ball was hit, but a not so hot throw to second base. It was high and came very close to pulling Morgan off the bag.
- 2:02:13Herman Munson will be the batter. He is single and three times.
- 2:02:18And all the while, Will McEnany continues to get ready in the Cincinnati ball pit.
- 2:02:23With an opportunity to tie the game up in the fifth inning, Munson hits the ball to right, but not quite high enough to elude Perez, and it turns into an almost clock-breaking double play against the Yankees.
- 2:02:37He can tie it up again. That's if he loses the ball.
- 2:02:43Big, strong right-handed batting Herman Munson watches the pitch go low for a ball.
- 2:02:52Zachary is in the seventh inning.
- 2:02:57And now Pedro Borbona, right-hander, is once again teaming up with McEnany in that red bullpen.
- 2:03:051-0 to count on Munson with the pitch on the way.
- 2:03:09Check swing, ball two.
- 2:03:13Of course can speculate. Should he lose Munson?
- 2:03:21Will Sparky Anderson go down and bring on McEnany to face Chris Shambler?
- 2:03:27Zachary has had pretty good success against the left-handed batter tonight in that Shambler has had a base hitoff on him, but in his other two plate appearances Zachary has struck him out.
- 2:03:37And Shambler has had very good success against left-handed pitchers.
- 2:03:42Something that Sparky Anderson knows all too well. The 2-0 delivery to Munson. He swings and he fouls it outside of first base, but Perez will not have a play.
- 2:03:54Munson three hits eleven times, all singles in this World Series and RBI, batting 273.
- 2:04:04Yankees have scored in the inning a one-on home run to right field by Jim Mason.
- 2:04:09That was followed by a base on balls to Rivers, but White hit into a force out at second. Roy White the base runner.
- 2:04:16Munson a line drive hit the right field. Ball takes a big hop off the natural grass and Griffey plays it and here comes Sparky Anderson.
- 2:04:25And if you think one pitcher is worth a thousand words, listen.
- 2:04:40Anacanada has already been summoned from the Cincinnati Bullpen. And Pat Zachary, who was trying to become the first National League pitcher to go the distance in a World Series game since Steve Blass of Pittsburgh turned the trick against the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, cannot do it.
- 2:04:59And while we have the pitching changed, let's pause for a brief update from CBS News in New York.
- 2:05:06This is Doug Poling reporting on the CBS Radio Network. Campaigning in New York's Harlem tonight, Jimmy Carter stressed the need for jobs and housing.
- 2:05:14Carter said two and a half million people have become unemployed since President Ford took office.
- 2:05:18President Ford today accused Carter of advocating spending cuts that would weaken the nation's defenses.
- 2:05:23And in New York tonight, Secretary of State Kissinger defended the president's record on human rights.
- 2:05:29Eleanor Clay Ford, one of the world's wealthiest women, died in Detroit tonight at the age of 80.
- 2:05:34Despite the Lockheed scandal and other problems, the State Department this evening reported the relations between the United States and Japan are in good shape.
- 2:05:42Three of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the U.S., Britain, and France, have vetoed a draft resolution which would have imposed an arms embargo on South Africa.
- 2:05:52Thomas Young, the director of the Viking program, says the two probes on the Red Planet have failed to answer the question of whether there's life on Mars.
- 2:06:00This is Doug Poling, CBS News New York.
- 2:06:04Okay, Doug, and the news of the world, at least the sports world, is concentrated right on the pitching mound here in Yankee Stadium at this moment,
- 2:06:12as the Yankees, now trailing by two, have been on first and second. Two are gone, and young Will McEnany has come in to relieve Pat Zachery.
- 2:06:20McEnany, one of the two put-down twins of last year's champions, he and Eastwick were almost automatic firemen as the Cincinnati Reds monitored their championship last year.
- 2:06:32Eastwick, still in good form. McEnany, as I understand it, Marty, somewhat of a disappointment this year.
- 2:06:39Didn't have quite the magic, had quite a healthy ERA, 4.27 or something, and his record, as I read, it was 1-4. What was it actually?
- 2:06:50Well, he was a kid that had a whole lot of trouble in 1976 when, and it was, I guess you could say, a humbling year for Will McEnany.
- 2:06:58His record was two wins and six losses with a 4.88 earned run average after a magnificent season, as you pointed out, in 1975.
- 2:07:07He and Raleigh Eastwick were indeed the gold dust wins for Cincinnati out of that bullpen.
- 2:07:12A young man from Springfield, Ohio, which is very close to Cincinnati, and a young man who fits very well in the World Series against Boston last year,
- 2:07:19in five appearances, he had a 270 earned run average with one save. He saved that seventh game, and now in a pressure cooker situation.
- 2:07:29Two men on, two men out, and Chris Shambliss, who can reach the seat with no problem at all if he gets his pitch, is at the plate.
- 2:07:38Left-hander against left-hander, the pitch on the way, and Shambliss takes them all low.
- 2:07:44Roy White, the lead runner, Thurman Munson at first base.
- 2:07:52Shambliss grounds one to Perez. That should be the inning. He leads McEnany, who takes the throw and taps the bag.
- 2:08:00So Will McEnany enters the game and throws two pitches. He retires Shambliss, and the Yankees' seventh is history.
- 2:08:06One run, two hits with two men stranded, and after seven full, the Reds four, the Yankees two.
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- 2:09:15Back in Yankee Stadium, the top of the eighth inning now. Grant Jackson once again to the mound.
- 2:09:25And the best two-way hitter in baseball today, Mr. Peter Rose, the only man on the field who has a lifetime batting average of over 300.
- 2:09:34Oh, it must be about 312 or 15 now that he's in his 11th year. This time batting right-handed against Grant Jackson.
- 2:09:41And what'll he do? Well, he's a better hitter left-handed when than he is as a right-handed batter.
- 2:09:47But as you pointed out, this man's career numbers speak for themselves.
- 2:09:51If you talk about lead-pipe Hall of Famers, you've got to figure Pete Rose is going to be very close to the front of the line.
- 2:09:57Here's a pitch from Jackson. Line drive, base hit. Rose was waiting on an overhand off-speed curve.
- 2:10:03And Lyons went into center field for his second hit of the night.
- 2:10:08If you ever saw a disciplined hit, that was it. He was leaning in for the fastball, maintained his composure as it came in with a slow curve, timed it just right, and you heard that healthy quack as it went on a line into center field.
- 2:10:24That's hit number nine for Cincinnati. And only the second base hit off of Grant Jackson, who, up to that single by Rose, had retired 10 of 11 hitters.
- 2:10:33Ken Griffey's still looking for hit number one, but he'll have to wait a moment longer as Jackson works the first base.
- 2:10:40Top of the eighth inning. Reds would like to get some more. Tother throw to first.
- 2:10:46Jackson bound and determined to keep Rose as close to the bag as he possibly can in this situation.
- 2:10:51Griffey has bounced out twice and has flying to left field.
- 2:10:58Out of the plate. And that's low as Munson goes to both knees to keep that ball from getting through.
- 2:11:04Fitching line on Pat Zachary, by the way. Six and two-third innings. He gave up two Yankee runs on six hits with five walks and six strikeouts.
- 2:11:16Strike on the outside corner. Good pitch. One-one to count.
- 2:11:21Doc Ellis started for New York. He went three and a third. The Yankees got to, Reds rather got to him for all four of their runs on seven hits.
- 2:11:29And Ellis had a strikeout with no walks.
- 2:11:37Griffey tries to bun his way up. Throw to first. They didn't get it.
- 2:11:42Munson a good quick snap throw and Rose had to come in the side door.
- 2:11:47Split back at first on the right field side and just eluded Chris Shambles's glove.
- 2:11:58On to strike two on the bun attempt by Griffey. Nettles now backs up to play a normal third-base position.
- 2:12:06Line drive in the hole and on into right field. Rose looking back at Gambels, going to try to get to third.
- 2:12:11The blow cut off by Mason and Rose in safely with a head first line.
- 2:12:17The Cincinnati Reds are knocking on the door here in the eighth inning with runners on the corners and nobody out for Joe Morgan.
- 2:12:23As Sparky Lyles and Dick Tidro begin to loosen up for New York.
- 2:12:29Suddenly the Reds are striking at the door again and I couldn't help but think as I watched Griffey at the plate, he had never seen Jackson before.
- 2:12:37What do you do when you've never seen a pitcher before? Well there's this scouting report on what he throws.
- 2:12:42But basically as Griffey himself said before the start of the series that he was going to face Tidro for the first time or rather Alexander.
- 2:12:49He says you look for the ball, you look at the ball.
- 2:12:52But if a guy is throwing a fastball 90 miles an hour, do you know how much time you have to see the ball? Listen.
- 2:12:58That's how fast. Less than half a second.
- 2:13:02The Yankee infield comes in for Joe Morgan. A ground ball, base hit right over the first base back.
- 2:13:07Rose drops in to score from third. Griffey goes to third base and Morgan will go standing up at second with a run scoring double.
- 2:13:14Cincinnati has added a run on three consecutive eighth inning hits to bring about the ouster of Grant Jackson.
- 2:13:21As Billy Martin makes a slow walk towards the mound and apparently is talking with Chris Shambliss about I would imagine whether or not he thought the ball was fair or foul.
- 2:13:31Oh it went right over the bag. I don't think there was any question about it.
- 2:13:35And as I was explaining what a batter does when he has never seen a pitcher before, he looks for the ball.
- 2:13:42Prior to this inning Grant Jackson held them in command and had given them but one hit.
- 2:13:48But the Reds started seeing things. They kept pecking away.
- 2:13:53And in this particular inning what they saw must have been about as big as a grapefruit because on three swings, three hits.
- 2:14:01Pete Rose waiting on a slow breaking curve, smashes on a dead line in the center field.
- 2:14:06Then Ken Griffey, a line drive in the right field with Rose belly bumping in the third base.
- 2:14:13And then Joe Morgan, a line shot on the ground that is, a bouncer with plenty of speed over the base.
- 2:14:21Trickling out in the right field and now men on second and third.
- 2:14:25Which again has brought a pitching change for the New York Yankees.
- 2:14:29This is the third of the night.
- 2:14:32The Yankees somewhat quenched in spirit I would think at the moment after having drawn within two runs of the World's Champions.
- 2:14:39Now again find themselves trailing by three.
- 2:14:42Nobody out in this top of the eighth inning and men on first and third.
- 2:14:48Well, what can you say?
- 2:14:51You can say that there's action aplenty here at Yankee Stadium.
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- 2:15:15And as Marty had anticipated it's Dick Tidrell, number 19, coming in from the Yankee bullpen.
- 2:15:21And he will face the rampaging Reds.
- 2:15:24Tidrell along with Jackson had been the stalwart relievers for the Yankees in the latter half of the season.
- 2:15:30Even replacing the ubiquitous Sparky Lyle who at the start of the season was presumed to be the mainstay of the relief corps for the Yankees.
- 2:15:39But Tidrell from Cleveland, although he started fairly regularly in the early part of the year with Doc Ellis coming on,
- 2:15:50Tidrell went to the bullpen and it was he from the right side and Jackson from the left side who maintained the big Yankee lead that they had posted halfway through.
- 2:16:01And the Yankees, one of the few teams in baseball during this past year who didn't really have a consequential losing streak.
- 2:16:14He was on the money as was the club almost all year.
- 2:16:19But now it's a different day or a different night.
- 2:16:23They're playing a team from a different league.
- 2:16:26A club whose batting order is just as strong if you looked in the mirror as you do looking ahead on.
- 2:16:32Doesn't make any difference.
- 2:16:33The bottom guy, Geronimo, batted 3.08.
- 2:16:37And as Marty explained, he's the joke on the team.
- 2:16:40Insofar he seems to needle his hits.
- 2:16:43You can sell them wherever there is an empty spot on the diamond.
- 2:16:48And the Reds have struck quickly as they did in the second inning with four hits and three runs.
- 2:16:54They have three straight hits.
- 2:16:56They have one in and two in scoring position.
- 2:16:59And it doesn't really make any difference who's coming to the play.
- 2:17:04The man on second was last year's MVP.
- 2:17:07They gave four balls intentionally just the other night, but all they did was bring up the leading RBI man in the Reds' history.
- 2:17:15And that's he at the plate now.
- 2:17:16Tony Perez is the name of the man, and the Yankee infield is really pulled in now as Tidro sends it in and Perez takes a breaking ball, ball one.
- 2:17:25Tidro had a losing record, but that doesn't tell the story.
- 2:17:28He was four and five with a 263 earned run average.
- 2:17:31He was in 11 game-saving situations and chalked up 10 saves, fouled out of play by Perez.
- 2:17:39You can't do much better than that.
- 2:17:41Ten out of 11 times he saved ball games for New York.
- 2:17:45But in a very unenviable spot right now with Griffey at third, Morgan in second, two guys who can really run.
- 2:17:53And with the defense playing in, insofar as the infield is concerned, Perez waits on the 1-1 pitch.
- 2:17:59The Reds now lead it 5-2 with none out and can break this game wide open here in the eighth inning.
- 2:18:05That's swung out and fouled again as Perez went after a pitch down and away.
- 2:18:10So Dick Tidro wearing number 19 on the New York Yankee pinstripe has his work cut out for him because after Perez,
- 2:18:17you've got a man who will be coming up that's working on a three-for-three night and Danny Dreeson.
- 2:18:25Perez back in the batter's box as Tidro toes the rubber and checks in with Munson.
- 2:18:31The pawns and the pitch.
- 2:18:34Ground ball hits a short. They're going to come to the plate.
- 2:18:37Now they've got Griffey caught in the run down. Back at yours, they tag no play at third on Morgan.
- 2:18:42Now they run Griffey back for third and Munson tags him out.
- 2:18:47Well a very, very head-draft play by Greg Nettles. He couldn't pull it off.
- 2:18:52But had he been able to get, well Morgan rather, sliding into third, the Yankees had themselves set up for a double play.
- 2:18:59Morgan was safe at third, but they ultimately get Griffey in the run down with Perez going all the way to second base.
- 2:19:05And if you're scoring to play, like play-by-play announcers usually say, that went from six to one to five to one.
- 2:19:14And Griffey went to the bench.
- 2:19:16In the meantime, of course, Perez, nobody paying any attention to him, went to second base.
- 2:19:21So the only change that's been in the situation is men on second and third, but now there's one up.
- 2:19:27It's Danny Dreeson who will get the intentional one.
- 2:19:31A left-handed batter that will fill the bases with reds and mean that Tidro will be pitching the right-handed batting George Foster.
- 2:19:39Make that six to two to five to two. Munson with a tag out of Ken Griffey.
- 2:19:45And so Tidro has gotten a big out as he gets Perez to hit the ball on the ground, directly at the drawn-in shortstop Jim Mason.
- 2:19:54Dreeson waiting on intentionally throwing ball four, and there it is.
- 2:19:58I said six to one to five to one, but of course I said that's what baseball announcers say.
- 2:20:07Of course the catcher is number two.
- 2:20:10Base is loaded, one man out.
- 2:20:15You'll have Nettles, Mason, and Randolph playing a double-play depth while Chris Shamblers will play inside to run her at first base, Dreeson.
- 2:20:23Foster is doubling three times up.
- 2:20:27Tidro will work out of the stretch. Foster steps away from the plate, puts a bat head on the plate, and now waits.
- 2:20:38Tidro checking the runners and the pitch to the plate by the right-hander misses inside to Foster the ball.
- 2:20:46Morgan at third base, Tony Perez at second, Danny Dreeson at first.
- 2:20:51They are the Cincinnati base runners with one out and a run in.
- 2:20:58The one-oh swung out and hit hard to left field.
- 2:21:02There's Roy White. He short-hopped the ball and it comes three. Morgan scores.
- 2:21:06The base is remain loaded. It is six to two Cincinnati, and I'll tell you Roy White had all sorts of trouble with a ball that apparently had a lot of action on it.
- 2:21:16He went to both cities. He short-hopped it and then bounced away from him.
- 2:21:21The Reds have another run home and again lead by four runs in the game.
- 2:21:32They give Perez a run scoring single.
- 2:21:41The batter is Johnny Bench. Two singles and three times up.
- 2:21:49He swings and bounces one to third. Nettles will step on third and go across to Schambler who digs it out to get the double play.
- 2:21:55Nice play by Chris Schambler, and Cincinnati is out on the eighth inning, but they get two runs on four base hits.
- 2:22:04No errors and two men left on. At the end of seven and one half, it's Cincinnati six, New York two.
- 2:22:11Here comes the king, here comes the big number one.
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- 2:22:49When you say Bud, there's nothing left you can say.
- 2:22:52When you say Bud, the king is right on his way.
- 2:22:57When you say Bud, the king is calling on the call.
- 2:23:02When you say Bud, you said it all.
- 2:23:05When you say Bud, you said it all.
- 2:23:09And I support St. Louis facility.
- 2:23:12Last of the eighth inning, the Red 60 Yankees two.
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- 2:23:29That last play, the ground ball just inside third base,
- 2:23:38that nettle snare stepped on third and then through to first base.
- 2:23:43The first baseman, Shambler, short hops it and makes the play.
- 2:23:47It was a duplicate of the opening inning play by George Brett
- 2:23:50from the Kansas City Royals against the Yankees.
- 2:23:53But of course, as you know, the play and the short hop was not snare by John Mayberry
- 2:23:59and that was the beginning of the downfall of the Royals.
- 2:24:02I guess that's what they mean when they say that's the way the ball bounce.
- 2:24:08Here's Carlos May to lead off the eighth inning for New York.
- 2:24:11Time running out on the Yankees in this game as McEnany comes up
- 2:24:14and in with a fastball that has May spinning out of there in a hurry.
- 2:24:18The number one hammer in that Cincinnati bullpen is now throwing.
- 2:24:25Carlos May hit listen three times up.
- 2:24:32Takes it low and inside, ball two.
- 2:24:36McEnany has problems in this eighth inning.
- 2:24:39Barky Anderson will not hesitate a second to go down and bring out Eastwick.
- 2:24:44Here's a smash backhanded by Concepcion, long throwing to Perez and plenty of time
- 2:24:49and there's one away.
- 2:24:54Good play by the shortstop.
- 2:24:57Carlos not the fastest man on the Yankee roster and it was by a couple of steps.
- 2:25:02Here's Greg Nettles.
- 2:25:04Officially he's 0-1 but he's been a baserunner twice in the game with walks.
- 2:25:13The Yankee is jammed on the pitch and will send a foul top out of play
- 2:25:17directly back of the plate.
- 2:25:20Right-hander Pat Zachary is a pitcher of record for Cincinnati at this moment.
- 2:25:27And you've got to go back a few years to find the last rookie pitcher to start
- 2:25:30and win a World Series game, one ball and one strike to Nettles.
- 2:25:34That pitcher was New York Mets Gary Gentry who on the 14th of October 1969
- 2:25:40knocked out the World Series 1 over Baltimore.
- 2:25:43Breaking ball, a jack swing foul or was it?
- 2:25:46The ball got Johnny Betts.
- 2:25:51Did Nettles make contact?
- 2:25:52Apparently he did.
- 2:25:53Make a count of a ball and two strikes.
- 2:25:56And the plate umpire, Billy Williams, is very gentlemanly taking time rubbing up
- 2:26:00the ball which will give Johnny a time to recover.
- 2:26:03Incidentally you mentioned Gentry's win.
- 2:26:05Of course that was the miracle year for the Mets so it took a miracle for him.
- 2:26:09A rookie to win.
- 2:26:11Where this year with Zachary on his way to a win you don't need a miracle
- 2:26:16when you've got eight guys up in the field like that.
- 2:26:18Gone with the kind of thunder the Cincinnati Club has.
- 2:26:23Back at any pitches and misses with a delivery two and two.
- 2:26:30The reds at one time led four to nothing.
- 2:26:32It was then four to one, then four to two.
- 2:26:34It is now again a four run advantage for the reds at six to two.
- 2:26:39Here's a smash to right field but serving and foul.
- 2:26:45That's his second foul home run in successive times with that.
- 2:26:49The previous time he struck out.
- 2:26:52Count is two and two.
- 2:26:54Let's see what happens here.
- 2:26:59Back at any kicks and throws and here's a hard smash field at the hole
- 2:27:03and it's not off of Morgan.
- 2:27:05It rolls to foul ground in right field.
- 2:27:07Dettles will go to second base and he is in flat.
- 2:27:13It's not me in the slide because Morgan and Griffey converge down the ball
- 2:27:18and Joe Morgan very alertly indicating the third base had left and left uncovered.
- 2:27:24Quickly got a throw into Concepcion as Foster came running into left field
- 2:27:28to cover the bag in the event the Dettles had ideas.
- 2:27:32And Morgan was given an error on the play even though to me it seemed like it was a bad hop
- 2:27:37at the last second that caught him up with the cradle of his arm.
- 2:27:42And the crowd I think seems to, no they're not agreeing with me,
- 2:27:47they're just saluting Funella that comes up whose surname is Lou
- 2:27:51and they go Lou, Lou, Lou like they used to go Moose, Moose, Moose for Skawron.
- 2:27:56Skawron was the home run hitter for this Yankee aggregation
- 2:27:59and they're hoping that Lou will do the same.
- 2:28:01He's been sitting for Oscar Gamble.
- 2:28:05Funella from Tampa, Florida the spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds.
- 2:28:11Right handed batter with Dettles at second base on the two base end by Morgan.
- 2:28:15Funella grounds one to shortstop.
- 2:28:17Dettles will go to third as Concepcion gets the out at first, two down.
- 2:28:26Willie Randolph will step in now.
- 2:28:30He's wired out, knocked out and he's stuck out at three times.
- 2:28:34So Randolph in the series is one for eight.
- 2:28:38The Yankees have had but six hits.
- 2:28:41All off this gun is Will Matt or rather Pat Zachary McEnany came on in the seventh
- 2:28:46to get Shambles to bounce out.
- 2:28:50And should the run come across here for New York and the first set of Dettles at third
- 2:28:55it would go down as an unearned run but a run nevertheless.
- 2:28:58Swing and a miss.
- 2:29:03Six runs, 12 hits, two errors for Cincinnati.
- 2:29:05Two runs, half a dozen hits and endless baseball for the hometown team.
- 2:29:16There's a chopper foul off her.
- 2:29:18Billy Martin hands in his back pocket, facing in a Yankee dugout.
- 2:29:24Right now he sees his club only four outs away from going down to a three-nothing deficit
- 2:29:30in this World Series.
- 2:29:35Fly ball hit the left center field.
- 2:29:37Foster racing back, still on the run, swos to a trotted Mexican.
- 2:29:41Running grab by George Foster in left center deprives Randolph of what certainly would have been
- 2:29:46an extra base hit.
- 2:29:47And in the inning no runs, no hits, one error, one left.
- 2:29:51We have complete lay in the Yankee Stadium, the Red Soot, New York too.
- 2:29:55Honey, I'm home.
- 2:29:57Honey, honey, did you take the car down to Eddie's station for a muffler?
- 2:30:00It's really getting bad.
- 2:30:02Uh huh.
- 2:30:03Did you have to leave the car?
- 2:30:04No.
- 2:30:05I told you it was a good idea for me to make friends with Eddie.
- 2:30:07You know, he's a good kid.
- 2:30:08Jim, I didn't leave the car because he said it would take three weeks to get the muffler parts.
- 2:30:14Oh.
- 2:30:15Well, then did you take it to Jerry's Motor City?
- 2:30:18After all, Jerry sold me that car.
- 2:30:19You know, we went to high school together.
- 2:30:21Oh, we're like that, good old Jerry and me.
- 2:30:23Yeah, well, that's probably why good old Jerry put us very first on the waiting list for an appointment a week from Friday.
- 2:30:30A week from Friday?
- 2:30:31Uh huh.
- 2:30:32Oh wow.
- 2:30:33The neighbors, they're going to start complaining.
- 2:30:34No, they won't.
- 2:30:35Hmm, they won't.
- 2:30:36Nope.
- 2:30:37After Eddie's and Jerry's, I took the car to Midas.
- 2:30:40I was in and out in 30 minutes with a new muffler.
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- 2:30:56Back at Yankee Stadium, the ball that Willie Randolph hit the left center was headed towards the absolute deepest part of this irregularly shaped but beautiful stadium.
- 2:31:13430 feet into left center, and it would have taken a man with a lot more muscles than Willie to reach that fence.
- 2:31:20In fact, before the refurbishment of this stadium, I think that part of the left field fence, I forget the actual measurements, but it was out in Westchester County somewhere.
- 2:31:30And I don't think anybody ever really lost a ball.
- 2:31:34Jimmy Fox hit one in the left field once, Marty, that went way up in the second deck and landed halfway up.
- 2:31:41Nobody in history has ever hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium.
- 2:31:46Here's Arjun Ranamoh for openers in the 6th and 99th inning at 6-2 regs, and Tidro the right-hander struts him out with a fast ball down and outside.
- 2:31:54Change for the Yankees in right field now, Luke Fenella.
- 2:31:57He's replaced Oscar Gamble after hitting for Gamble in the eighth inning.
- 2:32:01Two and nothing.
- 2:32:03Ranamoh without a hit in three times, but he's batted home a run and reaching on a fielder's choice in the second and scores.
- 2:32:13That went a jam job, and as Ranamoh popping it up and into the seats behind the Cincinnati dugout.
- 2:32:19If you're thinking ahead to the New York Yankee ninth inning, think Jim Mason, Mickey Rivers, and Roy White.
- 2:32:26At least schedule the bat. About one-third of the Yankee Reuters are not thinking ahead. They've left the park.
- 2:32:33That they have. A lot of empty seats in Yankee Stadium. Right line drive over third, base hit.
- 2:32:38Roy White waiting on the ball. Ranamoh will hold it first base, and right there, Wynn, is an idea of what we were talking about earlier.
- 2:32:45This man, a left-handed batter, but he will go anywhere for a base hit.
- 2:32:49He has a beautiful inside-outside swing on those low outside balls, like the Champlers will do or like the Mickey Rivers will do.
- 2:32:57Of course, it's a sign of a thinking hitter.
- 2:33:00That's the 13th hit in the game for Cincinnati, and that's a high water mark of this World Series today.
- 2:33:06Davey Concepcion, he's had one of the 13 hits, a single that produced a run in inning number two.
- 2:33:12He grounds one to third. Dettles turns on to Randolph. He turns it over to Champlers. That's a double play.
- 2:33:18Anything down that third baseline, this year at any rate, turns out to be the surest out in the business.
- 2:33:29As Greg Nettles, well on his way to a Golden Glove as far as I'm concerned, was just a picture of defensive perfection as he started that double play.
- 2:33:38The man is absolutely money in the bank defensively. Not a high average hitter, never has been, but has always been noted for his power.
- 2:33:47This year he led the heap with 32 big ones in the American League.
- 2:33:51T. Rose is looking for his third hit. He was without one in the first two games, but a single twice tonight.
- 2:34:00That pitch fooled him, a late swing and a foul back.
- 2:34:07He got a single as a left-hander and a single as a right-hander.
- 2:34:12Tidro, the third Yankee pitcher, Ellis went three and a third. Grant Jackson went three and a third, giving up four hits, three strikeouts, two runs.
- 2:34:22Tidro strike one pitch. He'll get down the left field line, but it'll be out of play.
- 2:34:32Rose, who has been an outstanding postseason performer for Cincinnati last year's MVP in the World Series against Boston,
- 2:34:40has had a slow back coming around in his 1976 edition, but with two tonight.
- 2:34:46Show signs of coming out of it after a big series against Philadelphia.
- 2:34:52He's in a big O2 hole. Tidro's taking a lot of time. Down the wind and down the pitch.
- 2:35:00Check swing, liner, in and then out of the Cincinnati dugout. He almost got Big Tech Wazewski.
- 2:35:07Standing over by the Reds bat rack. Mr. Muscles, of course, was great in Cincinnati history, but as he himself will tell you,
- 2:35:14his greatest thrill was playing in the World Series, except for the Chicago Whiteside.
- 2:35:20One of the all-time favorites in Cincinnati. Boy, I'll tell you, the guy has had a long and glorious career with the Reds and is an outstanding batting instructor.
- 2:35:33Rose strikes out swinging. Tidro has retired the Reds with rapid dispatch in the ninth inning, making 1-2-3.
- 2:35:40And as we go to the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees are four down, the Reds six, New York two.
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- 2:37:20Okay, Marty. Okay, we're on a pitch hitter for Jim Mason, who homered in the seventh inning.
- 2:37:26Right-handed batting Otto Valazza against left-handed Will McEnany, who's on in the ninth inning now to try and nail it down.
- 2:37:31The first pitch is in for strike one call.
- 2:37:35Red six Yankees two, Valazza batting 266 during the regular season with a couple of homers.
- 2:37:41Doc Jintjen runs.
- 2:37:44He swings and he misses.
- 2:37:47Quickly a two-strike cow with Vicki Rivers on deck. And how quick and fleeting is fame.
- 2:37:52Mason, who brought this crowd to its feet for the home run, has replaced Kortz. He's facing a left-handed pitcher, or would be.
- 2:38:00That pitch is a high-and-away fastball.
- 2:38:03Eastwick all the while continues his loosening up chores for Cincinnati just in the event.
- 2:38:11McEnany with a one and two. And again he goes outside. Two rolls and two strikes.
- 2:38:20Cincinnati relief pitching continues to be excellent in this World Series.
- 2:38:25First it was four-bone Saturday, then Billingham Sunday, and now McEnany tonight as he has Valazza swinging and fouling out of here.
- 2:38:33And prior to the series there was no question that the Reds were the better hitting club, but the dope was that the Yankees had the better pitching.
- 2:38:41That has not been the case so far in this series, and of course the Reds pitching was underrated all year long.
- 2:38:47This ball briefs. Anytime you win 102 games, I don't care how much fun you have, the pitching has to play a part.
- 2:38:56The one thing that the Reds did not have, and have not had for a number of years, is a big, big hammer. A saber. Or a hunter. Or a pitcher like this.
- 2:39:08Three and two to count. He struck him out swinging. Actually a foul tip that Johnny Betch hung onto. Bill McEnany pitching very well tonight in relief of Pat Zachary, has punched out on Ovalazza and will go to work on Mickey Rivers.
- 2:39:23Not to be unfair to John Gullit on that staff. He has all the equipment and could have, should have been the hammer as you call him, but he's been hurt. And that has held him back. That is true.
- 2:39:38Rivers a base hit tonight. Looks like a strike occurred.
- 2:39:42He's been on actually three times in the game. An error in the first inning got him a board, a base hit in the fifth inning, and a walk in the seventh. Blind drive. Morgan cannot get it. Five minute to right field.
- 2:39:57That's the first hit off Will McEnany, because he came on in the seventh inning to retire Chris Shamblin.
- 2:40:03Now it's going to be Roy White, the switch hitter. He's facing McEnany for the first time. His O2 is watch white.
- 2:40:16He's playing 222 in the World Series with two hits and nine times. The Rivers takes the lead. McEnany looks that way and throws to the plate. White takes it low for ball one.
- 2:40:34The Yankee bullpen is quiet. The Reds bullpen is active. Right hand to Ovale Eastwood.
- 2:40:43Pop-up may be a play for Perez over down to find the Yankee dugout, and he has it. So two men out.
- 2:40:51And the Yankee hopes in this third game now rests on the bat of Katja Thurman Munster. He will try and keep him alive.
- 2:41:03Munster is single, lined out white. Munster into a double play in the fifth inning when he lined up Perez and single again in the seventh inning.
- 2:41:15Munster adjusting his batting glove. McEnany waiting patiently on the mound as a burly Yankee catcher steps in for the fifth time in the game.
- 2:41:24Two men out. Runner at first base, Rivers, the Yankees trail. The Reds 6-2. McEnany looking around at the spacious outfield grasses in Yankee Stadium and now delivers.
- 2:41:39Munster shoots one to the right side of the infield. He has his third hit. And Rivers goes to second and holds right there.
- 2:41:48So we come full cycle. With a two-out wrong field hit by Munster, it brings up Chris Shambliss, the first man that McEnany faced back in the seventh inning when he got him to tap out eagerly, Perez to McEnany cover.
- 2:42:03For a right-handed power hitter, Thurman Munster has made himself into the best wrong field hitter in the league.
- 2:42:10Munster's had a hit tonight and the pitch storm is taken down and away for ball one. The Yankees by no means are giving up. They have had a lot of staying power in this World Series. They keep coming at you.
- 2:42:23And now Johnny Bench is out from behind to play pointing out towards something in the outfield and Sparkey Anderson is coming out.
- 2:42:34I don't know whether there's something that appears to be wrong with Ken Griffey. Cesar Geronimo has gone over to look at him.
- 2:42:41And now Sparkey Anderson is running onto right center field to check on Ken Griffey as Joe Morgan and George Foster go out that way.
- 2:42:48Yes, I didn't see anything happen, but two attendants have come out on the field. There's some stray paper there which they are recovering, but our attention was riveted on the drama here between Pitcher and Caster.
- 2:43:01We suddenly noticed that Griffey walked slowly over towards their center field and made Cesar Geronimo. Then the umpires came up, Sparkey came up.
- 2:43:11I think more in a matter of an inquiry. I know Sparkey was apprehensive about the possible deportment of the New York Trans.
- 2:43:18But we haven't seen anything that we can report and I hesitate to conjecture at this point. I don't think that was it.
- 2:43:26It's conceivable that Griffey got something in his eye, but that would only be guessing two. We're 350 feet away.
- 2:43:33Griffey is okay. Shambles will step back into the batter's box with a count of one ball and no strikes.
- 2:43:43So the Yankees coming up with a couple of ninth inning hits from Mickey Rivers and Thurman Munson with two men out.
- 2:43:50And Shambles will try and keep it going. Here comes the pitch. That's low for ball two. Two and nothing.
- 2:43:58Got another left-handed batter coming up after Shambles and that's a designated hitter, Carlos May.
- 2:44:05Ball strike. Two and one.
- 2:44:14Cincinnati looking in. Runners take their lead at first and second. The pitch to Shambles. One-on-five ball left field.
- 2:44:21George Foster toward the line and this one belongs to the Reds.
- 2:44:24Here in the ninth inning, New York with no runs on a couple of hits as Cincinnati's Reds move to within one game of winning their second consecutive World Championship.
- 2:44:34Tonight, they defeat the New York Yankees in the third game of the series by a final score of 6-2.
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- 2:45:40So the Reds make it 3-0 in series games. They defeat the New York Yankees for the score of 6-2, 6-13 and 2 for Cincinnati, 2-8 and Zip for the Yankees.
- 2:45:56And tonight was a matter of the Cincinnati Reds did it when they had the chance. They had two big innings.
- 2:46:02If two run innings can be called big, actually the second inning they scored three runs.
- 2:46:07They got four hits in that inning and they tested in for three runs.
- 2:46:11In the eighth inning after the Yankees had started to threaten the Reds got four hits again and put it away with two additional runs.
- 2:46:19The Dan Greaveson home run in the fourth inning was the additional run making for six.
- 2:46:23The Yankees had their chances. They had men in scoring positions three or four times and were unable to cash in.