1983 ALCS Game 3 Orioles @ White Sox

[Music] wheels in great shape Richard Dotson born in the year the White Sox won their last pennant delivers strike one swinging and the last World Championship for Chicago 1917 when they beat John McGraw New York Giants in the World Series oh one pitch a ball and a strike Bumbry 36 years old only Jim Palmer has been with this Baltimore team longer 1 & 2 the conversation that yesterday in Baltimore among a lot of writers sports started people was trying to understand and figure out why Baltimore has not played well of his ballpark although be worth Green 3 this year the last 10 games and told you yesterday that girl Weaver man he'll be the Hall of Fame he lost Bumbry goes down swinging Fisk runs him down and tags him as he didn't handle it cleanly well are we gonna see another one those curve balls like you saw last night from Monica the two high fastball after high fastball probably in the low 90s and watch this it might have been a straight change and not a curveball he has tremendous motion on that pitch Dotson faces Dwyer who is Oprah whan he had a pinch-hitting appearance in Baltimore then with several clubs Red Sox breaking ball for a ball strike one we'll play right field tonight against the right-hander Dan Ford started game 1 and Tito Landrum game 2 in Baltimore hit hard by Dwyer down the line and right and it'll go for extra bases with Harold Baines chasing it down wires going to stop at second for the one-out double born and raised right in the air in Chicago one of the suburbs cut fastball hide inside that he drilled the right view part sure is that leave a lot of tickets Carol Baines we told you he his first chanteys had to do it he goes in that corner very well it hits the padding he really struggled in ball row with the bat big difference between the two ball parts down the lines in Baltimore a short 309 here a lengthy 341 but the ball carries well here and especially on a night like tonight the wind blowing out power alleys are at 374 Cal Ripken jr. is three parade in the series for that's what that son was talking about yesterday that the Orioles are so good with a man on second base and picking up signs relating to their hitters they may do different things with their feet if they've got them cross over step positioning their feet certain ways it's watched wire [Applause] [Music] what wires doing at second base is getting an education he will probably go in to Rick Dempsey and Joe Nolan the catcher's and say here's what I saw my first stripped down the second base they will try to decipher what Fist is doing hope he doesn't change and maybe they can get some going later on taking high and away two balls instructor some teams are using is sometimes from their telecast that they have telephoto lens from that centerfield camera and they'll study the signals of opposing teams three and one Marie will be next Ripken's stepping out of the box to get his spots together say well what do you think he'll throw me he likes to anticipate he may be looking inside he chops it manslaughter held the ball and conceded the base wire is held as second and Ripken has what has to be ruled an infield single look like a hit right off home plate Dotson sunk the bomb Ripken looking for something up was going to turn on it and pull up that slaw we told you diving for balls here he endured his children I don't think his throwing I'll just come back yet watch him going slide in the first base which is unusual you don't get there quite as fast that way so Ripken is at first and Weyer at second with one out on the top of the first switch-hitter Eddie Murray 315 from the left side this year Oh if you remember in our ball game yesterday when very hit the last time up against Dennis lamb he moved off the plate closed his stand and hardly striding it off now he's back to his normal stance up on the plate slightly open they want to bore the villains inside enough on his fists at the camp Dern and block by fish - and OH it was three in one ripped in and out - no I'm mercy oh this ball is really drilled and see you later it might be in a different Eddie Murray breaks out of it panic three-run homer three zip Baltimore [Music] Bob they talked about the balls that are hit on the left-field roof here daddy he knew it when he left the bat fewer have been hit on the right-field loop it's a little bit farther without that cross wind blowing out to left field that may have been a rooftop er he crushed that baby Thanks now I've seen mantle hit him up there we've played our games in this ballpark Tito Landrum right behind him Andy Murray you're gonna pass ball up and a little bit out a little plate that will break their heart he doesn't show all that much emotion the smiles were much broader on the faces of his teammates then Ferretti marie when he entered the dugout 2 & 1 is the count 11 Stein Don is 36 years old it's been with Texas and Cleveland previously so again when Eddie Murray does to this to a no pitch with two benign a little Reggie that had to take a big burden off that man's shoulders you just mentioned Oh 429 and postseason play here's how the inning is gone Bumbry struck out and then Dodson's problems began Dwyer's smacked a double down the right-field line Ripken got an infield single and Auntie Marie really turned on one and launched it into the upper deck in right centerfield for a three-run homer now the count three and Wanda Loewenstein he walked him you know Richard Dotson and yielded only three home runs in his last 13 starts before Murray connected against him and here comes LaRussa it was heartening for Tony LaRussa I'm sure and for his family when he was introduced here tonight Tony because he got a rousing ovation his job was on the line early in the year he was booed by many fans here at Comiskey Park and despite the fact that he is a manager of the year candidate perhaps the front-runner it took an awful long time for the fans here to accept him apparently they've done so now well wife Elaine and two daughter stayed away from the ballpark for a while because mrs. LaRussa didn't wonder here have his daughter here the local fans Bohannon the owners were a little bit reluctant except Tony and a journal skills Lauren babe one of the coaches who's fought a battle with answered and fought it well the man who recommended the most White Sox scout and he is spot far bass has rally he me now singledom takes a strike [Applause] Shayne's in a hurry struck out Bumbry got ahead of Dwyer old lung but he did double then got behind Ripken and Marin you saw what happened now he's walked loewenstein one on Wanda singleton who has a pair of doubles through the first two games White Sox bullpen now is started an action and the elusive first went out and we're sitting trial and now somebody's up opposite field a bow [Applause] Jerry Koosman starts soft tossing by the rusyn of Datsun probably just deflate from South and his mind in the game and not give up and I'm sure he said we're sorry some rug but the way the light sides been hitting you know the White Sox through the first two games scored just two runs and only one of those was earned check the swing as it got in tight on him clicks off the bat foul his throne had been up and almost out of the strike zone when he's turned around and throw the change-up he's bounced a few so he just can't seem to get through the proper release point down in all his pitches fouled away again Cohen Stein the runner at first at one time before injuries slowed him at excellent speed he stole 36 bases one season for the Indians but stolen bases aren't a big part of the Baltimore gameplan weren't under Weaver aren't now under Alda belly pitching defense and 3-run homers that's what early used to say Murray got him a three-run homer on the top of the first this is a double play ball but not before some heavy damage is done in the top of the first on a three-run homer by Eddie Murray another look at it as any unloads left-hand hitters or right-handed hitters good curveball and the straight change gunman talked to him by Scotty McGregor the year before he once I own the warden 79 in addition to the batting average of over 550 Rudy law is stolen in the series so far and this have to going to 436 in the regular season against Baltimore pitching taught Drew's way up in a third base but all of the strike Rudy law is sporting this crews on the edge of the grass sporting a new shorter haircut his teammates asked him why he replied well on a play yesterday I was thrown out by a hair I don't want to let it happen again base hit for the sizzling hot [Applause] [Music] laid off fire breweries playing off the line might have been a breaking ball that Eddie leaned a little bit to his left out and then couldn't recover to backhand it Boyet as he did during the bun [Applause] pointed out from the very beginning of the series Tony that the White Sox game plan is to run or at least make Baltimore think about that threat you think they'd do it even down three runs here Flanagan is not easy to run out people give Dempsey a chance to throw so never know but I doubt it not going on the first pitch to take subscribe rutila 27 years old today bouncing off for the base hit and another thing his wife expecting the baby any day mannequin chases him back law still 77 establishing a new White Sox but the previous mark of 56 had been shared by the great Luis Aparicio and Wally Moses heap sight our heading but he stands looking over his elbow this pops it foul Webb's gonna blow it back Murray leans but can't quite get it place Smith made I want to say John Ben's game uses the doctors against the Phillies when he's took it away from that fan when starts drifting it Eddie Murray finds the railing in front of the camera well that was pretty close so Jim Evans right over to make sure you didn't trap it against a fan and catch another bounce Jimmy Leyland the third-base coach Dave Nelson the coach at first not going popped up again Marie and Dempsey both back and Dempsey has a plant off his glove and no this is the plate umpire Nick Prevagen he came up with it but Prevagen says it hit the side of the railing first you can see the wind effect on those last two pop-ups blowing well pretty briskly out the left heel and Dempsey got fooled now he tries to backtrack pops off his glove and then he tries to say to grab again I caught it before it dropped and Nick's right there look at empty finds the ball holds his maths let shows it behind them until the umpire is worth watching as much as Dempsey on this one that's a tough error they have charged him with an error on my Play that's hard to believe fist hits it off the fists and this one looks like it will be playable for Cruz he has it [Music] take a look at the defense behind mic planning a Dempsey who should have been in that alley booth where they interview people after the game yesterday Murray at first raised in power bid second base shortstop Ripken Tom Cruise is quite a good first to ball game to third so the outfield momentarily here's Paciorek all one to have but sorry closed the season batting for 37 in the last month and he's 3 for 7 at 4:29 in the series so far it's Lowenstein bumpy and Dwyer left to ride in the Baltimore down at the plate right now might be the smartest dinner on this ballclub you get the two strikes and drive the ball in the right there this one is in the right field with Dwyer and pursuit so la opened with a single but he's remained thank you those two pop up and we saw that Marie gave the other players on they saw the win factor what I was doing that I they've adjusted full they had a climb up on top of the roof and pose for a poster holding three baseball's symbolic of the three he blasted over that and left-field during the season so hot item at the souvenir stands here that roof is some 70 feet high and it's estimated at the point where the three blasts left that it's about 475 feet from home plate took something off had him out in front Flanagan can stay out there with the fastball that was the first bits running it away from right-handers on the outside corner and then the change-up the same spot all day long until that hard curve inside and if he sees you leaning over we've got a fastball on occasion and bust you to the fence just to keep me honest MC had to reach out and save it wanted to say that was not an easy game that Dempsey caught yesterday 14 strikeouts and a lot of those strikeouts on breaking balls I will make a catcher work another off-speed pitch to ensue [Music] so a leadoff single by Rudy law but he's left stranded at first and at the end of one complete at Comiskey Park on the strength of a three-run Eddie Murray homer hits three zip oh he was a lawyer Miller Huggins who managed the murderers row Yankee teams in the 1920s was an attorney dower leads off chops it to Vance law throws him out the last two pitches that Batson to the singleton when he got the double play to end the first and the kind of fastball is that Fisk wants him to throw he turned him over a little bit may have gone to two seams and his ball sinks well when it's down so he gotten a little bit of room so he's thrown three pretty good pictures in the row get ground ball outs todd crews hit just $1.99 for the season splitting time between the Mariners and the Orioles and he struck out over a hundred times in less than five under that bats big swing animators [Music] to salbo all count holding not wandering out between endings I'm gonna ask Don something about it when Dodson was having trouble in that first inning riding his fastball high I wonder if the fastball high made him throw the change-up low or vice versa by throwing the change-up maybe awkward in a different release point bounce the change-up if that caused the fastball did he change out to this inning he's had the pass ball in a pretty good area to scientific for me to try to figure out so I'll check the suck once you pitch off-speed pitch swung on a Miss for strike three and it's the second strikeout recorded by Dotson [Music] good low plate angle there's the slur you could almost pick up the rotation of the ball like that shot we had of monikers sidearm curveball yes people izinski Rick Dempsey he's perhaps the biggest ham on this Oriole ballclub during rain delays he's been known to come out on the field imitate other players delight the crowd his parents were vaudevillians they made it to Broadway in a show called the song of Norway his mom was the Coppertone girl not the baby the pretty blonde the poster famous poster or billboard at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in the late 1940s last night's hero and right to his left storm Davis three years out of high school will be the starting pitcher and tomorrow night's ball game new ball game storm Davis against left-hander Britt burns they can wipe you out if they're right I'll tell you that - 1 pinch 3 & 1 Dotson with so much advice from early win as we told you don drysdale pitching coach Dave Duncan I think sometimes too much information too many different theories gets confusing he's straightened out pretty much over the last two months Dempsey draws a two-out walk and it brings al Bumbry to the plate Bobby for tonight's ballgame starter you want to hear how dominant the pitching's been in the League Championship Series Dodgers through their first three-game have a team batting average of 179 Phillies on the strength of fair 7 runs today went up to 202 White Sox are 190 before to Baltimore 177 plays something about the quality of pitching has been seen in National American League so far first one to bumper a taken for ball one and in the space of less than 24 hours a couple of pitchers who began the year in the minors were heroes Boddicker from Baltimore and then in Philadelphia today Hudson for the Phillies Greg move by Dodson he's a good fielder Potter was to last night he'd be pulsed on the ball the ninth inning robbery checks his swing and taps it foul one-on-one nice straight change you just fooled bumpy with in the last pitch bouncing always had the good curveball and then he started messing around with a slider and it's not uncommon because what is thrown with a relative stiffness together you kind of want to say sloppy wrist but flip it and he lost his good curve down the line and left field trouble if it's fair and it is there waving Dempsey home the real a man is law physics tag he beat it Scott Fletcher was jumping up and down very very irritated with Ron killing the leftfielder cuz Fletcher went out for the relay was waving his hands and because gentle through a rain blow over and through Fletcher it took just a couple of more strides gave a couple of more strides to the runner and they missed it Fletcher had a couple of our squirts for a kettle see if we can pick it out Bob pops up high Fletcher's gone out down the line he's going to ease the cutoff man to get to read a look at the Bluebird look at Fletcher you can see his reaction now bad slaw still just misses them and they gave the runner a couple of extra strides here's dempsey a catchable water custom punch and cut the bags Wow it's where the left foot stumbles a little bit you see Ripken get out of the way so he didn't touch him unlike killer from the Cardinals you almost picked the runner up why our double to start the three-run rally in the first and he takes a strike the umpire down the left-field line is Jim McKeen he was right on the play areas and that ball by Bunbury was fair by a foot or less so it's for nothing Baltimore and Bumbry is its second after the RBI double White Sox bullpen starts going once more but again older than his manager Jerry [Music] tapped in front of the plate Dodson to filled it and throws him out push across another run [Applause] get a double after oh and at the end of one and a half at Chicago's Comiskey Park the Orioles have silenced this big crowd a little bit lately Pierce Gerry standing was on that top this cow get the crowd going anytime a Slugger steps then we can feel the electricity we've come a little bit of a folk hero here in his first year where they said poor turbo it's it on the move 1o pitch two balls of distractors we pause briefly for station identification on the NBC television network WMAQ TV Chicago [Music] swing-and-a-miss bike it'll even the count at 2 & 2 here's where we stand in the last half of the second so while the bellies boys are in control three run home run five Murray can ago 340 maybe right centerfield I see three four five [Applause] they are fetch to Kittel it's hard this was extra bases loewenstein but a double for kiddo down after Flanagan change up and he got middle of the plate inside a Louisville [Applause] main steps in over eight [Applause] tapped foul on - well that temp C just continues to be as aggressive as anyone can be he's been so quick today after catching all those pitches and breaking balls from Boddicker he's always been a variable caching part of the reason I they give the tube system that Earl Weaver started [Applause] so Noland usually with gems yelling he's caught off the game so far banes rips it but Murray is there is going to take it on assistant as Kindle moves to third with one out [Applause] Eddie Murray the ball it's very hard by babe trying to get dropped down a little bit to the side on curveball tried to put mains off the plate he made it out it's a good out to make because he gets the guy down to third base with one out Reagan scored a sac fly Vance laws to hit her [Applause] that's what happens when you like paid 50 the right side so [Applause] deflection [Applause] the outfield offensively swims around to our right center right Center Flanagan runs that fastball away they don't think the [Applause] that's the strike cut some away playing away an old fairy with many people went down in the order Mike Flanagan is 31 years old [Applause] marital Xiao 1979 change that is a doll replica one of the mascots here ribby and rhubarb they call it in Chicago [Applause] going back on the track he's got it about a step in front of the wall and back to first ghost Vance law I don't think Fletcher got but it shows you how well the ball is carrying tonight they drove Lowenstein to the fence MCM Flanagan the Animus setup you ran this fastball or rather cut the fastball in on the flexors fisting you can see the winds starting to push loewenstein back to the left me a wall right about the spot cut the strides farther that Al Smith they'll say is that the cup of beer part is that a classic photo 1959 and maybe tonight it'll be Lowenstein Oh they have t-shirts made up like that Julio Cruz I apologize to everyone in fact after somebody said that it's not so funny because they came and offered a lot of money in the Lowenstein and they sent him a lot of free cases I saw them Chris Brown Satori short Rifkin quick flip for the force with Dao are covering they never could have gotten the speedy cruise down at first base but the White Sox get on the board on a double by Kidal aground out from Baines and a run producing infield single claw you know I had a chance to talk to Don something about we were talking about a while ago about bats and whether the change-up was messed up as fast or vice versa and Don was saying that sometimes a pitcher when he hangs on to that changeup a little long and gets that wrist like he pulls down to the shade he drives it in the dirt and then the fastball might ride high and then just went the more fast balls last it he had him download the strike zone ripken fouls it back for strike one he singled his first time and scored along with Dwyer ahead of Murray on the Homer it hard the foul last time up Ripken went three and one ahead of Dotson tried to pull and drove it in the whole plane that's laws almost tact therefore baseline play it was a severe pull hitter a third base it's about a stride and a half of the third base foul line [Music] taken high one two ripken born and still lives near Baltimore one more reason why's fast become a big local hero Rookie of the Year in 1982 and quite possibly MVP in his sophomore campaign [Music] did he go around he did after slur except don drysdale helped away having trouble controlling the overhand curve and even lost his slider take a little break off it change a release point from the low pitch over straight over the top there are three quarters and another control breaking while if it's that Johnny Save now Murray last time he swung his sounded like a thunderbolt as he sent one flying deep into the upper deck in right center this was tapped slowly towards second Julio Cruz could have walked it over there himself who notes almost teams the lobbing it to him his breakfast at first patient over on the right over nice and comfortable for a first baseman they believe say I know my second base will be there I can guard the line he flipped it for one reason he don't want to embarrass any murid beat him to the back strike one to Lowenstein two quick outs from the Baltimore third inside one on one two balls in the strike Loewenstein drew a walk his first time at first base it's Paciorek Datsun will cover score at three one as is most comfortable inning setting the Oreos lotta baseball purists feel the same why are you Larry Tate in the Baltimore they want to go in the White Sox on the field do it but not with the visiting teams out there I would kill joy Rudy law at 600 for the series six pretend singles the first my crews at third starts in with a bag and as Flanagan goes with his lineup he groups about five steps in a breaking ball but if this is one-on-one the Oriole staff is so loud they change speeds on all their pitches not only just a hard curveball of softball a lot of variables in between upset the timing this ball is hit into center field with Bumbry in pursuit he'll be there Mike Flanagan is doing pretty well here tonight leading four to one the White Sox certainly haven't been his favorite opponents this year he's oh and 2 against them for the season er a over 7 against Chicago and it was against the White Sox in the first game of a doubleheader on May 17th that he ripped his knee up trying to field a grounder and spent an awful long time on the disabled list after that this now one four nine then a walk in one single while out on the third baseman his first time up strike one after he at that silo award year in 79 80 and 81 were not very good years for him he came up with some arm problems their struggle to rehabilitate the radar gun records Flanagan's pitch 63 on that one slow slow curveball the ball and a strike with one out and nobody aboard in the last half of the third that was a straight change so picture now maybe throws in the low 80s maybe mid eighties tops when you throw that 76 mile-per-hour fastball and if they're trying to look for it or look for it the fastball looks about a yard or two faster you can get the ball in on your fest we show it to you one more time change the speeds keep hitter off stride the time he got the hitter striding to feet on the change-up next time you bust the fastball he can't get the foot down in time inspire me count holds at 1 & 2 Flanagan is 31 years old born and raised in Manchester New Hampshire it was quite a high school basketball player he still holds the state tournament championship game record with 44 points scored this bechara Khan Beck [Applause] thrilled by fists down the line and left all loewenstein up with it well sometimes the fans wonder one of the two extra umpires in league championship play on the world series have anything to do well Jim McKeen down the left-field line has had two close calls already tonight and has been right on top of boat he gets the ball up as he just said he get in trouble appearance [Applause] but sharukh hits it back up the middle tower had him played perfectly throws him out perhaps that number-two spot [Applause] biskits third with two out Wanda Lozinski hoof and his first time in the shallow right Dwyre he's got it no runs a hit a double by fist he's left stranded at third and at the end of three Flanagan in the Oreo settled in three up three down any two ground ball outs in the third the strikeout he's been little bit allowed after he gave up his he run over under the walk he got a sinker ball ground ball out then he lost his control and walked somebody in the second at a strong third inning so maybe he's finally gotten his groove we'll see single and hit into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play in the first inning blends it right back through the box for a leadoff single Dotson was a young lucky young man right there he just got that head out of the way in time they'd have a chance to get the glove up fastball out over the plate when he's at trouble when he's been up lookout all's got a little rabbit in it again in the last few years you've said that frequently and you feel that it shows up not so much in the home run totals but on how quickly the ball gets back to the pitcher on smashes through the box like that not only that I mean every pitcher on the staff last year from Kansas City got hit one time or another or more you talked to infielders like Frank white on artificial surface ground ball that they used to get eat him up now seemed to pick up speed and handcuffed him fans love offense Troy Bell is chopped Fletcher has to retreat since he had gone over to cover but he gets him barely is an excellent play by Scott cutter the head Virata Fowler picked the right man yet the shortstop going over the cover and clenched on a reverse crowd and our he didn't tease that doesn't run that well with those Pat legs and also watch he won't get too good of a job he watches the ball a little bit he's grinding it out last day that may have cost it what they teach you not to do there jumped for the bag and float in the air better off taking two quick steps than one big long line he may have lost it but he did advance the runner there's a K next - Todd Cruz's name scorebook there is only at bat that's an as fan three so far bullpen starts again for the White Sox it's been up at every inning our cushion of the bullpen coach with Jerry Koosman once more one and one punch fist can who'd enjoy the game mr. Gould he's a big sports fan I see him at Madison Square Garden all the time goes to the Knicks games he asked for your autograph I know he doesn't seldom occasionally maybe this can't find a pattern for Datsun you can't seem to keep him in any kind of groove he's completely laid off the straight change in the last couple of innings he gets the fastball in the groove that he tries to mix in the breaking ball throws one good one and two bad ones he's trying to bring that's the law here's the to on drops a punt this pounces on it and throw what [Applause] great play by cut fest [Applause] he's naughty anaphase said thousands over look at how fast punch pissed one time in his career in Boston he thought he was washed up after that 75 season when he tore up his knee they thought he would not recover he's put out a few years since then but he was cat-like those two places more trouble for Datsun one by Fletcher on the hit ground and the one by Fester so now it's up to Dempsey with singled in a third base and to out we're in the top half of the fourth in Baltimore lead Chicago four to one game three in the American League Championship Series right to meet out of the Phillies or the Dodgers in the World Series first pitch swinging Dempsey is disgusted with himself law is going to take without scoring in the board they had a hit and one man is left they lead it four to one the all-star game set was quite a throw for against in the tradition of the late mayor Daly who live right here Felicity Park was a great Sox fan Kittle smacked a double his first time up in the second inning and he scored the only White Sox run Vonnegut's first pitch of the floor for a long sometimes the defense of any like the White Sox just had saving trouble for Datsun can spur a team on a little bit blue bar motivation almost clipped him to a No lannigan tried to move that hard curve move about to play Tony LaRussa took over for Don Kessinger in late 1979 as the White Sox manager foul ball 2 & 2 and so even though Tony LaRussa's but 39 years of age celebrated that birthday this week he has the second longest tenure with the same Club of any manager in the American League only Sparky Anderson of the Tigers has been with his present team longer Bob while we have a chance we want to send our condolences out to the men who has been one of the mentors from Tony LaRussa and Lopez who managed that 59 White Sox team lost his wife about a week ago so our best deal that can goes to your family [Applause] it was the senior and two of his teams who interrupted the great Yankee string of Penance between 1949 and 64 here's the two-two three and two the Yankees failed to win the pennant only twice in that entire span once in 1954 and the other time in 1959 each time Lopez managed the pennant winner the Indians in 54 and the White Sox in 59 and after the 59 scene they went out of five consecutive American League pennants who sits before kendall has hit pot on this one the me obviously for this on the perfect Oh LaRussa and Cal Ripken senior are among the principal peacemakers the bullpens are emptying now [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] traitor banes hit the ball hard and his only trip but he's still hitless in the series as Eddie Murray fielded his sharp grounder fouled back I don't think Dempsey has a chance it's out of play that still gars Yola trick right there but joy used to do it when he went in front of the dugout some guys have you razzing them they would slide and do that from the dugout kick the dirt right in her faces here's how some barbarity right next to dick Butler the supervisor and umpire and leaving failed with the glasses will be another week [Applause] here's the l11 it on varnel that well wouldn't they hit hard wood fielded by dour he'll turn to with Ripken getting it to Marie and Marie with a dandy stretch to help complete it Harold Baines doesn't have anything chauffeurs last two bats although he did advance a runner the time before this but he is at two balls very hard the last one to Bernie the last time up they didn't sharply and this one was a bullet Bauer showed very very quick hands he almost could not get out of the way of the ball as Kendall walked along the bench who saw him pause briefly to talk with her Snyder the trainer just to tell him he's okay the knee which was struck by the pitch Flanagan won't give him any problem the rest of the night Vance law now with the bases empty and two out takes ball one every once in a while the audience pictures throw Palmer does Flanagan we're what they call their batting practice fastball they get behind and they just say here hit it take the chance down the middle [Applause] the question that I think a lot of people sitting at home would ask what's the percentage in doing that just laying it right in there I guess they figured I'd failed seven out of ten times the old theory still a only 300 hitter which is a great standard 1/2 so they say here go ahead I've got a lead I'm not going to walk here rather have you put into play take a single hopefully why are in right field takes the fly ball off the bat of Vance law well it's been ugly so far for the White Sox you keep track of numbers Dotson through four innings he faced 18 Bannerjee through 62 pitches 38 restricts 24 balls 12 first pitch strikes been erratic to say the least Bumbry is struck out and hit an RBI double takes a strike good sharukh hairball steps on the bed Tom Paciorek feuded a little bit with Tony Larusso earlier in the year blasted him in the papers and then the next day showed up in the White Sox clubhouse with a shoe hanging from his mouth that was his way of saying hey i know i overstepped my bounds Tony let's patch this thing up and when they came down the stretch LaRussa used Paciorek almost every day as he was one of his hottest hitters the rosin in constant communication with his coaches talking to Duncan right there hotdog wrappers on in short stop area the reason for the pause the White Sox are hitting Charlie Lau will stand next to LaRussa that in the pitching coach Dwyre takes ball one a chance for crews charging in and underhand flip trademark to down crews worked out very well they teach first base when they work out in spring training out hard at fall you're right go after it maybe the second baseman probably can't get in a slow at ball go to the bag let the second baseman handling when you got Julio Cruz there you can give a lot of little deer right does he have a flair and as you've mentioned Tony Tony LaRussa felt not that burners are the guy they swapped to Seattle for Cruz was a bad ball player but the Cruz would add just that little bit of spice that this team might need can't argue with the results Ripken with the bases empty and to our interesting defensive alignment they've been using on Cal Ripken jr. in the infield on the left side they planed to pull but look at kil Jaeden turn left center in the outfield they play up the hit late right-center field to the figure ground ball and get it down to the left side possibly in the hole or down the line anything in the area it's the other way retaliation Tony or not Oh huh get Ripken's smiling about it I doubt it one ball no strikes he tries to throw fastball hard inside it's White Sox can't afford being down by three runs to put extra runners on so I really doubt it Ripken be the professionally assist around selves on the trainer I understand the game now pops gives some sign two ounces down together [Music] reading Ripken's lips I think he just said the Datsun is that all you got but of course that wasn't dots his best basketball saddle think you want to hit him right there this guy coming up after what he's already done in this ball game it was any doubt whether he did it intentionally listen tell you that was right Murray here we go this here they come again folks we'll come the bulk man there's going to be a warning this time I would guess Davey Phillips is the senior umpire here and that's a loose with LaRussa LaRussa went right to the biggest guy and strongest guy in the field white the Murray [Applause] here come both bullpens the foul line umpires even when the ball points is coming from the left the typical non-baseball fight alright is very steps back in and Ripken takes his lead two out wall one is the count we're in the top half of the fifth leave the White Sox for too long well if Dotson can't knock him down anymore he's going to stare him down last pitch was not a knockdown it was the al sub that his bread and butter but you got to brush them back and then go out there pitchers who don't throw good brush backs lose hitters off and find they cannot control the outside part of the plate Datsun falls behind Murray three-and-oh loewenstein is on deck which happened before with Datsun ball four I think Dave Stephen trying to let believe that's me machine now Duncan pops out president of NBC Sports mr. president Eddie Einhorn or one of the vice president Jerry Reinsdorf the other man involved a big-money man well you might as well complete the thought yeah that was Arthur Watson the president of NBC Sports seated next to Eddie Einhorn Loewenstein he's walked and grounded out he takes a ball now dick Tidrow Guzman was up the first three innings one hitter removed that's a loser with two outs and he may be out of it play loewenstein to pull on the left side shortstop Fletcher pinched toward the bag wad third well off the line same is true of Kidal and left pretty much straightaway on the right side now Julio Cruz steps three quick steps to his left and this ball is smacked Harold Baines is in pursuit but it is off the wall Ripken is going to score Murray is being waved home Loewenstein has a double going the third going hard he's going to be a dead duck [Applause] Dotson dug his own grave hip that's been two outs jost with Murray that he lost him and that's what happened they attacked to Laurent so Lowenstein is a race not before driving home two more runs strike one Scott Fletcher leading off for the last half of the fifth Julio Cruz on deck lofted into short centerfield Bumbry comes scampering in and has it you think Oriole pictures aren't well-trained legacy ever who Weaver again when that ball went up and forward going after it Flanagan was standing on second base and fencing was left uncovered he has great arm speed when he throws that changeup it doesn't Telegraph it at all same easy delivery at the end with his fastball hard curveball or even when he takes something off Bru's steps in better hitter right-handed than left what pop he has comes from the right side we'll take you deep occasionally almost always right-handed to know back Dempsey or a look but no remember games number for tomorrow the nastily good night came tomorrow Dodgers at the Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon we'll see storm Davis against Britt burns for the White Sox we're not blowing out well it's kind of off and on not quite as hard I don't think it'll happen here tomorrow 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Baltimore versus Chicago another good pitching matchup Cruz is getting himself a new bath the you were commenting a while ago Bachmann who saw another winning ugly sign a while ago on city of the Doug Rader but I've got some words that Daryl Johnson the manager of the Red Sox in 75 when he got beat by Cincinnati he's an advanced scout he put in his report they're winning ugly and they got under stretch they might take a tailspin this one has popped into short right wire calls and records the out and I think what Darrell Johnson meant was there was complimentary as when radar repeated it that the whites actually scrambling for runs they were they were winning a lot of different ways they were stealing bases hit and run under the they get a walk the base set a little blue somebody could come in an air they throw two or three runs at you roni lost steps in 6 for 11 in the series trailing 6 to 1 the game plan has been taken away from the White Sox at least for the time being Ron at every opportunity this is cut in a foul ball lost wipes 27 this year second in the league behind Ricky Henderson's 180 he throw out the strike season of 1981 Oakland's Henderson had stolen a hundred or more in three consecutive seasons including the record 130 last year Baltimore has six base hits to get there six runs in five of the six have been for extra bation bases it's slowly they're gonna have an awfully tough time getting here and he beat that easily that's what the Flanagan is that trouble where last week in September he didn't get the first base on a ball and it cost him a ball game late in August against Toronto he couldn't get down and Bend his leg with that stiff brace the tila ground ball did cost him a ball game so in spite of the fact that he's telling everyone the knee does not hurt it hurts it's got a metal brace on his knee that is strapped mid-thigh the mid-calf hinged at the be made of aluminum you can see how it middle of his thigh and now out the belly say how is it he's not going to take a chance that if he throws of delivery that might be off balance and forget they lose use his lower body just desire and he could tear that shoulder up the dizzy deed and hit the all-star game came back too soon and her desire never puts well again with Flanagan racin atlas good company in League Championship Series play Flanagan is one at OU he won Game two of the 1979 Series for the Orioles over the Angels [Applause] this stands in take subscribe Sammy Stewart FBI over the first chair Dennis Martinez supposed to be one of their starters this year the big part he really struggled law diving back with his two hits tonight in three trips laws now 7 for 12 in the series that's 583 taken outside one on one monoghan has a great movie picked off nearly 50 runners in his career both he and Scotty McGregor they go right to the up to that rubber they don't go cross it but then you have to go home in centerfield side and they just try and bend that rule a little bit cuz he's got such a good leg get good ahead nye fakes [Applause] here's the to one it's very deep loewenstein back and has just enough room again Fisk didn't really lower the boom on that ball but he got it up in the air and the wind helped it a bit and it almost left come his three of those were Falls enough dachshund walk three hit one batter in three of those four scored so he got himself in trouble okay go to game five though having thrown 75 pitches always the possibility could be used and relief the bullpen runs dry and tonight or tomorrow's ballgame at least for a couple of hitters so Datsun as Tidrow delivers the first one to single it called strike Datsun took a 10 game winning streak in a postseason play but this was not his night waddle on a ball and two strikes to Kenny probably saw a lefty first one 300 games Carlton's name on the barn a while ago right then you meet that Guidry this man right here when he spent some time along with Sparky Lyle of the bull pen the Yankees before get me became the great starter he is Guidry says that Tidrow taught him how the pitch and then it was Sparky Lyle who taught him to throw that snapping slider he's always mentioned that did he check his swing they check at third base and the third base umpire Mike Riley the youngest member of the crew he's working his first LCS he said now he held up so it's 2 & 2 did their had some trouble with left-handed hitters because he throws that kind of pitch she drops down a little bit he doesn't come over the top much and that breaking ball stays on a flat plane right a no-hitter he sinks that ball and runs it away stop it's a full count that one wasn't as tough for Riley to decide on but just thought what the heck take another shot at it talked about the six hits Baltimore 5 for extra bases that doubled my Dwyer doubled by Ripken homerun by Murray double by Lowenstein double by pump real payoff pitch call third strike [Applause] not too many umpires punched Kenny singled it he's walked under time for more seven times in major league career and Tindra was toying with an outside corner everyone said that time he got when those hitters develop a reputation for the good I Joe Morgan Ted Williams perhaps the best example popped up live our Shari has it two down they do get the benefit of the doubt don't they I say they deserve it they don't get it overnight the quickest I've seen is Wade Boggs than just the second full season he was so disciplined a guy like man with fried chicken half a dozen years or more Williams may be quicker than that this great reputation Todd Cruz stands in with the bases empty and two out top half of the sixth six one Baltimore all one that Wade Boggs story in Boston that is a great story just waiting to be told relatively little national recognition Boggs led the American League in hitting at 361 in his second season after batting 349 as a rookie there's a strike to Cruz rumor trades been going around about a month not involving Boggs but the Red Sox and San Francisco the bowels names and mentioned the reliever called strike two one and two [Applause] a lot of great activity into life is an endeavor forth really those you can't become free agents have to declare drop-down and right there on the black again one missed and this time they checked with the first base umpire Jim Evans heavens at the guy that's been involved in a couple of controversial calls that have gone against the White Sox but Tony LaRussa has steadfastly maintained that he's glad Evans is working the series because he's a good owner didn't stop Tony for doing okay see Cruz goes down swinging so to draw has a 1-2-3 top of the 6th and strikes a couple out after five and a half maybe Flanigan's knee was bothering they had to make that run and couldn't get over the strike got picture basically hard slider good curveball that he's worked on ready control the low 90s our pitcher - no the counter Pachauri bought the fist right centerfield and Bumbry will be there pumper II must have idolized Willie Mays as a young ball player because even when he doesn't have to exert himself very much she tends to run out from under that hat like Willie did the bull takes ball one [Music] broke the bat in half Ripken is up with it and the bull is gone Lissitzky is not a popular figure here born in this area lived in Chicago's in about nine or ten moved to the suburbs there's the top part of the bat Chicago with his second largest Polish population in the world next to Warsaw Poland the name like mizanskey the fastball and look how it tied him up he couldn't get the bat out with Charlie Lau the hitters call extension we tend to use the word classical out in this these championships you that was a classic Jam shot right there well evidently Ron Kittles knee bothering him more than he let on at first and Jerry Hairston will bat for him a switch hitter and outfielder and Kindle is done after doubling and being hit by a pitch ball one to Hairston with two outs and nobody on we're in the last half of the sixth and the orioles are cruising with a 6-1 lead to a no talk about a guy who's at the battle do you stay in the major leagues there his father remember the White Sox staff I believe one of their Scouts he wasn't making went down and playing with Mexican leagues and banged around a lot and why he's pinch-hitting I'll show you we have two breaking ball from Flanagan caught him very squarely on the left knee Hairston pops it foul as we come back live and Todd Cruz has trouble with a win I just turned into nuts let's see if they've given air now he didn't touch that ball but that ball was as capable as the one Dempsey almost run into the railing and banged off his glove where he didn't touch this it still was a playable in catchable ball too there are inconsistencies in the rules when I can see it's just to put behind them and they don't give him an error he was lost Dowler as sure-handed as they come in fact rich dower has the highest fielding percentage of any second baseman in major league history so he throws the pinch-hitter Hairston out there's your score dempsey leads off top half of the seventh Tidrow and relief of Dodgson goodbye I'm strike one White Sox defensive alignment again somewhat unusual playing a little bit to pull for Debs in the infield look what they're doing in the outfield moving long right-center field sitter's the kind of guy you pulled more often than not I think unless they're gonna state breaking balls outside like that not Givens anything in the ball unless it's bad the roofs still one of the managers using the computers and Steve Boros Oakland Billy Martin to start a little bit many others will go to it Duncan which he coached next to LaRussa they do is they put bluntly Rosenbaum traveling the secretary batting practice but you're up to chart thing and they program him lecture at shortstop nice room service hop to throw him out well you know LaRussa says I don't always make the moves that the computers suggest but at least I'm aware of the percentages when I choose to ignore them it's interesting though too because one of our statisticians the principal one rate train horn Steve's here today requested some information from the White Sox in the league dunked and looking at pitching patterns in what's going on and the White Sox at a meeting before this thing started they will not divulge what they consider inside information now hitters have gone against left and right Holmen away and very uh sophisticated stats that stuff is pretty much accessible with the media bomb breeze 1 4 3 but his hit was an RBI double his cruise to Paciorek [Applause] [Music] a wire with one of the five extra base hits first base into the ballgame a double in the first he started on with Ripken fun of that monstrous home run off the bat of Murray to right-center field that's ball one just 23 years old coupon a future to know yeah they've got the best record over the last 15 years they've won seven division titles since the playoff system began in 1969 they've top 90 victories 16 of the last 20 years any way you slice it continual excellence from the Baltimore Oriole organization and what might be a big part of that Weaver was a great big part of it but also since the Gold Glove awards for defense started rolling started it the Orioles have led all major league teams in that category first Hall of Fame in our broadcast room he got one every year 17 18 19 at lost track after got the first 15 defense has been defense has been really their trademark we've made mention of the hard feelings that exist in this game first Kittel was hit by Flanagan now Ripken is plunked by Dotson but look at this classic style and a smile on his face refused to admit that it hurt if it did you know when Murray got thrilled he's in the on Dexter know when he got thrown at or close to rushing him back next hitter up I think he read he was wanting to clock the mound Dotson because of Ripken getting hit they're very very close there's no competition between them outwardly but inwardly these competitors are burning out to each other like manland Maris did that year 61 and 54 home runs now look at this Ripken coming down to the third base coach and I say his kid I think get in there and hit look I think he was getting on young gal the other hit and get a good pitch in sad all one I asked cow before the series about his experiences following his father around the minor leagues hanging around the club houses being around ball players from a very early age and young Cal described himself as a wide person he said he asked an awful lot of questions during those days at the minor league parks to a no the count and so when he arrived in the big leagues at age 22 he was much more mature than his years he's very very poised handles the media well apparently handles the pressure of playing in a series like this very well - Oh through it to long pants law the third baseman is trying to waive Jerry Hairston over the pool look at this Vance is getting the scouting reports from the bench and Hairston didn't hear it been pretty much a pinch-hitter uses the D H not off not too often defensively didn't get his attention Dwyre had a very short lead pace of the game is slowing somewhat happened after all the turmoil a couple of innings back it was bound to three and one and the electricity which existed here at the start of the game is absent at least for now these hands are ready to explode but they haven't had much of a chance Murray silenced him first at first any time they tried to get aroused again there's a walk and a double or something foul back by Ripken full count so Dwyer will be running it first shark now moves behind him protect the hall the first base coach is warns wire make sure he pitches try to get a good job Ripken sitting 400 on 4 for 10 in the series so far this one is popped back Fiske takes so for the Orioles in the top half of the seventh no runs no hits no walk in a man is left after six and a half for bidding we get her player option banes leads off still looking for his first hit of the series he's hit the ball hard twice he's owned for two chill on the count popped up Dempsey plegh came back on him and he slipped on the track and that is the third Baltimore misadventure on a foul pop tonight so now they've got to give it an air again right they've been in the first buy it let's see how consistent the official scores the winds playing tricks that wasn't as high as some this backs up a little bit deathly our loans not today the count goes full de Bain Mike Squires is in the on-deck circle he'll bat for Vance law I guess there really doesn't here's Cruz with an ice pick up and Baines is now over three Donny's pretty nice so far as do a third one ball in for Chara get handcuffed him into one game here's a breaking ball that babe tries to go the other way and he covered it was hit sharply the grass slowed it down a little bit but he still went four or five steps to his right circle of all nicely and showed that gun again we mentioned Tony as Squire steps in batting for law at the start of the broadcast al Bane's kid old Fisk and luzinski who had almost four hundred RBIs between them for the season where without a run driven home and a combined three for 28 through the first two games well tonight their combined to 410 Kittel and Fisk each had a double tonight luzinski and Baines are hitless and although Kittles scored a run none of the big four is driven one ends so Baltimore pitching has really handcuffed the white sox big guns and in the first two ball game 70 whoa the White Sox have left 11 runners on base Doyle Russo with the bar one more left-handed pinch-hitter on the bench Walker the other ones you'd like to save him for a spot where the White Sox might put some runners aboard right-sided at Basinski Rodriguez Markel and Dave Steckler - one and popped up ripken who handled more chances than any shortstop of the american league this year concession stand at Comiskey Park selling plenty of winning ugly t-shirts tonight we have the rosters [Applause] you have to be fairly friendly with anyone who'd get close enough to read them fine print and when this is over which maybe Charlene Oh the job cutting remark and a strike all the Scott Fletcher and after all I've done for you this year Jedi gesture to say it again this is a tough quote that would come back out the right side and got Stoddard and conveniens in the power pitcher can come in for a few years is tippy Martinez Martinez reconcile one shortstop wraps it to the other and Fletcher is retired by Ripken so it's a 1-2-3 frame for Stuart we've completed seven plea Bowser's gonna say art R&L consonants so much for that brief and vaguely educational moment man up when you knew it was just going to be a matter of time strong as he is that he was going to get into one in that first demo when he creamed or Richard Dotson pitched into the right centerfield bleachers had snapped an old 429 streak in postseason play for it rice and Armas teammates top two homerun hitters in the American League with Kittel third and Murray for rice and Armas finished 1-2 in that category marked the first time the teammates have been the top two homerun hitters in the American League since Maris and mantle in 1961 must even see that he's not gonna be sitting in a pitch right here - and all inside part of the plate the guy throws a little bit sidearm let's see taking low that must have been something to watch unfold in 1961 as your teammates wage their assault on Ruth's record Madden and April May took the burden off Ralph Houk shoulders in a hurry replaced Casey stained left with the 60 world so he had a red hot red hot April of May and that set up Maris is here also achieving initially should have with the asterisk I think it's the only record I know there is such an asterisk behind it in the book an artificial circus guys get more hits they don't put asterisk VHS and all other kinds of things she's a great all-around ball six or seven years Marie now walks for the second straight time even with this score six to one Baltimore Tidrow wanted no part of any Murray as lonstein steps in we tell you this telecast is presented on to the authority of Major League Baseball intended for the entertainment of our audience any rebroadcast retransmission or other use of the contents of this telecast without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is prohibited Loewenstein has walked grounded out and doubled home to in the fifth that's a strike this brush has been in baseball a long time but a sleeping dog lie I wonder if they won't get him hurry up he's always a very intense person but maybe more so stop see dead Ripken not intentionally and then moved him back Dennis lamb begins throw lamp leads the White Sox and saves about really an ace out of their bullpen his brother saving around quite a bit so on and three and one Lowenstein was born in wolf point Montana who's now in an entirely different environment Las Vegas the runner is going it's taken for a strike and Murray catches them napping and steals second base is interesting when Lowenstein stepped in the batter's box Eddie Murray kept looking into the dugout possibly to ask out the belly's in look if they give it to me with a five run lead and I take it it just kept walking off a little bit more a little bit more this camping to throw over loewenstein the head the ball flies high picks up the runner or the ball in case it's hip and now the three to pickoff play is that a little bit of a message play Murray just wanting to do something aggressive maybe still hopped up over what happened earlier no question about it he's not a base dealer interesting now he went back to second base more Major Leaguers going and standing up and so many are putting on plays and if you dive in they plant their foot in block capital base Loewenstein is punched out of there by plate umpire Nick crumb again [Applause] sweeping curveball loewenstein thought he had to walk but it got the corner [Music] LaRussa Watson walk can host see him holding up the four fingers draw to put to the right-hander's our tower and crews who follow obviously far less dangerous and singled in and then the DoublePlay will be in order so an intentional walk for singled and you mentioned earlier how annually gets close to a hundred walks and a lot of fans persist in the belief that a walk is an accident was simply a batter getting lucky when he happens to be up there when a pitcher loses his control but if you check the walk leaders you see the same names year in year out and getting on base beyond base percentage a very overlooked and batting average is perhaps over emphasized we've talked about that every time we have the Boston Red Sox out the ballet and LaRussa every time we see the walking man Etios coaching third and I'm sure Pete Rose knows this if he's watching but Eddie Yost ed has a higher lifetime on-base percentage than Pete Rose did but she didn't negotiate contract without base percentage that most one time I think it 165 Hits 145 walks in one year we pop 15 18 20 home runs free also I guarantee in two things Pete Rose is watching and is not a baseball statistic he doesn't know he might be the best baseball fan as well as one of the greatest baseball players ever Shrike wanted our child to ballet most of this year whale in September when they brought a lot of the kids up he had extra infielders but he's got just the one extra infielder here Cecotto Glenn Sakata can play third shorter second but close ballgames sometimes that can limit you as far as what you can do the mover ability with pinch hitters vo one got a piece of it Owens ooh lenz Sakata in the ball game that this year against Toronto when Joe Altobelli pins it for his bottom three in the lineup ran out of players and position players he ended up catching for the first time in his major league career Rennick ended up at third first time he played third base of the majors in lowest height at second there's time he played there in about six years and Sakata hit a homer to win the game and said afterward I'd do anything not to have to put the tools of ignorance back on and go out for another inning behind the plate Oh to pinch this is missed our first ballgame an afternoon game that was the same inning in which Tippi Martinez came in with Socata catch and Martinez picked off through three Toronto Blue Jays consecutively off first base to put that figure in perspective on dour one strikeout every roughly nineteen times at bat almost a wild pitch but fist saves it that is a very fine figured our is annually among the toughest to fan in the major leagues this makes a nice play on the sweeping curveball events Marie and Stapleton from advancing we've talked about stealing signs from second where the second base runner can peer into the glove then we'll watch Marie hands on hips may mean one thing and in the knees may mean another crossover step like that is something that some comms news in hard but foul the crossover left foot over right maybe the sign for a fastball you shuffle off not crossing over maybe a breaking ball most time because of the sophisticated signs of the switches by catcher's it's a deep card but it can still get the catcher and pitcher thinking at times two balls two strikes two on and one out Murray at second single it at first top half of the eighth six one Baltimore in the center field right center as he winds up Rudy law makes the catch Marie tags and he's going to go to third [Music] so the O's have runners at the corners with two out and Todd crews will have a chance Pop's the ruse up don't know if he's going to talk about the soccer ball loaded with not much on it all that crews could call who's asked probably almost anything for the middle of the plate out Baltimore has seven base hits saladin is trotting in a dugout he heard something he's requesting a pinch runner well I've already got Ford hobbled and unable to play in game two he wouldn't have started tonight probably anyway with the right-hander going so we don't know what Ford's availability will be the rest of the way and now singleton leaves so whoever comes in the single gender the pinch runner becomes a designated hitter I think the player they want is out in the bullpen the valley will then pinch hit for power the thing you got to worry about and you can get too cute with this is he probably has not run the basis for a good good many years but you worry about is that he hurts himself he can become a free agent after this year he doesn't feel he'll be back in Baltimore this may be killed but that could be dangerous it would be fair to describe Palmer especially at this stage of his career as injury-prone he has spent some time on the DL it's not a bad move though because health dabeli doesn't use a player off the bench one time through the lineup in fact it's a very smart move should he need a pinch-hitter if the White Sox come back he hasn't lost a position player nor a header chance of an injury the Palmer is much much too smart to take any foolish chances so there is some strategy that we didn't know about with the DEA it's hard to find a lot of strategy with it two outs two on and Alla ball and two strikes to Dempsey the Earl Weaver bent that rule a couple of times at that da change two years ago I believe when he used to send the for the next game to the next town what he would do is he would put him in the d8 spot it wasn't even the ballpark say it said Steve stone Chicago to New York where the next game was the next day stone wasn't even in the park if they change pitchers pitcher getting hurt he didn't lose any hitters I changed that in hurry Dempsey gets a hold of this one but pulls it foul Alti belly is getting a kick out of it he can afford to smile up seven to one manager of the Year candidate for sure along with LaRussa Bobby Cox from Toronto debris on the feel and right field so the action it started out as a supercharged atmosphere here tonight it's settled into a quiet acceptance of apparent defeat there will be one final charge of electricity or at least one more when the White Sox Julio Cruz is up but we get the fiscal chart Lozinski fans of the turn yeah and no matter what happens they'll be right back at him tomorrow with burns who - four shutouts this year and came on second half of the season against young storm Davis shut it go five the managers have already said they'll come back with white and McGregor two balls two strikes two outs two on and it stays that way [Applause] Dempsey's got to be a little bit tired I would play touching that ball game from Boddicker I think they took a charter after the game and got it in about three in the morning like the White Sox did by the time you get your bag nickel the hotel it's 5:00 and you're trying it a few hours sleep before the Sun comes up back out here about 3:00 in the afternoon I've been wondering when you see good hitting catcher's bench was the Lance curse has become how they do it this one has hit very solidly but Rudy law is going to track it down so the Orioles were history in the eighth they push one more run across and increased their lead to seven to one piece that's tonight on NBC I know in your case you can't watch it if it is Julio Cruz former teammate with Seattle DoublePlay combo is creeping into third base Todd about that those two guys with the Seattle ballclub if utilities using a hundred games again this year Hughes came over and said in the burners are trade hot crews all but released and each has a chance to be in the World Series mr. New Year remove from playing with the team that finished the basement this year Delk randomly placed from a latch Minh looked a lot of young kids in September Kruse goes down swinging as we pause briefly for station identification this is the NBC television network WMAQ TV Chicago Bob Costas along with Tony Kubek there's your story and it's been Orioles all the way starting with the three-run homer in the top half of the first by Eddie Murray and Stewart since relieving Flanagan who hopefully did not rien to that need the retired seven in a row [Music] Rubi law takes a strike you know you mentioned Todd and Julio Cruz each winding up in a situation while more appealing than Seattle how about Rene lachemann landing on his feet he goes from the struggling club to a team that will be a contender the Brewers [Music] capricious nature an ownership Harvey a favorite last year manager the BBQing that is a fair ball it hit the bag and Murray turns our cycling way and we've got somebody else down right field line rutila didn't stumble over the bag but he trying to stop too soon he didn't tumble - you saw the gifts that Eddie Barry possessed look at where he is playing ball is hit that sharply but watch what it hit scoot over the top of the bag and went down it didn't bounce our service got athlete's he has shown the power that he has about a 440 foot home run and every time my talent gets ten feet longer you notice stole a base got him sleeping and just showed his agility but getting that one possible he showed you why there's a gold glove on his show that man right there has got to be the leading candidate for the MVP in this ballgame yeah would you think and for the year as we've mentioned before but I guess it bears repeating but fell at the plate right here Carlton Fisk is going to get some support for what he did for the White Sox Ripken and Murray from the Orioles and rice with the awesome numbers for the Red Sox what he did was protect a lot of baserunners out of the two spots give maybe 10 12 points on the average breaking ball and he got under it that was a pitch that he might have handled loewenstein has it Fisk also had even a South dissenter they've gotten the hundred RBIs they go quite this number five man spot starter two-time National League all-star pitchers on that great staff with the Mets Gentry tom seaver and Nolan Ryan for a while Tug McGraw and now with the south wall on the mound the switch-hitter Shelby bats for the left-handed hitting Bumbry top half of nine seven one Baltimore local news sent out on the west coast follows the ballgame tonight's show Friday night videos who'sa has been some postseason pitching in league championship play his record as want to know is show me thousand off and in World Series competition Korea no he won two games including the fifth and final in 1969 for the Mets against the Orioles and he also won one in 1973 against Oakland there was a time at the end of last season and even at the beginning of this season he was the White Sox Teddy has started he still throws that kind of fastball once in a while he gets up in the high 80s to set up that slow curveball he's at some really rollercoaster numbers he was 121 ball games for the Mets at 76 turned around in 77 lost 20 ball games then went 3 and 15 with the minnesota 120 again when everybody said he was washed up Shelby jaws a leadoff walk and he can run although it's unlikely in this situation he's the Orioles top base dealer with 15 Kurt Goudy always used to say of Koosman when he got in the ballgame that he's one of the ten minutes best best men in Morris Minnesota I think there were 16 got Tito Landrum now not the end of the batter's box well Curt Goudy is here tonight working on the radio side along with 30 Harwell is a Hall of Fame broadcaster voice of the Detroit Tigers there's Kirk gouts bill growler you know when you say pretty howl the Hall of Fame and some of the other great broad can sentence goody Vince Collier put in that special way what about Gaudi Landrum lofts it too right name's Kasim when you look at Gao Dee's credentials working under Yankees then moving up to the Red Sox leaning him up there he did probably more World Series anybody else for NBC the Rose Bowl the World Series all-star game NCAA basketball championship is already in the basketball Holloway it's quite a collegiate basketball player wasn't Wyoming right yeah okay here's Ripken single struck out hit by a pitch fouled out the attendance tonight and this has to include standing room 46,000 635 bah Lamar was seven base hits five for extra bases Dotson guy hurt by walks early and a hit batsman three of those four scored as we told you so perhaps what the luck one of the lines or the edges that they talked about before this league championship series started lack of experience did it show at Bannister last night did it show at Datsun today they have not pitched within themselves tried to overthrow got themselves in trouble a called strike one and one well coming into the playoffs in the second half of the season Lamarr Hoyt rich Dotson Floyd Bannister combined 42 and 5 we've got them the win in Game one but Dotson and Bannister have come up losers [Music] which it should be pointed out that the Baltimore pitching hasn't exactly been anything to complain about McGregor in Game one pitched well that was charged with the defeat Boddicker absolutely masterful last night Flanagan or an injury knocked him out after five gave him a good effort tonight Shelby who walked is the runner at first with one out top half of the night seven one Baltimore and at this point Joe Altobelli a part of the luxury of not having to throw Tippi Martinez out there rest him another day he was in Game one Rifkin goes into right-center field where that Rudy law in pursuit won't get there off the wall on the fly Shelby to third stopped by Cal Ripken senior surely that man's power than the opposite field what he sets up and closes that stance and tries to drive the ball he led the league and doubles this year he had 47 of them and that established a new Oriole record breaking the mark held by the hall-of-famer Brooks Robinson and 22 as I recall of Ripken's doubles went to right-center field all just came up a couple of feet from going out LaRussa out to talk to Koosman and maybe the lifted see what Ripken is now he was three for eight in the first two games tonight he's two for four and was also hit by a pitch so he's five for 12 on the series and lamb is throwing but not coming in and at this point appear that Murray's going to get another at-bat he's Hobart he's gotten two walks and three run the home run in the first because Redick II come out to the on-deck circle oh I'm sorry whoa I'm one batter head excuse me buried behind fisken running in the umpire brennick he's going to bat for Lowenstein next and he's going to have a chance because they're going to pass Murray intentionally so in the box score any luck Eddie's lines going to read 1 for 2 in the home run on a groundout and then three walks following it Rena qihoo yesterday ball game in which moniker tied 14 strikeouts with a shutout doubled in the second yesterday's ballgame he walked in the fourth scored another run the two run home run to the 6th they put the game out of the reach and then walked in the 8th [Music] now LaRussa may want lamp is waiting for Rena key to be announced apparently and now that Rena key is officially in the game Guzman's going to be out of it Byrd Ripken at second in any Maria drew the intentional walk is at first in the last four weeks of the season the orioles as a team hits six grand slam home runs all won in field playing back looking for the double play except for patch our cat first at 363 hard to turn he'll go home cut off the runner that's ball two I have two kind of guy you go for that pitch that looks like it just above the knees by the time you swing at it mid-calf and you're beaten in the dirt when he's effective he gets pretty good lowball hitters out because he keeps throwing it lower and lower makes you go after bad pitches sitting on the two hours running here it takes it low [Applause] White's actually given up seven walks thus far two intentional he takes a strike although he thought he had a walk and umpires he'd bet battery runs out of the box Oriels doing today what they usually do best many team in the American League taking the base on balls you told hit batsman what gets those beginnings going or keeps him going so I'll walk in between don't get caught stealing plays somebody pops when are you got it that one is ball four had a baseball like this needs pressure on the defense Tony let me ask you this the White Sox are on their way not only to losing but losing big does it make a difference to them psychologically that the turnaround is so quick I have to noon game tomorrow instead of a night game I don't think as much as the home as it would on the road and also when you've got a pitcher who was one good inning and turn the momentum if there is such a thing in baseball right back around this lead stands up and I'm sure it will with the Orioles bullpen if they have to go to it anymore Stewart's pitching very very tough baseball we've got on Pittsburgh's coming out and shut them out for hearings st. Louis and Joe Nolan takes a strike miss Rifkin at third-base he's batting 417 now the series on five for 12 for walks and what hit batsman have scored for the Orioles five and eight this ball is hit in a left-center field Hairston is going back to the track and it glances off his glove what a nightmare the White Sox two more runs are in it's 10 to 1 and runners at 2nd and 3rd on what I would guess will be ruled in error it is not pleasant to get embarrassed in front of a hometown crowd he just got turned around a little bit the wind drifted it behind of see the lights glaring off his glasses the Jerry Harrison gets there so now rich dower who is hitless in the series launches one into right-center field the runner tags is the catch and throw by Baynes close when running he scores standing up it's 11 to 1 you can see how routing law gave way to the better throwing arm let Harold come even though law was a little closer pains went over to try to throw him out came close prey thief right centerfield the Orioles have scored four more runs on one hit in this inning a walk to Shelby after Landrum flied out Ripken double to right-center Murray walked intentionally brenneke walked quite unintentionally Nolan aboard and two more runs in on a two base error in left field by Hairston and now a sacrifice fly from dour here's Todd Cruz strike one Joe Altobelli happier than his expression shows alpha belly his wife holds the happiness of the moment inside as a good baseball wife she knows that the time to celebrate is not yet well they awakened the Orioles obviously don't know if any of the brush backs had anything to do with it so be up the Britt burns try and silence them early tomorrow or the guy they've got they've got going storm Davis tomorrow he and there's some of dotson early davis may have the best raw stuff of anybody on the Oriole staff the word we get from the White Sox dugout Ron Kittel okay left the game after being hit on the knee by a Flannigan pitch he'll play tomorrow one to the cruise - and - over the game we saw smart Davis pitch last year when I'm not Friday the doubleheader the Brewers came in and had the lead intervention call well for the Brewers and storm Davis picked one of the games he was outstanding on a Friday the Orioles had to have that game first they lost it mama got the loss because of Robin Yount on Sunday but Davis two years on high school last year was just outstanding great straight changed overpowering fastball curve slider all four pitches there they are left-hander Britt burns he leads the White Sox team in shutouts and scored Davis nickname cyclone because they say he is a clone of Jim Palmer someday they think he'll win asylum war they are pitch struck him out so Cruz puts the white socks out of their misery in his ninth inning but they add four more and lead it 11 to 1 4 runs on just one hit in the inning [Applause] rhetoric leads it off against Sammy Stewart the huge margin by which the Orioles will win this game obscures the fact but Stewart has been sharp and relief with Flanagan Tito Landrum comes on in right field and makes a nice running catch Paciorek retired eight walk giving up my White Sox pitchers one hit batsman at the end of the night or rugs one base hit [Applause] the Orioles have not walked any White Sox hitters yet hit one that was kettle in the fourth knows it's kyo for three and one for 9 in the series as we discussed earlier the men are highlight player the game for tonight is Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles and Miller is happy to present a check for $1000 in the name of Eddie Murray so very worthy cause the Special Olympics Stewart now is set 10 White Sox hidden down in the roll this one is sliced foul and Murray can't quite track it down did you see how far he went out to that ball Paul yesterday that he got caught up in the wind that blew it away from him FAL for a basehead he is been a big factor in a lot of areas in this ball game today and has become a very very quiet leader he'll tell you that he learned from LeMay and Pat Kelly and he was a rookie in the first couple of years taught me how to act how to play stuck by me it's going to be a basehead poor Lozinski is second of the series [Applause] for those of you who keep very close track to such things in the last inning on Joe Nolan's ball which was dropped by Jerry Hairston for a to base error Nolan is not charged with an at-bat he gets credit for a sacrifice fly and an RBI because it was deep enough so that the runner at third would have scored anyway that's interesting glad to be of service Kirsten bounded for Kittel back in the 6th this is his second at-bat he grounded out the first time - look it up himself and get that from a train again Steve my train horn providing the information Brack statistician of all of a strike is Steve a sabre petition - now you gotta go idea fine Messiah T of American baseball The Searchers I'm sure he qualifies we've got a formal in a fee of 25 bucks today here's Marie well Ally can't turn it up our unbelievable it's the kind of night it's been for the Orioles our saves Murray an error Andy and his haze to try and turn a 363 possibly three six one was steward covering watch the ball but dower comes over to say is the day he's mad you could see his head and he wanted to go three six three DoublePlay good play by dower two good play by Sammy Stewart getting over there so now Bane's tryna break his personal Oh 411 dive he's at three balls hard tonight he has three balls very hard dower turned a double-play on a book taught Cruz made a good play on the third base line he's still open level his championship size the Landrum rightness or axe is going to take on the buck gets nothing bullets and Baines is over 12 to the series maybe tomorrow will be his day to break out of it just like tonight was for Eddie Murray [Music]

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Published: Fri Dec 06 2019