1988 World Series, Game 1: A's @ Dodgers

the 1988 World Series is brought to you by Miller High Life room to be smooth never bitter takes time to make time to enjoy by the heartbeat of America today Chevrolet and by Goodyear certified auto service nobody fits you like Goodyear I once again everybody on Vince Kelly along with Joe Garagiola all the fuss and feather the pomp and circumstance prior to game one is out of the way and now they give the ball to the starting pitcher in this case each starting pitcher trying to get his former teammates out and everybody's looking for an edge since he knows him do they know him and is there a little bit mystery there I'll tell you what I don't think so I haven't been traded you just don't get an edge but the best way to find out is to ask the pictures I did here's Dave Stewart first I think they knew me they don't know me now they haven't seen me in five almost six years I've developed a fourth ball now I've gotten better better control and better command of my pitches not my intention to carry out any kind of a vendetta against Oakland for quote unquote giving up on me so to speak they had no reason but to give up on me I mean I was very inconsistent for four years and two minor leagues with them and they had to make a deal for a left-hander coming down to stretch in 87 they did it they had to give somebody up and fortunately it was me and it changed the scenery and the opportunity to pitch in the big leagues has made all the difference for me and I've made the most of that opportunity and I just hope I can continue to do that I think it'll be fun though to play against some old friends and see everybody and and compete against them on the same field in an atmosphere like the Fall Classic the evolution and the maturity of a starting pitcher in Game one of the 1988 World Series well Dave Stewart had a practically big for a start in the big leagues and here he is in the World Series and Belcher you know that story Belcher came alive as a true picture about the middle of the summer and now it's the fall we'll get to the ball game right after this ladies and gentlemen the First Lady of the United States mrs. Nancy Reagan and the Commissioner of baseball mr. Peattie you brought mrs. Reagan we're so pleased that you've come to throw out the first pitch it's your fight against drugs that's helping kids throughout America and we'd like you to take this time to give your message to because in America thank you Peter I'm delighted to be here to help Major League Baseball salute that just say no program I know it it seems like such a simple message just say no but it's an important one all over the country young people are learning to say no to drugs the members of the just say no clubs who are here today and the many other young people like them clubs all across America are really the hope and the promise of the future they've made a commitment to live drug-free lives so they'll never have to go through the pains of withdrawal or the devastation which drugs cause these youngsters are fortunate because they can grow and learn and become anything they want to be so to all of you watching I ask you please help us get the message out to our children if they're offered drugs tell them to just say no I'd like to thank you virág and the major league baseball for their efforts in the fight against drug abuse and for taking time to recognize the just say no program very grateful for the opportunity to reach such a large audience the preceding message was furnished by major league baseball we would like your attention to the Dodger on-deck circle but it does a lot of the Oakland A's and Major League Baseball are pleased to welcome the leader of our nation's fight against drug and alcohol abuse through her efforts the phrase just say no has become the battle cry of a generation we are honored to have the First Lady of the United States throw out tonight's honorary first ball mrs. Reagan it's your pitch a beautiful way to start the ballgame tonight a word to the wise to the youngsters across the country and didn't you love the touch that mrs. Reagan was wearing a glove she was wearing a glove like she was going to protect herself from a line drive a simple message but a powerful one and those youngsters there's the futures say no just say no and now we're about ready and the Dodgers take the field to start Game one of the 1988 World Series it is ironic that the Dodgers in Waiting before the first ball to be thrown out showed some highlights of the season and the league championship series and the bulk of the highlights the dramatic contributions of Kirk Gibson who will not be in the starting lineup and was not introduced he was back in the trainer's room getting some aid and if you're the manager Tommy Lasorda how do you feel about losing your biggest gun and in my opinion not to take anything away from Daryl strawberry or Vance like or McReynolds because if you're going to look at numbers those guys have some good numbers but you got to look at what a man does for his ballclub what would that club have done without him in my opinion I think Kirk Gibson should be the most valuable player in the National League about five hours ago Tommy Lasorda sat in his office and he in all sincerity said boy these trainers are really kidding around are they loose and we said what do you mean and he said oh they're telling me that Gibson won't play he felt in his heart that Gibson would play only to get the crushing news a little while later and it's injury upon injury we know about the hamstring it's a knee knee hurts in the slide in the second base in the league championship game number five and there's no doubt about it you don't look at the averages what he does he turns up that intensity level a couple notches on his ballclub and as far as whether he will appear Kirk Gibson now has listed day today on the mound a rookie to start Game one of the World Series and in case you're interested the ninth rookie to ever start the opening game of a World Series Tim Belcher a 12 game winner during the regular year big kid from Sparta Ohio and he will be facing Carney Lansford then Dave Henderson and Jose Canseco and the first thing about Carney Lansford any pitcher should know he is extremely aggressive and you have to be very careful on that first pitch if you think you're just looking for the strike zone with Lansford you're liable to be in trouble Belcher's got a curveball tonight he's going to find out in a hurry because you're looking at a first ball fastball hitter and he looks at a fastball for a strike he doesn't look very often he only walked 35 times during the year working in unto the hands one and one Carney Lansford then Henderson and Canseco for a red-hot ball club the A's have won five straight eight of their last nine with Henderson on deck all fastballs 2 & 1 Belcher like almost everyone possesses a split finger two and one to Carney Lansford and [ __ ] down the right-field line slicing foul and dropped untouched it's interesting that the Oakland A's do something that video throwback to the old days they have a hitter's meeting Jim lefeber Bob Watson and all the hitters talk about what they're going to do and they say well that's what they used to do when they were traveling by train talking about hitting and with Belcher the thing they talked about was make him get the ball down he pitches high make him get that ball down in the strike zone well he's 2 & 2 to Carney Lansford and he's hi there are so many connections between Oakland and Los Angeles two of them are out on the coaching lines for Oakland we'll get to them in a moment 3 & 2 the count to Carney Lansford fisted foul out of play the coaches for the Oakland A's at 3rd Jimmy Lefevre he was a 1965 Rookie of the Year for the Dodgers played in the 66 World Series and over at first Rennie laxman who was a batboy for the Dodgers and a ball boy back in 1960 even 262 in Dodger Stadium open 3 & 2 got him looking belcher's thrown a fastball in a 90s 95 that last one he's kind of pumped up I would say it's on the outside partner plate you try to keep that ball away and he does a good job of it the Tommy Lasorda they got a jolt earlier with Gibson sideline starts off in the right direction as Lansford strikes out and here is Dave Henderson another first ball hitter fouled away all in one I think you can look at that Oakland bat right VIN and see those bats move and these guys don't like the base on balls uh-huh one of the things about the A's they are physically intimidating when they come out on the field you think maybe the Chicago Bears have arrived on one you just saw a shot of LaRussa he is still worried as we look at Canseco LaRussa still weren't his same hat that he started this season with he wants to put a hundred and eight victories on and hat and put it on his mantelpiece big chopper up the middle and that will be the base head into Saturday the Dave Henderson collects the first hit of the day and now the big man all eyes on Jose Canseco Seco is a better lowball hitter and you talk about strength he hit one completely out of this ballpark yesterday in batting practice over the left field fence they projected 560 feet on that ball he is very much of a lowball hitter and you see his home runs he hit 16 of them with two strikes the plan of course ideally would be to jam him but you can't do anything consistently against a good hitter and he came in on the hand that's where they'd like to go but they can't live in there throughout or he'll hurt you he'll adjust to that and you look at him and his swing yet the bat speed is just unbelievable he's got explosive strength is what he calls it and Dave Parker really has an expression for it on one in on the hands again that's where they're gonna live and it might have gotten that hand let's see he's going to be awarded first base they were going to pitch him tight and here comes with sorter now he wants to argue it this is the toughest call for an out part hit the bat first of the hand it's always one of those things you call right now and that's it what Tommy said is the ball hit the bat that's why the ball went all the way back to the screen see how he's gesturing to the screen but I'm sure I've heard this argument a million times Harvey saying it did hit the bat but of his hand first and how you going to prove that look at those arms now from another Lincoln again I from there I think it got him I would say I would say hit by pitch right and it appeared on the arm more than the hand so first and second and the batter now is Dave Parker who of course came here when he was a standout player for the Pittsburgh Pirates there's another guy you got to pitch inside can't let him get the big arms out fouled away on one take another look at the first dispute of the series hit him on the arm Itay those arms are so big it sounded like the bad he probably hit 280 with those arms no balls in one strike Parker followed by McGuire and Tim Belcher in a jam here runners at first and second one out one thing when Parker was in the National League you never threw any off-speed pitches to him ideally you should try to jam him constantly and he's he's gotten a little older he's 37 years old I think they feel he doesn't turn on the fastball quite as quickly as he did in the past he'll chase the curveball down to VIN but if you're going to throw that fastball you've got to get it in one ball and one strike and that's going to be hit down the line foul and out of play and the count one and two that was the perfect pitch right there on Parker pound him up and in it can be jammed with even an average fastball likes that low fastball and don't throw him to slow stuff and his arm is no longer a threat pretty well says it all throughout his career he has always been more dangerous a hitter with runners on base one ball two strikes away two and two it is a bright shiny early evening or late afternoon as you wish the lights are on but we have sunshine splashed on the hillsides and on the scoreboard and blue skies overhead why yes no she hasn't got any purple dough fastball fouled away I think part of the reason is the time of day this is a good time to go with your hard stuff it is but you're going to have to establish that you have a curveball and any curveball will make your fastball much more effective but the times on this is just incredible ninety three ninety ninety three ninety three ninety four he's basically fastball split finger and slider he's been working on a curveball all year but you haven't seen it yet two and two and that's hit in the air - Shelby and the runners will hold that's another thing to keep in mind particularly here at Dodger Stadium this is probably the toughest ballpark certainly in the National League if you're playing the outfield if our centerfield camera took a shot in it's like looking into a wedding cake you don't just have an upper deck and the lower deck here among other things you have dugout seats behind home and you can see the multi-tiered and then the bright sky and then the light towers fouled away by Mark McGwire who went to school down here at USC and even played at Dodger Stadium as a member of the US Olympic team in 1984 requires a dead lowball hitter he's more upright and he's had to it just because he got a lot of roles let's get the first fastball over pitch last year from hitter four home runs and he hits one foul and out of play and Mark now in a hole oh and two interestingly he changed the fit last year he hit 21 home runs at home this year of the 32 home runs that he hit he hit 12 at home he's got seven three one Hormuz I am this year boy is gum-chewing time in the Henderson and Canseco board kind of a showcase pitch in the count 1 & 2 joined us a little late Dave Henderson bounced one up the middle with one out for a base hit Canseco hit by a pitch Parker made the second out and Belcher working on McGwire - and - they're trying to climb the ladder with him it McGuire's the kind of a gal chase that high fastball even the bad breaking ball Belcher doesn't have that big curveball but he's also McGwire is in that to strike approach to hitting where they just want to put the ball and play dungeon so now he gives the A's the base running advantage Henderson and Canseco ready to go on a full count with two down they have a two strike approach to hitting taught by Lefevre and Watson just put the ball in play and these big guys don't need a full swing hit one out 24 pitches for Belcher so he's working hard in the first inning runners go and it's fouled back tough pitch to lay off in that high fastball and it just climbing that might have been out in the strike zone but when you got two strikes so you can't be that picky the Mark McGwire who was born in nearby Pomona and he'll be followed in the lineup by Terry Steinbach Henderson and Canseco at the ready on a full count two down no score we're just starting runners go and it is ball four tell you Belcher's not change speeds he's thought just a couple split fingers and it's just going to be a matter of time if he keeps this pitching pattern up because you can't keep throwing that hard and expect these hitters not to adjust there really has not been much of a of a change of pattern at all one curve one change in that curve I say it could have been a split finger rested his fastball he's raring back and pumping he has a great fastball but it's like driving 80 miles an hour after a while it looks like you're going 30 you get used to it well here's another high fastball hitter and it would be Terry Steinbach you'd like to get him out with a breaking ball but we haven't seen one from Belgium and there is a little splitter and he missed with it ball one and right now Stein box got to be sad here comes the fastball I'm going to be ready and maybe start a little bit early with that bat Steinbach hitting a home run off Dwight Gooden in the all-star game and Belcher's struggling now two balls and no strikes no one throwing in the Dodger bullpen but Belcher throwing mostly fastballs and he's in trouble too an old account at Terry Steinberg and it's a high fly ball the left center its playable Shelby is there at the end of half an inning is nothing Dodgers coming up the Oakland A's come up empty in the top of the first inning stranding three and now they're 21 game winner Dave Stewart who toiled here for the Dodgers but as he said earlier I'm a different pitcher I throw a fork ball now and he'll pitch to Steve sax Franklin Stubbs and then Mickey Hatcher Dodger lineup without Kirk Gibson and fork ball is really a pitch with two names if he throws it hard it's a split finger fastball and if he takes a little bit off use it for a changeup then it's a fork ball and it hits acts on the helmet and immediately a hit batter we're watching Doug Harvey slowly walk out to the mound he's telling him now that's enough of this because Canseco got hit with the pitch I'm not going to go and it's the first pitch of the ballgame that's his early he wore never seen a warning that's what he's doing Doug Harvey warned him Canseco got hit and the first pitch sax gets it and sax is usually pretty good at getting out of the way of it he's only been hit once during the year but he got hammered there got him right on the left arm it looks like he knows it's coming at him that's a just it's very difficult to get out of the way right there here's Canseco who was hit with a pitch and this is a talk about a feud forget Baylor and how this is a start right here Franklin Stubbs who would certainly not be playing and Sachs will notice and to Stewart by stealing a base it's actually during the regular year stole 42 on one I'll tell you then the mailer how few was kind of manufactured and I hope we get a chance to get into it but this is pretty serious what we're seeing here this is a message sent by the age to the Dodgers after Canseco got hit and now you see some emotion at first base Sachs wants to run no balls and one strike the count and in fact had it been fair McGwire might have gotten his glove on it it was that close it might have gone through that glove too as hard as that ball was hit he really got around on that pitch and durwood Merill watch the effort by McGwire who's guarding the line he almost gets that one and almost gets the umpire so that's how hard that ball was in and look at Merrill Franklin Stubbs basically a lowball hitter and he really had one to jump on no balls and two strikes by the way Stuart has changed his pitching motion with the man on to the point that he kind of glides now he's quick the first basic good move but he's very slow unloading to the plate and that's where you pick up your your advantage when he unloads that ball it's a beautiful story he's the seventh of eight children there are four generations in his family in East Oakland and now here he is representing the city in the World Series one has the off speed Stubbs which is not a bad idea Franklin is a feast or famine hitter and usually his aggression pays off only on a fastball you can see kind of slides he doesn't kick that leg up that high as he does when he's pitching from a full window one ball two strikes the good baserunner doesn't worry about the pickoff move he wants to worry about the plate move as soon as he starts at a plate that's when you the good runner goes so that's what you bear down on 1 & 2 to Franklin Stubbs big chopper foul ball you know during the course of the telecast in the series you'll be hearing us talk about a splitter a split finger and a fork ball and the biggest thing with it is the rotation a splitter where you just separate your fingers a little bit as a very tight rotation like a fastball the fork ball will you really separate your fingers kind of tumbles erratically to the plate and that's what Stewart has the fork ball rather than a splitter but he also throws that splitter that man what he wants to get that ball to break down one and two sacks Bluffs and it's lifted to sent a good pitch by Stuart he had Stubbs hitting on his front foot because he took a lot off it that was a 20 game winners pitch just one little point more about the split finger it's the arm speed that counts and Roger Craig there is now here's where he loses his power right there he stops right there and eyes got to hit with his arms right there the lifting of the foot was the trigger mechanism but he shifted his weight forward and the ball wasn't there so he had to wait and hit with his arms and that's what you try to do get the hitter off stride and that was a perfect picture for it Mickey Hatcher a contact hitter and the Dodgers could put a play on here a strike by the third-base umpire Derryl cousins of the now Stein box got to go out there and kind of settle him down because you worked so hard to keep the runner at first and pick up and out and you really give him a gift certificate by the way Stewart had to come in here with quite a reputation he committed sixteen box during the regular year plus fourteen wild pitches so everybody conscious of his move you could see he did not stop at all and it was the third base umpire cousins once got in the glove he just kept it going so now you really have the battle within the fight with a runner at second one out on the first inning no score and a contact hitter at the plate in hacci waiting his turn on deck the Dodger RBI leader Mike Marshall on one well I don't know if the pork unsettled Stewart but Hatcher hit one home run all year I think Hatcher symbolic of his team playing first base playing left field in fact that home run he hasn't hit that many he doesn't even know how to run on a home run he ran in like they thought they were going to take it off the scoreboard he really circle those bases of a hurry no balls one strike to Marshall good pitch little splitter and the bottom dropped out of it oh and - he's looking for the fastball and he really gets into it and looking him take off now Dave Parker wants hit a home run in Pittsburgh took 26 seconds that go around the bases and look at Hatcher he's the only guy in baseball who should wear his cap with the peek at the side right angles to his head if ever there was a guy who should be called Skippy its Hatcher I tell you he he's look at him he is so he's a Saturday Evening Post covers what he is you know look at him 1 & 2 - Marshall fouled away off to the right out of play Tommy Lasorda as usual keeping his emotions very quiet so that no one would know that anything good happened for his team can't ever tell what Tommy's feeling go 1 & 2 got him and another good pitch that's the second really good pitch the one he made two stubs the one he made to Marshall he probably figures the one he made to Hatcher was a bad one where she know a lot of us are inclined to say yay hit a home run he hit a bad pitch but they happen too big big league hitters they are that was but well that was the one to the marshal it was took something off of it but when you talk about a guy hit a home I like your hatchet the ball was up a little bit but they are big-league hitters you make a mistake they're gonna head it want to know the counted John Shelby there you go Mickey take that to the bank and how close he came to getting another World Series Minnesota just missed little roller up along first Mark McGwire is there big guy takes it to the bag pretty close as Shelby motor down the line but the Dodgers get two runs on Hatcher's home run at the end of an inning the Dodgers to the A's nothing the theme song for the first game of the 1988 World Series Jose Canseco hit on the right arm by a pitch bottom of the first Steve sax hit on the high shoulder on the left side by a pitch here sax this is an answer is what this is whether the first pitch to Canseco was a message it didn't make any difference he's the big star and Dodger pitchers answered it Glenn Hubbard at the plate and all you have to do is look at Hubbard and his helmet and you can see the left side of the face protected to realize how dangerous it is to pitch high and inside and particularly at this hour of the day 101 that's in there Tony La Russa whose ballclub dismantled the American League as early as April Lasorda's Club took over the end of May fouled away 1 & 2 when felcher was taking his warmup pitches between and his Rick Dempsey was out there warming him up and it wasn't just by accident because he's kind of like his godfather and he was pointing to his shoulder his left shoulder as if to say you're opening up too soon and he was really making him bear down while he was warming up between the knees and that's probably hammered into left field for a base hit by the way in talking about Hubbard you do have to salute his courageous his courage he suffered multiple fractures around the left eye when he was hit in the face by a pitch during spring training that's why he wears that protective gear and you can imagine that desync Canseco and sax hit the thoughts that went through Hubbard's mind but he's a tough guy and properly hangs in and singles too low to nothing ballgame but you got a fella in that batter's box knock and handle a bat a contact hitter they sharpen up on him the rusev he does play hit and run this is the kind of guy he played with he likes to bunt from either side of the plate as well as he takes the strike and he'll either push or drag a bunt though he has to keep the corners tight on him nobody out you see Scioscia taking a look at that bench he gets his pitch shots called from the bench interesting thing too he's a switch-hitter I guess you could say if you had to generalize the left-hander likes it low right-hand hitter likes it high but he's a switch-hitter who likes it - bullseye - the play yeah that's it is an oddity left-handed lowball hitter is a rule of thumb and this guy both ways high 101 on the corner Mike really helped that call you can see the way he caught that ball with that glove just going to not up or down just kind of sideways and moved it in always had a wonderful year he is certainly the A's candidate for the club's third consecutive American League Rookie of the Year - and - he's from New York at one stage this year he had a string of 58 straight errorless games interesting - about the life of a ball player when you examine wall wise you want to talk about ups and downs and an anniversary - and two now Dawei in 1987 wal Weiss made his debut in a game just before the all-star game he went in as a pinch runner and he was picked off one year later the game before the all-star in 1988 he hit a grand slam home run off had him in one short year I think when he hit the first home run of his career that was the ultimate put-down two balls two strikes below pop foul off to the left and out of play just to finish that story the ultimate put-down because he hit the home run a woman came up with the ball she sent it back into the Oakland Clubhouse to get it autographed by Mark McGwire you hit a home run and look at her well there's a quote of Walt's a lot of people said we couldn't win this because we had a rookie I guess they were wrong you bet they were wrong what a year he had Walt Weiss had a tuxedo New York Suffern high school in the University of North Carolina it's two nothing Dodgers top of the second Glenn Hubbard who drove the Dodgers crazy when he was with Atlanta at first base one for one in the series that's the best pitch that Belcher has made tonight he's been thrown at 90 95 mile an hour fastball and that one was an off-speed pitch see what it does here I'd look like a splitter here would that and sure one do and you see that thing break like that that's what it was here's in there you see his hand that was a perfect shot more like a fork ball because it wasn't that real hard diving where it really chops into your bat the hard one you see is if Tim Leary is pitching now with one down here is Dave Stewart and he has a great memory because we were kidding him about swinging the bat and he said there's one thing I'll never be able to take away from me I once hit a three-run triple against mario soto the Cincinnati Reds and don't you think he's never forgotten that on 1 2 Dave he's about two three minutes late on that first fastball that cultured here Hubbard stole one base during the regular year and with a pitcher up there he doesn't figure the moves right - oh and to tell you what that tells you've been right there though that Belcher doesn't have much of a breaking ball now he's got that great fastball he's thrown there's a pitcher who if he saw a curveball wouldn't know what to do with it probably couldn't identify it yet he's gone - fastball I would say he's going to go out and get him right now let's see what the pitch is I'd stay with fastball because it's so good what would have been so bad about asking him to bunt nothing oh and to one ball and two strikes those who knew him then and knowing now say that the biggest difference with Dave Stewart is confidence maybe one reason because he's home 2 & 2 the count see I did that to me is bad pitching you got two strikes why you Nippon go right out step on his Adam's apple get him out there and get the troops in and score some more runs and especially in American League Pitcher who doesn't mess right he hasn't I mean counting highschool he's probably had maybe 15 beds 2 & 2 why worked on him right down the middle with something on it and he got a piece of it we have a scouting report we're going to be showing you and what we've done we've we've asked one big-league manager and obviously have to remain nameless we've talked to Scouts and we will compile this and I tell you it's pretty good it is very good in fact a little self-serving but the manager who gave it this gave us so much detail it would be like a cereal to get it all in two balls and two strategies to Dave Stewart now he goes 3 & 2 now never Belgium 8:28 pitches in the first inning Lasorda muttering to himself saw him hit a batter walk 1 give up a base head you don't know what that does to your club when you got the picture up duty to think it hit and they go to 3 & 2 it really really lures everything you know the height of confidence with one out and Stewart hitting turn Hubbard loose that would really be saves up well you shocked value would be worth something 3 & 2 to Dave and he walked him that's fat pitchy well you're not going to be around too long pitching the wave Tim Belcher is pitching and Ron perranoski has gone out there one of the things and I don't say that's what Belcher's doing now but one of his problems during the year he fails to turn his upper torso when Joe was talking before about his left shoulder and maybe it was he was opening up or maybe he's not turning far enough and that could be a contributing factor to his problem that is what guess that's what Dempsey was trying to get him to turn that shoulder once you do your whole body if you turn it far enough now he knows it's bad pitching look at the expression on his face he doesn't coil enough I'm sure perranoski use two words you would say coil and turn coil and turn you know it wouldn't be a bad play right now because he's he will do it occasionally but you know that Belcher is angry at himself and you have a hit and run man who also bunts fairly well at the plate in Carney Lansford it's two nothing Dodd you second any for one he's a first pitch fastball hitter they got to try to crowd him he can hit with some high pitch with some power and I'll tell you you don't give that good curveball in the strike zone he'll hit that but Belcher does not have that good at breaking ball fastball and he was late getting around on it 1 & 1 the reason I think that ball was in the spot they want to work on Lansford they got the ball down on Carney but I tell you you're when you you go around a second time and you see nothing but fast balls you can crank up that bad a notch to first nine batters he made 49 forty seven pitches Belcher did one ball and one strike two on one out and that's behind him what a tough spot and thank goodness that Lansford did not instinctively back away or he would have backed into it that's just complete wildness there was nothing there he overthrew that ball and that is really dangerous because instinctively you back up and that's how you get Ben he just was thrown so hard he didn't know what to do and Scioscia makes a good play and keeping that ball from getting by him you know one thing we really should remember is that's a rookie pitching in the first game of the World Series he just overthrew that ball and you could see I mean that was complete fear on Carney lansford's face and I don't blame it 2 & 1 and he throws a breaking ball a slider away now he's really in trouble and the telephone is ringing in the Dodger bullpen he has to vent because he's got nothing going but a fastball and of course it's a 90 mile an hour fastball as we look at Larry but here's a fastball pitcher against a fastball hitter and you know he's got the hit side 3 & 1 the count fastball as a catcher there's not very much you can do you can set a target and then just hope that's about it what you want to do is light candles in the spot like this because you're not thinking you just hope that he throws it hard enough to get it by him you have no pictures to work on now LaRussa is telling the runners what he wants half done by them Stewart's got to watch humper for me I'd hold it three and two one out second inning two nothing Dodgers Hubbard and Stewart out on the and he's walked into low he got out of it very fortunate in that first in him because the Steinbach had a pitch to hit and he just didn't hit it and now you got Henderson coming up who hit a breaking ball bounced it up to middle but Belcher has not had anything but a fastball so Dave Henderson coming up with the bases loaded Hubbard at third Stewart at second Lansford at first one out second inning and the Dodgers leading two to nothing and Leary throwing back up Belcher and Henderson will be looking for his favorite pitcher fastball and it was a hard slider away ball one and they best call time because so she's going to have to go out there and really give him a quick lesson Ben if you were the hitter now what you'd say is look he couldn't get nothing on but the fastball and if he throws a slider and it's in the strike zone I take it because it's got to be strength against strength and look what you're looking at on deck Mount Everest Parker's said that he's Stargell had a quick bat but never has he seen a quick bat like this and strength he said they only made one model and they called it Canseco want to know fastball fouled away and the count one and one the Oakland A's first team to sweep in a best-of-seven league championship series as they polished off Boston and they have spotted the Dodgers two here in the early going got a room in right-center one on one off-speed and he missed two and one there you see the defensive shading just a tad to pull in centerfield and they have to be deep with Henderson once again the two breaking pitches missed got the strike with the fastball belcher trying to defuse a bomb here in the second fastball now he's right on the edge on sure coming out right now he's got to throw the pitch that got him here which was the fastball as we look at Hubbard and Stewart and Lansford and you got a fastball hitter against a fastball pitcher look up green one and that's in there three and two open he spotted well on the outside part of the plate Anderson struck out about twice as many times as he walked very much an offensive hitter he had a big year three and two he just reared back and pumped that one right by him he knew it was coming he got it and couldn't hit Tim Belcher is not or has not been a great strikeout pitcher his high this year eight and he did that three times he has already rung up three and now with two down the biggest confrontation of the night the bases loaded and a Jose Canseco five of the first 11 batters he's at a 3-2 count you talk about living dangerously one ball and no strikes Hubbard at third Stewart at second Lansford at first Canseco hit by a pitch in the first inning this is a ballclub the Oakland A's scored over 800 runs this year and there's a drive to center back both Shelby to the wall it is gone grand slam home run for Jose Canseco look where he hit it over the centerfield fence a line drive it didn't get up it didn't get down it just got out we talked about it they have about five guys on it line up with one Swank and turn the game around and you just saw it here Jose Canseco makes Tommy Lasorda sit quietly and that's quite a trick it took a grand slam home run to do it and did he ever smoke it the forearm bash and it is for two to Auckland here in the second inning and his big crowd suddenly stunned as Dave Parker checks in ball one belcher by the way is due to bat fourth in the second inning if he can get that far you could see Canseco pointed it was a line drive I've never seen a ball I mean it didn't get up or down then it just went straight out to iron that's Bobby Welch coming over to another count much on the hands fisted foul or third and it'll go out of play look at those arms with the speed and you see that little hitch and he's got he knows it's gone he's going to watch it all the way there's no Park in America that could hold that one he knew it two one one two Parker wall three so if the Dodgers had any momentum at all on Hatcher's two run home run in the first inning hit action to hit the camera gives you the picture Oakland four Dodgers two high twisting foul third down the line Hamilton trying to get under it but it's back into the seats when you look at Canseco swing and you see that that hitch that loop that he's got you really have to be strong you have to be quick and he is something Italy three and two and it is ball four and Belcher's troubles continued Tommy would like to make a pinch-hitting move and hope he gets him out of the yadus nd but I don't know if he can stay much longer to repeat with Leary and Ricky Horton the left-hander in the bullpen Belcher is due to bat fourth in the bottom of the second inning but it's a question of whether he can get that far Bob Watson the hitting coach talking to Ken sago a student who got the message right before the game they have a tee and head into a net when he hits it it sounds like fourth of July on one the Mark McGwire who walked in the first inning four runs three hits for Oakland two runs one hit for the Dodgers and we're just starting it's been quite a series already when you think about it you know you hit the Baylor and the howl yet Gibson unable to play then you have two hit batters and Doug Harvey warning both managers then you have a home run by Hatcher and a grand slam home run by Canseco and the chairs aren't warm oh and two started to go after it just did hold back one and two a check with durwood Merill of the American League at personal swing that's the pitch they think he'll chase but he's got that two strike approach to hitting right there he just wants to put it in play 1 & 2 check swing on a roller to Griffin Alfredo the short way to sax but the damage is done and the savage is named Canseco 4 2 2 Oakland here's that swing again now watch that bat kind of loop now he's busy with the bat moving it and when he starts that swing you really have to be strong to drop your arms and then bring them back up and hit him if you hit like him it's a trigger mechanism if you hit 220 it's a hitch here's Mike Scioscia strike Scioscia Hamilton and Griffin you know weren't you about Jose Canseco he was born in Havana but he came to the United States when he was nine months old a lot of people think of and basically as Cuban his dad was an English professor in Cuba and his mom wanted him to be bilingual and as he said we'd start to answer a question and enter it half in English and half in Spanish woman 2 I know that feeling not Spanish italiano man Scioscia contact hitter with two strikes and pops it up on the left side wall twice one away they're hoping to get a base runner because the bullpen is still busy for the Dodgers then pointed out belches the fourth place it is we look at Leary sort a Kevin Bennett haven't make a move the only time Leary relieved in the League Championship Series he really looked like a fish out of water he has been basically a starting pitcher all year so with one down Jeff Hamilton the batter you know the four runs it's a double hurt because you scored two in the bottom half of the first that's the inning you want your pitcher to shut him down not only is he not shut him down they get the lead Hamilton with all of his numbers the one thing you would least expect to have happen is for him to walk he is up there swinging as he comes out of the dugout I'm almost surprised he didn't get it takes time because Stewart is known for wildness especially early and he's you're trailing by two he knows where sort of wants to get a pinch-hitter up there chasing the first ball not good hitting or the second one well he just will not take well here's what cups on I was going to say there are ways of making him take oh and to the Jeff Hamilton and of course that's a Dominican Republic approach because the Dominicans say hey you don't walk off this island and on deck is Alfredo Griffin oh and to know he's up there hacking there's Alfredo the former member of the Oakland A's it's amazing when you look at you say fun remember the trades how they all worked out for both ball clubs I mean Weiss was we didn't trigger for all of those trades that's great too when you analyze these two teams in the World Series and you realize two men really did it then they're not on the field ground ball to Weiss he'll crank it up take care of Jeff two down remember last year the Oakland A's will break-even ballclub they 181 games and now here they are they demolish the American League in one going away by thirteen the Dodgers for the last two years had lost 89 games and they wind up winning 94 and getting into the World Series and the two men Sandy Alderson and Fred Claire they're the guys who put these two teams together and certainly deserve a tremendous amount of credit Alfredo and I maybe it's because he's in a new league as you look at Danny Heep on deck Alfredo has had a miserable year his first year in the National League they're trying to take the bunt away from him at third base Lansford is all the way in you know speaking of Sandy Alderson then he brought a new expression to baseball which for me gets my vote as we look at Lansford he doesn't call cleaning house or making a lot of trades reallocation of resources that's not be nice well you see what happens we go to Harvard Law School yeah but then if I'm going to train I'm the player to be named later but I go home and tell my wife no no I was a resources reallocation sounds nice two balls and one strike at Miss ball three three and one some players can come over from one leg to the other Gibson's in example have a big year and another like Alfredo it is the longest year of his life he has never hit 200 all year long and then had his hand broken for good measure by Dwight Gooden he figured out look at Lance Parrish the problems he had right and Alfredo you figure would be the kind of hitter slap hitter switch hitter bunts who learn a little quicker than a free swinger and he he feels at home against American League pitching will look like Stewart wasn't about to walk him he was going to say hair and hit you way on he laid it right in her and that's what Griffin did now Danny heap will come up in bat for Belcher the Belcher as good as his control could not muscle his way out of two jams he got away barely in the first inning and he was hammered in the second Heep has had one extra base this year that's surprising to me he's really disappointed in himself especially as a pinch hitter then he's had just four hits coming off the bench and 40 some-odd at bat and of course in his heart he feels he's a much better hitter he's got 36 hits and 38 total bases 34 singles are two doubles he's got two extra bases one and one two down second inning Oakland four and the Dodgers to Carney Lansford hollering to Stewart that's why he cupped his hand to his ear he couldn't quite hear him one-on-one two balls and one strike and of course LaRussa sitting on top of a four to two lead knows that even though Stu has won 21 he has his periods of wildness like everyone the sword has already experienced it the first game that Tony LaRussa managed for the Oakland A's Dave Stewart beat Roger Clemens won nothing there's a ground ball to short Weiss will have to go to first base for the out with a left-hand hitter up Hubbard was playing heap in the hole and at the end of 2 for 2 Oakland will be back after these messages from your local station the Goodyear blimp from Los Angeles the pilot dr. Jim Maloney from Vienna Virginia a good year blimp first appeared at a West Coast Series game in 1959 when the White Sox played the Dodgers piloted by dr. Jim Maloney I've heard a house calls that's a tough way to do it where does he park in G yeah here's Terry Steinbach they started off ball one Steinbach flied to Center for the last out with the bases loaded in the first inning Terry will be followed by Glenn Hubbard and then Walt Weiss Tim Leary is the new Dodger pitcher fastball and split fingers Leary won 17 games during the regular season but he paid a price he really was the 1988 edition of Mike Scott of Houston he won three games last year was very disgusted and went to the Mexican League and pitched over a hundred innings in Mexico to learn the split-finger well he had that a hundred of the 228 in the regular season and let's face it whether he denies it or not he had to get tired and when he became tired his mechanics changed and suddenly he wasn't nearly the pitcher he was up until he was six and one in August doing one and he was commuting to Mexico I mean he was putting his uniform on in Santa Monica and driving down there and then pitching and driving back and now here he is in the World Series I mean that alone would wear you out he's a local product went to school at UCLA his mom was the club golf champ at the Riviera Country Club one of the fine country clubs in America well that would be embarrassing play your mother she's got to give you a shout-out three and two if I said a hundred games a hundred innings in Mexico added to the two hundred and something he pitch you get the idea he was worried 3 & 2 the count to Terry Steinbach hit a fastball off the glove of Hamilton deflected to Griffin no play and boy I tell you if you were a scout write it down did he have a turn on an inside fastball well he missed with that pitch what Leary wanted to do I'm sure get it in we'll see the ball he really drills it and you can see Hamilton tried to backhand it off his glove but if you're going to he tried to sign on him that ball runs inside but didn't run inside enough he missed on the wrong side you see Hamilton give him like a bullfighter and I don't blame me boy that's a reaction position and he had to react to keep him getting hurt so Terry Steinbach turned a fastball inside out and here is Glenn Hubbard Oakland 4 Dodgers 2 top of the third inning on the inside corner oh and one now you would think that Hubbard had hit and run a lot but they don't hit and run that much now he may be trying something sometimes when a guy's not swinging the bat a lot of manager will will start a play to get in the swing to bat but Hubbard got a base hit his last time up you think he would be rusty remember he missed the playoffs with Boston because of a hamstring pull but he singled first at bat and hits one to the hole he's 2 for 2 Steinbach to second he'll hold in there and so Leary who did not pitch well in relief the one time the Dodgers used him against the Mets is immediately in trouble here and you got a guy up there who can punt certainly sacrifice and can push or drag probably one of the best in the major leagues so the Dodgers are in trouble two on and nobody out and Walt Weiss the batter followed by Stewart and Tony LaRussa leading four to two Dodgers not looking for bunts so she kind of warning them a little bit but Stubbs is back if he drags that ball he's got himself a base hit I'd shorten up a little bit at least at first and third Stubbs remains behind Hubbard Hamilton about even with the bag at third the outfield a big gap in right-center very shallow to you and that much power it's the opposite field rolls one up along first foul knock-down by Rene lachemann an account oh and one he'd be bunting for a base it is what you'd be doing and give up yourself right here he can handle that bat Stewart would not exactly put fear in teen the on-deck circle like a Canseco would but you want to keep it going playing back sax and Griffin I can understand get the double play but flower Stubbs that kind of protect a little bit no balls and one strike and he lifts one to left center Shelby and Hatcher its Hatcher to pick it off and the runners hold one down Dave Stewart coming up we'll see now if they ask Stewart to bunt basically to hope to move the runners along but more importantly to stay out of the DoublePlay you want to get the top of that order up to Lansford that's for sure and the only way you can do it is to stay away and Stewart has to be funny you know you talk about you want your ballplayers lean and hungry Stewart never eats before he pitches he says that he found that the nerves were too much for him so he never eats so we're looking at a hungry hitter two on one out in the third is four Dodgers two and that's how baseball has really changed for me I tell you the fact that he wasn't around the button around the bunt of course it's not just me IRA but Carver and Palmer moaning the same way as I am I mean you got to keep the inning going you know if he could hit one ball and no strikes just do it Stubbs is still back he doesn't have a thought of a bunt and apparently not going to get one one now we'll see if he puts it on Luis and Bob Watson I think if I were to Lefevre a third I'd holler bunt you know a fella down by the way and I know this from the course of the regular year it's not necessarily Lefevre hanging out the signs LaRussa will mix it up he'll have Renny Laxman the first base coach do a lot of the signs there's the bunt attempt and it's going to go foul and the count 1 & 2 well that's all change it used to be to the right-hand hitter with taking signs from the first base coach in the left-hand hitter would just take it from third-base but LaRussa and you don't know what's happening on the bench I mean I've been on ball clubs were two guys down like Dave McCabe might be given the sign or the trainer might be given the sign or somebody will grab a handful of dirt sitting out there like he's just watching the game given the signs because everybody's trained on that bench one ball and two strikes the count is Stewart two on one out and see if they have him bunting again despite the two strikes nope and he's gone anyway give it a strange that's one of those plays where by striking out he kept the inning alive if it's a ground ball it's a double play it was a good pitch on the outside corner now watch Stewart he's bearing out like he thinks he can get a base hit and he's really concentrating look at those eyes he's going to hit it he can't believe it and all eyes watched him strike out oh you got to ball catcher I can't believe it in that a great shot two on and two out and now a different story Carney Lansford struck out in the first inning and walked in the second first ball hitter but takes a splitter away ball one one and Oh Steinbach at second Hubbard at first two away for two to Oakland we're in the top of the third inning well I tell you Dodgers must think they're playing with two in fields it had runners all over the place and little ladies jammed hits it filed and that should go out of play and does in the count one ball and one strike we have a moment to point it out for historians Carney Lansford is the fourth player in history in both the Major League World Series to play and the Little League World Series yeah compete by Taiwan but in a little league who hasn't been beaten by Taiwan was the first time his club first time Taiwan had ever won in the Little League one ball one strike fastball chopped to the left of Griffin Alfredo on the bag to end the inning no runs two hits and two left at the end of two and a half days for Dodgers two Kirk Gibson frustrating and edgy in the far corner of the Dodger dugout as Steve sax takes ball one if you missed it Gibson was examined by Dodger team physician dr. Frank Jobe diagnosed Gibson is having a sprain of the medial collateral ligament and surrounding tissue in his right knee flyball to right field and Canseco is there one away to conclude the Gibson report the injury sustained in Game seven of the League Championship Series the knee was injected with xylocaine and cortisone he'll be re-examined tomorrow and his condition his day-to-day problem with the World Series ain't many days that's right you talk about a short series gets short in a hurry Franklin Stubbs who was playing only because Gibson is down flied to Center in the first inning when Stewart made a great off-speed pitch on him on one account there's that fork ball you see it really go down off-speed and if he closed that two more times and Stubbs Stubbs going to be out of there no balls in one strike when after a sinking fastball an account oh and to Stewart is the basic hard thrower if the fastball is up it has a tendency to be straight but if you can get that fastball down it does just what it did to stuff that was a great pitch oh and two that's that high fastball kind of a showcase one ball and two strikes Mickey Hatcher who hit the two run home run in the first inning is on deck still one and two Tony LaRussa trying to get the Oakland A's off on the right foot so he's not gotten to credit he deserves much like Lasorda 1 & 2 and Stubbs hits one down the left-field line Parker coming over near the line backhanded for the out and boy that ball really carried and he was overplaying Stubbs to pull and Parker it's a little job for him to get over there I mean it's almost like an adventure he has only played 34 games this year in the outfield so that's a good play for him and in somebody else's ballpark so you put a little excitement into that catch Hatcher hits one foul off and will go into the crowd oh and one this of course one of the great moments for the Mickey Hatcher marching and chowder Society it occurred in the first inning on one one ball one strike let's drop eight one and two that'll make you bend in the middle that's as good at breaking pitches he's thrown three and two an - mom understandably he took his eye of the ball but lyrium and i'll take a quick peek here I'm an added saw how far he was I think he could have taken charge and probably made that play he got too close to that dugout he said I'm going in and lookout down he goes to protect himself that's what you do I don't know how anybody ever runs with shin guard it's not that bad now his shin guards are start to make a mention the last thing he does is fixing his been loose like that the whole inning I'm surprised nobody told the left shin guard was loose and acting he got down there he fixed that that strap was hanging down solid your shoe came on I would flap and a lot of kids use that for a toy have one for fun of course not on shin guards is so much bigger ball for the hatches and that of course is an as movers stewart it brings up the potential tying run but is the biggest inner the Dodgers have now and the Gibson Mike Marshall who struck out in the first and this is shades of Gooden when he pitched to Scioscia MP she'll be walked that's bad pitching Marshall hit 20 during the right year way out in product and pull it foul oh and to ten can do what is it they they also serve who only stand and wait now as when you widen that strike zone on Marshall and you've got a chance here to work on him and get that ball out of his own and he may just chase it for you breaking ball line and Carney Lansford speared it that's the best pitch he had to hit he was lucky to get out of there so the Dodgers leave Hatcher at the end of 3 4 2 Oakland we go to the fourth inning Dave Henderson Jose Canseco and Dave Parker for two Oakland and one slice down the right-field line in the corner bouncing and touched by a fan for the ground rule double so Henderson is 2 for 3 and he has swung at the first pitch every time up now you would think and I'm sure I mean we're not geniuses up here that the Dodgers have a scouting report that says first ball hitter why give him a football to hit on the first pitch and Henderson is very much a veteran of World Series play not quite as much as Don Baylor and Dave Parker but let's put it this way with two hits tonight he's had 18 hits including three home runs in his World Series play and he's bounced around but I'm one of those guys they say can't hold a job what a comeback play right from 86 and last year he was with the Giants but you had to look hard to find him and now here is the man Canseco hit by a pitch in the first inning and then kill the ball in the second with the bases loaded not to mention what he almost did to our cameramen in centerfield and that's about as hard as you can hit a ball and this is a complete athlete he can do it all he can beat you with the bat speed glove arm one ball and no strikes I think the thing that he's done more than anything has become patient he's still a little over-aggressive but not like he used to be in fact Boddicker used to call him Jose no mistake Oh and I mean now get two strikes he will widen it out he hits a lot of home runs with two strikes two balls and no strikes the count to Jose pickoff play to Griffin too late a lot of hours of work in spring training for that plate of work as closely as that just did get back to look at Griffith till the big man waiting slightly open stance as you see and that's one thing if you're a catcher you had better do with him because he adjusts almost on every pitch two and one Bob Watson talks about that Vinny says it's tough but he's been more consistent with his stances it's tough to tell a guy what he's doing when you don't know what he's doing when he's actually right and hitting the ball an integral because he moves so much in fact that would make him unlike the majority of major league players today who just get in the box and stay there forever not Jose two and one ball three oh they're trying to jam him and I tell you you better miss like that you miss out over the plate you're going to be another two runs behind we were talking earlier about how ideally you say okay keep the ball inside on Canseco don't let him extend his arms Jam him Jam and jamming but if you think you can just keep jamming him then you're in trouble big chopper to the whole flag by Griffin who wisely goes to sack that he no way was going to get Canseco not lucky he looks at Thurman he's expecting to play and now he goes to second base and there's Henderson who really should have bought a ticket because he was just watching the play well I love major league plays that was a great one that's a reaction play you can't practice that play you have to have that play happen in funny and say well what am I going to do right now he's thinking what he's going to do get him at third knows he can't get him at first and he sees a little peripheral vision picks up Henderson and bye-bye day and when you think about it it's also a tribute to Walt Weiss they traded Griffin away that's right pretty good ballplayer but you don't get a good ballplayer less you got another good one coming up so we're seeing two pretty good shortstop well here's the Cobra as they used to call him always in Pittsburgh where she played in the 79 World Series playing under the National League rules with no D H Louise Polonia sits down and the big Cobras in the lineup hitting Ford you know just one other thing I want to point out it was a great play by Griffin sax II was on top of that play because sax II could have been deep and just watched it because he figures the ball is going to go through but he went over to the bag and Griffin had somebody to throw it to too many times when you watch a ballgame you look at and guys turn into spectators you've seen that well sure that was a wonderful but it really was little number to the right of the mound Leary has to pick it up as it dies and he has trouble finding Stubbs throws it down being inside the lane I said that leer trouble finding Stubbs and the reason was big Parker was running inside the lane then he is out Larousse is going to go to his legal background to try to get a logical explanation but Harvey's not having to hear any of it a lot of people who are not aware of the rules wonder what that Lane is for just for this reason look at Parker digging now waters feed art oh he's way inside way inside in fact it there's no way yeah that's a good call and I Franklin Stubbs it's an awfully big runner running inside the line yeah but look at that handball court running down the first I mean that's a big man he's got a run in that line and I think it's a good call the only way you could find Stubbs if he was standing on the bag with the glove way out towards the infield he wasn't doing that didn't have to and Leary had a tough play too because the ball when it hit the grass John come up yeah went down like a poached egg and he had to go after it you can see the walkie-talkie in the hand of coach Bill Russell he's talking to the dodger I in the sky and those two names bring back the 1974 World Series between the Dodgers and Oakland so here's McGwire walk hit into a force play offal one you know McGwire doesn't get the headlines and with Canseco around but the most homeruns the last two years McGwire with 81 strawberry 78 Canseco 73 big Mark McGwire little roller up along third foul and the count on one McGuire is six five and 225 pounds so he had really put together Canseco is six three and two thirty parker is six five and two forty i think somebody took a composite in Parker McGwire Canseco and Baylor came out two six three and a half to twenty five team photo covers your whole wall tag team match is one to go and one the count of Mark McGwire four to Oakland in the fourth inning thing I like about McGwire VIN he's not home run crazy he says I want to get hits to drive in runs says after all a home runs nothing but a hit that leaves the park what a way of looking at it which you know is another thought about Canseco and what kind of a year he had remember you have a 40 stolen base man at first Canseco with his home runs and his stolen bases as he stands at first he hit 307 you know everybody's talking about how far he hit the ball how hard he hit it he's a 300 hit it and he told the fever in spring training said I think I can hit 300 and Jimmy said when he said that to me I said he's matured he's matured as a hitter he wants to be a complete player 101 where's a franchise that's all you can say he is a franchise two down in the fourth inning one thing they say about Canseco is he has a tendency to lean and they try to hold the ball on him so if Larry just freezes him that's what he's trying to do in other words he'll throw over there but if he he likes to take a walking lead does Canseco in other words the old story of a a body in motion tends to stay in motion and so the opposition will try and just come set and make him get back down on the heels yeah but I'll tell you what he's got the green light to go but if he runs with McGwire up there I think LaRussa will have a talk with him one-on-one and there he goes ball two and it's dropped by Scioscia well didn't he try to steal third with two out of year well he's got it he's got it on his own because LaRussa is set to him he said I'm gonna tell you something you've got a run to win ballgames and you better have a high percentage now so she's got a pretty good ball to handle right here he just doesn't catch it he was ready to throw it with the one hand grab and he loses it Canseco Weiss they all run on their own Polonia is another one now they're going to take the bat out of McGwire's hands it put him on and that's why I say that when you steal the face sure you get another baserunner but you got a guy up here to consolidate some Poppa didn't let that McGuire pop I don't think that was a good play to steal right there I'd want McGwire to swing though remember in the inning Henderson opened up with a double to right Canseco hit one to the hole Alfredo Griffin and Steve sax made a good play to get Henderson then Parker was out on a number running inside the first base foul line now the stolen base and the intentional walk to McGwire so at least for the moment Oakland doing a lot of things and nothing has happened Terry Steinbach flied to Center and had an infield single Steinbach was hit by a thrown ball leaving the batting cage and suffered a fractured orbital bone around his left eye that's why he's wearing that helmet a la Glenn Hubbard one ball and no strikes where he go into a breaking ball that time Canseco at second McGuire at first two out Leary throws a pitch had you hear a lot about now a cut fastball cut fastball backdoor sliders terms of the 80s want to know and that looked like one and he missed with it both to to a note it's a Pollock sales in my day it would just be a ball at sale what they claim is you either hold the ball off-center or you put more pressure on one finger than the other to make that fastball run in that direction well it's like a bad slider some guys want to throw a bad slider as we look at perranoski we'll say well if it's a bad slider it becomes a cut fastball also becomes a triple two balls no strikes there's the fastball no fuss about it and account two and one the good fastball pitcher throws one of two fast balls the four seamer that rises or the to see with it sinks and he works on control only other stuff I mean sounds good and it's good me explanations but it gives you a lot of ills in the Sunday paper Tim Leary and relief Tim Belcher Canseco and McGwire on the lines with two out late on the fastball and the count 2 & 2 four runs half-a-dozen hit for Oakland two runs two hits for the Dodgers a home run by Hatcher with a man aboard and a monstrous Grand Slam by Jose Canseco in the second and he gave Parker hollering a little encouragement FLOTUS be one of those games for open or leaving for two - but they really should have a pile of runs here and the Dodgers are hanging tough so this is Wild on Terry Steinbeck two balls two strikes two out two on four to Oakland fastball still fouled away now you see Scioscia set up like that and Leary was able to hit that spot sometimes when a catcher moves too soon he really doesn't know it and so they have somebody on the bench who will be watching Scioscia to CT doesn't move too much because at second base canseco can give the location then if you know that ball is going to be away from you you're going to dive into it with that swing and be able to do something now with that lazlow there's a 96 mile an hour fastball two balls two strikes the 1969 world JC Martin the pensioner procedure got it I hit the runner and run scored that's going back almost 20 years ago tonight we had an argumentative play involving Tony LaRussa Dave Parker in the play at first and now we moved to the bottom of the fourth inning 1 & 1 the count to John Shelby who's grounded out in the first inning Shelby has a lot of trouble with that pitch off-speed and especially away which is one big reason why he struck out a hundred and twenty some odd times this year's struck out 12 times and the league championships games against the Mets out there but this time you got a piece of it it's the breaking ball out there Gibson 1 & 2 to John Shelby 4 to Oakland bottom of the fourth and Dave Stewart ready to go back to work pulled foul tell you for a first game we've had plenty how hit batsman homeruns warnings there's Brian Holton down in the Dodger bullpen Lasorda looking ahead his pitcher would be due up fifth in the inning 1 & 2 and there it is it just keep that ball away and John keeps coming up empty but that was the fastball it was high and it's a riding fastball you see it all I mean the simple explanation is the high fastball you see all the ball the low when you only see half but it's out of the strike zone definitely he wants it low Steinbach but look where it is I mean it's high outside and he couldn't just could not reach it it's amazing I wonder and I'm sure he has studied tapes as to whether his bat can cover the area that he thinks it can cover because in looking at him all year why that's where they pitch him and that's where he swings in that tree misses that's the first thing you do when you get in the box and you take those practice swings flyball to centerfield Dave Henderson is there that'll take care of Mike Scioscia two out in the fourth inning VIN while Hamilton's coming up I want to talk about that Don Baylor Howell thing I was talking to Claire Smith at Hartford caranas a good friend of Baylor's then I asked Baylor I said it's not like him to pop off I said you know yesterday in the workout Canseco had a few riders around him McGwire had no riders around him I really believed that Baylor let out the blast to take the heat off the young players because wherever Baylor went everybody followed him and when I confronted him and said was that a plan he said you don't know me that well I said I'm not asking that was it a plan he said yes so it was all calculated haha it really was and and when you think about it that's what leadership is that's what the old guys do excuse me but look at Fernanda he's kidding leer as if we were angry refusing to give us out of the ball it couldn't really account well I get the point though that the Baylor decided to take the heat off the kids that's what he did and that to me is leadership oh and to the counted Jeff Hamilton new grounded to short in the second inning Dave Stewart roughed up in the first anybody has settled down since allowed just one hit on the other side of the coin Dempsey told Belcher not to get caught up in the hoopla and Belcher only bought one ticket for the World Series half swing see you later for Hamilton the Dodgers tiptoe out of the fourth inning it's four to Oakland we'll be back after these messages from your local station there is a pretty good plan going into this thing and he took the heat off the kids all right which is what he was brought over for the leaders show some leadership always tickles me when they talk about guys being leaders and about all they do is a holler two outs and you got a seven million dollar scoreboard it says the same thing tell me where's Glenn Hubbard he'll show you he's two for two both times singles too loud he's putting a pretty good player back on the bench Mike Gallego had a good series Hubbard is something was for a while when he played with Atlanta he wore a beard he really did look like he came off a a coughed off box and once he got rid of that looked much younger even playing very well one in one the count at Glenn born in West Germany at Hawn Air Force Base he looks like something that fell out of Dave Parker's pocket one and one round ball of the hole Griffin is up with it the off-balance throw got him on a good step by step all in one motion that's the amazing thing about him he knew that Hubbard not that fast but I'd say a better-than-average runner now watch what happens here all in one motion he's moving moving moving and just keeps right on going throws it off balance off the back foot accurate throw really an easy play Alfredo Griffin the mainstay in the Dodger infield which is exactly why they traded for him and here now is Walt Weiss the kid who took over for Alfredo and it's done such a great job for Oakland all year struck out flied to left kid from New York is over 2 chopper de stubbs he backs up almost fell down stays with it two down in the fifth inning okay they have a good chance of going one two three here and that's going to perk up the club and the crowd what Stubbs he kind of backs up almost loses his footing right there the Dave Stewart coming up and had one of the bigger at-bats in the game and I know you say no sure if it's true in the second inning he walked and that eventually led to the grand slam home run by Canseco you just don't expect an American League Pitcher to walk in Game one in the National League ballpark and it turned out to be a killer on one two base on balls in that inning they saw balls there's no defense against it Canseco is going to hit the home run you're not going to stop him you got to do something about the base on balls oh and one huh tried to push one up along first oh and two so Stewart who could only talk about that three-run triple against mario soto can now talk about his walk in the World Series and the four generations of Stewart's up an East Oakland have to be thrilled homeboys doing well he gives the hometown a lot pac-12 he was always one of the more popular Dodgers as three for the first time you open I have seen a lot of great pitching over the years working day after day in baseball Hershiser had a stretch that all of us still find hard give me the picture tomorrow night it's his coach pitching coach Ron perranoski with him bottom of the fifth inning Alfredo Griffin then Tracy Woodson and then the leadoff man Steve sax there's Woodson Griffin really pulls him in tight third base left was on the grass and McGwire is back but not his back as far back as Hubbard heads to the screen ball to turn to you might notice directly behind home white Panama I had Mike Brito and you can hit 300 with that cigar but he is in charge of the speed gun as he is all year long good home and that's ball green of course Stewart remember gave the last thing that still wants to do now is walk the leadoff hitter in the film and he's done and if they have Duncan what he looks at for Stuart is the kick of the leg he says he has to have a little bit of a pause there if he goes right on through it he's rushing it a bit because he's a rapper and what he means by that he'll wrap that right hand around that ball kind of bend his wrist a little bit and Duncan really has he measured because it was Duncan who suggested the fork ball which we need off him and when you talk to Stuart he says he's not only a pitching coach is more friend-to-friend when we talk Tracy Woodson who plays a little third and first hit about 250 for the regular year and was three for nine coming off the bench so he was the pinch hitter that's that good running fastball the one that he keeps down on one the count watch watch his delivery now he's got to have a little point he did have the pause but see how he wraps that ball around he's get that that wrist kind of bent there he said that it really is what he watches on one fastball big chopper to shortstop why stand and that's all why always not no Humbert got off that back in a hurry didn't he and gripping right down there with him so you have one away bruce fremming of the National League the umpire at second and that will bring up Steve sax you know then it's easy to second-guess but Griffin did walk a pinch in a bikini Matt go up at least eight one strike Nathan maybe draw another face on browse the first two pitches he did hit you'll want the guy to swing the bat but one strike is not too much as where Steve sax he was hit by the pitch in the first inning and flied to right in the third for one hello is it not a basic theory a pinch-hitter you go up there and as soon as you get a ball to hit you go after it well yeah I mean I say you want him to hit but I mean a lot of pitchers will at least take a strike in a spot like this shoot your trail he's not what you'd call a home run hitter it's for two A's bottom of the fifth time Woodson had one stolen base during the regular year and the Dodgers do not play hit and run with sacks very much Henderson is there makes the catch and Woodson back to first and now the batter will be Franklin Stubbs this of course an interesting battle because Stewart has that really good low fastball Stubbs is very much a low fastball hitter and some of the better pitchers that Stewart has made tonight have been to Franklin where he has taken off some of the smoke got to use that fork ball which will make his fastball a little more effective but I think he wants to make a decision with the fork ball started him fastball on the corner keep the fastball up and in while that wasn't one up and in he'll drive the little hard stuff that's pretty sure off-speed which would in Stewart's case mean the fork balls put finger on one hurt in the dirt gets away way off to the lab once in the second and it was the pitcher Dave Stewart who had to run it down that really got off the mountain a her that was the split-finger because watch out hard he throws it and I mean it just goes straight down then Steinbach did get in front of it but it hit his shin guard and you don't know where it's going here you look at it right here there you can see the split you can see the split right there and those eyes those are kind of eyes that pick house you used to call fighter-pilot eyes Tony LaRussa I think calls it his death look if you go out to take him out and he looks at you with those bulbs it's his death look but that he was bearing down on that when I meet his eyes widen out he was going to throw that thing hard for a striking and threw it about 55 feet one ball one strike to Franklin stove Tracy Woodson at second two out in the fifth inning Hayes 4 Dodgers 2 ground ball to first McGuire will take it to the bag and that's that no runs no hits a man left and at the end of five Oakland for Los Angeles to the totals through five innings the Athletics four runs six hits and no errors the Dodgers two runs two hits and no errors the Dodgers using Tim Belcher Tim Leary and Brian Holton and the Oakland A's relying on Dave Stewart their 21 game winner during the regular year and so far for Stewart he is leading for two although he gave up a two-run home run in the first inning to Mickey Hatcher that was wiped away on a grand slam home run by Jose Canseco in the second in looking at the left on base numbers you realize that Oakland could easily have broken this game into little pieces they left three in the first one in the second two and the third and two in the fourth but they're still leading Brian Holden will be pitching to Carney Lansford then Dave Henderson and Jose Canseco and the first pitch is hammered to left center she'll be on the move Brian Holton an unsung member of the Dodger bullpen greeted by a heart out off the bat a Carney Lansford good play by Shelby one down and Dave Henderson the batter Brian Holden was telling us that in the League Championship Series in all the pressure the first time he came in in New York he really was overcome with nerves and you know what he did he said out of nowhere he heard the old song you know you take the high road and I take the low and he began singing it while warming up and it worked it loosened him up next time he was brought in he was singing it and the chances are as he came in from the bullpen no one knows about it but he was probably singing you take the high road again on one course you wonder sometimes under great pressure under great emotional strain how wonderful it would be if you had some reliable device to loosen up you know what I used to hope for in a big game first pitch would hit a foul tip and hit me not hurt me but just give me enough pain to take my mind off it round ball to Alfredo two down I'll show you another way to take pressure off a hitter let's say you have a great big guy coming up and the bases are loaded well here's a good way to take the pressure on those arms you see arms like that only in comic strips when they've drawn oh did he know it was gone and watch hammer made him hit the centerfield camera he didn't duck either one ball and no strikes do Canseco I remember Wilbur Stargell the Hall of Famer and remember how big he was and Wilbur said when when he began his professional career he weighed about a hundred and fifty pounds Canseco when he was a teenager weighed less than a hundred and seventy pounds and was just under six feet but then when that steroid stuff came out that wasn't fair no and he said look at my charts and they look back in 1986 and he weighed 220 I talked to Barry Weinberg the trainer about that and he's got the whole thing and it wasn't fair and what bothered Jose was he said you know the young kids especially those in Miami and he worries about that he said they're going to think well you take steroids you can do it there's a difference between strength and bodybuilding he just went to strength that was a very unfair thing there's a one-hopper at third stays with it throws him out so Brian Holden very quietly just sets him down one two three it's still 42 Oakland Mickey Hatcher who hit the two run home run in the first inning will lead it off he walked last time up and hits a flyball to Center shallow Henderson a little back but he was able to retrieve one away Dave Stewart has allowed one hit since Hatcher's home run he has really been in command the Dodger pitching has retired the last seven days in a row when you get that first man out it really takes the air under the bench that's why it's so important to really bear down on it first guy that first out you can almost see it in Stuart when he walked out there here's Mike Marshall struck out and then in so far the biggest frustration moment for the Dodgers offensively occurred to Mike in the third inning in their split fingers with two out Hatcher walk and Marshall got a breaking ball and drilled it but it was hit to Carney lansford's glove side and Carney was able to make the play fouled away another thought as you look at Dave Stewart on the mound and as you see Mickey Hatcher pacing up and down in the dugout Stewart led all Oakland pitchers in complete games he had 14 complete games while pitching 275 innings and what that does every time Stewart pitch when you think about it he made a contribution to the bullpen and the Oakland bullpen set a major league record with 64 saves and part of it was Dave Stewart line to right Stadium has had not had very much to cheer about since the first inning but Marshall a one-out single John Shelby the batter the Dodgers first hit since the second inning and were in the bottom of the sixth Shelby grounded out and struck out oh and one took something off change the speed and Shelby was out in front tell you when you got in a group like that it's really tough I mean you they change speeds on your putting good spots you chased a bad ball you just don't have any idea shopping hits um the Metal Slug so two on and one and Mike Scioscia the batter he has popped up and flied to Center and the bold bath Bonni outside corner so she had just less than 260 and he is a man in plays usually associate because he's a kind and he and so she goes the other way all singing fair anyway and drank Linda's Marshall get some low five Nelson the right jacket in singles and so sure the other one and that was part of the the fact that he's an aggressive hitter you might turn the runners loose and the other thing to add to that conference on the mound Stewart's concentration was on the hitter and Shelby and of course so she's traveling to play Shelby's the one who got the big lead able to put something on I am alive with look at Giambi so even though the played there was not executed because of the foul ball it did put the thought in Stewart's mind and he did have to change and we need bear down on Shelby so they put the play on on the first pitch and they figured to come back with it again and Shelby returns to second and so she defers so yeah Lasorda has been gambling he's got to do it with scotch tape and baling wire you see a hit base runners at first and second he's got to try everything we're going to the seventh inning here at Dodger Stadium open leading the Dodgers 4-3 on the message board on diamond vision they took a page out of the past and it was from the 1974 World Series that was the memorable play on the flyball to right-center by Reggie Jackson where Joe Ferguson cut in front of Jimmy Wynn and threw to the plate to nail Sal bando on a good play by Steve Yeager it was in 1974 and in talking about that Oakland Dodger series the A's won at four games to one one game they won 5-2 to the other four-game were all decided 3-2 they were tough ones and we're starting off that way tonight 4-3 Oakland in the seventh Parker McGwire and Steinbach in that order Parker has flied to Center walked and then was out for running inside the base line on one you know Parker you watch his hands he'll have him on the top of his strike zone because he wants to try to keep himself from chasing the high fastball and he says I keep my hands top of the strike zone now try to hit below my hands on one none of his showcase fastball one ball one strike poor Tolton is a big overhand curveball big break and he will change the delivery three quarters overhand to make it do various things one on one starting to save him if there's one guy on his Dodger staff that you want to say if you want to know what a curveball looks like this would be my choice it looks like he's somebody out of the Baltimore organization remember all those pitchers threw the same way over the top there is there you got it does it bring back we'll see him tomorrow storm Davis storm Davis palm Jim Palmer Mike Boddicker with that great big overhand pitch and not only is it a big break a pick down or he changes speeds and so Parker was way out in front 2 & 2 3 & 2 that pitch that Park had just swung out and missed was traveling at 68 miles an hour that's all so sheís was 69 going back four runs six hits for Oakland three runs five hits for the Dodgers top of the seventh it's been Belcher Leary and Holton and he missed the curveball inside he had him all set up and missed the corner so Parker draws a walk and for Lasorda he has to be saying to himself that's great I'm facing this monstrous ballclub and we've already given him six walks we'll have a runner now for Parker the Big Dave comes out for the day and we can see Stan Javier running for him at first base Javier's dad Julian Javier played in four World Series including the 72 series against Oakland he becomes a base stealing threat even with Maguire up there you're gonna play hit-and-run but Javier nobody out here and Javier is another one who's got the green light 20 out of 21 during the regular years he can go and here's McGwire walk twice hit into a force play right it was Javier Julian Javier got that base hit against Amon bargain had one hitter and just for the trivia Stan and who lien the 10th father-son combination to play in the World Series on one for three Oakland seventh-inning it's tough because with Holton you can't throw that great big slow curveball because then wa so she will never have a chance to get Xavier you have to catch differently you really can not in a ballgame like this 43 you got to get that hitter if you start thinking I mean I throw him out in McGwire up they give nothing but fast balls forget about it pitch out me send a message it's keep throwing over there like that that you know you know he's over there it depends pitch outs can be a little touchy too it depends on the reaction of hope and if nothing happens nice behind a big hitter like McGwire interesting to me maybe we can do it in a minute is to look at Brian Holden's feet and where his right foot is on the rubber oh and one outside in other words my thought if you watch him he's standing on the third-base side of the pitching rubber okay you've got a definite base stealing threat at first and you just miss by an inch or two and you throw over why wouldn't you back off and get more on the first base side of that rubber so that when you turn you're that much closer to first base you are but you've got to be comfortable when you deliver to the batter you can't you can't base your pitching on the base runner if you do that you're going to be in the second division I mean logically I agree what you saying it would work better that way but he's got to get where he's got to get the hitter up one ball and one strike to Mark McGwire fastball hit up along first has to make the play to get him and on the play Xavier moves to second Jose Canseco whose dramatic grand slam home run in the second inning brings up a point we remind our viewers we'll be selecting the NBC Miller light player of the game at the conclusion of the ballgame Terry Steinbach flied to Center singled and struck out remember we got that inside fastball and boy did he turn on it single sharply old Hamilton's glove big slow curve line to Hamilton and that's all it was hit so hard sax didn't have a chance to get to the bag and boy Steinbach has blistered two and Hamilton Allison makes a good play on this it's a slow curveball and he is really hit hard and Hamilton right there he's ready to make the play but it was hit so hard as you talked about then watch Javier he knows he's got to get back sax he didn't have a chance so with two down the fellow who has given the Dodgers troubled Glenn Hubbard at the plate he's two for three two singles to left and grounded to short Hubbard followed by Walt Weiss the shortstop slow breaking ball big rainbow curve one ball no strike Hubbard is a much better fastball later of course you can say that on most guys but you can get that curveball over chances are you going to get and you get that high fastball he's going to drill it they're playing him to Polar's a lot of woman rights on the field which kind of surprises me if anything playing pretty much straightaway well with Holton's strength breaking ball and Hubbard basically a fastball hitter let's see of hope they go strength against weakness or Bolton buries it curveball popped in the air backer first down the line coming over his mark that's it no runs no hits a man the World Series will be for a new feature sponsored by civic park keys to success Bob Costas will focus on the keys to each night's game and their impact on the outcome of the world series thanks VIN the keys to success brought to you by city Corp the underdog Dodgers were pumped up by Mickey Hatcher's two run over the first off Dave Stewart but Tim Belcher is so effective in the playoffs was behind on the hitters all day in two innings of work he walks four he hits a man with the bases loaded he has to group one for Canseco the grand slam makes it 4-2 bud despite Canseco's Grand Slam Dave Stewart has but a one-run lead to work with as we move to the last the seventh because the A's left men on base through the first 4x the keys to success brought to you by city core Stan Javier who ran for Dave Parker stays in the game in left field for three days bottom of the seventh Alfredo Griffin takes a strike Alfredo singled to ride and wore one for one made a couple of good plays in the field and buns over to get it Carney Lansford got Lansford was in he's been in all night and what Griffin tried to do was get it past Stuart when she did but couldn't get it past Lansford see outside he's playing over a third-base Maguire was back I thought he might try to drag it but he could not Lansford was right there at Lou trouble getting the ball out of his glove but it was not that close the Dodgers go to the bench again Jose Gonzales will bat for Holton so the Dodgers used Danny Heep to bat for Belcher he hit it ground ball to short Tracy Woodson hit valyrian hit into a force play and now young Jose Gonzales I'll tell you LaRussa doesn't make he doesn't wait too long before he gets Eckersley in there he gets that ninth inning he made just bring him in to close it down regardless of what Stuart is doing Jose Gonzales was the Dodgers leading candidate for the frequent-flyer Award as we look at another former Dodger Rick Honeycutt tuning up in the bullpen both ballclub really has some great bullpens Lansford right at the bag at third and the breaking ball lunged at the Carney baby two three feet off the bag by the time that pitch was made these four Dodgers three bottom of the seventh one out chase that fastball at Saints in the count one two I don't think either pitch was in the strike zone but he's going to go up there to try to get that base hit now let's watch what he does good thinking beanie the high fastball or bounce one up there 1 & 2 the Jose Gonzalez Gonzalez signed his first professional contract he was only 16 years old back in 1981 he's from the Dominican Republic and Downey go air was at high fastball tell you when you throw two pitches like you did four quick strikes it's almost like putting handcuffs on the hitter I fastball just rides it rides it high so with two out in the seventh inning the batter is Steve sax solo rooster checking with the Dave Duncan who's in contact with that bullpen that's only the fourth strikeout for Dave Stewart tonight he's had some big strikeouts he struck out as many as 11 in a game this year but he's had really only one tough inning and that was the sixth inning when he gave up three consecutive singles and then he cracked Hamilton's back when he jammed him and get hit into the double play to a notice eyes and the pacing Hatcher he never sits down throughout a game that's his growing Sachs hit by a pitch flied to right flied to Center 2 & 1 meanwhile Dave Parker is finished for the night Stan Javier picked up for him on the Han - I fell down and he'll settle with a single ripped it off Levin and he took a header he really broke out of the box and he would not have gotten the to base hit but Lansford guarding that line he has to go to his left can't come up with a dish our table now here's sax now watch him break out there he sees him get by and he starts and he'll go down down right there so a two-out single by Steve sags brings up Franklin Stubbs to fly balls all four three hi fastball away just refresh your memory stubs a low fastball hitter sex is one of those guys can go any time he thinks he gets a jump in he'll want to go the question whether you want Sachs to try to go or would you rather keep McGwire on the bag and keep the right side of the infield open I take my chances on let them go wanna know there goes the pitch is strike the throw down he stop what's the difference in that play he gets a good ball to handle now watch where the drug goes he's got to come back and that's where he loses the play right there if it's on and as I Stubbs grabbed his helmet with both hands evidently he got a pitch and he let it get away for three Oakland a reminder following in the conclusion of tonight's game stay tuned for your late local news on most of these NBC stations then Saturday Night Live second short the new season with host Matthew Broderick and musical guest the sugar cubes all the way from Iceland last week's show started off the season with a bang so stay tuned for tonight's fun only on NBC because all of that with the exception of the West Coast and mountain time Alejandro Pena becomes the fourth Dodger pitcher Belcher Leary Holton and Pena Leary and Holton shut down the A's for five innings without a run but the damage had already been done a grand slam home run in the second inning by Jose Canseco so now in the eighth inning Oakland still leading four to three with Walt Weiss followed by Dave Stewart and in Carney Lansford Weiss a switch hitter has struck out flied to left and ground over three tell you I think paws on club with Canseco I would roll down my sleeves rather No up go on Stewart who has not been an overpowering pitcher in striking out for he has gotten a job done two balls and no strikes the Oakland A's they won a hundred and four games ran away to win by 13 dominated the American League West they're also the eighth different American League representative in the World Series in the last eight years now the two okay popped up on the right side and Sachs will handle it big crowd capacity crowd at Dodger Stadium and Dave Stewart will slowly come up Stewart pitched for the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series briefly tonight with the bad he has war and it was a very big war struck out twice extended the end canseco to hit a grand slam home run Payne is a pretty good story coming back let surgery with a very good fast and a great change changes in the lead his nickname is is slow and everything he does he he walks to his own Walkman but it sets up the pattern because everything is slow and deliberate and then that fast balls on I love perranoski is - that even stains slowly out if that Peeta pops the bubble oh oh sitting slow Impossibles tommy lasorda on to the cow and a breaking ball guy working most if he wanted to was too much action on it so Stuart what's a break on this thing and Stuart hadn't seen a curveball in a while tell you when you you'll get the baddest like the American League [ __ ] then you fill one like that there's nothing you could do but kind of genuflecting and really say hey pretty good pitch I think the LaRussa was just giving Harvey a little bit of a needle with two down in the eighth inning Carney Lansford the batter struck out and walked hit into a force play and flied to Center handle the ball well including a ball hit by Marshall in the third inning for one well I love a manager to say about me what LaRussa says about Lansford he's only got one problem he plays too hard another great triple on an athlete wanna know in reading the auckland press guide they tell you that Carney Lansford is a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake you talk about a blueblood sir right high rent district way hiren karni aggressive hitter rarely walks two balls and no strikes in one two out top of the eight Oakland four Dodgers three if you're not keeping score you wonder about the bottom half Mickey Hatcher Mike Marshall and John Shelby fastball chopper just foul down the line right there on the line Darrell Cozens the third-base umpire from the American League has her left a fan trying to make that play when they put it into some what he did so close right there you can't argue with that the Lansford back to try it again two balls two strikes fastball hits his sack so fannia sets him down Jew the Miami defense lots of football tomorrow and Game two tomorrow night right now here's Mickey Hatcher bottom of the 8th inning a strike Oh Hatcher hitting in Kirk Gibson spot in a two-run home run walked and flied to Center one Dave Stewart allowed three runs six hits walked two struck out four a 1 & 2 we mentioned Gibson if you were in the ballpark with binoculars your first thought would be late in the game is Gibson in the Dodger dugout and the answer would appear to be no got him on the inside corner as you look you see Fernando Valenzuela and you're looking for Kurt Gibson what and there is no Gibson the man who was the spearhead of the your offense throughout the who saved them in the lake championship series will not see any action tonight for sure he is not even in the dugout that was kind of news Hatcher getting called out on strikes because if he's gonna go down he's gonna go down swinging but he was caught looking that time Mike Marshall a strike Marshall struck out lined out and singled and I would think he has 20 home runs and he has the power to do it in a one-run game in the eighth inning and one out he's going to try and take Stewart deep if he can he's going to try he's got on his mind take a big free swing at least once it seemed kind of crank when you talk to Mike he says look when I'm up there I roll the dice if the pitchers gone and I think I should swing I'm going to swing that's why you see him chase a lot of bad balls one ball and one strike and he lifts one back Hubbard is there out in the eighth inning so Dave Stewart is not an overpowering 20 game winner but Tony Caruso can write it in his book as condemned uncle he's getting the job done and with two out in the eighth inning John Shelby the batter grounded out struck out and singled wouldn't chase that fastball away ball one boy that pitch really runs him up a wall so they give him another one on the corner hit that one fastball is a little bit born inside he hit it right back up the middle for the base hit most of his power from this side of the plate and he was out in front of that one and two now we'll see then is he going to throw that hard split finger I just throw that high fastball out of his zone and see if he chases it he's got a choice the Shelby still air with two out in the aid for three Oakland Game one the Dodgers in their Los Angeles history have never won a first game at Dodger Stadium their own six chop her up along first bow Oakland meanwhile playing away has won five out of six - 1 2 to John Shelby Stewart is seven and he's made a hundred pitches this is not going to the pitches and that's hit the right Canseco hesitated slides and caught it it was a seeker and he misjudged it so he didn't get a jump at all and he still made the play Shelby hit a sinker Canseco kind of misjudges have been watching me slides and right in that weapon that big glove really comes in handy no way could have made it two-handed catch there it's sinking all away well a big man in a big spotlight turning in a big job tell you we said it before he can beat you with the glove to pat the arm the legs he's a complete athlete Dave Henderson fouling it back if he followed by Canseco and then Stan Javier tell you when you just gotta report this as Henderson's the first ball hitter he's done it all night long and yet he gets a ball he can handle Henderson single struck out double grounded out to four you can see Scioscia gesturing to pain you that you had dropped your arm get your arm higher then you drop the returned toss you had to go and get it well that's so important if you're a catcher especially you know that delivery the point of release it has to be the right spot here ask in trouble in this kind of competition fastball good one on and to waise gripping it now would be the four-seamer which would be the high fastball it just kind of seems to bend in the middle who wanted that take off yes sir that was a four-seamer as they say as you can see he's in no hurry no no and why should it that's right in the top of the ninth inning we talked about the Canseco in the steroid story with Thomas Boswell in Washington Post wrote I asked Canseco yesterday and here's what he had to say about it then basically I know it's more listless like a practical joke a lot of comments Boswell made didn't make any sense a lot of the comments run through and false and I don't think he took including consideration how much it would hurt a player's family or the player himself and here is the player himself Jose Canseco hit by a pitch hit a grand slam home run reached on a fielder's choice and grounded out ball one the fielder's choice was that ball he hit to the hole Griffin backhanded and they were able to get Henderson coming down off second one ball no strikes talk about Hubbard looking like you fell off a cough drop box this guy looked like you walked right out of a soap up one of those scenes that you think looking handsome strong can hit can run one ball one strike Oh too four runs six hits for Oakland three runs six hits for the Dodgers Belcher Leary Holton and Pena and for Oakland Dave Stewart all away Scioscia Hamilton and Griffin do up in the night tune one and again you see Scioscia gesturing get your arm up the contrast is so great especially with Gibson out of the lineup the Dodgers really have one guy who can turn around once Wayne that's Marshall and whereas Oakland I mean he almost got a roster full of those people we balls one strike gone over to scoreboard anyway we've got one of those planes that was flying here did he have a cut look at the bat speed knots a blur going through there that is bad speed look at that oh that's as hard and as good as swing as you want to sing nicely that two-strike thing bah this should break a heatwave so take another look at this again you catching it sucks that mask right off your face you just like that Oh even when you don't hit it oh one my one one swing like that my lifetime might have been happy for he into the Jose Canseco big swing you know my fancy not quite as hard that time but he still had a pretty good cut as in that to strike because defensive stance that they take but he can still hit that ball a long way I wonder if he ever took a half swing two out in the ninth and here's Stan Javier Xavier who came into the game to run for Dave Parker in the seventh inning and stayed in switch hitter and he's hitting from this side try to jam him and he is basically a highball hitter Pena tried to come in and got too far inside too and oh I expect him to hit the ball to the opposite field they're not very deep Hatcher is almost playing like a right-hand batter and Shelby's over the left-center we talked about his dad who lien he played for the Cardinals in the 64 World Series in the 67 68 and in 72 with Cincinnati against Oakland bouncer wide a third driven a tough play juggles throws too late you can't juggle to get out of here once Hamilton failed to be able to reach it well Javier was going to be aboard it'll be a base hit I think one of the reasons that he bobbles the ball is because he knows Javier is running he's got it right here and he just can't get that grip quick enough and he still makes the play but Javier gets down that line in great shape show you what kind of relief pitching the dodgers have gotten that's the first hit for Oakland since the double by Henderson in the fourth they've had two hits since the third inning but all the damage was done in the second inning and the King is up in the Oakland bullpen his eminence Dennis Eckersley with 45 saves during the year the MVP against Boston in the League Championship Series and here's McGwire see he doesn't have much of a lead there because you know he's got the green light as always you don't know what but for me I say stay there let McGuire take his cuts you know I'm looking back and following that theory Steinbach has hit the ball pretty yes he has but he's not gonna chances are this guy might just grab a hole want to give you two runs and looking at Eckersley that's the pattern LaRussa's head in the ninth inning Eckersley has not pitched that many innings but he's the guy that comes in and closes it for you so I'm sure Eckersley will come and replace his Stewart lifted high and down the it in five we go to the bottom of the ninth inning you're at Dodger Stadium in Game one the A's riding the wings of a grand slam home run by Jose Canseco now make two changes Ron hassey behind the plate on the mound the MVP in the League Championship Series Dennis Eckersley I've saved that [ __ ] during the course of the year he saved James for Dave Stewart and Mike Scioscia will start at all ball one Vinny's had eight saves that were less than an inning 21 saves were just one inning eight saves were an inning are our inning in two thirds and then they say two innings that's as much as he goes popped up around the bag at second it will be Walt Weiss one down so Eckersley with 45 saves is not a hard worker in fact only 15 of those 45 saves do you work more than one inning and he never worked more than two a reminder coming up next except on the west coast local news in Saturday Night Live one out in the ninth and young Jeff Hamilton coming up it is Hamilton who had the closest shot tonight to get the Dodgers into the game with one out in the sixth inning the Dodgers had consecutive singles by Marshall Shelby and Scioscia for a run and with runners at first and second and one out how hit into a double play piled a toy broke his bat and doing it and the Dodgers really have not been heard from since Eckersley sidearm gen he'll make you give ground and he really hits that outside corner he will come inside but he really likes that strike on the outside corner is Gibson oh and one in there seeing him with a helmet on you have a former Oakland A's out on deck Mike Davis we'll see what all that means I doubt if he'd be up there to hit for Davis I think it'll be up to Davis to extend the inning to allow Gibson one last shot Owen to sidearm mean strike three call that came from around the corner that's what he does he sign arm Jim makes you give and lives it on that outside corner and then if you get too close you'll push you back but doesn't like to feel that many inside strikes so Mike Davis will come up now one former Oakland a 2 hit for another Alfredo Griffin two out ninth-inning Oakland 4 Dodgers 3 and here is Mike Davis Davis like Alfredo Griffin had a very very difficult time adjusting over in the National League he had less than 200 and with that swing of his they expected him to manufacture some home runs and he had only two time no pitch when Davis played at Oakland he hit 22 home runs 19 home runs 24 home runs but only two in the National League Eckersley really comes at you he throws nothing but strikes he challenges everybody fouled away off to the left and out of play all in one by the way Gibson is not on day Dave Anderson is a footnote to that you see seven out of 10 only the 87 twins the 84 Tigers and the 80 Phillies have won Game one and the series the balls one strike wouldn't chase it one-on-one he's not going to give him up all the pull it'll be a mistake if it gets inside because you can see where has he is setting up hitters have a great tendency in the American League to chase a bad slider that he throws but that's off the plate fastball ball 2 2 & 1 sometimes to bend when he comes as we look at Gibson again when he comes from that way he kind of drops that arm and he's kind of pitching uphill so it'll rise on you he's thrown that ball out there three consecutive times and each time Davis refused to nibble so the Dodgers are down to their last out three balls and one strike to Mike Davis bottom of the 9th is 4 Dodgers 3 if he gets on we're going to hear some roar Riaan 1 and he walked it and look who's coming up all year long they look to him to light the fire he answered the demands until he was physically unable to start tonight with two bad lay the bed left hamstring and the swollen right knee and with two out you talk about a roll of the dice this is it if he hits the ball on the ground I would imagine he would be running 50% to first base so the Dodgers trying to catch lightning right now fouled away he was you know complaining about the fact that with the left knee bothering him he can't push off well now he can't push up and he can't land he's going to use all arms look at his crowd on its feet what a tribute for three A's two out ninth-inning not a bad opening act Mike Davis by the way has stolen seven out of ten if you're wondering about Lasorda throwing the dice again all the way again and he stand on an outside corner he's not going to give him a ball of Paulie with Davis he just missed but here's two quick strikes both fast balls that kind of tail away the outside part has he is not even flirted with the inside part of that play you saw Dave Duncan gesturing he was gesturing to Carney Lansford at third oh and to the gifts in the infield is back with two out and Davis at birth now Gibson during the year not necessarily in this spot but he was a threat to bunt no way tonight no wheels you're plenty deep in the out fail and a lot of room they're planning straightaway in centerfield he's a threat now with two strikes no balls two strikes two out little nubber foul and it had to be an effort to run that far Gibson was so banged out he was not introduced he did not come out onto the field before the game you can really see the limp he's not driving that ball it was by him let's see he's really AMA he almost has to talk to his legs and say hey let's go we got to get out of here it's one thing to favor one leg but you can't favor two no way and that's what he's trying to do he really is Oh until he Gibson for one and a pronoun at first Davis just didn't get back good play by Ron hassey using Gibson as a screen he took a shot at the runner and Mike Davis didn't see it for that split second and that made it close a lot of times what you're doing you'll give a sign to the first baseman say not be there they call now be there play if I get the ball I'm going to throw it 14 fast balls in a row that's all he's been throwing there goes Davis and it's fouled away so Mike Davis who had stolen seven out of ten and carrying the tying run was on the move they wanted to give Gibson a good shot at it with two strikes but with the two strikes same as a threat as we said because the bloop hit will score that big run Gibson shaking his left leg making it rid of a troublesome fly two and two mike scioscia can only sit now and sweat it out he led off the inning and popped up Tony LaRussa is one out away from win number one here's the big pitch he's got to make it happen on this one two balls and two strikes with two out those extra steps if Davis will get if the count goes to 3 and 2 are very big so hassey and Eckersley want that pitch of decision right here there he goes way outside he's stolen it as he started its own kind of bumped Gibson but it was way too late Davis was way down there almost as if he could have walked in not a bad pitch to handle for hansi outside I watch when he starts to throw look at Gibson and Harvey says no no he had to face : so Mike Davis the tying run is at second base with two out now the Dodgers don't need the muscle of Gibson as much as a base hit and on deck is the leadoff man Steve sax three and two you Saxe waiting on deck but the game right now is at the hi flyball into right field in a year that has been so improbable the impossible has happened and now the only question was could he make it around the base pads unassisted I'll tell you there are those who say that it's what happens after the base on balls but it's the base on balls it makes it so bad a whole run would have tied it but the walk gives him the win and Eckersley who doesn't walk that many really gets burned here watch Lasorda you know I said it once before a few days ago that Kirk Gibson was not the most valuable player that the most valuable player for the Dodgers was Tinkerbell but tonight I think Tinkerbell back door for Kirk Gibson and look at Eckersley shocked to his toes they are going wild at Dodger Stadium no one wants to leave dennis eckersley allowed five home runs all year we'll be back I guarantee you this the parking lot at Chavez Ravine is empty nobody has left their seats and now the man of the hour is back out on the field Kirk Gibson have you ever had a feeling like this well it's it's hard to match I'll say I was very disappointed today because I knew I couldn't play a new idea detriment and I got an injection today and very sore but I saw the opportunity I knew we could get a guy on base the pitcher was coming up and I figured if I got out there the fans started sharing I can suck it up for 180 and maybe something good would happen and it happened how much pain were you in at the plate well it was stuff pushing off my front foot and my other hamstring was hurting me I got two bad legs but you know I just when I got two strikes on I just decided to buckle it down and Mike got the second I knew I really didn't have to hit a home run I kind of was going to shorten up and try and drive the ball the other way and I got a breaking ball that he got out as low ball I liked to hit and just fortunate the good Lord gave me this wonderful moment did you know it was gone the instant you hit a pretty good idea you know we've had some tough times but you know what a team has been saying it all year and one for my teammates I wouldn't even got the opportunity to to remember this moment we were standing in the runway we could hear you taking batting practice off the tee back at the end of the tunnel we didn't even think you'd be available for pinch hitting duty and I know Lasorda walk back to talk to you how did that conversation go well I've been in the training room all day there all night getting treatment and in fact I heard Vin Scully saying they were panning the dugout looking for me saying didn't look like I was going to be able to play and I said that's enough went and put an ice bag on there numb my knee up best I could hit some off the tee in there and I had a bad boy come in and asked Tommy to come in I wanted to talk to him I said go ahead and pinch-hit for alfredo with Mike we get a guy on I'll go in there give you my best I think I can do it and give you a good shot and that's what it's all about thoughts and images that went through your mind as you rounded the bases I just kept telling myself these are the type of circumstances you enjoy most and you perform even better under these conditions and thank the good Lord it all happened for us Kirk Gibson let's go back upstairs to Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola well needless to say as the crowd continues to go wild tonight's NBC Miller light player of the game is who else Kirk Gibson Miller Lite happy to present a check for $1000 in the name of Kirk Gibson to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society it wasn't exactly deja vu but we do remember the other day in New York 12 inning a game tied with the New York Mets Roger McDowell a sinker ball specialist and Gibson hits a home run in the 12 inning to give the Dodgers a 5-4 victory it was a victory revisited tonight in the Oakland Clubhouse they have to be talked about that base on balls in that pitch selection the only ball he could really hit out of here was the breaking ball what an opening act huh I think we've got a leading man and many of them between now in the end of this great 1988 World Series well as we look one more time at your Gibson the 1988 World Series brought to you by Miller Lite the great taste is only one light beer Miller Lite by Volkswagen experienced German engineering the Volkswagen way by Kohler maker quality plumbing products the bold look of Kohler what a beautiful way to live tomorrow start your day with NFL live beginning at 12:30 then the NFL and an 8 o'clock Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific Game two of the 88 World Series for Joe Garagiola this is Vin Scully saying good night from Dodger Stadium where the Dodgers beat is five to four

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Keywords: Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics, メジャー, オークランド, Baseball's Best Classic Games, オークランド・アスレチックス, ロサンゼルス, メジャーリーグ, ロサンゼルス・ドジャース, 野球, Los Angeles Dodgers, ドジャース, 大リーグ, 野球速報, アスレチックス

Id: b1_0373UNDc

Length: 163min 7sec (9787 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/Spartan8394]

As well as game 7 of the 1965 WS between the dodgers and the twins!

Edit: https://youtu.be/HeKbktNm0Mk

[u/mrshatnertoyou]

Dat smog at the beginning.

[u/trolley_dodgers]

I love Vin talking about the radar gun operator with the giant cigar "you could bat .300 with."