1995 ALCS (Mariners @ Indians) Game Three [Bone Gives Seattle Series Lead]

or pure performance he is among the very best but there's more the mystique the aura that surrounds the flamethrower those memorable few who don't just get batters out they blow them away intimidating the opposition electrifying the crowd when a pitcher has the ability not just to retire the side but to stir the imagination that is when excellence becomes legend to be good is one thing to be strikingly distinctive is another triple digits on the radar gun blistering pitches delivered from a previously unseen angle for no one taller has ever played the game a look which coupled with being left-handed suggests a wild side the Cleveland Indians are back home now and most say they are the best team in baseball but Randy Johnson is what they're up against tonight game 3 is next [Music] perfect night for baseball in Cleveland 73 degrees as game time approaches this is Jacobs field a glittering jewel in the middle of a revitalized downtown Cleveland and a baseball paradise all season long and a course of compiling the best percentage in the last four decades in baseball 100 wins and just 44 losses during the regular season the Indians were 54 and 18 in this ballpark hi again everybody Bob Costas with mr. baseball Bob Uecker now I kid you not these are real statistics this man at around 400 lifetime Sandy Koufax Randy Johnson ranks up for the best five years talking about the Sandy Koufax's guys like Steve Carlton by tableau he's a very very hard Tori and I think the thing that's made Randy Johnson the pitcher that he is today is the fact that he's Chris Rock ratio he's only walking two plus four nine innings and I mean the 100 mile-per-hour fastball along with a 90 plus mile an hour slider is something to behold and if he gets that slider over early in the count you can just about forget about it big league hitters at least many of them can turn that dial up a little bit and time even the best fastball but if they've got to look slider as well they're cooked well I think you have to look for one or the other against this guy he's got him both gone he's like a Koufax you couldn't hit two pitches off of Sandy when he had his stuff if this guy's got them both going you gotta look for one now on the other side right-hander Charles Agee by winning Game three at Fenway Park his hope is to keep them close well he throws a lot of breaking balls that's his strong suit he doesn't have a big powerful fastball good breaking stuff and if he can't get the breaking ball over early Bob he gets in trouble in the opening anyway we're back with the starting lineups after we check with Hannah storm hi everybody I'm Hannah Storm welcome to Game three of the League Championship Series while you watch the American League Sion favorite Randy Johnson faced the Indians the Atlanta Braves said the National League siyoung walk Greg Maddux against Cincinnati so bravely the series two games to none and they turned to Maddux who blew through the regular season posting a 19-inch new record with a one point six three er a however one of those losses is worth to the season was against the red Maddux's regular season dominance is not translated the postseason success he has won only two of his six career postseason starts and his er a as a major-league high six point six to Maddux faces the struggling red whose offensive woes are highlighted by Reggie Sanders a strikeout victim in ten of his last 14 at-bats Cincinnati is stranded no less than 15 runners in two games and the Reds have hit into five double play we'll keep you updated on all the action from Atlanta and get through after the first picture today after this for your local station field of this night what was it Mariners starting lineup they have only four players on their roster for this series who have postseason experience Charlton and Belcher among the pitchers and a top two guys in this lineup Coleman with the Cardinals and Cora a couple of years ago with the White Sox of course and a lack of playoff competition hasn't hurt Griffey with six homers already between the division series and the first two games of this one Edgar Martinez went wild against the Yankees could be until Martinez are hitless in the first two games against Cleveland that's the lineup Maggie they faced 16 and 6 for the year er a 4.55 came within one of his personal high-end victory she won 17 in 92 pitched seven innings allowing four hits and one run in the clinching victory against the Red Sox game 3 at Fenway Park as they swept the division series this Hallman steps in against him to 85 for the year 1 for 8 with 5 strikeouts in this series hire Rick Reed is obviously waiting for us he doesn't know we're back we appreciate the consideration though Dale Ford is the first base umpire Tim McClellan did second drew cobal at third the crew chief Dave Phillips you had the plate in Game one down the left-field line tonight and Darrell Cozens in right Bob the reason were delayed here a little bit they finally turned it off the couple of geese down NBC broadcast booth or the color television lights that were still lit up and everything is cold now and we're set to go and Aggies first tip to the switch hitters warm on and hips foul wide of third as Spinoza for a look and it's out of play there are two changes for the Cleveland Indians on their infield this is the first time in either of the two series they played that they face a left-handed starting pitcher so they've gone to the platoon as we look at them defensively Lofton to Gold Gloves Vizquel probably the best in the game with the glove will win a third Gold Glove this year and on the corners Espinoza and Terry are new here's a ground ball to short this guy gets rid of it quickly knowing one down in Seattle first the left-handed hitters homie would normally start a third and Cerreto at first our benched against Randy Johnson left-handers hit 129 against Johnson this year so Kenny Lofton is the only left-handed batter in the Cleveland order they go with Espinoza at third and the rookie Herbert Perry at first each is a right-handed batter Joey Cara's 2 for 7 in this series and turned in a huge defensive play in the first inning of Game one when Thome ripped one toward the middle with the bases loaded and two out of the first he made a great diving play the bail Bob Wolcott out of the inning so poor oh who stole 18 heads down to first and for the second time in the series Joey Cora hit five pizzas when he got him up around the the backside just above here's again the fastball from naggy that nailed fara Hershiser nailed him a couple of days ago in the need and for a moment as Korra was laying on the ground it looked like he was hurt a little bit more than than everybody thought he's alright now I know he's smiling but they don't feel good I don't care where they or four seven in the series five homers against the Yankees in the preceding series and the pitch to junior vice foul he's already within one homer of the postseason record now with the extra round these comparisons are going to become difficult but considering the fact that he's done it in only seven games he should make it for sure Dijkstra in 93 between the LCS in the World Series for the Phillies Bob Robertson in 71 for the Pittsburgh Pirates now there's one we talked about with Charles Nagy at the opening Bob and he's had problems in the opening inning his earned run average in his starts in inning number one is five plus and that's the pitch that he's got a trusted strike or done the guy's way grippy to get him to chase that breaking ball how into the game with a fancy Jacobs Field they're mimicking what they do at the Kingdome it doesn't sound the same luring with the heat strikes on the hitter in anticipation ha boy it's great here but this isn't just any hitter I'll tell you that that series at the Kingdome Bob I mean with the Yankees and the first two games against the Indian was unbelievable I mean as the next player to sit there and watch and to get it fired up a live drive in a center field and this one will drop for a hit now you try to hit the outside corner at the knees and griffith just went down and got it i was a breaking ball again and it looked to be right over the middle about knee high and grip you with a nice easy stroke Lyons this one in the center field off-speed pitch change of pace that's what it was down grip he went down and got it lines a single to Sutter which brings us to Edgar Martinez who never went more than two games all year you know down a hit and never went more than eight consecutive at-bats without a hit he's over six through the first two games of this year I can't I couldn't believe that when I saw that five I mean you're talking about one of baseball's best hitters of course the American league's leading hitter this year but when you talk about two games the longest you've gone without a hip over eight I mean that's it I mean if they'll do what kind of hitter this guy really is naggy in first and in trouble Martinez went 356 to win his second batting title Alan's in chalking with Lou Pinella about naggy before the game tonight he said that the Mariner hitters have to try and take this guy to right-field you can't try to pull him because you'll beat that breaking ball and the low sinker in the dirt a ball and a strike they've gone to the bottom of the first in Atlanta cincinnati out against Greg Maddux without scoring David Wells draws the assignment for the Reds two best pitchers in baseball going tonight in the playoffs Maddux for the Braves Randy Johnson eats the surface ion Award winner Randy Johnson here they check down at first base he didn't go eridan is something off-speed you saw Dale Ford indicate that Martinez checked in time here does one more time a breaking ball again and Martinez looked like he checked but here's a guy that practices hitting the right field during batting practice daily on a daily basis his first maybe eight to ten swings always tries to go to right and he pops this one up back a second by ergo retreated Ramirez coming in viagra for the cats two down so Edgar Martinez so at a couple of intentional walks up in Seattle is now officially old for 7 in this series Tino Martinez also looking for his first hit youth when you look at the heart of the Seattle order not only are they good but they go with Griffey the to Martinez's and Buhner left right left right it makes it very tough on an opposing manager when he thinks about late inning pitching changes but Mike Hargrove has perhaps the deepest bullpen in the league and it affords him the luxury of bringing guys in for one-hitter apiece all right you know we've talked so much about the Indians in their lineup and the power that they have tell you what the Seattle Club is not an easy club to work against even they've got excellent power in Griffey Martinez we know about him Tino Martinez both the Martinez's 29 and 31 home runs respectively if you look at Lou Piniella we had a nice chat with him tonight the new bobby was loosey-goosey and anything you want to know he's he's ready for you all the time they wanted the one hand in Seattle since they couldn't use Johnson they got it unexpectedly in the game Wolcott this that's what we talked about here he said that with Randy Johnson working this opening game it gives us Seattle Mariners if he win and again they take nothing away from Charles naggy because he's working hard here to try and get out of the opening inning see that clip on that curveball there's an extra curveball I mean really spinning in and and diving down but the Piniella wants to learn to get it back to Seattle and if they do it tonight behind Johnson they're assured of going back to the King dog if they went back down 3-2 he pitched Johnson in Game six if somehow they could win two of three here and be ahead in the series he pulled him back for the seventh game a 2-1 pitch to Tino Martinez there were questions about this weekend's pitching selections Mike Hargrove said officially tonight he will go with Tannehill tomorrow regardless of tonight's outcome against Andy Bennett and Chris Bosio will tip Game five for Seattle against Dennis Martinez there's Hill tomorrow started proud again roaring on the teaching pitch and now the runners will take off para from second and grippy from first foul as they did in Seattle on every to strike offering the fans at the Kingdome rose to their feet they're doing the same thing here take them here what a couple of great two days you're on weather-wise I mean you couldn't ask for anything better the Indians had a light workout here last night Seattle travel and got in here about 6:30 last night but what a beautiful day and a beautiful night here at one this weekend there they go it here it comes bouncing ball toward the middle by Erika backhand his plays the first inning no runs that hit in a couple left Randy jumps into the hill when we come back where here's Randy Johnson trying to win his third in postseason play I'll tell you that that final game against the Yankees Bob when he came in and relief and and I mean you knew it was all on the line and he gives up the run in the 11th and I think everybody in the end the Kingdome at around the country there was a Seattle fan their tongues fell out of their mouths and don't you know they come back with to the 11th to make him a winner his second postseason winning tonight trying to get Seattle back to the kingdom 18 and two one behind Mike Mussina who won 19 game but lost nine Kenny Lofton the only left-handed hitter in the lineup we tend to the year before for 7 in this series flowers in close to thirds and Johnson starts him with a strike Johnson zra of 2.48 easily the best among American League starters and he's ahead oh and two by almost half a run over Tim Wakefield of the Red Sox who was second at 2.95 but here's the most staggering statistic he fan twelve point three batters for every 9 innings of work the best figure in the history of baseball and locked and vulnerable right now possibly with Randy Johnson I mean I sometimes think he does you a favor by throwing you a breaking pitch I really do he tried to move Lofton back with an inside fastball air into one two off the plate now Johnson led the league in strikeouts for the fourth straight year but there was a stretch not long ago where he led the league in walks three straight times he's completely reversed that argue but not for long just a few heated words as he passes Dale Ford heck of a play by Dan Wilson it runs a heck of a play out a little we're out in front of home plate is another kid that's done a heck of a job or see how there's a little bouncy hit by Watson we know he can run bare hand pickup that's the only chance for Wilson and the throw berry quotes play Ford saw him out we'll get another look at it here arigon Wilson the bare hand pickup and he got him they got him the switch hitter Vizquel tries to bought and pushes it foul to continue on Johnson a guy who used to be among the wildest was Fisher's now it's only his appearance that's wild and therefore intimidating along with it he was among the league leaders walking only about 2.7 for every night with an even 2 or 4 9 and him so he's actually a control artist now as overpowering as he is and no one was even close to him he had 90 strikeouts more than Todd stottlemyre hopefully finished 2nd in a 144 game season Johnson fans to 94 the Shaw play at the right field dinner comes in two outs in the Indian first and this 1995 League Championship Series game is brought to you by Toyota and their full line of quality cars and trucks Toyota I love what you do for Burger King where you can get your burgers worth and the employee owners of Avis we're into the future into it now flying harder than ever [Music] you know a final word on Johnson Bobby and talking about the waves cut back on his watch you talk to any hitter that's ever faced this banner so that's the probably not the fact that he throws so hard I mean there are a lot of guys who throw hard but the fact that he can spot you now and spot you the breaking ball off the outside he can backdoor he is the right-handed batter or come inside with a hard slider and that's what's made him so tough not the fact that he throws so hard his controller to prove that much 95 on the gun on that last one and a ball and a strike to by ergo with Belle on deck now here's a guy to chat Randy Johnson pretty well his career at 324 one for his last seven since 94 what - there's that backdoor slider we were talking about by dylan talki with Carlos Baerga last night during that workout I asked him I said I know you've had pretty good success against this guy what is it you know once in a while I get a base hit other times he gets me out this time just blew it right by him first strikeout for Johnson no score after one [Music] my friends it says right here the critics have called it an action-packed thrill ride with great special effects tomorrow night after Game four of the ALCS don't miss Jags Saturday night on NBC news on the west coast could check their local listeners [Music] the medal reached against Charles Maggie in the first he got out of it now he'll face the guy who has punished him this year Jeb dunah dunah had five regular-season home runs against the Indians plus a 9th inning homer off Jose Mesa in Game two of this series at the Kingdome two of those homers brought the expensive Maggie and again in talking with Lou Piniella Bob Maggie and butor I said he talked about taking this guy to right field not trying to pull him all the time the buter is one of those guys that takes a ball out the other way everyone well he's a jab he looks for it he'll go that way and you gotta look for breaking balls you can't look for a fastball against child nagging you got to sit on breaking snow breaking ball run out of this despite the fact that you look for it it doesn't mean you can hit it I mean you've got to make yourself way back look breaking stuff then way back and try to drive it too right especially if it's like that down low away to and Soho to follow in the second it is funny bother you you look at a guy like a Randy Johnson probably the hardest store in all of baseball 18 - for the year and and maintenance you I mean such a such a difference in pitching styles and velocity but that Max is one of those guys that he drives me crazy and here's the guy that strictly challenged talking about Johnson to the buna and here's a crime to keep left and he has rung naggy up again the child Nagi is throwing Jay Buhner generally finds it to his liking he had 40 for the year that's his second of this series and his 7th counting the playoffs against Cleveland in 95 al was a hanging breaking ball and you'll have success this is a high curveball about belt high and butor jumps all over watch right here oh man oh boy belt high and no problem Albert Bell turned around and watched it ride out [Music] snaps flowers label homer in the series 23 homers 96 RBIs during the regular year the a to overstate but sometimes this is enough for Randi Thailand I was going to say the same thing Bob you're absolutely right get a guy like Johnson the lead and he knows he's capable of shutting out any ball club and I'm sure the same thing is on his mind there's the guy that he's given Seattle the lead came unit buddy Val along with Mike Hargrove Maja's go to fetch I in a way you know but you through here a picture on this Indian staff and you give up a run or two you're going to be in the barge if you got a chance to win not so and again I'm not saying Johnson's gonna stop her shut him out tonight he's always got that chance if the third Espinosa ranging to his left has trouble getting rid of it what got him by half a step ground ball a little breaking ball down alone away that flowers tried to pull this ball runs up the arm of Espinosa there it is finally gets a handle on it and throws out flowers by about a step a lot of stickers on us Bono's his bag he has made many stops in the basements and in the miners all want us no home has one kid in the series naggy with six and one over his last eight regular season starts and then beat the Red Sox and the playoffs twenty-eight years old from Fairfield Connecticut how do you think the guys on the Seattle ballclub I'm talking about lose soul he's really done a job I mean this guy is a hacker and slasher there you see the defense against so they flame about his head away as you can be did you guys that will go to right field he could take a look at Albert Bell and Lefty we can show Albert Bell 11 he's a good 90 feet off the line out there actually bunching I'm walking who shaves Ford's right-center there you see the line from the line to Albert balcony he reaches for it London and the kalmyk club for him is a team play I mean that doesn't crack the top 100 blaze of any season now easy prey for Omar Vizquel on a soft little lion drive he timed his leak perfectly when the boy left so it's bad it looked like it might get over his head but there he is an easy play for Omar Vizquel did he think that was the last out have yeah why not everybody's fired up here he made some plays one on pewter diving into the hole the other barehanded on Soho and game two in Seattle it really goes to why he's regarded now that Ozzie Smith is 40 years old and perhaps to play only one more season why the skill is now regarded as the best loved man of his position in either League you know he's made that barehanded play I've seen him do it a number of times and I asked him about it and he said it's the easiest way for me to make the fight he said I have a lot of confidence and grabbing the ball barehanded instead of trying to make it a glove play pick it out of the glove and throw in the same motion he said it's a lot easier for me bare hand make the throw it's a do-or-die play anyway he make it fine if you don't it's a bake sale listen swings and misses two and one Estelle told me he often played barehanded as a kid in the streets in Caracas Venezuela that as well as wood stops or rattle off the list our style aparicio concepción year listen in the nine hole 278 nine home run not a soft touch now this guy's got a good job former Cincinnati Red the guy that Lou Pinella wanted does a good job behind the plate he did pretty good BC where you throw pretty well and I know runs including a big game winner against the White Sox from September christiana a full count he came to Seattle from Cincinnati with Bobby I Ellen and the deal that sent Bret Boone and Eric Hanson off to Cincinnati Henson has since moved on to the Red Sox where he had a big year and the party join them in a postseason series now along Maggie's first strikeout but the Jay Buhner homerun is given Randy Johnson a one-nothing read back to the Jake in a moment in Atlanta Greg Maddux is rolling and Reggie Sanders continues to be foiled by Atlanta pitching Maddux striking him out as Sanders leaves off the second inning Sanders with 11 strikeouts in his last 15 at-bats while Maddux is not allowed a hit through to that kabab and Bob all right Hannah Thanks it'll be Albert Bell Eddie Murray Manny Ramirez the face Randy Johnson in the bottom of the second there may be some debates about the MVP in both ways although I think Albert Bell September serves probably wanted form in the American League but they don't even have to collect the ballots they could just do it by acclamation when it comes to siyoung Maddox and Johnson absolutely yeah without a doubt problem and again here's Howard vowel to leadoff and and he gets my vote in the MVP this year I don't move on that end of the year but I mean what this guy has done to the Indians throughout the season and I know he had a big second having a big last month of the year and I don't care you know people say well he did it after they clinched there was nobody telling him what the pitches were I mean there was nobody saying here comes a fastball Talbert hit I mean this guy did his job Dan day out and I think he deserves and I really do Edgar Martinez on the mariners who will be somewhere in the first three with Vaughn and Bell says that he thinks this guy should get the award all righty - I mean you got a guy in right field in Jay Buhner with Seattle who's that a heck of a year and I think should be considered as an MVP candidate but you know with the Edgar my situation here's a guy that's a v8 I think it's got to go to a guy who plays every day about it what some guy hits 460 home runs and knocks it out of the 60 that's a different story but I think it's still got to be a heavy day guy had it plays defense 42 John sees one one two bell and a bouncing ball his story so home one down awkward short hop bonuses the show wouldn't like tasted good years corporate headquarters 30 miles south of Jacobs Field you ever been in that thing no and I didn't have no plans Dara jables are not I mean to look at them from a distance to enjoy the shots they bring this foot I've been up there but not the blimp well and you don't during a rainbow you might be able to elaborate [Music] Marie played in the LCS in 79 and 83 with the Orioles in the World Series both those years so one good to do it they'll give you the different arm angles - is it the repertoire itself isn't difficult enough to deal with after your left-hander from time to time you'll drop down sidearm style he's only got one in there tonight strictly left-handed he lost it I'm tell you look at Murray there and I know Eddy sits on a lot of fast balls sitting on a heater there and Johnson threw it right by him starts him off with a slide or a hard slider strike one runs a fastball away and now comes with a high fastball again and he's had a one in two on Bert lays off two and two Maria 3:23 for the year one of four Indians Belle Baerga and Tony the others in the continent hitting in the American League and Indians led the league in runs team average and homers softly 2/3 flowers with lots of time and housing at first the indians matter of fact in two hundred seven home runs in just one hundred and forty four games if you figure that out the all-time record of 240 by the 1961 Yankees of marason medal but again you can talk about the Indians and they are great hitting ballclub and they've got an excellent pitching staff and and a very strong bullpen but again this Seattle Club Bob I mean with the view neurs and Griffey and the to Martinez along with Mike flowers who's had a big year with 23 home runs I mean I don't have to take a back seat to anybody with you I mean this club can score run even hotter than 82 home runs for the year themselves big reception at Jacob steel for young Manny Ramirez really struggled the last couple of weeks of the regular season against the Red Sox and the first one up in Seattle and then exploded going for four for two of the hits home runs the Indians got even in the series Johnson so one pinch off speed and outside and a few bad wrecking balls and he's thrown here in the early going the thing that Charlie Manuel is said with with Ramirez was the fact that they closed him up a little bit about four to six inches and had him hit into a little deeper trots they said he was standing up a little too much they looked at films got him bent over a little bit that seems them straightened him out you see what happens here tonight against this guy you'll see when he's really humming a lot of what he just saw fouled back to the screen but she just can't get around I mean here's Ramirez with 410 against left-handers but this isn't just any left-hander and he can't take a bigger screen you say to yourself hey he's reading throw it hard I'm gonna I'm gonna take a real Hacket this way he got his shorten up from time to time live down the left-field line you got to shorten your stroke a little bit bobbin and instead of taking it way back and really you know cocking the bat and then letting yourself go because I mean he's throwing 98 to 100 miles an hour time after time and here's that last pitch to Ramirez out probably hooks the liner foul let's go on the chain and obviously sitting on the heat and he's in front if you get a change and it's an assault against this guy better Wacka [Music] the different angles that he come for that little 3/4 arm style that he has he can make it really run away from the right hand like that he's ended each of the first two frames with a strikeout he sat down the first 60s face that he leaves one nothing after two back to Cleveland in a moment in Atlanta Cincinnati starter David Wells with runners at the corners a two out facing Marquis Grissom gets Grissom to pop up to end the inning the Braves have wasted five hits in the first two innings the first time ever the postseason that a team has five hits with no run into in expected day [Music] Anna Thanks we were looking into the Seattle dugout this is moments ago maybe a tooth one of those molars bothering Jay Buhner or maybe he turned off that Charles naggy breaking pitch so quickly arrest his neck because he just jerked it out of here you know you know what I think may have happened - did you ever gone and have your jaw kind of Locker never do that no okay Jay Buhner did not y'all in heaven jaw I think I think that's what happened he's alright they had a jade gunner buzzcut night at the Kingdome in 771 people showed up either already bought it or willing to have their their domes shaved clean in order to get a free ticket Coleman bounces one to Perry - no be gone 220 we're women that smell is great about yeah they had a lot of gals in what you don't do the same thing up in Seattle again the drug scene going this series could be rock and roll against alternative you got the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame absolutely velvet your er a Little Richard yeah very dead new to the Bluff City Madman yeah good reference oh yeah what about Pearl Jam and Soundgarden at all I don't meet oh oh I love me though it doesn't be there Morrow was hit by a pitch his first time up Turner's lead it one-nothing on the burner hold on you're on death the one one found out of play now let's see a feel really no one was going alright the newest hottest band in Seattle I'm told the presidents of the United States of America I haven't been there yet I haven't we get out there for next Tuesday's sixth game I like Millard Fillmore on drums but Herbert Hoover is no match for any better as a lead singer in my opinion buddy the gun Andy Josh in the city needs a drummer it start with a second good right out by our guy ten rupees in your head for the plate we had for Jim graves with his dad in his fan [Music] thank you very much Jim terrific senior 10 when your son was growing up jr. and he'd seen you play in Cincinnati in the playoffs what did he pay attention to most during your games what do you think he learned well he learned that he hit the ball because that's all he was going he never faded sense of what we were doing out on the field and that's always why did he pay attention he was too busy playing with the other kids well that he was having a lot more fun than watch that play he wanted to play how nervous do you get watching your son play in a situation like this well you see me sweating don't you right now great no never let them see you sweat as we face the camera here those two home runs back to back in 1990 against Curt McCaskill it's a thrill that you relist and think quite a bit with your son all the time you know I mean it's once-in-a-lifetime thing and you know I was just happy that we ended up doing it go back upstairs to Bob thank again Jim thanks a lot a soft single to right here is 2 for 2 in this game and 6 for 9 in the series best ball [Music] got it pull off first time up he's single - sorry heard his gun the change of pace running down well away from graffiti gets out in front imposable hit all that hard business dropped information he stood for - where he's dabbling some kind of player winner with the Big Red Machine I'm telling later with the Yanks my dearest pop to buy heir to his first time up looking for his first hit of the series and a call strike one from Maggie again when the with Seattle and those times when balls were hitting the gap when when Pop had to run him down and chase and run and and and jr. and Sutter laugh of that and had his bad and chasing those walls in the alligator but it was fine a senior could really fly I think he was faster than cutting he run this guy's a great Clairvaux he really easy to get along with good copper maybe we thi kid bad [Music] a Buhner Homer the second or not ripping swinging a mess it up speeds into the fries nighttime it skips into centerfield Junior gets up discount worlds in forward but it's no we're hearing stolen base and error that was a very tough pitch for a levar to try to come up throwing on even a great book probably wouldn't have gotten jr. I don't think so he had a good jump and the throw my Alomar on the shortstop side of second my arrogant trying to backhand the play it got by him or Batman the show there's just out show late and again a string of abyss and in the dirt the shortstop side of the bag it's a steal of second for junior and he moves to third on an error charged well aligned and Martinez breaks the bat Espinoza Watson to play third and an utter run comes home on the second error of the inning both after two out well Espinosa third and Mike Hargrove told us yesterday he gives us an edge defensively over Tommy I don't know whether they have a nose buddy who did it and she Atta leads to nothing well neither of these clubs are known for their defense and here again is the play that's an easy ground ball as you said Bob I don't know if that's the bat the broken bat distracted Espinosa at all that was not a tough chance he should have made the play on Martinez he's charged with an era Seattle behind Johnson now leading to number the kind of thing that just can't happen when you're up against Randy Johnson you can't get runs away or I'm telling you that enough you have to face that guy I mean without committing air and then shooting ball that's the second tonight fourthly the one pitch to Tino Martinez again there's a long way to go oh yeah Cleveland Indians have been the best team in just about every respect in the American League this year probably in all of baseball the best team offensively and the best pitching staff I've had the deepest bullpen the best staff er a there goes the water good pitch to throw on he's got it so after Martinez is cut down but an utter run they fit to nothing and MIDI right back Randy Johnson's stake to a two nothing lead back to work in the third against Shepard Fairey the rookie hit 315 super for his only start against Johnson Johnson faced the Indians once this year beat them five to three as to losses this year one to California one to Minnesota is 20 into counting the two postseason victors started to say before the commercial looking at this from the perspective of the Cleveland Indians with Randy Johnson on the mound they've got to at least think about the possibility that if they lose this game they face a must-win tomorrow and Sunday or else they go back to Seattle even if they split down 3-2 having to win two in a row in that building and facing Randy Johnson and at least one of those games this is a team that won its division by 30 games over Kansas City and then they swept Boston so until Game two of this series they've never really been behind in any sense they've never faced a lot of pressure this is the most pressure that they have faced all season long down in this game against the league's best pitcher and if they lose it having very little margin for error the rest of the way and to their best hitter he's not in the lineup tonight met Jim Thome and Paul Sorrento due to the fact that Randy Johnson is in there for Seattle those gentlemen 25 home runs this year just inside 3 & 2 Leland's record was 22 games better than Seattle's this year but that's all out the window and to get into a short series shortstops Soho sergeant that is on the run to retire ferry and of course the Seattle team is not the same team that it was all year at benefit tomorrow and Coleman who sparked them at the top of the order were added late in the year while we have a chance here's tonight's Toyota diamond dust baseball fact the Washington Senators faced the New York Giants in the 33 World Series named the player managers both Hall of Famers who led those teams I think I know but let you think about it football well again with Seattle leading to nothing here and not again with Johnson on the mile the great chance to get back to Seattle all they need is one Aleman which one to the right side and he's retired Martinez to Johnson what don't you know as this game goes on and on and Johnson principal Benihana they get this in Seattle and Piniella was just as happy Mike Hargrove told us yesterday they were happy to get out of there with a split and now they told us the same thing tonight he's today we're glad getting out of there 1-1 with this guy opening here tonight Espinosa steps in and takes the ball well Judson had to rely on a slider a lot more in game 3 against the IPS at a news release appearance in game 5 than usually have the arm strength he was fishing on three days rest and Game three for the second consecutive time to a hundred sixteen fifty then came back and three pressure-packed relief innings in Game five now he has four days rest since that appearance and a week's rest since his last story well he was asked by the press if he thought that relief appearance was was gonna bother him he said nothing is wrong I felt great I wanted to stand that game and keep pitching as there was talk about him only working the one inning Bob but Lou Piniella wanted to keep him in there at his own beat at his own doing and and Johnson said I wanted to stand the game I felt good I was strong he give up the run in the 11th they come back to get two and they're half in there talking those guys and they tell you anything you want to know and we walked into Pinellas office tonight hey guys how you doing now glad to be here here's what we're gonna do everybody's fine no injuries don't have the Fazio's my pitcher for game number five he came out right away so Bob Ewell is gonna have seven days rest he's my pitch he ought to be alright another one to pitch to Espinoza it's almost mandatory that any time the battery even switches these days to catch her ass and check with the umpire by the third at first and this time nothing doing two and two strikeout number three been a tiny first three innings for Junction we're back after this from your local station while Randy Johnson dominates in Cleveland Greg Maddux struggling in Atlanta bases loaded two outs top of the third they guest Reggie Sanders striking him out for the second time in the night standards just 1 for 11 at the plate in this series here for a sellout [Music] thanks a lot is ball one to Tino Martinez who was at the plate when Sandy Alomar but Edgar Martinez now trying to steal and the third breaking ball ripped to right but Ramirez has it measured and there's the first half the problem with his shoulder a couple of years ago and it was borderline as whether they should do the full rotator cuff surgery or go the more conservatively and just scoping which is what they did and that allowed him to resume pitching more quickly but he says it was only this year that he got the full range of motion back and he is pitching better than he has in about two and a half years I mentioned he 117 in 92 he wants 16 to tie Hershiser for the most victories on the staff this year here's his nemesis Gunnar wallop one out of here the lead off the second I know what he went through I had their scope surgery arthroscopic surgery on my right shoulder a couple of years ago bobbin and I know what it is do we have and come back and try to throw after that type of surgery I think any guy that comes back from any type of surgery on your shoulder or album and that's Tommy John whatever whatever they do shoulder elbow wherever and and you throw anywhere near which could could be poor I think you're doing a heck of a job Orel Hershiser is an example I mean he gobbles back to what he was when he had his big year in 88 and he's had the surgery too Maggie's behind Judith we know and there is no way because she looks to prove a strike here pop care is a green light flashing from the top of ministerial right now and he takes over it there's no no chance a guy like pewter leading to nothing and sitting free Oh with a guy like Navy I don't care if you get one to hit you got a whack at breaking ball might be a different story but he throws you something straight sinking fastball in and cutter or whatever you got to go out take an Aggie deep three times this year it's this one sharply on the ground of this job this is but to out this 1995 League Championship Series game before to buy the party trucks 36 million people depend on every day genuine Chevrolet the smooth push beer and easy drinkin Butch life and United Artists Goldeneye bond is baggage this November did you know that youth bond is back James Bond yeah Connelly James Bond absolutely Timothy Dalton there's a line drive for a two-out hit off Mike flowers bat not Dom Nazi but not done not sore Wally Cox here's the president now here's the next thing who led those two teams I'm not a half right I know one of them I knew one too I knew Bill Terry I knew Bill Terry but I thought it might have been Bucky Harris for the Senators but it was Joe calling right now great sword style I thought I knew bill Terry was one I didn't know I missed the joke from him - I wasn't we've got the second base by Erica the grand prize but we do have lovely parting gifts for you tonight we'll be back as we all know cooler heads prevail which is apparently this gentleman's belief but someone who say he got hit in a fireball I'm told he got cops but he didn't want to leave for any extensive medical attention so they just slapped the ice bag on his dome and said enjoy yourself I knew it wasn't the weather it's 73 degrees tonight and the fourth is walkin by Johnson maybe he tried to go for the Jay Buhner buzzcut in his piece take a shot of him later on when he looks that thing off he's outside on and walking on the left is carrying a bit cold and going back in he can't go he's in there we'll do some shallow in left that when this ball came slicing off Watson's back long way to retreat he might have made the blow but he didn't and lost it he led the league in triples was thinking free from the crack of the bat transform Randy Johnson and hit over the head of home I didn't call and pull back a little once she got to the warning track and looked for a lotta like he was going to be able to make the catch loss and ends up for the triple that's the first hit coming up by Randy Johnson the diet except for flowers who's even with the bag at third the infielders are back of course leading to nothing and Vizquel takes the ball Omar Vizquel a tremendous stealer as we've mentioned but he's become a useful hitter at 266 and he's among the league leaders who sacrificed flies in sacrifice from he stole 29 bay she hardly ever grounds into a double play he's pesky up there Lofton tags Griffey with the cat the sacrifice slide to cut the lead the two the one those are the little things that you talk about when you talk about a player like Omar Vizquel nobody talks about his goal block and what a great fielder is he doesn't slide moving running either with a sacrifice or by hitting behind the runner Bob to the right side with the runner in second is Vince Coleman had left the ball but I think maybe Vince Coleman thought he stood apart I really do by ergo steps in and takes the ball you know they never make the first or the last out of it anyway at third base Lawson though knowing that they've got a really kind of scramble for anything they can get off Randy Johnson was willing to get even with his speed Thursday's but it was worth the gamble well and Coleman doesn't have one of the strongest going on on this Seattle Club he's probably the weaker the three of you talking about Troy Griffey and Sutter and beuter in right with tremendous arms and here again is that flyball hit by Lofton and around first he goes rather leisure like Bob I think he's busting all the way which he is now he makes it the third easily he's in there just ahead of the throw from Coleman but again a ball I think Vince called and wijaya he's gonna clock one out single and Johnson will have to face cell what's the tying run at first I are gonna 324 lifetime here against Randy Johnson you know he was telling me yesterday the club out around here for that little workout last night he said you can this guy is out there working against you he talks to you he doesn't point that to you anymore when he strikes you out but he hollers at you before he serves to fetch you ready I'm coming at you here I come he ready the best against the best and an off-speed pitch for a strike to Albert Belle Belle with 50 homers 126 RBIs as you all know the first in history with 50 homers and fifty CC have 52 of them to tie Edgar Martinez for the lead lead first ever to do that in the same season he's hit three homers in his career off Johnson but he's hitless in his last 10 at-bats including his first at-bat tonight against Randy third-base and that's gone just before six second the speedier runner and by hair go off the basin having flowers handy had the ports at second on his mind all the way in nor hurry to get that ball to Joey Cara it was hip deep and 30 was playing Bell deep at 3rd they get the poorest half second belabor here's Murray rounded out his first time mellow modestly deker's swings on the first one it popped it back a second Paulo retreating they get one but that's all they leave a man on after four to one yellow as every veteran sports watcher knows this is the view from the blimp but did you know this the very first baseball game a Goodyear blimp covered was in September of 1925 now my question is this since there wasn't any television even in an experimental form until around 1939 or 40 and I think the first televised World Series was 1947 what exactly was the Goodyear blimp covering at a league park the old home of the Cleveland Indians in 1925 I could come up with something but hey Josh I don't I don't think it would be right just ask what a beautiful shot they must fit the day for the black you know I'm told they were doing a radio broadcast of the Senators and the Indians from an unusual angle I'd like to call home little harder to judge a flyboy that's like you point you had about right yeah yeah there's Wilson on the fifth from the blue we're up there right now they're right above I'll tell you what let's take this pitch drops lay right there stop right there the count is going to let's do you think you get it close up here Maggie to Wilson I could tell that was a fall from 5,000 right Josh [Laughter] a beautiful shotgun Wilson Coleman and Cora in the fifth the crowd energized by the Indians on the court against Johnson and now Maggie reports his second strikeout Wilson both times and again as we said at the top of the Telecaster you see a lot of breaking stuff tonight from Charles naggy and he comes with a breaking ball again big crowd here at Jacobs Field well it's touted as really gotta turn around how do they Bob the downtown area here not only this magnificent baseball field Jacobs Field a brand new basketball arena just across the hallway the whole downtown area in Freeman really undergoing a huge renovation and it's beautiful here William Hallman over to Spinoza in close to Maggie you out to the Seattle City then child's naggy rolling along now to be able to base it back in the fourth who's retired the next three in order we sit at the top of the telecast despite the fact that Randy Johnson is going tonight for Seattle this guy can pitch he's had problems in the opening inning all year long and it is the world the RA of over five in first innings but after that he settles down and he has here tonight thus far for I hit by a pitch and grounded out hit 297 for the year just huge in that fifth game against the Yankees early home run off David Cone and then the crucial crack bunt singled the leadoff the 11th against the Dow sparking a rally miscalculation out the first one two three four one well your partiality is the order of the day as we work here for NBC but do you have an undeniable connection to the Cleveland Indians as Harry Doyle the voice of the fictional tribe in major league one and two and they're calling this one major league three yeah where they hope to go all the way and win the whole thing and if I ever show up for one of the NBC games like I did a major they wanted to do I think I'm out of here [Music] I thought that was your finest work actually we had a lot of fun we walked up to Sandy Alomar the other night the man who's up for the game we walked up to Sandy Alomar at the batting cage the other night as soon as he saw you he started quoting lines from the film he said he swings in appreciate one toward South America yeah Ramirez struck out his first time up Duncan so one day outside a ball and a strike what a difference in in noise levels I'm Bob between hearing the Kingdome dingdong with that crowd roaring that that enclosed stating the deficit and here in brand-new Jacobs Field a huge crowd and it's been this way all year long here no nothing nothing Cincinnati in Atlanta rains leave that series to nothing great crowd here at Jacobs Field it's a beautiful park affiliation downtown Cleveland you like this place now this is what a ballpark to feel like you've got all the modern the luxury box using the x-rays to generate revenue but the feeling of the golf on here that's okay this field in talking with a lot of the players and grasses cut very short years from beautiful ballpark grass is cut very short and it's very slick and Ramirez becomes the fourth strikeout victim for Randy Johnson now he got him South straightened out a couple of days ago with a four-four for an iron at the Kingdome including a couple of home runs Randy Johnson is struck him out twice tonight that's his fourth in this game high fastball again through here that's a tough pitch to handle I want to tell you when you got guys like Johnson throwing in the high 90s and they throw up there I mean it's tough I mean it's awful hard to hit a ball or hit it fair anyway you might get a piece of one once in a while you can't you can't chase pitches up there fouled off like Harry the former University of Florida quarterback began the year in the minor leagues a June call-up started 45 games this year platooning with Sorento at first base and in the lineup with the left-hander Johnson on the mound I mean it is no disgrace if you're told me or Sorento to sit Buck Showalter sat Boggs and O'Neal against Johnson in Game three of the division series hitters of that caliber in on his fist slow rolling plant flowers fair hand and got it there it is again my flowers we've talked about this scalp and the barehanded plays that he makes Beauty flowers and he gets her McNary bad stuff let's play by Mike Lauer here it is again from a different angle that's a tough play that's a do-or-die play if you don't make it it's gonna be a base ship and he gets parried by a step hours a big year for Seattle 23 all runs almost knocked in a hundred now sandy Alomar the first game ever played in this ballpark that's Chad hojae up and throwing and the Indian bullpen first game ever played at Jacobs Field pitted the Indians against America and Randy Johnson had a no-hitter into the eighth broken up by a Sandy Alomar singled in the game eventually went extra innings from the Indians quantity and didn't get a decision in that game but you're right Bobby I don't hit you a question and the 1 1 pitch down and in doing in looking at at Johnson tonight I think we're seeing a lot more of ranking stuff from him than you normally would and I don't know if he's had a little problem or not it seems to be fluid and as good pop on his fastball but a lot of breaking stuff here tonight that's more hide away three balls in the strike well he said last weekend in Seattle said it with a smile I was pitching on fumes because they've had to go to and so often down the stretch he just asked the home plate umpire again if that was a check swing strike Dale Ford the first place umpires said no Johnson part was cute he thought it was to to as Lou Pinella now and there's the home plate umpire Rick Reed saying no it was not a strike it's three balls in the strike not to - here it is again six swing by Sandy Alomar I'll tell you what that I think with the strike oh boy the two-out walk another set up set it there at that call by the first base umpire deal court is the guy that made the call saying that Alomar checked in time but the look like he went around too far first man walked tonight by Judson now we told you that this year he spends twelve point three four nine innings of work the previous record was Nolan Ryan eleven point three in 1989 for his career Johnson averages 10 strikeouts per game and that's the all-time career rack a Lamar on his way to third as Coleman gets it back in Espinoza single puts runners at the corners would throughout Alice Kenosha atones for an era the third that allowed to run the store the ground ball hit by Edgar Martinez included it for an air with Ken griffeys scoring here's that last base a little soft line drive in the lips utter Kenosha and a two-out single unions the tying run at third with two men out to the same Bible we talked earlier about Espinosa and Perry being in this game and I'll tell you what it's no easy chore I mean it's bad enough when you play against a guy like Johnson and you're in the lineup every day just sit out and have to go up against him as a as a hitter once a week or something he's really tough it really is I know I know what that feels like Alomar at third Johnson came side arms aloft in last time in Kenny triple to left he's like is this one toward the left-field corner but it's in the seats foul yeah Lofton leading out now Kenny on those two breaking walls kind of leaning out let's see Randy Johnson tries to come inside here with a fastball there doesn't lock out there although he's kind of bathing a little bit he still had the plate coverage and takes one in the file Terra time before I said Johnson now tried to working inside to come up a little bit and inside you stand in there left-handed and keep telling yourself I'll keep the shoulder and keep the shoulder in you know what to get out your backside buddy and every rational cell in your brain but you know from a left-handers perspective that's so nasty it should be rated nc-17 that's his fifth right now Jacobs Field in a moment in Atlanta top of the fifth Barry Larkin on first - else Greg Maddux facing Ron Gant sparkin tries to steal but the Braves gets right with a pitch out they get Larkin in the rundown and they get out of this inning 13 baserunners thus far in the game and no runs with the scoreless in Atlanta in a FedEx box Ricky jr. is the leadoff man here in the sixth he's had a pair of singles stolen base and he scored a run you know as great as he is already establishing himself many healthy in the opinion of many people is the best all-round player in baseball he's still not the best player ever to come out of Donora Pennsylvania and usually who played on an integrated high school team in the 30s not with Ken Griffey senior but with Ken Griffey junior grandfather played basketball and baseball with imagine or Pennsylvania one and two beautiful chains have faced that time from nagging tell you what he just missed on the second pitch a fastball that I thought could have been called a strike on the inside to Griffey I still thing you got to pitch this guy down and then I mean he'll chase breaking stuff down and in and if you can throw the off-speed stuff the straight change there's a little riding change that naggy has down low it away and I mean a good pitch anyway good contending oh here it is off speed Griffey out the front tried to check his swing and pitch was good anyway right on the corner strikeout number three Bernanke look at those guys those big hitters like grippy and I mean unless they're looking they're always geared for a little something hard ready just in case they have to jump into the lifeboat a spike Tiffany's dad de Martinez who reached on Espinoza Zahra which scored a run in the third but he's still looking for his first hit of the series and this equals his longest hitless streak of the season eight at-bats it's no small wonder why a guy like Martinez leads the league at 356 and you talk about is his hitless is longest in the scheme being two games or eight at-bats wanted to the problem with margin is Bobby and he's the guy that talks about this more often than anybody else the fact that he's got to drive the ball to right field I mean he's got to sit back and especially against a guy like Maggie who throws so much off-speed stuff he's got to hit the ball to right or try to drive it to right-center I guess or the best hitters in the league to start to say more that was good enough for Rick green I don't know if Martinez for to reach that ball there it is one more time and again it's a change of pace you see that see that very very slow rotation there it is now it's close I don't know if it's a strike or not Rick Reed's got the indicator that's all that counts now naggy to his former Olympic teammate they were on the 1988 squad that won the gold medal in the Seoul Olympics Maggie from the University of Connecticut Martinez University of Tampa in Florida these guys throwing a lot of off-speed stuff down good curveball settling in down to two one struck out four it's rated in the third throwing error by Alomar on a steal from Griffey and then a ground ball off the chest of Espinoza at third base other than that it's just the solo homer by Buena and finding it goes in the middle innings you know you tell yourself as a hitter to wait back I mean if you're gonna look five speed change you're breaking ball you keep saying yourself way back way back way back you don't realize how cook your arms are baba cook your hand even though you're sitting back on off-speed stuff almost got his bird Paul third strike of the inning that didn't miss by much very nearly a punch out now on four counts of Martinez with June Iran death breaking ball fouled away Nagi throws a pitch he calls a slurve that splits the difference obviously between a slider and a curve right that's exactly what he calls it it's not real hard I mean it's it's an off-speed pitch and and he's got a good one and if that's working for me I mean he'll keep you in a bargain which he's doing here tonight got a clerk Oh hooks up the side of the six and the Indians hang close now here's the first of the three strikeouts for naggy on a check swing but a good change of pace on the outside quarter for Griffey here's the second strikeout of the inning this right on the outside corner to Edgar Martinez and number three a low inside breaking ball to Tino as he strikes out the side that's a good ball game two to one here in the sixth and Agee has matched Randy Johnson strikeout total of five well of course he's worked in extra inning this now is Johnson's 6th inning of work and this gal bounces 1 which would have been over most pitchers but the 6/10 Johnson Paulus pitcher in baseball history is easily able to snare it this 1995 League Championship Series game is brought to you by technical Haviland formula 3 motor oil nike who encourages you to participate in the lives of America's youth and the makers of Advil Valley is the biggest player in baseball 610 Randy Johnson Bob said anybody else that might be an infield single what up it made an easy play on the scalp could be first down the other now by ergo struck out in single Bell on [Music] look at my arrogance bat that looks like something to get at the toy store your Christmas present a red back the people [Music] it was the kind of bat that should have a name like Robert Redford's bat is that wonderboy Roy Hobbs in the natural do to hide away notice that fat on my areas first time up did you I think he just went to it this turn that is he spray-painted that time dug up Johnson's one-two pitch didn't miss by much doesn't have any marks on a gun it looks like it's brand new at the third wires close on the road and gets fire going Flowers has had a good night at third base luolian ground ball by by air go right down the line now he gets there in plenty of town on the run he play on by Erica got a good job for Seattle I was talking to him before the games and I had Bob about that fifth game against the Yankees in Seattle and he was taken out of the game he see if I'm telling you sitting in the clubhouse and watching that thing as unbelievably almost unbearable he said I was so so much more relaxed in the game and on the field on the first pitch bail will now be out for three tonight against Johnson Buhner calls Cora off a perfect six for Andy and we're back after this from your local station welcome back to Cleveland I'm Jim Gray as we head to the top of the seventh inning we've got Jay Buhner coming up but a lot of fans here in the sand seems to have you confused they think you're James with actually it's his brother Sean a lot of people think you're Quinn yeah yeah I get that question about every day however you're seven years younger you play for Wisconsin in minor league ball in the Mariners organization sitting here watch a new brother I know it's a dream for you but how many times on the field of you guys thought you're in a championship series and you are your brother hit a home run I never have I've never been their kids as well back in high school is in the state championship game that I I never hit a home run like you dreamt of quite a bit with your brother growing up I tell you what I'm happy for him and we all might affect all the family here and just wishing the best Jays at the plate right now the mr.clean look is going on down there Bob if he just gets a little goatee going what I'm telling you it would be impossible just about to distinguish them Maggie behind him to a No you know can't catch up with that one now he was sitting to all gets one right down the middle of me to go home run cut and mr. uterus hit safely in all eight of Seattle's postseason games the only seattle player to do so now starting to see a steady diet of our school stuff he threw him a fastball on to know what he might have been looking off-speed then came back with good proselyte constants to have him off balance and that was on the corner for his fourth consecutive strike three and his strikeout of the game naggy sizzling now and off we go to have a storm well Greg Maddux was sizzling bomb retiring the side in the sixth facing Reggie Sanders breaks him out for the third time in the game standard this one for 12 in the NLCS with a strike out there were still scoreless in Atlanta Bob Reggie Sanders is going to have to run out Mo Vaughn and Jose Canseco in the offseason and they'll have to commiserate someplace great seasons and busts at least for Sanders so far in the postseason that's unbelievable we strike out tonight Wawa's bounced out and singled one out of the seven to one see our now he has complete command now and only an unearned run in the third inning separates Seattle and Cleveland he struck out five of the last seven in his face all right five of the last eight and the last four in a row somebody makes contact is Kenny Lofton sprinting into the gap toward the Ramirez and what to happen he's won two golf clubs he and Vizquel are the real high points defensively for Cleveland what's Lofton he knows where this fall and looking at the right fielder Manny Ramirez and you see him say I got it I got it and an easy play at the wall for Kenny Lofton one of the premier center fielders in all of baseball he was out of doors I got it I got it no problem and makes the play when they give out those out field goal gloves they don't distinguish left-center right which is why Griffey can get one in Lofton and get one in the same year and Devon white and other people you know the other thing that a lot of people tend to forgetting about law students you know his great speed but the fact that he throw he's got a lot of the better throwing arm in the American League a lot of people don't think he throws well he can and does in the bottom of the seventh Maria Ramirez and perfect fairy of a scheduled hitters against Johnson sold off that ball but still manages a single dissenter say that guy's a hacker and slasher I mean he's up there cutting all the time pitches hideaway down over the wall just take an off-speed pitch and drive it to left down the line in the quarter something hide outside he'll take you to write this pitches out of the strike zone watch this what tree gets this far way outside enough and wives at the Sutter Gertie's again watch the eyeballs high and outside from mid-august God Soho at 3:25 and became the regular shortstop Wilson has struck out both times against Maggie they thought the job we'd go this year to the former Indian field what a steal for Cleveland when they got de skeletal for me they thought for me would keep the job warm until the young feet of Alex Rodriguez took over and became their shortstop for a long time but then so just out hit for me in which is 195 50 years starting shortstop when it really mattered as the Mariners overcame that 13 and a half game deficit in the West now he gives you a lot more offensively edges 7 he's not all that bad at shortstop that costly missed you and second game in the Seattle the ball it should have been a double play ball hit by Paul Sorrento in the fifth inning turned out to be a forest plan the Indians but on the score a couple of runs Maggie's - Oh Mitchell Wilson is in there lenient tonight with the outside corner and again I mean if you're a hitter up there and you know here's the situation mark Wiley now coming out to talk with child's nagging but you're up there in this situation as a catcher father it's really tough under when you're back there catching and a pitch like that is in there and you get the strike all I know it's a bad it's I mean you know it's a it's a it's a borderline pitch you're up their hips and it's called against you you know where the pitch is it's borderline but you get the same pinch catches and you better be ready to whack in it if you up there while he's back into the Indian dugout after a short time Prince with Charles nagging sitting there former Indiana Kansas City royal left-hander darling advisor absolutely see one pizza Wilson it's struggling to write to her hearing almost these cracks no one's Bakersfield Indians down by one back to Jacob steel in a moment but first we finally have a score in Atlanta bottom of the sixth the catcher Charlie O'Brien at the plate facing David well his shoe on and well you've got the three-run home run big home run to left for Charlie O'Brien who gives his battery mate great manage to three nothing lead to work with back to bacon field here and historically Greg Maddux has not been as good a pitcher in postseason as during the regular season certain to win his fourth consecutive shy own award but it is not often if you give him a three nothing lead he'll be going to the seventh inning and he squanders him so the Reds are looking at being down Oh three Brewery catches Charlie O'Brien over we started I think 290 or being traded to Atlanta Eddie Murray leading off in the bottom of the seventh and he's over two Johnson in there it's widely felt by Scouts that Eddie Murray who at age 39 still hit 323 very dangerous hitter has more bat speed left-handed than right now you can throw it past him right-handed for whatever reason a little laughs but again Judson well he can't catch up with it you're right Bob I think left Hannity sits on he sits on fastball from the right side they do they kind of coil off speed stuff from time to time out of the strike zone there's a high fastball for Randy Johnson of his six strikeouts tonight I guarantee about three have come on pitches out of the strike zone three or four have been those high fastball the one the Lofton was a breaking ball on the outside corner but Eddie Murray taking a second look he runs it up there at 98 to 99 miles an hour and you got to be ready to catch up to it especially that kind of stuff upstairs he spammed Ramirez both times and this one's fouled on well you face Koufax sandy came right over the top he hear that four seam fastball that seemed to almost jump over the bat plus the unbelievable curveball to drop off the table curveball Carlton and Guidry had the sharp breaking sliders Don Gullett really crew heat there's another guy here Bob that I'm sure a lot of a lot of fans here in Cleveland hadn't seen or maybe maybe not remember bouncing ball to second is Cora for the second out but I know you know I'm talking about in southern sam mcdowell one of the hardest stores in all of a swallow left-hander and there's a guy to our right here he's been a Cleveland run down into a wall cut short by a lion drive it off the bat of the Yankees Gil McDougald we're talking about herbes score and his young years in the big leagues and as I said prior to that injury there he is one of the truly great guys in the game of baseball I'll tell you what there weren't many people are to harder than that guy and had a great curveball to go along with carries over to we're just talking about left-hander oh yeah so might as well throw by tableau in the early 75 deal of the Pittsburgh Pirates could really fire it veal veal was not a guy that had really great control by buddy at great velocity and and a good breaking ball ID here's another one of those guys you'd better be ready when you go up there right-handed or left-handed I mean he always talked about left-handers having such a tough time again left-handed pitchers well I tell you what right-handers have a tough time against guys like Johnson Koufax and the Falcon alike Johnson's case in the case of Carlton and deeper than that slider breaks down and ends with a right-handed hitter it's just devastating oh you're frozen all the time I mean you know you're you're between the devil and the deep blue sea the guy is throwing that hard you can't hit them both I mean it's almost impossible up to two strikes until you're protecting the plate get on into your maybe shortening her stroke a little bit to try and get the bat on the ball does he throw as hard as Koufax I think he throws yeah I think he plays the part of sandy sandy had them as you said please talk about Sandy's fastball he was right over the top this guy comes with a big boy insider has a tendency to run away a little bit Sandy's ball of four seamer what had a hop on it I mean it when you throw a four seam fastball that comes off your fingers the ball has a backspin on it and when you throw that hard it has a little hop I mean he could throw a ball to waste when it got you maybe a few chests somewhere around those we did that good I'd love to catch a guy like this I really would throughout nobody on and hairy lines one foul so the count to him holds two and two nice slider as good as Carl tonight more gidran I think they're both in the same category Guidry and Carlton with this guy's breaking ball it's not a real big breaking ball but it's it's hard I mean when a guy throws a 90 plus mile an hour of breaking ball and a fastball around ninety to a hundred you know depending on on what pitch what any good I don't care who you are they here are you're gonna have problems see how fast this one is 88 it's just something off you know what you're talking about the overpowering fastball near a hundred and a slider up over 90 that was Junior Richard from the right side that was the Houston Astro saw him I saw him I faced it plus he was nearly as tall he was six eight Johnson six ten to scare the heck out of a very hard thrower yeah here's the 3-2 pitch went off speed again and it's roll fine now here's it here's a guy that throws as hard as anybody in baseball and maybe harder with a 3-2 pitch and two outs against Herbert Perry not taking a chance throws a breaking ball he's got sandy Alomar do next and threw the 3-2 breaking ball on Prairie though that shows me the difference in this guy Bob walking for a long time Alomar's gonna be next but his breaking stuff in his controllers includes so much it's made of an outstanding pitcher the styling a few off urns that walk with you out that's surprising me a little bit I thought I thought they fill with a fast quality they're leading by a run here it's not it's not where you're gonna give up the lead run now you've got a chance you've walked a guy with two outs and you got a guy up here now in Alomar who's got home run power he's hit ten for the year and has hit two has hit Randy Johnson fairly decently not tonight but he has had success against I'm surprised you go with a breaking ball to him to a hitter like Perry who hasn't been playing all that much and instead to face out of are with a runner on Alomar is gone but a rose-colored bat-like by ergo I wonder if they're sharing the same stick but I guarantee that's one of the better ones that he's throwing tonight that one was not 88 miles an hour that was in the high nine watch this basketball I mean wow inside quarter and really tied up alibi is running right in on now the old one pistol sandy the runner is going here's the broken Woodsen it's a perfect throwin a cutting down not a bad gamble trying to get him in a story position but Wilson nails him back to take appeal in a moment 3-nothing atlanta top of the seventh of runner on third for Greg Maddux and one out facing just Branson brands in the long fly ball a look at Marquis Grissom the speedy Grissom covering a ton of ground to save a run there and Atlanta still with a shutout we nothing in the center up in the bullpen now for Cleveland the right-hander Julian Tavarez the left-hander Paul Assenmacher this inning begins with Cora then they get into that left right part of the order Griffey from the left side Coleman I should say Korra on deck batter ahead of myself but eventually they get into that left-right situation and Hargrove wants to have the southpaw and the right-hander ready top of the order Coleman then Cora and then Griffey it's a real luxury for for Highgrove and panella admitted as much tonight he you asked me the same question Bob you know when you've got these this situation : Decorah you got grippies ahead for Martinez a right-handed batter Tino a left-handed batter to follow then Jay Buhner and he's got that kind of a bullpen where he'd go left-hander left-hander right-hander right head or whatever [Music] Coleman oh-for-three tonight 1 for 11 in the series it's about a punt and Mississippi one and two tomorrow and he Bennett those four Seattle and Hill the what a pitch game four against the Red Sox but they swept so hello hasn't worked in a while will be the starter there he is charting pitches on Sunday Dennis Martinez comes back for Cleveland and Chris Bosio gets the ball for Seattle coming got a piece of it and stays in there got a piece of the home plate umpire Rick read through that one just in the in the lower portion of the mass didn't get underneath the man here does one more time watch this ball pop up and off the shoulder fan I thought it got him under the mask but off the shorter path some pyres wearing a chest protectors similar to a catcher but on each shoulder they have almost a football type shoulder patch to protect that exposed area he tried to bump with two strikes out in front of the plate Halima nodded at first cstrike continent nearly works but sandy makes the play not a fan playing on by Vince Coleman trying to get a board to lead off here in the eighth inning to strike bunt attempt and not a bad pun at all but Alomar jumping out very quickly bare hand pickup and he got him by a step nice play by Sandy Alomar there it is from another angle to finish it off and here's for hit by a pitch grounded out twice by air guff snatches it and retirement ground ball by car open an ice pick fire by hand I'm on to the second inning here what is a good bargain really here it is one more time that's a fastball from nagging and Cora pulls it by Erika tricky little hop but he plays it nicely and throws him out [Music] now Griffin they're singles and a strikeout rolled foul Sam Matias first base coaching box sam polazo on the lines at third for Lou Piniella he didn't need the extended postseason to get there in just seven games he's cleared the wall six times no I thought tonight against naggy and and with the type of stuff that naggy throws if he made a mistake on Griff he got a breaking ball up and around from the middle to the inside pop that grip he might might take him deep he's really pretty well so far the off-speed stuff is down low and inside and again grippies last time up in the sixth inning we called him out on a third strike at being Rick Reed there's a pitch off the outside corner right around the outside of change of pace we wouldn't want the Junior you said before this game we wanted to bet somebody that naggy would strike out as many as Junction what kind of odds you can find god you're right absolutely each has six what I was talking about a minute ago that low inside breaking ball on griffey jr. had a couple inches first two times up assuming the center of the opening and singled and scored and and the third there's our last week ago coming alive here in Cleveland as they didn't stay out on their people people go full count the griffey Alomar held it there that's trying to coax Rick reader to the call Maggie wanted that one a very close pitch on the inside corner after throwing the off-speed stuff he comes with a fastball and just him and the payoff a little bouncer it stays fair he saw the indication with Dale Ford and Kari makes the unassisted put out to the bottom of the a is still to one Espinosa on debt doesn't start the bottom of the eighth which brings us to the MC I think positive replay of the game and don't tell us the notion if Friday the 13th isn't unlucky he finally gets his chance to play he boots this ground ball up Hector Martinez is bad in the 3rd inning a man was at third with two outs an unearned run is allowed in on that play and that's the difference in the game it made it to nothing the Indians have ceased come back with a run that we didn't to want as they bat here in the 8th and Alomar rolls one foul no long fair least Espinosa that ball took a funny little hop on him as he went to field it took Aloha find him ate him up rolled up his arm maggie has pretty well here Johnson on each attorneys here's a flyball the light burek coming on and he makes the cash quickly we check with Hannah Storm go Hannah so Bob Chipper Jones was a man on bottom of the seventh facing reliever Xavier Hernandez and Jones with a two-run home run his third homer the postseason his third hit of the night the Braves are up side to nothing they got me thinking sweep at this point Bob [Music] meanwhile the Mariners are thinking taking the same lead in the series as they have in this game 2-1 and assuring themselves of a flight back to Seattle not to gather their belongings for the offseason but keep on playing that's the least they'll be assured of if Johnson holds on to this league Espinosa struck out and singled he steps back to the edge of the track the ball really close the first date most of the night and maybe that turns us into a tricky play for beuter on and really fooled him Bob I mean a blonde it fairly well by a spinosa that ball really feels beautifully and then the ball over his head and Espinosa why in just a second as Fenella thinking that the ball was going to be caught wines up at second I don't know if he committed the third eye he probably could have have you been blown all leader for the pinch runner and will becomes Wayne Kirby to run for fourth outfielder veteran bench player looking at the flag and the wind occasionally kicks up in a pill combo a moment ago when you know misplayed the ball I think him Spinoza just hit the ball better than Peters body day now welcome 1 for 3 that hit was a triple he scored the Indians over that bread for the Indians here that one's in there he's got lots and baling onions one foot Bob no matter how hard to try to skim her sometimes I mean this guy is intimidating when he comes with that 3/4 flat iron style breaking ball against cool you know I fastball for the triple back in the court and this one is left to the hole charging people a place to get inspired the owner knows it shouldn't be that way and it's expressional Whitefield tells you that I should say but Oh such seconds after the missed you by Buner he Finch runs curvy and here's a high breaking ball I was a bad breaking ball from Johnson and Kenny Lofton the only left-handed batters strictly left-handed batter in this Indian lineup tonight comes through with a brain ship to score the tying run and when you saw flowers playing tells you why speed HUD for batting average it isn't just the infield hits of a bunch he has to be pushed at might have been playable if he were back whether the water is going who's pushing swallowing instead of welcome with his first field at school what 50 for this year he's been nursing a sore left hamstring but we started go full throttle for the triple earlier and he's filled two things here just to finish up the front respecting his speed flowers was enclosed that allows debate it went any slaps it to left I thought 104 City said I'm ready to play I'm ready to go so from Dennis running here in the eighth inning you know back in the seventh Wilson made a heck of a throw Herbert carry on of Steel attempt to end that inning walked and just outran at that time and a good jump gives 20 jump don't be surprised if he goes for third solo trying to keep nothing doing in the Seattle bullpen tied here at two of the Big Unit on with the exception of Charlton but Ella doesn't have nearly the confidence in his pen pageant is flowing behind and welcome thousand a ball and a strike to this gal watch the leaves of loft and dips in second trying to keep him close out there over here he's a good 10 to 15 feet off the bag he tries to fun again rush it off to the map and makes the play meanwhile what that does although this gel couldn't take advantage of it it scrambles your Hall infield and creates all kinds of holes for the hitter you watching Atlanta Cincinnati Bob Costas Bob Houston at Jacobs Field and Cleveland Randy Johnson had a two nothing lead the Indians have come back on him a lot of a fourth and a run here on in the eighth on a two base error right field by Jay Buhner and an RBI single by that bad Kenny Lofton who then proceeded to steal second now the hitter is Carlos Baerga okay I question one eight foot even you got a gun Lofton at second and again in trying to punt I think he got to take a whack and try to knock him in and the pastels got a heck of the year he's done well offensively he's done everything you could ask for defensively I think you got to go you got to try to hit the ball you got to try and knock in the run man that's a big run and bunting for the hip obviously not the sacrifice you've won out yeah tried it twice as a matter of fact I think you got to go I really do I think you got to try and not be down you can't put all the heat on by air go and dancing steps off I have sickle back in the four while we have a chance Wilson going to the mound to talk to Johnson for those of you who are watching the Braves in the red here's the way this inning is developed with one out Alberto Espinosa skies one to right Suter thinks he's got it lined up and then the ball sails on him jumped off the edge of his glove for what was ruled a two base then Wayne Kirby ran for Espinoza checking and Lofton lined a single past the diving flowers at third base and into left field Kirby scored easily decide again after Lofton stole second with one out the shell tried to bunt and foul down now it's fire guy the one I picked conjunction roundball ixora along throw is in time the pool Indian story [Music] with the score tied Mike Hargrove goes to Jose Mesa and I'm the guard a second time he has pitched this year when the team was not ahead 46 or 48 easily the best in baseball with any car a this bike was stopping 1.13 and generally they would only use him with a lead but here in the playoffs in the ninth inning and with del Murray and Ramirez the scheduled hitters in the bottom half Hargrove will ask Mason to hold the Mariners who Shack and give his team a chance to win it in the ninth as Spinoza's out of the game they ran for him in the bottom of the eighth there's Jim Thome in at third base Marquez to the plate swings at the first pitch he keeps Edgar Martinez hitless both tonight and in the series this 1995 League Championship Series game is brought to you by smooth foot beer and easy drinking which light Gillette sensor excel on the Gillette series Gillette the best a man can get an Oldsmobile and your local oldsmobile retailers Edgar Martinez picked a very bad time if in fact he picked it better than Indian fishing inflicting it upon him to have his longest hitless streak of the year he's now over his last 10 during the regular season never longer than oak great white to Tino Martinez turn it up a notch you two against the right-hander josé Mesa after seeing all of the off-speed stuff from child's naggy lot of breaking stuff now it's heat good fastball on a very good slider there's the two-seam fastball that he added this year to the four-seamer but you see with the sinking action really gave him another dimension that's a diving type it's a stinking type fastball of course similar I'll jump up I deserve did Manny Ramirez hit the 1/4 power 115 okay 30 before he finally came up with a basic that has the four per core game in Game two in Seattle the one to go and he hangs in the outfield defense did not help Johnson tonight Kenny Lofton hit a ball to left field that Vince Coleman had to go back on it would have been a good play but it was a play he would generally make he didn't come up with it was ruled a triple that led to the first run and the tying run on the ball you saw a moment ago that Buena couldn't handle that one was scored an error get hardened foul and it holds up one and two and on the other side of glowing ground ball by alvaro Espinosa a little chattery hit5 Edgar Martinez back in the 30 men to the second run there's Espinosa out of the game the pinch runner and another foul ball go local this year he's gonna start over the water organization they make a militant stopper he's baked Fall Fest this year there's a slider down loan inside of the dirt backhanded by Alomar you know it's ironic Bob when you look at a guy like this I mean it's happened to other pitchers to those guys who can give you a 5 5 good innings I've described of the game real quickly the other way into a short ban or a or a saber and closer whichever way you want to look at it and that's what they did with Mason I mean he's been actually that it's funny we were here the night that this string was broken on the home run by Chad Curtis in the in the names of with him trying to service they go on to win on a home run by both of the floor sales this year came against the Tigers up the middle buyer one down and it's a one out single for Tino Martinez his first hit of the night the outstanding general only when he came up in he couldn't make the deal he wanted that they turned to Jose Mesa who in today's baseball is a relative bargain at just eight hundred and fifty thousand a year it'll cost them more than that in ninety six I would think so and he's earned it he's earned it now buna for earlier might have warned the heroes laws for a long home run off cows Maggie but now is looking to atone for his dowry a half inning ago here's a look at the play while we have a chance a different angle our producer John Gonzales Rosenburg tell us the routine fly ball off the bat of Espinoza was hit fairly well but only to the warning track buter backpedaling discredit for an era they get a run to tied a to 1o pitch a hole in his chest he puts it into the Mariners hopes the Indians now will attempt to win it the roles of the good you of Webster disgusting the Johnson stays in there for the phenomenal Johnson through six complete games a great job by Randy Johnson tonight nothing to be ashamed of with that performance on guarantee of that the armed childhood is coming in from the Seattle bullpen to be one over the other Emily and in Cleveland coming back flyball by a beauty they pick another and run pick up and run Randy Johnson but a Greenup I think he simply told us before the game that Charlton was ready but to leave a guy in a game Johnson maybe good Amy tonight leave it in there and take a chance on me I like this move I really do as Charlton gets ready we send things over to Jim ray Jim all right Bob but know that I don't think he wanted Randy Johnson to go out and Johnson was not expecting to come out here in the ninth inning he had to some of them from the back of the clubhouse who told him to go on out Piniella was having trouble getting anybody out in the bullpen to pick up the telephone so he told him just go out there and throw a few pitches and I'll come and get you before we start three right-handed hitters now Murray the switch hitter to the right side and then Ramirez all of them capable of ending the game with one swing the real story of this game is the work of Charles magic as we said at the beginning Mike Hargrove probably would have been contented naggy could have gone six or maybe seven strong innings whoa one of them was on earth as you said youth the other came on a funeral home run and he pitched as well every fit as well as Randy Johnson tonight oh absolutely I don't take anything away from Charles Maggie he said that at the top of the telecast Bob that he's very capable of keeping you in a ball game and winning a big ballgame for you and that's just what he did for the Indians Johnson cornets strikes out six naggy went eight innings two runs one of the Murray five hit in eight innings he struck out six virtually identical yeah great effort by both guys tonight refuse to lures is of course the Mariners slogan one Albert Bell in the bottom of the night and a called strike Randy Johnson threw exactly a hundred pitches they would use them in Game six on three days rest Tuesday in Seattle if they're trailing in the series three games to two elbows open three against Johnson bouncing ball foul asked Jeff Newman in the third-base coaching box and again in removing Randy Johnson and going to their main man in childhood for the last month and a half of the season so it was Bobby Ayala I went to this guy Norman and he has been unbelievable he's been outstanding the okuda Albert here on winning hit'em was an old cute fish that'll make you cry drew teeth my foot fingered basketball you I don't know Albert Bell birth Albert Bell the price of this guy Ravel really first base umpire Dale 40 chickens that I'm alright I'm running Eddie Murray old 2 3 2 for 13 in the series but throughout his illustrious career published late-inning quite situation outs in all of baseball with that quick fingered fastball download inside I'm Eddie Murray here's another guy following surgery that his almost come back to what he was prior to the surgery is fast father he's coming back and he's got that good foot and that he fouls it back wherever night - game three series even at first nobody out Maria the plate Norm Chow started the year in Philadelphia floundering they're released picks up by the Mariners becomes their closer probably did not have found a home in Seattle nasty boys for Lou Pinella in the world championship season of 1990 in Cincinnati coming out of that fan with Rob Dibble and Randy I asked Piniella about all three and he said this guy was the nastiest of the three are destroyed that great footage double plug on a tour was one of the very best of getting rid of the ball on the pivot to the right side might have felt fell bearing down on in Albert was trying to take him out and go he never got rid of the throw I'll tell you how it all was right there he comes back to the dugout Marie reached out and pull that outside offering there's a good throw by Sol and again he had a chance to get rid of that ball but Albert's Bell right on him and they don't turn it go again B is Seattle infield then Albert Bell right there honey I've split all the way fails to turn a key to a player in a double play situation anyway you can't anticipate it and bow tore up into the air and burning if he gets rid of that bro and the throw is true Murray's out absolutely absolutely [Music] where's on either side of the mariner insignia on his tap one is a rooster and the other was a Puerto Rican flag I believe bio is the Spanish word for decision whereas like one the matter this is that Norm Chow hood splitting the dirt saved by Wilson I was right down there in court before the two homers in Game two at the pen dog hold for three died 308 with 31 homers during the right no threat at all beyond the move from first base Tony Pena with some signals that mean nothing except get a hit and I said at home that's about it the ileum former club in Philly manager Harry would be next low too long trying to stay back finally off that Lowe's Twitter Marie again at first tried to pull that pitch with the force of second childhood walls and strike down good ball game here open up this pregame sir straightaway for Ramirez very deep in left and center well to follow Ramirez it's going to be Herbert Perry and to receive Sorento they're not the Union anxious Albertville the gates of a camps Hershiser with the World Series oil we get to grab a bat maybe need some tips she was always a good ending pitcher the naturally I got ahead of myself there would shop to them Sorento all the if a switch to a right here right Sorento comes into play and boy because they know that's a waste of time are we going know what I said there is report step of the 3100 with Charlton missing down low with the splitter and trying to get Ramirez vacation to get back to what I was saying earlier which Sorento Bob I thought I had I said I thought again I saw right enter up with the milkman out that's my mistake Peppadew in case [Music] the Indians house only Tony Pena and the switch-hitting reserved even tomorrow available to harbor Sorrento is only remaining left-handed Aida we're in the night fouled off and now here's an interesting situation Murray does not run well I run him but if only to stay out of the DoublePlay maybe he takes off all right Tony Pena Espinosa he started tonight's game at third he's make sure he throws to the plate there's nothing wrong with sending a guy like Murray in this situation if Ramirez strikes out as he is prone to do it almost certain strikeout throw out Ramirez found a hundred twelve times in the regular season 20 second base on the wall potential double troll ball that it wasn't heard and a wall could be turning into a nightmare inning for Lou Pinella yeah logos grooving tomorrow is gonna run from at second baby honey he'd assumed at the HS spot he is the son of a former Phillies toy stop move it Amaro [Music] welcome again to those of you watching the brazen Reds back to Jacobs Field honorable knife the Indians vicuna Don and while I hit batter on a walk I've given them a chance to win the game the rookie Herbert Terry over to Wicca walk 18 gone shown to relieve Randy Johnson at the start of this inning and a called strike one parry hit 315 for the year with three home runs each team has an honor and run tonight in this crowd of 43,000 what's on their feet Harry Owens who badi alibi there what the splitter Thrun three to four I call strikes comes with that nasty splitter down one more time the nasty splitter by childhood to get the strikeout in a big one big strikeout for Charlton they're all big in this game up to the bullpens now the diamond in the hands of Mesa if they let him work another inning and show as you see Jose Mesa did not remove the jacket you remain to the dugout Mike Hargrove did something similar to this in Game one of the division series against the Red Sox he let him pitch the Tim with the score obviously tied here at Jacobs Field and hoped that he could get him through that inning and then maybe they went into the bottom half when they didn't he wouldn't let him pitch a second inning only twice this year as he thrown more than one inning and our drove doesn't want to blow him out at this stage is a longer more protracted postseason than it's ever been if you expect to go all the way and that's the Indian subjective obviously if any team's objective once they get it but this is a team that had a reasonable chance to do it that had to believe they had a great chance to do it going 144 over the course of the year come back again design for the Indians after being down early in this game to Randy Johnson to nothing after three they finally got on the board and the fourth thing but I mean when you're up against a guy like Johnson and you're down to nothing things are not looking all that well but they battled back again the unearned run the tide the putting tide of two years we start to tell a couple of changes with flowers a right-handed hitter do they go to Alex Diaz as the pinch-hitter said what had bat without a hit and flowers departs comes out of the bullpen youngster from the Dominican Republic ball one high and away the 1o pitch hit right up buyer got off the chef's you have turned to a couple state women and gutter that'll bring up Soho with Wilson the catcher next welcome again to those of you watching the game from Atlanta Bob Costas and Bob Uecker back at Jacobs Field top of the 10th he started Mesa workin inning after naggy was brilliant parade and now it's Tavares in the tenth but one of you mounting a 15 inning game they won against the Red Sox to start the playoffs for 14 at all in extra innings this year they have never lost an extra inning game 1-1 they have also won more games in their last at-bat than any team in the major leagues here's tonight's starter Chuck Maggie worked the strong eight innings allowed two runs only one earned on six hits and struck out six the bullpen Julian Tavarez get about the same thing from him that you get from me sir who work the name the bars in the 94 raise is a hardliner for a base hit by solo this second hit of the night with Albert Belle pirated by him bases up around 98 Tavares in the mid nineties and now Lou Pinella there's Mesa once more but they could the score Pinella to his bench once more for Doug strange to pinch-hit well on Friday the 13th it would be appropriate if someone named strange did something big and he did something big in that Texas Seattle series up in the Kingdome Bob at the big home run against to tie the game and then in the twelfth innovation eventually scored the winning run in the game that the Rangers had the leader had a stranger he eventually scores the wing run in 12 3:13 as a function of this year I'm at at first and one down to the tenth [Music] Oh Simone isn't around remember him the injurer are absolutely Friday the 13th was scaring him out of his wits he literally literally afraid of ghosts used to stick watson gum in the keyhole in his hotel room so that the evil spirits could instill their code but a towel along the bottom of the door back in the days and she goes to mom Max Alvis and he could come see the Indians at Municipal Stadium and stretch out among the empty seats and he pops one at a right field a lazy flyball but Manny Ramirez tucks away for the second out lazy Paul Hawken madam strange even under the various fastball and goes out on a routine fly woman over for as you see and one for 12 in this series so holla cruise she's out on the town while wonder Vince Hallman deemed expendable by the Royals Michael Tucker in a while I'll feel the trade in this Seattle and he really sparked Seattle last couple of months now the Mariner is in dire need of a leadoff man they look for one for a long long time and and pinellas done with this bag this time he came available here you should I swing at a fastball from Tavares when he became available they grabbed him he's done well he's really been a spark for Seattle on one on one a bouncing ball if I had two takes and goes to the bag himself and we go to the bottom of the tent tied at two back after this from your local station multiple changes for Lou Piniella even Brenda Friday the 13 Halloween some of the fans here at Jacobs Field Chris Widger if the catcher they hit for Wilson at the top half of the 10th Alex Diaz is in left field Coleman is out of the game and Doug strange is in for flowers at third di 6/7 strange hits ninth the places they assumed as pinch-hitters and which of the new catcher hits first Coleman having made the last out in the tenth here's Tommy for his first at-bat at 3:14 with 25 homers for the year in the second inning of work and he falls behind the first city to a toe now you gotta wonder with with Lou Pinella Norm Chow and Bob on the other side Hargrove uses macer for an inning only and now childhood and this is the main man for Seattle in his second inning of work here tonight what you're going to do the rest of the series off his fence a little pop white of third and coming out it's strange did he want that ball he did a terrific play by Doug strange jumped into the game standing play by Doug strange a long run and now a backhanded sliding catch and a beauty don't be able to walk without play on that on the warning track there which is a is a court type or a rubber type warning track and a look to see if Expo is coming in plum with a beautiful backhanded sliding test what a play by strain there's the old plate umpire a hustling Rick Reed right there to make the call now it's penny Lofton super cool takes a strike bluffing upon it tripled and scored and singled home the time run po1 the first base coach for the Indians I know you're going to hustle back to the hotel because after late local news Jay Leno you got it buddy guest tonight Conan O'Brien and a double night of Conan his own show and guesting with Jay and still fuming about the fact that he hasn't been inducted yet into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame down the street do you pitch too often you know that's the kind of a pitch that I thought Johnson might go to back in the eighth inning when when Lofton hit the breaking ball for a single and the left driving in the run he had thrown him breaking stuff away and that is frozen here yep he couldn't pull the trigger on every once in a while I need to pick silence and there's nothing wrong with that I'm not talking about meeting anybody it's not about keeping guys on its we keep them guys from reaching out and poking out pictures on the outside part of the opposite field there's a high inside fastball from Charlton to move loft it away and then picks up the strikeout that may set off the one-two pitch has he got him working here's the scalp I'll tell you what Watson tonight I can tell me the only left-handed batter in this Indian lineup against Randy Johnson told me in Sorrento both sat by the starting lineup miss Geller 0 for 3 with a sacrifice fly he hit six home runs during the regular season in which he hit 266 CIOB nobody on bottom of the 10th center field ken griffey jr. on to the 11th that Jacobs Field on to the 11th hora Griffey and Edgar Martinez Indians of IRAs for a second inning of work well it wasn't long ago that Joey Cara started a huge rally in the 11th inning for Seattle situation was more desperate than Game five against the Yankees bottom of the 11th at the Kingdome down a run instead of tied execute a beautiful drag bunt he had worked the count to 2 and 1 and the right side of the infield moved back a little bit and said he was watching for that when they took a step back he dragged a punt done that and we almost made a great play on it but Cora feed it out here he hits once walking into right-center and it calls for a base hit in the 11th inning of that game after Korra reached the start the inning Griffey single Edgar Martinez doubled him home for if he's stepping up now with Edgar next [Music] Hargrove has Assenmacher a left-hander and Eric plunked the right-hander they've both been throwing long enough to be ready and now we get into the middle of that order that we talked about earlier left right left right all of them dangerous griffey Edgar Martinez Tino Martinez then back to a right-handed hitter in Jay Buhner Joe few bullpens are deep enough to cope with that Hargrove had already used Mesa though remember so he's a little bit depleted but that's what he told us says Paul Assenmacher comes in now from the Indian bullpen and and even jockey with Luke Padano tonight he said it's a great luxury for a guy to have that kind of a book there you go right left right left depending on who your hitter is and that's what Hargrove is done here tonight makes a have changed for the third time it's Mason Taveras and now the left-hander Paul Assenmacher to face left-handed batting ken griffey that's been a good bar game tonight five two great efforts five Randy Johnson and Charles nagging dang he was six strikeouts matching Randy Johnson tonight both working eight innings as you said before it matched each other almost Pittsburgh pitching hitting per inning and a couple of unearned runs the difference in this game finally tying the game he thought he got an unearned run on a fly ball hit the Buhner and right but he was played as Assenmacher takes the ball from Hargrove we tell you that we'll take you to the gridiron on Sunday well parse Ellison is New England Patriots at high hopes for this season hasn't worked out that way so far we'll be seeing them on Sunday atria problems broken Queens is what we're calling it that's part of the pregame show at 12:30 Eastern and then the kickoff said want Eastern Time [Music] where these guys tighter what now just open the fumble doesn't first it had to be said here in the 11th well I think you close your right eye when you piss the Griffin code you left every hitter has hold some of them are as big as others but every hitter has hope I don't care for your Mickey Mantle or a girl Markie mr. Kim and we identified those as weaknesses and if we hit on spots and throw our pitches as we did against Kent safe on movin we really did not make a mistake of those Highgrove on the daunting task of face and Griffey and Edgar Martinez especially with the game on the line well they each may have holes but especially in Edgar Martinez this case it's about as big as it becomes yeah it's better than a crevasse and I know [Music] Paul Assenmacher has led the major leagues in appearances this decade with a number of clubs and unlike savaris and Mesa and plunk and Alan Embree left-hander he doesn't push the radar gone up into the 90s he's a finesse guy and in for just one hitter the left-hander ken griffey jr. and with a left-hander up there now in Austin Makkah working to Griffey also keeps that runner at first Joey Cora a little closer to the bag [Music] good pitch good spot strike one to junior Griff he's first two times up tonight he had a couple of flare hits a little single of Saturn a single the right scoring the second run for the in the Mariners back in the third to make it a two nothing game at that better let's run the Senate walked in there for the first out Osmond maka walking back toward the mound and let's see if he gets to face Edgar Martinez here comes our go but how many times have we seen this with the Indians this year and just as Highgrove said here comes Eric plunk and what a luxury I mean what a luxury for a club like the Indians awesome mantra to to pitches got the job done retired Griffin we'll be right back by way of review JP owner has been at the heart of this game both good and bad let's go back to his first at-bat against Charles Maggie a guy he is simply owned this is the third homer he set off naggy this year a leadoff shot in a second that made it one nothing eventually that led to nothing it was down to two one one in the eighth Espinosa hit once Horner and write a play he should have made he misjudged it and what is a to base error and eventually that runners scored on a single by Kenny Lofton to tie the game at two [Music] now Eric one thirty two-year-old right manner comes out of the bullpen he's been with the AIDS the Yankees and now the Indians [Music] here's a guy another hired thrower for the Indian and normally he's the setup guy for Jose Mesa this is the guy you normally see for the Indians of the eighth-inning and tonight it's a reversal of roles May says already worked in the game there he is he worked the night I made a heck of a play on a lighter hit by Jay Buhner the runner aboard Buhner had a bullet right back at him and he turned it into a double play to get out of that inning and that was the information there's two Baris he's work tonight Assenmacher to one-hitter and now aired close another hired drawer with a good breaking ball well they got some heat coming out of this Indian Vulcan you look at Mason Taveras Assenmacher as you said breaking ball pitcher for this time this guy another guy that throws very high and with Tino Martinez a left-handed hitter to next gym pool is up and throwing and my car goes full thing the problem though that Seattle presents is that after Tino Martinez they go back to another dangerous right-handed hitter in Buena Edgar Martinez old for for Rob to the hit nice backhanded play by by Erica his last time on Oh for 10 in this series Martinez in tonight's game has really had problems I mean they've stayed away from him all night long Maggie starts him off tonight with breaking stuff down along the way they didn't show him anything inside that he could pull within a strikeout and that can the run little bouncer back to the third that put the unions up to know they got an error charged to our eyes but also third the runner at first so late Tina was caught seven times puck to Martinez peel hurry down from first one today for those who have been watching the Atlanta Cincinnati game you may not have heard us say this earlier I know that the Cleveland Seattle audience is more than familiar with it he had never gone longer than eight at-bats or longer than two consecutive games at any time this year American League batting champion at 356 without a head he's hitless in this series and hold for 11 overall and it's not not that he hasn't had some decent pitches to hit tonight I mean every time he's been up there he's had a ball that he can drive someplace couple of pop-ups tonight he's reached on an air strike out with ground ball by air gimme tonight's play on him back in the ninth on a sharply hit ground ball but other than that he's got a tough evening they're going to let plum stay it against the left-hander Tino Martinez find a way for a ball now in the bottom of the 11th by Erica Bell and Wilbur tomorrow to now occupied the th spot instead of Eddie Murray after they went with a pinch runner for Eddie the trucks in there for a strike is the breaking ball for the clock striking you know Bob depending on what food Piniella does in the bottom half the 11th inning pitching wise you may see a pinch-hitter NetID for Marwan the trucking has worked two innings the hill stuffers though at least one inning beyond what Hargrove was willing to ask of his number one guy Mason if it's just the top of the ninth and then lat because the program so Cora gets himself into scoring position as the count runs out to three and one on Tino Martinez pretty nice play by Alomar on a tough pitch to handle that ball is in the dirty dug it on a short hop and this is not a bad throw at all with this gal covering and Joey Corian they're just beating the throw hit a good jump against plum and steal second and now as we come back live they're just going to complete the walk a given ball four on the 3-1 pitch intentionally and they'll take their chances with you after the Homer he grounded out struck out and lined into a double-play sending a bullet back at Misha and somehow he got his glove up right at the letters made the stand and caught the water off first now what a play by me style board as you said it right back at it who are two out of Dillon Texas right Corvina one off the line and left they're not playing him as a pull hitter by a means he's actually bunching up Lofton and center who shade slightly the line and write both lines wide open for deal for his career against one beuter five to fifteen one of the five hits a homer that's right to right-center field Romero's going back if God computers second home on the night what a three-run shot he puts the our light field behind him and he puts the Indians behind by three in the top half of the 11th for beauty around the outside corner and he goes right with it you know earlier in the game bobbing and talking tonight about pewter with Lou Pinella and some of the other he's got the kind of power they can shaky deep the other way I mean not the kind of a guy who'll be hit shoulda left let's enter all the time he can take you deep to right right son and when that ball was hit walking just turned around and watched it go he knew as soon as was it it was out of here not Diaz cuts and misses well ken griffey jr. may be the best all-around player in baseball Edgar Martinez brought the padding tighter but Jay Buhner with his 14 home runs in the regular season has clearly been the guy who has hammered the Cleveland Indians he has two homers in this game three of the series already he hit one in the ninth inning of Game two off nation five in the regular season against Cleveland so eight also and that's eight and twelve games because with the shortened season they only met nine times in the regular season a Lou Piniella talked to us earlier tonight and Mike Hargrove also about the importance of this game I mean if Seattle wins they get back to the Kingdome tonight they could finish in here tonight they get back at least for the Kingdome the second of two homers by Jay Buhner puts the Indians in a spot where they need three to time they're gonna let norm shot me with his third anything by Erica Delvin tomorrow in the bottom of the 11th the Indians have not lost an extra inning game all year chopper down a third by Erica couldn't get out of the box and range throws him out tonight Chevrolet player of the game barring some last-second reversal is Jay Buhner to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in the names of all players of the game for the 1995 Major League Baseball season now here it is again that low outside fastball from flocking as soon as beuter headed he knew he knew it was gone tail often just turned around and watched it ride out of here now a big three-run homer for Jay Buhner big night for it second over on this game four runs batted in Albert Bell pops up on the first pitch in the shallow right and Buhner is there when this one is over you lick local news in most parts of the country and then Jay Leno I'll be there oh I know you were a huge comic fan culture club with your band and so voyage yesterday on the leno show excite you or with Conan O'Brien yes sir Albert was over for and hit by a pitch tonight [Music] what a big win if indeed they do finish it up here tonight on top talking about Seattle that all fired up before the game tonight Bob and talked about how important this game was tomorrow Andy Venice against Ken hill Game five Sunday voseo against Martinez quickly onto the switch hitter will go tomorrow jr. to play with his dad for a while did ya go it off honey he's down a long time sure wit shortstop George stop good shortstop very good shortstop moving right out of battle routing senior junior switching [Music] it hard and foul Jacobs field suddenly eerily quiet on Friday the 13th anybody here walked under a ladder across its path on the way to Jacobs field they regret it now what an effort by Norm Chow didn't do tonight [Music] working in his third inning he reaches he pops it up and the Seattle Mariners leave the best team in baseball this year to one after three games of the American League Championship Series [Music] for this was a lot of fun good ballgame first extra inning game the Indians of Las all year I'm Bob Costas and for all of us at Jacobs Field in thanks for being with us and we'll see you tomorrow night [Music] you

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