Swingin' A's 1972 World Series Gm. 2 vs. Reds

Speaker 1: Grimsley makes his way to the mound the reds with Grimsley in bench. Speaker 2: The infield. Perez at first Morgan in second training as you're making a third Rose will be in left Bobby Tolan and center and say started to run in right. Speaker 1: Ross Grimsley. He was mad about not starting the second game in the playoffs. He thought he was going to pitch last Sunday against Pittsburgh. It was either going to be Grimsley or Billingham said quacking Anderson before Game 1 then Don Glenn lost game 1. The Reds thought they would have an advantage by sending a left hander against Pittsburgh and they decided to go at Bellingham holding Reilly off until Game 4. Speaker 2: The lineup for the A's Burke camp and errors will lead off at shortstop Matty Alou in right field hitting second Joe Rudy the left fielder Mike Epstein and the cleanup spot at first then Sal Bando a third George Hendrick in center hitting sixth the catcher. Yesterday's big hero Gene Tanis Dick Green in second and the pitcher Jim Catfish Hunter 21 game winner this year and a 21 game winner in 1971. Ross Grimsley loosening up Tony you watch Grimsley throw the two hitter against the pirates in probably his best outing ever in Game 4 he had good stuff that day and the ball at Clemente it for a home run was actually a fastball almost over Roberto's head I was speaking with Larry Sheppard the pitching coach for Cincinnati before the ballgame and he says that Grimsley probably has the best all around stuff on the staff His fastball is just a shade beneath darn guards and he has to establish his curveball early in the ballgame get over the plate and that will make his fastball more effective. For the A's in the first inning bird camp and errors. Then Lou and Rudy. Camp and errors 2 4 3 yesterday the A's had four hits campaign errors with two tennis with two. Errors 240 during the year a home runs. 32 runs batted and he'll be suspended the first week of the regular season 1973 eligible in the world series one and one. He expected to be booed yesterday. He was. The hopes they die out. Apologize I was wrong I was sorry. Now I just got to concentrate on playing baseball. One one fetches fouled away. One and Two. Speaker 1: Campaign errors born in Cuba. Living now in Missouri. As a second cousin who plays in the outfield with the Cubs I a card now. Fans might notice that the A's are wearing different colored uniforms the green shirts trim now. Speaker 2: In goal. Yesterday they had the gold trimmed in green. They had three different colored uniforms. Speaker 1: Down low ball to two and to the cap. Jim Harnett check is the plate umpire Mel's Diner at first Frank you manage second Bob angle a third. Bill Howard down the left field line and Chris calculus down the right field line. Ball back in the count 0 2 and 2. Campaign errors ordinarily Al is a pretty good fastball hitter grabs it looks like he's throwing the ball by him he's swinging late fouling the ball up to the right side. Too. Speaker 2: Bad. Grounded grounded Morgan easy play for Joan is one way. Comes out Lou yesterday 0 4 3. Spent most of the season with the Cardinals. Came to the A's in late August. At 281 1 homerun. National League batting cramp a couple of years ago with Pittsburgh. First pitch Mrs. Ball 1 won the batting championship in 66 that was his first year with a fire it. Came up with the Giants. 1 and 0 the count. One in one. With a left hander going the eight to change the top of their order Rudy has been dropped the number three hit second yesterday and Alou goes into that spot. What our base is empty in the first inning no score. Allowed chops it pass Grimsley but Mickey there to get it and. Riverfront Stadium and all astroturf surface Philadelphia and San Francisco now are the same types of service you know it's funny when the park first opened they thought it would be a header Park but I think most everybody you talk to now they consider it a pitcher's park. The Reds had a much better average on the road this year than at home. Joe. Rudy the batting. Led the American League and hits this year. There a base hit in the left field the first set of the games are Rudy is on a two out single elapses Rose get it back in and Mike FTN will be the batter. Rudy that breaks the streak he was over thirteen in the last three games the last two playoff games game one yesterday when he was over for. So the A's were the first runner Epstein the batter. When Epstein steps then. Got a shot at a second baseman Morgan and watch our DP plays for Epstein on his carpet here he's almost back and short right field everything was really moaning about that. They used to have a linebacker there designating where the end of a skin part of the infield would be but they took it out this year. Ball one to Epstein. Mike yesterday over three. To 270 during the year with 26 homers. Two out in the first inning no score. Rudy at first base. In for a strike and it's one and while Sal Bando will be next. The playing Epstein the poll monkey well off the line at third base. Epstein jobs at ball and the count wanted to. Game three coming up on Tuesday night three night games at the Oakland Coliseum. Tuesday and Wednesday the fifth game if necessary on Thursday. Game 6 and 7 if necessary. Back here at Riverfront Stadium next week in. GRIMSLEY 22 years old. Want to patch up five ball to two and two. Ross started the season with Indianapolis and the American Association. Blasted Sparky Anderson when he was sent down had a good spring. But the Reds had a lot of off days at the beginning of the year and so Anderson wanted Grimsley to get his work in and didn't feel he could get it in up here. And he was called up in May and won 14 games. Speaker 1: To to to Epstein pop in there might be playable foul ground monkey with a chance and cannot come up with it. So Epstein stays alive. Speaker 2: And we'll look at it again. The ball had been hit a little bit higher meant he could have taken his eye off it one more time to see how close he was to the stands. There was just a little bit of a bloop foul pop. Couldn't get over there in time. To pass two strikes on Epstein. Just measuring while three for count to down. Girardi will be going from first base. Brody off to an unmolested lead Perez. Knowing he's going to play back three or four steps. And three two big guys like. In the first no runs ahead one lap of a happening no score. No score bottom of the first. The Reds lineup Pete Rose will lead off and left and we'll see Joe Morgan in second. Bobby Tolan hitting third in center the cleanup man Johnny Bench the catcher. Tony Perez at first base. Speaker 1: Then is making a third heading sex. The right fielder say Sara Geronimo. Darrel Cheney and George stop. And Ross Grimsley. Pete Rose over for yesterday. Takes inside ball one we're looking at one of the American League's Premier pitchers today a very underrated nationally a 20 game winner the last two years he really battled your catfish based it. Throws it high pop up the shallow left field. Camp and areas going out there is Rudy. And it is the left fielder Rudy for the catch one away. Runner does it look overpowering on the stand or from your TV position but he moves the ball up and down in and at different speeds. Around the plate. And when he gets to his bags are viewed as a mess around either there as his record is here it is an excellent record. It puts two games against the Tigers in the playoff allowed only one run in each game was not involved in a win or a loss twenty one in seven best winning percentage in the American League. Morgan the batter takes a ball one to know Morgan to ninety two sixteen homerun seventy three runs batted in a high number for somebody who hit in the second spot all season. One. Didn't want to count. No score bottom of the first bases empty. One out. Speaker 2: Sal Bando in shadow. Morgan a good Monday. Wanted to. Stand or watch the playoffs on TV watch the Pittsburgh third baseman Hepner playing in and decide to do the same thing himself. He's playing tighter against Rose Morgan and Tolan and he usually does those type of hitters. Now goes Morgan his other against his very strike at. Two down in the first inning Bobby Tolan coming up. Bobby Tolan one for four yesterday at all of 1971 tore his Achilles tendon in a basketball game in January of 71 when the spring training with the Reds was with him in the regular season but never activated and retired in Los Angeles in May. Unique Style holds a bad wait up. Takes a ball I want to know. A lot of people think he has a hitch in his wing but with his average I guess you call it style don't you. Why did the car. Dollar go off to a great start this year hitting over 400 through April. Speaker 1: Watching the glass perch he does have a hedge actually. But he gets over it before the pitches are on the way. Taller and missing a bunch attempt. One and Two. Lobbies in his fourth World Series. Game over from the Cardinals played with the crowd in 67 and 68 series with the Reds and 1970. Count holding at 1 and 2. Are back as Johnny Bench. You notice when hunters are ahead as a teaser with bad budget he comes right back in. Tries to make it hear his pitch in the strike zone. As a waste many pitchers. One. To the Tolan. And he goes on a check swing Dolan strikes out heart attack checking with. The third base umpire Angelo said he comes around and told him right after Hunter gets to strike at such a red zone one two three and the first and at the end of one a is nothing. Read nothing. There are the A's coaches Irv nor in the third base coach second years a coach in the majors with open. Air first base Jerry Adair a former American League infielder Adair and his first year as a coach. No score second inning game two of the 1972 World Series. Open winning yesterday three to two. And a five six and seven hitter. This is Sal Bando with Hendrick in tennis to follow. Ross Grimsley working for the Reds. Fall back on one. Sal Bando. Great college player at Arizona State Reggie Jackson went there wrecked Monday used to be with the A's was there. Signed after his junior year. 0 and 2. He hasn't been hitting in the playoffs either they were glad to see Rudy go imagine get that hit in the first inning and they're hoping now Bando comes alive with a bat. Bando born in Ohio and Cleveland. Living in Oakland. Strike to bet. One until the car Bender signing after his junior year in college had he stayed his senior year at Arizona State Bobby Winkler's was going to make him a catcher. But then he signed with. The then Kansas City A's whales of course is now the new manager of the California Angels. Bando drives it to center and it's in for a base said. Bobby Tolan gets it back and into the A's and their second head. Sal Bando at first base with nobody at George Hendrick the batter. Boy they talk in glowing terms about his future. Well I wonder you know. You look at his average there one eighty two but he's been up and down the Myers to the A's and back again he's never had a chance to really settle down and play somewhere over a period of time but there isn't a club in baseball I think that wouldn't take him he has all the physical tools it's a grand or off the glove of Grimsley to Morgan. To Chaney one and not in time perhaps passing the reds the double play had the boy gone straight through to Morgan the Reds might have gotten two so they get a voice and we'll watch it again. Hendricks has finally the ball deflected by Grimsley making Morgan have to go back man really went in hard to second base. Here guys Bando. He's built like a pullback. Going out of the way to getting which. Really is illegal but you see it all the time around second. Here's tennis so it's a fly ball a shadow left Cheney out rows with Tolan coming on is rose for the. Touchdown. Hendrick on the force play it first word 1 4 6 Grimsley to Morgan to Chaney. 10 is gone for the second hour here's Dick Green spend much of the season on the disabled list. Back operation. To eighty six with three runs batted in. Over to yesterday. Hendrick good first to Dad. About TiVo and one. Hour late in the year the A's would pitch here in THE SITUATION they pinch hit the first time timers second baseman starting the game would come up they put a man on the field and Williams would bring another pinch hitter up for the next time the second baseman will come up there for pensioners using four different second baseman they didn't do it against Detroit and yesterday only made a late replacement for a second baseman green. Strike one better a base to the medal. Hendrick will take a short turn it second and hold on is stolen gets it back in. So the A's with three heads runners at first and second and catfish are coming up this telecast is presented by authority of major league baseball and is intended solely for the private noncommercial use of audience any publication reproduction retransmission or other use of the pictures descriptions and accounts of this game without the express written consent of the commissioner of baseball is prohibited. Catfish Hunter one of the best selling pitchers in the majors. He said safely and 10 of his last 12 games to 19 this year. Foul tip into benches glove on one how he received fifty thousand dollars to play for the A's this year forty five thousand the pitch and five thousand paid. By his owner fairly as a hitter. Speaker 2: He has eleven hits in his last thirty one times up at 355. The throw by Rose and he's safe at home on a pick it up to hold Green at second in the A's take a 1 to nothing lead. So. Catfish Hunter. Speaker 1: 11 out of 13 now. He made a good throw Hendrick made a very sharp turn at third base which made the play for the A's and for himself. You can see why they like Henry because he can run he can throw he can do a lot of things. And his speed is slower man might have been out at home plate. Of Hendrick score some second on the ball sharply hit the rose in left field had a good throw to the plate. Three hits in the inning. Oakland on top one to nothing green now is second. Deck off to his lead Catfish Hunter. At first wearing a warm up jacket on a very chilly afternoon temperature in the low 50s camp and Irish the batter. Wonder campaign errors grounded out in the first inning. GRIMSLEY in an inning and two thirds has already given up twice as many hits as he did in his last game a two hitter against the pirates in the playoff game. Speaker 2: Ball two to another guy the Reds will get some activity in the bullpen. Pedro bonbon bone. Is going down to the pan to begin to heat up for the Reds. Two on with two hours line drive base at the left field. Green around third and coming in the throw. Speaker 1: Single payer camp and areas in green cut down 7 to 2 A watching to get inside the play was that Green made a wide turn. Speaker 2: Pete making an excellent throw. Look at Ben go after Green really trying to block it out. Here it is again bench. Speaker 1: Up the line about six feet in front of the plate hasn't completely blocked out and makes the tag but more hits that inning for the 8 One Run for hit to left end of an inning and a half. Oakland 1 Cincinnati nothing. Speaker 2: Look again here you see green. Watch how wide he goes. Hendrick cut the base much more sharply. Now he goes way out giving himself a bad angle coming into home plate he wasted quite a few steps. Don't have to be fast to run bases well but you've got to cut the bases if you're going to score. Speaker 1: One nothing A's Johnny Bench leading off again. Bottom of the second he led off four times yesterday. Fifth time in a row in the series. A strike going on. That's what Sparky Anderson was selling at before the game to only the first three men have to get on they didn't and again eventually John. Another strike. Speaker 2: Let's talk about green for a man. Remember he's running after spinal surgery. He had a spinal operation in the spring and he said he's about 85 percent of what it used to be bending and running. Speaker 1: Bursted for the ride. Speaker 2: Johnny Banks beats out a roller through the metal with and Magic got almost seven outfielders to play very deep and Cabinet is playing the pole has to smart in his lap. Johnny got a good jump out of the batter's box. Speaker 1: Perez will be the batter his bench get his third head in two games fourth time he's been on base. Perez had two hits yesterday. Tony had to 83 this year when he won all runs 90 runs batted and. Fouled back. On On. Sixth year in a row Perez with 90 or more runs batted in. Miss the better part of May a bad hand. Inside one and one. Wonder nothing open. The A's a run on four hits in the second inning. Speaker 2: Bench and first base nobody out. Bottom of the second. The. 1 1 pitch. 1 2. Bench held on by Epstein. Wanted to on Perez. Jim Hunter 21 game winner he hasn't lost since the 25th of August. Enter the regular season with a five game winning streak. Inside a Perez and the count is even 2 and 2 got that nickname catfish when he was 5 years old. Ran away from home one day and a pounding with a string a catfish he was fishing that nickname is stuck ever since. Born still lives in Hartford North Carolina 26 years old. Walk out of parade 3 and 2. Eyes looking down at Grammies. Alex really flashing a sign for Johnny Bench and first base. Speaker 1: Back. Normally the Reds advance in this situation but we'll see. I'd say about 20 percent of the time get started 3 and 2 with less than two down. This time he goes and it's bar for. Her. First. Dak Williams and the A's dugout. Is making over three yesterday at 233. Nine home runs 50 runs batted in at twenty runs batted in in one month August. PUNTER usually has good control he averaged two walks every nine innings effects this past season. Vantage seconds. Perez at first is making waves. But did foul after the right. Strike one. There's Perez going back to first Johnny Bench second baseman on four times and five appearances in the series. Oakland on top wonder nothing. Sal Bando indeed check with hundred. To see how they play it as far as the bunnies concern. El Hunter probably uses the outside two inches of each side of the plate better than anybody else in the American League anyway. He was trying to see what Mickey was going to do on that first pitch it to hide inside to see if he's gonna buy it I wouldn't doubt that they'll switch now let him get away and when Epstein in shadow pick our players I. And the break goes to the red it was a decoy play by Katherine Harris he thought that a fans saw him leaving very soon for third base. A bench would take a bigger lead and Green could sneak in behind him. Green was a little late coming over to cover the bag and the ball got by him. Speaker 2: Hunter gets a drawing. The Reds now have bench and third for raising second. Oh and one to count on Mickey. Pop in the air in ground right side Epstein is giving chase won't have a play. Oh. And two. On deck say side Geronimo. Bench down the line from third field back except Epstein. The A's would give up the run on the ground ball. 5 or 1. Under checking with tennis. Two and two on Mickey. Bottom swinging for the first out that's three strikeouts for catfish on a. So one day now and Williams is going to come out and make his first appearance at the Mount Sparky Anderson with Joe Morgan in the red dugout. Speaker 1: Dan Williams with Bando and Hunter and tennis confirmed the man and that's the maximum you can I have only four people at the mound during a conference in the world series which is the American League rule of course the National League. Speaker 2: All your infield can go out there during the regular season. Williams is right out there now. Asking his pitcher Hunter whether he'd like to put Geronimo on. And pitch the change with the bases loaded Horace possible at any base. Both Geronimo and Jenny left handed hitters. Williams coming back. Speaker 1: This first year a manager in the minors a Toronto 1965. Speaker 2: It's interesting he succeeded Sparky Anderson Anderson first year as a manager at 64. Speaker 1: Same for Toronto internationally. We'll say Williams a lot in his World Series. He comes to the mound. Always talking it over with his pitcher casual infielders. By contrast almost anytime Anderson comes to the manager to make a pitching change. They'll pitch to Geronimo a 275 hitter during the year swung on and missed on one. Geronimo off to a very slow stride this year at the plate bench for a while. Great arm. And so Anderson put him back in the outfield in. July. And played in the entire last month of the season until to the guy. Geronimo at 295 after the All-Star Game. Speaker 2: Born in the Dominican Republic. Didn't play baseball till he was 18 years old. Speaker 1: Pop bowed out of play. Geronimo was originally signed by the Yankees they signed him as a pitcher. Then they converted him to an outfielder Oakland drafted him. After his first professional you're a rather a Houston drafted him and then he. Spent a couple of seasons with the Astros mainly as a pinch runner then run a late inning defensive replacement. Bowed back again. I went to the guard. Bench and third. Per. Second. One out. Bottom of the second inning. One in nothing Oakland. A's infield back except Mando a third. Strike to back missing. One and two on Geronimo. After trying to get out of a second inning jam. Sparky Anderson. With Joe Morgan. And Geronimo bounce it off again. Speaker 2: Ali is in the outfield Rudy the left fielder and Hendrick the center fielder playing Geronimo as a left field hitter. There's a wide open space between Hendrick and the right fielder Alou Lewis playing him as a pole header so big space and right center. Speaker 1: Geronimo for home runs during the regular season hit a big one in the playoffs. Game 5. Ball the register within 1. Speaker 2: 0 4 3 yesterday. By and the count is even two and two. To two page. Grounded ball outside first. Bench going back to third floor as a second. Bench led off with an infield head Perez walked under then threw the ball into center field trying to pick main job. Making you struck out for the first at. The gap 2 and 2 on Geronimo. Now back again so Hunter working to get Geronimo. A little bit harder to both mentally and now Geronimo. He wants to strike out. Ordinarily he's the type of pitcher that tries to get you to hit the ball somewhere. He doesn't like to throw a lot of pitches. Slug on investing. Geronimo becomes strikeout victim number four. So he struck out Morgan and Tolan in the first. Making in Geronimo and the second. Two down. Runners still in second and third and Chaney the batter. That they really had Geronimo chasing a bad pitcher Dick Williams coming out again. Speaker 1: Saying Cheney is a left handed hitter. He was already getting booed by the Cincinnati fans for his frequent appearances to the mound. Speaker 2: And again here they're talking about walking Cheney with first base open. Should you walk Cheney to get to Grimsley. And also the other we talked about the fact that the American League rules for men at the mound maximum national league any number. Speaker 1: The other thing now in the world series you can make as many appearances as you wanted the man in the regular season if you go on a second time in an inning. You have to make a pitching change. You might see those empty seats in the background those are seats only used for. Professional or college football games there they are never used for baseball we have a complete sell out again today you have today the largest crowd in the history of Cincinnati baseball. Fifty two thousand nine hundred eighteen yesterday about the same today and they're going to watch Cheney. So they'll take their chances with Grimsley and we talked about it yesterday as far as the Reds are concerned the worst thing that could happen Grimsley goes out and you strike the next ending with the top of the order the Reds like to start and ending with Pete Rose. So Chaney a 250 hitter. Will be walk to get to Grimsley they used to laugh about Grimsley as a hitter a lot of jokes in the clubhouse and then the other day of course in his finest hour not only did he better two hitter he picked up two heads are single and a double. GRIMSLEY double against Pittsburgh on Tuesday it was his first extra base set. In the National League had won twenty five this year. Outfielder shallow. Well I wonder if. Bases loaded. Bench a third. Perez's second. Cheney refers. To down second inning one nothing A's. Popped in the air foul off to the left. Bando giving chase with campaign errors out of play. One and one. One thing Al if Hunter gets out of this it's some kind of a pitching job. And they had runners on second and third nobody up but he still has to do something here with Grimsley. Struck out manky struck out Geronimo then the intentional walk to Chaney one didn't want the got. Wanted to. And Danny goes his hunger strikes back aside for the red threat nothing doing no runs a hit one error three left end of 2 1 nothing open. Third inning game 2 1972 World Series 1 2 Nothing Oakland A's with a run in the second 9 4 hits. Part of the Oakland contingent they've got some fans here now we're going to get some pro football scores along the way but here's one note that could really change the. Well a setup right now especially in American football covers the preliminary part Bob Grazie the quarterback of the Miami Dolphins has dislocated his right ankle early in their game against the San Diego Chargers a dislocated ankle. Elbow punches it bounce starting the third. On one Alo grounded out in the first inning. They'll be followed by Rudy and Epstein. Takes the next page by. One and one. GRIMSLEY not a strike out pitcher and averages only three or four a game. In for a strike wanted to. But at times this year even when he's pitched effectively. A lot of balls have been hit to the outfield you look in the scoreboard and you'll see a lot of 70s 80s and 90s fly balls to the outfield oftentimes he's given up for five balls to the warning track and a game. Punched a monkey at third. And he gets this one away. Speaker 2: Next week anchor man John Chancellor reports all the world and national events and David Brinkley's Journal provides lively commentary on the NBC Nightly News right here on nbc. Joe Rudy snap in 0 4 13 streak in the first ending with a single. The A's top hitter during their regular season. Had a good chance at the batting championship and the late in the year. At. 3 0 5. 1 and 0. Brody wound up best in the league. Rod Carew. The twins. The batting champion. 1. 0 over for a strike in the even. GRIMSLEY born in Topeka. Moved to Memphis Tennessee when he was young went to school there as Barlow pitched briefly in the majors with the Chicago White Sox in 1951. Pop ball out of play wanted to. GRIMSLEY his father is here today he has seen his son catch five different times. And his son is 5 and 0 with his father in the stands. Travel his father you need they're thinking about him. Drive to deep left field Pete Rose just looking up and he's headed out. A home running at 19 during the regular season and open leads to do nothing. Joe Rudy. Getting hot now he's the best all around batter on the aid the most complete hitter can drive the ball to all fields with power and he pulls this inside pitch and hits this one high and deep. Well back in left field. Joe Rudy hits the third a home run in the world series Epstein grounds it on two hops to Perez's first for the unassisted up to down Bando will be the batter and the reds again with activity in the bullpen. Right hander Pedro Baugh Bowen who is up in the second inning growing again. Sal Bando single in the second inning the A's have sex ed. Bando one for five in the series fouls it back. Oh one is granted is short Janie with it. And throws him out to retire the side in the third inning the A's get a run on one hit the home run by Rudy. Nobody left at the end of two and a half over to Cincinnati nothing. World Series game. Pete Rose. Has the first hit in the world series the who had nine during the championship series set a playoff record. And a batter Morgan. Ellerbe interesting to see after the long ending that. Catfish Hunter had the last and how it affects the stamina ordinarily throws 85 90 pitches a ballgame He threw an awful lot of pitches the last inning. Joe Morgan struck out in the first inning. Over three yesterday. Still bothered with a sore heel. Passing in the air and background tennis coming back and has a play. One away. So Morgan gonna have done a good job on Morgan. Bobby Tolan coming up. Reds think they can run on game 10 as the A's catcher let's a rose challenges they now. Rose held on by Epstein. Total in the batter struck out is very strapped one for five in the series. Oh and one. The Reds with more activity now in the bullpen for the first time Wayne Simpson. Starts to heat up. Rose back as under lobs it over. Wayne Simpson. With the Reds and 70 but ineligible to play in the world series on the disabled list. Owing to. Breaking Bad. So far the ballgame has been mostly fastball hard slider that is one of the. Few changes speed pitches he's thrown. Dolan fouls it off. Oh until the count. The A's are running the second one in the third. Aren't up to nothing. ROSE At first one out bottom of the third. Colon pops it up and arrows is calling. And there's two down. Zeros Delon first base after a lead off single and with two down here comes bench has been the hottest read. In the series. At the end of the playoffs of course with a dramatic home run. Led the league and runs batted in this year there is folks. Katie and Ted Banks. Now living in Cincinnati from Bangor Oklahoma. Speaker 1: Outside. Ball 1. National League MVP in 1970 could win it again this year. Just missing ball 2 2 and 0. Almost became a psychological thing with this year but it couldn't hit in his ballpark that very hot on the road and then the Reds would come in off a road trip and each slump at home get hot again out on the road but then toward the end of the season he started hitting consistently well and riverfront. Outside by three bench this year had 16 of his home runs here hit 24 on the road. Three and one. Bench must feel very peculiar up there as a man on base for him. First time in the world series bench hasn't let off in an inning. But. Running a room. Hendrick there. An aside retired. So Rose leads off with a single strand in his first no runs one hit one lap at the end of three four A's two reds nothing. Speaker 2: Fourth inning he's on top two nothing. George Hendrick. It into a forest play in the second inning. Over three in the two games takes a strike. Speaker 1: Interesting. He went to Fremont High School in Los Angeles and Rick playing centerfield for the A's and the center fielder for the Reds. Bobby Tolan went to the same school. Chop slowly to Grimsley. In time. Speaker 2: Right away. Gene tennis coming up the Reds bullpen has been active almost the entire game and again now. Right hander Wayne Simpson on your lap. Pedro Baugh born on the right. Jawbone bone up for the third time in the game. Gene tennis yesterday became the first player in the history of the series to homers first two times up. Missing ball 1 blind to left in the second inning. At 220 by this year. Speaker 1: 1 in 1. I was interested. I know you must have been to he says the correct pronunciation is to Nazi fury Gene Tanaka is his name but he is anglicized now to Gene tennis. Grounds at the Cheney. Speaker 2: And throat Peres. Get him to that. There's Reggie Jackson. Yesterday he had a crutch and today he's using a bat in the Oakland dugout but he has a cast on the back of his leg from the middle of the thigh to the middle of his cap. To mobilize the hamstring portion where he pulled a hamstring muscle he's out of the World Series all the way. That green single in the second inning. Fly ball to right field say side Geronimo drifting over. And an easy ending it's the first time Oakland's gone out one two three at the end of three and a half it remains easy to read nothing. Due to time constraints will take you to the top of the seventh inning. On top of the seventh inning and the A's fans who journeyed here from the West Coast are up for their stretch. And your one United Way campaign supports many health and welfare services helping children young people families the elderly and the sick and helping our service men and women through the USO at the Red Cross. And other times when people need help and they get it from the agency supported by your United Way campaign. Speaker 1: For thanks to you. It's working. When the drive opens in your town give your fair share. The United Way. Seventh Inning. Curt Gowdy Al Michaels Tony Kovak What do you have for NBC. And we're chasing the curve ball is hit into a forest blaze tapped out to the pitcher. Lunch. Break. Playing to the opposite field. One ball one strike. Reggie Jackson looking up at the. Scoreboard of the largest. Speaker 2: Tennis crowd just post this ball back. They really do an excellent job here in Cincinnati on their electronic scoreboard. Right to the second with everything. And as we sat here Tony and I on a train the other day. Waiting for the Pittsburgh Cincinnati playoff game the fifth game to start. There were only a couple of three five 10 seconds behind what was happening in Detroit. Speaker 1: The fly ball to right field Geronimo. No. One had to grab one down. Lay down another casualty. Gene tennis flag Olaf Brown of the sharp. The one thing we haven't yet seen in this series is Geronimo is arm Sparky Anderson contends best arm in baseball. Strike. The Pittsburgh fans would argue that. With Clemente he had a couple. Pretty fair arms there and those five games. One ball one strike. That Jean tennis. Let's say Zyra Geronimo. No wonder he was signed as a pitcher. And. One one delivery. Fall. Back. One and two. They scored in the second. GM Hunter. Single in. George Hendrick from second base and Rudy hit a homerun the third and that's been it two runs. Even went after a bad pitch. For ball and strikes him out third strike out for more ball in an inning and two thirds. So since Rudy hit the homerun in the third with one out. The A's failed to come up with a base if. They've had only one base runner that was Epstein who won. A strike. The Dick Green. Now they're going to more bone look sharp. Showing good breaking stuff on the outside part of the plate got tennis. Through on the green the first pitch when Green was looking outside it came inside with a fastball. What an inning for ball born. Four strike guards for him and two innings really three up three down for the A's the last of the seventh inning in Cincinnati Oakland to Cincinnati nothing. In the last of the seventh inning Oakland had to nothing. Darryl Cheney is going to start it off with Cincinnati Joe Haig is on deck the basketball bone. That's right. The Cheney. Walked intentionally of light up. Played straight away Bando in blows and there is a pinch hitter Hey. Speaker 2: Curve a little bit high. One ball one strike. Hunter. That only one inning. What's a Cincinnati man did not reach base. A lot of play. Well he's had some pressure of pitching today. That. I work hard. But. This pattern. He's tough when it counts the real battle is. Speaker 1: Here the pop up lab all in a shallow left. Coming on board is Joe Rudy. One down in the last of the seven. A very quiet crowd right now in Cincinnati's. Joe Haig batting for more ball. And Tom Hall. The swift left hander will command a pitch in the a.m. Speaker 2: Heard of your hitter going up to the plate against catfish Hunter. You can't wait to get up there the next time he does not overpower you too often. The eyes go back to the and say boy had a good sway I just missed that one to do that the entire game you just missed it he changes speeds well he hits you on the face at the end of the bat he's some kind of pitcher. He doesn't dies I still. Play all year he doesn't get the national acclaim he should. Ball only only averages about six drag out the game. Not an overpowering pitcher. Speaker 1: But he's a true pro. Now back. To Joe Hagan. Will get to 43 for the Reds this year seven homers 31 RBI. Secured early in the year from the Cardinals. Or Bernie Kabul. 1 1 pitch. That's. In their. One ball two strikes. Under had an earned run average of two point 0 4 which was third best in the American League this season. Just outside. 2. And 2. Pete Rose are the next scheduled batter at the top of the Cincinnati batting order. To do but. That's flat out in the right deal had him off stride on a breaking pitch. At a yellow puts it away to down. Rose's flag the left signals Center flag right. The NRA has not scored in his last eleven and two thirds anyway. They say keep the first three off base that's what they've done today they did it yesterday one hit. Between Rose Morgan and Tolan today no runs for the red. The strike you know this series could result in a few road victories. Both Oakland and Cincinnati led their league in victories on the road. Back to. The home park won't make much effort. One to God to beat rose two out nobody on Oakland ahead to nothing last of the seven. All the way. Could have been a little bit of surprise that Rose Morgan or Tolan have not tried to punt a little bit more. Try to get on base they've been swinging away pretty constantly. Because like you say Tony they just. Take a look at her and think they can hit it. One two picks. Do unto the Pete Rose throws it a confident player and I was talking before the game what do you think he's. I. Got one when so that makes the series all even now. Drag him out on a fastball. And. Get him hotter but some down one two three we've gone seven innings the score Oakland to Cincinnati nothing. Baseball is honored yesterday Jackie Robinson his wife his son and daughter behind him. Speaker 2: And the commissioner boy. Q On your right. Jim Hunter. I'll start it off. Speaker 1: In the eighth inning. In single and running a second he's round it up. He'll be followed by Captain Harris and Matty Alou. TOM HALL Now pitching. A strike. Tom Hall. Won 10 and lost one this year. Look at that record. Earned Run Average at two points 6 1. He struck out a hundred and thirty four batters in 124 innings. File away. In the playoffs in two games against the hard hitting pirates. He allowed just one run in seven in the third innings struck out eight. The. Speaker 2: Time that Petraeus drags out more men than innings pitch. He's got some real stuff and this 25 year old left hander has a. One ball to strike that calling the blade. Look out thenI is. Weighs only one hundred and fifty five pounds six feet tall. The cutting arm. Lopped up. Whereas the first baseman weighted. One down in the eighth inning. They did their scoring early getting a run in the second he already had a homer in the third no score since Katherine Harris coming up. Round it out saying that the last flight out. MANKY entitled Third. Spread away otherwise were the Reds and the infield in outfield ball one. NAB announced that if he gets on base he's still going to try and run on Johnny Bench. The 1 0 pitch. We have two more innings to go. That's doing nothing. Speaker 1: In the Pittsburgh Cincinnati playoffs here. The crowd really involved in every pitch on her feet roaring. I've never seen anything like it. Right now I'd have to say they're underwhelmed. Very quiet here. They're disappointed so far strike. Speaker 2: Their team was heavily favorite. Speaker 1: They've been beaten the first game and they're trailing to nothing now. The Reds have their heavy guns coming up in the eighth the ninth inning. The 2 1 pitch. Has entered the seats. Two balls two strikes. Speaker 2: Time all out. Not only has a good fastball is surprisingly good breaking stuff. In fact some people thought that with a shaky to start that darn gullet had in the playoffs against Pittsburgh How might become a starting pitcher in this series. Sparky says no. He needs the left hander in the bullpen. To pitch to camp and Harris. Speaker 1: Rails it out and arrives. Anybody calling for all that in. Down. Speaker 2: The reds. That superb relief pitching Bob Bowen from Hall. But even before that Grimsley has settled down had retired the last eight batters he faced. Matty Alou is the only Oakland starter. With previous World Series experience. Tonight with the Giants in the sixty two World Series. Strike. Twelve Cincinnati players have had series experience. 11 with the Reds and hot air with the Cardinals. One ball one strike. That should be an advantage for Cincinnati. Speaker 1: Soccer missing upside two balls and a strike. Now that shadow is creeping just about over home plate and the sun could start to be a problem in left field. To one pitch. Ryan won the Matty Alou. Ryan to this game has not been loaded with any action and. Very few chances were difficult plays by anyone. The highlight has been the way Hunter has kept working out of jams. The 3 2 pitch. That one's it down the right field line and it is foul. Mario Luis one of the most relaxed hitters in baseball every foul that one RB looked like you waved to somebody in the opposing dugout or somebody in the stands. Speaker 2: With this big smile on his face. Speaker 1: Foul ball A's players get around about it. They don't even know what count is playing and half the thing is comes in takes his more whacks gets a couple of hits and lays down the pressure of a world series on Matty Alou. To the way Brooklyn eighth inning nobody on there leading to nothing. He lines at the right field. As the first hit for the A's since the third inning. Seventh in the game. And the batter now Joe Rudy who is single hit a homerun the left and the third struck out. John Chancellor is clear and incisive reporting and a lively commentary of David Brinkley's journal make the NBC Nightly News television's best right here on nbc. Again they're playing Rudy to right center and right field Tolan and Geronimo Pete Rose straight away and left. Malbec. You red fans in the last of the eighth inning Morgan Tolan and bench are scheduled at. Yellow at first two down. Curved in. Like two. Speaker 2: Many of the American League teams try to pitch change of speed pitches to Rudy and breaking balls down lower and they like to have him try and pull the ball on the ground. Cincinnati earlier in the ballgame and yesterday trying to pitch him inside with fastballs of course you heard him in that situation early in this ballgame with a homerun. One ball two strikes. Mike Keegan on deck. Hey. Lou at first. Another foul. One ball two strikes to Rudy. Goes a little bit job. The throw and he's in there he stole on the pitcher not on Johnny Bench. Tremendous job. Alou had made his initial move even before Hall made his motion to the plate. Bench really hurt his throw but no chance. Base was stolen. On Hall. Bench could have made the most perfect throw in history and never gotten them and I'm surprised at Hall in go to first base he had a chance to pick him up. That's the A's first stolen base and for temps. Low now with his back to your second base two down and two to catch the Joe Rudy. Ball three to Rudy. They didn't give him anything to go with Hagan coming up behind Rudy. Speaker 1: He got a left handed batter runners on first and second two outs in the eighth inning the Oakland A's leading to nothing. Be Higgins first time up. Cincinnati infield should have one thing in mind at this point with two down for starters anyways play deep try and knock the ball down. Strike. To and. Save this run. Morgan at second playing very deep. Hagan was used as a defensive specialist by the A's in the late innings of first base he hit three twenty nine this year. Right to. Runners on first and second two outs for Oakland at the Lou the lead runner. Rudy at first. Struck about a great deal. No one threw open. One hit no errors two left last of the eight that hit coming up Oakland to Cincinnati now that's. The Oakland A's fans their team leading two to nothing last to the eighth inning. Hurt got it with Al Michaels and Tony go back now Joel Rudy is playing the son field now son Hayden right on the rim of the stadium fly ball you'll have to look up in at. A curve that Joe Morgan prescribe one who bluffed the buck. Morgan struck up bowed out reached an on air. Band really playing and tight third. Red scoreless in their last twelve innings in the world series. Hits a fly out on the left there Rudy with sunglasses looking up. Has it. Boy he flipped those glasses down right away when the ball up the bat heard high fly balls are not bothersome at this point and left the already it. Had those semi line drives as little looping balls that are really. A problem out there at this time. Bobby Tolan hit list today. Speaker 2: Drag he had one hit yesterday. Let's see now. Yesterday and today. Those top three men have had only two hits. To game. That's the secret of beating the reds those top three who can really run off the bases right to. Jim Hunter has set down 7 in a row he seems to be getting stronger now. He still has a lot left on his fastball he threw the ball right by Tolan. Foul. Ball. This drags to Bobby Tolan. Rally fingers and Vida Blue loosening up and the A's bullpen. Just missed. One ball two strikes. Lab all right failed there the low. Down. Once again just missing good swing by Tolliver on the first he may have shattered his back. Johnny Bench. Single light up. He Peraza been the only reds reaching base in these two game. America's most famous pass artist Leroy Neiman is here doing. Portrait studies events. Strike. And it came up in our TV booth today it is in sketches of. NBC television position. One strike delivery. It's a mile back out of play a hundred quickly has him two strikes. Raise on top to do nothing. LAUGHTER The eighth inning. Jim Hunter. The opening game of the playoffs against the Tigers gave up only one run. Speaker 1: The second time he pitched only one run. Yet he didn't get a victory in either game. One ball two strikes. His club doesn't score many runs for him. As always a pitcher on a staff that. Works out that way. I. Grabbed it on a wanna grab. Better kept bench and pulling of all. Three up three down. We're going to the ninth inning. Oakland to Cincinnati nothing. Speaker 2: We're going to the ninth inning. Sal Bando George Hendrick and Gene Dennis for the A's facing Tom Hall working his second inning a relief. GRIMSLEY started when the first five or both two innings now home. Ball one and in the last of the night the Reds have Perez Mickey and Geronimo schedule up. You know the band was single in the second round it out in the third block out of the sixth. Round all the shortstop Cheney. One down. Due to time constraints will jump ahead to the bottom of the ninth inning. Hertzberg North Carolina that's five no hitters in high score. Breaking play. When he was. Just about to be signed by professional baseball teams who were scouting him. He lost two toes on his left foot in a hunting accident. Some of the major clubs. Drew back. But. Charles Bentley. Had made him a bonus and was stuck with it flew him to the Mayo Clinic. Speaker 1: Where they operated on his blood. We. Found a way to do. Rally fingers Dick Williams has a rally figures and Vida Blue in his ballpark. Read fans coming alive to get a rally going here. And attitude that's. The. Speaker 2: The. Rather than base for the third time. Dave will watch him again. It looked like a time he's done perfectly. He had time. And just after his left and out in the left an appeal to base for Perez who has two today and four in the series. After the first lesson at a handful of new Lander's friendship double in the fifth. BLOCK And as a roaming at Cincinnati dugout he has Dennis Murphy up now. Mickey's. Headless and three time. A long way to. Go. Rudy. Speaker 1: Rubs it against the base and against the wall and they nearly double up as a bird. What a grab by Joe Rudy. That's the play in the series is really goes back. Speaker 2: Not only does he have a tough play he's got to fight the shiny goes up and makes the catch up against the fence and nearly starts a double play. Looks like he almost pressed the ball against the wall but he had it in the webbing of his glove. Got it back in and Perez had a dart back to first base to avoid the double play. And Dick Williams moves to the mound after Perez's bank the single and monkey hit that line smash. Rudy made a fantastic climb up the wall on. Williams. Of course as Hunter lost that's what he's talking about he didn't like the way it whereas Mackey hit that ball. Speaker 1: Watch this now really turn immediately. Menacing some feel out there and with a great athletic jump. Up against the wall the ball jarred loose momentarily right in the tip of the webbing of his glove as it came down with. Speaker 2: Now. But now he'll say after the game that he has the greatest catch I ever made in my life. Say czar Geronimo. Left handers up now. He has struck out granted that flight out. Juarez is still on first. That's the third base. Umpire Bob Engle. Mother's Day then. File out of play. Blue Pitch yesterday to a third pitch for innings. Thursday but. Also to a man on Wednesday. He got. Speaker 1: Out at first. Hagan. Has robbed Jerome of extra bases into the right field corner. And it looked at first as if he caught a line drive. Down it went. Speaker 2: Fair ball dropped it out of his glove and he held on. He could have had an easy unassisted double play to end the game as it was a spectacular play just to knock it down pick it up get the out at first base. Mike Hagan had that ball but his impact. Speaker 1: When he hit the ground jarred of loose. Well this ball game would have been over. Mickey. And Geronimo had both been robbed of extra bases and sensational plays by the A's Rudy and heated. And how McCray now is going to bat for J.T. Sal Bando before the games that you know. I'm sure the Reds have underrated as they looked at us with disdain. But he said we have a great pitching staff and we have played good defensive baseball all year long. We can win close games. Maybe we're not a great hitting ballclub but he said we can make plays when it counts. And how right he was here in his ninth inning. McCray. Speaker 2: At four pinch hit homers this past year and had a pinch hit single yesterday. And he hit the ground ball is going to go all. Coming in the score. And in about 2 to 1. And Julio Harvey is going to bat. For Tom Hall. That's the first reds run in this series on a base hit. Hunter. Is going to have a runner. Concepcion is running at first base. Speaker 1: For McCray. Craig had really come out of that dugout is when the bat for you. Speaker 2: Go to extra innings. Concepcion would play shortstop. Sparky Anderson out of. Left handed pinch hitter to this point Dick Williams checking the card and the. A's dugout. View later and Hague have already been expended. He used McRae so. He has to come in with a right hand batting hobby. The Reds fans on their feet now. Every man has hit the ball hard off under here in the last of the nine. For a single. Mickey club with the deep lead Rudy off the wall with a staff. It. Will hit a wicked line. Pray a single. Rally fingers is in the bullpen a right hander. A pitch yesterday so to blue. And he wants fingers. To come in and put to this right hand a pinch hitter. Speaker 1: We're going to have a break in the action right now. Cincinnati the score in the last of the ninth inning. Oakland 2 and Cincinnati 1. Gem Hunter received as an ovation as he went to the dugout a pitch to got a ball game today. But he lost it here in the last of the ninth inning as he was hammered hard but he's still got two down. And. Now. Rally fingers. Well pitched to. Julio Harvey air. The Reds have no more left handed pinch hitters in their dugout. Rally fingers pitched in three games in the playoffs against the Tigers. Gave up four hits and five and a third innings only one run he won one game. Yesterday President and again two thirds. No one. Has got a nail down his final out of all the hardest one again. Hot. Air. The tying run at first. Is Concepcion as a pinch runner for Hal McRae. Oakland to center at a 1. Read fans alive for the first time in the game. Tailback strike one. Body blow continues to loosen up. As a matter rider left for the next man Pete Rose he's a switch hitter. Harris. Blue. As Don gullet. Alongside of Sparky Anderson. Once great. Got a pass to get Concepcion back. What a play that he again made it out. The back to back played by Rudy and Hagan it's a difference in the game right now. That ball is hit so hard that it was just a blur going off first base. That was a cinch double at least into the right field corner. Was great. Like. To the Harvey air. Down. Tying run up first. Blast of the night. To the 1:00. One ball to his right. You've all seen pictures of the old Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball first professional team with a handlebar mustache. Rally fingers looked like. You belonged in that era. One ball two strikes. Runner guy. At half. My League and waiting. Waiting. And Oakland has done it again. They have beaten Cincinnati twice in a row and Cincinnati's ballpark and that's Cincinnati seventh consecutive serious loss at home. Their last home victory in World Series. Was a nineteen forty against the Tigers Dale fingers saves it for Jim Hunter. And the excellent pitching of the A's prevails again. Backed up by two sensational plays in the ninth by Joe Rudy and left and Mike Hagan at first. And no team has ever in World Series history won the first two games on the road and lost the World Series. Joe Rudy is with me to my far left and Catfish Hunter the winning pitcher first of all Captain let me ask you this what do you think when that ball went out to your boy left field I thought the game was tied up but when he run back like that I knew he had a chance when he jumped up there I thought he missed the ball but it comes down to Webber's glove and it made me happy when I see that Joe I don't know if that's the greatest catch you ever made but I know it's got to be the most important. By far too I didn't think I had a chance of the bone to see it I thought I was gone I turned the wrong way and came back into the ball and I just made it man step forward to sort of last little bit of it to someone a first turn and I picked it up again gets in trouble with your glasses for a while I looked at a replay like you may have trapped the ball against the wall but it didn't touch it did it. No I didn't drop it at all. When I first turned I tried to put my glasses down and it didn't pop down all the way in their own about three fourths way down. So while I was going back to the wall I had hit him again and I turned back in the wall had to pick it up oh the son. Speaker 2: Jimmy got another big play from your first baseman defensive wise Mike Hagan That's right and you know Mike I think is one of the best defensive first bases in the league he comes in he makes all the plays for us I have never seen him make a mistake you know I've never seen a youngster I guess Whitey Ford maybe Ralph Jerry and our Yankee ball clubs who came up as young young pitchers and were pitchers and not just thoughts. How did you learn to spot the ball the way you do in the chain speeds like you do. Speaker 1: Well in high school I had real good control like a spot ball and when I came up here they taught me how to change speeds and into a little better curve ball. And I think Bill posed all our pitching coach which is gonna start this year. I think he I me the most. Joe you were a really. Underdog when you came into this thing and playing in the visitors ballpark and I think maybe that. Speaker 2: They had a little bit too much confidence I don't know it's up to them they said some things but now you go back home with a two game edge that's quite an advantage. Well you can't really ever have an advance team like the rest because they got everything good particularly great hitting and. Series is not over until the last outs mean the game is going to take it for granted. GM pitching so much of especially World Series play and I think you guys have maybe a better pitching staff than there is your bull pens are both good but they've got some arm problems and their team you know with Nolan and so forth and hepatitis with gullet and so forth but pitching seems to be the big thing so far doesn't it. Speaker 1: That's right. Ever since the All-Star break I think we've won every game 2 to 1 3 to 2. We never score too many runs and our pitchers I think took us this far but you know we've still got to have a couple of runs to win and our hitters come through at the right time. We get many hits but it was just at the right moment. Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you both about scouting reports and so forth. Joe I don't know. Is this team Cincinnati pitching you about the same way that American League clubs pitcher. You know they move the ball in and out. I mean it seems everybody pitches me. Scouting reports as far as I'm concerned I mean really. Correct as far as what it to me for single bowlers and how hard it throws off like that. But they've been pretty accurate. Your pitchers have managed to keep up those first three hitters they say that's the important thing you did it again today. Speaker 1: Yeah. We have we had a scouting report on and we're trying it though like cops told us and I think maybe the first three hitters not looking as you know they don't take off pitchers is that good and we're just showing them that we're little better knowing what they expect. I think a day that they go ahead and got a fastball and once in a while I thought Bob and when that happens you know you've got a good chance to win. Speaker 2: Joe we're going to replay that great catch what could have been a game saving saving catch for catfish Hunter. Let you describe it. Well the boss was hit straight over my head and I turned to my left cause that's where I stand and I just went back straight to the wall and try turned turn back into the flow of the ball where I think it's going to be coming down and I looked up and. I was right at the wall and so was the ball I just jumped up for it got my glove you almost turned in the double play to who was you really man in that. I really don't know I just threw the ball back out of nowhere you know who's out there but I think camp B must have been Jimmy you were mentioning before about your fastball you've got some tough situations especially in the second inning I believe would you admit on base and then been on second or third again in the fifth it seemed like when you were in trouble you were going more with your fastball they were you. Speaker 1: That's right because I know where that's going most the time I can spot it and you know when you throw a breaking ball a lot of times don't break as much as you want and you can hang it can hit at the ballpark noisier then their fastball. Speaker 2: Jim Hunter Joe Rudy thank you so much congratulation we'll see in Oakland. I keep telling.

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