Swingin' A's 1974 World Series Gm. 1 vs. Dodgers

Speaker 1: The Dodgers take the field. Umpires assigned to the game. Behind the Plate. Speaker 1: Froe National League will be Tom Gorman. Speaker 2: Bill Tunstall of the American League will be a first Speaker 2: Bill Tunstall of the League of second base. Then finger of the American League a third down the left. The line will be Andy Olsen of the National League and Ron Luciano of the American League. We'll be working the right feel like you want an all the umpire play by the game they receive eighty five hundred dollars for the series whether are for game seven. It's an honor to be selected. Walter Alston and L and our two opposing managers both men in series before. Speaker 1: Often only three managers in history have ever won more World Series than he has and he's back for another shot at it. Now here's Andy measures with warming up and Scully knows him well on carry along with him. Speaker 2: Okay first of all if you look in the statistics it says that Andy measures mad is the second strikeout pitcher in the league back as Steve Carlton. strike got pitcher for quite some time. His last game against Pittsburgh in seven innings he did not strike out a batter his start. Before that he struck out three so against the bank that he was second in the league in strikeouts. He does not have a curveball consistently anymore ever since he hurt his elbow and of course this fastball hitting close. If he has his curve today he'll thank you very good ball game. If he doesn't he'll be in a lot of trouble. The first man Andy Mr. Smith faces. Is Bert campaigners. Speaker 1: Who for the year hit 290 had two homers 41 runs batted in. He was a star in last year's World Series. It was between Camp and Harrison Jackson for the most valuable player of the series. Jackson out the first pitch of the 74 series. Is a ball as Captain Eric left above. Speaker 2: The two men at the top of the open batting order. Every opponent trio keep him off the bases. Their electrifying when they can get on and they put an early pressure on. A 1 0 delivery and get a bluff the benefit of breaking one on one. Bill Norris on deck. He'll be followed by Sal vandal. Mr. Smith is no stranger to the A's. He's the face of the American League when he pitched for the He's the face of the American the high fly ball out of the left center going back to Jimmy win back. He's got a. Speaker 1: Lot on the edge of He's got a. Speaker 2: I got an example of what you talked about the start of the game. The White shirts the glare and Jimmy winner's circle of ball just Tibetan he could not take his eye off that ball for fear of losing it. his eye off that ball for fear thing here the warning track is 20 feet from the wall of an oval and it's only 10 feet. So he's a little more familiar Speaker 2: When says he's played here all year and it still bothers him the sun out there and the bank stands. Bill North. Of all the way north. Came over to the A's and a trade with Chicago as a utility player and he's blossomed now as an outstanding Major League center fielder. Spike. One. In. Speaker 1: Year to 60 for the season for homers 33 RBI. This was his first World Series he missed last year's World Series with an ankle injury. Two balls in a strike. When somebody on first inning Sal Bando on deck. And then Reggie Jackson. Say just crept in at 31. DA say switch hitter in a spray hitter. Is with more power actually when batting right handed. Off to file out of play. This telecast presented by authority of major league baseball and tennis solely for the private noncommercial use of our audience. And publication reproduction retransmission. Speaker 2: Or other use of the written consent of the commissioner of baseball is prohibited. TAPPER down Iran's say a third. He fires across. The road in a hurry I know. Get down that line. Speaker 1: I was waiting for that pitch. It's the first one. I would say and measures Smith as the best changer certainly in the National League and one of the better ones I guess we've ever seen and North hit it on the end of the bad which of course is what it's designed boy. Sal Bando. Two forty three was a hard to bawdy three yeah. Twenty two homers and one hundred and three RB eyes. He led the A's and runs batted and he had two homers in the playoffs against the Orioles. Strike. American League a run batted in the Jeff world. His teammates Yo Rudy was third. Outside one in one. I asked Mr. Smto be changed much since he moved over to the National League facing A's is that no way back up. He said I've just perfected my faith a lot better. After scraping the corner a little off again. One ball two strikes. And was being played as a dead pull hitter. We look at Reggie Jackson on deck. Two down nobody on no score. I can think of that down. Lifetime record against the A's in the American League. Or wins and four losses Mr. Smith. Speaker 1: And his five years in the American League. He's not faced the ace since 1971. Into the dirt account leveled off at two and two. Interesting note on Stevie Agar to show you what can happen to a ballplayer opening day. He was sitting in the bullpen opening game of the world series. He's the starting catcher. I remember he was unhappy about getting in the bullpen and why everybody wouldn't want him otherwise. He lost just describes two down nobody on. Speaker 2: And off miles away. He's the leader of this team the captain. Very solid type individual a solid type ballplayer a solid man off the field players go to him with the trouble. Of doing. He's. Very definitely a managerial prospect. How's it back again ripping away at about. Speaker 1: We might interject Stadium in the daytime on a warm day like today. The ball travels much further. That's why I ball my campaign Eris and win so far. They two to deliver a. Grand to the mando. He's our expert on Italian food and the West Coast last night. Yeah. Room service. No spaghetti. Here's a. Sign being given now you'll set the target three to count. I'll back. The A's. As the Dodgers are mostly fastball hitter the like high fastball. Handle. Racket the ball down on him in the American League. Andy is basically a homerun pitcher because of his control. Of the five ball out the left field coming on his bunker waiting sunbathers in. Speaker 2: Three up three down at the end of the first Matheny no score. Twenty. Holtzman. Speaker 1: Won a big win in the out Baltimore on the mound. He has become a control pitcher since coming over to the American League and he's done well in postseason ballgames with a 3 and 1 record. And he's done well against the Dodgers when he was in the National League beating him 14 times against five losses. Dave Lopez leading it off. And hope to get behind him feeling oh look the 266 hitter this year 10 homers. Thirty five RBI. The top base runner on the Dodgers. Short No the corners against him. Buckner is on deck and engine win. That's a strike of the knees he doesn't bunt very much. Here that's some problem Ben was talking about you look up at the sun and you see that bank. Tears in the shirts up there hard to pick up the ball right off the bat immediately. Green one. Oh one has a fastball that tails away from a right handed batter. Curve ball a slider and a change up. With a fastball free and too. Loud only one hit the first seven innings last Sunday against Baltimore. Speaker 2: That's strike three what are you looking with the corner. Love that no bucks coming up oh bugger ever does is just three hundred and three hundred dividers is a three fourteen hitter this year seven homers fifty eight RBI he makes contact then I'm just gonna say for five weeks in August and early September he carried the ball up watch and see if he loses his bat swinging if he does he's in trouble. After a strike of the knees for Holtzman. Now I think I won Holzman this seventeen. He's been very consistent since he joined the A's. That was a curve a little bit outside. He's won 19 games 20 games in nineteen and Walter also watches him work. Up. No. Wilbon. Speaker 1: One ball one strike one out nobody on no score. Breaking this long way two and one. Slit his hands off the bat handle and it was ready to dash in from third and the third Captain Harrison short. Green of second tennis the first. At the fly ball in the left field launches for Rudy comes over. Rudy. Considered by many the best defensive left fielder. Rudy has been a great World and held that Looper to a single penny left fielder. One of the reasons Buckner has been hitting three hundred is his ability to go with the breaking ball against a left his ability to go with the HA You went up to seventy one this year thirty two homers to lead the club and one hundred and eight runs batted in. The Dodgers have outstanding right handed power. And in the playoffs against the handed pitching Buckner is a very good base Dele stole thirty one he was only caught thirteen times they have to watch him. Leaning a bit. the sunglasses down. Puts it away for the second half Booker was running on the pitch two down Walker back the first number and Steve Garvey hundred and eleven RBI regalia tremendous. Play off against the virus with two homers here Three twelve. I think three games in a row without a hit was his longest fast record here was given a try he has forearms like the village blacksmith and against the pirates he hit a low line drive over the right center field fence three eighty five away. Two. Down Booker first Garvey was reminiscing today about his football days at Michigan State and he said it's not. My first World Series that goes back early may have a mirror. Out. They waited. the time. Thot him hung up. One hit nobody left at the end of the first inning no score. Speaker 2: And as we looked down started off in the second inning for the A's you'll be followed by Joe Rudy and Jean tennis. Jackson says he's 80 percent. Speaker 1: Physically capable for this series of strike. Speaker 2: Take a look at that Husband finally gave him his good pick up move after two poor ones. Tennis gets rid of the ball very quickly. Take too much time the down for the target runner can beat the throw. After a very aggressive base runner but he guessed wrong one strike. Mr. Jackson is outside Jackson was out of the ballpark at 8:00 o'clock this morning taking Whirlpool cortisone shots for a pull hamstring muscle. He was the designated hitter in It doesn't go in the world series. So he has to run now and play the outfield. long drive to deep left going. And gone. off the field. That kind of power that. Speaker 2: He has even if some of the longer shots in baseball that's the kind of power that he of the longer shots in baseball Speaker 1: Kyou mentioned earlier that Andy is a homerun pitcher because of his control. He's right around the plate all the time. He led the Dodger pitcher allowed with 24. So it really is no surprise that a home run hitter Tommy. Plays around the bar they lead one nothing. body on nobody out and your rodeo. Speaker 2: Rudy hit 293 this year. Twenty two homers ninety nine RBI. e ball on one of the most peculiar stances of baseball you'll note. The extreme close fans spread apart. He's no longer underrated. apart. nationally to appreciate his outstanding ability. Follow and he seems to get better every year he keeps. His self improve through the motivator. Speaker 1: I think most baseball men watching the American League and watching Oakland in the toughest out you might get him out but he'll burn your hands. You can go to all fields. Where the ground ball up the middle for a base if. Go Rudy's on. Is. Weren't. Speaker 2: A hot hitting team at the end of the year. Speaker 2: A hot hitting team at too well in the playoffs. Speaker 2: A hot hitting team at of your pitching. They had one hits in the final game of the playoffs to beat Baltimore. But it's a team that makes them count. Jean tennis for example get just 211. But he had 26 homers and knocked in 73 runs and led the American League and was. Speaker 1: Another point to make early. Notice how many times Oakland has made contact when hitters 1 0 as Andy is not the strikeout pitcher that those early numbers would have indicated as Garvey holding against Rudy. He stole only two bases all year. Strike. Breaking better than he's doing. Days ahead 1 nothing second inning. Rudy at first nobody up. Speaker 2: A ball tennis and then no name in America two first two times a bat and these seventy two World Series has never been done before and went on to win the most valuable player of that series and become a national name. Speaker 1: He's considered an outstanding fastball hitter. That's right. Speaker 2: And he fouls it back then in the playoffs Antonio. Yes. curve curve curve doing it. That's one reason why I'm wondering about measure Smith's curve which is gonna tell us just how he's going to do today. Speaker 1: All right. Here against tennis. He's. ing played deep and torn left. Everything breaking good right off the end of the table. Dug him out with the first breakout from the best pitcher he's made today not J struck the man out but it was the first good Curveball the kind that most people in the National League felt going into the All-Star Game Messerschmitt had the best stuff in the league then he hurt himself and he has not been quite the same since. While Sutton. In the other way and fitness amazing the way Mr. Smith was starting right policy. One ninety six heart rate hurt most of the year. Since the slow Father cut off I say for one. Lopes has taken out at first by Joe a second by Joe Rudy. Though winds up a force up from say the Lopez down. Passes the first. Number one and Dick Green up. Speaker 2: The Scottie report about Davey Lopes at the A's had was that he takes the double play pivot toward the third base side you'll see this as a base on his slides in trying to upset him. Those are the little things that him. Force a wild throw I might add also Davey Lopes is a converted outfielder is. Down on first pitch to the Greens a striped. Green again hampered by injuries this year he had back surgery three years ago. He figured in one of the grand before last when the A's were used for second baseman in the game and none of them would ever get the back. They pinch hit for each one. In holes but on Decker the strange position for him there goes the runner. The ball blocks around and on the second it's a foul ball. Pass. He was going. I would imagine Dick Green would get almost invariably a breaking ball. Green when he does tag the ball and hit it with power to right center. Speaker 1: Like the ball out over the plate. Garvey laying off the bag against parsley. Two down one nothing Oakland. Striking out. Goes back after there Mr. Jackson had a lead off home or one run to his one left of an ending and a half won nothing homeless. Speaker 2: Garvey Ferguson and the second host was in with a strike. the second host was in with a and Michigan State ironically in the opening game with the series is all all modern Michigan's bass playing or a hated rival Michigan this afternoon. Set. Up by Jackson Garvey continues where he left off in the Pirates. Joe Ferguson. 252. At 16 homers 57 RBI got off to a bad start didn't he. Then yes he's not an aggressive player he's a big gentle kind of a guy and then I just try to light a fire under him and he takes too many pitches and what the experts say. Inside a low post giving a ball down so far. Ferguson lives in Anaheim or in San Francisco. Has blown away to an all out positive vibes you better talk to him. One of the keys to watch for today on the Jackson's leg you might feel. How much ground can cover. Playing with a pull hamstring muscle how much he said he's not going to go out of the faces of the I feel he doesn't want to going to go out of the faces of the danger based on his will run on the Oakland outfield. As. Ball three. Well. Eleven Dark. Center of the eye of. Ferguson walked that argued that runners on first and second nobody out. Line say is coming up. The Penguin is calling everybody. Having like 1 to 62 18 homers 97 RBI. Speaker 1: You talked about it then we have on national television. You mind being cut out about running like a penguin. Speaker 2: No not really. And despite the fact that he waddles and run stiff legged and rather funny he has average running speed by the clock. You know the better than average fat. Against San Diego a not in eight runs in a ninth game and against the Cubs he knocked in six runs in an afternoon game. Hoping to hide away his five balls in a row delivered by. La Raza seven RBI is against the Cubs anyway it was a good afternoon. Runners on first and second. Over. At . Get the important double plan junior Gilliam Doctor arguing the first base good sales unhappy. Let's take a look at a tony seeing one of the underrated double play combinations in baseball can't be charged the ball well look at Dick Green with the on charging runner a very close play at first base and an argument from Jim Gilliam. Here's camp he got that ball in the infield grass and were the most agile second baseman around and was he off the bag I would say that he cheated and wasn't even on the bag for the first out over the years the phantom double play. Dick Green the reason he made that play is that with the strongest throwing arms of any second baseman. They can put something on the ball as he's pivoting to down for the Dodgers Garvey's a third. Bill Russell up. To sixty nine hitter strike to him. And bang those entitled Third. Speaker 1: Tennis is entitled Russell has been just away. One and one whole spin so far Tony does not look as quick as he did last Sunday and he relies more on control than anything else we have seen him pitch ball game for nine of the temperatures will be fastballs he says he does not throw a change of pace he calls it letting up on his fastball but he has exceptional control ordinarily. Involved in a strike to Bill Russell who flew home. Sweet homeyoff in the world series to attend the funeral of his father in law in Pittsburgh he has had a bad right elbow has Russell all year. Very strong arm runs out of money. And the Dodgers have no run for him they left one at the end up to one nothing Oakland. Can hold but in a strange role as a batter. The designated hitter rule there baseball fan. One ball one strike the husband. Of his lifetime Major League batting average 158 before the designated hitter rolling American League. and 1 to him daily follow to the top of the order by campaigners and then Bill north. Lays out one run to his the Dodgers no runs to his. Off the mask of the catcher Steve Yegor. Kath again Holtzman. Did a couple of home runs in his major league career and against Negroes and Jim McLaughlin three and this is what man the manager a little upset. Going up for kind of a pitcher and even more so he walks him. Often of the back. Right off the top of our NBA save telecast bingo. Three and two nobody on nobody out third inning. And they're going to appeal but his ball for. Mr. Smith walks the pitcher the lead off the third. On a checks win. First base so our bill couple couple at the American League that's where the appeal went with the right handed hitter that's where the appeal went close bench. You can see from that center field camera how close it was it looked low Oh Tom Gorman this is fifth World Series behind the plate so he's no rookie there have been errors by the deep center is first time. Low fella but he'll Sting one and right now they're playing for the first knocked off the plate Mr. Smith Goes to first baseman Garvey sacrifice for campaigner Holtzman. There's a second one out. Bill North giving up. After third base his first game. The. A's bring in fill in. At short and second against the speedy North sale being on the grass with a the pitcher's released a third. Gabi halfway at first the outfield over toward left. One and nothing open third inning. God. inning. On one to build on. Tomorrow's pitchers Dan Simon a 19 game winner we're going for the Dodgers and batter blue. Who clinched it for the Oakland A's all the more of it going for Oakland Tuesday and Oakland. Will be Al Downing. Against the of the Oakland stand Jim Catfish Hunter. Veteran second one out. One ball one strike the north. Sell vandals on deck. Speaker 2: That fast. All right fine. Began with his back pitch pitcher the ball game. I'm still surprised unless he's trying to throw the book out the window he have not seen him throw his cable change hardly at all. Speaker 1: He got north to hit it on the end of the bat to say in the first inning and that's about the only time we've seen in the first inning and that's Let's see what he does here. Speaker 2: Harold it is. That's a great shame. Oh it's marvelous. Speaker 1: It has a chip on the cover just a little bit off as the ballplayers say it's a cover just a little bit off as a half short. You can see he has a little movement on the ball also he turns it over a shade and it tails away from the left handed hitter a third strike got Randy Mr. Smith he's walked one. Alone run of the game a lead off homer and a second delay off to Phil. Jackson. Open and second to down all the way by myself and all. Speaker 2: These two teams are practically strangers they've only played each other once. That was an exhibition game last year. They train in different locales. Dodgers of Vero Beach days in Arizona have fits. Here's a cross up and going up. Speaker 1: Jagger. What happened. Speaker 1: Jagger. is given his sign. He has also given his location. Any real young bull on the switch with that man on second base and I think he lost a strike because Jagger had popped up for the fastball shielding Gorman out one one can't Bando flag allowed these first timers back to the end. Most catches when they give the sign. If it's not in the sign will be either the thumb or the pinky as to the location inside or out. To gap. You could actually take a close up of the agar and you would see the location where he wants the ball. I'm not gonna tell you what the sign is. Let's watch. All right see the pinky away. Speaker 2: The left one at the end of two and a half. One on the open. Got your send up Steve Yeager to lead off the last of the thirty to sixty six this season. A lot more power than the year before. It'll be a Gator. Mr. Smith then Dave Lovett at the top of the order against Ken Holtzman. Ball up the middle. The basic. Speaker 1: Last night of a boycott. Andy. Smith just completed the best. Speaker 2: Batting average season of his career hitting 240 which is very good for a pitcher anything over 200. All around athlete. They'll be looking for the bag. But he's a pretty good hitter. Yes he answered a switch. Oh yes absolutely. But not so much with the age of else they might play hit and run with him. Strike the Mr. Smith. Reggie Jackson's homerun is the difference right now. One nothing Oakland last of the third. You're talking over another thing that happened in the playoffs against Pittsburgh when the first baseman left too soon. The runner took off and beat it in a bun situation. Holtzman and tennis went to get a signal straight to the tennis does not leave the first back base back too soon giving Yegor a lot of room. There is like a 100 to 1 against Yegor trying to steal. His goal only twice what happened and both of those were busted hit and run plays. Once back to Mr. Smith. Speaker 1: Outside and. Tennis was about 15 feet off the plane as the ball came into the catcher. Back he goes Bando was. Crawling in from third. Ken Holzman for the third year in a row is opening the world series with the A's. Speaker 2: And he's away running two balls in his face. Speaker 1: The first pressure to do this is Whitey Ford lady started. For openers in a row with the Yankees back in 61 62 63 of 64 the playoffs draw a pitching staff and a killer. Now sometimes your top pitcher I've been pitching in the third game. Defending where they placed him and what he had to do in the playoffs and the playoffs go to four or five games. Speaker 2: He's given Andy a tough time he's given him a hard breaking balls to bunt. And if you get him at all you're going to pop him back which is just what he's done now with two strikes on him. That's the bamble for Alston will he have a bunch Yegor at first nobody at last to the third one nothing open. On the NBC scoreboard swinging. Speaker 1: Watching a drop in front of the North did not get a good jump on that ball not as far as the National League is concerned nor it is not a particularly good outfielder but because of his great speed he makes up boy. But again looking into this jump on the ball at all. He knows it. The ball is the man against the main. Byron has done over the edge of the medium. Very difficult to quickly pick up the ball off the bat. Speaker 2: And it doesn't take a those two or three steps. Dave loves the Dodgers runners on first and second off the ground to keep the ball up high on a situation. Tigers have runners on first and second in the second inning as they head into a double play. The A's are not the same kind of club in the infield as when Dick Williams managed the last couple of world championship seasons. Williams managed the last couple as far as play as you can see Bando giving signals to his face. Speaker 1: Lyear they had imaginable trick played with a shortstop covering her third pick up a textbook dark horse what most of them out the window. Speaker 2: There they go. window. It's the same play the Dodgers I guess it's no secret. had. Debonair dashing over packing to go to third with fans or coming on. In a second baseman covering. A decoy. the shortstop go. One ball no strike. Lopez was looking his first time up. Hoping to dig himself into a jam. The Dodgers feel that Davey Lopes does not take advantage of his speed and he is not that good of fun too yet. I think that next year if you're riding a scouting report on Lopez you're gonna say that he'll bunt pushing the ball wide at first. And I just feel if he can just get the ball down wider first he has a chance to beat the pitcher over the bat. Balls no strikes today low. Swinging and lost the high flying a shallow left. Having air waves Rudy. Look out look out. Rudy grabbed the foul ground his dog collided even though Kevin errors and waved him away. Speaker 1: Years later the oncoming man has a better shot. Speaker 2: Easier play this is one of the problems of world series play you can see can't be waving off and also yelling but you cannot hear each other. And with that sun as glaring as it is they cannot afford to take their eye off that ball for one split second. Speaker 1: With the A's as fortunate. Now solidly Rudy. Rudy has built. Speaker nother thing too that is so very tough to hear. With a big bounce. If anyone else was trying to direct traffic I'm sure they couldn't have heard it. Speaker 1: Swinging away at a 2 0 pitch. How is the left one out. Yeah here's a second Mr. Smith first. I had won nothing last year the third and built up. A loop to single the left field his first time. Half an hour bluffing Yegor back. Elvin dark. Played in three World Series himself as a good fetch by Holzman at the knees. Speaker 2: But has not been a three years. The average just for strikeouts will be nine ending this year. Speaker 1: Biology lab Rudy's back. He'll be under it. Two down. Runners go halfway and return. We have three put off with you already so far as Jim went up when planned aloud for the first time. He said a Dodger record for a home run since they are playing at Dodger Stadium with 32 this year Frank Howard at 31 and the left center field bleachers have been officially proclaimed canon country his nickname in Houston was the toy cannon and the left center field bleachers are called Cannon country that serve some other country over there. Down runners on first and second up breaking pitchers over for a strike to win. We don't have his elbow operated on after the series the ever loose Chip he's been playing with pain in the right elbow of his all year. Ball. He made a quote in a paper van and Tony I don't know how true it was he said he was so happy to be with the Dodgers and he gives back Richardson the to be with the Dodgers and he club his world series share I suspect last night I'll take a ladder happen. One on One. I just made two great trades in the offseason this is one of them all I went after a right and a power hitter and really relief I got win. And Mike Marshall. And. Dodgers winning the pennant two balls and a strike if you win as a bouncing ball if Randolph steps on third for the forced out and again hopefully wriggled out of a jam runs two hits to left at the end of 3 1 nothing open. One swing of the bat by this man is the difference in the game he let off the second inning with a is the difference in the game he Let's take a look at. This raw power by Reggie Jackson. Letter high pitch. Look at that win over the three eighty five mark up on the left field bleachers Jackson's home run won nothing open Jackson Rudy and tennis in the four. Jackson was off to a flying start this season. Cool off over the last hour but still wound up with impressive credentials. 29 homers ninety three runs batted him. The ball and I've seen him hit too long as home runs I've ever seen only myself one off the top of the scoreboard at Bloomington Minnesota they measured it over 500 feet and he's home in the All-Star Game at the Florida stop struck a light standard on top of the roof still going was rising and the left the path. To another when he hit them really just stands and looks to the back you know it messes missed we have I don't think Jackson hit a bad patch at all he just happened to be a good hitter Green. He's basically a low ball hitter and it looked like it was in and up a little bit and he just happened to muscle it out then that's the kind of pitch that they talk about fighting it off it's inside of the fence he is so strong he fall off in the left field bleachers. Most people think well if you made a mistake I hit a home run but not in this caliber of play. Now let's give our heroes of credit to Ryan. Jackson says he's going to have to change his playing style and his exercise style. Strike two. He is a heavily muscled man powerfully wrestles heavily muscles and he's going to do a lot of stretching this winter was a bit going all out in the basement or any outfielder with quick burst of speed to keep the ripping muscle as he gets older he'll probably have more and more trouble. he'll probably have more and something as a stolen base just messing with a change of measures meant the Jackson watch the lead off the floor. Mr. Smith has walked for a walk to his back and forth and Joe wrote his single up the middle east first time. Don't. Look for Jackson to run. Speaker 2: After that if you're running a day is that no. Unless I have to. Rudy's a good hit and run man. All right Bill well he is outstanding back control. Replay straight away. Wrote the first. He's just back. Nearly had him picked up on a snap throw by Yegor who unloaded that ball in a hurry. I think around the National League they'll tell you that Yaga throws with Johnny Bench the ball arrived just as quickly and as quick snap tagged by Gary just misses the left foot. He is very agile behind the plate then he's done this all year long for you guys a marvelous arm. You don't wander off any base on him one ball no strikes. As a hook at the knees that coffee outside corner one and one to Rudy. Speaker 1: Really looking down to his third base coach Bobby Winkler and looking on that play at first it looked like Garvey made a blind tag tag where he thought Reggie would go instead of going after Reggie actually Reggie was nimble with that last step back to the back. Speaker 2: Otherwise he's out one ball one strike. Now back at first base. Speaker 1: Sun drenched stands here today in Dodger Stadium. Is set the all time record going to play Oscar attendance. Fifty five thousand nine hundred and fifty three. Reggie Jackson the first nobody out. We're in the fourth inning. And bases sending you. It's twenty eighth World Series in succession. e world. Via satellite. We understand some folks around the country I've been calling in about that plexiglass you see. Behind the Plate and that's to protect the camera and the fans also sitting there or a foul ball could go through. A 2 to pitch black enough. Speaker 2: Five strikeouts for Mr. Smith. It's been a long time since we've seen Andy out as many hitters as we had. Speaker 1: We pause briefly for station identification. This is the NBC Television Network. This is Curt Gowdy Vince Scully and Tony to back with you from We're in the fourth inning. Oakland I had won nothing. They've been out hit by the Dodgers border to here's a change up. On one measure Smith using that change more now the last two innings. change more now the last two scheduled up next inside again. One ball one strike. The Dodgers the last two innings of that runners on first and second nobody out there haven't been able to move. I the third say up down a second. Hey. Hustle down that line just beat the throw here say once again he gets rid of the ball quickly lobs comes across the bag and he might have done a little bit of Dick Green do ier. He just missed the first base. Speaker 1: I've seen third your throws. I have never seen a guy day in and day out throw with the accuracy of Ryan say. It's amazing. And that's important because in that infield. We've seen a lot of third baseman go to the outfield scatter arms strong arms but don't have the accuracy the first or despite the double play around the horn two down Tennessee first. Of all. Ray possibly possibly had a three run homer in the playoffs. Against the Orioles. Is that bad luck. You have heard this you're fight. Pete Rose barreled into him in the All-Star Game in 71. His shoulder was bad for a year and a half. Two balls strikes. Speaker 2: That was one of the pluses that came out of the American League Championship pluses that came out of the Ray passes Troy through better than he had most of the year. They figure to give more breaking stuff now that he's behind to an all. Let's see if they gamble with a fastball or a first driving tennis back. Dennis. At a delayed steel in the playoffs. You only go to base with the regular season. After the strike after you leave camp in Arizona north with the top of the order. Horace Jackson can run but the throughout the order the Dodgers would appear to have more teams speed and he has a quick move to first Mike Marshall has one two to one pitch runner going there the drag on the left the line just foul. And with a runner going kind of had a chance to score and have been a fair ball. That's twice the Alvin Dark. He started it in the lower part of his order. He started it in the lower part time up. He's a first year first World Series umpire as Andy Olsen and he had the shot for. Now we have a count of two to the Ray passing in tennis the first two down Oakland one Los Angeles nothing on the top of the fourth inning. Last he played as a full hitter the left field. Again against this now runs. Mayor Mr. Bradley watching the. Opening game of the World Series she must go only six Dodger games all year she's one of the more rabbit Dodger fans this is Steve Garvey leading off. The mayor and the Oakland Mirror had a bet on the spirit Derby fouls about swinging a hot bat lined up shot to right field the lead off the second. Probably that occurred I was gonna say he's the only Dodger yet who is trying to go the other way with Holtzman that's any luck with him in scoring Osbourne's curve ball dropped Remember a fast ball tails away from that right hander. You try and pull him. As rugged he also has an excellent curve ball but he does not use it much he does not have confidence in it. He came over to the A's after two 17 game winning seasons with the Cubs and he fired two no hitters in the national league before he moved to the American League. One ball two strikes. Opposing very beach the curve ball. Speaker 1: Husband coming in here with a shut out behind him against the Orioles last Sunday. His last 12 innings have been goose eggs. One to pitch accidental foul. That was a good trade for the Cubs and the ACA is one of the Left beneficiaries. Casey Stengel. Speaker 2: Well Stengel is in the stands today 80 for the 30th of July. Yogi Yogi Berra. Said enough world round ball a sharp half an hour scoops and fires and his one down. And that Holzman deal. The Cubs got Rick Monday to play the asshole Joe Ferguson walked his first night. Speaker 1: Joe is another fella carried the Dodgers feel would hit more if you would go to Wright Field once in a while but he likes to ball and Holzman will take advantage of that kind. What I see I works in now. Out of the knees a little bit inside fighting those corners Ben and how. Speaker 2: They go 1 1 or nothing open. Herb is over 0 0 0 and 2. I said earlier. He takes those pitches too much. Speaker 1: Ryan stay on deck. I feel deep. Ferguson I respect his priorities breaks out at a curve ball. . And two down 0 7 has struck out to. Me It looks better this evening I believe that any of the previous three innings. Speaker 2: I guess have been to into the double play and Austin gambling with two on and the two and I'll count to Lopes and having him swing away I guess that's the key to the game of the year. I'd say. Speaker 1: He's played as a full hitter to let this go I can tell you. For years the Dodgers have searched for a third base where For years the Dodgers have players in that position and twice as many as Cox's army I know that they ran ball in a left field for a major. Speaker 2: Player. they have their man. He's young and he's well said your you're. Hares that run. If you are a right handed batter they consider average speed four point three seconds to first base average speed left hander or point one seconds to first base and say is average for a right handed hitter Bill Russell ground of the shortest first time. Saves the first two down. The Dodgers now have five hits the A's do is move the first nearly a. the A's do is move the first To Bill Russell play shortstop the way he did here in Dodger Stadium against the pirates. Have an arrow play the way he we should see something again You might have seen Russell right hand come off the bat on that swing most of his arrows this year have come from a sore elbow and it's also hindered his hurt his swinging he can't quite extend the arms one strike this is possibly going out after one and one finds that first two down Reggie Jackson's old man in the second open one Los Angeles nothing. At. Ball Calloway. Almost looked like he turned that one over deliberately. I think when he pitched with the Cubs I think people in Chicago dreamt they had another Sandy Koufax and it probably hurt him because he threw beyond himself but now he's a pitcher. They. To one pitch. Rambo. God by. Oh. Bando. Chance to see the center you talked about earlier as a biologist picked up a little English and then for a little erratic hop. Off the left breast the Port Campbell area you say hustle to get the third point out it takes at least average need a better day go as far as run their first trip to the mound by all and dark. Open get in trouble the last three any. Dogs that zoom in on nobody on the back and zoom in on nobody out and the bird after two out nobody on it this morning and now suddenly I wonder no. How guard born in Comanche Oklahoma. He attended Louisiana State in southwest Louisiana has come to. Light a football player in his day led the nation of punting his sophomore year at LSU. He late in the majors for thirty years a very smart ballplayer managed the Giants in a world series. Lifetime to eighty nine hitter. Runners on first and third down. One another thing open last of the fourth inning and Steve Eggers the batter. Yegor single of his first breath he did not get a base hit in a four game playoff with Pittsburgh. Herb hangs my hat away from me. Outfield deep and torn left. Long stays a third bill russell the first. Holding their. Ball. Later. Forced out. Right retired. Go run to his two left at the end of four he's won the Dodgers having. Charlie Finley with his bare Bryant hat. And the green of the Oakland A's yelling little encouragement out. Speaker 1: Well he I said at the opening the show he's being sued for two and a half million dollars. for two and a half million mistake is Mike Andrews who became the all sort of a fan of the. Nation when he was trapped in Boy during the competitive baseball his wife let his iron away one on one. The man in the dark suit is Herb slasher president of NBC. Here's a hit Scott Pelley. Iran saying Dick Green about. The first. Speaker 2: A half million Well they're a little nervous before the series. Wonder why the timing of the opening day of the World Series that year. Not bad timing I guess. Guest host as watch these firs time. One another thing often a strike to Holzman. That's just meant that Holtzman still doing the starting pitchers. Six track as for Andy a high pitch one on one. We walked to. Is allowed only two hits in he's behind. Speaker 1: 1 1 pitch. That's. Something I. Wanted to. Campaigners at on deck at the top of the A's batting order. Playing Holzman in the after field he tried to tease him on a corner just outside to two. Ball players call a high sky today not a cloud in the sky that's a base that my. Speaker 2: Down the left. The whole had the chance to. They didn't come to bat once this year because to a second base with a double. Speaker 1: Header might be the time to tell you about an incident at Dodger Stadium this year the Dodgers and the Giants. Speaker 2: The Giants had a had just come up from the minor leagues. had just come up from the minor league teams that use the designated hitter. So my first go had not swung the bat all year and in his first at bat in the big leagues he hit a homerun against the Dodgers here actually even before they went to the designated hitter hitting rule in the American League. Speaker 1: That one of t better hitting stats. Catfish Hunter is the next one getting better but it was pretty far. There. far. Say playing well off the bag at 30 don't expect. Speaker 2: A pitcher to pull the 30 don't expect. swung the bat. World Series hitter. year in the series. He has won the last two World Series in the opening game but he lasted only five innings. In each series. your record. He's up second with his back to you. One out. At Benares. I ran away from him. Kevin Harris is flat out to sacrifice. Dale north on deck. Say entitled Third. A's that one run three if the Dodgers no run success. As a strike of the knees. The Dodgers have left five. Days of left three. Open a second one out he's been on twice at the bottom of the order he gets away he goes both the third. Outside this box boxed around by Yeager and now the A's have a runner on third one out. This will make it doubly tough on the Dodger infield they're going to have to play up and of course Calvin Harris is a kind of a man who does squeeze and has squeezed in the past that was guard a wild pitch. Against Measure Smith. In the last days game against the Orioles are out here 5 to 1 but beat the Royals. 2 to 1 and the clinching game for the American League. He's been out here today. He'll walk out of the stretch. Infield in. The balls in a strike the Katherine Harris. Go to right with it. Football is just ranked. A Bobby wiggle her. Y'all can't be up here. Speaker 1: All I'm down. He may be trying to make him aware. Of some of the throwing arms in the outfield. And let him down left or right run those arms down below average in left way below average and shatter. Speaker 2: Average do a little bit better and write better on third one out. Here he comes. Suicide squeeze they get a man. A perfectly executed suicide squeeze postman running on the 5th. batter camp on earth did. The Dodgers. Speaker 1: The Dodgers are being know he's a squeezed man. We mentioned that he is. It is not very much you can do and it's perfectly executed. A lot is put about emphasis put on that matter of getting the ball down and that's important but it's also important that the base runner does not leave too soon. If he leaves too soon they'll throw the ball right at the hitter or pitch out. Gonna wait till he releases the ball. Spr 2: Campaigners and RBI. The A's lead to nothing. In the top of the fifth inning Bill north is bounced out and struck up. Mr. Smith's giving and probably would change us. Low two balls and no strikes the North. And the suicide eze. Looks like I should. Just move up a bit. All delivery. A strike of the knees to and one the North. Selldals on deck. I played in the after field by center fielder Jim Wynne. So far the A's have cashed in on their chances. The Dodgers have not. And that's the story. They scored in two extreme way the home run and squeeze. Two. It is particularly difficult to give up a run on a one out extra base hit by a pitcher who hasn't hit all year and then set it up on a wild pitch correct. Due to delivery just inside with a fastball free and 2 to Bill north. Your fans a little uneasy now years and. Rumbling through the stands the three to delivery the side and. Speaker 1: On the fast pace north. y four stolen bases he led the American League. Down. Foul Bandar's flag left and struck up. Keep your eyes peeled north the first two down. Spea2: And he's ahead to Speaker 1: Normally the hitter who hits back of a base running thread gets a lot of fastball because the pitcher wants to get that well in the catchers but Bando likes fastballs and they want to give him breaking ball. Sf pressure here on Yegor as you're gonna fall for the curve but a guy like northerly dare man those bat and ball for fastballs. Down Bill north at first. As well the quick move again. Or that 54 stolen bases capital is 39. We mentioned earlier what average speed is going from home the first North to illustrate has. Speaker 2: Been timed at three point nine so he's really quick. Andy with a good quicker pick up move I can see Alvin Dark in the corner of that dugout saying Herb Washington watch the move here he goes. The pro very. Speaker 1: Good guy. Perfect go back. And go right down to the basement this. Speaker 2: One run one hit. Speaker 1: There it is again a quick release by Mr. Smith. Then watch the majority of Stevie anger talk about a strong arm but it's all of that footwork and positioning and balance and he's got it all. Great throw by Yeager at the end of four and a half is open to Los Angeles nothing. Speaker 2: Wow we're halfway through. I want to go back here and the leaving Yellow Jacket Vin Scully the voice of the Dodgers ready and we've got some ball game going on in Game 1 of the 74 3 I would say it's the best we've seen Mrs. Smith look in over a month so the A's are beating a very good pitcher right now grab her and go okay. The Dodgers have been sputtering getting men on but leaving them there. Messerschmitt. Pretty good heading Petrie at twenty four he hits during the year we're waiting for sunglasses to be put on by Dick Green so time out. It'll be measures made followed Buckner. Soon as Green gets the shades on I'm surprised only he waited this long to put him on. Son hasn't changed that much positioning in the sky. Sometime infielders do not like to wear sunglasses because when they are up they see the reflection of the ball in the glasses. Speaker 1: Well here's Andy. It's too nothing open. Bottom of the fifth a month filed away. Speaker 2: As Darrel knows. Check me make that roll and minute ago Glenn Abbott was also up earlier. But the big man is up now. Those who left and they might have just had him tuning up. He hasn't left much lately. Oh and one Andy. Speaker 1: That's over big slow curve. Andy is capable of hitting a homerun. Speaker 2: They just wanted you to message me. You know if anything that relief pitcher warming up. We haven't had a complete game years. Off speed limits. You haven't given any a fastball yet. Two and two. Speaker 1: Two runs three hits dozen hits for the Dodgers. The way the Dodgers so far have left five men on they've had at least one man on in every inning. I guess we should point out that in their first two wins against Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh the Dodgers won while leaving twenty five men on base. Fastball and it seemed to sink. Down he . A strike strikeout number three for Kenny Hausmann he averages for a loss and it'll bring up Davey Lopes who will consume a little time on a hot day he wants Messerschmitt you get back to the dugout. Then as the Dodger ball ballclub during the course of the year with the kind of team that will adjust to a pitcher I noticed that Olsen is keeping everything away they continue to write and it to try and pull the ball no I would say they're human if they it to try and pull the ball no I going to try and pull and go right down the drain pulling. Ball on. The one hitter as we mentioned earlier who will adjust immediately as Steve Garvey. In their 1 and 1. They play Bando but as we mentioned loved rarely bunt and Holtzman is considered a good fielding pitcher. They choppered a short and. He just so he decides to charge the ball Tony and actually he had the easier play rather than get him one caught on a short hop I think you heard a report before the ballgame then you said it's like a rock pile out there you wanted to get it before it took that extra hop he might have overcharged the ball so well let me correct you I year I did not say it was a rock pile I said it is the hardest in field of play period I'm say how many times do. You go he almost looked like he kicked a ball out of his left foot. Yeah he was worried. All right here's Buckner with Lopes the first one out. Camby drawing an error. There is a decision to be made here under these circumstances about whether to have locks go or not. When you have a left hand hitter like Buckner up Walter Alston primarily likes to keep the first baseman anchored on the bag so the left hand Vatican pulled of the hole however. Buckner has not been getting other way twice fastball Well foul earlier he dropped the five all single Olaf last time up he blind to left because he's had to go at the breaking ball he loves. In the future how many bases you think he will steal some days coming on his day on these lines he said this year it depends on what he hits how much he gets on but this year he has goal in 60 counting playoff fifty nine in the regular season he went three for three in the playoff. But I would give him sixty two. Oh and one to Buckner. And he goes hit and run a big bouncer in the right. And then you are right in another regard earlier in the And then you are right in runners will go on the arms of the Oakland A's outfielder Jackson has an exceptionally strong arm but they know it is erratic. I say the other thing on Reggie Jackson granted he has a strong arm velocity wise it is not that accurate but he did it today they said on Ball's hit in front of him he has a tendency to they said on Ball's hit in front enough as he charged the base here he babbled it. And Lopez was able to score the throw is up the line it was hurried and off the glove. Catcur. Speaker 2: He was coming all the way anyway. One thing we should say and that is Jackson made a good throw it was low it could have been cut off and that kept the tying run from getting to second base so you have to give Jackson that even though he's committed an Speaker 1: No I and run single two hours in the inning it is two to one Oakland and here's Jimmy win. Linda laughed it into a boy's play. Buckner. Was gonna try to steal with Garvey up in the first inning and he committed himself to soon and was picked on. Well one and Buckner intimidated was going back to the bag as Holzman was come into the play. We saw the same thing happen a couple of pitches ago. W. Turned it over a wave wall to. Oakland to run three hits two errors the Dodgers one run seven hits. They've had at least one hit in every inning. Speaker 2: Squirted on the end of the bad foul there is a classic case Tony and you asked me before will they finally go the other way. me before will they finally go in mind he was going to pull him no matter what and he hit it off at the end of the bad foul. And it's a tribute to this entire Oakland A's staff I think Vinny that they keep the ball away from the power hitters even though they are behind in the count. I would say this to the Jimmy Wynn will go to right field about twice a year. And once he helped beat Pittsburgh with a double in the playoff but he never goes to write. Tommy Lasorda doing some these kids all through the minor league. Like most of the youngsters here are the Class of 68 the draft. Buckner at first. Very aggressive base running. One out run over two to one Oakland bottom of the Fifth. Here's the difference naturally hit and run and run and hit run in here you don't have to swing a ball boy to protect the running. Go on a e one count this is the run and hits but mostly a button go. Chances are he will. No one going oh boy. Volley fingers ready in the bullpen the guard looking up. And. Maybe all four horsemen. Should have a great matchup in this series with. bullpen for the Dodgers and this man for the A's. Fingers are do the very best in the game. Always a break in the action here in Los Angeles it is 2 to 1 Oakland in the fifth inning. And out on the mound Roland fingers Kenny Holzman win four and a third innings. Deal out at least one run seven hits walk to and struck out three and four horsemen. Followed somewhat of a pattern he started the first game in the 72 and 73 series. Anyway in five innings in each game. so he starts this year and he comes out in the fifth inning oh Lord it must be pointed out havin Ariza was spooked by the infield started his troubles with the error and then Jackson hobbling the base hit and I just about finished him off when he walked me win. Tony you've looked at roll and fingers occurred more times than I have. Isn't this a little early for It is. him. It is. fastball slider you've got to wonder if John Odom getting hurt in a fight yesterday spreading his ankle with fingers W five stitches in the head. his ankle with fingers W five pitching plan I would think the long relief man on the right side would have been John Odom he's mean against right handers comes in with that side arms the. Powerhouse pitcher Garvey has one thing going for him if he is jammed he's still strong enough to muscle the ball out of the infield. Good breaking ball on one watch nicely coming out of the bullpen throw that breaking ball and get it over right away. That's Bill Buckner at second representing the tying run Jimmy win at HBO's bottom of the fifth inning a run over in Oakland leading the Dodgers to the 1. 0 and 2. As fellows the world series competition is now pitched in 13 of the A's last 15 World Series game. If it's Game Six of the 72 series and another half a dozen last year. Little. Fingers. Picking out for Kenny Holtzman. Speaker 1: Fastball. So two breaking balls in any random fastball on the hands to strike him out. He made some very big pitches. Now here's Joe Ferguson. Speaker 2: Fergie walked in the second inning Walter Olson accustomed to seeing the Dodgers father scramble from behind as he says in his years in baseball he's learned that nothing can surprise him. We'll see whether Fergie comes out swinging or not. strikes and then went down swinging last time up. And swinging on a breaking ball fouled away. All you have to do is see the way fingers has worked. Garvey and Ferguson to realize just how tough he can be on those right handers. He's inside the shirts. On one. Buckner and second win at first two out to the one open. Fastball hit him I believe. Yup. second button to third. Watch it again he'll tail in on him Joe tries to get out of the way but he had nowhere he can go. Oh Ryan say coming up with a face and loaded two out in about Oakland two Dodgers one. Buckner a third win and second in Ferguson and by. Say hit into a double play in the second inning. And then single in the fourth. Romney just missed. Having a 100 RB eyes during the year. It was overshadowed a little bit by Garvey and win but he was right on their heels. Speaker 1: Buckner a third win a second. Oakland two Dodgers one. Rog fingers. In relief of Kenny Holzman. Proud looking at that with their hearts and the Dodgers get a run two errors and a hit and leave three. At the end by Oakland to Dodgers one. The first game of the world series such an attendance record for Dodger Stadium a paid attendance fifty five thousand nine hundred and seventy for breaking a record by twenty one people just said the other day against Pittsburgh. Sal Bando well one. Speaker 2: Bando is basically a high fastball hitter but he's seeing a lot of breaking stuff. Ball just went away one in one. Oakland scored in the second inning on a home run by Reggie Jackson picked up another in the fifth Kenny Holtzman doubled Wild Pitch to third and carbonara squeezed him over. Alloway 1 and 2. you run in the bottom half of the Fifth door in the SEC 2 to 1 Oakland. Bando applied the left hand struck out. Speaker 1: Oh the change got him. I mentioned earlier looking at Andy every four days all year. That's the best we've seen him pitching in a long time. At seven strikeout for Andy. So I start off the broadcast telling you how much I know about forget his strikeouts. That he has done and he which was very important I think in his strategy and now he's going a little more to the change up. Areas Reggie Jackson. Homerun to the opposite field and what. Speaker 2: Or what he's a low fastball hitter so Andy Scott hit him up high. One. On day Joe Rudy. Comeback. And I don't do it for ready to down. Joe Rudy coming up there toughest out fine ballplayer he had a base hit and struck out one for two. Joe has the reputation among other things of being a first ball hitter. So the Dodgers had to keep an eye about that. Almost a self-made player Vin. Worked at it. Speaker 1: Breaking ball strike. Speaker 2: It seems like any or unorthodox stance. It means the fellow. Had a lot of trouble as an overcompensate. On one boy he really hit the edge that time. Fastball outside corner. The pitchers say the black the trim around the plate. Swinging swinging foul That'll go out of play. Messerschmitt has struck out seven. He has walked three. And the difference now he was bitten by that home run ball in the second inning. To do to Oakland's sixth inning two out. High pop fly Russell calling. Speaker 1: Battling the player. That'll do it. the end of five and a half innings the score Oakland 2 and the Dodgers won. Speaker 2: It'll be Bill Russell who started off then Stevie agar and Andy Mrs. Smith Ball one. Those who watch fingers all the time now they see him working on a kid named Russell. They say that with all of his great stuff when he falls into a trap is when he tries to pitch to spots. One and one other words it just relaxes and lets his stuff do the talking. He is some better when he suddenly decides to nibble at the corners than he gets in So we'll watch that. Big chopper wide a third band across two of. One away. And there's not a flashy player but a very solid player a strong accurate arm. Not a outstanding rain but when it gets to the ball he has your hands and knows what to do with it. him steady Yegor has singled and hit into a fourth place one for two. Fingers fastball curve ball and slider. Hit down the right be aligned slicing on Jackson no play it's in the seats. ran very well toward the corner. He is not limping away it was three or four days ago though we noticed when he came up in the second inning. We'll take a look at him. Speake The trouble comes in when he tries to start once he gets going and gets a smooth stride going he's all right. But a fast start out of the box or after a ball might in Drew. Speaker 2: He did some stretching in the index early earlier and you can read his lips you said ouch. He hurt himself in. One and one. Egg. Roll and fingers with a long way to go now and relief for Kenny Holzman. One ball one strike missed inside ball to. Outstanding relief pitcher is the only word boy in. Baseball. Speaker 1: How do you like that It looks funny. in search of a barbershop quartet. Tune in to. Fastball down he go. Oh fingers makes that look easy two down and Andy messes man coming up. Measures mayor has allowed three hits to run as a hitter he is one for two singled and struck out. On their hands and a fireball episodic. Trouble is gonna drop. Rudy gets it back in. So Mrs. Smith. Speaker 1: Was tested and still able to push it in the left hand over a base hit. That means the Dodgers spinning their wheels in the sand here. That at least one hit in every inning. Speaker 2: Maybe we should put spot. Davey Lopes coming up. The only inning in which the Dodgers did not leave a batter was their first inning when he had Buckner picked off. Lopez his strikeout fouled out and a board on the arrow by Calvin arrows. All. The way. Davey is somewhat like high fastball he can surprise you. He hit 10 home runs this year. Mrs. Smith right at the bag. He's no threat on the bases. Fingers. Gonna throw over there anyway. But he doesn't take much of a Breaking ball 0 1 and 1. Fingers a good fielding pitcher. So they have an extra infielder out there. So they have an extra infielder you have a relief pitcher who's a bad feeling pitcher. 1 and 1. 2. 5. 0 2. Open leading to to 1 with two down bottom of the sixth and a Messerschmitt that first. 10 is holding. Low. Fingers came in with a couple of men on board and proceeded to hit Joe Ferguson to load him up and then he got say. Now with two out of basic basically behind the low. Let him swing three and one remember they took the bottle off and let lob swing to an all in the third inning with two on and that's probably the biggest gamble I've failed so far in the game. A full count and two down Mrs. Smith will be going from first. Hole fly ball into shallow right center but Jackson has to come and get it north comes over within minutes Neuer. And Jackson dropped to his right a base hit and at the end of six two to one Oakland. Speaker 1: NBC keeps it going they'll have National Hockey League again with Tim Ryan. And right now we have the Oakland A's wise. The. Fans have this view. Last year the why they were mad at their. Seats given to him in Shea Stadium in New York protested in the paper the next day moved him from upstairs downstairs. Always something going with the Oakland A's. Right now they have a 2 1 lead then as they go to the seventh inning of Game 1. Speaker 2: I guess in a sense it would be a combination of a very good pitching on each side and Dodger utility the Dodgers so far have left nine men in six innings while Oakland has left. But three two runs three hits two arrows for Oakland one run eight here. No errors for the Dodgers. So a message this pitching well but it's not good enough up to here. Tennis struck out and hit into a fourth play. Breaking ball down and away. Tennis an excellent fastball hitter. Doing no. He missed again. With tennis at the plate. You'll see a lot of full counts three and two because he walks a lot and he strikes a lot. Speaker 1: Fouls those breaking balls are trying to fend them off at times. Speaker 2: Oh I see now the all right. How was your gamble again against a good fastball hitter as opposed to the risk of walking in on day. Ray possibly the catcher. Three and one. Speaker 1: Fastball and he got stung. No you fall behind and you have to go to the hit his strength and it turns out to be a base hit that's hit number four for Oakland and it'll bring up bossy. Oh bossy at the plate. Tennis at first nobody out in the seventh Oakland two Dodgers won. Dodgers moving around in the bullpen. Breaking ball away. Though they're expecting passing to bank. And a miss with a breaking ball. That Mike Marshall. Speaker 2: And it comes as no surprise. Want to know. Who got the bunt foul and actually hit that thing almost off his ear. One on One. Coming up inside thinking what after a bad batch. Could have been to it all couldn't bring the bat back. One and one. I see the batter on deck deep green. Tie and tie up tennis. Bill Kunkel in his first World Series has had some dandy calls at first base. A foul the in the dark behind the plate an account of a 1 in 2. Tommy Gorman gave it the quick call. Marshall hasn't won any. His pitch always gets real vacation for him. Speaker 2: He has to pitch a lot of batting practice if he's not in a game. I've seen a lot of excellent relief pitchers but it's incredible how a human body can take what it takes. He's in there all the time. He pitched 30 minutes of batting practice yesterday at the workout. 1 and 2 the count. Speaker 1: The REA posse. He's still bundled and it so he struck out so they kept the bun on twice with two strikes. It paid off one for one camp and Harris squeezed on the runner. This time round. That also means eight strikeouts for Andy Messerschmitt. The green. Speaker 2: Strikeout ground and a third over two. They like to play hit and run with green. With a pitcher roll and fingers do up next we say they have a hit and run play. Speaker 1: Yegor is taking his best shot at the runners. Watch the quick release of Yegor. He does not have to waste mu time. a hurry. At first base umpire Bill Kunkel has some close plays today. Speaker 2: Good reach to save the player. Bill Kunkle in his first World Series. Don Duncan Jr. the Third Base umpires also in his first World Series. Looper and I think he practice bad. He'll have to get another piece of wood an account on to is the first World Series for all three American League umpires and board nationally umpire Andy Olsen. As we said the old pro is the senior umpire of the National League. Calling balls and strikes. Tom Gorman. It is Gorman's fifth World Series. And fd behind the plate. He was a former left handed pitcher in the New York Giants organization. Doug Harvey. on the infield is in his second World Series. 0. 2. Tennis opened up with a base yet bossy filed out on the bun O and to the count to green. Rolling fingers on day. One away or in the top of the seventh inning. One away or in the top of the Standing at first with a base at the left Jean Tanner's. Oh and two. Years Miss. Wanted to. Randy a strike out today. That's a high in over a month of pitching. Back in the middle of July. He struck out 10 expos. Out of. Green making a lot of contact. He's a good butler they squeeze with him occasionally. They like to play hit and run. And he is seeing a lot of breaking stuff. Bobby wing calls. Tell him to get a pitch. To 1 Oakland's seventh inning One and two. Fouled away again. We told you. About Yaga giving signs to Messerschmitt and indicating location. And Andy Lavin. It's not all life and death matches Smith looked at Rick Garvey a minute ago put his glove up to his face and Garvey broke out into a big lab. One. Speaker 1: Goes the runner. the left field. Buckner has a play we'll see if he won hands at his usual. Nope it's the World Series to him. They made some marvelous plays this year in left field. Speaker 2: I'll be honest with looking at baseball every day I have never seen a player make so many dramatic and sensational plays in one season at one position as he made really some of them bordered on the incredible. He hit the foul ball head on. Caught the ball was knocked flat. year guys air balls and everything. ker 1: Here's Roland fingers Alloway with actually a pretty good tribute to Dick Green though he told you they like to play hit and run with him. It got nothing but breaking balls Tony tough pitches to handle he kept making contact. Speaker 2: They played hit and run and he got a good pitch and pulled it hard to lap. Speaker 1: One time they thought average.oing to be a goodthought Speaker 2: He had some power on the high fastball ground ball they say they'll go the short way to Lopes a little high but it's the World Series. Speaker 1: They're gone in the half offline two to one. Last December the crowd settling back down. The Dodgers trailing 2 to 1 as they come up. And both managers sweating it out. Alvin da Walter Alston. The Dodgers will have Bill Buckner Jimmy Wynn and Steve Garvey. Know the heart of their lineup coming up. onto the field out there in clears it off. Where's the dog. Not yet. Oh there it goes one used Frisbee. To do on Oakland bottom of the seventh. Here's Buckner. Single allow blind allowed single to right. I'm going to take a look again at that RBI single by Billy Buckner back in the fifth inning. After a nearby camp at Eris. Reporters briefly voiced Asian ID. Network. Speaker 2: We'll see if we give you that shot a little bit later then. All right. Okay. Here's the Dodger run in the fifth. With Lopez on the move. They take advantage of the Jackson throwing arm as Tommy Lasorda keeps Lopes on coming. What is the only Dodger run so far. Speaker 1: But never really jam that time. I'm surprised that that didn't come up five fingers just A.T.M. up. And check out Oh and to. Carry two for three today. Speaker 2: Back and has a play right away. Joy doing well out there. It is a very tough field to He hasn't hesitated one. play. He made one of the best catches Series two years ago off the bat of Dennis monkey leaping up on the wall in Cincinnati. S. His glove turned around to the plate crumpled to the ground with a ball of it from Mendel's catch. Spea2: Where's Jimmy when he applied the lab head into a forest play and why. Kept it on top of him. Speaker 1: Holzman kept it away and Jimmy trying to pull one over to give you an idea of the ballpark and the record breaking crowd. Fifty five nine seventy four taken from overhead by the helicopter that's strike one and one to Jimmy Wynn. One out bottom of the seven. Two to one Oakland. Over one and two. Or that is some shot I'm high atop Los Angeles. Looking right down on the ball park. Then self bend I really on top of that line in the late innings against the right handed batter the third. One run lead they don't want an extra base. Let's watch him against Steve Garvey now at two down Bando a third Bobby. Garvey went with Holtzman and single to right. Then in the fourth inning he grounded assured and in the fifth inning fingers just gave him too good breaking balls down in and away and then rammed him with a fastball on the hands to strike him out it was a classic bit of pitching a bye bye Roland fingers to Steve Garvey to out of the 7 2 to 1 Oakland. Fastballs. No the last time up. You see guarding the line is how Bando 2 to 1 Oakland and the 7. He started and with breaking balls the last time so he started and with a fastball this time. Breaking ball hit foul. Enter the auxiliary seats and then we showed Sal Bando guarding that third base line at this stage of the ball game and a close game that outfielders move back pretty close to the warning track and almost all areas to protect those alleys from an extra base hit in back Jackson is remarkably deep in right considering you have a Jackson is remarkably deep in he's almost in Pasadena. Oh and to. Fastball and a chopper to Calvin Harris. Got it. So Dodgers have gone and order and at the end of seven Oakland two and the Dodgers won. A stunning two to one Oakland and Bert carbonara the first ball hitter promptly hit the first ball into center field for a base it. Speaker 2: Was Gavin Harris at their first ball he ever saw in Speaker 2: Was Gavin Harris at so it's no surprise here's Bill Norris. so it's no surprise here's Bill Messerschmitt. North is a good butter carbonara a very good base runner though we'll see what dark decides the Dodgers have say on the grass looking for the bun. And he takes more one. You can do a lot of things with North because of his speed. Two to one Oakland evening they're trying to get the Two to one Oakland evening five hits. Takes just by one and one. Bill north the hitter down in the Dodger bullpen Charlie hub a knuckleball he begins to throw. One and one annoy. And Harris getting back. This was the setup the A's want now they have their leadoff This was the setup the A's want runner north and Bando and Jackson Apollo first time he's been on today the buddies down and his play has to go to Garvey and the sacrifice wait. So they are two out of three in but at times they got to squeeze for a run and now the sacrifice. To bring up shall Bando Oh that is a lot of talk about all the controversy on the A's but I think some fans forget they're fine professionals they know how to execute and play the game and they're all right into their prime now 27 28 29 years old a young veteran Oh sure you put a bunch of athletes together from February and October. You're gonna have to have some fights disagreements what You're gonna have to have some They have it in the office all the time but they don't cover it in the press. Bando by the left hand struck out twice. Oh. And one. Day shoppers say goes up to get it such and throws lo and. And that's a one in a million play. Here comes Gavin Harris the score and going all the way to third is Bando and he saved. Oh you're talking about the accuracy of Ryan say arm. And I would have to say that this is the world series. Anda little off balance on it looked like he righted himself quickly little off balance on it looked half. Speaker 1: Garvey then gets the ball he always confused about just a little bit and sell bad he does not have speed takes advantage of it. Garvey looked home so he did not have a play don't yell to him as he had his back to that home plate area. Speaker 2: Oh John big run. You realize now that Oakland on a wild pitch squeezed in a run and on Dodger error on Ryan say pick up another and they're too good a ballclub to make. As many mistakes as the Dodgers have made. Oh one. The Dodgers have to play the infield. Yeah. Jackson the plate and Rudy on day. And it's 3 to 1 Oakland in the eighth inning. Speaker 1: Versus fifth Smith now really looking in glaring into the Dodger dugout saying do you want me to put him out. into the Dodger dugout saying do Speaker 2: One thing if you put him on with his bad leg you would think well that's the time run. We'll see. If they pitch to him. Strike. Speaker 1: That's his bid just battling now to stay in the ballgame. Alston has the two right handers coming up Rudy and tell us. How they might set up a double play with a walker and a pitch from the stretch. play with a walker and a pitch Wanted one. High fly ball a shallow well medium Center and he should come home and score win makes one throw in Ferguson took it with a better arm at. Go. All the way on the fly and went to block the ball late by Yeah look at that left foot landed. Again what if he had to make a high throw well it happened that my arm went wrong for the next three days I can make one throw an effort Abdul. Never seen bro by your Ferguson after running. Yeah get one at the end of seven and a half open three Dodgers one. Gets the end of that play as Bando comes in with Ferguson making one of the best plays Bando comes in with Ferguson and the guts of Steve Yeager the catcher and blocking that plate and holding on to the ball an amazing throw and an amazing block at home plate right alley ovation boy Ferguson Yeah I play like that could lift the Dodgers. Need it now they're two runs down we have a change in right field Reggie Jackson is out right now watching it now as a defensive measure goes into right Neil Brogan. We were talking earlier about Joe Ferguson. Not very aggressive at the plate but he certainly was an aggressive outfielder knowing that he can now throw a win with win calling it just took it away. Well one it is Oakland three runs five hits in two arrows the Dodgers one run eight hits and one error rolling fingers battling for the decision after Kenny Holtzman went on a third and so far it's been massive Smith all the way. Ball. The free series guessing figured that fingers would be extremely valuable No it is no surprise that he was born on early he got the A's out of a jam in the fifth inning getting save for the third out with the bases loaded. Out one man to get aboard and the six. That he has permanent wiring in his job. Back in the minor leagues and 67 his. Jaw was fractured he still wears the wiring. Ball three. During the course of the year more than any other dodgy you her Fergie would be allowed to swing free and 0. However he's not been hitting that well. And they're down by two. Speaker 2: Three and one. He left a Bible a shallow shatter a late start by North. But he's there. Speaker 1: You see him muttering to himself because he had no jump at all on the fly ball but he's still fast enough to get. You'll be glad to go to hell with Ella. They play all night game but they tell me at O'Flynn it's just as bad if not worse in the daytime. Yeah that Bank of concrete. And they'll have short sleeve fans and then of course. Left field centre field supposedly left centre of the sun field in Oakland. Ron say has been a pivotal figure in the game both with the bad and the glove. Speaker 2: With two on and He hit into a double play. Ball one. in the fourth he single. two out and the bases loaded in the 30 flied out that he hit out of sync. Speaker 1: And it's the big All too so fingers behind plays. All in black. Oakland bullpen. Just in case. Manifests and foul back out of play. The Dodgers have three left hand hitting pinch hitters Joshua Hopkins and Crawford. Speaker 2: Now that Washington is in the game. The A's have hold. Speaker 1: Fingers challenging the hitters. He's not gonna give in to and to stay right on top of him. All three Wednesday get into a slump it's not saying that he's in one now but when he gets into a slump he has a tendency to loop the bad and drop his right shoulder that's going to be loop the bad and drop his right five or. Brings the tying run to the plate in Bill Russell. Dodger Stadium the jewel of Los Angeles. And you're seeing it on a perfect day for exposure. From high above Los Angeles. Russell grounded assured singled out Brando's glove in the fourth inning grounded the third in the sixth inning. The Dodgers have had a man on base in every inning but the seven. To one Oakland. Bottom of the eight one away. Yaga on Dak. Off speed and got the corner. Well he's making some dandy pitches his fingers say a first hit missing shot on that A's dugout Reggie Jackson alongside Alvin Dark is positioning the young right fielder thought l was with him but each hit her. Own two. Speaker 2: Areas again he's Jackson waving the young Washington. And. the hitter chances are he'll hit a little later and be sure you throw to second base. Not that time ruggedness possession. Don God Russell. Speaker 1: Two down and Stevie anger will not here. They'll go to Willie Crawford left hand hitting outfielder demand for Yegor. Oh. Alvin Dark. Checking his lineup card and here's Willie proper. Willie plays right field against right handed starting. Speaker 2: Aits down against the left handers that's why Ferguson was out there. Worse now he will stay in the game and Ferguson will go behind the plate. They'll go over the book on him. Batting for younger. Number 27. Speaker 1: Willie hit two ninety five during the regular year. He has power he has eleven homerun sixty one RB eyes. Most of the National League pitchers like to keep the ball up and in on him. And he is very much susceptible to the strike out on that pitch in years past with the Dodgers. He showed remarkable power to left center. But we have not seen that this year at all. I'd say the Dodgerobably have more depth coming out of that dugout there then. I would think so. Outweigh. Their position in the outfield Speaker 2: And they are moving him a little bit towards right Sally. Speaker 1: He doesn't knowch way to turn. he say let me alone. This is my first World Series I'm nervous enough I put him on a pulley he's only 20 years old has played very little baseball. Line drive down the right field line and so much for possession. Speaker 2: And say he will go to third. A little knowledge is a dangerous. They moved into right center and private pulled it into right. And Bond Joshua will now come up to hit Brandi measures mid you might wonder why with two hour day Crawford hit ahead of Joshua Crawford has much more power. Speaker 1: Than they were hoping Mike Marshall getting ready for the ninth inning. Here's a man who started this season on the spot Alvin Dark. All I was replace Dick Williams who had won two world championships. And with a volatile owner he's is expected to do the same thing he hasn't won the World Series as West stock the pitching coach marking his lineup card but Alvin Dark definitely started the season with the toughest managerial assignment. Diet talking to all and fingers. Joshua does not have power he has one home run. And he goes the other way a great deal no Alvin going back to the dugout no and to out first and third here's the announcement on bond Josh you're heading for Andy Messerschmitt Oh Reggie Jackson is still telling Washington where to play. He stands out their arms akimbo say what do you want me to do at a ball level they got moving over to the right. Oh there it was. Really interesting. All right they played you I should go the other way which is the way he goes left field a lot. Speaker 2: Two out. bottom of the eight. Ball on the Dodgers. With say at third Crawford at five have left nine men. And in danger of leaving two more. It's been a frustrating day for them. Roland thing is he's a big man and nobody going down here now. If they didn't bring Lynn Blatt Joshua in no sense getting him up he's been behind nearly every hitter that he's been behind to win all. Three of the four and that's getting him in trouble. Too a. Chopper down a Dick Green. We got him. For the Dodgers no runs a hit they lead to more and at the end of eight open three And the Dodgers won. The Dodgers make the anticipated change Willie Crawford stays in the game and goes into right field Mike Marshall takes over on the mound and Joel Ferguson who had been in right field is behind the plate. You go do you keeping score Crawford stays in the number eight spot Marshall March 9. And we go to the ninth inning three to one Oakland. Speaker 1: Marshall who has not worked now in quite a while will be pitching to Joel Rudy then to Jean tennis and Ray Fozzie. Incred enough. He was in 106 games plus two more in the playoffs. He worked more innings than a lot of starting pitchers. Speaker 2: He has his degree in kinesiology which is the study of body movements but up along third say was deep bear hand pickup off balance throw too late. Speaker 1: Joe Rudy lays down a dandy to great Marshall with a base it would take another look. And here's something that might not have entered the Scottie reports of these Dodgers that Rudy will at times lead off in any even though he does not have exceptional speed with that but he caught him by surprise. They say that Bunning is a lost art but the A's really put it beautifully today. They've had three sacrifices and this one base hit by a Rudy perfect Bunny. And the lack of the fun when they took the bunt off in the third inning turned out to be a losing gamble for the Dodgers. Speaker 2: The but very important. Here's tennis 0 1. Tennis has struck out head into a force play and single Olaf Rudy with the bun single is now two before. Though he has two of the A's six hits three runs six hits and two errors for the champion A's one run nine hits one error for the Dodgers who have left the eleven men on base. Jim Hunter is warming up out on the A's bullpen. Speaker 1: There is another bond. Garvey hesitated. His play is close. I went away to the funny clinic today. Well pitching is so tough when you realize at one run is awfully big. And the batter with one eye will be Ray Rossi. Speaker 2: Down in the bullpen as knuckleball or Charlie hope. It would not be a surprise to see Alvin Darke bring Catfish Hunter into pitch to one hitter or two or one anything because you have an off day on Monday. They can come back after a couple of innings blue scheduled to pitch tomorrow. Marshall has a fastball a screwball and a slider. One out. Rudy and second as the screwball at Miss Ball one. When Mike was with Montreal we'd see him occasionally and everybody was extremely conscious of the scrutiny. Speaker 1: Dick Green on deck. Watching him carefully. But when you see him almost really impressed by his fastballs. Speaker 2: One and all. There is the fastball and Fozzie was laid on it one and one then the A's are just won out. Speaker 1: I mean one fun away a Series record five and one game to record the A's of our for today. Speaker 2: Yeah they've been today. home run by Reggie Jackson and the double by Kenny Holzman. Rudy is second one away in the ninth three to one Oakland. Fastball away one and two during the season will always have the gag it wouldn't be a dodgy ballgame if he didn't have a hot dog a soft drink and see Mike Marshall. And you know in the Dodgers one end of the season everybody talked about the million dollar starting pitching. That he relieved one hundred and six of the 162. 1 and 2 the party. We had a guess a pitch now. I would think. Screwball instead doing two then we've seen the reason Fred and World Series competition continue today no complete game once again you know actually the word starting pitcher. That's all it means start. You don't finish half your starts anymore maybe a a star will complete a third of his starts. Stars are in the bullpen now and how. To include a ray buzzy slider out of. Three run six heads to Arizona Oakland one run nine hits one error for the Dodgers the age of left five up to here the Dodgers have left eleven. Mike Marshall relieving Andy Messerschmitt roll and fingers relieving Kenny horseman. 2 and two. Bossy the hitter green on day one out. Fastballs he's given him everything and he had been able to get him out of there. He had two strikes through a screwball and a slider was fouled off and he missed with the fastball re-enter. All account DeRay Bossi as your Rudy at second base one away. Screwball hit down the left be alive and foul back any of his seats so it's still three and alive and foul back any of his group of different speeds this group all doesn't it yeah he group of different speeds this remarks someone way back in spring training at the beginning of the season said how do you compare your screwball to Jim brewers and tug McGraw. Speaker 1: He said their screw Speaker 2: Okay okay. Three and two. Speaker 1: Screwball and he missed. I tell you one thing he has not been martial is as effective as his frequency and appearance. So now they'll call Dick Greenaway. Speaker 2: And the left hand hitter left. Jim Holt first baseman will come up and hit four green. Doorjamb hope coming out of the age dug out to hit a dead green with two on and one out. Speaker 1: Holder came over to We'll be coming up in a minute. Speaker 2: GM is 30 years old. He's out of North Carolina. Well he was an outfielder with the Minnesota Twins and sometimes the first baseman. Jim hope this will be Hall's first world series. I should say a second in his first. He scratched away with Minnesota and he has a chance now to be a big man. It's 3 to 1 Oakland ninth inning one away. And Hunter is still warming up on the A's bullpen. Spr 1: And throwing out there all inning. Speaker 2: We should say too and the Dodgers come up in the bottom of the ninth. They have Davey Lopes. Bill Buckner and Jimmie win. So Rudy a second. Bossi atst one out. And hold at the plate. A he's struggling now ball one. Marshall pitched the last inning. There's you man. If it's a clash any against the pirates. But he has not had much work at all. A slider and it's popped up and it'll be Russell calling the infield fly rule is called and that'll be the second out. Speaker 1: Hunter sat down then and now it's down Macksville loosening up his throwing arm to come into play second base and the last of the night. Speaker 2: Here comes the relief specialist rolling fingers. So the two big men go head to head. So the two big men go head to The A's leading three to one in the nine. Rudy at second. Speaker 1: Ozzie at first two out in the eye and three to one open two down slider hit at the end of the stick up along first base and it goes foul. Tommy Gorman the plate umpire calling it 0 and 1. Speaker 2: Then when you mentioned the remark that Marshall made about the others screwballs being in the infantile stage he throws a screwball that I have never seen before we did a pregame show on a Saturday ball game that actually breaks away from a right handed hitter it looks like a curveball and one that breaks straight down and went away from a left handed hitter. Yeah. He was not trying to put anybody down. he had spent more time more study on body motion and how to throw this ball. And he just made a matter of fact statement. Oh and one. Side arm fastball he didn't do that too often straight to. Oh and to the out. Party watching it first. Rudy at second to out. Oh and to the role and fingers. Measured both struck out eight today but it wasn't good enough. Screwball missed ball one they saw him and Seattle Sal Bando remembers hitting against him back at 69 when Seattle had the one year in the American League. And Bando said he was just going to perfect that screwball that season you know he played for years in the minor leagues as a shortstop. Wanted to. Ask for drilling. That'll do it. No runs a hit to left and at the end of eight and a half innings Oakland three Dodgers one and right now. Speaker 1: Volley fingers as a pitcher a record that he holds onto this lead he would win the opening game of the world series. He's gonna face the top of the Dodger batting order Lopez Buckner and win a shut out. So far four fingers and three and two thirds innings two hips and no run. Davey Lopes has struck out. Then came the biggest play in the third inning. He had first and second and nobody out. He had first and second and account 1 to 2 and 0. They let him swing and he found out he was a born on an era. And by the Center now Max Dale is now at second base for Dick Green and there is a strike to Davey Lopes. Boy down Macksville at his twenty second series game at tops among players on the two clubs. 1 and 1. 3 to 1 Oakland we're in the bottom of the ninth magnificent job by Roland fingers. Speake And he's accustomed to doing it. Speaker 1: Basketball missed ball too. He is asked to pitch for an two third innings today. He's got an inning to go. To and one. Fly ball in the shadow field Bill n air. Speaker 2: One away. And then in case finm Hunter is warming up again on the open bullpen. As the ace of the staff a 25 game winner. Bill. North. Speaker 1: Looking up into that eaker 2: He's not had any good jumps on the shallow fly ball. But he picked up one off easily. One down and Bill Buckner will be the batter. Our thanks to statistician Alan Raj. Production Stage Manager Jim O'Gorman and field coordinator Dewey McDermott as we bring you the first game of the seventy four World Series. Speaker 1: Ball 1. Buckner has single left and fly the lab single to right and five to land. He's two before trying to get a board for a power hitter on deck. Jimmy Wynn strike one on one waiting his time. Speaker 2: Record crowd today. Fifty five thousand nine hundred and seventy four. Breaking ball 0 2 and 1. Oakland 3 Dodgers 1 9 Venning Buckner the toughest to strike out on the Dodger team. And he popped it up and an arrow is coming out and Rudy coming in it'll be Rudy. Two down. And the A's continue the strong pitching that they had in the last three games against the Orioles. They won Dodger run today has been unearned. I was in the fifth inning. The old story. Good pitching always got good hitting Jimmie win as Clyde lap hit into a force play. Walked in blind to study for the Dodgers most frustrating day since they have left 11 men on base only in the seventh inning did they fail to get a man on board and of course there are two out here in the nine and for Oakland they did what they had to do they got a couple of breaks and they cash them in. For one a two strike squeeze by campaigners squeezing home Holtzman who at double that was a big one. Speaker 1: They got a gift run on a throwing error by say and then a big run a home run by Reggie Jackson. So they haven't done much but they have made it do. In their one and one. Rollie Fingers. Trying to pick up the victory. One in one to win. All two on deck. Steve Garvey. Speaker 2: Win with 100 RBI this year he scored 100 runs. He walked over 100 times. He struck out over 100 times. He was busy. Speaker 1: Basketball at the knees. Charlie Bentley with one hour to go. Speaker 2: Vegas has had an excellent fastball here and really really firing it. He's doing just what they said he could do. Breaking ball and a high five all in the left center back goes Rudy to the left side. They come together. Speaker 1: We're looking at three different ways. Now let's see how close they came to catching Rudy the north come over. Up they go together with a ballet shot this is an adjust flare. Now we'll see it another way it goes north and Rudy. Speaker 2: Boy you can't tell even their Kenya. No. Speaker 1: One more time one more time. Look at him says her class each other. Well I would not call that a home run until he was around third. Speaker 2: They're looking in the glove to see if the ball is there. Speaker 1: Right. Speaker 2: Guards come at the top of the fingers. Now he has only a one run lead and one out to get. And a powerful Steve Garvey up Garvey is single All right. And a powerful Steve Garvey up struck out and grounded to shore comes up empty on that curve ball 0 and one. So the Dodgers have 10 heads. Here's Rudy again looking in Knight's glove. No I said it's empty. Those go right there. It's amazing. Washington and by me holding with his second single right certain ideas are still alive. Speaker 2: The dark coming out looking to them all. Ben. This Tuesday. He open the playoffs and lost the Baltimore. Speaker 1: Franchise a break in the action here in Los Angeles Oakland. the action here in Los Angeles ninth inning. Jim Catfish Hunter as his name was announced to the crowd. I want to. Bring in a 25 game winner. This is the first relief appearance of the season for him. He pitched last Wednesday innings relief help from fingers as the A's won the pennant. Now he's back in here again to pitch until Tuesday night. New teams play here tomorrow with Sutton against vida blue. One o'clock start. On Eastern Time an open game date on Monday and then the play Tuesday evening. Speaker 2: They're asking 100 to last out. The choice now is running. At first base for Garvey and Joe Ferguson is the man that Jim Hunter is going to face them Catfish Hunter is not a particularly strikeout type of their tier but he has marvelous control and he has full command of all of his pitches. One of the big reasons he keeps things down and he will never give in on a hitter you challenge him all the time. He'll stay on top of him. Joe Ferguson has walked and been hit by a pitch struck out and to. The shock at first two out of the ninth three to Oakland. Basketball away on. Ray Flossie. Speaker 1: Holding up two fingers to keep everybody in the ballgame two out. Speaker 2: This must be strange to him one really parents in the last five years. Ball to. 1 thing as a starting pitcher being crashed into relief. He had plenty of tim get ready. He was down in the bullpen longer than he would normally take to start again. Speaker 1: To an order. out of the nine three to Oakland the Dodgers with 11 hits but only to run. Speaker 2: Two and one are going all out. The opening game is important. Tina won the ong game has won the series 42 times. The other club 28 and you win the opening game as a visitor all the more important. Two balls one strike. Speaker 1: And playing bounty busted him right on the hands doing two. Ferguson knows he's gone his lame duck knows that can't be those strikes. And so it is Walter Austin. Speaker 2: To intuitive Fergie to out ninth inning 3 to Oakland Bashara goodbyes. Speaker 1: Got him. And that'll do it. As the catfish comes in and strikes out Joe Ferguson. And the Dodgers in the ninth inning settle for a one run home run by Jimmy Wynn or two hits they leave yet another man they left a dozen it'll be known as the Dirty Dozen in Los Angeles and Alvin guy and the Oakland A's squabbling made the headlines yesterday but clutch pitching timely hitting and a better defense made the headline today the totals as you see Oakland with three hits three run six hits and two errors. Speaker 2: The Dodgers two runs eleven hits and one error.

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