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8/6 Radio Broadcast - Game 121

Are you ready for some baseball?...

All right then, let's get
the show on the road
Brian Babson with his 10 and 10 record
Will be facing Red Schoendienst

Here we go, well almost...
Here comes Hays out to the mound...
Looks like they are checking their signs

Now we are ready to start
Now Brian delivers
He rips a grounder to the mound
Babson grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 1-3
With one gone
NL Post WWII will have Roberto
Clemente coming up
A dangerous hitter, no doubt about it

The right fielder, Roberto
Clemente, is up next
Babson has the sign from Hays
Brian rocks and fires
Low and outside
Ball four

Hank Aaron moves in to face Babson
1 on, 1 out here in the top of the 1st
Hank Aaron is hitting .312 for the year
with 41 homers
He is having a great year
Babson is happy with the sign
It's coming down the pike
The runner goes
Aaron likes the hit and run...
Fastball, down the middle...
Swung on...
Aaron strokes a deep shot...
Gunner and Tucker dashing to the fence...
They don't have a chance
HOME RUN!
Aaron picks up a couple of RBI's
as Clemente scores ahead of him
Hays wanted Babson to throw that pitch
down at the knees, not up at the letters
That was a costly mistake for FOFC

So that brings up Willie Mays
the NL Post WWII center fielder
Willie is hitting at .306 on the year
NL Post WWII's cleanup hitter
has knocked in 83 runs
He has a fine .585 slugging average
Mays waits patiently for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Babson winds and delivers
Change up...
Mays hits a fly ball to right
Gazelle is under it...
He's got it
That's two away

Mathews is ready to face Babson
Mathews is hitting .295
against righthanders
Right-hander Babson eyes the lefty Mathews
Babson's 0-1 pitch...
Swung on and hit sharply to second
Blade plays it on one hop
Over to Potpie...
Out of there!
That's three outs here in
the top of the first
At the end of one half inning,
for NL Post WWII
2 runs, one hit and no errors
FOFC is coming to bat

Blade, FOFC's second baseman,
leads off for the All Stars
NL Post WWII drew first blood
They scored 2 runs
in the top half of the first
Blade has hit 3 home runs this year
Koufax steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he's ready
The pitch on the way, here it is...
Slow ground ball
Schoendienst is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
NL Post WWII gets the first
out of the inning

Tucker finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
A. J. will be facing the lefty Koufax
from the right side of the plate
Of his 7 home runs, 5 are
against southpaws
Tucker is waiting on the pitch
Now Sandy delivers
Ground ball through the middle
Schoendienst ranges behind second
Nice pick up...
Twists and fires it
OUT!
Two up, two down for FOFC

Gerald Gazelle, will be up next
Jeeberoni Potpie hopes to
get a chance as well
Bases empty... one more
chance for FOFC here
NL Post WWII leads FOFC by 2 runs
Gazelle is at .271 on the season
The left-hander Koufax is now ready
Here's the 0-1 offering
Slider, inside...
Swung on...
Gazelle rocks this one...
He got all of it...
It's going... Going...
GONE!
Man, he really crunched it!
Koufax looks dejected on the mound

Potpie is up now for FOFC
Koufax tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
Now Sandy delivers
A hot shot on the ground to Schoendienst
He's got it cleanly on one hop...
Over to first and Potpie is out
That's all for the All Stars...
As we head to the top of
the second inning...
NL Post WWII ahead 2 to 1

Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench, and
Orlando Cepeda are due up
Ernie is 4th in the league in home runs
with a 40 so far in 1900
He's ready
Windup by Babson
And the pitch
Banks hits a deep fly to left-center
Tucker is at the warning track
He stumbles a little...
Rights himself
It bounces off the fence...
Two-base hit for Banks

Bench digs in at the plate
Ready now for Babson to come set
Babson steps on the rubber...
Looks in for the sign
The pitch to Bench...
Change up, on the inside corner...
Bench was looking for it...
He hammers the pitch...
It's a deep fly to left-center
It's into the alley...
That will score a run
Bench is in at second standing
with a double
All Gunner could do was keep him
from getting a triple

Cepeda steps in...
He pounds the bat on the plate
Now he is ready
Cepeda is batting .278 with
5 HR's this year
Babson is slow to get ready

He has a 3.66 ERA this year
Now he's ready
The pitch is on the way
Groundball to short
Bench will hold at second base
Cepeda is retired on the groundout

Koufax is up next
One gone, top of the 2nd
Red Schoendienst moves out on deck
Hays flashes the sign to Babson
And the delivery by Babson
There's the heater...
Strike three swinging!
Koufax will take his seat
Two down
Hays asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Hays and Babson

Schoendienst leaves the on-deck circle
And heads to the batter's box
Red is hitting at .267 on the year
He has 24 hits in 90 at bats
NL Post WWII's leadoff hitter...
Red has scored 15 runs on the season
Babson has the sign from Hays
Babson brings it to the plate
There's a foul into the chest
protector of Hays
. . . Schoendienst back in the box
And here comes the next pitch
It's in on the wrists
Red tried to hold up
Now it appears he will be awarded first...
Yes, Babson walks him

Roberto Clemente, the NL Post
WWII right fielder,
steps into the batter's box
NL Post WWII leads 3 to 1
He has a chance here to drive
home at least one
The outfield shades towards
left for Clemente
Clemente awaits the delivery
The righthander Babson's delivery
Hit on the ground to first
Potpie flips to Babson covering
Score It: 3-1
That wraps up the inning for NL Post WWII
By the way, NL Post WWII is 3 and
7 in their last ten games

Stan Gunner is up to lead off the inning
The crowd is chanting for FOFC
to get things going
Gunner is trying to get comfortable
in the box
Digging that back foot in
The umpire says let's go
Gunner is ready
With a 2 strike count... here's the pitch
Curve ball...
Gunner swings and misses by a mile
The bottom dropped out of that one!
A wicked pitch!
So one up and one gone

All Stars' catcher Hays
is up next
Harry is hitting at .347 on the year
He has 94 hits in 271 at bats
This includes 5 doubles, 3 triples
12 home runs and 34 RBI's
Hays tells the umpire he's ready
The southpaw's 1-1 delivery
Hays gets wood on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Banks into the outfield...
Base hit for Hays

Hays at first, one away
Fouts is ready for the pitch
Koufax gets the sign from Bench
He is 3rd in the league in strike outs
He has 183 on the season
The 2 strike delivery by the lefthander
The Whiff!
Koufax punches Fouts out!
Two down

Nights, FOFC's shortstop,
is coming to the plate
He is finished with his pre-bat warmup
Brian Babson waits on deck
Nights is at .277 on the season
Koufax squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Koufax goes into his stretch...
Looks over at Hays
Fires to Cepeda...
Hays is back easily...

We're ready again
Now Koufax comes home
Ground ball to short
Banks grabs it
Over to Cepeda
Got him!
Score It: 6-3
That ends the inning
After 2 innings, NL Post WWII leads by 2

As we get ready to start
the top of the 3rd
Aaron is talking to Hays
Aaron is batting .314 with
42 round trippers in 1900
Babson wastes no time
He has the sign from Hays
Babson brings it home
Big breaking ball...
Aaron swings and lifts one deep to left
This one has a chance...
Gunner is at the warning track...
He waits...
Stan you can tell that one Goodbye!
Number 43 on the year for Hank Aaron

A big bopper coming to the plate...
Batting clean-up, Willie Mays
Mays digs in on the right side
of the plate facing the righty Babson
Brian is ready
Babson rocks and fires
Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Babson punches him out!
That's one away

Mathews settles in at the plate
Against righthanders
Mathews is hitting .294
Mathews gets ready for Babson's pitch
His bat is cocked
Now the delivery, here is is...
Strike three called
A curve that broke over
Number 3 for Brian Babson today
150 on the year
Two men gone, nobody on
NL Post WWII leads by 3

Banks coming up for NL Post WWII
Nobody on, two away
The right-hander Babson is
set to deliver to Banks
And the cripple pitch...
Inside slider, on the fists...
Swung on...
It's a high bounding ball...
Through the infield into center by Banks
That's 2 hits for Banks this game

Walking up to the plate now is Bench
NL Post WWII leading in the game
Bench is looking for another hit
He has 1 hit so far today
He is hitting .242 on the year
Bench is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Babson
He's waiting for the pitch
Babson's into the stretch...

Looks over at first
Quick throw!
Banks dives back in!...

SAFE!...

Potpie tosses it back to Babson
Now here's the pitch
There's a Texas Leaguer in
front of Stan Gunner
He dives, but he traps it
Wait, the second base umpire
overrules the call
He calls the batter out
That retires the side
The Post-Nationals score
1 run in the inning
After 2 and a half innings, NL
Post WWII on top 4 to 1

Babson, the All Stars pitcher,
will step in to start things off
He is no breather for opposing pitchers
Babson swinging from the right side
of the plate against the lefty Koufax
Koufax is rubbing the ball up
Now the umpire wants to take a look
No problems found...
Now Koufax gets the sign from Bench
The lefthander Koufax delivers
Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Bench fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Babson
One up, one down for FOFC

Planting his right foot
Blade is set in the box...

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Blade
Barrett is batting at .266
with 3 home runs
He is 0 for 1 so far today
Blade, a righthand hitter
Waits patiently for the pitch from Koufax
Koufax fires
Blade hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Mathews dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Blade reaches on a sizzling single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Eddie Mathews

A. J. Tucker is the next batter
in the bottom of the 3rd
FOFC continues to trail NL Post WWII
Tucker has a .333 average
against lefthanders
He is .297 overall
Tucker waits patiently
The southpaw Koufax's delivery
on the 3-1 pitch
Fastball, high and tight
Ball Four
Chin music...
Tucker didn't like it

Gerald Gazelle is entering
the batter's box
Benton Breeze has his big bopper,
Jeeberoni Potpie,
waiting in the on-deck circle
Gazelle is 1 for 1 today
Koufax is on the third-base
side of the rubber...
Koufax will try to get Gazelle
to go fishing
as the 0-2 pitch heads towards the plate
There's the heater...
Strike three swinging!
Gazelle will take his seat
That's out number two
Post-Nationals' pitching
coach, Johnny Podres,
is out to talk with Koufax
Looks like he wants to go
over something with him

Jeeberoni Potpie, the All Stars'
first baseman is up next
FOFC has 2 men on with 2 outs
Potpie is taking his practice swings
Jeeberoni is 0 for 1 this afternoon
The bat is cocked
Checks the runners
Here's his delivery
And a quick throw to first by Koufax
But Tucker is back easily...
Now to the plate... low, ball four...
That loads 'em up

FOFC left fielder, Stan Gunner, is up next
Gunner is 0 for 1 today
Koufax looks down at Bench for the sign
Shakes him off once... twice...

Now he has the pitch he wants
The lefthander Koufax comes home with it
Bouncer to second
Taken by Schoendienst
Over to Cepeda
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
And that's the final out of the inning
NL Post WWII has 4 runs,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
3 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 3 men on base today

Brian Babson, out there
on the mound for FOFC
prepares to face Orlando Cepeda
to get the 4th inning underway
here in FOFC Stadium
Cepeda goes through his routine
of settling in
Cepeda is poised and ready for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
There's a liner over short
Solidly stroked by Cepeda...
Would you look at that!
Nights leaped two stories into the air
and robbed Cepeda of a sure base hit
Orlando is disgusted...
but tips his hat to Nights just the same
That ball had base hit written all over it
With one down, up next is Sandy Koufax
To be followed by Red Schoendienst

And it brings up Sandy Koufax
On deck is Red Schoendienst
Roberto Clemente in the hole
Looking to Bill Russle for a sign
Koufax waits
Brian comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
And Koufax will sit down...
strike three called
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Babson
Red Schoendienst will be next up...

Schoendienst is up near the batter's box
He is going through his obligatory ritual
Finally, he steps in
Schoendienst has a .267 average against
righthanders this season
Babson eyes Schoendienst intently
Here's the righthander's
windup and delivery
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
That's all for NL Post WWII
After 3 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
NL Post WWII leads 4 to 1

Here's Harry Hays leading off
Dan Fouts is on deck
And Jeff Nights is in the hole
Hays steps out...
Takes a few more practice swings...
Now he's ready
He's ready for the delivery
The 2-2 offering...
Changeup down low...
Hays makes contact and hits
one out to center
Willie Mays is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Koufax
One up, one down here in
the bottom of the 4th

Dan Fouts makes his way to home plate
Fouts wiggles the bat above his head
All set, Fouts is ready for the pitch
Now to the belt, here it is...
Sharp breaking curveball...
Fouts reaches for it...
Hits a two bouncer right to Banks...
Grabs it easily...
Fires a bullet to Cepeda at first!
Fouts is out easily
Two down
Sandy Koufax retires
the first two batters in order

Up now for FOFC is Nights
Two away, nobody on
Nights is 0 for 1 today,
with no strike outs
Sandy Koufax steps off the
mound toward second
Gives the resin bag a toss
Now he toes the rubber...
He's ready to go
The pitch is on the way
Ground ball to the left side...
Banks scoops it up
Over to first for the putout
That's it for FOFC
Here at FOFC Stadium, After 4 innings,
NL Post WWII has 4 runs,
5 hits and no errors
While FOFC has one run,
3 hits and no errors
FOFC has left 1 on base
NL Post WWII has stranded 3

Clemente is making his way to home plate
He's digging out his "spot"
in the batter's box
He's taking several practice swings

Bending from side to side

Finally, he's ready
Clemente is 0 for 1 today
Hays flashes the sign...
Babson shakes it off, he wants another...

Now he's happy
Babson kicks and delivers
Clemente swings hard...
But he was fooled on the pitch
Nubs it off the fists
It's dribbling toward third
Fouts charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Sidearms it to first...
Clemente beats it out by a whisker
It was a bleeder...
Clemente's speed got him a hit on that one
Looks good in tommorrow's box score
He'll take it

Here's the 6', 180 lbs. "Hammerin' Hank"
coming up to bat
Hank Aaron will step in to face Babson
He is 2 for 2 on the afternoon
with 2 home runs!
That impressive display of power has
been good for 3 RBI's
Babson looks down at Hays
He shakes him off once...
Again...
Brian has got to be a little concerned
with Aaron up there as the
NL Post WWII left fielder has already hit
2 balls out of the park this afternoon
Babson goes into his stretch...
Looks at Clemente...
He fires one to Potpie...
Clemente dives back in
That's his best move to first...
Potpie lobs it back
Now Babson comes home
Aaron hits a roller to Dan Fouts
Fouts comes up with it and throws
It's in the dirt
Potpie can't come up with it
That'll be a throwing error on Fouts
That's error number 1 of the game for FOFC

Willie Mays is up next
He'll be hitting with 2 men on board
Willie is 0 for 2 this summer afternoon
He's batting .305 on the season
Mays waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
Here's the 3-2 offering
Ripped to third, but right
at Fouts...easy out
So we have one out now for NL Post WWII
2 runners on board
as Eddie Mathews rubs his bat with
the pine tar one last time

Walking up to the plate now is Mathews
Ernie Banks waits on deck
Mathews is batting .301 with
39 homers this year
Eddie steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Babson's pitch
After checking the runners
Here comes the pitch
Stroked to first
Clean single for Mathews
NL Post WWII adds to their lead
NL Post WWII leads 5 to 1

Now here's Banks
Babson gets the sign, it's one he likes
Babson checks the runners
Hit on the ground to short
Taken by Nights
Throw to second for one
To first
Double Play!
Score It: 6-4-3
NL Post WWII gets 1 in the top of the 5th
One run, 2 hits, one error
and one man left on base
After 4 and a half innings,
NL Post WWII leads by 4

Sean Treacy will step into the
box to start the inning
FOFC would like to get some
runners on board
Koufax adjusts his belt...
Looks in for the sign from Bench
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Treacy hits a three hopper
towards Red Schoendienst
Schoendienst scoops it and fires
it to first for the out
One down for FOFC
Barrett Blade is still in
the on-deck circle
and A. J. Tucker is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Walking up now to the plate is Blade
Blade is 1 for 2 today,
with no strike outs
Koufax is ready quickly
Koufax goes into his windup
Here it comes
Curveball, inside corner, low...
Swung on...
And lined to left for a base hit
No chance to get that one

Tucker steps in
Blade's trying to rattle Sandy Koufax
by taking a big lead off first
He can drive a pitcher to drink
NL Post WWII is set up for two
Koufax looks down at Bench for the sign
Now he's ready
The southpaw delivers
Fastball down low...
Tucker swings and hits one out to center
Willie Mays is drifting over...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Koufax
Blade trots back to first
NL Post WWII ahead 5 to 1 with
two away this inning

Gazelle saunters to the plate...
He stretches out a little...
Taps the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Gazelle is 1 for 2 today,
with 1 strike outs
Sandy Koufax still on the mound
for the Post-Nationals...
Koufax has gone the distance so far
He's given up 4 hits in 4 2/3 innings
He's into the stretch
Takes a look over to first
Quick throw!
Blade dives back in!...

SAFE!
Cepeda tosses it back to Koufax
Now here's the pitch
Fastball, at the letters...
Gazelle crunches it...
There's a high belt...
Driven deep into left-centerfield...
Mays running to the fence...
It's outta here
HOME RUN 25 for Gazelle this year!

Potpie saunters to the plate
Does some stretching...
Kicks the imaginary dirt from his spikes
Now he steps into the batter's box
Koufax asks for a new ball...
Gives it a good rubbing down...

Now he steps on the rubber
It's a full count...
Koufax winds and fires...
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Potpie watches it go by
for the third strike
That's all for the All Stars
in the 5th inning
They get 2 runs across
At the end of five...
It's Post-Nationals 5, FOFC 3