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8/13 Radio Broadcast Continued

K. A. Ton leads off the inning
Ton is 0 for 2 today
Valenzuela shakes off two signs
Now he's ready
And the cripple pitch...
Fastball... just outside
Ton will take first on the walk
K. A. knows how to get on base
His OBP of .423 is among
the league leaders

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

The infield shifts slightly to the left
for the right hand hitting Fouts
Dan steps out of the batter's
box to get the sign
Dan is 0 for 2 today...

Ton kicks the dirt at first
Joe Adcock says something to him
Fouts is set for the 3-1 pitch
He's into the stretch
Looks over at first
Quick throw!...
Ton dives back in!...
SAFE!
Espino tosses it back to Valenzuela
Now here's the pitch
The runner is off with the pitch
Hit and run!
Fouts misses the pitch!
The steal attempt...
Fastball at the letters...
Off with the pitch
Ton attempts to steal second
Up and firing is Gonzalez...
Ton is safe!...
As Pacheco slaps a high tag on him

Dan Fouts steps into the box
Dan will be facing the southpaw Valenzuela
from the right side of the plate
6 of his 16 home runs come via this route
Fouts gets ready for Valenzuela's pitch
His bat is cocked
The lefty Valenzuela delivers
Waist high fastball... juiced
to deep center
There goes Minoso
Racing hard...
He dives...
Just misses it!
A two bagger for Dan Fouts

Batting for FOFC will be Bullock
Bullock is at .260 on the season
Waiting for the pitch is Bullock
Now Fernando delivers
A high fastball...
Bullock swings late...
He hits a routine pop just
left of Concepcion
Dave is under it...
And takes it in for the easy out
Bullock was looking for the breaking ball
That's one away

Next up for the All Stars is Kris Terp
Terp has a .105 average
against lefthanders
He is .175 overall
The bat is cocked
Now Fernando delivers
Changeup down low...
Terp takes a rip and hits
one out to center
Minnie Minoso comes in a step...
Now he's under it...
Easy out for Valenzuela
Fouts trots back to second
That's the second out of the inning

Nielsen moseys up to the plate
Barrett Blade is heading
for the on-deck circle
Gonzalez flashes the sign...
Valenzuela shakes it off,
he wants another...

Now he's happy
The pitch to Nielsen...
The Whiff on the "high cheese"!
That's all for the All Stars...
After 6 innings here at
FOFC Stadium in FOFC,
FOFC leads 3 to 2

Felipe Alou is bringing on Rodolfo Puente
to hit for Fernando Valenzuela
Puente will be facing Nielsen
Puente knows how to bunt very well...
And he can run like a deer
FOFC would be wise not to forget
He might bunt for a hit

The Estrellas get their turn to bat
here in the top of the 7th
Rodolfo Puente, Minnie Minoso,
and Antonio Pacheco
the first three Caribbean batters
They'll be facing the southpaw Rob Nielsen
Rodolfo takes a couple of practice cuts
Puente is set in the batter's box
He's staring intently out at Nielsen
He's waiting for the pitch
Nielsen kicks and fires
Sharp slider, catches the outside corner
Puente swings at it...
Hammers a hard grounder right at third
Picked up smoothly...
Throw to first...
IT'S OFF THE BAG!!...
Potpie grabs it, turns back to the bag
NOT IN TIME!
Puente is SAFE!
That'll be an error on that play
Score It: E5
Puente to first

Puente studies Nielsen intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Puente is not working very
hard to get a lead

The tying run is on base...
And up comes center fielder Minnie Minoso
Caribbean needs only 1 run
They trail 3-2
Nielsen is ready quickly
Nielsen looks at the runner
The pitch
It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
One away
While we wait for the next batter
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Antonio Pacheco is up next
Caribbean's second baseman
finds 1 on with 1 out
FOFC ahead 3 to 2
Nielsen will improve his record
to 18-5 with a victory here at home
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Nielsen's pitch is a rising fastball
Pacheco tries to hold up
Ball four
Bullock points down to first
He did not go around

Walking up to the plate now is Coimbre
Perucho Cepeda waits on deck
Coimbre is 1 for 2 on the day
He looks around at the FOFC infield
Potpie is kicking the dirt at first
Fouts is even with the bag at third
Blade and Terp are ready
with hands on knees
at second and short
The left-hander Nielsen is now ready
The lefthander Nielsen comes home with it
Coimbre rips a solid shot to center
Tucker ranges to his right...
He is juggling it!...
Finally finds the handle
Whew!
Runners can't advance
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Perucho Cepeda will get a
crack at Nielsen next
Miguel Gonzalez would be up next...
But only if Cepeda can reach safely
Cepeda can't seem to get
settled at the plate
Set now is Cepeda
Here's the 2-2 offering
Fastball, at the letters...
Cepeda crunches it...
There's a high belt...
Driven deep into left-centerfield...
Tucker running to the fence...
It's outta here
HOME RUN 20 for Cepeda this year!

Miguel Gonzalez, the catcher,
strides to the plate
Gonzalez calls time, and steps
out of the batter's box
The "Dog Days of August" are
here for the Estrellas
They're 24.0 games out,
and have dropped 3 straight
Now Gonzalez is finally ready
Gonzalez looks very intent...
He stares down at Nielsen...
Cocks his bat
Nielsen brings it to the plate
Gonzalez swings...
Hard groundball, left of third
It's by Fouts and skips out to Ton
Gonzalez rounds first
The left fielder is after it.. cuts it off
and fires it in quickly to second
Gonzalez returns to first
as K. A. gets a nice throw in to Blade

Espino finishes his practice swings
Now he strides to the batter's box
Espino is 2 for 3 today
Hector struck out last time up
Espino waits on Nielsen
The pitch is on the way
Espino 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 2 of the game for FOFC

Linares gets set at the plate
Linares is taking his practice swings
Omar is 0 for 2 this evening
He drew a walk last time at bat
Linares awaits the delivery
The southpaw delivers
Linares raps a hard shot...
CAUGHT!
That ball was lined straight to third
Fouts just got his glove up in time
That retires the side... but not before
3 runs cross the plate for Caribbean
After 6 and a half innings,
Caribbean ahead 5 to 3

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!
Adolfo Luque will be coming
on to pitch for Caribbean
Adolfo has appeared in
65 games this season
with a record of 5-7
with 6 saves
He's been man-handled by the
opposition this year
His ERA stands at 5.64

To lead off this inning is Barrett Blade
FOFC needs a pair to tie this game
Luque steps off the rubber...
Adjusts his cap...
Now he slides his foot back into position
He's ready
Luque rocks and fires
Here's a slider over the inside corner
Swung on...
It's a bouncing ball past
Linares at third...
Concepcion moving to his right...
Makes a great backhanded stop...
He spins in the air
Firing to first from the outfield grass...
Blade beats the throw easily
That was a great pickup by Concepcion
But, he didn't have a chance
And should have hung onto the ball

While Jeeberoni Potpie heads
for the on deck circle
A. J. Tucker makes his way to the plate
Tucker is hitting .282
against righthanders
Adolfo Luque on in relief
for the Estrellas
We're in the bottom of the 7th
The righthander delivers
Bounced past the mound
Pacheco dives and grabs it!
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 4-3
One down for FOFC
Jeeberoni Potpie is still
in the on-deck circle
and Gerald Gazelle is looking
for a bat in the dugout

That'll bring up All Stars' first
baseman Jeeberoni Potpie...
All Stars with a runner in scoring
position at second
One out, man on second
Luque squeezes the resin bag...
Peers in
Here's the 3-0 offering
Curveball, in and low
Potpie hits it to Espino at first
Takes it cleanly...
Races to the bag...
It's going to be close...
And...
Out is the call
That could have gone either way
Blade is now perched over at third
Two gone for FOFC

Now batting will be the right
fielder, Gerald Gazelle
Gerald has 2 strike outs today
Not unusual for him, though
He has a nasty habit of doing that
Gazelle waits for the delivery
Adolfo rocks and fires
Grounded down the line
Luque takes the flip from Espino
Score It: 3-1
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 46427

The Caribbean shortstop, Concepcion,
will lead off
He'll be followed by Adolfo Luque
And then Minnie Minoso
James peers in for the sign...

Shakes off the first one...
Likes the second one
The righthander Rodney's delivery
STRIKE THREE, CALLED!
One down for Caribbean
Adolfo Luque is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to the
plate for Caribbean

We are going to have a pinch hitter
Alejandro Ohms will bat for Adolfo Luque
It will be the lefthand hitting, Ohms
against the righty Rodney
Ohms is hitting righties
for a .269 average

Rodney glares in at Ohms as he steps in
Now he's ready to go
Ohms scuffs up the lines around the box
Ohms waits
It's coming down the pike
Hard high fastball
Ohms slams a one hopper down the line
Gonzalez grabs it behind the bag
He waves off Rodney
He easily beats Ohms by several steps
That's two away

Making his way up is Minoso
Minoso is batting .268 with
7 HR's this year
Rodney has the sign he wants
Rodney quick pitches him
Minoso hits a three hopper
towards Kris Terp
Terp scoops it and fires it
to first for the out
That wraps up the inning for Caribbean
So After 7 and a half innings
Caribbean has 5 runs, 8 hits and 2 errors
While FOFC has 3 runs, 5 hits and 2 errors
Caribbean has left 8 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 7
Mike Garcia will be coming on
to pitch for Caribbean
Mike has appeared in 44 games this season
He has a record of 2-5
with 6 saves
His ERA stands at 4.01
Caribbean is making a defensive change
Hernandez will bat 6th and play first

Here's Ton to lead off the inning
Before he does...
lets take a look at the scoreboard

Dead Ball Era is beating
AL Post WWII 9 to 5
Late 20th with the lead over
AL Pre WWII 6 to 3
NL Post WWII clipping Negro
League II 8 to 4
Musial has hit his 24th homerun
for NL Post WWII
NL Pre WWII jumping all over
Japanese League 13 to 4
Negro League I is on top
of Old Timers 5 to 3
Left Outs besting Turn of Century 11 to 6
Robinson has hit his 8th
homerun for Left Outs
And in our matchup Caribbean ahead 5 to 3
Garcia studies his sign
And the cripple pitch...
Lifted in the air, back this way
The catcher, Gonzalez, will
take it for the out
Caribbean gets the first out of the inning

Fouts is up next
One gone, bottom of the 8th
Billy Bullock moves out on deck
Fouts is hitting .239 against righties
Garcia toes the rubber again
He gets his sign from Gonzalez
Mike comes home quickly
with the 0-2 offering
Fastball, a beauty...
Steee Rike THREE!
Two down
Gonzalez asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Gonzalez and Garcia

With two out
Batting for FOFC now is Bullock
Bullock is batting seventh
in the order today
He is hitting a respectable .259 for FOFC

Bullock waits for the pitch
His bat is coiled
The pitch is on the way
Off-speed pitch...
Bullock swings at it...
Hits a high fly to deep center
Minoso bolting after it...
This one might carry all the way
Minoso jumps for it...
It bounds off the fence
It's a two-bagger for Billy Bullock

Nights saunters to the plate
Does some stretching...
Kicks the imaginary dirt from his spikes
Now he steps into the batter's box
Jeff Nights is hitting .267 this year
against righthanded pitchers
Now set, Nights waits for the pitch
Here's the righthander's delivery
Base hit to left for Nights
Dick Howser is waving the runner home...
The throw is coming home...
Aggressive baserunning by FOFC...
Not cut-off...
Bullock scores!
Trailing runner advances.

Gonzalez is up now for FOFC
We'll see how they pitch to Gonzalez
The umpire says let's go
Gonzalez is ready
Garcia fires
David Gonzalez swings
He smashes it on a line...
BINGO!!!...
Stabbed by Pacheco to rob Gonzalez
of a sure base hit
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 innings in FOFC this evening,
Caribbean leads 5 to 4

Pacheco saunters to the plate
He does some stretching...
Knocks the dirt from his spikes...
Now he steps into the batter's box
Pacheco digs in from the left side
of the plate against the righty Rodney
Antonio steadies his bat
Waits patiently for Rodney's pitch
Rodney's righthanded delivery...
The batter checks his swing
Here's the appeal
Pacheco swung, that's strike three
Pacheco isn't happy at all with that call
One gone for Caribbean

Pounding the plate with his bat
Coimbre awaits the pitch
Rodney tosses the resin bag aside
He steps on the rubber...
James winds... kicks... and delivers
Routine grounder to third
Fouts scoops it up
Over to first for the out
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

Two out, nobody on
Up now is Cepeda
James Rodney on in relief of Rob Nielsen
Here's the windup... and the pitch
Cepeda cuts on a curve that
misses in the dirt
That ball is trapped nicely by Bullock
Cepeda was badly fooled by Rodney's
big breaking curve
STRIKE THREE!
Perucho was a little overanxious
That's all for Caribbean
After 8 and a half innings
in FOFC this evening,
Caribbean leads 5 to 4

As we get ready to start
the bottom of the 9th
Blade is talking to Gonzalez
The outfield shades towards left for Blade
Barrett is set for the pitch
Here's his delivery
Breaking ball...
It darts down and out
as Blade swings way over it
He was fooled completely
Gonzalez loses it momentarily,
but now finds the handle and tags
Barrett as he was heading for the dugout

A. J. Tucker plants his left foot
The lefthanded center fielder
for FOFC appears set
Tucker, a switch-hitter, swinging
from the left side against the
right-handed Mike Garcia
Tucker, batting lefthanded
Gets in his crouch...
Ready to face the righthanded Garcia
Garcia will try to get
Tucker to go fishing
as the 0-2 pitch heads towards the plate
It's a duck snort headed
towards the outfield
Pacheco is after it...
Running hard...
He snares it for the out
Excellent range shown on that play!
Two down
Mike Garcia retires
the first two batters in order

Garcia glares in at Gunner
Stan Gunner just calmly stares right back
Infield at regular depth
Gunner is batting .260 with
14 round trippers in 1900
Gunner is set for the pitch
Righthander Garcia's delivery
Slider, outside...
Gunner reaches for it...
Gets some wood on it
It's rolling towards Linares...
He scoops it up smoothly
Firing to Hernandez in one motion...
Close play...
SAFE!... by a whisker
Hernandez is arguing the call
But to no avail
That's a single for Gunner

That's all for Mike Garcia
Felipe Alou has given the sign
Lazaro Salazar will be coming on
here in the bottom of the 9th
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We're back here at FOFC Stadium in FOFC...
Mike Garcia has left the game
Lazaro Salazar is done warming up...
He has appeared in 21 games this season
He sports a record of 3-3
with 9 saves
He's blown 2 save chances so far this year
In 23 innings, he has struck out 16
while allowing 14 walks
His ERA stands at 6.75

Persimmon Pflaggstettler
steps up to the plate
Gunner, with excellent speed, is at first
Gunner will be running if it's hit
Salazar wastes no time
He has the sign from Gonzalez
The lefthander Salazar delivers
He rips a grounder to short
Concepcion grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
And that will do it for FOFC
Caribbean wins 5 to 4
Valenzuela gets credit for the win
Salazar notches the save
Nielsen takes the loss
The hitting star for Caribbean
was Perucho Cepeda
He was 1 for 5 with a homerun
He also knocked in 3 runs
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.