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9/4 Radio Broadcast
Fastball, just inside...
Looked very close...
Marichal's obviously peeved at that call
But Barrett tends to get those calls
He has a great eye and doesn't mind
taking the free ride to first
The hit and run is on!
Tucker sends a hot smash to first
Musial takes it on one hop
Fires to Banks for one
Back to Stan Musial...
A. J. beats the relay
One gone for FOFC
Pflaggstettler swings and misses
Strike three
Pflaggstettler didn't have
a good cut at that pitch
Two down
Campanella asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Campanella and Marichal
Fastball... down and away...
NO! It's called a strike
And Potpie is outta there
Juan Marichal holds FOFC scoreless
in the first inning
Another hook for strike three!
Morgan just stood there looking
One down for NL Post WWII
Roberto Clemente is still
in the on-deck circle
and Willie Mays is looking
for a bat in the dugout
There's a hard bouncer to Palmer's left
He's over...
Makes the pick-up...
Over to Potpie...
Clemente is out!
A sparkling glove hand pick-up
by Deacon Palmer!
Two down
Swung on...
And there's a high fly ball into center
Tucker is under it, waits...
He's got it
Al Mighty holds the Post-Nationals
scoreless in the first
There's a high foul pop behind the plate
Campanella goes back to the screen
Nice play
Just before it goes into the seats
One up, one down
Stan takes a vicious cut
But only creates a breeze
He was guessing on that one
Wrong guess!
Gunner has been striking out a lot in 1900
And he is batting only
.250 in 288 at bats
That's two away
Banks comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Marichal
Deacon Palmer will be next up...
Swung on and hit on the nose to left
Aaron picks it up on one bounce
Flips it to second...
Palmer is on with a sharply hit single
He hit a curve ball...
and he was just waiting on it
Nights hits a pop into short right field
Out goes Musial and Morgan
In comes Clemente
Morgan waves his hands in the air
He makes the catch over his shoulder
Pretty play by Joe
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Marichal
In the top of the 2nd for FOFC
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
Slow ground ball
Nights is charging it
He fires it to first
He's OUT
One out
Due up next is Stan Musial
A wave and a miss!
Strike Three!
Musial is down on strikes
Number 2 here today for Mighty
Two down
Mighty retires the first two
NL Post WWII batters
Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Hays fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Schmidt
That wraps up the inning for NL Post WWII
By the way, NL Post WWII is 7 and
3 in their last ten games
Fly ball to right
Clemente is under it
He makes the grab
That's the first out of the inning
Two more to go
It's a high fly to deep center
Mays is on his horse
It is carrying to the ivy
Willie jumps...
Leaping catch... No, it
pops out of his glove
Blade will get a two-base hit
Off speed pitch on the way...
And Tucker watches it go by
for the third strike
We're scoreless with two away
Let's check some other scores as well
AL Post WWII leads Negro League II 1 to 0
Ryan and Mathis currently dueling
Left Outs is on top of AL Pre WWII 5 to 3
Japanese League and Dead Ball
Era are all knotted at 1
NL Pre WWII and Old Timers
are all knotted at 4
Caribbean is on top of Turn
of Century 2 to 0
Garcia and Mathewson currently dueling
Negro League I is giving
it to Late 20th 6 to 1
Lloyd has hit his 7th homerun
for Negro League I
Fastball, belt high, away...
Pflaggstettler goes after it...
There's a fly ball to Mays
Mays is gliding under it...
He flags it down on the run
That ends the inning
FOFC threatens but does not score
here in the top of the 3rd
Lined to third
Tough chance for Palmer
He grabs it for the out
Score It: 5
Swing and a miss
Struck him out
Number 158 on the season for Mighty
And there's two away
Sinking fastball...
Marichal swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Nights...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
That's all for the Post-Nationals
After 3 innings in NL Post
WWII this afternoon,
No score
Potpie swings...
Hard groundball, left of third
It's by Schmidt and skips out to Aaron
Potpie rounds first
The left fielder is after it.. cuts it off
and fires it in quickly to second
Potpie returns to first
as Hank gets a nice throw in to Morgan
It is a high hard one...
Hays goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Hays couldn't hold back
That's one away
A slider by Marichal
Gunner gets good wood on it...
Mays back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
That's the second out of the inning
Grounded towards the sack
Schmidt grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 5-3
So ends the top of the 4th
For FOFC
No runs, one hit, no errors
and one man left on base
After 3 and a half innings,
We're scoreless
High heater...
Morgan goes after it...
Rips a line drive into the gap
That looks like an easy two-bagger
A. J. Tucker races to the ball
Cuts it off, spins and fires it in
Blade takes the relay
Fires to Nights...
The slide...
Safe at second
Morgan has himself a double
There's a bouncer down to Palmer
He fronts it...
And muffs it!
Error on Deacon Palmer
He was just eaten up by that ball!
Clemente stretches his lead
Clemente takes his lead...
Mighty fires it to first...
Clemente dives back...
SAFE!
WOW! That was a real belly whopper!
In there, called strike three
Mays didn't like it
So we have one out now for NL Post WWII
2 runners on board
as Hank Aaron rubs his bat with
the pine tar one last time
He chases the hook...
Aaron hits a deep fly ball...
Tucker moving under the ball...
He makes the catch...
And uncorks the throw...
SAFE!...
As the ball trickles away from Hays
He was unable to handle the throw
Two down
Due up next is Stan Musial
Having quite a year so far
He brings a lot of power
to the Post-Nationals
Base hit to right for Musial
Third base coach Bill Russle
thinks he can make it...
Here comes Clemente...
The throw is cut off...
That holds Musial at first
Bounced past the mound
Fielded nicely by Blade
Over to Potpie
Got him!
Score It: 4-3
That wraps up the inning for NL Post WWII
So After 4 innings
NL Post WWII has one run,
2 hits and no errors
While FOFC has no runs,
3 hits and one error
NL Post WWII has left 2 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4
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