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GAME 14 - Monday, April 16th - Radio Broadcast

Bouncer in the hole
and past David Gonzalez...
Base hit into right field!
That one had eyes on it
Good piece of hitting by Collins

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Sisler gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
To second for one
Over to first...
OUT!
Smooth "DP" by FOFC
One more chance for Dead
Ball Era this inning

Breaking ball, in on the hands
Speaker swings at...
Pounds the ball into the ground
It's a one bouncer into the hole
Nights ranging over stabs it
Strong throw to first...
GOT HIM!!!
Speaker is out by an eyelash
What a play!
John Williams holds Dead Ball Era
scoreless in the first inning

Curveball in the dirt
Swung on and missed...Strike three
Tinker fumbles it,
but quickly recovers to tag Blade
One down for FOFC
Jeff Nights is in the on-deck circle
ready to make his way to
the plate for FOFC

Change up...
Nights hits a fly ball to right
Cobb is under it...
He's got it
Two up, two down

Ed comes in there with a dipsy-do
And it freezes Tucker
He can't get the bat off his shoulder
as he watches it just catch
the outside corner...
STRIKE THREE!
So that's it for FOFC
They fail to score against Walsh
In the bottom of the 1st for FOFC
No runs, no hits and no errors

It's a Texas Leaguer to right
Here comes Pflaggstettler...
He is really motoring...
He reaches down...
But catches it on one hop!
Cobb is on with a bloop single to right

Hit and run...
Smashed to first
Gonzalez takes it to the bag himself
The hit and run moves the runner up.
Score It: 3
That's the first out of the inning
Dead Ball Era is in 4th place
in the standings
4.0 games out of first

Cobb slowly moves away from the base
The runner can't seem to get a good lead

Curveball, in and low
Baker hits it to Gonzalez 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
Cobb is now perched over at third
That's two away

There's a high pop in front of the plate
Looks like the ball is drifting foul
Palmer calls for it
and makes the play
As the ump signals a foul ball
That's all for Dead Ball Era
After 1 and a half innings
in FOFC this afternoon,
Scoreless game

Pflaggstettler swings hard...
But he was fooled on the pitch
It hits him on the fists
It's dribbling toward short
Wallace charges in on it...
Bare hands it...
Sidearms it to first...
Pflaggstettler beats it out by a whisker
It was a bleeder...
Pflaggstettler's speed got
him a hit on that one
He'll take it

Pflaggstettler watches Walsh carefully
As he stretches out his lead
Fastball in the dirt
Blocked nicely by Tinker
And Pflaggstettler is off and running!
Tinker pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

Swung on and missed, strike three!
That breaking ball really had
a nasty bend on it
It ended up in the left-handed
batter's box!
One out
Due up next is K. A. Ton

Ton slaps a routine grounder to Baker
Home Run picks it up...
Looks Pflaggstettler back to second
Sidearms a throw to Sisler
Ton is out
No score with two away this inning

High and tight
He takes it for a walk

Base hit to right for Palmer
Dick Howser is giving the green light...
The throw is coming home...
Tinker is trying to block the plate
(Ability to block: Terrible,)...
Pflaggstettler scores!

Williams hits a pop into short right field
Out goes Sisler and Collins
In comes Cobb
Collins waves his hands in the air
He makes the catch over his shoulder
Pretty play by Collins
The All Stars get 1 in the
bottom of the 2nd
After 2 innings, FOFC leads by 1

Tinker pops one straight up
And it will be Bullock making the play
One away
While we wait for the next batter
Let's see what's happening in other games

Turn of Century slipping by
Negro League I 4 to 2
Beckley has hit his 2nd homerun
for Turn of Century
Caribbean and AL Post WWII
are deadlocked at 2
AL Pre WWII is edging Left Outs 1 to 0
Gomez battling Carlton
NL Post WWII is edging Old Timers 1 to 0
Late 20th leads Negro League II 1 to 0
And here in FOFC FOFC ahead 1 to 0

Grounded towards the bag
Williams takes the flip from Gonzalez
Score It: 3-1
That's two away
Nights comes over from his shortstop
position to say a few words to Williams
Eddie Collins will be next up...

LINE DRIVE
Gonzalez grabs it for the out
Score It: 3
Williams sets the Ghosts down in order

A slider by Walsh
Blade gets good wood on it...
Jackson back-pedals quickly...
Up with his glove...
Out!
And there's one away

Nights hits it sharply on the ground...
into the hole at third
Baker dives...
It's through for a base hit!
He almost got his glove on it...
Nights reaches on a sizzling
single to left
A nice try by the third baseman,
Home Run Baker

Strike three swinging!
And a quick peg to first by Tinker
Nights dives back in...
SAFE!
The first base ump says
Nights made it back
Two down

Apparently not afraid of Walsh
Nights stretches out to his lead
From the lead looks like Nights may go...
Throw to first, back in time...
Close play...
Now he's staying closer to the bag

It is a high hard one...
Pflaggstettler goes on a fishin' trip
Strike three swinging!
That one sailed up out of the strike zone
but Pflaggstettler couldn't hold back
And that will do it for FOFC

Sisler swings hard...
Nobody is going to get this one...
Yes sir! Sisler will have himself a single
And he extends his hitting streak
to 13 games!
1 for 2 on the afternoon

It's a rainbow shot toward right
Pflaggstettler reaches up
Makes the catch!
Didn't have to move an inch
One gone in the top of the 4th
Up next is Ty Cobb
He's having a fine year so far

There's a ground ball into the hole
Palmer and Nights converge on it
It's picked by Nights who fires to first
SAFE is the call by the ump
Close play!!

Curve, up high...
Jackson rips it to center...
Williams hung that breaking ball
However, Joe got under it just a bit
Tucker started back on it
Now he's coming in...
He's under it and makes the easy catch
"Can of Corn"
Here's the ump coming out
To brush the plate clean
There's two away

Hot shot grounded to second
Blade grabs it
Over to first
In time!
Score It: 4-3
That retires the side...
Home Run Baker fails to come
Through in the clutch
That's something you won't see very often

Sinking fastball...
Bullock swings...
Raps a hard ground ball
right at Wallace...
He snares it easily, throws to first...
Out by a step
One down for FOFC
K. A. Ton is still in the on-deck circle
and David Gonzalez is looking
for a bat in the dugout

Ton hits a screamer at Home Run Baker
Baker picks it up and fires to first
The throw pulls Sisler off the bag
Sisler swipes with the glove

Ton is out!
Nice play by Sisler
And there's two away

Walsh loses him
Gonzalez heads down to first
2 walks today for Gonzalez

Swing and a miss
Strike three
Palmer goes down on strikes
That's all for the All Stars
in the 4th inning
No runs, no hits, no errors and
one man left on base...
We go to the 5th...
FOFC leads 1 to 0

It's a quail shot headed
towards the outfield
Blade takes off after it...
Leaps...
And Wallace is OUT!
Very impressive range shown on that play!
Barrett is very fine fielder!
One away in the top of the 5th

Fastball...
Tinker jumps all over it...
It's juiced to deep left
There goes Ton after it
Racing hard...
He dives...
And he's got it!!!
Beautiful play by K. A. Ton!
Two down
John Williams retires
the first two batters in a row

Walsh slaps a hard grounder past short
Ton is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Walsh will hold with a clean single

Ground ball to short
Nights comes up with it
He tosses it to second...
Gets the force
That wraps up the inning for Dead Ball Era
So After 4 and a half innings
FOFC has one run, 3 hits and no errors
While Dead Ball Era has no runs,
5 hits and no errors
Dead Ball Era has left 4 stranded
FOFC has failed to bring home 4

Williams swings and misses
STRIKE THREE!
Walsh strikes out John Williams
So one up and one gone

Blade rips a whistling liner down the line
Bingo! Baker spears it!
A shot hit right on the screws
but right at the Dead Ball
Era third baseman
Two away now for FOFC
They're ahead by 1
The All Stars have 3 hits on the afternoon

Smashed to third
Baker grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 5-3
That's all for the All Stars
No runs, no hits and no errors...
After five complete...
FOFC leads 1 to 0

Over the outside corner
Sisler hits the curve right to second...
Blade takes it on the second hop
Fires to 1st...
Sisler is out by a couple of steps
With one down, up next is Tris Speaker
To be followed by Ty Cobb

Curve, a beauty...
Strike three looking!
Williams punches him out!
Two down
Bullock asks for a new ball
He calls time and trots out to the mound
A conference going on between
Bullock and Williams

Cobb slaps a hard grounder past second
Pflaggstettler is over to pick it up
He tosses it back to second
Cobb will hold with a clean single

It's a dying quail headed
towards the outfield
OHHHHH, snagged by a retreating
Blade for the out
Outstanding range shown on that play!
We're in the middle of the 6th
FOFC still leads 1-0

Swung on and missed by Tucker,
he's down on strikes
That is 3 on the day for Tucker
One away for FOFC here in
the bottom of the 6th

Pflaggstettler gets wood
on the hard slider
It's a bouncer hit past the mound...
And PAST Wallace into the outfield...
Base hit for Pflaggstettler

Bullock watches a roundhouse
curve all the way in
Strike Three called!
That one started out right at Billy,
In fact, he started to bend back
out of the way
Walsh just delivered a sweeping curve
that just caught
the inside corner of the plate
FOFC on top 1 to 0 with two away
Let's check some other scores as well

Turn of Century clipping
Negro League I 6 to 2
Caribbean is edging AL Post WWII 4 to 3
Left Outs is edging AL Pre WWII 7 to 6
Carlton and Faber currently dueling
NL Post WWII is edging Old Timers 1 to 0
Negro League II and Late 20th
are deadlocked at 1

Pflaggstettler sneaks away from the base
Big bender...
Pflaggstettler is off to the races
Tinker pumps...
but no throw, he holds onto the ball
He is SAFE!

And now they're going to put Ton on
Tinker is up and holding out his glove
There's ball 3...
and now ball 4
David Gonzalez is waiting on deck

Grounded towards the bag
Walsh takes the flip from Sisler
Score It: 3-1
As we head into the 7th
the Ghosts will try to get something going
They trail by 1, 1-0

Baker swings
He sends one to the deepest
part of right-center
That's going to get through to the fence
Baker rounds second...
The throw not nearly in time, a triple
Home Run Baker now has 2 three-baggers
this season

Groundball to back to the mound
Jim Thorpe won't risk sending
the runner home...
Wallace is retired on the groundout

Tinker squares around
He bunts it . . .
They throw trying to get
the lead runner...
Fielded by J.Williams
he's throwing for the lead runner...
SAFE!
Sac & Fielders Choice
Baker scores from third!
Tinker to first

The Whiff!
Williams punches Walsh out!

He goes after the low slider
At the knees...
There's a fly ball into
straight-away right
Pflaggstettler slides under
it... one hands it...
Almost drops it, but hangs on
That could have been a costly
error by Pflaggstettler

That retires the side... but not before
the Ghosts score 1 run to tie it up
After 6 and a half innings, FOFC has
one run, 4 hits and no errors
While Dead Ball Era has one
run, 7 hits and no errors

It's time for the 7th inning stretch!

Palmer chases the change up
Hits a slow grounder right past Walsh
Wallace snares it behind the bag...
Plants...
Throws to first...
Beats him by a step for the out!
One up, one down for FOFC

Here's a curve...
Not a good one!
Gunner turns on it a BIG WAY...
Forget it, that one is long
gone... a home run!
Number 3 for Stan on the year
He also has 4 RBI's now

It rides in on Blade and
hits him on the hands
Blade is in a lot of pain...
We'll see if he can continue...
He heads to first

Blade inches away from the base
Walsh holds the runner close to the bag

Nights lines one into left
Jackson is up with it
Fires it to third
Blade holds at second

Nubber to second
Taken by Collins
Over to second for one
Over to first
Not in time!
Score It: 4-6
Blade takes third
The runner on first, Nights, is out
That's the second out of the inning

Ground ball to short
Wallace grabs it
His throw to first
GOT HIM!
Score It: 6-3
That is the third out for FOFC here
in the last of the seventh
The attendance has just been
announced at 30753

Good slider, inside part of the plate
Sisler gets the bat on it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Blade grabs it...
Throws to first...
OUT!
FOFC gets the first out of the inning

Speaker hits one on the ground
to the left side
Tris, who moves well,
is motoring to first
Nights wings it quickly to Gonzalez...
OUT by a step
FOFC gets the second out of the inning

It's a high fly into left
Ton ranges to his right
Reaches up, and takes it for the easy out
That does it for Dead Ball Era
in the top of the 8th

Shallow fly ball
Jackson charging
HE DIVES...
HE CAN'T GET IT!
Bullock stops at first
That's a single

Gazelle studies Walsh intently...
Now he's walking away from the base
Walsh looks Gazelle back
He is unable to get his normal lead

Ton hits a deep ball
Jackson retreats toward the wall
He leaps...
He's got it!
Nice grab by Joe Jackson
With one down

Sisler yells something out to Walsh
Ed nods his head

There's a grounder right at Ed Walsh
This should be two
The throw to second...in time
To first
Out of there, a double play!
That's all for the All Stars
After 8 innings in FOFC this afternoon,
FOFC on top 2 to 1

Hard slider, paints the inside corner
Jackson gets a piece of it...
Slams a sharp grounder to the right side
Gonzalez grabs it...
Races to first...
Beats Jackson for the out
One gone for Dead Ball Era
in the top of the 9th

Hard inside slider...
The swing...
Baker hits a grounder into the hole
Gonzalez makes an incredible stop...
But he's in no position to make a throw
Score that a single

Baker is taking his lead from first
Slider, down and in...
Breaking on the pitch
There goes Baker for second
Hays fires it down...
Right on the money...
Baker is out by a mile

Wallace swings and misses
Strike three
Wallace didn't have a good
cut at that pitch
And that will do it for Dead Ball Era
FOFC wins 2 to 1
Williams gets credit for the win
Knowles notches the save
Walsh takes the loss
The hitting star for FOFC
was Stan Gunner
He was 1 for 1 with a homerun
And that wraps things up
So long from FOFC.