The Kentucky Derby is always held in Louisville. The Indy 500 is always run in Indianapolis. The Super Bowl site is always predetermined by the start of the season. But the World Series is a thoroughly moveable feast, and your town never knows it's coming your way until days before. And if you live in the Minnesota Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on this clear, cool night, the World Series has come to you. To the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and for the first time in history, it will be played inside, under a dome of Teflon-coated fiberglass, before a crowd which has been known to make an airport runway seem tranquil by comparison. Settle back and enjoy the ride. ABC Sports presents the American League Champion Minnesota Twins against the National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the 1987 World Series. The Cardinals clinched the pennant Wednesday night in St. Louis by shutting out the Giants in the decisive seventh game of the playoffs. While the Twins already had their flag in hand by virtue of Monday's clinching victory over the Tigers. And guiding the two teams that got here are one rookie manager and one wildly crafty leader. The crowd is already at fever pitch. Pre-game warm-ups. It's the Metrodome and it's Game 1 of the 1987 World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals against the Minnesota Twins. I'm Al Michaels. Welcome to Minneapolis in Game 1. And welcome to a very impressive game. Consider first the Minnesota Twins. Rarely in a pennant race through the 80s. The first time they've won the pennant since 1965. And remember that with a week to go in the 1986 regular season, the Minnesota Twins were in last place in the American League West. They eventually finished in front of Seattle. And then it took them six and a half weeks to name a permanent manager. It turned out to be Tom Kelly. He was named in late November of 86. And he and his rookie year has led them to the promised land. Then there were the St. Louis Cardinals. Not improbable they're in the series. It's the third time in six years but under the circumstances. Amazing. Tremendous adversity last year. They were never in the race. The same kind of adversity in the first year. The same kind of adversity in an unbelievable amount of injuries in 87. But Whitey Herzog with paste and glue and tacks and the rest of it has them here. You know Jack Clark is not here. You know Terry Pendleton is here but he is injured. In the Cardinals starting lineup tonight are three rookies and one veteran who hit 0-80. This is the World Series. You go figure it out. Game one coming up and in just a moment we'll take a look at some heroes of the past. This ABC Sports exclusive is brought to you by Michelin. Michelin because so much is riding on your tires. By Aetna and its insurance agents and brokers across America. Work with the best in the business, Aetna. And by Budweiser. Beachwood aged for that clean crisp taste. 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When you really get out of it, you say, I got a World Series ring. I was lucky enough to play in three of them. And just the opportunity to be there and the opportunity to win, lose, or draw, whatever, you were there. The thing about the World Series is the main thing is great to win. The memories for the Cardinals started with their first series in 1926. A winning one when Grover Cleveland Alexander came out of the bullpen to strike out the Yankees. Tony Lazari with the bases loaded in game seven. The 1934 series featured the Gas House Gang. Ducky Medwick's hard slide into Tiger third baseman Marv Owen so infuriated the crowd that Medwick was forced to leave the game for his own safety. The cards won in seven. Johnny Pesky hesitated momentarily in the seventh game of the 1946 series and allowed the cards Enis Slaughter to score the winning run all the way from first. It was the most infamous play in Red Sox history until just last year. In 1968, Bob Gibson was so dominating that it looked like a simple game of pitch and catch, recording 17 strikeouts in game one. But the Tigers eventually prevailed in seventh. Catcher Darryl Porter, a 231 hitter who struggled with major personal problems during the season, became the series MVP in 1982 as the cards came back from a 3-2 deficit for a seven game win. And in the Cardinals last series appearance in 1985, umpire Don Denkinger's safe call on a George Orta ground ball in game six led to a Kansas City Royals resurgence. The Cardinals were bombed the next night, 11-0, and lost the series. Many people don't remember it, but the Washington Senators were the predecessor to the Minnesota Twins and won their first pennant and their only championship in 1924 led by an 18-year veteran, Walter Johnson. By 1965, the franchise, now based in Minnesota, hadn't appeared in the series in 32 years, but led by names like Killebrew, Oliva, Versailles, Grant, and Cott. The Twins took a 2-0 series edge over the Dodgers, but it came down to a game seven matchup between Cott and Colfax, both pitching on two days rest. The Dodgers squeezed out a 2-0 win, and it would be 22 more years before the Twins would return to the World Series. Those are the heroes of the past, what about the present? As you look into the Minnesota Twins dugout, some familiar faces, there's Kirby Bucket, some anonymous faces, and the same thing over on the other side. The World Series, where Babe Ruth has been a hero, and so has Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, but so have Al Weiss and Brian Doyle, and you never know. Do me a favor. Don't cheer me up. James, you lost an arm. That's not the end. I lost my work. I'm a liability. You're not going to settle for that. James was my best driver. She said, he's still your best driver. I don't know how you're going to do that. No, no, no. She works for Aetna. Aetna carries our insurance. 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On his way back to the White House, he said the operation went well, and there is no sign that cancer has spread. Down in Texas, little Jessica McClure had an operation on her right foot today. It had been twisted underneath her for almost 60 hours in that well. The doctors may have to amputate, but we will not know for several days. In politics, the Secretary of State said today that Iran has been warned that its behavior in the Persian Gulf is unacceptable. And on money matters, the Secretary of the Treasury said today the record drop on Wall Street is not the start of a recession. So enjoy the game. We'll have a lot more on the weekend report. Al? Thank you, Peter. St. Louis against Minnesota, game one. Let's meet the lineups and the public address announcer here at the Metrodome is Bob Casey. And now let's welcome the 1987 National League champion, St. Louis Cardinals. First with none starters, the coaches and the support staff. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Cardinals starting lineup for game one. The manager who has led the Cardinals to postseason play in three of the last six seasons, number 24, Wendy Herzog. Leading off is the Major League leading face stealer, number 29, Lefkina Vince Coleman. By second, he's posted a 3-0-3 body average during the regular season. The highest mark of his career, number one shortstop, Ozzie Smith. 14 games with an RBI equaled his career best, number 28, second baseman, Tommy Herr. Body fourth is two-round homer and three RBIs. In game three, the National League championship series helped lead the Redbirds to victory. Number 15, first baseman, Jim Lidman. Body fifth is 105 RBIs during the regular season, where a career best, number 51, center fielder, Willie McGee. Body 60 posted a 3-81 average in the league championship series, number 26, Petra Tonipina. Body seven is 3-1 homer in game seven, and the NLCS have propelled the Cardinals to the national lieutenant, number 11, right fielder, Jose O'Kindle. Body eight, making his first postseason appearance, number 19, designated hitter, Tom Pagnacazzi. Body nine, a 3-33 hitter in the late championship series, number 12, third baseman, Tom Wallace. Walling up in the right field ball pit, the eighth rookie pitcher ever to star in a World Series opener, number 41, pitcher, Joel McCrane. And now, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the 1987 America League champion, our old Minnesota twins. First the non-starters, the coaches, and the support staff. And now let's welcome tonight's starter for the Minnesota twins. He led the twins to their first win in 17 years, number 10, manager Tom Kelly. The leadoff hitter, he led the twins in stolen bases in his first America League season, number 32, left unit, Dan Blandon. Body second, he established career highs in body average runs, doubles and triples during the record season, number seven, truck stop, Craig Degney. Body third is 3-33, body average during the record season was the highest by a twin since Rod Carell at 78, number 34, center fielder, Kirby Cricket. Body fourth, the most popular and valuable player in the late championship series, number eight, third baseman, Jerry Gaietti. Body 50 holds the America League record for hitting safely a 12-3 series game, number 18, designated hitter, Don Baylor. Body six, a four-drop hitter with two home runs, nine on the eyes of the late championship series, Cuddy Broniski. Body seven, he's led a personal best in the record season on home runs, walks, no levations, number 14, first baseman, Kit Herbant. He helped the twins split the America League West title with four RBI's for every 28th game in Texas, number four, back and face with Steve Labadose. Body five, his season included personal best in game home runs and RBI, number 15, catcher, Tim Lander. Warming up for the bullpen, the women's left-hander in baseball the last four years, number 16, pitcher, Frank Viola. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we are honored tonight to have the Joint Services Cover Guard represented in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and the Air Force. Ladies and gentlemen, with us tonight is a lady whose career hit a high note a year ago when she was honored with the Grammy Award. She has sung at the White House and performed around the world, including a tour of Japan earlier this year with the Maine Confedese Orchestra to honor America with our National Anthem Major League Baseballers proud to present Miss Diane Sherr. Okay, we got it. 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And first, let's begin with the Minnesota Twins, who tonight become the first team in the history of baseball to go into the World Series, having been outscored during the regular season. They were outscored, they were out hit in terms of average, they were out homered, the opposition had more stolen bases, and they were outpitched in terms of earned run average. They were out everything, except at this point, there are 13 teams in the American League that are out of the World Series. And the Minnesota Twins are in as they turn to Tim McCarver. People want to know how did the Minnesota Twins win the American League pennant? Well, you told me to go figure it out a little while ago, so I decided to do that. Even though the Minnesota Twins won only 85 ballgames, which was, by the way, the lowest of the divisional championship teams. They took charge the latter part of August. As a matter of fact, from the last part of August to the last part of September, they were 18 and 9. And they just obliterated the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series, winning four out of five with near perfect baseball. And speaking of perfection, that's exactly what the Cardinals had the first half of the year. They were nine and a half in front of Montreal in the Mets in the middle of July. It was dwindle to a game and a half in early September. They hung on, and I guess you could say they are limp and lame. But because of their pitching and their deep pitching staff, five left-handers, four right-handers, they are, I think, a bit of an edge in the series so far. And Whitey Herzog able to add an extra pitcher, Lee Tunnell, Jack Clark, in effect on the disabled list. And on the subject of pitching, who better to tell us about that and the difference between the way these two staffs are set up than Jim Palmer? Well, contrasting what Jimmy said, one of the weaknesses that the Minnesota Twins have is in the depth of their starting pitching. And that's something you really can't hide over 162 games, but you can do it in a playoff or a World Series. The two guys they're going to rely on are Bly Levin and Viola. Viola will pitch tonight. You'll see the record, 45 and 28 in games they started. And you can see the records of the other starters. Now also, another thing that's very important, earned run average of Viola and Bly Levin, about three and a half runs. The rest of the pitching staff about 5.5. So, and the Cardinals have great depth, as Tim said. I favor the Twins only because of the injury to Terry Pendleton. He had such a great year, they're going to miss him offensively. He might hit a little bit of left hand, but they will miss his glove at third. And tonight in game one of the World Series, the pitching matchup. A rookie against a veteran first-year man, Joel McGrain against Frank Viola. GE is a family of many different kinds of people. 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He's spent 22 seasons in the major leagues as is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Making the pass from the commissioner's block on the third base by the Queen's own Harmon Killibrew. Harmon Killibrew, his uniform number, retired, and the twins take the field. Everybody waving their Homer hankies as you look at the St. Louis lineup tonight. The speedy Vince Coleman to lead off. And Ozzie Smith and Tommy Herr batting third. Jim Lindeman, rookie first baseman, cleanup. Willie McGee, the veteran in center. Tony Peña does the catching. Game seven hero, Jose O'Kindle is in right. The designated hitter is a rookie, Tom Pagnazzi and Tom Lawless. He had the 0.80 average that night. Defensively, the twins in the outfield, Dan Gladden who came over from the Giants in the spring. Kirby Puckett and Tom Brunanski in the outfield. The infield, the G-men at third and short. Gaiety and Gagney with Lombardozzi at second. And Ken Herbeck, the native Minnesotan at first. Tim Wadler does the catching. Frank Viola is on the mound. And one of the features we'll have for you during the series. Paul Molitor and Tony Gwin have assessed the pitchers. And Molitor of the Milwaukee Brewers tells us about Frank Viola. Frank Viola's development of a change-up over the past two years has taken him from being a good pitcher to a great pitcher. The one thing he has to be careful about there is he occasionally might tip his pitches, holding his fastball lower in the glove as opposed to his change-up or his breaking ball, which he holds higher up into the webbing. The Cardinals should have some success stealing third against him, but he does a very good job of holding runners on first base. And there he is, and he's a man who has not lost a game in this building in almost five months. Frank Viola. Along with a great twins home record, which was 56 and 25 during the regular season, another two in the playoffs. Frank was 11 and 3 here, and this is a park where they score him a lot of runs. Paul Molitor told us about the fact that he has an excellent change-up, but he also throws about 95 miles, not 95, about 92 miles per hour, has a good curveball. And he said, the way I am going to have to get the St. Louis Cardinals out is basically not go 2-0, 3-1. If they get on, I'm not going to change my game. He does hold runners on very well at first base. Only six out of 15 have been able to steal on him this year. A very accomplished left-handed pitcher. Now in postseason play, six umpires, and they're split in the World Series. Three Americans, three national, as been noted on the right. Dave Phillips calls the balls and strikes. Lee Weier at first. Greg Cost will be at second. John McSherry, national, third. Ken Kaiser of the American, down the line and left. Terry Tata, down the line and right. And that, of course, means in a seven-game series, it would be Dave Phillips again, back of the plate, if we go the distance. So here we go, game one of the 1987 World Series. And it begins with Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith, and Tommy Hur. And the Cardinals, with a lot of slick hitters, even though Terry Pendleton is hurt and not in the lineup tonight, they still have a total of five in the lineup, including the first three. Frank Viola, ready to get it underway. And a bunt. Viola feels, throws low, scoops in time. It's billed as Cardinals' speed against Quinn Power, and right off the bat, it's Coleman trying to bunt his way on, but a good play by Viola and Herbeck. A good play getting to the ball by Viola, but he threw a change-up to first base. And look at the scoop by Ken Herbeck, a vastly underrated fielding first baseman. Looks like he threw that ball with three fingers. A lot of times that ring finger gets involved in throwing, and anybody who's throwing to a base doesn't like that. Ozzie Smith now takes the strike. Coleman, seated next to Danny Cox, will be the pitcher in game two tomorrow. As a matter of fact, talking about that ring finger, that's one of the things that makes Viola's straight change so effective. It's called the circle change, and it's thrown with the last three fingers of the left hand. That was it. One and two. Another look now at Herbeck at first base, scooping it very close. And Lee Weier was the man right there to call it. One out, base is empty. Quickly two down, the crowd is already frenzied. Another look at the change-up, which makes him such an effective pitcher, out on his front foot, his left shoulder's already open. Again, he has to respect the 90-mile-per-hour fastball. Doesn't have a chance. So two down, and now Tommy Her, another switch hitter. There are his composite figures, but as a right-handed batter, Her this year hit 297. As a lefty, only 242. Coleman and Smith were superior from the left side, Her from the right side, which will benefit him against Viola. And they'll really miss Pendleton, because Terry hit 337 right-handed. And Smith, who has been in two World Series, had never had a K-effects to his name in the scorebook until now. I think you'll talk to all hitters, and what they say is that a lot of times the pitcher, especially the first time around, whether it's the first game, the first at bat, have an advantage. There's a chance that Ozzie Smith has never seen Frank Viola. Doesn't really know what to look for. A scouting report will only tell you so much. Most hitters want to see the guy, especially maybe one or two times, or one or two games. That, plus the fact the Cardinals are playing in a foreign ballpark, in a park where there are shadows, where the lighting has been a problem for some batters. Speared by Viola, and a one-two-three inning. Well, the Cardinals have gone in order after a half. St. Louis nothing. And a half wins coming up. Freddie Lynn on deck. The 1-0 delivery to Fiske. Swings, long drive, left field. They begin so small, and the game is so hard. But they have an incredible secret advantage. They have such heroes to inspire them. Aetna is proud to sponsor the 84th encounter between the best in the business and the best in the business. The heroes of October are with us again. Cardinals gone in order, and thus the twins come up in the bottom of the first inning with this lineup. Gladden leading off in left. Greg Gagne batting second. Then Kirby Puckett. Gary Gaietti, the American League Championship Series MVP, is the clean-up man. Don Baylor, who came over from the Red Sox in August, is the D.H. Brunanski in right. Herbeck at first. Lombardozzi at second. Laudner catching. By the way, in the World Series, they will use the designated hitter here in Minnesota, not in St. Louis. In the AL Park, yes. In the NL Park, no. Coleman McGee-Okendo in the outfield for the cards. And then with Pendleton gone, Lawless, Smith, Her, and Lindeman at first with Clark gone. Pena, back of the plate, McGrane pitching. He's a rookie. And on our inside pitch, Tony Gwyn of the Padres, batting champ, talks about McGrane. I had a lot of trouble hitting Joe McGrane this year. He throws a fastball, breaking ball, changeup. But his best pitch is a fastball. And he sinks it, and he runs it in and out. But I think the Minnesota Twins will have an opportunity to steal some bases against Joe. Even though he's left-handed, he's real deliberate going to the plate. Wins assessment as the Twins come up now with Gladden, Gagney, and Puckett in the bottom of the first inning at the Metrodome. McGrane, a rookie, and it's unusual for a rookie to start in a World Series game. The last time a rookie started a series opener was 1980. Bob Walk with the Phillies against Kansas City. One reason, of course, is a long and extended playoff series if Whitey Herzog had his druthers and had they swept the Giants, it would have been Cox or Tudor starting, probably Cox. Also the leg injury to Greg Matthews. Joe McGrane never really had a loss for words as far as cuteness. Said they must have held the lottery, and they picked me. An interesting year, though. Started out 5-0, then he went 2-7 and won his last two ballgames. He said the one thing he learned about pitching in the playoffs against the Giants was that instead of trying to pitch to the hitter's weakness, he has to go with his strength. And as Tony Gwynn said, that's the sinker away. Gladden hits it down to Ozzie Smith, and the Wizard throws him out. So Gladden is out number one in the bottom of the first inning, and Greg Gagney will be the batter. As both Tony and Paul told you, both pitchers are relying on the stuff that they talked about. The sinker from Joe McGrane after the change-up from Frank Viola and Ozzie Smith. You'll see a lot of movement when he throws the ball. Greg Gagney, a totally different shortstop. When he goes to his right, he plants to throw. You rarely see Ozzie Smith plant and throw the ball. Gagney at the plate, battling it off. One thing Gagney said, I'm not competing with Ozzie Smith. I can learn from him over the next week. By planting, of course, I mean the right foot when you go in the hole. Ozzie is in a constant state of motion when he throws the ball. When he goes to his right, you'll see him almost circle the ball to his right. Not so with Gagney. Outside, one and one on Gagney, who hit two home runs during the American League Championship Series. He's the kind of player who doesn't get a lot of headlines, but when you watch him play on an everyday basis, you begin to appreciate him more and more. One and two. Both of those home runs came on breaking balls, and no doubt the advanced scouts or the Cardinals saw that. So really what you have is the grain strength, which is the sinker running it away and occasionally coming inside against a guy that really is going to have better bat speed, and he's going to hit more longer balls on the slow curve ball or something off speed. One-two pick is inside. You bring up an interesting point, Jim, because the way Gagney hit, he curled the bat. There's a lot of bat movement, and most of the time you see that bat curl with a lot of strong hitters. Mike Schmidt, Willie Stargell, comes to mind. Now watch how he ends up. See that bat's curled around his head. Can't catch up to the fastball. And he becomes McGrane's first strikeout victim and quickly two-gone here in the first and puck it coming up. And we isolate now on Gagney. See, when you curl the bat, you have farther to go with the bat, and that's why Jim said when you throw the change up in the curve ball, that actually speeds up the bat and allows a guy like Gagney to pull the ball. Kirby puck it now, as popular as any of the twins. Great season. And you saw what he did offensively, defensively. He took several home runs away with catches over the fence. Want to know, with a seven-foot high outfield fence in center here in Minnesota, Kirby able to reach over a la Eric Davis and take several home runs away. Chopper and puck it can run. Her has to hurry and get him. So the twins are gone. Both teams out in order. No score after one in game one. With nobody out here in the seventh inning and Roger Maris is the batter against McMan. That's the first hit off McMan, the second hit for Plugs. 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Jim Lindeman now is the batter. Not only spelling Jack Clark at first base, but spelling him in the cleanup spot. And there is Jack Clark in uniform, but ineligible. Not one of the 24. Fly ball to center. Puckett got a very late start on it and can't make the catch. And Lindeman goes to second. And the only oddity there is that Puckett plays in this ballpark all the time. You would expect that to happen to maybe Willie McGee and not Kirby. One point that Tim and I were talking about before the game is the homer hankies. And here you see Puckett not able to get to it. Does get it with the bottom of his glove, which puts eventually Lindeman at second base. But you have all these guys behind home plate with white handkerchiefs. It's a much worse background than it has been all season. So even somebody familiar, and of course, as Marty Springstead, who's the head of the American League umpires here, said, even an umpire, once you lose the ball, you're not going to find it. The glove is white and the background is white. McGee now at the plate. Well, taking it a step further, the fans, knowing that, they could have a homer hankies out when the Cardinals were in the outfield and put it back in their pocket when it was Puckett out there. Well, that's a problem with the World Series. A lot of times you have fans that haven't been to baseball games that often. So they're going to have to learn. Especially if they're going to keep this home field advantage. One and one account on Willie McGee, a switch hitter. Willie is a right-handed batter, 288, lefty, 284, so he's pretty close to right down the middle. Well, he's always been that type of hitter. Coming off knee surgery, started slow, didn't play until the middle of April. Go back to that MVP year he had when he hit 353. It was like 357 left-handed, 350, 48, I think right-handed. So numbers aren't quite as high. And the power numbers are about the same, too. One and two, the Cardinals have the scratching floor, as you know, for runs. Man at second and nobody out. And McGee is nothing else, at least trying to move him over. Again, talking about the circle change, Tim talked about it earlier. It's thrown the last three fingers. You kind of make like an OK sign. What's so effective about a change-up, especially when the guy like Viola throws as hard as he does, is that the arm motion looks like a fastball. You swing at the arm. If you slow down your arm, it doesn't matter what the speed of the ball is. That's in the air and maybe deep enough to advance Lindemann. Puckett makes the catch. Lindemann tags. Puckett's throw comes through Gagney, not in line ball. Now, yet he thought he had him. Kirby with a strong and an accurate arm, and Lindemann just does get there. Well, this is why Bernanski and Dan Gladden lead the team in assists. People don't normally run on Kirby Puckett. You saw it. Perfect example there. He positioned himself very well, but this throw almost gets Lindemann. Look at the decoy set up by Gary Guietti. Looks like he's waiting at a bus stop, and he thought he might have tagged him high. And if he made contact there, I'll tell you, he could have been out, because you could clearly see that the foot hadn't gotten to third base. John McSherry, the national league umpire, making the call. And so now the twins play their infield back with a man at third and one out. John, this astroturf on the right side, halfway which could be considered really in. There's a look. Gagney plays a deep in anyway, as Pena swings and misses. Well, you can afford to do that for two reasons. You're playing on the rug, and on artificial surface, the ball's going to get to you quicker, and plus you don't have good speed on third base in Jim Lindemann. So a sharply hit ball to Gagney, even though he's back, you may have a play at home. You can do that in the American League Championship Series. He plays a deep in and then begins to move in on occasion, and can still throw him out at the plate. One and one. Tony Pena had a tough year. He was hurt early, wound up in a 2-14, came over from Pittsburgh, and at the end of the regular season, started to wear glasses. He played in LCS. That made all the difference in the world. Said he used to come into the locker room and couldn't see across the locker room. You can imagine trying to pick up a 90-mile-per-hour fastball. You saw him in this situation getting the run in 65% of the time. The league average is 50%. So he normally does the job. Tony is a contact hitter, but he's also a bad ball hitter. And I think if Viola goes out of the strike zone, either 2-2 or 3-2, he's going to get him at least to go for a ball. Now, he may make contact on it, but it's going to be a pitch that Viola chooses as opposed to Pena. Viola 2-2, he'll keep Lindeman close at third, working from a stretch. One out. Pretty good rip with two strikes. Well, he attempted to do exactly what Tim said, tried to run the fastball in on him and up in the strike zone, but when you're a bad ball hitter, you sometimes get the bat on the ball. So Viola makes the pitch he wants to. And again, Pena with the glasses is a much more confident hitter. It's interesting that most bad ball hitters are forced by the very nature of the way they swing the bat to be contact hitters. They've got to make contact, otherwise you can't hit in the big league. 3-2 the count. Tell you, their scouting report, I'm not much for World Series scouting reports, but the scouting report I think came into play with Tony Pena on those last two pitches. Two high fastballs, neck high. Lindeman at third, one down, and the 3-2 pitch is grounded to Gagney, and Gagney looks for him and then opts to go to first. So he was in that deep in position where he had the option, but he felt the ball was just a bit too slowly hit to come home. 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Had this been Ozzie Smith, I think he comes home with the ball because of his style of throwing. He's going toward home, and he'll take a chance, whereas Gagney, who's used to planning the right foot to make the throw, didn't opt to take the chance. And it looked like had he thrown or been able to throw on the run, he had a real good shot to get him. Close. Guyetti starts the bottom of the second with a high fly ball to right field, and it's Okendo looking up into the teflon, making the catch for the out. So much made about the dome here. And it's funny because most people tend to think of the Astrodome, but in reality, this park is probably now more similar to Montreal, now that Montreal has the roof in Houston. Well, it is, except that this roof is white and the roof in Montreal is orange. And Billy Martin said, why don't they spend $100,000 and paint the roof? Maybe it's a pretty good winner's job, Tim, I don't know, but I mean this roof is white, more difficult to see the ball at night. And that's one of the objections. They think that the Astroturf is not going to bother the Cardinals. They play on it most of the year in St. Louis. This roof is white, but as you can see in that shot, a new color wasn't distorted if it's aligned correctly on your set. It almost sends off an orange hue as Baylor hits it in the air to shallow right. Now Okendo comes in a little gingerly for the moment and makes the play, two down. Well, coupled with the fact, not only do you have the white roof, but you also have the white homer hankies. And the twins' colors are red, white, and blue. I mean, for the outfielders and infielders, you could have blue and red homer hankies, maybe. As far as fielding a baseball, it would change the color of the ball like Charlie Finley wanted to do 10 years ago. Orange baseballs, right. And it was Bob Euker who said that couldn't be done because there weren't enough disease forces. Brunanski takes low on the count 1-0. Two out bases empty, bottom of the second inning, Cardinals on top 1-0. To another guy. Tom Kelly. What you see is what you get. Modest, unassuming, bright guy, and a real good guy. Painted in some quarters as dull and boring, not really. 3-0. But he's a guy who loves to let his players take all of the glory and the limelight. As he tries to stay out of the way. Now, Guyetti, talking about Gary Guyetti, says just the opposite. He involves everybody, plays most of his roster, maybe not in the playoffs in the World Series, every three or four days to keep the guys interested and ready. Of course, Tom Kelly says if he thinks that, I guess I fooled him. 3-0. Time was called. The play on fire. Dave Phillips was sending Ken Herbeck back to the on-deck circle. Herbeck was trying to cheat over closer to home plate to get a better look at McGrane. And that's ball four. And now Ken comes out of the circle. With Brunanski at first base and two down. And the reason for that, as you can tell, the more you're behind home plate the more you can tell about a pitcher and the very fact that the twins, unless they face McGrane at Orlando or St. Petersburg, the two towns in which the twins and Cardinals train respectively, these hitters have not faced these pitchers and you want every edge you can get. So the Cardinals ahead 1-0. The crowd waving the homer hankies for Ken Herbeck. Strike. Kent would normally hit higher in the order, but Lefty against Lefty and he's dropped down to seven. It's fourth against right-handers and you saw the 34 home runs. What changes is Joe McGrane on the mound. Of those 34 home runs, 28 against right-handers, only six against left-handers. So you take a lot of the power away when you throw a left-hander against Ken Herbeck. One and one account. Herbeck along with Brunanski, Guyetti and Puckett form what some call the fabulous four here. Guys who have been here a while and have been through some lean time. So it's particularly sweet for somebody like Herbeck in the World Series. Another interesting point to bring up from a pitching perspective is the fact that you're going to face eight right-handers and all of a sudden they throw one left-hander in there. So this is what Paul, excuse me, Tony Gwynn talked about. Tough to hit, but if you do get on, one of his problems is he's tall. Six-six. Long time to get rid of the ball. But also when he throws the first base, he telegraphs it. He stands upright, he kind of falls backwards instead of rolling his right shoulder and giving the base runner an inceptive look. And another problem is he throws the ball to first base a little bit too softly. So a lot of runners in the National League have just taken off and tried to beat the throw to second base. Brunanski, who's really no slouch on the base pass, 11 steals this year. The runner in first and the count is three and two. Well, the odds on running on a 2-2 count with two outs are really not good because if the ball is a ball, then the count is three and two and the runner's going to be running anyway. Good play by Peña. Balls that are in the dirt that are breaking balls are easier balls to handle because all catchers anticipate the breaking ball in the dirt. That was a fast ball and usually when a catcher can come up with it, it's because of quick hands. They've got to be quicker to come up with a fast ball or at least stop it. Three and two, so Brunanski will be running. He's off and the pitch to Herbeck is fouled away. What a difference a three and two count makes versus trying to get the hitter out earlier in the count. As you said, Brunanski will be off, can score on a long single, but he's definitely with better than average speed will score on a double. So a lot of times the difference between giving a run out with two outs sometimes is not where the ball is hit, it's the count. Three and two, Lindeman playing normal depth at first and it's 4-4. And for the screen, Brunanski rounds second but he'll hold air. So simply a walk. McGrane walking, Brunanski and Herbeck with two down and Steve Lombardozzi comes up. Well, McGrane walked a little over three a ball game this year. You see Tony Pena missing that three-two pitch where he handled the two-two pitch. But McGrane, a very unusual pitcher, he tied for the National League lead and hit batsman. Tied with Kevin Gross of the Phillies. He hit ten, he committed seven box. So Joe, while he's got a fine young arm, doesn't do a lot of things to help himself. And with two out and nobody on, he's just walked two in a row. And now he goes to work on Lombardozzi, whose average is not particularly high. He hit 238 during the regular season, but he has been a pretty tough hitter in the clutch. And against lefties in particular, as you can see. Well, they've attuned him a lot of the year with Al Newman. You can see why Newman has not hit very well left-handed, but he's played against a lot of right-handed pitchers. Lombardozzi tries to hit the ball back up the middle. Worked with Walt Reniac, batting instructor with Boston, from that area last winter. Brought his average up about 15 points this year. Now Mike Dwork, the Cardinal Pitching Coach, goes to the mound after McGrain has set down the first five. He's walked two and Dwork out there, dealing in things mechanical. And you often see that with young pitchers. They have not mastered the art of pitching yet. They're working with their God-given talents. God gave him a good arm, but as far as how to work a ball game and throwing strikes, two out, nobody on. He ends up walking Bernanski and Ken Herbeck. Herbeck, the only left-handed hitter in the lineup. When did you ever make that transition? I don't mean to say ever, but it took a lot of years. And what you try to, I think as a pitching coach, is say, listen, you have a great arm. And one of the problems is that his arm is so live that the ball moves so much. Let the ball go in the middle of the plate. So what if it goes in or outside? At least you want to throw it through the middle instead of trying to make perfect pitches. To an all-penis snap throw close play, the back runner Herbeck getting in. I'll tell you, there are two catchers in the National League who throw from their knees. It makes the next catcher think that maybe I did something wrong during my career. I threw standing up and could throw at his hardest pain, and Benito Santiago with San Diego from their knees. I mean, Peng has been doing that for 10 years, too. It's amazing the velocity he gets on those throws from his knees. Two and 0 on Lombardozzi. In there. Card's lead, 1-0. Bottom of the second inning, getting a good view in the Metrodome, where more than 54,000 look on. Two on, two out, and two and one on Lombardozzi. The amazing one, Whitey Herzog. Look at Penyon's target right in the middle. The ball just kind of sails in. Again, it's that live fastball, 1-0 sink, 1-0 sail. Sometimes it gets you in trouble, though. We've seen that with the two walks. And now it's full, and that means the runners will be going. Three and two, with two down. We'll see Bernanski taking off in second. He acknowledges Rick Renick saying it's three and two. And Ken Herbeck away to his lead at first. Whitey Herzog locking his team in the World Series for the third time in the last six years. There's no more helpless feeling, whether you're an infielder or a manager, than to stand out there and have your pitcher not to be able to throw the ball over the plate. Very frustrating. Makes defense a lot harder to play. You've got to be on your heels instead of on your toes. 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I know that the pitching coaches I had, Harry Burkeam, George Bamberger, Ray Miller, pitching staff were running through the wall for him, because they're always there when you need them, and I'm sure what he's trying to tell him is just settle down, giving him some mechanical help, as you said, Alan. He got out of the inning, just wanted to really minimize the amount of pitches he throws. Now Tom Pagnazzi, a rookie, fouls it away. Tom Pagnazzi, because of the absence of Terry Pendleton, they have Lawless playing third, and Lindeman of course spells Clark, and you need a designated hitter in the World Series, and so here is Pagnazzi, the number three catcher, grounding it to third, fair ball, and Gaietti throws it out. One up and one down here in the third inning. The G-man, they call him here in the Twin Sitters. They call him the Gold Glove Man, too. Watch how he makes the play and kind of dodges the bag and pushes off that right foot to make the play. Good play by Gary Gaietti, who should win his second Gold Glove this year. It's amazing what kind of attention you'll get when you hit 30 home runs. He's always been an outstanding fielder, but all of a sudden you put those great offensive numbers up there, and people say not only can he hit, he can feel, and he does both very well. Now Tom Lawless takes a strike. Lawless spelling Pendleton, and there is Terry. Now Terry of course hurt, pulled a rib muscle on the bases against San Francisco the other night. He can, what he can do is he can bat left-handed, period. He can't hit right-handed, and he can't play third base, so he will be the designated hitter tomorrow night. Hey, that was quite appropriate to go to Terry Pendleton, too, because a lot of people who follow the National League think he's the best-fielding third baseman in the National League now. And it's the point that you took, Jim, not until your offense catches up to your defense do you get the proper recognition. And he has had his career year batting average one up to 296 and walks one up, home runs one up, RBI's one up, 96 RBI's. So to miss him, and I guess contrast it to 85 when Coleman was on the lineup, you're really missing one of the key players, not to mention the loss of Jack Clark. Lawless, who was up only 25 times in the regular year and had two hits and then had two more hits in the playoff, becomes strikeout victim number two. When I was talking to Tom Kelly, the manager of the Twins, I said, what's the difference between Frank Viola this year 17-10 with a 2-90 ERA last year? He won 18 games with an ERA of about four and a half runs a game. He said it's the amount of pitches. And the contrast between Viola and McGrane tonight is that Viola used to get into the fifth or sixth inning, have 90 pitches, now he minimizes his pitches, and McGrane has been throwing at least 25 pitches an inning so far. 0-1 on Coleman. For Vince Coleman, he is a fellow who was run over by the Aaron Tarp at Bush Stadium in the playoffs in 1985, and that cost him a chance to play in the World Series. He had to sit and watch. 0-2. Such an impact player. Raised his on-base percentage, stole 109 bases, only thrown out 22 times. So when he gets on first, it's almost a double, maybe not against Viola because he has a good move, but just about every other pitcher. Sometimes a triple because he has stolen second and third on numerous occasions this year. One ball, two strikes to count. Coleman grounded out in the first inning. And strikes out here in the third. And that's three strikeouts for Viola. After two and a half, St. Louis won. Minnesota nothing. When four-time Indy winner A.J. Foyt takes to the track, he uses just one make of tire, the Goodyear Racing Eagle. And the official Cadillac safety car takes to the track on just one make of tire, the Goodyear Eagle VR Gatorback Street Radio. 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He goes into his trench. Belki, why don't you sit down? Take a look over to first base. Belki. And here comes the pitch. Catch our show, Perfect Strangers, Wednesday nights, here on ABC. Nice pitch, Cousin. I never even saw it coming. Thank you. The Metrodome in Minneapolis. Al Michaels along with Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver game one of the 1987 World Series. The twins, as you can see here, Tim Laudner catching 18 games over 500 with the backup catcher Sal Butera 12 games under 500, which is one reason when you look at Laudner's average for the year that he is in the lineup. 191, but he's a dangerous, if there's such a thing as a dangerous 191 hitter, you're looking at him. 16 homers. Strike. No more dangerous than in the American League Championship Series. He got one hit against Detroit. That was a game winning double. And game two against Jack Morris. And you know that that is not really a knock at Sal Butera because Sal was traded to the twins. Actually picked up after release from the Cincinnati Reds in the early part of June. And it points out that a pitching staff has to get used to pitching to one catcher, not two or three. You rarely see pitching staff successful, Jim, when they have to work with two or three catchers. So a manager would be left at the platoon of catchers and other positions. No balls, two strikes to count on Tim Laudner leading off in the bottom of the third, one and two. A lot of the hits that Laudner got in the playoffs were on breaking balls. He is very much like Greg Gagne except more powerful. He is a better breaking hit. What I call a slider speed bat. In other words, if you throw him a slider that's usually about eight or nine miles per hour slower than a fastball, he catches up, but you can throw the fastball right by him. Inside part of the plate, outside. That's hence the 191 batting average. Lee Weier says no swing, not even close. The way he shook his head. Two and two. And it wasn't even close. Yeah, please don't bother me. He's that kind of look. Well, except that's a catcher's duty. He wants to get every out he can. And Penny just said take a chance. Maybe he'll go for it. And he didn't. Two and two. Laudner leading off in the bottom of the third. Then Gladden and Gagne. Cardinals on top. One to nothing. Full count. So McGrane making it tough on himself. After he had set down the first five tonight, he walked to a two and oh on Lombardozzi and then got him. Now he's gone from oh and two to three and two on Laudner. And he loses them. A lot of pitching has to do with pace and rhythm. And that is the fourth three-two count in a row run by Joe McGrane. Even when he got Lombardozzi, it was a three-two count to pop up to end the inning. Dan Gladden now. The twins, and you're wondering maybe why they were able to do it in one season, go from next to last to first. Jeff Reardon of course. A tremendous acquisition. Kelly and also Dan Gladden who grounds this one to third. Lawless goes down to her and that's all they're going to get. Just the fours. So Gladden who has good speed and led the team in steals this year with a total of 25 is the first base with one out. Always an amazing game, you walk three out of four hitters and the hitter swings with the first pitch. And a curve ball, pretty good one at that. Lawless knows where he's going to get it out. Her nose, there's no chance for a double play because Gladden could run well. I'll tell you there are two schools of thought to that particular theory and I know what you're saying, if he's going to get wild or if he got wild, let him stay wild. The other side of the coin is that he is so wild that he's going to put a pitch with not as much on it right down the middle of the plate. And you've got a chance to get on a cheap one. Unfortunately for Gladden, that wasn't a cheap one. Quality pitch. Gagney now with Gladden held on by Lindeman. As you said Al, 25 stolen bases. 18 out of 21 successful steals against McGray. Perfect, perfect opportunity for the twins to run. Very aggressive in the American League playoffs. I think they shocked Detroit. Not that the catchers, he throws pretty well for Detroit. Back notes had trouble all year long. But they ran with reckless abandon. Any time, hit home runs, did it all. Very aggressive ball club. So Lee Weir there kind of peek around Gladden. Lee Weir of course a national league umpire. And remember in 170 innings, McGrane was called for seven box. That's close. That is close. Well the rule there and I think what you're talking about is that you cannot take the right leg and bring it behind the pitching rubber. If you do, you have to come home plate. To come to home plate. So what Joe is trying to do is either get right on it. More or less like Steve Carlton, some of the guys with the good moves. Lee Weir is over there to either call it or not. He has a great perspective. The interesting thing you mentioned, Steve Carlton. Steve Carlton holds the national league record for box in a season. And Steve had a similar move that Joe McGrane had. Steve had 11 in 1979 and that was Joe McGrane's hero when he was growing up. And Steve pitched for Minnesota this year. They picked him up in August and may hook up with him again in spring training next year. And he almost throws a change up away. That's what Mike Ross talked about. He said not only does he not have a great move, when he does throw the ball over, he doesn't throw it with enough on it. Looked like he was caught in between there, Jim. It looked to me like he thought he had gone back too far with his right leg and threw it to first base. And threw that change up over there, almost knowing he was going to get caught. I think that's what's seven in a row now. Give or take one. What you will find that the good left handers such as Jimmy Keith, the guy we saw on the last day of the season, what they do is that since you're careful, you're really worried about that leg coming behind the rubber, because you put the knee behind the rubber, kind of arch your knee, and you deceive the runner. That's how he gets away with it. It's not a balk, but it's very deceptive. I've never heard that before. In other words, it's his knee that goes by the back leg and not his foot. But this is not something you expect of a rookie pitcher. I saw Mike Flanagan who has one of the best moves in the American League. They run on his first move. They would take a gamble and they'd go. Now he worked on it. He's obviously a veteran. You don't run on a Mike Flanagan. You run on a Joe McGrath. Well, with all this going on, you lose sight of the situation. The score is one to nothing, St. Louis. There is one out, and that's glad in the first base as if you didn't know. As if McGrane didn't know. And that's a new World Series record. Unofficial. Nine straight. I'd make it official. Yeah, I would, too. There's a scoop and it's 0 and 1. He should do this more often because he throws more strikes. I mean, he throws over there eight straight times. He's having trouble throwing strikes. You'd think it'd ruin his concentration. And then he throws a fastball over the plate. Amazing. Of course, I mean, this is the same guy they said that used to when he was pitching in Shea Stadium, but check out the aircraft to see if they were on schedule. I mean, Whitey says he comes to planet seven, which is one of the furthest planets away. He's one year old. Yep. Gotta love the way he thinks. One and one. Well, a lot has been made about McGrane's flakiness. Don't fool yourself. He is an extremely intelligent fellow. His father is a college professor at Morehead State University. And McGrane, as portable as any rookie I can recall in years, knows exactly what he's saying and doing. He's playing a game with the media as well. One and one. One and two. McGrane, you remember, he was the guy earlier this year when he won on the disabled list. Somebody said, what have you been doing? He said, I've been reading a book, JFK, The Man and the Airport. That's him. He's a communications, or was a communications major in Arizona, and it would figure. So the count is still a ball and two strikes on Gagney with one out and Gladden at first. One of the major distractions along with the roof are the pitching mounds. The warm-up mounds are on the field. The ball does not fall that close, but your first baseman, you're thinking about it. Second baseman has a better angle. Tommy Herr. Well, Kendall, who knows if he saw it? I guess with all the injuries and everything that the Cardinals have had, to be topical, you could say they didn't want it to be a fatal distraction. Okay. One-two pitch. A change is popped up, and Lindeman and Herr are there, and Tommy calls Lindeman off and makes the catch in foul territory with a second out. The center fielder, Kirby Puckett. Kirby Puckett grounded out in the bottom of the first inning. If you pick this up late, the only run in the game, the Cardinals in the second inning, Jim Lindeman hit a fly ball in the center. Kirby Puckett got a late start on it, and it dropped for a double. Willie McGee with a fly out long enough to move Lindeman to third, and then Tony Payne grounded the short, and Greg Yagney opted to go to first base, and Lindeman scored. So the Cardinals stretch down a run, as they are prone to do, and lead one to nothing. Good play. Payne has such quick hands back there. A lot of times, his hands are too quick, and his hands are so quick that a lot of times he loses form when he goes after balls in the dirt. Usually when you see a catcher go after a ball in the dirt with his glove, it's the wrong way to go about it, because they want the ball to hit and then hit the catcher. But Tony is so quick. He has as quick a hands for a catcher as any catcher I've seen. Crowd chanting, Kirby, Kirby. Latten goes, pitches a strike, and Payne's throw is a one-hopper, not in time. Her thought he had him knows his great cost of the American League. Payne this year threw out only 25% of would-be base stealers. Makes a good one-hop throw, but again, you steal the base on the pitcher. Took Latten a long time to figure out McRain, but he got a good jump and beats the throw. Another look from another angle. He said 25 during the regular season made a big difference to this ball club. A lot of added speed. One and one on pocket. I'll tell you, I know it sounds strange, but the lower the arc of the ball thrown, the faster it gets to second. Even though this ball bounces, it's a perfect throw. Everybody has a tendency to say, well, he bounced the throw to second. That ball was right there and had Latten not had the jump off of McRain. He wouldn't have stolen the base. Puckett swinging late at a fastball, and it's two and two. So Gladden is at second, two down. Rick Renick, the third base coach, and Kirby Puckett, who tied for the American League lead in hits this year at 207 with the Royals rookie Kevin Steinser. Full count. Guy Eddie on deck. That's what Kirby has to do to be successful. He has to have a good strike zone. He's not a bad ball hitter like Pena. I mean, you can hit the ball up and out over the plate. That's one of his strengths. But this is a guy that did not hit any home runs his first year. Then four, 31 last year, and then 28 this year, and 332. Amazing stats. Grounded to Tommy Herr, a routine play, and it's when it's done in the third. To the fourth we go in game one, cards one, wins nothing. There's a vacancy at the Bates Motel. Norman, is that you? 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And advice was his way of saying, I love you. Mr. Advice. You know, I really need some advice. Because today, dad, you became a grandfather. ABC Sports exclusive presentation of the 1987 World Series is being brought to you by GE. At GE we bring good things to life, from satellites to lighting to medical imaging products. Like a vehicle from McGrane's Planet 7, there sits the Metrodome fronting downtown Minneapolis. Inside more than 54,000. 1-0 fourth inning. And Ozzie Smith leading off with the Cardinals. Smith, Herr, and Lindeman, the 2, 3, and 4 hitters. Ozzie struck out in the first. And Viola gets the inside corner, 1-1. Frank Viola, who won 17 during the regular year. Half swing, he wanted to check it, and he grounds it down to Lombardo's. One away here in the fourth inning. Viola has yielded just one base under. That's a fly ball double that Puckett got a late start on by Lindeman in the second. Meanwhile, for Frank, his thoughts have to be partially elsewhere. His brother, there is John, and Donna Litt, the former Donna Litt. Now Donna Viola were married earlier today at a church in East Meadow, New York on Long Island. Frank was to have been the best man, as her bunched it down the line. And all we can say, I'm sure the reception is winding down. Frank starts with his brother and sister-in-law. And Donna, for your sake, we just hope this baby doesn't go into extra innings tonight. And we understand that the date was set a year and a half ago. And who would know that on that date, set a year and a half ago, that Frank would be pitching the first game of the World Series here in Minneapolis. Especially after the finish, as you pointed out on the opening of the Twins last year. One and one account. 71 and 91 last year. Makes that 85 wins, and the other four in the playoffs. That more meaningful. Of course, Frank Viola pitching here tonight. To me, the interesting thing about the matchup between a left-hander and the Cardinals, you talked about the fact that Coleman and Smith hit better from the left side. So are the two best runners. So you turn them around. And Viola's pitched very well, even though he's trailing. He conceivably could pitch three times. So with Pendleton out, Clark out, you have a guy that you really have to rely on. One ball, two strikes account. One out, base is empty. One nothing, St. Louis in the fourth. Hits sharply to third, Gary Gaietti on a hop. And over to Herbeck who comes off the back for the tag. So two down now in the fourth inning. And Jim Lindeman coming up. That again, one of those in-between hops. Infielders rarely catch balls like this cleanly. They'll catch short hops cleanly, but the in-between hops you have to smother. And you really have to smother with softer hands. That's a play by Gaietti. It's kind of collapsed on him. Just waited for the ball to come to him. I mean, that is the definition of soft hands, not hands of rock. It's one that just kind of pushes the ball as it comes in toward you. Gaietti certainly showed him there. Anytime you see an infielder going down with the glove, they're stabbing at the ball. The good ones come up, catch it with soft hands. Jim Lindeman takes a strike on account one and one. As Tommy could almost see that a collision was imminent and he just pulled up. He's out anyway. Late swing by Lindeman who might be eventually, even though he's the first baseman here spelling Clark, the Cardinals' right fielder of the future. Well, he is the reason they went out and traded for Tony Pena. He had a great year, a good year last year. Twenty home runs, good winter ball. They thought it made Andy Vance like expendable. Mike Lavallee. That's hitting the right field and it's been all Lindeman offensively for the Cardinals tonight. Viola has retired every other batter and Lindeman is now two for two. Along with Mike Dung who went over to Pittsburgh and won 13 games, but Lindeman had a great spring. Take another look. The looper to center. This one he just fights off. But when you have good bat speed, even if you get jammed, you can fight the ball off. The guy with a slower bat most likely would break his back, give the infielder time to get in front of that ball, especially on the turf though here. I mean, you hit him where they're not and they hit the ball sharply, have no chance at all. McGee in the dirt. One and 0 on Willie. Willie McGee bothered by that risk, but still 3 0 8 in the National League Championship Series and a nice running catch early in game six, which eventually wound up as the Cardinals one nothing victory to tie the series. A catch off the bat of Jose Uribe. One and one. Lindeman held on by Herbeck. Toward the hole, backhanded by Gagney, throws back the second, no! Lombardozzi thought he had him, he scooped it out. But second base on fire, Greg Cost says safe. They said first and second. Well, Gagney really had only one play. The short hop watch. The high hop there and he does all he can to throw it to Lombardozzi, but Lindeman made a nice play. Sliding straight in. I'll tell you, the day of the hook slide is gone. You rarely see base runners hooking into bases. And the reason for that is you get there quicker when you go in straight in. He was clearly safe. Lindeman at second base and McGee, the runner at first, was two down. Tony Pena grounded out on the second to drive in Lindeman. Pena with a huge swing. You would think he hits a lot of home runs, but he doesn't. He hit five during the regular year. His high was 15 with the Pirates a couple of years ago. Tony doesn't get cheated. You've got to love to watch him hit. He really kind of corkscrews himself into the ground with those swings at the high fastball. Manny Sandguin, a bad ball hitter, also the type of stroke, it's not an uppercut stroke. You hit down at the ball, you're going to hit more line drives, more ground balls. I'm talking to Johnny Lewis, the batting instructor. He said, that's what we want our guys to do. When Clark's not in the lineup, live balls kill us. They're outs. We want those line drives and ground balls. O2 pick. Funny you talk about Sandguin. He's got that same rubbery body that Manny had, or has. Johnny Lewis is the cardinal hitting instructor. This year, last year when they had that bad offensive year, he laid low. He couldn't find him. I was kidding him about that. He said, this year, I work with Clark a lot. I was going to say the jury really is still out as to that trade. What team was really positively affected the trade to Pittsburgh? It's Michael of Valor and Andy Van Slyke and Mike Dunn over there. All of whom had very, very good years. Mike Dunn may be the national league pitcher of the year, rookie pitcher of the year. Tony Pena, though, you really can't wait to see what happened to him earlier in the year when he broke his thumb. Early April, he was out for six weeks because when he came back, he tried to make up for lost time. In my opinion, his skills did not diminish at all. This guy is still a quality catcher. And the bottom line is the St. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series. Steered by Viola, who helps himself out of the inning. Cardinals wander two singles, St. Louis one, Minnesota nothing, going to the bottom of the fourth. Uh-huh, yes, yes, Mrs. Ferber, I'll be right over. What's up? It's Alex. He's been burying things in Mrs. Ferber's garden again. Right here. Alex, a bottle of Stroh's. Keep digging. Nice, Alex, 15-pack. Keep digging. With Stroh's and Stroh Lite 15 and 30-packs, you get more beer. How did you get a whole truck down there? Why don't we ask the driver? The knowledge is the hope of the future. 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Oh, Smith, as if you didn't know which Smith it was, huh? A lot of people have been saying, oh, since he's played in the Major League. I would have thought he'd thrown more pitches with the four walks and the struggling. What's made him effective, Tim, and this is a lot like Juan Berenguer, who we saw pitching the playoffs for Minnesota. Guyetti grounds it down the line, backhanded by Lawless and too late, and the twins have their first pitch. Gary Guyetti gets an infield single, and Don Baylor will come to the plate. Going back to that thought is that he doesn't throw the ball consistently in any spot. As you watch Guyetti dive to it, excuse me, Lawless dive to his right, and he hit the ball. It's a play that Pendleton may have made only because he has a stronger arm. Lawless, great play to get to the ball, but that's the difference between a Pendleton. And Baylor hits it up the middle for a base hit. Guyetti takes a short turn at second as the throw comes in behind him, and get ready for a little bit of noise in the metrodome. See the mobility of Lawless. So the twins who trail one-nothing, runners at first and second, the crowd waving the homer hankies as Brunanski stands in. Brunanski walking the second inning, he's checking with Redick. It doesn't figure, there's always the possibility though of the play. I wonder if they have sacrificed hankies here. No way, he's funny. Not with the American League Championship series that he had. Ripped in the center for a base hit in front of McGee. Redick will hold Guyetti at third, and they're loaded with nobody else. I'll tell you, it's amazing. Joe McGrane in the second inning and the bottom of the third inning ran three two-counts to four straight hitters, while on four pitches the twins had the bases loaded and nobody out. Guyetti gave him a look, but with nobody out, Rick Redick held him at third, and that is proper. Even though with two outs and they send him, you probably score a run, but with nobody out, you just can't take the chance. At the conference at the mound, Whitey Herzog looks on and he has sent Bob Force to the bullpen. There he is. One of the three starting pitchers, really a swingman at 111 games for the Cardinals. Rourke now, Mike Rourke, goes to the mound again. Singles by Guyetti, Baylor, and Brunanski, and now Herbeck coming up, the left-handed batter, the number seven hitter. Part of this is for Mike Rourke to talk to Tony Pena and Joe McGrane to give Force a chance to warm up a little more in the bullpen. You see another couple of hits, you might see a move by Whitey. Meanwhile, Whitey, and he earns it. He sits on a piece of patio furniture. And Tom Kelly, a rookie manager, first rookie manager to get it to the World Series since Harvey King did it with the Brewers in 82 and Harvey took over in the middle of that year. Tom actually took over the latter part of last year. He was 12 and 11 with the Twins last year. And they did take some time in naming him the manager for the 87th season, but Andy McPhail obviously made the right move. The Twins with a 36-year-old manager and a 34-year-old general manager. 0-1 on Herbeck. So the bases are loaded. Nobody out. Diety at third, Baylor at second, and Brunanski at first. Towards the middle, through for a base hit. Diety scores, Baylor scores, Brunanski goes to third, the ball hits him, bounce away, backs up by McGrane. Herbeck goes to second. Great presence of mind by McGrane as you watch Ken Herbeck making a look at what's transpiring over third base. Well, the most difficult thing is to give up a two-run single and then cover the base you're supposed to. But McGrane did it at 23. Not happy about the outcome, but there to save him another run. Twins lead, Lombardozi takes inside, and the Cardinals infield back at short and second. But remember, Ozzie throws on the run on a hard ground ball. He's got a chance to throw out Brunanski at the plate. Well, I'll tell you, with the difficulty the Cardinals have scoring runs, I think the proper play is to pull the right side up because Lombardozi is not going to hit the ball with authority to the right side. At least that's the theory on which you have to go. There's her playing well back and Lindeman at first. Now you think about this, a ground ball to Tommy Herr, you get the out at first base, Herbeck moves to third. Brunanski scores, and not only is it three to one, but these twins have, in effect, moved another runner at third with less than two outs. I think her ought to at least be halfway. Two and one to count. And especially with the type of attack the Cardinals have, and with Clark not there and Pendleton not there, even though they were a resilient, resourceful team, this is a team that's going to find it very difficult to come from behind. That's why they've made it that much more remarkable when they came from behind against the Giants in game three of the playoffs. Senator Peter Ugoff and Senator Bob Dole looking on. They're loaded, holding at third Brunanski. Whitey Herzog to the mound and to the bullpen. And so McGrane's world unravels here in the fourth inning. And Bob Forge will come in. Hey, Penn, you've lost the ball. So you stay at third base. Forge comes in with the bases loaded, nobody else. I bought this Van Heusen for Michael. I think he's gonna have a tough time getting it back. Van Heusen for a man to wear and a woman to borrow. Really, Norton, you think you've never had ice cream before. There's only one camera system you can buy that lets you hold the picture in your hand while you still hold the feeling in your heart. The Polaroid Spectra System. In McDonald's, we're tossing salads fresh all day. Every day. It's fresh when you get it, and it's fresh when I pop it in my mouth. 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Before I do, you're going to have two things. A little more experience, and a set of Michelins. Michelin, because so much is riding on your tires. Joe McGrane removing the earplugs from his ears. And there are a lot of Cardinal players who have earplugs. A rough fourth inning for Joe McGrane. Also a very typical Astroturf-type inning. Ground ball, broken bat hit. Wallace couldn't come up with it. One ball hit real hard, but he really did not help himself with his wildness. Forrest, 11 and 7 on the year, pitched three times in the National League playoffs. Was one and one, and really the high ERA is attributed to one time he pitched less than an inning, didn't get anybody out. Three runs, the three hits, four runs, something like that. But other times he pitched extremely well. He is a control pitcher. The 0-1 pitch is grounded in the right for a base hit. As he scores, Kerbeck starts to third. They're still loaded, and it's three to one. He tries to pull that ball, no doubt, hit the ball in the shortstop. Now Dan Gladden, still nobody out. In the inning, five singles and a walk. Three one quits. Gladden over two. On and on the count. Kerbeck is at third. Lombardozi at second. And Lauder at first. Dan is the leadoff hitter. What's a ball game without a beach ball these days? What beach is indoors? The decibel level here at the Metrodome is so high, and if you watch any of the American League championship series, you know what this crowd is capable of doing, audio-wise. So that's the reason McGrain was trying to block out the shot. What he really needed though in the fourth inning was a blindfold in the air, down the line, and throwing foul back out of play. I'm sure the Cardinals are thinking, this is a team that's supposed to hit 196 home runs, and they're doing what we normally do, five singles, hitting the ball where it's pitched. If we're not running as well as the Cardinals, a couple of one-base-at-a-time situations, but you can do that when you have three runs in, the bases loaded, nobody out. Don't take too many chances. Tom Kelly, he just sits and whoops and wins. Spun foul at the end of the bat, one and two. Dan Gladden, who played with the Giants through last season, he came up as the center fielder, then the twins got him, the Giants found him expendable, he'd worn out his welcome in San Francisco, and he really wanted the Giants to beat the Cardinals. He was really looking forward to going back. High in the air to deep left field, Colvin goes back, the Giants find him, the Giants find him, the Giants find him, the Giants find him, the Giants find him, the Giants find him, reminds you a little bit of Harmon Killebrew throughout the first ball. Harmon Killebrew, 573 career home runs. That's only the ninth hit by Dan Gladden this year. We talked about the tremendous home record. You come in here and if you're a visiting team, you usually don't like what you see, and that's no exception. Team made a year in 1970. You saw the last one, right Jim? Herbeck tagging in case it was caught. It wasn't. And for the first time in 17 years, a World Series slam. Dan Gladden. And the crowd has finally, can't settle down to the point where the game can resume. Gagney is the batter, 0-1. Still, nobody out. And he's the eighth man to hit in the inning. Seven to one, twins. To right field to Okendo. Stays with it for the out. And that's the first out of the inning, as they have hit around now with Puckett coming up. Herbeck is all for two. If you're wondering about some World Series grand slam, McValley hitting the last one, Jim Northrop hit one in 68. I called it. Joe Pepitone, that's right. Joe Pepitone in 64. Ken Boyer. I called it. Joe Pepitone. So two out of the last four I've called. Puckett grounded his short. Smith is right there, playing it perfectly to throw him out. Two down. And now Guyetti who started the inning with an infield single coming up. You know, the one by Kenny Boyer in the 64 series. One game four for the Cardinals against Al Downing, an 0-2 change up. And a grand slam home run. The Cardinals won it four to three. That tied it to two games apiece. The Cardinals went on to win in seven. They were two also hit in the 56 series. Yogi Berra and Bill Scourin. And then Chuck Hiller, remember, hit one for San Francisco against the Yankees. I think Whitey Ford was the pitcher, I believe. One open. One and one. So it sort of points up what we said at the top about the heroes. You never know where they'll come from. Mickey Mantle has hit a grand slam in the World Series. Yogi Berra has hit a grand slam. And that's Dan Gladden. You really never know. One and two. We also talked about the depth of the Cardinal pitching staff before the game started and I'm sure Whitey Herzog didn't want to use his pitchers in this fashion because of their depth in a seven to one blowout. He's a guy that has given him a lot of innings this year. Thirty-three appearances during the regular season. Thirty starts. So as we said, he's a swim man that they used in the playoffs for relief but started normally during the season. And Whitey can get more use out of him tonight than he might in the National League Park because of the designated hitting situation. So actually something he doesn't want to do is really a godsend in a way that he doesn't have to pinch hit for him. Big difference between American League Baseball and National League Park. Something we'll see. Tom Kelly on the other hand, if this game gets out of reach, can pitch by all of six innings since he's only going to work on three days rest the next time out. High fly ball. The center field. And this will finally do it. And McGee has lost it as well as Coleman. And there is your basic metronome double. McGee initially looked as if he had it and had no clue. And by the time Coleman could discover it, Nyety has a double. Well, Vince knows it's up there. He sees it bounce. He was looking at the ball all the way out but does not really see it once it gets up into the roof until it comes down and bounces. So he had no clue and McGee had no clue. Baylor grounds it to third and Wallace throws the first and throws it low but the inning is finally over. Eleven men to the plate and it's 7-1 Minnesota. The Pheasant Hunters are enjoying one of the best seasons in years. Coming up on the Eyewitness News Network, a look at the Pheasant Hunting season opener in South Dakota, plus an update on Nancy Reagan's cancer surgery. Scott's Travel Land in Sioux Falls is having a holiday rambler sale. 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It's stories like these that remind all of us the meaning of family. I'm Joan Russell, Reporter Anchor. Family, that's the Eyewitness News Network. Something's happening. Furniture aside, no day at the beach for Whitey Herzog thus far. 7-1 Minnesota as we go to the fifth inning. And Jose Okendo to start things off, and Pagnasi and Lawless. Okendo fouled to Glatton in the second inning, 0-1. Frank Viola leading by six. And isn't that a beautiful feeling for a pitcher? Well it is, and he will not deter the way he pitches. He started him off with a change-up. No doubt Okendo looking for a fastball, doesn't get one, gets another change-up. This is why Viola has been such a special pitcher this year. We said 11-3 here at, I'm starting to say the Homer Dome. That's not actually the name, but that's the way it was the first year when we used to come in here. Very effective because you just never know what's coming. It's more of a run dome the way it's turned out through the course of the series. We'll bring it up from time to time. It was misnamed in a way. It really produces no more home runs than your average ballpark, but more runs. Bowled away. The first year it was named the Homer Dome only because they tried to get this stadium, this dome, built under budget. They did not air-condition it. The ball did carry much better the first year. The next year they put air-conditioning in, and the home runs still hit home runs. But the twins are a home run hitting ball club. They hit it just as many on the road. Maybe not just as many, but the percentage is very close. There it is, and it's almost dead even. Home runs per hundred at bats, at the dome, and away. There are a lot of ballparks, especially in the American League. Take another look at that graphic, like Seattle, where there's 40% more home runs hit up at the King Dome than there are on the road. Those figures over the last five years, and also this year, the telltale figure, more home runs hit in twins road games than home games. Gagney drops it, picks it up, has time, and throws it out. One away. Taknozzi coming up. And I asked Whitey Hurzon about the keys for the Cardinals in winning this World Series. Well, we're going to have to get good pitching, and we're going to have to hope that we can play well here these first two games. I saw the playoffs with Detroit. I know what happened there. We feel we've got a little bit more of an advantage. We're on turf, and if McGrane tonight, especially, can just go out and pitch his ballgame, let the ball fly, and keep the ball in the ballpark, then I think we've got a chance. If they start hitting the ball out on us, it's going to be tough, because when we get down now, we know that we're going to have to be aggressive on the bases. If we get some baselineers, we're going to have to run. We're going to have to hit and run, but we're really going to have to be aggressive, and we're going to have to try and manufacture runs, and we're going to stay with the plants. And right now, they are down by six, and Pagnasi has just grounded out to Viola, two down, and Lawless coming up. Doral Norman Herzog loves to fish, loves to manage, loves to win. He is great. There is no two ways about it. When you can take this team this year to the World Series, you can manage. Really true. How about the three million people that enjoy watching the Cardinals play? That's another amazing stat. The Mets, over three million this year. The Cardinals, Dodgers did do it this year, have done it in the past. But the Cardinals, drawing over three million after a bad year last year. They had a great year in 85 winning the National League. And then, of course, Kansas City beat them after they were up three games to one. They won three in a row, gained five in St. Louis, and six and seven in Kansas City. But Whitey, I don't think has ever faced the adversity that he's faced this year, especially in bringing a team to the World Series. One and two to count. And you'll ask him things like, you know, is this your most satisfying year? You really don't want to say it when you're coming right off it, but I suspect down the line, when Whitey writes the memoirs, this will have a very special chapter, 87. Everybody's making so much. On the other hand, the Minnesota Twins in their 85 victories, I think we tried to highlight in the opening remarks that they are not the same team now that they were when they compiled those 85 victories. Really, since the last part of August, they were 18 and nine in the month of September. And they lost five insignificant games at the end of the year. But I mean, they just blew the Tigers right out of the ballpark. Perfect. And they play with such poise and such outward and obvious confidence. They look like a team that has been to the playoffs six times in the last 10 years. Yet they've really taken on the character of their manager, Tom Kelly, and for that, he deserves an awful lot of credit for a lot of other things, too. He got one of those. He better have gotten one of those. I believe he was the lowest paid manager in baseball this year, if not close enough. Tom Kelly, pitching coach Dick Such. Getting ahead. That's what they tell you from the first time you ever go to a minor league camp. You said a many time a game of first hit the first batter out first pitch over to our bases empty in the top of the fifth inning at the Metrodome, where it's seven to one Minnesota time call. There's some debris in the outfield thing about Viola. He certainly has that graphic showed. He certainly has stayed ahead tonight. He has stayed ahead all year. He's 17 and 10. He had a marvelous, a marvelous year with the dome. We can't have a blip, of course, but that's that's right. He shot about a mile away, you know, Ed Sherman of the Chicago Tribune had a great line. He said the outside of the dome looks like your grandmother's old Jell-O mold. That does depict it. Grandmother's old Jell-O mold. Strawberry with the lights on. Me to the lawless is a little squibber foul. But staying ahead, getting back to that point that you made so well, Jim, is so important. But Viola has the added ability to pitch well when he's behind in the cap because hitters just can't sit on the fastball. You put those two combinations, the ability to stay ahead. And when you don't, the ability to pitch behind in the cap and you've got a pitch to the quality of Frank Viola. Three-two fix, got him. Strikeout number four. Cardinal's got an order at the end of four and a half. Seven to one, Minnesota. Success Stories brought to you by Citicorp. 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And the Cardinals have opted for Danny Cox. They're going to come out of their playoff rotation. Whitey Herzog wants John Tudor, who's had tremendous success in St. Louis, to pitch Dean Three back in St. Louis. And it will be Cox who pitched so brilliantly in the playoff clincher tomorrow night on three days rest. A strike to Herbeck on one. Against Blylevin, 15 game winner. Over 3,000 strikeouts. Two big wins for the twins in the playoff. So he's pitched very well. He's been prone to give up home runs, but nothing wrong with that. Threw a few in my day. He's pitching to the right ball club. The Cardinals with only 94 home runs this year. They only had 58 last year. So for a pitcher who is prone to give up the home run ball, if you don't mind, of course they can do a lot of other things to muster runs. But you'd be glad to pitch against the Cardinals as opposed to the San Francisco Giants, for instance. They only had 205, but you take Clark with 35 and Pelham's in a lineup with 12. You've subtracted 47 home runs. Three into the count on Herbeck. It's exactly half as a matter of fact. Plus with Pendleton, you lose a lot of defense. No knock at Tom Lawless, obviously. The biggest thing, you lose 96 RBI. And Herbeck is on. So Bob Force yields his first walk. It's been a perfect night for Herbeck. Two walks and a two-run single. And Steve Lombardozzi comes up. You know, the funny thing about the twins, in talking with him yesterday, none of them said that he really thought he had a real good year, a real great year. And certainly when you look at the figures, nobody had a career year for Minnesota. When teams win pennants, normally a bunch of guys have career years, or you have dominating pitching, or something. This is the ultimate team effort. Of course, the difference is, excuse me, Tim, as you said, is reared in 31 states. That's something they didn't have before. So again, confidence is so important in your ability to win. And yet Reardon, even though he had a good year and made a difference, didn't have that kind of spectacular year when a reliever comes in and his 40 saves and a 1.80 ERA. Reardon had a lot of saves, 31, but his ERA was 4.48. Primarily because of the first month and a half pitching for Minnesota. But if you look at all of their averages, they're about right in the middle. Keep it up, keep it up. Another look, tries to get it in, as you said, in Detroit on the last Sunday. Doesn't get it in, and there's a result. Only eight home runs during the course of the season. Laudner hits a fly ball to center field, and Willie McGee is there for the second half. Steve Lombardozzi with Herbeck on board. And a curtain call for the man they call Lombo. And here's Gladden. 1-0. Fourth inning, bases loaded. First World Series slam in 17 years. Nine to one, Minnesota. Two out, bases empty in the bottom of the fifth. They've had a lot of firsts. Guy Etty, the first player ever to hit two home runs back to back in his first postseason game. He did that against the Tigers. I really think that's one of the things that got him the most valuable player. Brunesky had a great series, but I think what it did, the two home runs off goal, Alexander, it made the Leavers out of the twins. Two balls, two strikes, with two out and the bases empty. On deck is Greg Gagney. Nine runs, eight hits, and no errors for the twins. One run, three hits, and no errors for the Cardinals. The twins going through the lineup for the fourth time in the game in the fifth inning. I'd like to make the point again that if the Cardinals were going to lose this game, they would have preferred to have lost a relatively close game, because with Frank Viola, one of the keys for the Minnesota Twins, pitching on three days' rest, he'll probably come back next Wednesday night in St. Louis. I think Tom Kelly has the luxury of seeing Viola possibly work about 70 to 75 pitches tonight, get him out of there, use your ballpen, and have him rested next week. In the air to right field, Okendo goes into the corner and makes the catch in fair territory, but the twins get two more on the La Bardozzi homer, and they go to the sixth with Minnesota leading 9-1. I used to go crazy. Boy, we were making a lot of long-distance calls. Who knew AT&T would come through with these new calling plans? Introducing Pro America 2 and 3 calling plans. Now we save money on every long-distance call we make. We get detailed billing, and we don't need special lines. What's this? Make a phone call. Paper costs money. From equipment to networking, from computers to communications, AT&T is the right choice. I'll get it, Alex. Mel's Market, here's your order. What order? Side of beef. I didn't order side of beef. Delivery, sir. What delivery? Your straw's 30 packs. Straws? Alex? Nah. 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Now you're talking good times, and Straws is spoken here. To the sixth we go. Al Michaels with Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver. 9-1 of the World Series and the St. Louis Cardinals trailing 9-1. The Minnesota Twins, winners of the ALCS in five, and picking up where they left off in Detroit on Monday. They've got four days of rest and they come out tonight and throw up a nine spot through five. Ball one to Coleman. Coleman Smith and her. And you talk about taking a team out of its game. The Cardinals scratching and falling in speed. Forget that. In there for a strike and you're down by eight. One and one. There is Joe Nicrow who might pitch in game four. Tom Kelly said if they lead three games to nothing. Brunaski chases this one into the corner and he owns that corner. It is a very tricky right field corner here in Minneapolis. Brunaski knows it very, very well. The Cardinals in their workouts were hitting balls into that corner so they could get used to the crazy carroms. First thing Jose Oquendo said is it's very tricky. I don't think you can not see the ball when it comes off the bat. It gets down into that corner. He said I could have a problem. Ozzie Smith hits a grounder to short. And one short stop throws out the other quickly to God. Have a look. Harpelin. The tall screen. And then right into the corner. And nobody knows that spot better than Brunaski. You're not going to get a lot of carroms off of that hefty bag type of material that they have out there. Tommy Herr now as Biola delivers his seventy seven pitch and the points he makes is such a good one. Kelly has the luxury of getting Biola out of there with his huge lead and then bringing him back fresh on Wednesday. You also give your relief and we talked about Baron Gare and Reardon. You can give them an inning a piece. They have not pitched since Monday. They both pitch in that game. Get them acclimated to the World Series play. Biola just stay on the long. At the end of five and a half. 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It's the Washington Redskins against the Dallas Cowboys. Dave Phillips the plate umpire has found a good little spot. Right there by the ducks. Bottom of the sixth inning. Kirby Puckett to lead things off with Bob Forge working in long relief. Kirby has not joined the hit parade tonight as you see has yet to hit the ball out of the infield. And that trend continues on a little pop-up which Lindeman takes care of. Went away. So Puckett is gone. And it will bring up Gary Gayetti who tonight will be known as Mr. First. First major league at bat back in 81 hit a homer. He hit those two against Detroit in game one of the ALCS. And tonight he's the first since Merv Ruttenmund in 1971 to get two hits in and in it. I tell you and you can add to that the first game of the 1982 season. He had two home runs in this ballpark in the first game of the season. And the first regular season game to be played here. Yeah right. Park opening that year. Lawless throws it in the third and Lee Weier was ready to signal out. It was in time but Lindeman couldn't hold him. And it's an error. E5. Another look. Lawless throwing on the run. We've already seen it. Not a very strong throw from behind the bag. There another throw that short hops him. Lindeman tries to come up with it. Unable to do it. Baylor now. Don has flying out singled and grounded out. The World Series following Baylor around Don with the Red Sox last year. And had the Giants won. It would have put Kevin Mitchell into the World Series for the second straight year. Bowled away. Funny thing about Baylor. They picked him up because of his persona his presence his experience and the rest. But this is a ballclub that's been together a long time. He didn't hurt. Obviously it was good to have a Baylor in the clubhouse but the twins were a pretty close knit and well molded team to begin with. He certainly certainly didn't help the twins like he helped the Boston Red Sox last year because for that type of charisma to come out into surface. You got to spend time with people. But you really never know what's going to happen. And when you look at the match up three left handers in the starting rotation the D.H. You will have a chance to maybe play a little bit not in the obviously in St. Louis ballpark. That's grounded to Ozzie Smith and he'll settle for the out at first base. Getting Baylor and moving guy Eddie down the second for Nance. You will be the hitter. But it's nice to have somebody like Don Baylor who has been there before. Not the player that he was last year when he hit 31 home runs as you take a look at Ricky Horton. But he did hit 16 still plays the game very hard. He's a great example for a lot of young players which warm this Minnesota ball club. Bernanke's been around a long time but they're still a little bit short an experience. Not in talent to have guy Eddie at second curve for a strike on one. A lot of people were concerned about the fact that they won in five games and they were going to have five days off. And Tom Kelly a firm believer and important part of the players ability is his legs. And I'm doing a lot of running simulated games. As a matter of fact we talked about Gary guy Eddie. He's a guy that hit 31 home runs this year 34 last year. Go back to 1984 he only hit five. And Kelly attributes to hurting his Achilles tendon in spring training never getting his legs under. So one thing he wanted to have coming into this series was a well conditioned ball club. It made him work out during those off days. One one to Bruno is a pie. We lapse into calling these guys by nicknames occasionally. Here in Minnesota they're known as Bruno and G man and Kirby and Kirby fab for that for Lombo. Just a little local color. That's the center and the key spots this one. I think that makes the catch at the end of six. 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They know all about miracles up here because the hockey team to which they refer. So many of them came from this area. They forgot yet. Yeah that's right. They're waiting for the clinch. Seventh inning as Jim Lindemann starts things off Lindemann McGee and Pena nine to one wins on top. I read lips he said swing the bat easy for him to say easy for a Renaissance man to say that. Yeah this has been anything but a divine comedy for a Bartlett Giamatti tonight. The guy since there is the ultimate impartial observer all year long finally gets a chance to root his team is down by a nine to one blowout. Good play by gagging. William McGee now Frank Viola working on McGee with one out of the seventh inning when exploded for seven in the fourth highlighted by Dan Gladden Grand Slam and a two run homer by Lamar dozy in the fifth. McGee singles in the center. So Willie has two hits tonight. And he is on as the first hit for the Cardinals since McGee with an infield hit in the fourth inning to further expand what you talked about earlier. Tim the luxury of Tom Kelly staying with Viola or giving his bullpen an inning or so a piece. It also makes it a lot easier if you're a veteran pitcher and you have command of your pitches to pitch with a nine to one lead. Every pitch doesn't mean the ball game as it would in a two to one type of game or a three to two game or whatever the case is. So the 84 pitches is really not exceptionally low amount but he's doing without a lot of duress both mentally and physically. He's got a lot of experience in this game. There is a Jeff Reardon the bearded one who will probably get the night off. The downside to a blowout game tonight is that the twins have had four days off. Reardon is going to get another day off to make it five. Jim's point well taken the last inning that maybe by getting Baron Garen Reardon in for an inning might be the true thing. Thereby resting Viola but Tom Kelly does not appear to be going in that direction. Hello. When the catcher wiggles his fingers he is talking to the pitcher. For example that signal says how about a beer after the game. That means no. This means how about a bottle of the Bartles and James premium wine cooler. That also means no. This means how about two bottles. That means yes. Well we hope this helps you enjoy the series and we thank you for your support. We got to go. I own an insurance agency. I knew people would be coming to me to help put their lives back together. I called Ed. You've got four computer terminals coming down air parade tomorrow. When you've got the best in the business behind you. You're covered. You can do some things. Jim Nettie salutes the people who work with today's Chevy truck. 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But look how Lombardo Z uses the bag to prevent the runner Willie McKee from taking him out. There are a lot of ways that second baseman can do that. They can cheat and come across the bag. But on a slowly hit ball like that it's often better to use that bag for defense. Runner can't get to you can't go through the bag even though some have tried doing that. Some have. Look at Bill Matlock. Tony Fernandez in the air the left field and a long run for Coleman and even with Vince's speed. He can't get there. So the count is two and two. So the twins on top and meanwhile Tom Kelly just sits and looks and watches and waits. Kelly we mentioned before a guy who and there he is a real good guy and a good sense of humor. He's in his office during the playoffs and somebody came to the stadium and somehow was able to get a hold of Tom on his office phone and the guy said the Lord has sent me to you to pitch the first game and instead of blowing him off as some nut he talked to him for a while and he finally explained you know I'd love to use you but the league says you have to be with the team by September 1st. And the guy said OK fine diplomatic way of handling. Time called no pitch. I think he's finding one of the most difficult things and it's really it's kind of snowballed the last couple of years as the media crush at a World Series and you have to talk to people and whatever he says I know it's boring but we're going to do the best we can. Nothing different. That's a staple line. We'll do the best we can. And then he says I know it's boring. Three two pitch is fouled away. But he's not a boring man. No. By no means. No. Rick Horton on in relief. You saw him warming up on the bullpen and he picks up here in the mop up roll in the seventh inning. Three balls two strikes on Ken Herbert. A little looper and that'll be caught by Tom Lawless for the out and it will bring up Lombardo Z. Another thing about Kelly is yesterday during the media. At the twins work at a couple of kids apparently sneaked in along with the rest of the media from a school nearby school and they had their own little handheld mini can. They were going to take it back to their professor to show them that they could do some interviews. Kelly gave the guy an interview. They approached him and said sure strike on one account on Lombardo Z. One out and one on and Tim Lauder will be the batter. Amazing Lombardo Z home run. You think he might over swing. He goes back to the basics which is why he's been an improved hitter. Getting the ball back up the middle and Horton had an excellent year for the Cardinals. You look at their pitching you look at Warrell as their stopper along with Ken Daly but early in the year when Daly was coming back from the elbow problems Ricky Horton and he saw the eight saves. He carried him the first month. Warrell hurt his arm strained it and eventually ended up with 33 saves but Horton bailed him out early in the year when they needed a lot of wins. Well he's so versatile too. He can start he could be in middle relief and as you said he could be used in short relief. 67 appearances this year and as Al says he can mop up and that and we say that we don't mean that to denigrate a pitcher because force came in didn't wasn't very sharp. I mean Kenny is one over one hundred forty ballgame so he knows sometimes you have to take one for the club. You go out there you give him the innings even though you are not pitching up to your capabilities. Tough to concentrate in a ballgame that is nine to one but it will make Horton sharper the next time he has to pitch in those World Series if he does. Oh and won the count one out. And now only two on water. Well there were a bunch of them a dozen cardinals played right field this season including 10 starters Horton and Todd Warrell who played there in one playoff game were amongst the 12 in the regular season. And even better graphic and I'm sure that Steve Hurt could come up with it is how many put outs did they have. When they got out there did they have any company. Ricky told me he had one ball hit over his head went for a double. He said but at least he hit the cutoff man. Did it go over his head or did he run in. Did he go into a really detailed description. He said he was playing deep and the ball was hit like a rocket against the Philadelphia Phillies. As a matter of fact that's when Todd Warrell played right field also. I think he escaped. Yeah. I think anything went his way. As a matter of fact I think Ken Daly came in struck out Von Hayes and then Warrell came back in the ballgame. Lauder strikes out and it will bring up the fellow the 40 or the giant fans used to call the man from the land Dan Black. Just got to take a look at the strikeout of Timmy Lauder. What makes Ricky Horton and it's very much like what we're going to see from John Tudor and maybe Greg Matthews. Is the good change up to go along with the breaking ball and the fastball and excellent control that ball down and away from the strikeout. Want to know the count on Dan Gladden grand slam in the fourth inning Cardinals started the night with a run in the second and then Minnesota exploded with seven and fourth two more in the fifth and it's been a night of joy and celebration in Minneapolis getting back to the dugout because Horton has one of the best pickoff moves in the National League voted by the National League managers as the outstanding pickoff move. So even 9 to 1 you're not really in a hurry to get the second base unless there's a base hit. Can I imagine the scouting report the advanced scouting report will tell him that you get picked off when it's 9 to 1 you better be embarrassed. I'll tell you really because it's 9 to 1 Lindemann now playing behind Lombardo see why he hurts off figuring that Lombardo is not going anywhere. Pretty safe assumption. And a strike and a three and two. Two out Lombardo Z at first. Gladden. Rips one down the line and into the corner for extra bases and let's see how Kendall plays the car. Lombardo Z going back through the middle after the home run a good piece of hitting by Gladden going the other way after the home run earlier in the ballgame. The reason for that I know you were thinking the same thing when guys hit eight or nine home runs during a year and they happen to hit one the best rate. The next at bat is to hit the ball the other way. And the best thing to do the reason for that you don't become overly enamored with your power and don't start opening up thinking you're becoming a home run hitter. Lombardo Z did it. About that many in the ballpark tonight. The Metrodome in the one Minnesota with Gladden at second two down. Minnesota the eight. Americans are breaking the boundaries of age as never before. And at Merrill Lynch our expertise in retirement planning can help you get more out of life and our financial consultants can show you more ways to help assure your future. Because at Merrill Lynch we believe your world should know no boundaries. Every day Jack Taylor and Joe Donovan take the same road home today. They went a little out of their way. Can I give you a hand. Here's to you. The clean crisp taste of Beechwood aged Budweiser. For all the guys who go out of their way. This whole situation is running me ragged. I found out I can't add any phones under my new phone system. 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One gone here in the eighth inning. And Pagnozzi is the batter. Pagnozzi one of the three rookies in the cardinal lineup tonight Lindemann Pagnozzi and the starting pitcher McGrane. Tomorrow night Danny Cox will try to get the Cardinals even and Bert Blylet. Will be on the mound for Minnesota. Bound away Monday is an off day series goes to St. Louis on Tuesday. And on Tuesday it will be John Tudor. Who is great at home against Les Straker that wins number three starter. I think he brought up a very interesting point yesterday when we were talking about sometimes the link. You see a base set up the middle by Pagnozzi. The length of a playoff series to get you to the World Series dictates how you set up your pitchers. And I think that's why he heard I would have liked to have Danny Cox pitch the first game. Again thinking about the fact that the twins have such a fantastic record here at the Metrodome. We talked about it 56 and 25. Another two playoff wins like to have Cox going in a situation where you start out here keep you in the ballgame. You don't have to go with a rookie like McGrane. Possibility never coming back here. He has struck out twice tonight. Oh and one. So there's Whitey leaning on the wall and probably thinking about tomorrow night. Well 10 to 1 ballgames will get you in that mood but some move. You know there are a lot of people and maybe it's just a rationalization of losing by a big score. We'll always tell you it's better to get going out than to win those heartbreakers or lose those heartbreakers 2 to 1 or 3 to 2. Press the thing about Frank Viola stats the economy the lack of walks. A lot of times the pitchers will tell you they lose their concentration when you get a big lead. That has not been the case tonight. He can roam free at first down by nine Hurbeck playing behind him. Talked about how the Cardinals won their series. What about the way the twins won their series. They beat the Tigers in five games. And you could have seen by Levin or perhaps Viola in game six or seven. If it had gone that far we would have messed up their rotation. Lombardo Z and Gagney have a little communication problem but still Lambeau comes up with a catch. And there are two down. Even at home it's so loud here they didn't hear each other. It's hard for us to really know whether you can hear each other talking and you know they're trying to communicate. Tom Kelly talked about the fact that as you see Lombardo Z make the catch and Gagney trip. He said you can't even turn to somebody sometimes in the dugout and talk to him and hear him. No wonder he's so quiet. There's nothing to do with his personality. Coleman is one of the more amazing things I thought in watching the twins celebration the other day. When they win a pennant, Kelly sat in the dugout and he let the players have their moment on the field. 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Now, Greg Dagny is the only one in the lineup that has not had a base hit tonight. Greg, 0 for 5, but that's a happy 0 for 5 if there's such a thing as a happy 0 for 5. He flubs up 10 to 1. You'll take an 0 for any time. Guy Eddie hits a fly ball that's down on center field. McGee having trouble and drops the ball, but he can still get a force and does. Smith is on the bag. Puckett had to wait. And so McGee will not get what would have been an error. Instead, it's your basic 8-6 force out. Third time tonight that an outfielder has lost the ball. Two by the Cardinals and one by the Twins. Kirby Puckett lost the ball earlier. As a matter of fact, that led to the only Cardinal run back in the second inning. Don Baylor. Want to know the count. You know, when you think about it, I guess the players are right that come in here and the Twins having such a superior home record, and all of the players talk about the white ceiling. 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And Ozzie Smith to lead things off. Looks like how they have Gene Larkin at first and possibly in right field, Mark Davison. Tom Kelly can give some other players some experience. There's Larkin, the Columbia University graduate. They beat Yale today. Yeah. And Keith Atherton is the new pitcher. Columbia beat Yale today. No, I was saying, did they beat Yale? They had lost 35 in a row. And they were playing Yale today. We saw a Bartlett Giamatti and Gene Larkin went to Columbia. Well, we'll get on a cranked stand now to answer that question. The numbers of Keith Atherton. Last year, 10 saves. This year, only two. But again, as almost all the twins on this line have done over the course of the season, they play a role. Right there, Gene Larkin. Atherton came in, set up Jeffrey. The reasons he had such a successful year. Smith flies to Gladden, Larkin at first, and Mark Davison is the new right fielder. He's a defensive specialist. Tommy Herr with one out of the bases empty. Herr is 0 for 3. Well, we understand one that came 27 to 13. So it's up to Larkin to uphold the colors. Good old CU. 36 in a row. And they had broken the Northwestern University losing streak of 34 collegiate games in a row. They did that last year. Herr flying to Gladden and left in the second out. And it'll be Lindeman. Congratulations to John's brother. A message to his brother. Married earlier today. Oh, that's wonderful. There's a mutual message. John's saying congratulations, Frank. Larkin has no room. Meanwhile, Whitey Herzog, the last time he appeared in a World Series, he lost 11 to nothing in game seven. Poor Whitey is now down a composite 21 to 1 in his last two World Series games. Guy Eddie will end it on a nice play. The twins win game one of the 87 World Series. We're ready for a five speed and more standard horsepower than Ford Ranger. We've got your truck Chevy S-10, more power to make your heart beat. 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Let me turn now to Tim McCarver and ask you to assess what you thought of last night's outcome. And what's going to happen for the rest of the series. Well, I think that the imbalance in the pitching pairings have been very interesting in the first three ball games. The second one of course tonight. Last night you had a chance to see Frank Viola, the ace of the Minnesota staff defeat Joe McGrain, the rookie with the Cardinals. And then on Tuesday night the ace of the Cardinals staff, John Tudor, will be going against Les Stryker who's also a rookie. Tonight is really the best of the pitching pairings. Danny Cox for the Cardinals and Bert Blylevin for the Minnesota Twins. As far as Bert Blylevin giving up home runs in the last two years, I think you can discount that. He's given up 96 home runs but the Cardinals aren't a home run hitting ball club. Especially with Jack Clark out of there. The Cardinals hit only 94 this year. Jack Clark with 35. However, the Cardinals led the major leagues in stolen bases with 245. And that in itself I think is the thing that Bert Blylevin has got to be concerned with tonight. Well, it's interesting Tim, coming in and I'm going to turn now to Jim Palmer. A lot of people felt that this could be billed as power against speed. Minnesota's power against St. Louis' speed. Do you agree? Well, I agree in a way, but the only way I agree is if they get good pitching. Because you saw last night in a 10 to 1 game, it doesn't matter about your offensive speed. You don't get to use it. So really what has to happen, Danny Cox has to pitch well for them to be able to run the bases. Another situation is when you talk about Danny Cox versus Bert Blylevin, we saw a similar matchup about 10 days ago. When Jack Morris, the ace of the Detroit staff, came in here and pitched against Blylevin. He had won eight in a row and he got beat by Blylevin. Is this a big game? I think it is. And the reason I say that is not because teams cannot come back and win from a two to nothing deficit. Nine out of the last 15 teams have done that. But just suppose the Cardinals lose tonight. They go to St. Louis, even if they win three in a row, they have to come back here and play a team with the best home record in baseball. It's going to be tough. And that's the one thing Whitey Herzog would obviously like to avoid as he seeks a series split. And we get set for game two of the 1987 World Series. I never knew you could look so good. You're the prettiest house in the neighborhood. I've got to say and say yes, you're a dream come true. Armstrong made you so nice to come home to. Armstrong floors, ceilings, carpets, furniture and decorating ideas give you a beautiful new look to come home to. Armstrong makes your home so nice to come home to. Listen to the heartbeat of America. Listen to the heartbeat of America. Listen to the heartbeat of America. 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He can't bat right-handed or play third, Kerry Pendleton. Hurd forward, batting seventh and right. The super-sub, Jose Okendo, batting eighth. And the catcher, Tony Pena, drops down into the ninth spot. And the Homer Hankies are out in force for the Minnesota Twins who have taken the field. And Minnesota looks this way defensively. The outfield is the same. Dan Gladden, Kirby Puckett, and Tom Brunanski. The infield is the same. Gary Gaietti at third, Greg Gackney at short. Steve Lombardozzi at second, and Ken Hurd back at first. Tim Launder does the catching. And Bert Lyle of it, who was with the Twins back in 1970, and pitched in postseason play against Baltimore, is on the mound. This is part of our World Series coverage, an inside-pitch feature. Paul Molitor of the Brewers assesses Bert Lyle of it. What makes Bert so difficult to face is that he never really develops a pattern against any certain hitter. He can throw his fastball or curveball anytime during the count. Now, he likes to keep the right-handed hitter honest by throwing that fastball in, which makes his curveball even more effective. Now, to approach a guy like Bert, you basically have to concede one of the two pitches early in the count. Once or two strikes, of course, you have to just protect the play. So Bert Lyle of it is on the mound tonight for the Twins, who figure to stay in a three-man rotation unless they have a 3-0 lead in St. Louis. And then we might see Joe Nicro. Lee Weier calls the balls and strikes tonight of the National League. Greg Koska first, John McCurry at second. Ken Kaiser at third. Tated down the line and left in Dave Phillips down the line in right. And just moments ago, Lee Weier doing a little bit of housekeeping. Well, I talked to Lee before the game, and I've always, and I know, Timmy, that you've referred to, we say the pitcher is on the black, and a lot of times you don't see the black around the edge of the plate. Lee Weier said, I'm the type of umpire. I don't give you the high and the low strike. But what I do do, if you can pitch away or inside and the catcher moves either in or out, I'll give you the corner. So there is a black edge around the plate, not only literally, but figuratively. Well, technically the black edge around the plate is not a strike because it's not part of the play. But I understand why Lee gave himself every opportunity to make the plate as visible. You almost bring that plate up when you do that, kind of skewer out that little edge right around the black part of the plate. And Bert Blylevin ready to work now on Vince Coleman, game two underway with a strike. Vince Coleman, a switch hitter and more proficient from the left side, and that was figure with his speed. He's closer to first base. He had 300 left handed, 268 the other way, another strike. And this crowd is picking up right where they left off last night. Blylevin, the great curveball, 15 wins on the year, 11 losses. URA right around 4, 4.01. Timmy talked about the home runs, 46, 34 solos. And down he goes on three. So a most auspicious beginning for Bert Blylevin at the age of 36. And here he was in 1970 when the twins won the West. And there he was in 1979 when he was a pirate and pitched to get Baltimore in the World Series. And here he is live working on Ozzie Smith with one out of the bases empty. What a no on Smith, another switch hitter. Now Ozzie hit 303 this year and as a left handed batter, he hit 335. So a big, big difference. He hit 249 right handed. And he whacks that one into center field for a base hit. So Smith, who drew a blank last night as the Cardinals were limited to just five hits, is at first base. And Ozzie can run and Tommy Herr is the batter. Ozzie taking it right back through the originator. That's the best way to hit the outside pitch. If you try to pull that ball, you hit it to the second baseman. And if I'm in the Cardinals shoes right now, I'd take off immediately. They were stymied last night in their running game. It's really the first opportunity they've had to show that great speed of theirs. And I think you can expect them to run in the first or second pitch. A point that you were going to allude to, 39 steal attempts against by Levin. They were successful 32 times. High leg kick, Lauder doesn't throw well. He bluffs going, it's a strike. Smith, this season, stole 43. That was second on the club to Coleman's 109. Lauder threw out only 19 of 84, make that 16 of 84, a 19 percent ratio. They have all the elements for the Cardinals to be able to run. A catcher with a 19 percent throwing ratio and a pitcher with a high leg kick. Oh, and what a gap, one out, Smith at first, first inning of game two. One and one, Herr, another switch hitter. The Cardinals have six in the lineup tonight. Tommy, unlike Ozzie Smith, a far better right-handed batter this year. Herr this way hit only 242, turned him around 297. The Cardinals basically, Coleman and Smith better left-handed batters. Herr and Pendleton better from the right side. And McGee and Okendo just about even. Lyle Levin, born in Zeist, Holland, and tonight you've got Lyle Levin born in Holland and Danny Cox born in England. Now back in the count, one ball and two strikes. Tim, it'll be interesting to see. When I used to pitch, you had a fast runner on first, fastball, curveball, through many more fastballs because it takes less time to get to home plate. You give your catcher a better chance to do it. It'll be interesting to see whether Lyle Levin, who has the best curveball in the American League, will go with his breaking ball. Well, you can't let the speed of the runner on first dictate what you're going to throw to the hitter. The guy, actually the guy's going to hurt you, the guy with the stick in his hand. Not that you can't throw the fastball, but you can't get locked into throwing. Ozzie Goh has got a great jump, and Herr hits a grounder to short. Only one play for Jackney, and Smith pulls in at second. And Ozzie would have had that one stolen by plenty. Had Smith not been running, it probably would have been a double play. Lyle Levin threw 32 double play balls this year. So at least Tommy Hurd did something with the out. Gene mock expression, that if you can move base runners along and make productive outs, you can score a lot of runs that way. And I agree. Dan Greesen was sitting at home in April and May, out of a job. And here he is in the World Series, takes outside. Danny is familiar, if you follow baseball, many years with the Cincinnati Reds, and then subsequent to that Montreal, San Francisco, and Houston. He was with the Astros in the spring, didn't make the club, went home to Cincinnati. Phone rang, and the Cardinals offered him a contract at Louisville. So he spent most of the year in the minors, and then St. Louis looking to hit the postseason play, called him up before the September 1st cutoff date, and it turned out to be a pretty good move in light of the Jack Clark injury subsequent to that. That man came up with the foul. Danny, the first designated hitter used in the National League. He was used back in 1976 in the Cincinnati Reds of the Big Red Machine era. Played the New York Yankees, as you had a look at Whitey Herzog. One and two to count. And Blythevin bluffing back for second. Ozzie at second base. Two down in the first inning with no score. Last night the Cardinals drew first blood. They scored a run in the second, and that was that. The Twins got seven in the fourth, and rocked 10-1. And Creason goes down on strike. So after a half, it's the Cardinals nothing, and the Twins coming up. I'll get it, Alex. Mel's Market, here's your order. What order? Side of beef. I didn't order side of beef. Here's your delivery, sir. 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Then hitting seventh is Tom Brunanski, who drops down in the order. Steve Lombardozzi, who homered last night, bats eighth. And the catcher is Tim Lauder. And they will be facing Danny Cox of the St. Louis Cardinals. And as part of our inside pitch feature, Tony Guetta of the San Diego Padres assesses Danny Cox. When you look at Danny Cox's motion, you'd think every pitch is going to be a fastball. But in reality, he throws three different pitches, the fastball, the breaking ball, and the change-up. And I think the contact hitter has a better chance of putting the ball in play against him, because he can wait just a little bit longer. Whereas the guy who's looking to try to drive the ball out of the ballpark, he's going to be fooled more times than not, because like I said, every pitch looks like a fastball. Defensively behind him, Coleman McGee in fourth tonight in right. Okendo moves from right to third. Ozzie at short, Her at second, and Griesen playing first. Can you catch him? And a big money pitcher, and he has proved it. And did he ever prove it last Wednesday, Danny Cox to face Dan Gladden? Well, a second complete game of the playoffs, six-nothing ball game against the Giants. He had thrown three home runs in the fourth game. Mostly all three on sliders came back and just pitched very well. Not overpowering, I mean, he throws hard, but it's the type of guy back early in the year, April 29th, first Cardinal pitcher ever to not walk somebody and also strikeouts. Gladden lines to her. Gladden, of course, has seen Cox before. Dan coming over from the Giants. Good contact, but simply an out. One pitch and one gone, and Greg Gagne is the batter. Gagne didn't join the parade last night. The Twins had 11 hits, but Gagne was 0 for 5. One out and the bases empty with no score. One and 0. How about Tony Gwinn's remarks were very interesting about Cox in saying that every pitch looks like a fastball, pitching an interesting business. One of the few businesses that, when you're deceptive, it's called for. Most businesses, you can't be deceptive. It'd be illegal. In the air to right field, Kurt Ford looks up into the ceiling and has no problem. Two down. And again, the Metrodome. And it's much discussed during the regular year. Fans will follow this sport and know all about it, but we bring it up more often than a regular fan would like to hear because there are so many people who only watch the World Series or postseason play, and it's an obvious detriment to the visiting team. They all say three or four days to get used to it, and by that time you're gone. Unless you're playing in a World Series or a playoff. Kirby Puckett hits it over the mound, and here goes Ozzie to the right side and makes it look easy. And a very easy inning for Danny Cox. He sets the climbs down one, two, three. No score after one. I'm not going to take the blame for this. I've been a switchboard operator for 14 years, thank you very much. 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If you're in Los Angeles and you're looking for a laugh, you don't have to go too far. Just head down Melrose to the Improvisation, and you'll get an evening of hoots and howls in a place where a lot of today's top comedians got their start. But if you go, bring your sense of humor and your Visa card, because at the Improv, they don't take anything seriously. And they don't take American Express. Visa. It's everywhere you want to be. It's anticipation that makes tough plays look easy. And Ozzie Smith, as much as his athletic ability, has remarkable anticipation. I mean, he fielded that ball five feet on the opposite side of second base, on the second base side of second base. And he was playing a straightaway shortstop for Puckett. Probably a play he's made over a hundred times in his career. Then you just begin to take him more and more for granted. No score. Second inning and Willie McGee looks at a strike. McGee had two of the Cardinals' five hits last night. Two singles. One and one. McGee could be a real key for the Cardinals, especially in the absence of Jack Clark. Willie drove in 105 runs during the regular season. Terry Pendleton, that's behind him tonight. Terry will be limited, of course, to left-handed hitting only. Two and one. By 11, 14 pitchers facing four men in the first. And Danny Cox set down the side with only one extra pitch. He hits it sharply down a second. That's very normal when you talk about a strikeout pitcher versus a ground ball pitcher. The strikeout pitcher, like Lyle Evan, and we're talking a guy with almost 4,000 innings, struck out over 3,000 batters during his career. And Danny Cox, the guy, as we said earlier in the year, pitched the game with no walks or no strikeouts, but a complete game. Terry Pendleton now, Pendleton injured his ankle in San Francisco in a workout prior to game three of the National League Championship Series. But he was able to return in game four. Danny pulled a rib muscle, or muscles, running between first and third in game seven against the Giants. So what he can do is bat left-handed. He can't bat right-handed, and he can't throw, so he can't play third. One and all. And thus, in a way, Herzog gets a break this year. This is the second year in which the designated hitter has been used on an alternating basis. Were this a few years back in this world series, in an odd number of years, the pitcher would have hit in all the games, but they changed it in 86. Ripped foul. Good one. Al Newman. That woke everybody up down there. Pendleton told me before the ballgame that he can run once he gets underway. It's very difficult, however, his first two or three steps out of the box. Three and one on Jerry. Biggest hit of the year for the Cardinals, says Whitey Herzog. The two-run homer off Roger McDowell, September 11th. That tied a ballgame in the ninth inning with two out of Chase Stadium. The Cardinals went on to win that game, and they beat Dwight Good in the next day to run the lead to three and a half games. The Mets and the Montreal Expos could never catch up. Lee Tunnel looking on from the bullpen. He was activated for the World Series inactive during the LCS. Hit down the line and curling foul. Funny that the Cardinals can look back to that Pendleton home run as their key to holding on and holding off the match. And yet when you ask the twins what's the key play or key point in the season, you're going to get 24 different answers. Three, two, pitch is fouled away. Bob Euker, a member of the 1964 World Champion Cardinals. Along with Tim McCarver. Yep. You know, it's funny, I didn't realize it until recently. Euker was Roger Craig's roommate that year. That's right. Giants manager. Grounded a short. Gackney stays with it. Off the run. Two away. Well, three and two. You don't want to walk them. So you throw a strike. You challenge him. He hits it on the nose. But right at Greg Gagney. Timmy talked about his strong throwing arm last night. Right on the money. So Pendleton is at number two. Kurt Ford, one of those who seemingly comes out of that Cardinal mold. Takes a strike. The fleet. Quick. Line drive type hitters. The only difference with Ford is he's not a switch hitter. He's a pure left handed batter. One and one. Good speed. Good outfielder. Broke his hand in June. Played all the way to August and they took some more X-rays and saw that it was broken. Went on the DL then. One and two. We mentioned last night. The Cardinals, if they had a merry-go-round in one spot, it was right field. They used 10 different starting right fielders. And as you look at Whitey Herzog and Jack Clark. Whitey has also had Todd Worrell and Ricky Horton playing out there on occasion. And Jack Clark an X right fielder. Right. Check his swing. Bert Lylevin. His rookie year 1970. He's been with the Twins and he went to Texas. To the Pirates. To Cleveland. And back here two years ago. Loop to left field and that will fall in for a base hit. So Ford picks up the Cardinals second hit. Bert is on with two down. And it will bring up Jose O'Kendall. Good pitch, bad result. You can see the one-handed swing and he takes the hand that he broke off the bat. That results in a looper. But it was fortunate it dropped in in left field. You can really see there on the swing. You rarely see a hitter release the bottom hand. If he's going to release the hand, it's usually the top hand. But because Curt Ford broke his right hand. He released. That was really a strange looking swing. Good result. Strange swing. O'Kendall takes outside. Ford at first 11 steals but he was also caught eight times. Nick Laver the third base coach. Looking down at O'Kendall. So Ford is at first with two down. The graphic saying O'Kendall started at seven different positions. He also pitched. The only position he did not play this year was catcher. And he did that in Little League. Runner goes and it's fouled away. One and one. Ford had a good jump then but because O'Kendall was hitting left handed. He really couldn't see what kind of jump he had. With a count one and oh and a right-handed hitter. You can see the runner and kind of cage. And guess what kind of jump he had. He was four steps gone before Burt came down with his left foot. But because O'Kendall was hitting left handed. He couldn't see Ford get the good jump. Ford stays in the pitch. Missing high ball two. Good one. Kind of reminds you of a guy who had his number retired in this ballpark earlier this year. O'Kendall hitting like number 29. Like Rod Carew. There it is. He had a day for him here this summer. Over 3,000 hits. Eight batting championship. Again that's an indecisive swing. And it tells you something about the liveness of why Levin's fastball. Well he watched the Carew batting video before his home run in game seven. 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So Whitey had his say with Lee Weier. He just wants the uphires to make sure they're watching closely. Blylevin did not commit a balk all season long strike. One and one. Much more liberal in the American League than in the national leagues. They will let you get away with it. But now that he's brought up to the attention of Lee Weier. Who knows what's going to happen. Broken bat with a grounder to third. And it's Okendo. Patrician for the out. And Andy Cox has begun by setting down the first four twins. One away here in the second inning. And Gary Gaietti is the batter. Gaietti last night. Two for five with both hits coming in the fourth inning. Danny Cox born in England but he grew up in Georgia. Drafted by the Cardinals in 81. Immediately big league debut in 1983. Strike on one account. Matter of fact last fall Danny as you see Randy Bush on deck. Danny Cox went back to Northampton England and visited his birthplace. To deep left field and Gaietti has hit it out. On that note Gary Gaietti just visits a place that he's lived 33 times this year. Take that 34 third postseason home run. A high slider from Danny Cox. And Randy Bush takes a strike. Two in the playoff. In his first two at bats and now one here after 31 in the regular season. What makes him such a great home run hitter. In the playoffs he took a fastball away and drilled over the right center field fence. Then he drilled Alexander threw him a breaking ball. Did the same thing over the right center field fence. Hanging slider. Jumps all over it. Pulls it. Another home run. So one nothing Minnesota. One out bases empty in the second inning. And Randy Bush takes a strike. And down he goes. So Danny Cox picks up his first strike out. Two down here in the second inning. And Tom Brunaski is the batter. Danny Cox showed me a lot there. He threw him a backdoor slider. The same pitch that Gaietti hit for the home run. If you go back to the game for the playoffs. Robbie Thompson, Bob Renley and Jeff Leonard all hit home runs on that slider. So it's gotten him in trouble in postseason play. Brunaski one for three last night. Tom originally with the Angels. Takes a strike and the count one and one. Brunaski came over here in 1982 and he and Gaietti and Herbeck and Huckett. Have pretty much grown up together with the Minnesota Twins and formed the Nucleus. One and two. That was a good shot. It's easy to tell a slider from a curveball. Bert Blyleven's curveball for instance goes down. Danny Cox's slider goes parallel to the ground. So without having been told at home you can really figure out what the pitches are. Another slider. And another strike out. So he gets Bush and Brunaski on strikes. But Gaietti hits the home run to give Minnesota the lead. One nothing twins after two back after this word from your local station. Monday. Trust me on this. When the future looks dim. Sure have a lot of faith in this guy. It's time for MacGyver to step in. 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He'll experiment with contact lenses there. But they didn't want him to get adjusted or have to get adjusted to contacts during the regular year. So he goes with the specs. And he had a good LCS. Peña, Coleman and Smith, one nothing twins in the third. One and two on your prototypical Peña swing. We saw it last night and I don't think it's going to change. The only thing that might change it is what a great shot from home plate is the curveball from Blylevin. What Paul Molitor said is you see him just missed the high fastball. Again, that's a tough pitch to hit. It's just high enough where you see it, but it's tough to get on top of it. Remember, Paul Molitor talked about the fact that he'll throw any pitch at any time. Let's look if he throws him a curveball. And he did. Throw it just west of Edina. That's the big difference between Blylevin now and the 1970 version when he came up as a teenager in one over ten games. He drops down on the curveball sometimes, so it makes it even more deceptive. Can't tell from this angle, but you can tell by the swing. Goes down on his, what is it, right hand to keep his balance way out in front. Four strikeouts now for Blylevin. And Vince Coleman is the banner. Coleman went down on three pitchers in the first. Vince now 0-4-5 in the World Series. And very late there, 0-1-1. It's almost like the scouting report on Blylevin. He has a great curveball. You better look for it. And it looks like Coleman is really sitting on the curveball and he hasn't thrown him one yet. Grounded down to Lombardozzi. And he gets him. There are two down. Jim, I really think you may have hit upon something because there is no way that Vince Coleman hits that pitch if he's not looking for it. He took three pitches his first time up. He's late on the first fastball. Now look where this curveball is. That's the type of curveball we were talking about, that real downer from Blylevin in contrast to the slider by Danny Cox. Smith now hits a grounder to short. And Gagne throws him out. Fast, easy 1-2-3 inning for Blylevin. Twins won, Cardinals nothing. There's a tendency in business to focus on the big picture. But at Cigna, we realize the big picture is actually made up of millions of smaller pictures. Which is why our companies provide an array of insurance, health care, employee benefits and financial services to millions of individuals and thousands of businesses. One person at a time. Cigna, personalized service to business around the world. If you think I look good in this Van Heusen, you should see Jeffrey. After all, it's his shirt. Van Heusen, for a man to wear and a woman to borrow. There's only one camera system you can buy that lets you hold the picture in your hand while you still hold the feeling in your heart. The Polaroid Spectra System. Well, Bob, here it is. 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Steve Lombardozzi with two hits last night, including a home run that made the score 9-1 in the fifth inning. In the air, the center field. Now, McGee had trouble last night, and he staggers a bit here, but keeps his eye on it to make the catch. There will be nothing routine to the outfield. No, and I talked to Willie, as you said, had trouble on a couple of balls last night. He said, what happens is the ball goes up, you don't see it, you've got to pick it up. Right there, you can see that little move. He has seen the ball. Usually you see the ball off the bat. Not here at the Metrodome unless you're used to it. And that's what makes it so difficult playing here. The batter is Londer. By the way, last night we speculated that Puckett may have had trouble because of the white handkerchiefs and picking up the fly ball in the center field that he got a late start on. He said he really thought that the ball was going to go a lot further than it did. And that's the reason he got the late start. Londer swinging at a fastball on the count of one and one. Well, they used to call those the cheap seats, but not anymore the way the ticket structure is at the World Series. Two and one to count. Londer, a 191 hitter during the regular season, but with real good power fouling it away. You make a mistake, you'll take it into the seats. Meanwhile, earlier today, Rick Stelmazic, the twins' coach with our camera out in center field to give you an idea of how you can lose it in the roof. Slow motion. This will give you a pretty good idea. There it is, that little speck. So you're right in the middle of the action. Chopper foul. That, of course, during the daylight hours. And they'll tell you it's easier to see them. You can imagine what happens when it gets dark out and they turn the lights on. The Metro don't want to afford dome parks now in the major leagues. Seattle, Houston, Montreal, and here. And Londer has gone on strikes. Strikeout number three for Danny Cox. So Cox has gone through the order once. He's retired eighth. And then Guyetti hit the home run. And usually you see Cox changing up more than he's doing now. That was a good slider to Loutner. And for the most part, he's sticking with the fastball in the right-handers and sliders away. That's been his repertoire up to this time. The mistake, of course, was the Gary Guyetti home run. Everybody thinks that any time a guy hits a home run, it's a mistake. That's not necessarily so, but it was true about Guyetti's home run. Dan Gladden looks at a strike in the count of zone one. Well, a slider's a great pitch because the whole intent is that it's supposed to look like a fastball. The hitter reacts to it, and then it just takes that little darting movement that you talked about. That's what the good one does. The hanging one has a very loose spin. The hitter identifies it early. They generate a lot of bat speed. The ball doesn't break, and you get the result that Gary Guyetti got. Two out, bases empty. Gladden fouling it away. Gladden coming over. So much made, of course, of the acquisition of Jeff Reardon. They picked up Al Newman, who did a nice job at short and second in the utility role. Then Gladden, the other acquisition by Andy McPhail. It was a case of Gladden just becoming expendable with the Giants who had too many good outfielders. And wearing that is welcome as well. Bowing it off his foot. He had a sensational rookie year with San Francisco back in 84. Came up and hit.351. He came back to real life and eventually over here. Well, I asked him about that, and he said, as you see him, very painful. Looked like right off the left heel or instep. Those always hurt and are rarely serious. You go down and tell him that. But anyway, going back to Dan Gladden, I asked him about the.351 batting average, and he said, I did not adjust. The pitchers adjusted. I didn't adjust with him. Let's take another look. A lot of force that a hitter uses slamming the ball down on the ankles and the shins. He'll have a lump there tomorrow, but that's not serious. Our favorite medicinal product, the ethyl chloride. That makes it hurt worse. That don't hurt no more stuff. You forget the pain that you have because the pain's worse when the ethyl chloride's applied. Gladden testing his mobility and with a slight lip makes his way back up to the plate where the count is one ball and two strikes. Two out bases empty, one nothing Minnesota. In the air to right center field, Ford calls for it and makes the play. Twins gone in order. We'll go to the fourth, one to nothing twins. There's an advanced new shape in heavy haulers. The smooth rounded shape of aerodynamics to cheat the wind and put more power to work. You see it in big rigs and right out front in the advanced new full size Chevy with standard Vortec V6. Enough standard power to tow over 58 tons of these big rigs and this Ford. 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The Cardinals, of course, have been in St. Louis since day one. Two in one account. Dan Gladden, grand slam last night and 0 for 2 tonight. And he limped back to his spot in left field. Still feeling the effects of the foul ball. Hits sharply. Herbeck stays with it. Ken Herbeck. Good feeling, first baseman. Well, you see it every Monday night when you do football, big guys with great agility. Soft hands we talked about last night, gets right in front of the ball. Over 250 pounds yet, you'd never know it until he hits a baseball. He says he is currently at 246. Griesen takes a strike. Herbeck said he lost some weight this spring. He said, I didn't want to look like a pig on my baseball card. He said he was real disappointed because he's going to have to miss the first opening of the bowling league. Another type of guy until he puts a bat in his hand. 34 home runs this year. Meanwhile Griesen, his opposite number, the Cardinal first baseman. Hitting here with one out of the bases at the end of the count, one ball and one strike. Danny struck out in the first. A little change, just hit down to Herbeck. And again, three on assistant. Two gone. Meanwhile, Flylevin getting everybody to hit the ball on the ground. The only cards who have not hit it on the ground were Ozzie Smith with a line single in the first. And then Kirk Ward had that little looping opposite field single in the second inning. Well, that solves the problem of having your outfielders having to find the ball in the dome. And it's something you touched on. He had 32 double plays this year. A lot of baserunners over 100 walks with 101 and about 250 some hits. A lot of double plays, but the way to do it, of course, is to throw the grounder. It's tough to get underneath a good curve ball. Especially when your first move is up. You kind of raise on your toes. Oh, and to the count. Take a look at that last four years. 19 over. It seems he's been with well under. 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Dan Gladden, on the other hand, did not anticipate that foul ball off his left shin last game. He appears to be all right. He'll have a lump, as we said. It does not appear to be serious. And he'll have an off day tomorrow. Gagney, the batter, takes a strike. The series will resume Tuesday night at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Tuesday night, 8 Eastern, game four, Wednesday at 8 Eastern. Gagney, Puckett, and Herbeck facing Cox in the fourth. And he backs him off, one and one. We talked a little bit about the matchup tonight. And when I look at pitching against the Minnesota Twins, I look at the two guys that pitched the best for the Tigers at the playoff, and that was Dan Petrie. He is a great slider, as we see the attempted bunt. He will be out if he's out of the batter's box. No, foul ball. Lee Weier right there. And then the second pitcher I looked at was effective for Detroit, was Eric King. He had to take another look at the bump. Ruling being if he's out of the box, he is out. Lee Weier doesn't think so, so he'll swing again. But going back to that, Cox has the talents of both King and Petrie. He's got the slider of Petrie and the fastball of King. Half swing protecting the plate, still wanted to. So it's a very good matchup. And conversely, if you're in a scout and you're looking at the Cardinals, you'd say they're a better fastball hitting team. And Berkley 11, five strikeouts, has a great curveball. One ball, two strikes. Gagney leading off in the bottom of the fourth inning. Off the fist on one hop to Grecian, and he'll do it himself one away. So they take care of Gagney working him inside. And it will bring up Herbie Puckett. Dave Alworth with Major League Baseball and the booth right next to us. Dave with the commissioner's office censoring our every word. Herbie Puckett throws one to the gap in right center for a base hit. Ford cuts it off and holds him to a single. Last night he was on an 0 for 4. Got to hit the fifth time up. Hit the ball to right field. He does it again. This is how you hit 332. Haven't seen the home run power. It's a little like Sadaharo lifting that left leg and then it drives it to right field. The key to him is waiting. And when he waits, hits the fastball the other way and pulls the breaking ball. Herbeck now takes a strike and the count is on one. Rick Reddick, third base coach, going through the signs with Puckett at first base. And Herbeck at the plate with a count of one. Puckett 12 steals and quats seven times during the regular season. Puckett, the only other twin to reach beside Guy Eddie with the home run in the second inning. That's the difference in the game. We talked last night about Herbeck's power, 34 home runs, 28 against right handed pitchers. With the same fastball, usually the fastball you use to sink the ball. Runs away from left handed hitters, runs in on right handed hitters. Two prominent ways of throwing a fastball is with the seams or the four seamer, which is across the seams. Rees in, has it go over his head foul, and it's still all in two. And so Puckett back to first with one out in the bottom of the fourth inning. Herbeck trying to utilize that hole, of course, with a count oh and two. You're only a defensive hitter and you don't have the opportunity to look for a pitch and get it. When you're ahead in the count, you can do that. And try to pepper that hole on the right side with her cheating a second base. And Rees in holding Puckett close. Big hole on the right side. Maximoff, Pena bluffs a throw on the count one and two. A lot of folks will say that Puckett does not have to run because the hole is open over there. And with no outs or one out, that's important because you can move the runner to third base and then score him with a sacrifice flyer and then field out. With two outs, it's not the case. He goes the other way and hits his foul and back out of play. With two outs, you're more apt to run if you're the runner at first base and forget about the hole. Because technically, if you're leaving the hole open, all you're going to do is end up at third base anyway. And there's still going to be two outs. And in effect, you're leaving it up to the next guy. So the outs have a lot to do with whether you run or not if a left-handed poor hitter is up there. Bobby Valentine, the Ranger manager, feels that Tom Kelly loves to run after a foul ball is what he has detected. So let's see if Puckett goes. Not here, and it's inside. Why would that necessarily be the case? It's an interesting thing. I believe it was in the New York Times the other day. They asked Valentine about some of the tendencies in regard to Kelly and the Minnesota Twins. And he felt that after a foul ball, Kelly was more apt to put a play on. For what it's worth. Hit to right field and in front of Ford for a base hit. Puckett will stop at second. So two on with one out, and Guyetti is the back. Here it was earlier, the difference in the game right now. High slider to Guyetti before, and Gary in a position now to do yet some more damage. Debbie Guyetti. Gary's wife. Settling back to watch her man come up here with two on and one out in the fourth inning. Guyetti leading both leagues in double plays, and interestingly, the National League leader, if you can believe it, was Willie McGee. In grounding in a double play. 24. Twins hopeful of another lucky fourth. It was seven in the fourth last night. In the window. To advance the runners and take the twins out of a double play. We mentioned last night that when Tony Pena moves with his glove, he really left the trap door open. And it looks like why he's going to walk Guyetti a very unusual move with a left handed hitter coming up, but he's behind on the count here three at all, which may figure into the thinking. But then he said, no, I think he changed his mind. He was pushing, I believe, the infield back and that is where they are playing right now with runners in second and third, but the count is three. It could be a 3 0 swing. Guyetti at first. You see that graphic we said last night, the league average is 50 percent. Randy Bush look for a pitch up in the strike zone, try to hit a fly ball and drive it. They may not have double play speed, however, it first. And obviously the same thing applies to Danny Cox, a change up and a beauty. The first one of the night. Yeah. Bases loaded. You go with your bitch. You haven't thrown all night. Amazing, but effective. He's in a couple of very proficient spots against San Francisco the other night. And now the right field camera came back with the same pitch. Another change up up in the strike zone. Bush wax it into the corner. You see in the zone gets a little bit more leverage on it. We saw him reach for the one down and away. Danny Cox had Randy Bush in the hole, but now he's standing in second base. I talked to Mike Rourke, a pitching coach at St. Louis, and he said, everybody says as a pitcher, you have to make perfect pitches. He said, you don't. He said in four or five or six instances in a ballgame, you have to make the right pitch. Danny Cox wasn't able to do it though. Well, your definition of pitching, Jim, staying ahead and then expanding the strike zone. Danny Cox got ahead, but he didn't expand the strike zone. Well, actually an intentional walk to delay because of the debris while they cleared it from the field. Because of his injury for the World Series, they activated tunnel. All you're really trying to do to simplify is because the hitter is in a defensive position, you're trying to get him to swing at a bad ball. And a lot of hitters do. Most strikeouts with swinging strikeouts or most swinging strikeouts are at bad balls anyway. You don't see too many big league hitters swing through pitches right down the heart of the plate. Maybe on the corner, OK, but most swinging strikeout on bad ball. Cox now faced again with a bases loaded situation and Lombard goes in the batter. Two runs over the inning, still only one out. Danny a third, Bush a second, and Brunanski a first. Herzog and pitching coach Mike Ward. Good pitch, one and one. Well, that's his double play pitch, the slider down in the strike zone. Jimmy said earlier, you think it's a fastball, you want the hitter to try to really go after, reach for, hit a ground ball. But Lombard goes in after two hits last night, single and a home run, must be seeing the ball pretty well. Half swing, fly ball, tagging is Gaietti. Coleman makes the catch and he holds and the throw is cut off by Okendo. Lombardozi with a medium fly ball and not deep enough to score Gaietti, two down. A great 2-1 pitch out, we talked about that slider, he came right back with it. Lombardozi reaching for it. Interesting, one of the most difficult things, we take a look at the swing. Slider, you can see the one-handed swing. Coleman's a good left fielder only because he can get to the ball in a hurry, does not have a good arm. And get rid of the ball quickly. Yes. That's true. Lombardozi sets himself up to throw the ball quickly. He does not have a strong arm, however he did have 16 assists. But often you see outfielders with poor arms with the most assists. It's not the case, however, with Gwyn Wilson of the Phillies, who led the National against Sister 19. But 90 fan club is for Launder, whose average was 191, so they shortchanged him. And he hits it in the left field for a base hit. Then he comes in to score, here comes the throw to the plate. 18, his tag is not in time on Bush, 5-0. Another look at Coleman. Timmy said he sets up well. But this is the same aggressive baseball the twins played against the Tigers. Bush stole three bases in that series. After only stealing 10 all year, great slide enables him to get around Tony Pena. The throw is on the money. Look at the slide, back end. And Lee Weier right there at collar. Pena really can't do anything other than what he did. It was just a marvelous slide by Randy Bush. And it looks like Whitey Herzog is saying that right now. Well, seven runs in the fourth last night. And for tonight, Whitey is going to need a fifth after the fourth. That's live, reminiscent of a slide by Jim Sundberg in the World Series a couple of years ago against the Cardinals. At Kansas City. Well, you can afford to take chances. Normally, if you're behind, you may not win Bush because of the fact that Coleman gets to the ball in a hurry. But with a four-run lead, you can take chances like that. Pena blocks at no advance. Bernanke is at second base. Laudner, he has a 191 average at first. And Gladden, the ninth man to bat in the inning. Last night, the twins sent 11 men to the play in the fourth. And tonight, they hit around. That's what you said about outs. One out, you don't take a gamble. Two outs, you do, and it paid off. One and one. Those of you with the fourth inning in one's pools will be on your way to Europe next week. First class. One and one account. You talk about a team peaking at the right time. The twins, I mean, they're playing near perfect baseball. They're getting great pitching, great defense, and a lot of hitting. I mean, a lot of hitting. They've not been able to solve the grain last night or Cox tonight. But the second time, and again, we talked about how tough it is sometimes to, even with scouting reports, to know what a pitcher's going to throw. One and two, the count. And they check at first base and know, says, Pena wanted him to check. It was all Gladden could do to get away from it. Well, you saw Paul Molitor or Tony Gwinn earlier in the game saying that Cox will ride the ball in on the hitters. And he certainly does that to Gladden right here. That is a purpose pitch. The purpose to keep him away from the outside part of the plate. He's behind in the left for a base hit, cut off by Coleman Bernanke on his way home. Lee Tunnels coming in, Danny Cox going out, six to nothing Minnesota. Hello. When the catcher wiggles his fingers, he is talking to the pitcher. For example, that signal says, how about a beer after the game? That means no. This means, how about a bottle of the Bartles and James premium wine cooler? That also means no. This means, how about two bottles? That means yes. Well, we hope this helps you enjoy the series and we thank you for your support. Just scratch and match. I won. A camera. You could win one of the tens of thousands of prizes from Mr. Goodwrench. Just stop in for an oil change or just stop in. No purchase is necessary to get the game card. And while you're there, enter the Island Paradise vacation sweepstakes. You could win a trip to Hawaii, Manhattan, the Bahamas or the Virgin Islands. 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I think right now you assess what went wrong and hope you get another chance. Here's Jackney now, the 10th man to bat in the inning. Lee Cunnell started this season in the minor leagues at Louisville. He's got the Pirates for a couple of seasons. And this year with the Cardinals, Swingman made nine starts and relieved in 23 other games. A little looper down the line. That's trouble and that's a base hit, and that will score another run on a double by Jagney. Kirby Puckett, the 11th man to bat in the inning. And so in the last two nights, 22 twins have come up in the fourth. Seven-nothing Minnesota, two out, strike on one. What a twins win would mean, of course, is the Cardinals could not clinch it home. The twins would either clinch in St. Louis or the Cardinals would have to come back to a place that has become bedlam in postseason strike. Oh, and to talk last night about that great home record, 56 and 25, another three games. It looks like they're on their way to a fourth. Rick Horton in the bullpen. He was there last night as well. Roundup finishing up. Whiting. He's given up the lounge chair tonight for a more conventional seat, but he's got the same view. Latin is a third, Jagney is a second. We saw a look at Ricky Horton. The reason he's up is because Herbeck's on deck. So as a pitcher, you want to make a perfect pitch, you know, if you give up two runs. Every two-two count, the twins take their hats off. Very strange. Yes, the roof is still in place at the Metrodome. A wild scene though underneath and tomorrow night, Monday Night Football and Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf will be at Texas Stadium in Irving. The Washington Redskins against the Dallas Cowboys. And then when Dan comes back to St. Louis, his hometown on Tuesday, I'm sure Whitey will try to activate him as a D.H. Got to do something. Cardinals having enormous problem scoring runs. One last night, none tonight. They got the six in game seven, but only one in game six against the Giants. But that was enough to win the game. Pendleton fouls it away. I tell you, Dan Dierdorf's business designated hitter took on a little bit of a different tone than he did about for 14 years. Bird fly living like Viola last night now. The beneficiary of a big cushion. Fifth inning, Pendleton 0-4-1. Takes outside on the count of one ball and one strike. A lot of success, not that that's the only way Bird fly living can win, is a lot of times when they score you runs and they hit in the playoffs. Got him six in the first game, nine in the second. He was 2-0. Hit to right field toward the corner. That's a base hit. Bernanski plays it off the canvas and holds him to a single. And Pendleton, for a couple of reasons, with the strained side and the residual effect of the ankle in San Francisco and down by seven was really not thinking double to begin with. All of the first time tonight that the Cardinals have had their leadoff runner on. And they only scored one run last night. Only the double in the second inning was the only other time they've had their leadoff hitter on only the second time in two games, 14 innings. So Pendleton with a long single and Herbeck can afford to play off the bag with this big lead as four takes outside ball one. If it wasn't 7-0, you would have seen Pendleton, even with the bad ribs, most likely go to second base. Another one, part of the home field advantage, Bernanski's ability to play the right field corner so well and a strong throwing arm, as you saw. To another count now on Kirk Ward, who's single, the looping single in the second inning. A good thing about a six run inning is that you get the six runs, but a bad thing is that you have to sit on the bench a long time. Sometimes don't ever get loose again. Lyle Levin, the first pitch, smacked the right, now he's 2-0. Check out Pendleton now, the way he made the turn at first. You can see clearly that the ribs are bothering him. The addition of the seven run deficit, no way you're going to go to second base. What a great way to get tight though, huh? Why are your ball clubs scoring six runs for you? Yes and no. And he's on, on the pitch all the way to the backstop for ball four, Pendleton stopping at second base. He's going to have to carry him right back to Lauder, so the Cardinals with runners at first and second and nobody out of the fifth inning and Okendo will be the batter. Well, he really wasn't throwing that fast, but three in one count as you take another look. He's trying to throw the ball right for the middle of the plate. I got to say that his arm might be a little stiff. So Herzog, hopeful his Cardinals can muster something here and they begin with a base hit and a walk and Jose Okendo the batter. Last night we did not see them take behind 10-1, but this might be a situation where they make Lyle Levin throw some strikes. Viola, no walks last night. It's obvious the way that he was going to throw the ball over the plate. I'll tell you, that part of the game has changed, I think, for the worse. You would never know whether a team's behind more than two or three runs in the middle innings. The way the game is played nowadays because guys don't take as often, they don't take that strike anymore. It was involved two decades ago, but not so now. Okendo hits a ground ball to Lombardozi who juggles and across him a double play, he does get the out. Sharply hit, Taylor made, instead simply an out at first base as Pendleton goes to third and Ford goes to second. As you said Timmy, perfect double play right to Lombardozi, but it comes up, can't see from that angle and he gets the out at first. Didn't look, Tim, that he was anticipating the pivot. Ball comes up right there off the heel of his glove and keeps a double play in order, but keeps him from getting one too. Well that's true, but with the seven run lead, one out is very important and infielders keep reminding themselves, make sure they're sure out. But certainly that ball is a double play ball. Haney in the batter with the infield back and he hits a ground ball to third, that'll score a run. Guy Haney throws the first for the out and Ford advances to third. Gary at that point just thinking about one thing with his big lead and getting the out. Ford held up between second and third and in advance once Guy Haney made his throw across the diamond. So the Cardinals are on the board at 7-1. As a matter of fact, had Guy Haney gone to second, he could have gotten forward in a run down, Ford was hung up. But with the, as we said, the infielders, first thing that they want to do is make sure of one out. You're going to give up a run for an out with a seven run lead and that's what Gary did there. Coleman now, 0 for 6 in this series. Ford at third, 0-1. That is what one struck out by Ford away to his lead. Two out in the fifth inning. And it's grounded foul and the count is nothing and two. So often you look at the big lead and you think that it's sometimes insurmountable. But I'll tell you what, if Coleman gets a hit at 7-2 and you know he's going to steal. Yep. Did it a hundred and what? A hundred and nine times this year. So what you're talking about is a 7-2 game with a guy on second. If that guy gets a base hit, it's all of a sudden 7-3. You start looking down the right field line or left field line to see if they got somebody in the bullpen. Ford by three. Pringles get a run in the fifth after four and a half, 7-1 Minnesota. Success Stories brought to you by CityCorp. In the history of baseball, 19s had attempted to come back after losing the first two games of the World Series at home. And 19s had failed. That is until the 1985 Kansas City Royals came around. 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Off day tomorrow, game three Tuesday at Bush Stadium. And he walks her back on four pitches to start the fifth inning. And it brings up Gary Gaiety, who got the twin started tonight with a home run in the second, and he drew a walk when they sent 11 men to the plate in the fourth. Here's Burt Blylevin coming set against Kurt Ford. He's got to stop 1,001. Now it's true that he didn't stop, but almost every pitcher when they go to the stretch do that. Whitey Herzog trying to get some kind of advantage, but you rarely see an umpire call that play consistently. Whitey, who watched his team lose at 85-11 nothing in game seven, 10-1 last night, and trailing 7-1 tonight. So Tunnel can't find the plate, and Kane and Wark will go to the mound. And we can tell you that game three in St. Louis, it'll be John Tudor working for the Cardinals and Les Straker, longtime minor leaguer, who is the number three man at the Twins rotation gets the start. Fourth game on Wednesday night, and Tom Kelly has said Joe Nicrow will start at the Twins lead 3-0, otherwise he comes back with Viola. Whitey Herzog hasn't announced the starter. He probably would be inclined to be thinking about Matthews, the left-hander. He can't pitch Cox, he can't pitch Tudor. McRain was hit hard last night. Matthews might have the type of stuff that could stymie Minnesota. Well, they had a good record against lefties, 25 and 17. In fact, they were 59 and 60 against right-handed starters, even though, as you've seen tonight, they've scored a lot of runs. But Matthews saw him in the playoffs in the National League playoffs, very much like John Tudor. So he can sit there on Tuesday night, watch Tudor, who is very effective at Bush Stadium, and learn a lot. Ball three, and it's three and one on Gaiety. That's great. When Mike Moore came out there, he said, you've got to throw strikes, but the first guy you face this inning, looking at Herbeck at first, 34 home runs. This guy hit 34 last year, only 31 this year, and you already saw him go into the seats. Hit sharply, base hit. It sounds like it's stuck into Herbeck, and it wins on the move again. There's been a lot of speculation about this home advantage. A lot of people think they have the signs that there's somebody out there, and right there, he threw him a 3-1 curveball, even though it was up. It was a hanger. It was a hanger, but he hit it like he knew it was coming. Yeah, they pop hangers up, too, though. Sometimes. Sometimes. Don't rely on it, though. Randy Bush, big double in the fourth inning to drive in two. In the middle of the sixth-run rally. Oh, and one. And here it was, coming with the bases loaded after Cox had gotten ahead 0-2. 0-2 change-up. Nobody out. 2-1 for the twins. Fouled away. Twins in the American League Championship Series with great boys and playing with confidence and winning in five. You know, I think the most impressive thing they did, not only winning the first two games at home, but when they went to Detroit, the one game they lost, you'll recall they were down 5-0, went ahead 6-5, lost on a homer by Sheridan. That was a bitter, bitter loss, the type that could bury a team, but they bounced back from that loss to win the next two. And that's grounded to Tommy Herr, who goes to Ozzie for one, and that's all they get. Just the force. Her back going to third, and Bush is safe at first as Grunewski comes to the plate. Well, that could have been a double play, had the throw been on the outside part of second base, the outfield side, but the throw is toward the inside of second base, and Ozzie Smith not in a position to complete the double play. It would have been close at first base anyway, but now the twins have a chance to score another run with the runner at third and one out. Cardinal infield, double play death for Grunewski, struck out and won. Oh, it won. The other impressive thing about the way the twins went about beating the Tigers is who they beat. Doyle Alexander came in here, he had won nine in a row, and then Jack Morris, their ace, then they beat Tanana, and then the last day they got four early runs in the fifth game to knock Alexander out. He had been touched for about six weeks. Bush Bluff's throwback by Pena got him on a backhand tag by Dan Griesen. So Bush Bluff going to second had to come back, and Pena whipping it down the first, and Griesen putting the glove on it. He whipped it down the first on a very difficult pitch to throw the ball inside, and Griesen with a very quick tag, it looked like he was in there. It was a high tag, wasn't it? I don't think he gets to the back until after he tags him. You might be able to see from this angle. Again, aggressive whether you're down seven to one or whatever. Right here, he does tag him high. Yeah, he did. You're right. Didn't get his hand in there. Yep. And Grunewski takes a strike to make the count one and two. So two down now with Herbeck at third, bottom of the fifth inning, Minnesota leading seven to one. Palmer and Tim McCarver gain two of the World Series twins on top, seven to one. It'll be Ozzie Smith, Tommy Herr, and Dan Griesen in the sixth. Ozzie, one for two, takes a strike. Cardinals living a bad World Series dream. You'll recall in 85, they were leading the Kansas City Royals three games to one. Royals won at Bush in game five, won a thriller in game six with two in the ninth, and then the blowout, 11-0 on Sunday night in seventh. There's John Tudor who'll go to the mound in St. Louis on Tuesday. John started game seven in Kansas City in 1985. Little camera shy tonight. We also saw his opponent, Les Stryker, the rookie who opposed Tudor on Tuesday night. A matchup you talked about, Stryker eight and ten, Tudor ten and two. Just off the plate. Stryker charting pitches and Al Newman looking over his shoulder. Come on, man, that was a slider, not a fastball. Check, swing, no swings, says Ken Kizer. One thing about this umpire and crew that make a good offensive line, Sherry Kizer, where's Eric Gregg? Two years ago, remember the seventh game in Kansas City, Joaquin Andujar had come in in a mop-up roll, and this symbolized the Cardinal frustration that night. John and Whitey Herzog had seen it up as well. And when it was all over, it was 11 to nothing, and Saber Hagen had the shutout, and the Royals were the champions. One and 0 on Tommy Herr. And guys, as we said that night in doing that game, if you're ever going to keep an audience with a score eight to nothing, I guess that's the way to do it. Strike, one and one. It's really been a shame over the last two World Series back then. No doubt the outcome somewhat affected by Vince Coleman being struck or compared by the tarp, and this year Jack Clark with 35 home runs out, Pendleton playing but not being able to play defensively. We touched on it last night. Cardinals are not the team they were that was 62 and 31 because of injuries, not because of lack of desire. The Twins are not the team they were either. No. They've won 85 games in the regular season, and they've won five out of six in postseason play, and they had seven to one in this game. In the air, the left field. Gladden is there. Two down and Grecian coming up. The Twins, and it's the first time I can remember a team in years where the guys didn't focus on one game or one play or one player and interviewing all of them for the pieces we roll in from time to time. The other day I kept saying to the guys, what was the key period or key game? And everybody had a different answer. For some it was in May. For others it was in September. Who was the key player? Some said Puckett. Some said Reardon. Some said Guy Eddie. Grecian hits a fly ball to right field, and Bernaske coasts over to the line and makes the catch for a tie. 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Hope you wanted a Bud Light. Bud Light. If you want the great taste of Bud Light, ask for it. Now go get pizza. Because everything else, you just don't need. Take me out to the ballgame. Or should I say, take me off for the ballgame. Yeah, that's what I should say because that's what they've done. I'm going to be off for a couple of weeks. But while I'm off, I'm going to be working on some new shows with some special guests and new surprises. So when the big games are over, you come back and see me now, you hear? Take me out to the ballgame. Here's Dolly, America's favorite, Sundays. Bye-bye. They are rocking again in Minnesota between innings. Homer Hanke crazed here, from what I understand, a lady in the promotions department of the Minneapolis Star came up with the idea. And to say it has caught on is certainly an understatement. And the other day in the newspapers here in the Minneapolis Star, I read an article where they were diapering the newborns at Methodist Hospital nearby with what? Homer Hanke. Disclosable, Homer Hanke. There is Calvin Griffith, whose family owned this franchise for years and years. And it is now owned by, among others, Karl Polat, the majority owner. But he's here enjoying it and watching the twins in the World Series for the first time since 65. Lombard, Dozie to lead things off in the bottom of the sixth to be followed by Lauder and Gladden. Oh no, what a way to describe this crowd, raucous and bedlam. Scott Oscar of the Los Angeles Times described the crowd here as the hardest working crowd in baseball. 55,241 Scandinavian James Browns. They feel good and you knew that they would. Scott Oscar, what a life. Oh and to the count on Lombard, Dozie. And down he goes on three. So one away and Lauder is the batter. Pretty good idea why Whitey Herzog cooked tunnel on the roster. Only the third hit in postseason play for Lauder, but every one of them have been productive base hits. Strike to Lauder. Ozzie Smith playing him up the middle then has moved over a little bit. Not as quite up the middle. Apparently the scouting report said that when we saw it last night he went the other way. One and one. You know Tim, as well as I and I pitched an artificial turf, hated it. If they hit the ball as hard as Lauder did it better be at somebody or it's going to be through the infield before you can even make a move. Even if you do have the skills of Ozzie Smith. Under launch wire to check the ball and the count is two and one. Scouting reports before a World Series are fine if they don't tell players what to do. Number 17 for the year for Timmy Lauder. Once hit forty one in the minors. Excellent power shows it right there. Huckett has that played down to a science as Kirby has robbed several of home runs this year but not McGee here and Lauder who at 16 during the regular season has made it eight to one with one out of the bases empty. And Jim you know what I'm talking about. About scouting reports telling you what you can do and that meeting you went through before the one World Series. But they said everybody was a fastball hitter. 1970 said you're starting the first game of the World Series and they said Bobby Tolan high fastball hitter Pete Rose high fastball hitter Tony Perez high fastball hitter Lee May high fastball hitter Johnny Bench high fastball hitter. I said what am I pitching for. It's all I throw. They said not your fastball. That's Ken Daly throwing in the pen and again we discussed it last night when you've got all these off days and they can have one tomorrow. He's a guy you want to come in and put situations and key situations but they've got to keep track. 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This ABC Sports exclusive is being brought to you by Stainmaster from DuPont Carpet Fibers. Well that most happy fella is Karl Polat with his wife Eloise buying the team from the Griffith family and watching his team on top by a score of 8 to 1 as McGee starts things here in the seventh inning. You know the remarkable thing about the twins and we've touched on it in the first two games and most of you are aware of it as they came from the depths of the standings last year finishing sixth and they were last until the final week of the season and then coming out of nowhere but this was a team whose very future in this area was in question and in jeopardy a couple of years ago. Not drawing well, rumors and talk about the team leaving Minnesota and how healthy they've gotten in a hurry. Wanted to. What winning will do. Over Tom Kelly said as well today said the only thing that brings people out is winning and they won and they're bombing. They're not only winning as you can see 13 runs in the two games that's the composite score over the last two nights 18 to 2 the total and the fourth has been lit up like the Fourth of July strikeout number eight for Bert Lyle who has now retired seven straight and one Baron Gary gets his arm loose in the bullpen talking to Tom Kelly before the ball game and he said that one of the reasons he didn't take Viola out earlier last night was he had a big lead in the minor leagues in a nine to nothing lead and he was encouraged to pitch a younger pitcher and he pitched that younger pitcher and before he knew it the opposition had scored eight runs in the top of the ninth inning and he said never again going to be locked up and you could certainly understand his reason he's not taking Viola out until he's sure it's locked up outside one and one also talked about the fact that he did abuse Baron Gehrs and reared his arms in the playoff he used them more than he should have as far as he's concerned so you might see him tonight but you the reason we didn't see him last night two and one account one out bases empty seventh inning eight to one Minnesota very much like Don Sutton's only one 20 games one time 244 wins but he's tied with Sutton for a lifetime shutouts trailing Sutton the tide with your good buddy Steve Carlton at fifty five sudden has fifty eight see the tailing fastball left handed hitters take a pitch like that's going to be inside of the ball with the late tail in the air to deep left center field Latin fades on it so two down now in the seventh inning and Kirk Ford you know it's all part of the game plan as Timmy said that tailing fastball why Levin did not used to throw that pitch now he holds the ball with the seams and you wonder how a guy even though he has a great curveball can pitch for 17 years you make adjustments to change up here and there we've seen a couple tonight good curveball and then he has two fastballs the one that sinks which is what the one he threw the penalty and then the four seamer the rising fastball ripped back through the box for a base hit and so four in the lineup against right handed pitching only as a perfect night going two singles in a walk but you have a tendency to throw more fastballs when you have a seven run lead just trying to get ahead of the hitters do not want to walk in I'll tell you that's the biggest argument about the radar gun the radar gun doesn't gauge movement and location get hitters out much more than velocity there's a reason for the radar gun it's good for for injuries a guy coming back from injuries just to rehabilitation to see if he's got strength in his arm that's hit back through the box for a base hit so again a single to center field with two down Ford advancing the second and it will bring up Pena just emphasizes your point about location he has thrown two balls in the middle of the plate we're here in the seven inning at eighty six miles per hour on a slow gun and yet the ball the position of the ball as we look at some of the concessions which look pretty good really dictates what kind of swings the cardinal hitters are going to have while the middle of the plate they're going to hit the ball hard especially contact hitters and that's what you have to characterize the cardinal team has now that Jack Clark is not active another point is I think a lot of people in baseball become overly enamored with keeping the ball down they say all you have to do is keep the ball down when in effect working a hitter in and out is what gets him out if the balls over the fat part of the plate it matters not whether it's up or down it keeps that one inside too far in and it's one and all hitters are trained to lay the fat part of the bat over the heart of the plate if it's inside it's on the handle if it's outside it's on the outside part of the line the center field pocket charging in but it's a base hit and pocket will throw to third but the cardinals run themselves out of the inning after they pick up one a run three hits and a look again here this out is recorded after four touch poles Minnesota doesn't care whether it's run on Kirby Puckett and also as you said Tim you do not make the third out at third base Lee wire doing his job at home plate the run counts Kurt Ford scored before we saw Kendall take out a third at this point in the game though you don't like to see the run score but you will trade a run for now whistles out in force Patty Blylevin Bert's wife I think was the ringleader as well as the one thing that Lee wire has to do on that play is align himself so that he sees the play at third as well as the runner crossing the plate because if that tag had been made before Ford had touched home that was out number three and no runs this is an amazing story last October 10 had a ligament out of his right wrist transplanted into his left elbow normally that takes about 14 months or at least two years in most cases that's what it did for Tommy John you grafted in there he's come back still throwing well over 90 miles per hour great curve ball and he's the left handed stopper for the Cardinals it's not the fact that he's throwing at all it's the fact that he is throwing as well as he did before the operation he was talking about how Dr. Joe said there's just amazing that the graph would take in that amount of time one two is chopped to the right side tough play scooped by her nicely that was the only way Tommy could have done it and had a chance to get pocket one out here in the seventh inning well they said that the Cardinals will not have a trouble playing the infield here because they play on Astroturf the Bus Stadium the problem would be with the roof we saw that last night Tommy Herr makes a difficult play look easy just as he would in Bus Stadium and St. Louis inside her back in the count as one of those you saw Tommy her a lot more than I did this year he lost about 15 pounds came in spring training a lot lighter it looks like he's much more agile not that he's ever really had much of an agility problem you only make the play like that on artificial surface on a regular infield the ball has a chance to stay down but not on the rug Tommy her with a more conventional play. I think dreaming of the one way at Lambert International and home and the twins dreaming of a world title you against the left hander because it's lefty on lefty sound like you do. Yeah. Strike back to the National League playoff and a lot of times you need something to motivate not that it's really running up the score it's not trying to go for a national championship but obviously makes her back a better hit or not that particular time but you might just get the Cardinals thinking about something. The only reason I say that a lot of hitters don't like to hit three and oh because they're not patient enough this ball just fell down the third base line guy Eddie is locked in it hitting a lot of balls hard he was the MVP in the playoffs and he's already four for seven in the World Series and when you're four for seven and the count is only two you're going to be rushed back so that was a predictable pitch and there is the ace of the bullpen Tom Morell talking about it before it would be surprising to see him just to keep him fresh down to Wayne to Williger the first base coach and more else. Wayne to Williger can probably double his salary if the twins win the World Series with the winning share here is going to be about 90,000 bucks. Not only that he told me before the series began that it took him about 12 years to make what he would make if the twins win the series and that would take about what two weeks the first twelve years of his career first twelve years of his career thirty seven World Series the Yankees bombed the Giants in successive games eight one and eight to one. Well guys our flight to St. Louis is boarding Jeffries Leonard with one flat down. It's easy when the score is eight to two. I mean come on. He said you know I thought for a moment when I went around second base should I go with one clap down. I think that he got the mind settled. You know it's kind of exciting when you hit a grand slam his mind suddenly decided didn't want to do anything to instigate anything with the Cardinals. Well Baron Gare comes in to pitch because why let him go seven leads with a six run lead and home in the batter. Vince is all for three tonight and all for seven in the two game home and Smith and her in the eighth inning. So why let him win seven innings tonight. Whitey Herzog his team in arrears by six 11 allowed six hits and half of them came in succession to end the seventh inning. The Cardinals know Baron Gare they saw him last year at San Francisco this year he had a great year eight and one had some elbow problems early but pitched as we said Tom Kelly used him four out of five games in the playoffs. Ninety plus fastball for fall in a good slider. But what gets him in trouble is control. And that might be why we see Jeff Reardon throwing if they take off Baron Gare he could have trouble throwing strikes. He matches up a lot better against aggressive hitters that expand and widen the strike zone and hit in the left field. And so Coleman gets off the side as he picks up a base hit in his eighth series at bat after Vince Coleman who missed the 85 series because of the top a personal first first World Series head has been to the first base tomorrow night. Frank and Dan will be at Texas Stadium in Irving where the Washington Redskins come in against the Dallas Cowboys at nine Eastern time. Coleman goes the pitches a strike and the throw is also a strike but too late. Coleman down by six and the Cardinals maybe just trying to do something to stir it up. Yeah we mentioned earlier that hitters not taking first pitches to get the pitcher a chance to walk up is one thing that hasn't changed for the worse in baseball. This is has changed for the better. Teams that can run will run regardless of the score. Smith questioning Lee Wires. And Ozzie hits one to the right field and Steve Bernanski goes back on the warning track and Coleman will advance to third. And if you sound a little excited when Ozzie hits a drive it's because he went through the season without a home run. Also has not hit a left handed a home run since the playoffs in eighty five off Tom Neidenfuehr talks about his swing the left hander goes to a lighter bat. Baron Gare tries to get the ball in and does. But I think he got it up on the bat. Ozzie hit it good but not good enough. Last year six home runs all right handed so his power is from the other side of the plate. Tommy Herr he too has drawn a blank in the series and he hits one softly. And the twins are now four hours away from going up to them. Baron Gare's ball gets on you in a hurry and he hits Tommy Herr on the handle and a good play by Lambert Ozzie. Good anticipation. Dan Greeson hit listen three trips. Want to know Jim mentioned the control of Baron Gare. I have a line for you to read on June 2nd Baron Gare hits three and two thirds innings. He pitched one hundred and forty one hundred and fourteen pitches. And Greeson hits one the right field Bernanke leaps up at its way over his head plays the caram though very well. Greeson still has a double and Coleman can trot in and Coleman trotting in that time with two down to make it eight to three. It doesn't matter how good a right fielder you are on this one he makes a great effort but the ball is too high off what you call last night to me the hefty bag out there. This is a fence they put up about three years ago. It used to be just a seven foot fence. That would have been a home run as it turns out just the double and the batter is McGee and that line for Baron Gare three and two thirds innings one hundred and fourteen pitches nine bases on balls five strikeouts three bases loaded walks and more three ball counts that out the game pops it up. The game had to go four hours now back out of play. Can you imagine throwing one hundred and fourteen pitches in three and two thirds innings. Can you imagine Tom Kelly letting him must they either had a lead or a big deficit. In all fairness to one though he did have some elbow problems and had him one year. You do have a way of sometimes losing the plate. That was at Fenway Park that explains it all. To the count McGee eight three twin Tuesday night game three after the off day tomorrow with the Yankees and Tudor and Straker the owner of the twin whole pool of another night of celebration and it's still two and two. There it is. There's the matchup. The Yankees and Straker had a Venezuela long time minor leaguer who earned a spot on the club and Tudor who has been magnificent over the past few years at the stadium. Don't let the 10 wins even though it's 10 and to pull you broken leg for three months that's hit into left center field and that's going to fall for a base hit. Danny Driesen comes in to score and the Cardinals are sneaking up. It's now eight to four. So two runs off Baron Gare two down and Terry Pendleton the batter. Pendleton again if you join the slate reduced to left handed batting with a rib muscle pull he can't bat right handed he can't play third base only they have a tremendous advantage and they know they normally do. But more than half the teams nine of the last 15 that had that lead lost a series including the Cardinals in 1985. Boston last year of the last 15 Boston. Exactly. Larkin leads things off pinch hitting for Bush and Jean it's a fly ball to McGee for out number one. So one down here in the bottom of the eighth inning and Brunanski is the batter and Herzog is going to go to the bullpen. He's going to bring Warrell in here. So with the right hand batting Brunanski coming up it will be Todd Warrell who comes in from the bullpen Whitey getting his ace reliever some work. And of course this one is not over and done with yet eight to four. Stranger things have happened. What about though as we assess the Cardinals. They have to be real happy about going home but they're down two games to nothing and they have to try to bounce back. But keep in mind obviously what they did in the National League Championship Series when everybody had written them off. I think Jim had an excellent point in the opening saying that if they lose this ballgame they know they're going to have to come back to this ballpark and the twins if they win this ballgame they're going to win four in a row and they will have been fifty nine and twenty five if they win tonight in this ballpark. The converse of that of course is that the twins did have an horrendous not the worst road record in the American League because I think Cleveland and another team did but they were what twenty nine and fifty two on the road discounting the playoffs. So it's not great to come back here. But on the other hand it does give Cardinal fans some hope. Well Whitey has to be real happy about the pitching matchup if nothing else on Tuesday night. But Stryker pitched well down the stretch but he doesn't match up well against the Cardinals. He's not a good fielder doesn't hold runners on even though he was two and one in September even though he was eight and ten on the year. I really don't think that the road record is as important now as far as the twins playing with the confidence that they're playing with as it was going into Detroit. I think I think beating Detroit two out of three has added a great deal of confidence to this ballclub that they didn't have before they played Detroit on the road. They're playing in a different zone right now. Yeah that's right. That's the kind of zone the team dream about. Brunesky now. Facing Warrell. With one out of the bases empty in the bottom of the eighth inning. Sharply and school like a highlight player by Okendo and that's a play you'll only see in a Miami frontal. Watch Okendo. Snag the pelota. And gun out Bruno. Yeah but did you have the Guinella on that one. Five three. Your bet was down on Okendo and Grecian. Go to the pay window. Two down. And now it's Royce Smalley who comes up to pinch hit for Lombardo Z. The veteran of many teams and many years here. Lines one to the gap and great cut off by Coleman. Smalley on his way to second and her was off the bag. Smalley did D.H. from the left side most of the year. Right after the All-Star game. Picks on the first pitch and this is what we talked earlier. Coleman not a great arm but great range doesn't make a strong throw but a quick one. A little bit offline. Smalley beats the tag. Boy I'll tell you what you've got to have outfielders like Coleman to cut those gaps. Otherwise that's a double or a triple a runner in scoring position. Turned out to be that anyway but save some runs. Royce Smalley who's been playing Major League Baseball since nineteen seventy five. He finally gets into a World Series and properly doubles. And Newman goes in to run for him at second base with Lauder at the plate. And Lauder pops it up. In foul ground. He's got a late start and it won't matter. It's back in about five. So there is Smalley with a double and back to the bench. Viola behind him and Al Newman. Pinch running at second base. This telecast presented by authority of Major League Baseball. And may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. One and one. Only about ninety six miles per hour. Pretty good slider. The big pitch that he's come up with. Not that he uses it very much as a change. I've got a key strikeout on Will Clark. Very questionable whether the ball was a strike. Except the umpire called it. But something you don't expect with that kind of fastball. Thirty three saves on the year. Mania has no clue where it is. And it winds up back out of play. One or two. Not a whole lot of trickery with Borel. Here it is. Hit it. If you can. A lot of posturing. You get Newman in the game. You got Smalley in a bat. You let Borel pitch to a hitter. Because it's so much different than pitching down on the bullpen. Just throwing to maybe a guy standing up at home plate. So you posture for game three. Well Borel in a completely different situation now than he was in game six in nineteen eighty five. When he started that fateful ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals. It was a man who thought he was on the bag as the toss got to him at first base on the ground ball by George Orta. Don Denkinger had another idea. The next thing you know Kansas City got two to win the game. And the next thing you know it's eleven nothing Royals on Sunday night. And the next thing you know the victory celebration is in Kansas City. And the starting pitcher in game six for the Cardinals Danny Cox. That's the speed gun cracking the pitch here. It was a 90 mile per hour slider. That's how you get thirty three saves. That kind of stuff. That's one of the big reasons that Todd was made a reliever. Triple A manager Jim Fragosi told Whitey Herzog that the second time through the order he lost the four or five miles on the fastball. So Whitey suggested to Jim who was a triple A manager at the time make him a short man. He's the tallest short man in the major league. And sometime right fielder. Whitey likes to make that switch if you watch the playoffs and it's something he has done in the regular season. Not in this situation of course but in a close game with Warrell in there. And he wants to get one left handed batter out. He's been bringing Ken Daly in. Warrell goes to right field and Daly comes out and Warrell comes back in. And Dan Gladden is the batter. Gladden is one for four. He did last night with the bases loaded. Our producer Kurt Gowdy Jr. Director Craig Janoff. Pre-game producer Peter Lasser. Technical director Mike Glazo. Robbie Callan and Earl Freiman. Our associate directors Bruce Clark. Michael Cohn. Nancy Stern. Assistance to the producer. Tony Bursley. Coach Coltrane. Our technical managers Arthur Badagian. Ed Delaney our unit managers. Steve Hurte. Or Mr. Univac as the gift calls him. Downstairs and Alan Hurte. Up here in the booth as always. Thank you folks. We go to the ninth inning. Ford takes a 5 0 1 1 a dog. Jeff Reardon the Terminator and the man who made a big big difference for the twins in eighty seven. Relief pitcher in major leagues over the last six years with over 20 saves. Gossage. Did it for the last five years this year. Only 12. Very impressive pitcher. I mean it does not seem to get disturbed. You brought up a great point. The way they lost the fourth game of the one patch here and hit the home run. Excuse me. The third game. Home run to run home run to lose. Impassive. Obviously. Heard emotionally. But that's it. That's the characteristic of a relief pitcher. You give it up one day you got to come back out there and he did. Done that all year after an horrendous start. 3 1 2 4. It is hit in the air to right field and Brunanski goes back at the base of the trash bag so the cardinals with track power and it's pretty much the nature of the ballclub especially with Clark on and it makes it so difficult for this ballclub to come back and that was really the remarkable thing as we expressed last night when they came back against the Giants trailing 4 to nothing in Game 3 at Candlestick. Okendo hits a fly ball to left field and Dan Gladden makes the catch. Two down and the twins know one thing. They will either come back and play a game here or they will come back and have an uproarious celebration at the airport sometime next week. One or the other. Most likely if they do win in St. Louis and speculating they will have it right here at the Metrodome as they did when they came back from Detroit when over fifty thousand people showed up much too. I think everybody's surprised. I would think that their mentality going into St. Louis if they win this game is to win one at the stadium. That was their mentality going into Detroit. Tony Pena strike. That was their mentality going into Detroit. Two out on the bases empty in the second half of the second half of the second half of the second half. Grounded to her back. The twins are halfway to the title. This story is not finished yet but it is a very remarkable story and needs to be absorbed. This team was in last place with a week to go last year finished sixth and they are in the World Series and leading two games to nothing. And let's go to Reggie. Reggie Jackson. Tim Lauder an outstanding ballgame for you. Can you tell me anything about Bert Blyleven and how he pitched tonight. Super fastball. Good curveball which means that you can't expect to sit on the curveball hit the fastball you can throw it right by and that's what he did today. What are your thoughts now you're up two games and nothing you're going into St. Louis you have three games over there. Well they said all along that we couldn't play on the road. We proved that we could in Detroit. It's going to be a beehive down there just like it was here for them. We're just going to go down there and do the best we can. You guys pitch a team like St. Louis any differently since they don't have a lot of pop in their lineup. They don't have a lot of power. You go at him any differently. Well tell you Reg we just try to have our pitchers do what they do best. Bert tonight with fastball curveball Frankie last night fastball changeup. Less is going to go down around on Tuesday night and throw a fastball changeup this like Frankie and you know we're going to do the best we can. We can't be worried about their speed or their hitters. We need to get the most out of our pitches. How do you explain a guy that hits one ninety one and I've hit played against you the last couple of years. You always seem to get a lot of big hits a two run single and all of a home run there to put the ball game away. Tim I can't believe you're one ninety one hitter you get too many base hits for it. Well I try not to dwell on any of that. I might have had previously a bad at bat. I just try to go up to the plate and do the best job I can. You know we got people in scoring position. I try to put the bat on the ball and do what I can to help the club. You're making a believer out of me. And report with Barry Seraphine in Washington on most of these ABC stations. Time now for the Budweiser play of the game. It came with Lauder batting three nothing twins fifth inning and with the bases loaded this base hit to left field scored. Gary Gaietti to make it for nothing. Randy Bush rounded third Vince Coleman's throw to the plate and Bush able to slide in safely to make it five nothing and route to an eight to four Minnesota win in game two fourth inning as the twins scored six Bush getting home plate with his left hand going by Lyle even picks up the win and Danny Cox takes the loss. Now this is Al Michaels for Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver saying so long from Minneapolis. The final score again in game two the twins eight and the Cardinals four. Game two of the 1987 World Series has been brought to you by the heartbeat of America today's Chevrolet by Budweiser. Beechwood age for that clean crisp taste. This Buds for you by New York Life to help you get the most out of life and by GE we bring good things to life from aircraft engines to appliances to plastics to financial services. 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