Carlton Fisk

And do you know what? It wasn't even the play of the week, if I remember right.

Carlton Fisk tagged two guys at home.

But, you know, the Carlton Fisk swipe tags, and they made that play of the week.

How could they not make this one play of the week? Because it's

Toronto, Larry.

But

I was amazed by that.

You know, Carlton Fisk, okay.

In the second inning, Reggie Smith will be first up for the Red Sox.

He'll be followed by Rico Petrocelli and then Carlton Fisk.

And we'll have a station break along the way.

This is Red Sox baseball.

But usually it's more effective against the wind than with it.

Today is, so far, it is with the wind.

Carlton Fisk is up, batting 298.

18 home runs, 44 runs batted in.

But you're hoping, of course, always for Indian summer, and Red Sox in the form of Indian summer are hoping for some sort of near miracle that can keep them on the heels of the Yankees into next week.

Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant at the mound.

Rivers will be the batter.

He was, uh, left the game in New York last week after being hit by Reggie Cleveland.

It rode in high on him, and he popped the foul to Fisk.

Two outs.

People still talking about the dive that Carlton Fisk and Lou, uh, uh, Butch Hobson did-

Piniella

Gates Brown on deck.

McLothen checks the sign from Carlton Fisk.

Now the pitch.

Curveball hit foul off to the third base side past Joe Schultz, the third base coach.

McLaughlin breezed through the first two batters, then he hung one for Brown, and he really drilled it.

It was toward right-center and cracked off the facing of that upper deck.

Leading off for the Red Sox in the second inning will be Reggie Smith, then Rico Petrocelli and Carlton Fisk.

Smith is hitting 261 with 11 home runs and 40 runs batted in.

Oh, down in Florida, it would've been like, like two fat guys in sumo wrestling suits going at it with each other if we actually made contact.

But you were really tight with Carlton Fisk.

And, uh, I mean, really tight.

Correct?

I know that-

You were, you were, you were kind of tight.

I wouldn't say as tight as Carlton Fisk, but there was some tightness there between you and-

No, we were, I mean, we were

The game we mentioned, the White Sox beat the Angels nine to two.

Old buddy Claudell Washington had a home run, so did Devon White, as did Carlton Fisk, who's ageless, and Harold Baines.

The pitch is outside, and the count evens at two and two.

Who do you think the winning pitcher was? Your old roomie.

Jay's old roommate, Jerry Reuss, won it.

Mike Witt lost it.

Carlton Fisk and Harold Baines homered for the Sox, and Devon White and Claudell homered for the Cal Angels.

They had a brawl in that game as well.

Us old guys are like, "Come on, man, just-"

Well, and the, the manager said after the game, um, "I told him, 'Don't do that.' We do not wanna wake a sleeping giant here, get him mad." Uh, yeah, us old guys are like, "Run the ba- You know, Carlton Fisk would've yelled at him to run to bases."

Yeah.

Sh- a- act like you've done it before.

There's a throw to first base and Rivers is back.

Claudell Washington of the Texas Rangers at 347, Carlton Fisk of the Red Sox at 340, and Al Woods of Toronto at 333.

Pitch to Munson is inside.

It's one and one.

He's in the hole, one and two.

Carlton Fisk has homered for the Red Sox in the fourth with nobody on.

It was seventeen.

Baltimore and Boston are tied two-two.