Dave Bristol

The field is in excellent condition.

As manager Dave Bristol comes out now with a lineup card for the Reds.

Manager Gil Hodges comes out with a lineup card for the Mets.

Umpires: Shank, Crawford, umpiring crew.

His last two starts, he has pitched very well and lost both times, losing to St. Louis two to nothing and Atlanta three to one.

It's high, and Boswell takes ball one.

So Gary Nolan has won two and lost two, and now as Nolan appears to be a little wild at the start of the game tonight, Dave Bristol, the thirty-five-year-old skipper of the Cincinnati Reds, is now on his way out to the mound.

You know, it's awfully early to tell, but in watching Nolan here for the first time this year and watching him in this ball game, he looks like he is throwing with his throw arm.

This series matches the two top home run hitters in all of Major League Baseball, George Foster with 49 and this man...

Jeff Burrows, in his first year in the National League, has done what Ted Turner and Dave Bristol said he would do with this Atlanta club and in this ballpark, and that's hit 40 home runs.

He's hit 40 right on the button.

The first pitch to him is below the knees for a ball.

Right-hander Hannah takes over for left-hander Mailer.

Preston Hanna, as we mentioned, it was either he or Mailer who would get the start in this game tonight.

Dave Bristol settled on Mickey Mailer, so Hanna gets in after all, and it's going to be his 14th appearance and his 7th in relief.

With a 2-win-5-loss record and a 5.29 earned run average, he's saved a game so far since his call-up from Richmond.

Ivey with 10 home runs and 49 RBIs.

Ivey looking at Dave Bristol.

Evans do up next.

Whitfield with his lead at first.

Matlock on a seven-game hitting streak.

He has also hit safely in 13 of his last 16 games.

Knuckleball is grounded foul under the legs and between the legs of Dave Bristol in the coaching box at third.

Two and two.

Plenty of seats available.

This series matches the two top home run hitters in all of Major League Baseball, George Foster with forty-nine, and this man, Jeff Burroughs, in his first year in the National League, has done what Ted Turner and Dave Bristol said he would do with this Atlanta club and in this ballpark, and that's hit 40 home runs.

He's hit 40 right on the button.

The first pitch to him is below the knees for a ball.

Right-hander Hanna takes over for left-hander Mahler.

Preston Hanna, as we mentioned, it was either he or Mahler who would get the start in this game tonight.

Dave Bristol settled on Mickey Mahler, so Hanna gets in after all, and it's going to be his 14th appearance and his seventh in relief.

With a two win, five loss record and a 529 earned run average, he's saved a game so far since his call-up from Richmond.

[crowd cheering] So Maloney's wildness has loaded the bases with nobody out, as a 1-1 pitch hits Kennedy in the back, and he hit Lou Johnson on a two-strike pitch.

Roseboro moves along to third, Johnson goes over to second, Kennedy's on first, and Dave Bristol is headed to the mound to check on Maloney.

O'Steen, a good hitting left-handed batting pitcher, is up with a .217 average, one home run, and four runs batted in.

He is within one home run as being as strong as Don Drysdale is so far this season.

I said, uh, "You even remember ...

How many RBIs do you have?" And he said, "Well, I can't tell you that." I said, "You don't remember those?" "Nobody," he said, "I can remember that home run."

[laughs] Dave Bristol hustling back to the Cincinnati dugout, as Maloney will now face O'Steen.

The Dodgers lead two to nothing.