Ken Holtzman

Lenny Randall is the switch hitter batting right, and he's hitting .228 with one homer and 15 runs batted in.

32-year-old left-hander Ken Holtzman dips into the motion, kicks and fires, and faces low and off the glove of his catcher, Larry Cox.

Ken Holtzman, who came to the major leagues with the Chicago Cubs originally, was acquired this time from the Yankees on June 9th, where he had a 1-0 record in five games.

In two starts with the Cubs, he has lost to the Pirates and the Phillies, so he's 0-2.

Lifetime against the Mets, Holtzman's won four, lost nine.

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Ken Holtzman on the mound will be facing John Stearns to lead it off for the match here in the top of the second inning.

How you doing, everybody? LeBoudreaux with the leadoff man from Wigley Field and the Cincinnati Reds come into town.

These Reds have been hitting very well recently, but so have the Cubs, so it'll be quite a battle today as Lacoste, a right-hander, goes against the Southpaw, Kenny Holtzman.

We'll be talking to our guest, Steve Antoveras, in just one minute.

Do you know who the great start that you have hitting over .350 this year? I think that right now mentally...

Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome once again to exciting Major League Baseball from beautiful Windy Wrigley Field.

The Cubs and the Western Division Cincinnati Reds in the first of a three-game series.

And this afternoon, it is Kenny Holtzman, the left-hander, who picked up a victory in his last outing, and that was over at Cincinnati against this ball club.

Veteran now 2-1 for the year.

High again, ball two.

Ken Holtzman is making his 26th start.

He has 12 complete games, three shutouts.

Turn run average of 3.6. Left-hander fires high again, ball three.

Randall's in on the grass, and the pitch is fouled over into the Yankee dugout.

No balls and two strikes on Randall.

Ken Holtzman went one and a third innings, allowed five runs all earned on six bases.

He walked one, and he struck out one.

He started game one.

And Ken Holtzman comes back for the A's.

To match up the two opening day pitchers.

A right-hander Messerschmitt.

Reggie Jackson, troubled by a painful hamstring, uses words to convince the Oakland management he's ready.

Reggie quickly switches to action, and his home run in the second inning of game one convinces the Dodgers he's more than ready.

Jackson's blast provides the A's with the first run of the 1974 World Series, and left-hander Ken Holtzman employs all the guile in his repertoire to maintain that lead.

Holtzman's pickoff move catches Bill Buckner.

Etchebaran batting ninth.

And so you can see that the Orioles today are going with an all-right-handed batting lineup against lefty Ken Holtzman.

Pitching for Baltimore, Dave McNally catching Andy Etchebaran.

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Ken Holtzman has completed his warm-up passes.

Now Ray Fawcett going out to catch that first ball, which will be thrown out by Miss Lucienne Buchanan.

They were ready for action in the sixth inning.

The pitchers for the remainder of the series, as we mentioned a moment ago, Catfish Hunter tomorrow morning against Baltimore's Dave McNally and then Mike Cuellar against Kenny Holtzman on Monday in Oakland at 12.30. Buy your tickets.

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John Matlack will pitch tomorrow night for the Mets.

And Ken Holtzman will be going for the A's.

They were the two opening game pitchers of the World Series.

Two strikes.

Looks like he'll surpass that record this year.

He's been the ace of the Oakland pitching staff, although Ken Holtzman now has reeled off six wins in a row.

The Oakland A's represented here tonight by one of their ace pitchers, Vita Blue, the defending world champs.

And if there was anybody that could upstage Vita Blue, it would be Charlie Finley and his green cap, cowboy cap.