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evening from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, NBC Sports presents Game 3 of the 1983 World Series.

The American League champions, the Milwaukee Brewers, against the National League champions,

the St. Louis Cardinals.

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He'll put his left hand on the elbow and give you the strike call.

So it's one and one.

John Kipper from the National League.

One ball

This is John Brennan of AFRTS Sports in Washington.

Today, it's the fifth and final game of the National League playoffs at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds.

We'll be joining Reds broadcasters Al Michaels and Joe Nuxall for today's game already in progress in just a moment.

This broadcast is authorized on the rights granted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds solely for the entertainment of the AFRTS listening audience.

And as you heard in the top of the second, Pittsburgh came up with two runs on three hits and one error.

That's where we are right now, the middle of the second with Pittsburgh out in front, 2-0.

And this, of course, this game decides the National League champions to face either Detroit or Oakland.

As the Tigers won dramatically, we'll talk more about that later, 4-3 today in Oakland.

So many of them.

Teens in the National League.

Managers.

Gene Moff told me that the manager of the Phillies.

Ooh, that goes behind Kirk Blood.

And he winds up spinning around on these bats to the opposite side of the plate.

During his entire national league career, Bob Gibson hit 12 home runs in regular season play, and today he got his first in World Series competition.

Ralph Khalid, longboard, getting ready.

Bill mentioned him being in the other league.

He pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates over in the National League.

He's upstairs,

one and one.

Oakland has, I believe, only one, and that was against Baltimore.

But nonetheless, that should be a very, very interesting series.

The National League has not yet been determined.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are in, but who's it going to be? The Dodgers or the Giants? We'll know probably after tonight.

Boston at Chicago nothing, nothing at the end of one.

In the National League, Pittsburgh is Cincinnati.

The Pirates fail to score on the top of the first.

Philadelphia, St. Louis just getting underway.

At the end of four innings, it's the White Sox 3 and the Red Sox nothing.

We will...

National League, the big one over there at the end of three, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati scoreless.

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Well, on Memorial Day, we certainly hope things are just fine for you wherever you may be.

Get yourself a nice, cozy corner.

In the second ballgame today, Bob Perkey and Sandy Koufax, and that should be an interesting duel.

Koufax, with 45 strikeouts, is really fun to watch where he can rear back and fire.

He's tied for the National League lead with Luis Arroyo.

that his arm feels better now than it's ever felt.

There's a National League score Cincinnati one to nothing over the Mets in the second inning and the Dodgers two to one over Pittsburgh in the second inning.

One of the big reasons Charlie said that his arm felt a lot better as he had a couple of years playing the outfield he had a chance to stretch that arm out.

That's an important thing that catchers do not do.

him out.

I've got to be honest.

I don't believe that I don't know about the National League, but I can tell you about the American League on the regular grass surfaces as you look at Cecil Cooper out of the way.

I don't think that I've seen slower infields in all of my life than this year.

The American League ball, of course, has been used here at the American League ballpark.

As is pointed out by Mel Allen, two broadcasts ago, down at St. Louis, which is the National League Park for the series, where the National League ball was used.

And also, where any rules differed in interpretation between the two major leagues, the National League stadium held at St. Louis, and the reverse rule, American League stadium, differed in interpretation, was held here at the stadium.

Ball right-handed, he's crossed out.

First hand up, third in.

He is 2-0 in the series, and he was 20-9 on the year.

The umpires, Bill Jachowski of the National League behind home plate, Nestor Shannock of the American League at first base, Jeff Stavagis will be at second, and Johnny Stevens will be at third.

Along the left field line will be Stanley Landis, and down the right field line, Jim Honesty.

Well, that's just the stage for you.

It's the most unusual stance I guess I've ever seen in all of baseball, Parson.

Well, he has been very effective with it.

He's been the F.B.P. of the International League on two different occasions.

Good to know he's done the job for us, Parson.