Rennie Stennett

Strike one.

In the Pirate infield, we've got Willie Stargel at first base, Rennie Stennett at second, Frank Tavares is at shortstop, and Phil Garner at third.

John Milner in left, Bill Robinson in center, and Dave Parker in right.

Here's Robinson's next pitch, and Griffey fouls this one out of Ed Ott's glove, and the count quickly goes to no balls and two strikes.

One and two, the count on Griffey.

Right-hander sites a sign, checks back at second where Pete leads, delivers bouncing ball up the middle.

That's off the glove and goes into center field by Rennie Stennett.

Here comes Rose into the score and the Reds take a 1-0 lead.

[cheering] Well, he may not have a great stolen base record this year.

Oliver did an excellent job that, on that one, as the ball jammed Rennie Stennett, but he managed to hit a little looper that was out of the reach of Manny Trillo, and in too close a course for Bobby Mercer to get to it.

[cheering] And Oliver, with excellent judgment, able to go from first to third.

Go with one out.

3-2 delivery.

Instead, Bottom started to throw to third base.

No play there with Rennie Stennett out.

[cheering] Dyer been a good hitter for them.

Matlack, 42 wins, 42 losses, and Reuss been around a bit longer with 62 wins, 59 defeats.

[crowd cheering] Rennie Stennett, with a couple of hits last night, has in, is in with 188.

He has set an all-time Pirate record for hits for a second baseman set by a guy named George Grantman.

You may remember him in 1930.

Good fastball that time by John, but way up high.

Oliver hitting at 320, 189 hits, more than anybody in the Pirates', uh, ball club.

One ahead of Rennie Stennett.

11 home runs, 85 RBIs.

with 192 hits and 94 runs scored, 85 runs driven in, batting a solid .320.

You've got to say enough about Al Oliver, but you can't say enough about Rennie Stennett either.

Here's the 0-2 inside.

Maybe he can get out of there fast, wanted to.

Infield fly rule.

Batter's automatically out.

Rennie Stennett waiting for it.

Has to drift over to his left, but if he just dropped it, it wouldn't have made any difference.

Pirates leading the Cardinals by a game.

And Rennie Stennett at 295, seven homers, 56 runs batted in.

The outfield swung to the right.

Bob Apodaca, five and six on the year.

Al had to stay with it.

Oliver with 192 hits and 94 runs scored, 85 runs driven in, batting a solid .320.

You gotta say enough about Al Oliver, but you can't say enough about Rennie Stennett either.

Here's the oh and two.

and that made Harrelson change his stride to come around to get the ball, and he snapped his throw with a barehand pickup and flipper and didn't get Doc Ellis.

That'll bring up Rennie Stennett, who struck out in the first inning and singled it right in the third.

That's the fifth hit now, submitted by Seaver, but the Mets lead 2-0.

The thing to do is to keep them close and get Seaver out of there and jump on whomever they bring in.