Sam McDowell

As Stargell, running it out, comes back to the batter's box.

Baltimore, the defending American League champion, opening in Cleveland, and the Orioles will pitch Dave McNally, a 21-game winner last season, against Sam McDowell.

Sudden Sam, an 18-game winner a year ago.

One ball, one strike to Willie Stargell.

Now at the end of five and one-half innings, the New York Mets three and the Pittsburgh Pirates two For the Pittsburgh Pirates, Matty Alou leads off in the last of the sixth inning against Tom Seaver.

Baltimore and Cleveland tied one-one at the end of three and a half in Cleveland.

Dave McNally pitching against Sam McDowell.

Oakland at Kansas City not underway.

I, I, it's a...

This is unlikely, right? I mean, even for all of you suffering in 16 and 97 and 95 and 1948, all of that, Sudden Sam died recently.

I mean, all of that.

Yeah.

[ball hitting] He delivers a curve low, one and two.

When he struck out 12, Ryan tied a record for Sam McDowell.

74 games in, uh, which he has fanned 10 or more.

Here's the pitch.

Now the one-two delivery with May leading off for the Tiger ninth.

He swings and misses, struck him out.

Now that's 10 strikeouts for Ryan, and he goes one up on that record now that he had tied Sam McDowell for the most, uh...

Well, maybe that's 10 plus.

[audience applauds] That is the fourth strikeout for Lonborg.

199, he is second only to Sudden Sam McDowell of Cleveland Here is Rocky Colavito.

He's had a single and a double and a ball, and he asked the ump to take a look at it.

Tomorrow it's gonna be Lee Stang against Tommy John in the final game of the series.

But they return to the big ballpark.

On Monday night, May the 6th, Tuesday night, May the 7th, Wednesday afternoon, May the 8th, against the Cleveland Indians, led by Sam McDowell, Max Alvis, Sonny Siebert, Leon Wagner.

They'll all be here on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of May.

And then a big one that I know that you'll want to point to, the first greeting and the first meeting of the year between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees here at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees, after today, move on to Baltimore Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and then to the White Sox and Chicago over the weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

But they return to the big ballpark on Monday night, May the 6th, Tuesday night, May the 7th, Wednesday afternoon, May the 8th, against the Cleveland Indians, led by Sam McDowell, Max Alvis, Sonny Siebert, Leon Wagner.

They'll all be here on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of May And then a big one that I know that you'll want to point to, the first greeting and the first meeting of the year between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees here at Yankee Stadium.

That'll be a big weekend set two weeks from today.

You see that spot at which, uh, we're looking right now, and we just moved away from it.

During a ball game this year when Sam McDowell was in here to pitch against the Indians, uh, as some ball players do understandably, he got mad at, uh, an umpire's call and he threw the ball two rows in the top of the upper deck.

One ball, two strikes, Jones.

That's how, uh, some school students here in, uh, Baltimore feel about their birds.

So Bobby gets to see a right-handed pitcher for the first time in a while.

He saw Sam McDowell last night and Mike Kilkenny in the first game.

The stretch and the pitch.

Bobby takes outside for ball one.