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second game.
Veteran's Stadium: brawls, blondes, and brotherly love
“This is a sport a professional sport
and when some donkey throws
Something out of the stands that could
injure somebody, I’d like to get him into
a room for about five minutes by myself
and just knock the SHIT out of him.”
—Danny Ozark, Phillies manager
PHILADELPHIA
( .drunk heaves a bottle.from the center
"field stands of Veteran’s Stadium in
Philadelphia Saturday at the Pirate’s A 1
Oliver. Oliver narrowly escapes injury.
One of the Phillies’ usherettes is
choked by a fellow who doesn’t like
where he’s sitting. He throws the pretty
young girl down onto a concrete ramp,
pending her to the hospital.
' Several fights erupt in the box seats
along third base during the middle of the
second game of the doubleheader this,
same night. Thousands of fans arise
from their seats to see the blood.
The Pirates and Phils burst out
from the dugouts and bullpens ready to
’do battle over a heated exchange be
tween two players.
When is it going to stop?
A 1 Oliver knew. As soon as that bottle
came so perilously close, he walked off
the field, not intending to return. That’s
when it stopped for him. The game was
of monumental importance. But Oliver
valued his life more than a Pirate win.
Major League
Standings
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
W L Pet. GB
61 29 .688
52 43 .547 13
50 48 ‘.510 16'A
42 52 .447 2214
39 56 .411 26
' 30 59 .337 32
Phillies
Pirates
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Montreal
Cincinnati 60 36 .625
Los Angeles , 54 43 .552 - T
Houston ' 50 50 .500 12
San Diego ' 48 50 .489 13
Atlanta 44 52 .458 • 16
San Francisco 42 57 .423 1914
, 'Yesterday’s Games
*- Phillies 13, Pirates 7
Montreal 2, New York 1
St. Louis 4, Chicago 3
Houston 1, San Francisco 0
Los Angeles 1, San Diego 0
Cincinnati at Atlanta
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
W L Pet. GB
60 33 .645
46 45 .505 1214
46 48 .489 14
43 49 .467 16
42 51 .452 18
41 50 .451 1714
New York
Cleveland
Baltimore ;
Detroit
Boston
Milwaukee
Kansas City 58 36 .617
(.Oakland 50 46 .521 9
' Texas 46 47 .495 1114
Minnesota 46 48 .489 1214
Chicago 43 52 .453 15'*
California 41 57 .418 19
. Yesterday’s Games
Cleveland 9, Detroit 1, first game
Minnesota 13, Chicago 8, first game
New York 6, Boston 5
.Milwaukee 3, Baltimore 1
Texas at California
Kansas City at Oakland
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Incidents of fan violence have been on
the increase for some years now. It has
even crept onto the playing field;
baseball has had an uncommon number
of team brawls, this year. ;
And its not only in Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh, Minnesota, New York the
stories are similar. Fans throwing
bottles, eggs, anything short of ballistic
missiles with the intent of doing physical
harm. Sporting events are becoming
hazardous to one’s health. A sign of the
times, I guess. And the answer is to put
the offender in a room and just whail
away at him, right Danny? That’ll teach
him never to do it again.
I think I like Oliver’s solution better.
Tim McCarver, who caught Steve
Carlton’s exceptional three-hitter
Saturday night, was dressing in the
locker room slowly afterwards, in no
The Phillie's Veteran's Stadium on Saturday night drew
57,723 fans the largest crowd ever to see the Philadelphia
dub play the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates met with disaster
at the Phil's new home, dropping four out of five. The Phillies
lead increased to a rather comfortable 13 games
Photos by Julie Cipolla
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hurry to fight the Philadelphia traffic. I
crept up beside him by his locker stall
and fired my question: “Tim, how would
you compare the Phillies to the 1964,
1967, and 1968 Cardinals you were a
member of? (All were World Series
teams).-
“The biggest difference in the ’64 and
’67 and ’6B Cardinals and the Phillies,”
he says repeating my words in his
Southern twang, “is that there were no
hairdryers on the ’64, ’7, and ’8 clubs.”
“That’s kinda’ cute isn’t it?” he said
during the ensuing laughter.
I waited for an answer. “Now all right,
okay.” He got serious. “I don’t like to
compare ballclubs. I think that the ’67
ballclub was as sound fundamentally as
any team I’ve ever been on.
“This team is, by far, the most
talented. The difference in those two
traits are that talent can overcome
mistakes.
“The 1967 Cardinals made very few
mistakes very, very few,” he said.
And they made very few against the Bos
ton Red Sox in the World Series that year
—the year of the champion Cardinals.
And he explained 1964. “We were
victims of four good ballclubs in the
same league and we just happened to be
one game better than the Phillies.”.
The Veteran’s Stadium Press Box is
an experience in royalty. The Phillies
treat the press like kings.
The two decks in the pressbox were
situated to the right of home plate, of
fering a perfect view of the action.
Behind me was an enclosed press club
featuring free food, cokes, and Schmidt’s
on tap.
The Phillie assistants handed me
statistics sheets filled with enough facts
to rewrite the Baseball Encyclopedia.
Two color TV monitors flanked me
from both sides. The instant replays
were run constantly.
As if this wasn’t enough, the Phillie’s
version of the Playboy bunnies the
Phillie usherettes strolled down the
walk behind me. The lovelies were
decked out in Phillie red hot pants and
inviting smiles.
If this is the Phillies’ idea of trying to
make a good impression, then I’m
very impressed. And not only with their
first-place team.
Phillies 13, Pirates 7
PITTSBURGH PHILADELPHIA
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Robinson, G. Maddox 2, Taveras, Zisk. HR Stargell
(13), Luzinski (14), Schmidt (26), O. Brown (4). SB
G. Maddox, Bowa 2, Schmidt. SF G. Maddox, A.
Oliver.
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Battlin' Bucs
By DON HOPEY
Collegian Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA Ollie Brown’s
grand-slam home run capped a six-run,
eighth inning for the Philadelphia
Phillies yesterday that broke a 7-7 tie
with Pittsburgh and gave the Phils
thirteen game lead, their largest ever in
the NL East.
Greg Luzinski, Mike Schmidt and
Garry Maddox took turns driving nails
into the Pittsburgh coffin with timely
hits before Brown lined a 3-2, Dave
Giusti fast ball over the left field wall,
thus putting the stake through the heart
of a Pirate team that wouldn’t quit.
Pittsburgh, down 2-1 after two innings,
6-2 after five innings, and 7-3 after seven
innings, battled for 4 runs on 6 hits in the
top of the eighth inning to tie the score.
Prior to the wild eighth inning, the
Pirates could grab the lead only once.
Stargell broke the scoring ice with a solo
home run, his thirteenth of the year, into
the right field seats in the top of the
second inning.
Greg Luzinski retaliated in the bottom
of the second with a leadoff home run
and the Phils tacked on another run by
putting together a walk by Dick Allen, a
single by Ollie Brown and Gary Mad
dox’s sacrifice fly.
The Pirates tied the score at 2-2 in the
third. Pitcher John Candelaria led off
the inning with a single.He was forced at
second by Frank Taveras. Rennie
t Stennett singled to right field and after
' Taveras had stopped at third, he sud
denly sprinted for home when Maddox
hobbled the ball,-just beating the throw
with a head-first slide.
In the Philadelphia fifth, Jim Kaat led
off the inning with a drag-bunt single.
Cash walked, and Bowa forced Kaat at
third base. Mike Schmidt hit his twenty
sixth home run on a no-ball, 1-strike
pitch over the left field wall.
The Phillies scored all their runs in the
first inning off of Pirate pitcher Bruce
Kison as Larry Underwood and Ron
Reed combined to pitch a seven-hit, 3-0,
shutout, Thursday.
Jay Johnstone’s two run double keyed
the three run Phillie first.
In Friday’s game, Philadelphia broke
on top and never was headed, putting
three runs on the board in the third and
five more in the sixth to win going away,
11-1.
Cash (1), and Schmidt (25), hit homers
for the Phils while Parker (6) provided
the Pirate power.
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Philadelphia left-hander Steve Carlton added to the Pirate
downfall Saturday night with a 3-hit, 7-1 victory. Carlton
received a 25 second standing o vation in the 7th inning.
Phi I lie-Pirate
series synopsis
The Daily Collegian Monday, July 26,1976 5
Candelaria walked Luzinski and Allen
and after Brown flied to Parker, Maddox
singled to right field, driving in Luzinski.
That made the score 6-2.
The Pirates added a single run in the
seventh, on Bill Robinson’s double and
Dave Parker’s RBI single.
In the eighth inning, Taveras led off
against Kaat with a double down the left
field line. Stennett’s single moved
Taveras to third, where he scored on A 1
Oliver’s sacrifice fly to left field.
Stargell followed with a single, and
when Richie Zisk rapped a double off
relief pitcher Ron Reed, scoring Sten
nett, the Bucs had runners on second and
third with two outs. Parker drove a
single to center, scoring two runs to tie
the score and breathe life into the Pirate
corpse.
The kicking around in the coffin was
short lived, however, as the Phils came
to bat in the bottom of the eighth and
nailed down their fourth win of the five
games series.
Bowa singled and stole second, for the
fourth Philly theft of the day. Schmidt
got his third hit of the day, and his fourth
run batted-in, when he lined a Giusti
pitch to left field to score the fleet Bowa
with the winning run.
But the Phils didn’t stop. They weren’t
.about to let this one slip away again.
Luzinski followed Schmidt with a single
and then Giusti walked Tommy Hutton,
playing in place of Allen.
The scene was set. Ollie Brown ap
proached with bat in hand. He watched
Gius'ti run the count full, then hit a bpit
high fast ball for a grand-slam home
run, as 37,692 fans cheered and
screamed as though he had just planted
the pennant in Philadelphia.
Maybe he did.
Maybe he planted it in the heart of the
team that wouldn’t die.
Maybe.
The Pirates held on to win the first
game of Saturday’s twi-night double
header by a score of 8 to 5.
The Pirates jumped on top with four
runs in the first inning and forced the
Phils to play catch-up ball for the rest of
the game. The Pirates banged out 12 hits
off five Phil hurlers. Dick Allen hit his
thirteenth home run of the year.
In Saturday’s night-cap, the Phillies
chased across 4 runs in the sixth inning
on doubles by Johnstone, McCarver,
Cash and Bowa and went on to win 7-1.
Luzinski hit home run number 13. Richie
Zisk provided the Pirates only offense
with his thirteenth home run.