Sunday, July 6, 2008

May 21, 1969...GAME 36 (WAS 8, SEA 2)

Improvement !!! Washington scored 1 less run and Seattle posted one additonal one. All kidding aside, this was not good at all. Brabender got knocked out after 2, because he gave up 6 and was virtually throwing BP. Every Senator had a hit. Joe Coleman went 7 and gave up only 2 to improve his record to 6-2. Fred Talbot arrived on the scene. Former Yankee and former adversary of Bouton. Talbot immediately got the ball and pitched the final 6 innings and allowed only 2 runs. Fred's got the potential to be one of the good "ole" boys.
Coaching today at it's finest: Eddie O'Brien (aka Mr. Small) made a major announcement "Gentlemen, from now on we an ll run with our hats off. It's really silly for us to run with our hats on, because the band gets all sweaty and ruins the hat. Bouton of course had to respond by saying, "How come you weren't able to think about this a few weeks ago ?"O'B: "Well, it wasn't as warm then and we weren't sweating at the same rate as we are now"JIM: "Oh..."
Joe Schultz got thrown out of the game for offering the home plate ump his glasses after an obvious blown HR call. At least he's keeping the squad loose.

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