Nobody wanted this win more than Gary "Ding Dong" Bell. Beating the team that cast you off is the goal of any expansion team player. Bell was brilliant for almost 8 innings, but the Pilots could not score for him. Jack Aker started the ninth and could not protect another lead. His ERA has ballooned to 15.00 and rumor has it Marvin Milkes is looking to find him a change of scenery. The Pilots scored in the top of the 10th and Diego Segui came on board to get one out and notch his 6th save on the season. Don Mincher hit a homer off of Romo to put the Pilots ahead. Aker blamed the 35 minute rain delay in the 9th for his shoulder stiffening up. One curious observer said, "but he wasn't even in the game at that point".Bouton and Maglie went at it again. Maglie again is clinging to the idea that a pitcher can not get by with just one pitch, aka the knuckleball. When asked about throwing it all the time Sal responded:
SAL: Well, you can do that if it's breaking
JIM: Fine, Then I can throw it all the time
SAL: But they start looking for the damn thing, and if it doesn't break you got nothing else.
JIM: What about (Hoyt) Wilhelm ? They wait for his knuckleball.
SAL: He throws that slider of his once in a while.
JIM: sure, but they don't look for his slider. They look for his knuckleball. He throws that slider of his once in a while. And what about when you threw the curve ball ?
SAL: When I was pitching they always looked for the curve (said with huge pride).
JIM: But you threw other pitches, didn't you ?
SAL: Oh, yeah !
JIM: But they always looked for your curve, right ?
SAL: Yeah, but they just couldn't hit. They tried, but they couldn't.
JIM: (thinking to himself) Even after all that he wouldn't admit that it didn't matter if the hitter was looking for it as long as the pitch was good enough. It all goes back to not wanting to contradict what he said in spring training.
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