(Gary Nolan vs Vida Blue)
Both teams squandered opportunities early. In the visitor second a Billy Williams walk and Ken McMullen single set up Hal Lanier and Chris Cannizzaro. Neither of those gentlemen came through as Lanier bunted out to Blue and Blue K'd the Aces catcher. Breezy Point's first two batters of the last of the second reached base as Deron Johnson walked and Smith lined a single to center. With runners on first and second and none out, Nolan toughed his way out unscathed by retiring Nettle, Bench, and Cardenas in succession. San Diego nearly drew first blood in the third when Hershberger doubled to the base of the wall in left and raced toward home on a Chris Chambliss single. However, Jim Hickman averted the scoring attempt with a strike to the plate as Bench blocked home and snapped a tag on Hershberger for the final out of the inning. In the last of the third Alomar and Hickman had back-to-back singles with one out, but were left stranded as Dave May popped out and Deron Johnson K'd. More scoring opportunities abounded for San Diego in the fourth. Willie Horton led off with a single to shallow left and Hal Lanier stroked a solid single between short and third with two out. Chris Cannizzaro then struck out as two more men were left on base for the Aces. The bottom of the fourth prompted the first real fireworks of the day as Reggie Smith and Graig Nettles smacked back-to-back homers over the right field wall to propel the Claws to a two nothing lead. Both Nolan and Blue then settled into a groove after that as neither team mounted any scoring opportunities. Nolan went nearly eight innings before being lifted in favor of Fred Scherman in the eighth with one out and Vida Blue tossed eight innings of shutout ball while striking out eight among his 139 pitches. Tommy John worked the ninth for the Claws and retired Williams, McMullen, and pinch hitter Jim Northrup in order to complete the 2 - 0 Breezy Point victory.
10/23/1971, SDA71-BRZ71, RFK Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1971 Aces 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 7 1
1971 Blue Claws 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 x 2 8 0 6 1
Aces AB R H BI AVG Blue Claws AB R H BI AVG
Clarke 2b 4 0 0 0 .000 Alomar 2b 4 0 1 0 .250
Hersberger cf 4 0 1 0 .250 Hickman lf 4 0 1 0 .250
Chambliss 1b 3 0 1 0 .333 May rf 4 0 1 0 .250
Horton rf 4 0 1 0 .250 Johnson 1b 2 0 0 0 .000
Williams lf 3 0 0 0 .000 Kaline ph 1 0 1 0 1.000
McMullen 3b 3 0 1 0 .333 Smith cf 3 1 2 1 .667
Lanier ss 1 0 1 0 1.000 Kingman ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Gagliano ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Parker 1b 0 0 0 0 .000
Brinkman ss 0 0 0 0 .000 Nettles 3b 3 1 1 1 .333
Northrup ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Bench c 3 0 0 0 .000
Cannizzaro c 3 0 0 0 .000 Cardenas ss 3 0 1 0 .333
Nolan p 3 0 1 0 .333 Blue p 3 0 0 0 .000
Scherman p 0 0 0 0 .000 John p 0 0 0 0 .000
30 0 6 0 31 2 8 2
Aces INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Nolan L 0-1 7.1 7 2 2 1 4 116 73 2.45
Scherman 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 9 7 0.00
8.0 8 2 2 1 5 125 80
Blue Claws INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Blue W 1-0 8.0 6 0 0 3 8 139 84 0.00
John S 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 11 7 0.00
9.0 6 0 0 3 8 150 91
SDA: Gagliano batted for Lanier in the 7th
Brinkman inserted at ss in the 7th
Northrup batted for Brinkman in the 9th
BRZ: Kaline batted for Johnson in the 8th
Kingman batted for Smith in the 8th
May moved to cf in the 9th
Kaline moved to rf in the 9th
Parker inserted at 1b in the 9th
2B-Hersberger. HR-Smith(1), Nettles(1). K-Clarke, Chambliss, Horton 2,
Cannizzaro 3, Nolan, Alomar, Johnson, Smith, Nettles, Kingman. BB-Chambliss,
Williams, McMullen, Johnson. SH-Lanier.
GWRBI: Smith
Temperature: 70, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: right to left at 3 MPH.
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Game 2 (Sonny Siebert vs Dave Roberts)
As if tired of having runners reach base and then having nothing to show for it in the prior game, the Aces reversed that trend early in game two. Horace Clarke and Jim Northrup lead the game off with singles to open the game. Billy Williams pounded what looked like a potential double play ball to Alomar, but the quick outfielder beat the throw to first while Clarke scooted home. Willie Horton followed with an infield single and Joe Pepitone reached first and loaded the bases when his home plate dribbler in front of Bench resulted in an errant throw by the usually flawless catcher. Bases loaded and one out and Ken McMullen supplied run number two with a sac fly to left as Billy Leo waltzed home. Hal Lanier flied out to center as the home team was lucky the visitors only got two runs. Breezy Point drew to within a run in the last of the fourth on a Deron Johnson solo blast to left field off of an oh one change up that didn't fool the Claws slugging first sacker. Johnson tied the game at two on his next at bat in the last of the sixth. This time Johnson porched a one-one fastball to deep left center to tie the game at two a piece. The Aces scored once in the top of the seventh on a Horace Clark two out double that brought home Larry Stahl who reached first on a single when pinch hitting for catcher Paul Casanova. The Claws immediately tied the score in the latter half of that inning when Bench singled, stole second and moved to third on a Cardenas single with one out. Sandy Valdespino pinch hit for Dave Roberts but Siebert retired him on a pop out to first as Joe Pepitone reached into the third row of seats along the wall by the dugout for the second out. Sand Alomar came through with a clutch two out single between first and second as Bench scored the tying run before Hickman flied out to center as the game was tied at three after seven complete. Pat Dobson and Siebert pitched scoreless eighth innings as the game moved to the ninth. Things looked ominous for the Claws when Dobson plunked lead off Aces third sacker Ken McMullen on the arm. However, Brinkman forced McMullen out at second, Canizzaro flied out to right, and Siebert grounded out to Dobson to finish off San Diego . Fred Scherman took the mound in the ninth and immediately gave up a single to Nettles which prompted a quick switch to Jim Ray. The move paid immediate dividends when Ray K'd Bench. However, Nettles stole second to take the double play out of the equation and Cardenas was intentionally walked to put runners on first and second with one out. Rusty Torres sauntered to the plate as a pinch hitter for Dobson and quickly ended the game with a first pitch single between first and second base as Nettles raced home with the game winning run as Breezy Point took two close games at home heading to sunny San Diego with a two zero advantage.
10/24/1971, SDA71-BRZ71, RFK Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1971 Aces 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 0 6 1
1971 Blue Claws 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 10 1 7 0
Aces AB R H BI AVG Blue Claws AB R H BI AVG
Clarke 2b 4 1 3 1 .375 Alomar 2b 3 0 1 1 .286
Northrup cf 4 0 1 0 .200 Hickman lf 4 0 0 0 .125
Williams lf 4 1 0 1 .000 May rf 4 0 1 0 .250
Horton rf 3 0 1 0 .286 Johnson 1b 4 2 2 2 .333
Gagliano ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Smith cf 4 0 1 0 .429
Blomberg rf 0 0 0 0 .000 Nettles 3b 4 1 2 0 .429
Pepitone 1b 4 0 1 0 .250 Bench c 4 1 1 0 .143
McMullen 3b 2 0 0 1 .200 Cardenas ss 3 0 1 0 .333
Lanier ss 2 0 0 0 .333 Roberts p 2 0 0 0 .000
Hersberger ph 1 0 0 0 .200 Valdespino ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Harmon ss 0 0 0 0 .000 Dobson p 0 0 0 0 .000
Brinkman ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Torres ph 1 0 1 1 1.000
Casanova c 2 0 0 0 .000 34 4 10 4
Stahl ph 1 1 1 0 1.000
Cannizzaro c 1 0 0 0 .000
Siebert p 4 0 0 0 .000
Scherman p 0 0 0 0 .000
Ray p 0 0 0 0 .000
34 3 7 3
Aces INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Siebert 8.0 8 3 3 1 7 109 70 3.38
Scherman L 0-1 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 13.50
Ray 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 9 5 0.00
8.1 10 4 4 2 8 120 77
Blue Claws INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Roberts 7.0 7 3 2 0 2 82 59 2.57
Dobson W 1-0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 19 13 0.00
9.0 7 3 2 0 2 101 72
SDA: Hersberger batted for Lanier in the 7th
Stahl batted for Casanova in the 7th
Harmon inserted at ss in the 7th
Cannizzaro inserted at c in the 7th
Gagliano batted for Horton in the 8th
Blomberg inserted at rf in the 8th
Brinkman batted for Harmon in the 9th
Brinkman moved to ss in the 9th
BRZ: Valdespino batted for Roberts in the 7th
Torres batted for Dobson in the 9th
E-Bench. 2B-Clarke, Pepitone. HR-Johnson 2(2). SB-Nettles(1), Bench(1).
K-Northrup, Siebert, Hickman, Johnson, Smith 2, Bench 2, Roberts 2.
BB-Alomar, Cardenas. SF-McMullen. HBP-McMullen. HB-Dobson.
GWRBI: Torres
Temperature: 55, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: left to right at 11 MPH.
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