Sanchez picked up a full game and are now only two and a half games behind the first place Cincinnati.

They both lost 54 games, but Cincinnati has won five more games than Los Angeles,

so the Dodgers have their worst cut out for them to catch up.

And right now the Yankees takes the field. Right now, we'll have our national anthem.

Oh, my national anthem. The and the All right.

All right, where about ready to go and speaking of distinguished guests in the Yankee box. We have one right here. He's going to take the microphone away from me, Red Barber. You call me a guest? And also, you think that if you didn't want to turn this microphone, it looks like a gift, get it out of your hand? Oh, yes, Fred. I have a very light grip.

Never gripped the bat real tight when I was playing.

Phil, I was just thinking it was a very sensitive moment to hear the national anthem and just the former President Truman down there.

Well, you're playing ball when you threw out some of the first baseballs of the season one?

Yes, I hate to say it, Red, but I was playing when the late President Roosevelt was throwing out first balls down and watching. Did you ever catch any? Oh, I didn't have a chance with those monsters in front of me. Eddie Robinson would get one. All those big guys had knocked me out of the way. Once I sat on somebody's shoulder and had a good chance,

but I couldn't quite reach it. I was talking with Sid Hudson down the dog out. He said that he got what? I know. He got it when he was playing with Washington pitching for them when I was with the anchors, and I remember the day he got it. Well, I've never been at Washington for the first game tournament. The first game tournament, they're the gisting and the home players all get together when the president throws out the ball?

Yes, we all line up like two football teams, and it's just like a guy going through the middle when he throws that ball.

Everybody dies, and you've got to look out and get spiked there.

Do you know if anybody ever getting spiked?

No, not getting spiked, but roughed up a little bit.

All right, you know, you have a piceless background.

And I mean that, too, Fred.

He had, the wish I had it.

Well,

it's one of the auditors of a baseball season from 20-A.

There's Washington, which has lost 17 out of 18, and yet they've played the Yankees to a partial standoff out of 14 ball days. 7-7. And here's Marty Keogh, first up. Left had a hitter. Roland Sheldon delivered the curve, and Keelho hits the half by right out the right field of field of blanket. John makes the good.

Mattel yesterday was not supposed to play with the sore left arm.

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