So we're ready to go. Horace Clark's stepping in, and now let's go back to Frank Messer, who will bring you along here in the first stages of this last series of the 1968 campaign. All right, Jerry Colman, thank you very much. Mark Clark is hitting 226, batting right-handed against the South Park they call for it. And the first pitch of the game is swung out and with high in the air to straightaway setter field.

Waiting for it to come down.

Reggie Smith, pounds the drop, puts it away, and there's one out on one pitch.

Shortstop Tom Tresh, batting 197.

Fresh is at 11 homehome runs, driven in 52 runs for the Yankees.

Currently with 98 base-ins.

He takes the first pitch for a ball one. He takes the first pitch for a ball one.

Dick Ellsworth, 28 years old.

One's on 22-game winner for the Chicago Cubs.

He gets a strike in on press.

The count evens one-in-one. Yeah. and one.

Elthworth deals.

Stretch takes inside.

Two balls and one strike.

Stretch with 98 base hits last year.

His total hit production for the season was 98.

And the count goes to three and one.

It tells what this is outside.

Carl Gist Trumpkin left field, Reggie Smith and Center, Ken Harrelson and Wright.

They give Trash the right field foul territory.

It's a shot ground ball to third, it's foul.

Joe Poy came up with it, ready to throw, but it was a foul ball by inches.

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