Coleman, Frank Messer and I are on here to bring you all the action.

Now the Yankee came in and surprised the Tigers and all the press by taking the first two games of this three-game series.

The third and final game today, it'll be Joe Sparmer against Stan Bunt and two hard throwing right-handers.

And in yesterday's ballgame, if you remember Mel Mel Stottelmeyer pitching the best game of his

career, a one-hitter to shut out Detroit, bought an up.

Jerry Coleman, who has a bit of clairvoyancy in that mind of his, interviewed Mel Stottelmeyer

down in spring training, and he asked some of the questions which were pertinent to yesterday's game.

We're going to have that interview right now.

Talking about doing things differently, you're doing something different with a new pitch out there,

and I understand it took you a year to master what is known as a sailor or something like it.

Well, Jerry, it's actually a true slider.

I start throwing an off-seam or cross-themed fastball and come up with this pitch. And I worked on it the whole year before I tried using it in the game. And it has been real successful and has helped me my other pitches too. So I'm going to stick with this pitch and it's helped me last two years

and i think it's going to help me more probably this year mel stottlemyer uh pitchers certainly uh make

a ball club and at the same time uh the men behind the pitcher helped to make him uh when there are errors

or when there are bad plays behind you uh what goes on in your mind i'm sure there must be be something. Well, Jerry, I rely on a good defense. That's my whole secret to pitching, I think. I try to keep the ball on the ground. And when there's an error, this is one thing I never let bother me, because errors are going to happen, and you certainly never should think too much about an error because actually an error by the pitcher, as far as I'm concerned,

is a base on ball.

So they don't have any hard feelings about a pitcher giving up a base on ball, so I don't

think anything about the airs.

They're going to happen.

Well, there you heard it, and it was very upropos, because, as you know, Stadlmyout,

with that new pitcher his, combined with his fastball and

sinker and curveball gave up just

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