Well, Gaylord Perry looks in now and finds Dave Cash at the plate, right-hand hitting second basement, followed by Richie Hebner and then Roberto Plymetti. Jimmy Hard, in on the rug at third, and Perry's first pitch, low and away, ball one. A sinker ball pitcher, I guess he's going to stay down all day, but I wondered about a sinkerball pitcher on Astro Terp. It would seem like that ball is going to find a lot of holes. That's right. The 1-0 pitch to cash, a little low. Ball 2. Perry drops his hands a little bit upset at the call. Two and all to count the cash. There has a check with Frank Oseac, coaching at third. Don Leppard, coaching it first.

One-nothing of the first inning.

Bright sunshine now here at Free River Stadium.

The two-o pitch to Dave Cash.

Fastball low.

Ball three.

The Giants really have to be a little uptight, let's face it. For the pirates, they have a margin of error. There's tomorrow for them, but not for the Giants that they lose. Three and all, the counted day of cash. Gaylord into the wind-up, and the big right-handed deliverers a strike. Three and one. He came up with that, too, to get the strike. Yes, you know, there's a difference in the umpires. We were talking about that the other day, and obviously this umpire is not going to give him that low strike at the knee, so he's going to have to bring it up. Here's the 3-1 pitch on the way, and he gets another strike around the letters, even though Cash leaned out of the way. So he's brought two pitches up for strike.

The first game that Terry worked, the plate umpire, was the next pitcher Tom Gorman.

Full count to Dave Cash. Terry, into the windup and Gaylord delivers, and it's sprayed fouled on the right field line out of play. I don't know if this is a crazy question or not.

When you are pitching, even before you go out to the mound, do you check to find out who the plate umpire is going to be? No, I very seldom do that. Once you get out on the mound, you'll see who's back there. Sometimes you'll see a stranger, you don't even know he is. Here's a three-two pitch to cash on the hand filed away. I was wondering whether you'd say, uh-oh, that means I don't get to pitch around the knees today,

and then you have to change your old game plan.

Oh, if you're sitting in a dugout and you look out and you see somebody that you don't like to be back here,

you might have a tendency to think that.

A bull count to Dave Cash.

Perry, reading Dick Deach, now to the wind-up in the 3-2. tendency to think that. Bull cow to Dave Cash.

Barry, reading Dick Deeds,

and out of the wind-up, and the three-two-fetch is filed away again.

If you personally dislike

an umpire, I don't know if you do, but if you

do, and he was working behind the plate,

would it bother you? No, I don't

think so. There's possibly somebody back there that you think it gives you a raw deal every time you go out there. But you have to concentrate on trying to get that hitter out, and you don't have time to be worried about who's back behind the plate. Three and two, the count of Dave Cash, opening up the bottom of the first, the Giants leading the pirates, one to nothing. Okay Gaylord, into the wind-up, and a three-two pitch is laced to center, but coming up his maze

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