Right now we're all set to go.

The Three River Stadium, here's Nellick King.

From Three River Stadium with Bob Prince, this is Nellie King to greet you for the first game of the final three games of the 1973 regular season between the Pirates and the Machi-Alich's roads here at Three Rivers.

The Pirates won back of the New York Mets, the Eastern Division winners.

Needs three wins here against Montreal.

That's the feeling of the Pirates.

The Mets were rained out today against the Cubs.

They've got a couple of doubleheaders coming up tomorrow and Sunday, and that is always a big problem.

Five clubs, however, still remain in the race with just three days remaining in the Eastern Division season.

And the exos are fighting for their lives here tonight. Their magic number is one, one more loss, and they are out of the race, but what a year they've had. The Mets, the fire St. Louis, Montreal, and Chicago, all have a chance to wind up in a child for a first place. I'll have the starting lineups for tonight's ball game after I remind you that this game is

brought to you in part five.

AFRTS, seriously, let's get around and tell you exactly what happened on Thursday night.

The pirates lived through a familiar nightmare and an unfamiliar one.

The pirates lost the game they couldn't really afford to lose on a wild pitch, and that was certainly nothing new for them.

When Chris Zachary, wild pitch told Greg Lozinski in the 13th inning to give Philadelphia a 3-2 victory over the buck,

it brought back memories of the maintenance of last year's final playoff game with Cincinnati when Bob Booth Wild pitch to home to deciding

run. But the unusual feature of this game was how Luzinski got to third base in the first place.

Reaching second was nothing special as he singled and was sacrificed to second. The strategy called

for an intentional walk to Bob Boone, and Zachary was supposed to throw

four wide runs.

But the first one got too close to the plate, and Boone slapped it for a single to send

Lewinsky to third.

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