1979 10 13 Orioles at Pirates WS Game 4 Classic Baseball Radio
Thomas Paine Podcast
mike moore
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🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 239 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now the business has been taken care of, and let's get to our sidekick, George Sparky Anderson, the manager of the Detroit Tigers. Sparky, it is game four. They've each had a look at each other, and now it's Vivian Martinez. Would you say this question? I'm Fitzburg. They're down two games to one. Well, I think, Vince, to be true, for what if pilots have to win today? I believe that they lose today and have to face climbing in the mall. |
| 0:23.2 | I think that climbing rules would like nothing more than to put it away tomorrow. |
| 0:26.8 | To me, if I'm supposed to win today, I think it's going to go seven games. |
| 0:30.5 | In looking at the two pictures, and sooner or later it boils down to that, |
| 0:34.4 | because some figures lie and some should be interpreted. For instance, |
| 0:38.7 | in three games, the pirate team batting average is 290. The Baltimore team batting average |
| 0:44.8 | is 245. That's a lot of points to give away. But in earned run average, the Pittsburgh staff is over |
| 0:51.7 | four, and Baltimore is three, and therein lies the tail. |
| 0:55.8 | Sooner or later, it gets down to the fishing. |
| 0:57.7 | It always boils down the pitching, and if you can have anything, going into a short series, you'd better have to. |
| 1:03.2 | Now I've got to ask you about Jim Vibby as he prepares to pitch to Al Fumbris, and then it'll be Tico Garcia and Kenny Singlet. Libby is big, but he's somewhat unpredictable. Unpredictable, you never know how his control is going to be. There's a lot of breaking balls where he used to be solely a fastball pitcher. Now he's went to some off-speed pitches and breaking ball and seems so it really helped him. With 12 and 4, big right-hand is fastball. |
| 1:29.6 | He's one-out and missed, and we're underway. |
| 1:34.0 | Maybe during the year only worked in one-37 innings. |
| 1:36.8 | He did strike out 103 batters, |
| 1:40.1 | and he is better than two-to-one strikeouts to watch. |
| 1:42.5 | But he is a very deliberate pitcher. |
| 2:00.8 | Both he and Dennis Martinez take a lot of time. There's strike one pitch, fastball inside, one ball, one strike. Tell me about his stuff. Well, he's got a pretty good fastball. There's no question. He's probably above-average fastball. He's got a good hard slider. And when you have that side, he's deceiving because when he rolls on you, you don't get to see that ball for that last minute. The man that size says looks like he's grown from |
| 2:05.5 | about 52 feet instead of the regular 60p. Six inches. Jim Biddy is 6'5, 250 pounds, 34 years old. |
| 2:14.7 | So as Farkey said, when he makes his side towards the plate, you're not thinking 60 feet, |
| 2:18.9 | it looks more like 50. |
| 2:20.4 | One and two, the count to Al Bumbray. |
| 2:22.9 | Bumbray hitting 182 in the World Series. |
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