GAME 1 - Big A
Stottlemyre vs C.Wright
Angels 7, Yankees 1
Clyde Wright dispatched the Bombers quite easily allowing just one unearned run in the 8th before exiting and handing he ball to Mel Queen to mop up. Both of NY's hits were by rightfielder Andy Kosco. The Halos unleashed a 15 hit barrage against New York's ace. Catcher Joe Azcue (4-4) was perfect on the day with the bat. Four Halos chipped in with 2 hit games, including Alex Johnson, who also had 2 RBI's.
Stottlemyre vs C.Wright
Angels 7, Yankees 1
Clyde Wright dispatched the Bombers quite easily allowing just one unearned run in the 8th before exiting and handing he ball to Mel Queen to mop up. Both of NY's hits were by rightfielder Andy Kosco. The Halos unleashed a 15 hit barrage against New York's ace. Catcher Joe Azcue (4-4) was perfect on the day with the bat. Four Halos chipped in with 2 hit games, including Alex Johnson, who also had 2 RBI's.
GAME 2
Bahnsen vs Murphy
Yankees 6, Angels 2
After being held at bay the night before the Bronx Bombers attacked the scoreboard with 3 quick runs off of Tom Murphy in the top of the 1st with on swing of the bat. Joe "ya could have made us proud" Pepitone slammed a 2 out 3 run blast to get New York on the board. A solo run in the 5th and 2 more insurance runs in the 6th staked Bahnsen to a nearly insurmountable lead. Then in the bottom of the 9th the Halos offense came to life as Bahnsen's fastball inched closer to death. Steve Hamilton was summoned from the pen to put the fire out after the Angels scored 2 runs off the tiring Bahnsen. After yielding an RBI single to pinch hitter Cowan Hamilton got pinch hitter Chico Ruiz to ground out weakly to short to end the game.
GAME 3 - Yankee Stadium
May vs Peterson
Yankees 5, Angels 4 (15 inn)
After splitting the first two games of the series the rubber match turned into a 15 inning extravaganza. The Angels scored 3 off of Fritz Peterson in the 2nd with a 3 run shot by Cowan, who also knocked in the team's 4th run via ground out in the 6th. Down 4-0 and going nowhere fast NY got its only 3 run blast to bring the game to within 1 run. For the second day in a row Pepi went yard and NY was back in this one. After Charley Smith led off the home half of the 8th with a pinch hit triple, Roy White doubled him home to tie the game. White gambled and tried to tag up on a long fly to right, but was cut down at 3rd for the first out of the game. With the next two batters working out walks the Yankees had 1st and 2nd with 2 out instead of bases loaded with one out. That mistake loomed large and help facilitate the game moving into extra innings. If the Yankees lose this game they drop further in the standings in the AL East, so a win was much needed. For the next 5 innings goose eggs were thrown up on the scoreboard. In the bottom of the 15th possible goat Roy White led off with a single and moved to second on Horace Clarke's walk. Pepi popped up to second and the Mick, who barely missed a homer in the 13th, struck out looking. It looked like Dave LaRoche had things in order and the game would move to the 16th inning, but veteran outfielder Andy Kosco would have none of that. On a 1-2 count LaRoche threw Kosco an breaking ball on the outside corner. Kosco didn't try to do too much with it and lined the ball down the 1st base line just out of the reach of a diving Jim Spencer. Since there were two outs the runners were moving, which didn't really make much of a difference since the ball sliced into the rightfield corner as Roy White easily scored for the walk off win.
Yankees 6, Angels 2
After being held at bay the night before the Bronx Bombers attacked the scoreboard with 3 quick runs off of Tom Murphy in the top of the 1st with on swing of the bat. Joe "ya could have made us proud" Pepitone slammed a 2 out 3 run blast to get New York on the board. A solo run in the 5th and 2 more insurance runs in the 6th staked Bahnsen to a nearly insurmountable lead. Then in the bottom of the 9th the Halos offense came to life as Bahnsen's fastball inched closer to death. Steve Hamilton was summoned from the pen to put the fire out after the Angels scored 2 runs off the tiring Bahnsen. After yielding an RBI single to pinch hitter Cowan Hamilton got pinch hitter Chico Ruiz to ground out weakly to short to end the game.
GAME 3 - Yankee Stadium
May vs Peterson
Yankees 5, Angels 4 (15 inn)
After splitting the first two games of the series the rubber match turned into a 15 inning extravaganza. The Angels scored 3 off of Fritz Peterson in the 2nd with a 3 run shot by Cowan, who also knocked in the team's 4th run via ground out in the 6th. Down 4-0 and going nowhere fast NY got its only 3 run blast to bring the game to within 1 run. For the second day in a row Pepi went yard and NY was back in this one. After Charley Smith led off the home half of the 8th with a pinch hit triple, Roy White doubled him home to tie the game. White gambled and tried to tag up on a long fly to right, but was cut down at 3rd for the first out of the game. With the next two batters working out walks the Yankees had 1st and 2nd with 2 out instead of bases loaded with one out. That mistake loomed large and help facilitate the game moving into extra innings. If the Yankees lose this game they drop further in the standings in the AL East, so a win was much needed. For the next 5 innings goose eggs were thrown up on the scoreboard. In the bottom of the 15th possible goat Roy White led off with a single and moved to second on Horace Clarke's walk. Pepi popped up to second and the Mick, who barely missed a homer in the 13th, struck out looking. It looked like Dave LaRoche had things in order and the game would move to the 16th inning, but veteran outfielder Andy Kosco would have none of that. On a 1-2 count LaRoche threw Kosco an breaking ball on the outside corner. Kosco didn't try to do too much with it and lined the ball down the 1st base line just out of the reach of a diving Jim Spencer. Since there were two outs the runners were moving, which didn't really make much of a difference since the ball sliced into the rightfield corner as Roy White easily scored for the walk off win.
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