TRANSCRIPT: Ep. 25: THE STRETCH Cubs vs. Brewers: The Rivalry is Born

Text Transcript of Ep. 25

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Woah, too. It’s ninety miles the threat. Good afternoon baseball fans. We are taking a stretch back to the very first ballgame between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs. Now, this is not your nineteen o one Milwaukee Brewers that would later become the Baltimore Orioles. Right Ryan, right. Right. Not that, right. Jesse and Ryan or here. No, not quite that. Although we might do that one. Yeah. Yeah, we’ll do that a different time. But this particular Milwaukee Brewers club. We did a stretch opus owed previously, and we’ve mentioned it before where we did the very first brewers cubs National League’s central game. But today we are doing the very first Bruce cubs game of history. This occurred on June thirteenth nineteen ninety seven to twenty two pm local time at Wrigley field. Wrigley field of day game, of course to twenty two pm kind of arty cover that thirty six thousand one hundred seven and attend. That’s the Milwaukee Brewers were sporting their other league green and blue logo. If you listen to our previous stretch episode we go out about that for a minute or two. But these two clubs nineteen Ninety-seven the first year that they met in interleague play that Ryan. Yeah, pretty wild. We, you know, they I guess it’s interesting that they did very first year interleague was introduced, it makes sense being central respectively center, ninety miles and being ninety miles apart. Yeah. Definitely makes sense. You know. So, yeah, I guess let’s you know, jump in into it here. I mean it was. Yeah. Day game. We were at Wrigley field. And I you know what was it? Well, seventy three degrees and sunny. Just a light wind seven miles per hour. From right field, dry beautiful beautiful June day in Chicago. Can’t get any better than that. And yeah. So, you know, starting out here, top of the first, let’s talk about the stars who’s on the who, who was on the hill for the for the cubs. That Terry Mulholland was pitching. All right. And yep. Yeah. He you know he played. He played for quite a quite a while quite a few years. Hey, at a twenty year career some might remember him. Well he was with a lot of different teams. He was with that Lanta for a little bit Philadelphia. But yeah, he, he did spend a little bit. A time with the cubs and ninety seven you know. He was. All right. I don’t know. He was he was. He was good in a long career. But you know enough he made an all star game in nineteen Ninety-three with Philadelphia other than that, not nothing of note. Really? He spent sure. I got he was on one two three. Eleven different teams. So if that tells you anything. A couple of things, but is best years were with Philadelphia earlier, on, he was had a three eighty one, a over six years with them. But, but anyways, who is anyways, he would be facing a yeah. He was up against Jeff DEA Meco kind of just a another guy, right? He had a career four six one ERA spent several years in the big leagues mostly with Milwaukee, you know, one two, three four five six seven eight about eight or nine year career several years in Milwaukee just a another one of those mid nineties pitchers that, you know help keep things kind of steady. The brewers were you know, they weren’t good. But they weren’t bad around that time. So that’s kind of who was up for the brew crew. Yeah. To go top the first you had Mulholland facing some brew crew batters with they were gonna lead off the game with Gerald Williams. Felled by Mark Loretta. Who was a second baseman, Jeff Cirillo? Well, no name, Bruce history playing third base the four or five and six hitters were Todd done Dave Nielsen and Matt Miki. Nielsen AMIS skier probably somewhat familiar names. Mike Mathie knees name, everybody should know who’s betting seventh for the brewers. He was the cardinals manager up until the middle of last season. This is we’re recording this in twenty nineteen. So the middle twenty eighteen is when they find the can, Mike Metheny.

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Oh, no. It’s. Thanks. Ninety seven right now. Will all? Yeah. I mean yeah. It’s nineteen Ninety-seven we’re recording. This is stretch has never mind. Twenty nineteen. What are you talking about? I don’t even know way in the future flying cars and cubs. Yeah. By then I bet and stuff like that. Yeah. Probably Hawaii dragons or something. Right. Right. All right. All right. Let’s get to the top of the since Gerald William. It’s the brewers batting. Yep. Gerald Williams gets up to the plate. Terry Mulholland induces him into a groundout. Yeah. The next batter. Mark Loretta singles to right field on a line drive Loretta, yes. So Mark Loretta another name from brewers lore ended up with a very nice little career to ninety five batting average bum seventy six bombs over that period of time, not bad. He wasn’t it up with. No. He was very. I mean for a second baseman, you know, no PS around seven fifty four for your career is very good at a long time as well. His Ben years, probably remembered, yes, a lot of people probably remember him best, I think for playing with sandiego. That’s how I remember him best. Although I remember him obviously as a brewer before that. So Mark Loretta gets a pitch to. Yeah. Yeah. To right field had a couple of good years in San Diego. I just know. Yeah, but yeah, Yep. Yep. So he he’d lines one to right field gets on base that brings up surreal. Oh, Sorolla gets into a full count situation and just as everybody would hope he would if you’re a cubs fan, he strikes out swinging and Tut Todd done who I know nothing about, even as a brewers fan ended up grounding out to third base, and that wrapped up top of the first inning. Well. Sounds good. Sounds exciting. Yes. Time to go get a go get an old style between innings here now. All right. So bomber the first now the cubs are up facing Di Meco and cubs got their lineup. They have just run down there lineup real quickly talks about some of them as, as come up. Brian McRae, leading off. He let off a lot around that time you know he had he had a little bit of speed. So he was kind of one of those pro typical leadoff hitters at the time speed. You know, not maybe you know, not a bad on base percentage want better. But he definitely was one, you know that if he got on base often with stealing, yet, a nineteen Ninety-six yet thirty seven stolen bases. But in any case, you know, he’s up. I now. Ahead on the others as as we go here, but. He comes up and he hits a fly ball towards center field. And it is an out. So Gerald Williams reels it in. Yes. And so next Brant Brown who I know nothing about, and I’m pulling no he played for five years in the majors from ninety six to two thousand very rather short career and ended up with two forty seven career batting average seven forty six oh p s a negative point nine war in his career. So, yeah, not not much there. I guess I don’t know played for four years, Takagi years for Pittsburgh. And I, I just the name is sort of a millionaire, but obviously. Looking at his numbers, I can see why perhaps he’s little forgettable. But in any case, he comes up, and he ends up swinging strikeout. So so much for that filthy d’amico stuff. Yes. Yes. So that brings up mar grace baton third for the cubs and, you know, he obviously I talked about him. He ended up with a career three three batting average career. Eight twenty five Opie PS very solid player. One of my favorites at, at the time for sure, you know he was he was good. And he played thirteen years for the cubs, and he comes up, and he’s able to draw a walk off of d’amico.

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So, you know, maybe get something going. We got a base runner and, and that brings up the cleanup hitter and Sammy Sosa, which I think people probably have heard this heard of him. He’s a bit famous for a few thing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he’s got an eight seven eight anything. Yeah. I know didn’t say anything. Don’t dare. Right. You say that I, but I see a lot of home runs in his future. That’s what I see. Yeah. My crystal ball here since it’s ninety seven right? Yeah. Well, it’s ninety seven ninety six he had forty home runs. You know, it’s like, okay, he’s a good power hitter. Yeah. But that was that was just a little touch of what he would do later years, ninety eight sixty six ninety nine he had sixty three two thousand year two thousand one hundred sixty four to did you did you go? Did you get biff sports guy futures? How do you know all of this stuff? Oh, wait. I’ve never mind. I’m just under these are just predictions. I making predictions, yes. Yes. Spoke away. Yeah. To the future. Almanac from two thousand right? What happens with what happens with swing and Sammy here at the bottom of the first innings quite a quite a sports almanac has says baseball reference dot dot com on it. I don’t know what that means. What’s what anyway dot com? Okay. All right. Sosa’s up and you know, so. It’s one of two results, a lot of times, neither it’s a five hundred foot bomb like Jose can Canseco or it’s a. Strikeout. He plays softball. Strikeout swing. Yeah. He’s he was one of the early on. True three outcome. Guys. Not really though. Sammy was had a pretty good batting average. But that brings us into the bottom half. Or I’m sorry. The top half of the second inning. So Terry Mulholland is back on the hill for the Cubbies and that brings up one Dave Nielsen for the brewers. This is the catcher goes ahead. Steps into the play. Dave Nielsen, we’ve talked about. And I L S S O N. We’ve talked about him a couple of times before on various moments in the stretch episode, not a bad career at all. If I recall correctly, I wanna say he was Australian-born spent his whole career with Milwaukee basically, eight full seasons. And yeah I’m looking at the same weird reference guide that you have apparently. Yeah, yeah. Average to eighty four Opie Essa eight seventeen. So very solid player. That’s very good production. I feel like out of out to that particular position. But he was playing first base today. So I think he started as a catcher and moved. I that’s something I’d have to look back into anyway. He lines out to center field. So Mulholland gets them to, to hit one into the middle, but not good enough met Miki follows in he singles to shortstop. So a shot to the whole between shortstop and third gets knocked down, but me ski legs it out. And that would bring up one Mike Metheny defaced Mulholland one out, one on Mulholland delivers Mathie with a line out to center field, and that brings us to one Jose Valentin also somebody, we’ve talked about previous moments. Not a bad ball player but not a great ball player. Just the nice little career the number eight hole hitter today. The delivery from Mulholland on two one pitch. And he gets a hold of it. And it is deep left field. Line drive and it is in the bleachers. Oh a two run shots. Yes. To go pro. Maha scores Valentine. That’s what you get what you walk a guy. He didn’t walk you get when one goes into the hole, and you can’t throw them out. So there you go. Valentine takes hall in deep and that brings up the pitcher, which is nineteen Ninety-seven believe me the bruise pitchers. Weren’t taking a lot of adding probably not know they were an American League team. This was a brand new idea, and shockingly enough. Jeff d’amico? Goes down on strikes how, but the damage is done. The damage is done to hits two runs. Nobody left on base in the brewers jump out to to nothing lead in the top half of the second inning.

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Now. Yeah. Well, yeah. That was awesome. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. So a beautiful data put one in the bleachers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So as we move along now they got some work to do. They need to put the bronze on the board here. So let’s see if they can do something here with sambergen coming up Ryan sambergen. So we didn’t get to talk to about him as much before says is going to mention a couple of things. Nineteen ninety seven was his last season. He retired after that. He was my favorite player growing up. So he had he had a very solid career. You know he had a career to eighty five batting average in seven ninety five Opie s he had a sixty eight career war. In the end his is numbers was enough to get him in the hall of fame and he also won nine Gold Gloves seven silver sluggers us an all star game ten times. And also won the MVP in nineteen Eighty-four. So anyways, this is right at the tail end of his career last season. He he had an okay season. He batted two sixty four at a seven eleven opium. Yes. But the, the cubs huge power numbers. What’s that, not huge power numbers? But yeah. Still a very solid. Yeah. Yeah. I mean you know, he he had been his homerun tolls have been going down a bit in at this point and stuff. But, but yeah, right. So he’s up to bat here. He’s gonna face Emeco and he hits a ground ball to third base. That’s surreal low. Right. And yes, surreal is over and Thirdly up. And he’s nags it throws the first to get the yes. And that brings up Kevin Ori who. Kevin Oris interesting. You know, I. You know, it’s kind of interesting because he’s one of those players that maybe in some ways remembered, maybe kind of for not such a good thing, although I you know, it’s questionable on the whole thing anyways, but he he only played for years couple with the cubs. But the his name to me. I you know, Kevin ori- comes to mind, he was the one that Kerry Wood’s twenty strikeout game in nineteen ninety eight the one hit the one hit in that game, which would have been a no hitter. If it wasn’t for this was either, either a it winded up being ruled a hit although some say, whether it should have been an error on Ori, but in any case, he’s a little bit known for that probably more so than anything else, given that otherwise general he was, you know, he’s a career to forty nine batting average. He played, you know. You know, any only played for for four seasons, so. Yeah. And that’s not the not guys that only play for four seasons. Get to the big leagues is amazing. Oh, yeah. Just lighting our favourite and the best players. One for your career in the big leagues. Man, you’re a heck of a ball about it. This is best to the best out of oil, many people, it’s incredible. I mean you get even one at bat. You get one little taste of the majors year, one of the best you’re like the top. You know, one percent baseball players in the world. You know what I mean? I mean that’s exactly so yeah, I just wanted to throw that. No. I just want to say that because I don’t wanna be like, we’re we aren’t shortchanging any of these guys when we bypass them. Like, hey I, I don’t know who that guy is. That’s not what we’re trying to do here. We’re bringing back and breathing some life back into these games. And it’s really cool to see some of these names that you only heard once in a while realize how incredibly difficult it is to have a fourteen year career something like that. That’s that’s amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, and I think with him, I mean, he’s not as I mean, it’s not as it’s not as much of like a Bill Buckner thing, you know. No, no, no. I mean, Bill Buckner was really good player. He should certainly. Be more well known for his career, you know, and he. He’s the batting champion. He won a batting title. Fantastic ballplayer Bill Buckner, and yes. Recently passed actually. Yeah. If you’re if you’re listening to this in the future, it’s been within the last, you know, few days that Bill pass.

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Yeah. Yeah. And he was he played on the cubs as well. And that’s probably another another episode or something there. But in any case, you know, Kevin ori- unfortunately, Ninety-seven. Yes, yes, we’re in one thousand nine hundred seven anyways, give it Ori? You know, I guess, in some ways is known a little more for his maybe air or whatever in the Kerry wood game. But nonetheless, I think he’s known I think he’s known for striking out in this at bat against Jeff d’amico. I think that’s what it ends up being the result of this at bat. So, unfortunately groundout strike out, and that brings up Scott service, and, you know, Scott service. He played. He played for eleven years. He you know he was a catcher. So it takes you know takes a little bit of the weight off of his hitting performance. But he you know, he was he was okay. He was. All right. Again, he is one of the best baseball players in the world. If you look at everyone that’s ever played baseball. But, you know, but as far as a major league baseball player, you know, he had a career to forty five batting average six eighty one Opie s you know, in a three point one war cumulatively over eleven years, which is like half like what the typical MVP does in one season. So I guess the put it in perspective. He was he was your average replacement player, if you wanna look at it, yes, yes. And, and any was, you know, being being a catcher, you know, there’s, there’s other skill sets involved there. So. Not too correct diminished, too much. But in any case. He’s up to bat Andy. It’s a pop fly and it’s in the infield. And it looks like the shortstop is going to catch Valentine Jose Valentin the up grabs that doesn’t note to to at the top of this inning. Jeremy burnett’s did replacement Miki in right field. Germy burnett’s is a name that we do remember. Well, yes history, and I think believes Colorado, he ended up with two. So all of that going on that puts us through the top, or the bottom half of the second inning, we’re going to kind of skip along a bit. Yeah, nothing, major happens. Next couple of innings actually to wrap up the third inning. Both teams ground into double plays. So the brewers ground into the alley the cubs grounded new double play to wrap up those in we can play, you know. Yeah, we’re really picking it up now flying. Yes. All right. So. All right. Back to Terry Mulholland on the mound. Dave Nielsen back at the play at the first baseman for the brewers. He works at two two oak and singles, the left field seeing I single grown bowl, Jeremy Burnitz. This is why it was important. We mentioned that he was in the game now for me. Ski looks like Miki maybe came out with an injury. Burnett s-. He gets to the plate, and he had a heck of a nice year, actually hit a heck of a nice career with the brewers just to touch on a couple of things for brunettes really one of the better known names in brewers history. This particular career nineteen point eight war, three hundred fifteen career home runs and Opie s of eight twenty six so some very good pop in his bat for Scher, a big key guy over Bruce history. Well known played several years in Milwaukee fourteen years total. So the bulk of his career was in Milwaukee, but he did bones around play from the Mets the Indians. The dodgers the rocks. The cubs included in two thousand five as well back to the ball game though. Yeah. Singles and that brings us to Mike Metheny, who I’m predicting in the future at some point may manage big league ballclub, because that’s kind of the kind of guy he is. It’s nineteen Ninety-seven. He pops. Seems seems like he’s got the characteristics to be a major league manager. Yeah, it’s amazing. How that happens, isn’t it? Yeah. That’s a good. I wonder if that’ll happen within a catcher, maybe manage a team in the in the National League central which doesn’t exist yet. Anyway. So that gets us one out. And that brings up one Jose Valentin boy. Valentine again here we go. Yeah. Yeah, he already homered this. In this particular season would hit Hollin seeing Mahal and pretty good. So that he’s got them kind of locked in.

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Let’s take this. I it looks like first pitch is is a ball. Yeah. I think Bohol trying to stay out of looks like he’s trying to work around around a little bit, and then strip. The next pitch is also a ball and here comes the third pitches that bad. Both three so three in. Oh, okay. Well, that we don’t like that. We got runners on first and seconds one out. I don’t I don’t know. You know, this isn’t Barry Bonds up here. So, you know, I think we got a I think he got a get one in the zone here. And, you know, you gotta go after gotta go after them. So go ahead. Tell keep in mind, Jose Valentine’s, a bit of a free swinger, be careful here. Yes. Well, what go ahead and take it from there. What happens on the next pitch? All right. Mulholland into the wind and delivers. Well hit to left field. Ground balls screamer. Nielsen is going to turn the corner. Score. Bernez out his way to third. Looks like the left field. It turns throws it into second base. In the brewers have runners on the cast lead three to nothing Terry Mulholland having a lot of ground ball, success today at times, but that one squeezes through hard on the ground driving in Nielsen. Yeah. That takes boy joy out of a nice summer day. I Wrigley, but all right, fine. Yeah. Would it would? Well luckily enough. Maybe the reason that Mulholland was working so carefully developed teen is that Jeffy Emeka was on deck, Bruce pitcher and look at that he works to, to, to coat and then strikes out swinging. Yeah. That’s the second brings up top of the order. Yes. Top of the order Gerald Williams back on the top spent a little bit of time. And we’ll. Walkie. Not a not a huge long career. But a nice ball player playing centerfield. Pretty good glove. A little bit of speed gets up. Fly ball to left field, is it? No. It’s not. It is out. Number three got to three. Oh count. Let it rip. And the free swinging brewers are done for the inning. But the tech a run one run on three hits. Yeah. No heirs to left on base. Milwaukee takes a three to nothing lead against the Cubbies. Yeah. Now three not, then, that’s not not cool. Not, not good. So we’re going to jump ahead. We, you know, cubs another. Another double play in the bottom of the fourth, and the bruise. Rapid up deco is going. Well, he strikes out Sammy Sosa looking the app that puts us into the top of the fifth one to Terry Mojo settled down. Yeah. Got the three. Oh counts. Did he seriously? Get to a three oh. Count three times in a row and get outs on every one of them. Wow. I’m sorry that just caught me off guard. Where are you see? All right. So the top of the fifth inning Terry Mulholland gets oh on drew batters into three oh, Kono. Those swing. No. Those, that’s the no that that you’re looking at all. The cubs three dollars. Nothing for you to go, go check. Oh baseball reference dot com. It’s really cool. But if you’re not careful you you’ll screw up, what you’re looking at like I just did. Yeah. Well anyways. Yeah. Looks like it was I. And then one to count. But yes, so let’s go to the bomb of the fifth inning brewers are winning three to nothing and the samba is up here. So and I pitch is a ball. I seem to recall oftentimes sambergen like taking I first pitches. So in any case takes the first pitch for a ball and the next pitch comes in and boom ground ball to third base. And it’s a double. So looks like they may and knocked it down. But then it sprinted over to the wall, or it was down the line. How’s that? Got a piece of the glove, but then slowed down, so Sandberg stands on second alone. Yes. On a little bit of a, a funky double funky double, their get samba dissected base. So here we go. We’re in business. We got no outs run around second and Kevin Ori is up and I pitch. You know he gets to a one to count one ball to strikes and here comes the pitch and boom. Wow. Right field. Fly ball to deep right field down the line, and it hits in the corner of Wrigley that, right? Field corner is a triple producer.

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And sure enough samba easily scores and ori- cruises into third base with the triple, and there we go on the board. So we got something going on here. Now, finally, so now Aures on third base still no outs. And we got Scott service up. And Jeff d’amico. He’s got some, some issues years throws to gets to one count and boom, wild pitch orey scores from third so we’ll take it. That’s fine. So now, now we’re, we’re in business. Now. Cubs got to run so against the brewers three and Scott services up he grounds out to third race. Anchovies is the only other one I wanted to mention about on the with the cubs lineup today. He is up to bat here and he ends up getting a single to center field on against Emeco race anxious. He, he played he played for fifteen years. He played for the cubs for seven years. I, I remember that basically well nineteen Ninety-one through ninety seven. Yeah. You know not bad. You know he had a I don’t know he was. All right. To sixty two batting average, six twenty seven PS. You know, I guess. With the eight spot in the batting order about about. Right. And any case a little bit on race Angela as some of you might remember him. And then brings up the pitcher Mahala and here. And you know, with with just one out, of course, Mahala is gonna try to bunt Sanchez gets to second base on the bunt. But then Brian McRae is up. And he hits ground out for the third out so nothing more, they’re tying run wasn’t scoring position. But could not do anything with that with two outs. So the Cubbies leave one on base. But accumulate two runs on three hits. Yes, indeed. All right. Top of the six passes without anything of dire. Interests. Same with the bottom of the six so Mulholland and DEA Meco, both with a nice job. Through those Ania long they’re being boom. That’s right. We get into the top of the seventh, and it’s Jose Valentin back to the plate again, till you’re Mulholland has struggled Falintin today. But in this particular at bat, does get the popout looks like a foul pop fly into the catcher’s mitt, and he is done that brings up Jeff diem Meco the slugging pitcher of the Milwaukee Brewers. Andy strikes out swinging once again that does bring up Gerald Williams. And I did want to touch on Williams. I said earlier hit a nice little career. It was better than nice. And it was better than little. It was a fourteen year career. It was brief in Milwaukee. Okay. But he did spend a lot of time with both Yankees spent some time with the Braves bounced around the league. But overall pretty solid ball player ended with a six point five career war about a two fifty five batting average seven eleven PS. He was an outfielder is a pretty solid fielder. It’s good to have guys like that around for Milwaukee, he didn’t have a particularly. Huger but it was definitely solid in nineteen ninety seven more, I think he was more there for his glove and his twenty three stolen bases than anything. But that brings his brings us the his at bat here we are he’s facing Mulholland, and we get to a one one pitch and hard hit ball to the right field. Corner line drive right fields. He gets around the corner and gets in second safely sliding so Gerald Williams puts a double into play the bruiser up three two with a man in scoring position to top of the seventh that brings up Mark. Loretta in that moment. Cubs manager, switches pitchers Holland’s day is done. They bring on Melrose. Yes. Yeah. I don’t really know a lot about him. He he only played for the cubs for one year. And sure, you know, he spent a lot of time with Montreal before that. But I not too familiar with him. But yeah. Fair enough. Phil garner leaves Mark Loretta into bat against Roe Haas. Loretta works row. House two three to count. And there’s a hard hit ball to right field line.

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Dr Williams will score from second. Mark Loretta thrown thrown out at second base. He was trying to extend that make it the run did score before he was thrown out. The brewers accumulate. One more run on a couple of hits, nobody left on Bruce. Take the lead four to two adding a little bit of an insurance run in the top of the seventh inning. Yeah. Now, Meco will start the bottom of the seventh. Well, and you know. Yeah, and, and the Emeco gets a one two three and we let’s you know, we jump ahead and nothing. Nothing much happens. Cubs can’t seem to make anything happen. They have a couple one two three innings. Let’s and we jumped to the bottom of the ninth. Brewer’s are up four to two last chance for the cop to Las last chance for the cubs to do something here, and, and Brant Brown is up facing Doug Jones. Doug Jones, the Burs bring in their closer. Doug Jones, who actually had a nice in a solid career. We’ve brought him up previously. I think he was the closer ninety eight as well as just take a quick peek at some Doug Jones numbers in nineteen ninety seven Mr. Jones is loading on my magazine called base. This is loading. Loading doug. Jones is numbers. Sure. So Doug Jones had actually a really solid your that season two point zero to ERA is the brewers closer, his career, high and saves would be achieved actually that’s incorrect. He would equal. No, his third highest saves. We’re really prepared for this moment. Let’s get in. Let’s see if you can accumulate another say Brant Brown comes to the plate. Doug Jones, the hard throwing right hander. He brings one in full cow to count. All the cubs need to. Yes, exactly. Get you know, you got Brant Brown. You got Mark grace. And then you got Sammy Sosa. You got a chance if Brant Brown is can, you know, even if it’s a walk, or whatever it is get on base. You got a full count here. But what does he do ground ball, the second base, and it’s an out and Loretta throws him out to first Nielsen puts the put out on him and that brings up, Mark gray gray. All right, Doug Jones versus Mark, grace. This should be interested comes to a couple of pitches comes to full like a one one cone, the F full cow. We get all the way to another full cone cubs are working Doug Jones, pretty hard, pretty good, both being patient, and Mark, grace, very patient, hitter, good, batting average. You know, he’s, he’s good one in this situation, he just needs to get on base, because you never know what Sosa could do, of course, at that time, you know, they didn’t realize what Sosa would become. And neither do we know already hit forty home runs. See certainly is power bat there in the cleanup hitter so full count. And it’s a fly ball, the left field and it’s playable and outs. That’s right. No that that s so got the leather on that one right now, Sosa just needs to get on Ryan Sandberg following Sandberg’s following in the order orient has a triple on the day. Yeah. Let’s see what happens. Doug Jones working hard here already thrown twelve pitches ahead on the count one and to count on Sosa. And, and here comes the pitch, and it’s a swing and a miss, and Sosa goes down swinging strike three that’s Broers. Yeah. The brewers win rather Doug Jones locks down the save Jesse Emeco with the victory. It’s a beautiful day in Wrigley field. Brewers fan. Welcome to your very first victory against the Chicago Cubs and their very first game at Wrigley field. Yeah. Oh, beautiful as well. You know, at least the brewers have terrible logo so. You know, whatever. Yeah. Harry Carey he can go. Grab another beer. He’ll feel better in the morning. It’s fine. So there you have. It’s. All right. Well, Bruce and cubs fans that was our ninety miles the stretch episode for this week. The very first brewers versus cubs game occurred at Wrigley field. It was the date of June. June thirteenth nineteen eighty seven. Yes to our to our thirty five minute game. And that concludes the game and that concludes this episode of the stretch because I’m going home.

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I’m done with this. Yeah. Well, we gotta go out and get a beer now. Go brewers. Yeah. All right. I guess that’s it. So, yeah. I cubs Burs game ever this current brewers franchise anyways. That’s right. That’s right. And the brewers would go onto a seventy eight and eighty three record finishing third in the American League central their final season in such division, Phil garner managed them. And it was it was a solid team but not anything particularly. Yeah, but that was a pretty special. Pretty special game for two teams that would become rival. For to distant future, eight ninety four that season and. And that’s about that. That’s about it. Yeah. This is probably the most historic thing that happened that season the two teams and the ad not, not, not it’s up there. But. Now. But that’s that. And that’s the graph on the stretch episode if you want to get at us, I’m at winning on Twitter Ryan. Where can they find that wraps his cups win and go to ninety miles podcast dot com? All kinds of cool stuff there bunch other stretch episodes, and yeah. Joy the rest of the year. Recipe or whatever it is. Whatever time it is. Yeah. Good night. Good morning. Good afternoon. We’ll catch you later.