Jerry Coleman quotes:

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

He slides into second with a stand up double.

The ballgame is over...in this inning.

He many not be hurt as much as he really is.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

Your country is bigger than baseball.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

He can be lethal death.

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

The big ballpark can do it all!

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

Hi folks, I'm Gerry Gross!

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

There's two heads to every coin.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.