No-hitter alert: Steve Carlton in Jim Currie’s ‘82 replay

Jim Currie’s style of play-by-play calling is becoming a lost art.  Here, he describes Steve Carlton’s no-hitter against the Mets in his 1982 replay.

CARLTON FIRES NO HITTER!.OXFOURED LEAGUE’S FIRST GEM!! .ROSE, DERNIER, DIAZ SLAM BLEACHER BLASTS IN 10-0 GAME..METS AND SWAN TAKE THE LOSS!

(1982)Lefty Carlton,no stranger to huge performances,turned one in that’s gonna etch his name in OXFOURED LEAGUE history!  Backed by a 17 hit,10 run attack, Carlton tossed the first league no hitter!..The NYM, and their anchor man, Craig Swan, fell victim to the talented PHILLIES PHIRE BALLER.Never in difficulty, the slingin’ southpaw, and master slider server, fanned 7 while issuing 4 annie oakleys.Carlton (7-1) , operating as efficiently as an iron mike,got his groove goin’ and retired the last 8 Mets, and 18 of the final 19.Ron Gardenhire (1), John Stearnes (2), and KONG (1), were the recipients of the four ball stroll..LP Swan (3-6), battered but game as they come, hung in for 6 2/3 innings.He was mugged for 8 runs on 13 hits.Included were rafter ringin’ cloud dusters by Pete Rose and Bobby Dernier. .Following the latter, Terry Leach toed the slab, surrendering a long two run shot by Bo Diaz which touched down “Rump Resters Way” over the center field wall and six rows deep. .With that, we stroll through and into hilite haven!

B1-Swanny threw a batbummer that Dernier took for strike three.. Bobby was dugout bound for a course in clay in spikes removal. .DH Greg Gross lined a single to left, and, moved to the keystone when the Sarge chipped a dirt dagger handled by Kong Kingman relay to the covering Craig (3-1)…Mike Schmidt took a Swanny heater on a twisting wall whackin’ jaunt, left center alley with a kick back beyond Foster in left..Gross passed the plate, Schmidty safe at second with an RBI double. . (PHITIN’S-1-0 ). …

B2-Pete Rose pummeled a 1-2 Swan slider down the right field line which kicked off the foul pole before divin’ a 12-6 pike to the rump resters! (66-66/2-0)!!

Through five innings, Carlton in control..Gardenhire and Stearnes walked in the opening frame were stranded via the ground guzzler route. .Valentine (Schmidt-Rose), and Kingman (Carlton-Rose), ending any thoughts of a Mets cash in on those four ball ballets. ..In the fourth, Stearnes led with an annie oakley, but froze there when Ellis Valentine lifted an easyoff to Dernier in right, and Kingman and Foster had their bats buzzed….

B5 – Schmidt took the four ball foxtrot, then went thirdward on a twin bagger by Garry Maddox over the initial canvas,which kissed the lime, then sped into the right side foul wall…Bo Diaz then lined a 2-2 slider into left center. .Schmidt and the lightning legged Maddox motored home. .On Foster’s throw through, Big Bo took the keystone canvas. ..With two gone, Manny Trillo smoked a clay clutcher beyond the diving Ron Gardenhire for the ribbie bingler, as Diaz rolled home.. (PHITIN’S 5-0)…

In the T7, Valentine easyoffed to Maddox in center..Kong looked at a 3-2 Steve slider called BALL FOUR! !..The Vetizens went ballisticly bonkers on the call, four letters flying within the PHRIENDLY TO PHITIN’S BALL ORCHARD!!..not to worry. .Foster flipped an easy off to Sarge Matthews in left, and, Mookie Wilson lifted the ladder five stories to medium center finding a home in Maddox’ mitt..

B7 – Diaz drilled a bingler into left center..The courageous Craig Swan then fed a fireball to the bat chokin’ Charlie Hustle on the 2-1. .Rose stroked the sphere into center for another single….Diaz stopped at the keybag…Swanny retired Dejesus on a ladder lifted major league of a pop up to Wally Backman at second. . Manny Trillo medium’d a flyballer into Mookster leather, F8/no advance. . With two gone, Bobby Dernier took his stance in the lime bordered box. ..Swan, ahead 1-2 tried the curveball, the hanging hook.. Dernier’s detonation of the stiched sphere brought Vetizens outta the rump resters. .Valentine turned… took a step and stopped..Bobby D’s cloud dustin’ dinger was driven upper tier town straight to Souvenirsville, right field district! .. (66-44!!-8-0)!!!.. Sending Swanny showersville, Terry Leach lifted Greg Gross to Wilson in center …inning ended. .

B8 – Leach got The Sarge on a 4-3 ground grubber Backman – Kong. ..Schmidt was smoked on a 2-2 roundhouse for the second gonner….Maddox mauled a 1-0 sinker on the line into right that Valentine Pele’d into a single E9..  Big Bo Diaz dug in, then did the no pool surface dive as Leach rode the head hunting high heater purpose pitch. . THE VET WENT WHACKY!!!..Diaz followed with a damage doin’ drive into, up’n over the center field fence for a smokin ‘ bleacher bashin’ 66!!!!.. (10-0/PHILLIES)!!!

T9-Lefty, just that close to even more greatness…Punch hitter Wally Backman sent a short fly into Dernierville for the first (F9 )….Stearnes stung a screeching grass gobbler straight to the Dejesus leather for the second.. (6-3)….Rose…the toss around. .Schmidt to Carlton. .one more. .ONE!!!..Ellis Valentine. . First pitch punching. .Flyball…Sarge..Two strides left..HE’S GOT IT! !!!…STEVE CARLTON HAS THE FIRST EVER OXFOURED LEAGUE NO HIT NO RUN GAME!!!!

NYM-0-0-1
PHI-10-17-0

WP-CARLTON (7-1)
LP – SWAN (3-6 )

POTG – STEVE CARLTON

TEAM RECORDS – PHILLIES (18-19)..METS (10-27)