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July 1, 1990. I hope that one makes it in.
I vote for this one of course.
Then there's this, this and this.
New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO HRHawkins L(1-5) 8 0 4 0 5 3 0
Best boxscore line ever.
Doc's no-hitter
Righetti's no-hitter.
Guidry's 18k game.
Reggie's 3 HR WS game.
Billy Martin vs. Reggie! game
The comeback game against the Braves in the '96 Series.
You mean I was supposed to read the article? ;)
I'd add Cone's perfecto.
B Campaneris Reached on E5 (Ground Ball)
J Donaldson Single to RF; Campaneris to 2B
R Webster Single to LF; Campaneris Scores/unER; Donaldson to 2B
K Harrelson Double to LF; Donaldson Scores; Webster to 3B
R Monday Double to LF; Webster Scores; Harrelson Scores
J Gosger Intentional Walk
T Talton Walk; Monday to 3B; Gosger to 2B
Yanked for Monbo Monbouquette.
EDIT: 1970 or later? Whatever.
What the 9th-inning play-by-play omits is that Mike Stanley had already flown out to left for the third out of the game. But a kid had run onto the field, and the 3B umpire had called time before the pitch. "Mike Stanley pinch hits for Velarde; Single to LF" doesn't begin to describe the sequence.
Or Bill White's first game on the air where Whitey Ford handed him the mic and White said..."Thanks Whitey"
The telecast I'd love to see again, though I never will, was a late-period game against the Red Sox. Boston had a big lead, late in the game. Someone had sent WPIX a photo of a tombstone labelled "HUCKLEBERRY." They put the picture up on the screen, and the announcers yokked it up. Then the Yankees got a hit, and Rizzuto decided it was a lucky tombstone. And he insisted that they put the photo up again, for the next batter. And he got a hit. And then it was off to the races. They kept flashing that dumb tombstone, and the Yankees had an extended rally while Rizzuto lost his mind over it. Sadly for Phil, Boston held on and won, but the sequence was huckle-arious.
For a quick 10 points, without looking it up can you name the player who had nine RBI in a different game that day (May 17, 2002)?
Thats not nominated, but it is worthy, for sure.
Is that the day Mike Cameron hit 4 homers?
It is really Game 3 from 1978 which they list.
My memory of this was that it was the Sox who kept getting hits when they flashed it, and Scooter was getting angrier and angrier every time they did it.
Luckily, Repoz, this exchange was caught on film for posterity:
Whitey
1.Bucky Dent game (probably the best game in Major League history)
2. games 4-5 1996 WS as an entry
3. game 7 2003 ALCS
4. game 6 1977 WS
5. game 4 1998 ALCS (El Duque saves the season)
Best 5 for Yankee haters:
1. game 7 2001 WS
2-5. repeat 4 times
backups:
2. games 4-7 2004 ALCS as an entry
3. August 18, 1980 at Baltimore
4. July 24, 2004 at Boston
5. and finally, last night's game---how in the f*ck you can get any worse than that, I'll never know, and I hope never to find out
Game 6, 1978 World Series
Game 2, 1995 ALDS
Wells Perfect Game
Cone Perfect Game
Game 7, 2003 ALCS
"Remember -- remember when Bucky Dent hit that home run? That was awesome."
C'mon, Andy. The best game had to be Bobby Thompson's homerun game.
Or the last game of the 1912 WS when Fred Snodgrass dropped the ball. Or the Merkle boner game.
All those games had just as much, if not more, at stake and were far superior in drama.
Catfish Hunter's final moment of glory, and Reggie's revenge on Bob Welch. Great game and a great choice.
All those games had just as much, if not more, at stake and were far superior in drama.
I thought the "Merkle's Boner" game was fairly early in the season, and it was only in retrospect that they realised how important it was?
And for drama, if you can't see that in the Dent game, given the background, and given the contestants in that final at bat with the tying and winning runs on base, I can't say anything but that you need to detach yourself from your Red Sox jacket for a few minutes. But that's for another thread altogether.
EDIT: Fred Lieb said that the replay of the Merkle game was the most dramatic game he ever watched in his 70+ year career. I may not be able to argue with him too much on that. He has a great writeup of that game in Baseball As I Have Known It.
Nope, the Merkle game was September 23.
But for some strange reason, the only one that's popping into my head is the one where the Yankees had 3 sac flies in an inning against the Angels. '98? Who wouldn't want to watch that over and over and over again?
Nope:
The game basically decided the pennant between the Giants and Cubs.
I can just picture Iron Man Mcginnity intercepting the ball and throwing it in the stands so Evers couldnt' get the force play.
September 21, 1996
July 2, 1998
July 23, 1999
May 5, 2000
July 16, 2000
May 17, 2002.
May 16, 2006.
June 28, 2006
April 7, 2007
Well, I'm getting sick of checking, but let's not forget about the time they stopped that big 7th inning rally by the INdians in this game. SHould only be included if it comes with an audio of whichever Yankee flack of your choice screaming "That's for the homer in the 1997 playoffs!" every time a Yankee gets a hit.
Or just add in this one and see if anything else fits.
Second game of a double-header in Oakland, up about 80 games in the division, down 4 runs in the 9th, thanks to some great pitching by the hated Kenny Rogers, and they unload. First, Daryl Strawberry hits the game-tying Grand Slam. Then for good measure, they pile on five more runs, rubbing a little more dirt in the wound.
1.Bucky Dent game (probably the best game in Major League history)
Nah. That's the Rick Camp game. Or the Cubs-Cards game from August 8, 1990.
Edited for clarity.
That ain't nothing. How about White Sox-Brewers - May 8, 1984.
Yaz was a little over the hill at that point. If he was vintage '67 Yaz, I might agree with you.
And how about ALCS, game 7 2004, Andy? Why you lkave that one out? That one basically decided the champion whil at the same time accomplishing something that had never been done before.
Agreed, although I'm partial to that game and the Wells perfect game since 5/17 is my birthday.
Guess who the starting pitcher was!
He faced each batter once, got two outs, hit Denny Walling with a pitch in what was basically the last week of Walling's career, gave up one of Jeff Huson's 8 career home runs (in 1879 at-bats), and then got yanked.
That's merely long. The Cubs-Cards game was fantastic 73 different times over. Harkey let 15 men on base in 9 innings yet didn't allow a run. How often does that happen? Salazar saved a sure double in the 3rd on a great play. Someone reached base every inning against Harkey. Their lead-off hitter or second batter made it on board every single frame against him. In fact, they did it four more times in extra innings. St. Louis got caught stealing, had a pick-off and hit into a trio of double plays.
Meanwhile, the Cubs couldn't get anything going. They were hopelessly overmatched, yet they stayed in the game. After leading off the game with a walk and single, De Leon mowed them down. The next 26 batters could only scratch out two singles against him, while he fanned 10. Their highlight came when Mark Grace hit a two-out single and then stole (!) second base.
Chicago's back-to-back hits in the 10th were their first since the 1st inning. Smith's pinch-hit grounder was shockigly muffed by Pendleton, but he recovered quickly and almost through out Smith. He was the fastest man on the team. Anyone else, and he would've been out. Then they come back again a few innings later. In-between Steve Wilson came in and struck out the first five batters he faced. Steve Wilson! It was like he thought he was a real pitcher or something. That was the only times St Louis didnt' get their first or second man on board.
Then Dawon wins it in the fifteenth and the bases loaded and two outs. Awesome.
Hardly. The Brewers scored two in the top of the ninth inning. The White Sox got back-to-back two-out RBI hits in the bottom of the ninth by none other than Julio Cruz and Rudy Law, off of Rollie Fingers no less.
The White Sox then got eleven scoreless innings from Al Jones and Juan Agosto (Agosto pitched seven scoreless innings - picture, say, Damaso Marte pitching seven scoreless in relief). Tellman and Waits matched them, inning for inning.
Then the Brewers scored three in the top of the 21st inning on a three-run homer by Ben Ogilvie. The White Sox came back with three of their own in the bottom of the 21st (pinch-runner Rich Dotson scored one of them) to keep it going.
After 24 innings, the umpire suspends play until the next day. Tom Seaver (the next day's scheduled starter) comes out the next day to pitch for the White Sox, pitching a scoreless 25th inning. Chuck Porter comes out to pitch his eighth inning of relief, and after striking out Dave Stegman on a bunted strike 3, he gives up the walkoff to Harold Baines.
My favorite suspeneded White Sox game is this one. Primarily because after throwing 5 innings upon resumption, Wilbur Wood did his regular chore and pitched this entire game.
No, it was earlier than that. It was after 18 innings, because that's when I went home.
Game 3, 1980 ALCS
The Pine Tar Game
The Astros No-Hitter from 2003
I enjoy watching the Yankee Classics from time to time, but they are so limited in their time span. Prior to the acquisition of the Murcer game and the Nettles game from the 1970s, just about everything YES showed was from the 1990s on. For a team with such history, it's mind-boggling.
My memory of this was that it was the Sox who kept getting hits when they flashed it, and Scooter was getting angrier and angrier every time they did it.
Your memory's definitely backwards on this. Rizzuto was laughing, and ho-HOOO-ing, and insisting that the director keep on putting the enchanted photo up, to keep the Yankees' mojo alive.
The other two Rizzuto moments I'd like to see are the game where he managed to confuse Scott Fletcher for Dick Allen in a way that almost somehow made sense, and the game where he credited Benjamin Franklin with the invention of lightning. The broadcast where he told the tale of a frog who was sitting on his golf shoes, and eventually gave the shoes warts, would be a nice DVD extra. The punchline: "True story!"
That game was one of the best I've ever been to, and my team lost.
Bruce...I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that most of the WPIX 60's tapes were destroyed or taped over.
With what? The Joe Franklin Show?
Well, somebody had to preserve those sinnerlating Julius La Rosa, Archie Bleyer and Dee Dee Ramone innerview clips!
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN195805050.shtml
I remember Bill Rigney telling the story of the near comeback (an old "The Game I'll Never Forget in Baseball Digest) The thing he remembers most was the Pirates GM Joe Brown enjoying the afternoon sun behind the Pirates dugout. As the result became more questionable in the ninth Brown kept moving from seat to seat to change his teams sudden bad luck.
For the Yankee Stadium DVD, I'd go with five games I saw there:
Cone's perfect game, July 18, 1999
Game 1, '96 ALCS
Home opener, 1998 -- Good Friday, and the Yankees beat Oakland in a slugfest (the score was something like 18-16).
June 2003 -- Roger Clemens wins his 300th game over St. Louis
Memorial Day 2000 -- Oakland's Randy Velarde pulls off an unassisted triple play (is that the only one that ever happened at the Stadium?)
Unfortunately, keep in mind that this DVD will almost certainly use John Sterling's radio audio for the post-1989 games rather than the TV calls, which to me effectively makes the thing worthless. (I'll never forgive Sterling for going into his "The Yankees winnn" spiel immediately after Dwight Gooden's no-hitter. How self-serving and unprofessional.)
* Cone's perfect game
* 1999 ALCS Game 1
* 1999 WS Game 3
* 2000 WS Game 1
* 2001 WS Game 4
* 2001 WS Game 5
* 2003 ALCS Game 7
I've been one lucky son-of-a-#####.
PIX didn't catch on to the value of historical preservation of game tapes, except with regard to post-season games (which didn't apply so much through the Stottlemyre/Clarke era) and other odd events. Also, they had a flood in their basement that wiped out a good amount of their archival footage. There's quite a bit of highlight and newsreel footage about, but very little broadcast stuff, and virtually no full-game footage.
In related news, the Richard N. Hughes "What's your opinion? We'd like to know." editorials are also destroyed. Also, Jerry Girard is dead.
And that ends that post. My job is done here.
Yaz was a little over the hill at that point. If he was vintage '67 Yaz, I might agree with you.
He may have been over the hill, Kev, but earlier in that game he'd homered off Guidry and singled in a run off Gossage just one inning earlier. Gossage was on the ropes and the season was on the line. You can't possibly top that final at bat for a sense of anticipation.
And how about ALCS, game 7 2004, Andy? Why you lkave that one out? That one basically decided the champion whil at the same time accomplishing something that had never been done before.
I left it out because it was a massacre. If Jacob Ruppert had owned the Red Sox, it would have been his idea of excitement, but after the Damon grand slam it was all over. And anyway, I did include the last four games of that LCS as an entry in my list of best games for Yankee haters. If I were choosing one of those games I'd easily go with game 4 and game 5 over game 7. Those games were packed with drama from start to finish.
And if you want the best regular season game, you can't ever top June 13, 2004.
Yanks down 2-0 with 2 outs and nobody on in the ninth. Trevor Hoffman on the mound. Lofton homers. Matsui homers to tie it. Just like those two Series games in 2001, only with two straight two out homers instead of just one.
And then in the 12th inning, the Angels go ahead 5-2, but the Yanks come back to win it 6 to 5. Two impossible comebacks in one game, and all because Bochy didn't keep David Wells in the game after 7 shutout innings with only 76 pitches.
My memory of this was that it was the Sox who kept getting hits when they flashed it, and Scooter was getting angrier and angrier every time they did it.
Your memory's definitely backwards on this. Rizzuto was laughing, and ho-HOOO-ing, and insisting that the director keep on putting the enchanted photo up, to keep the Yankees' mojo alive.
So which game was this? My Retrosheet-Fu is weak...
######## Repoz. I'm laughing at my computer and my co-workers can't understand what the joke is about. You're killing me.
I bombed out, too. I looked through the Baseball-Reference game results pages from 1988-1996 and I couldn't find a box score that precisely matched my memory of the circumstances (Red Sox with a big lead over the Yankees late in a game that was carved away but only partially). Since it was a late-inning almost-comeback, logic tells us that the game was likely in Fenway, since the Yankees used a 6-innings-apiece rotation for their three announcers, and Rizzuto generally did the first 6 innings of home games. Guess I'll have to wait for Rob Neyer's upcoming The Big Book of Baseball Legends That Virtually No One in the World Remembers or Even Gives a Crap About.
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