ABC - Friday Night Baseball; Dramatic game; Video quality best that I have seen for this broadcast; if anyone has a better quality - please let me know!
Great game! I remember watching this in my bedroom on a little black and white TV as a 12 year old kid. This was a terrible summer in my life and baseball was one of the few things I had to help with fear and depression. Baseball is still my trusty companion after 42 years.
Baseball was my love for years, even when heroin was in my life. Unfortunately I do not recognize today's game, it is not what I grew up with at all. Give me these golden years, they are certainly more respectable than what is called baseball today....
@@GratefulInRecovery you said it...the corrupters have done it intentionally... Implying the hundred plus years of the game was wrongly played and they had to change rules... Automatic runner on 2nd in ex innings? Starting a pitch clock next year. Its evil done on purpose as is everything we are fed
remembered this as a kid...neighbor yells out that Ryan having a no-hitter through 7 innings..all of us ran to our tv sets and watched it...Ryan the greatest ever
"Ryan the greatest ever" ---Uh.. no. Besides the 7 no hitters he also walked the most batters in MLB history. Let that sink in. Ryan is my favorite pitcher ever but he is definitely not the greatest pitcher ever and was certainly an anomaly..
Thurman Munson died tragically after that game only three weeks later, on August 2, 1979 in the infamous plane accident in Ohio where he came from. He was just 32.
Bobby Murcer RIP!! So much pressure on him in the early years of his career with the Yankees to live up to the expectations as the next Mickey Mantle.Still he had a pretty decent career and developed into a very good broadcaster.What a gentleman on and off the field.
He finished this game 12-6 with a 2.54 ERA through 20 starts. He was then injured and went 4-8 with a 5.59 ERA in 14 starts. Derailed his season; he was on a pace to have a much better year than the guy who won the AL Cy Young that year, Mike Flanagan. He pitched well in the postseason but didn't fully recover until the 1980 season.
@@med1965 becomes it was a big event...loved how ABC promoted baseball...NBC did a great job to of promoting baseball before the ogres of cable took over
I'm currently reading Nolan Ryan's autobiography (awesome book!) and finding this full game here is just amazing. Thank you very much for posting this! So many legends!!
Love hearing Ryan's grunt after releasing the fastball...The Angels were clever... They started their night games at 5pm with Nolan Ryan pitching.... Hard enough to see his Fastball in normal light, but in Twilight??? So unfair...lol
I missed watching this game because at the time as a 8 year old kid in Tacoma, Washington on Friday July 13th, 1979, I climed a 🌳 and took one bad step, fell down and sprained my ankle. Four days later on July 17th, 1979, the MLB All Star game was held at the Kingdome in Seattle. Nonetheless, this was baseball ⚾️ when it was a game for everyone to enjoy as well as the commentary of Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and Bob Uecker!!! Thanks !!!
I remember watching this game. Ryan pitched against Boston 4 days earlier. I got a pic with Ryan a month earlier at Exhibition stadium, skipping school for the 1 pm game
Nolan was my idol growing up, and this was the first time I ever saw him pitch. A few days later, he started in the All-Star game for the AL in Seattle.
I saw him pitch for the Mets and I was in elementary school when my dad used to take me to the ballgames...a time old tradition that SHOULD last forever...dads taking their sons or daughters to the ballgames
@Steven Gray unfortunately you are correct....those days are long gone because money is the corrupting factor that fuels sports these days...as for the political correctness which is b.s. as you say and I agree...the ironic part of this is that the STUPID commissioners who run the NFL, NBA and the 2 other major sports (MLB and NHL) on a lesser extent are CATERING to the cancel culture...I laugh because cancel culture DOES NOT HAVE THE REVENUE to keep funding these institutions..cancel culture or woke nation consist mainly of Millennials...studies have shown that they mostly don't attend sporting events on a regular basis (season or partial ticket holders) or own a TV...so these dumb jackasses like Goodell who cater to these libturds and social issues are turning away the SOLID revenue of the baby boomers and Gen Xers who have supported their leagues...in the end, the golden goose will lay NO MORE EGGS and they will go bankrupt...good riddance, serves them right....at least I can say that I saw these sports leagues in their great days and saw many HOFers...that's something Millennials CAN'T say....if given a choice to be young again in the world that we live in now,..I'll pass, I give a gazillion thanks that my world was great when I was young and am blessed...all these HOFers who are dying are lucky because they don't have to see the eventual decline and demise of sports in America.
@@pst702 So true. PC has converted sports leagues into social welfare institutions. Huh? NFL, MLB, & the NBA cannot be expected to reform institutions or be organs of protest. A certain owner in the NBA doesn't want to play the Star Spangled Banner. Are we in the USSR or Marxist China? If Howard were here he'd go ballistic.
Am I the only one that feels like this broadcast and the game of baseball alone was more entertaining back then? (I’m only 18 so I wasn’t even around in 79 😂)
I don’t mean to sound like an old fart, I respect your comments totally. I was 18 back in 1979 and baseball was really fun back then. The comradery was really fun. I use to wait for the Yankee players to come out after the game, just like all the other baseball fans. What a time to be a baseball fan! The players were much more accessible to the fans. I loved the Yankees back then in 1979, they were coming off their two great years. On paper, they had everything going for them in 1979. So sad about Munson’s death. That destroyed that ball club. He was the Captain of the team and the fans loved their Captain. I was lucky as a kid to get Guidry’s autograph along with Luis Tiant. Man, you have no idea how great baseball was back then. I don’t even watch it today. I don’t know any of the players. They are talented guys and I’m not knocking them. I just kinda think the game is to commercialized these days and players are only in it for the big contracts. Today, it’s unheard of for a pitcher to go 9 innings. There are no pitching duels and the cost of tickets kill the average American. Baseball was a working class man’s game.
@@leftykoufax7084 Reggie bargained his way to millions. His contract paid him a bonus of 50¢ per fan over 1,000,000. Hope he gave his agent a Rolex. 😇💵
Great game, broadcast - Jackson, Cosell and Uecker, and great job interjecting the Angels radio guys - Drysdale- overcame BY FAR the audio/video quality you mentioned! Thanks for posting this!
I know right?!? Also it's funny how Tim Robbins Duke Nukem character mimicked El Tian`te's pitching motion, the half body turn, and Luis's glove motion when coming to set?🤣 Keith Jackson was the best in calling multiple sports, THE GENERAL
I remember this game I pitched a no hitter the next morning I was in B2 knothole came home I will never forget it I remember Tiant from Boston and the 75 series against my Cincinnati reds. but I remember watching this game and thinking of Nolan while I was picking.
I was 4 months old when this game was played, and Nolan was already a grizzled, accomplished veteran. 12 years later I would watch him throw a nono on TV for my Rangers on May 1, 1991. I was soooooo excited and there was nobody around to talk to, so I wrote a rap song LOLOLOL
I was at this game, threw my paper route, rode my bike to the stadium. I still have the ticket stub. The Yankees had no chance in the twilight. I thought the error on Miller was a tough call and it should have been a hit.As much as I hated Reggie and the Yankees I was relieved when he got the hit because that error decision would have tainted it.
ABC had the Monday Night Baseball package from 1976-1988, and aired Thursday Night Baseball in 1989. It was rare for ABC to televise other night games, but this one was right before the All-Star Break, which meant ABC would've gone two weeks without a Monday night telecast (July 9-23). NBC, on the other hand, usually had 1-2 night telecasts per year from 1976-1989 after they ceded the Monday night package to ABC, most coming on Tuesday or Friday nights.
From his post game interview it seems to me that after the error in the outfield Ryan no longer wanted the fifth no hitter that day because it would always have a shadow of doubt hanging, over it.You will note which team he did pitch his fifth no hitter against.It was nice seeing the RYAN express the way he was back then.
I remember the next day in the New York daily news Ryan said he was glad he didn't get the no-hitter because he felt Spencer should've been credited with a base hit.
Bob Uecker is a gem...like Vin Scully was to the Dodgers and NBC...love Uecker, a throwback to a time when broadcasters were unique and appreciated...God Bless him
So weird how many of us remember this one from childhood. Monday Night Baseball on a Friday for reasons I didn't get then or now. Middle of July heat. Nolan Ryan being Nolan Ryan.
@@Erborne1979 Angels used to start their games early to take advantage of the stadium shadows because Tanana and Ryan both threw in the mid-90s scaring the hitters who can't see the ball from the sunlit mound coming towards the darker end of home plate
Audio here toggles between KMPC radio and ABC TV. The dubious error in the eighth (2:13:28) was called by Don Drysdale on Angels radio. The clean single in the ninth was described on national TV by Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell (2:36:26). Dick Miller of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner was the official score. The reason this telecast was on Friday was to make up for the lack of a Monday game during the All-Star break.
Lou said Ryan would be tired...Not very smart on his part...Thats the greatest pitching arm in the history of baseball.. Guy was throwing 98mph at 45 years old. lol
@@watchout361 Fastball registered at 108.5...!!!! I saw it... Anyone who doesn't think Ryan threw harder than anyone , look up. .Ryan vs White Sox no hit bid. You'll see what I mean.... He fucking blew away Jorge Orta with the fastest fucking Fastball I ever saw.
Nolan Ryan was on the cover of Sports Illustrated the following week with a caption " How close it was "... considering that Ryan was king of no- hitters with 7 and tops with Strikeouts all-time...if he'd gotten this one, it would have been the top of his list and others...I was 17 years old and was going to enter my senior year in HS..I saw this game and was hoping he'd get the no-hitter...the so called mighty Yankees got humbled and didn't make the playoffs that year (Baltimore won the ALCS, but lost to Pittsburgh in the WS)... the Yankees made the playoffs in 1980 and 1981(strike shortened season) but didn't win anymore titles until 1996...1979 was the beginning of the end of 70's Yankees...this was one of those games that showed their weaknesses...Thurman Munson dying 3 weeks later didn't help either but the mystic was already gone, other teams just got better
It's not other teams got better, it was Steinbrenner who got more controlling and inputting his command into the organization adding chaos and confusion with no direction
There are plenty of Oakland A's connections on this Friday. In this game, Nolan Ryan came within two outs of his fifth no-hitter. And who broke it up? Former A's great Reggie Jackson. That's who. Later that night in Oakland, the Red Sox' Steve Renko, who had pitched for the A's just a year earlier, took a No-hitter into the 9th inning himself. There, Rickey Henderson singled with just one out to end that bid. Four combined outs from seeing two no-hitters the same night.
In this Game - Features The Strikeout King (Nolan Ryan and El Tiante and with (7) career No Hitters Career and (5,714) K's. Ryan is unbeatable against all Batters he faces. N.L and A.L Combined with 324 Victories off the Mound. Ryan Express.
This was the SECOND ALMOST no hitter for Ryan against the Yankees ! Thurman Munson broke up the first one also in the ninth inning I believe in 1973 . Ryan was fucking AMAZZZZING The guy came DAMN CLOSE to 15 no hitters !!!
Wow! One foot further to the left and Ryan's no hit bid wouldn't have gotten out of the first inning. Munson tried to shoot it down the line and just missed.
And ifs and buts were candy and nuts, everyday would be CHRISTMAS. MILLER misplayed the ball in the 8th, but ANDERSON had a much tougher play in the ninth, that would have called for extraordinary effort to make that play= should've been a hit.. Justice prevailed when REGGIE J. broke it up a batter later..
I remember watching that game, I was 21 then and at a girl friends home, and had the flu and didn't know it...Sick as a dawg the next morning, worst case of the damned flu I ever had, LOL....Nolan, at his best, was as good as anyone...
Look how excited everyone was. They were even broadcasting the game over the stadium loudspeakers. Now pitchers are removed in the middle of a no-hitter or even perfect game. Something has been lost in the name of statistics like pitch counts.
Ryan wouldn’t want a no-hitter under these circumstances with the homer-official scorers calling errors instead of hits especially the error made by the center fielder which would a hit in every game I ever seen....never a Reggie fan...but glad he finally got the hit....
I remember seeing this game on television. The local official scorer clearly tried to extend Ryan's bid for a no-hitter when he scored an error on Rick Miller's diving attempt to catch Jim Spencers' sinking line drive to center field. Miller had to make more than an ordinary effort and it should have been scored a hit. I'm glad he lost the no-hitter in the ninth on a clean hit. Ryan wound up his career with a record setting seven no-hitters. He did not need a cheap one that the official scorer tried to give him.
Didn't realize Fregosie ended up managing Ryan, whom he was traded for. The Mets should have been prosecuted for that horrible trade. Munson had just a few weeks to live from the time of this game.
@@swami1 It really was. It's unfortunate that there were relatively few national telecasts from the Big A before it was re-done, as the Angels were rarely picked to host Saturday afternoon or Monday night games in the 1970s. I was surprised to see how little work was being done as of this game. The Rams' move had been announced several months earlier. The outfield was a construction site by the time of the 1979 ALCS, which the Angels hosted for the first time. The Rams' first home game in Anaheim would've been been in the 1980 preseason in August.
