1984 World Series, Game 5: Padres @ Tigers 

My uncle won cy young and mvp award in this year year im pride for him.

The Tigers were 35 - 5 after 40 games. Unbelievable. Maybe the most dominating team ever over 1 season. I was in attendance at Comiskey Park in Chicago in April for Jack Morris no-hitter. Tiger Stadium never looked better than this game..

BRING BACK WORLD SERIES DAYTIME BASEBALL!

Look how much faster the pace of play is - batters staying in the box. Love hearing all the anecdotes from Vin Scully, those brown Padres uniforms, stirrups, Tiger Stadium.

The 84 TIGERS started out 35-5, and were the FIRST team since the 27 Yankees to go wire to wire in FIRST Place! It was the YEAR OF THE TIGERS!!

2:12:33 Vin Scully: "And There It Goes!!" Most memorable Tiger home run of my lifetime. I was 13 then and I appreciated a legend in Vin Scully, while we Tiger fans had another legend in the late Ernie Harwell.

I was 18, crossed the border from Canada and watched the Tigers win from the streets outside Tiger stadium. Great party, great time, great memories. Tiger Stadium what a classic ballpark!

Nobody carried baseball better than NBC. Scully and Garagiola were the best!

"Ball one on Kirk. Here's the pitch..he swings and hits a long drive to right, AND IT IS A HOME RUN FOR GIBSON!! A three run homer! The Tigers lead it 8-4 in the eighth inning!" R.I.P. Ernie Harwell, radio voice of the Tigers

Tiger Stadium was a great place.....Comerica Park is ok, but I prefer Tiger Stadium.

I like how Scully and Garagiola simply stopped talking the final 3 minutes to allow the TV audience to experince what it would look and sound like if they were there. No one does that anymore. I miss that.

Gibson played hard with a lot of heart and a real love for the game, you don't see that much anymore.

RIP Tony Gwynn.

One of the better world series games that gets overlooked.

I miss Tiger Stadium that old dump. I was 13 when this happened living in Temperance MI. God bless Gibby and that 84 squad. Bless you boys

Bless you Boys!! I miss everything I see in this game ,my dad’s love for baseball ,the Tigers is a 1980s winning team the city Detroit actually loving one another

Everything about this World Series game is awesome. Classic Tiger Stadium as the setting, Vin Scully (the GOAT) on the mic with Garagiola. Gibson, Garvey, the Goose, a young Tony Gwynn, Sparky and Dick Williams. What stars and characters! What a travesty that Detroit had Tiger Stadium torn down. They should have preserved it as a landmark!

I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was twelve years old and the game aired on a Sunday afternoon. I was a Dodger fan, so I didn't really care who won...at first. However, as the series progressed, I started rooting for the Padres. Well, they got thumped! Not only in this game, but in Game 3 and Game 4. They didn't get out of Tiger Stadium alive! Watching this game again, I forgot how intense stadium fans were back then. The Padres in those brown and yellow uniforms, appeared soft in that environment. The uniforms were nice, mind you, but they just seemed like a soft West Cost team going up against a hardnose and hungry Midwestern team. Also, I love how the game was played back then. A lot more hits and stolen bases, as opposed to home runs and strike outs....Bring back stirrups and high socks PLEASE!!!

Loved those 84 Tigers....Trammell and Whitaker both should be in HOF!!

Rules for Living: 1) NEVER pitch to Kirk Gibson in the World Series with the game on the line.

damn i miss that field

One of the greatest teams EVER!!!!!!

Just listening to Vin & Joe call this game brings back so many memories. Baseball was so much more fun to watch back during these times. The Love of and respect of the game by these guys just draws you in even more.

2:12:25 -- The overshadowed, forgotten big-time World Series home run by Kirk Gibson. Absolutely CRUSHED it! (off hall of famer Goose Gossage, no less)

Back in 84' I was very disappointed that the Cubs lost the NLCS! But now, I marvel at how good the Padres really were !

RIP Aurelio López señor smoke

"And there it goes! For Michigan State and all of Tigerdom!" Gotta love it!And what a wonderful rendition of the national anthem by the Univ. of MichiganMen's Glee Club!

What a night that was, so long ago. "He don't wanna walk you you!" Sparky yelling at Gibby from the dugout.

I'm with you. I was a lifelong Tiger fan who enjoyed the 35-5 run at the beginning of the season, the sweep over KC, and this series, but there was almost no drama. It all felt like a foregone conclusion, and SD was a mediocre opponent. Kudos to the poster of this; it brings back fond memories.

I went to the game with my stepfather and we left after the Kirk Gibson homerun. Miss those days.

We will miss you Tony Gwynn, Tony first appears around the 8 min mark.

The 84 Tigers was an all star line up. Kirk Gibson, Darrel Evans, Chet Lemon, Alan Trammel, Lance Parrish and Lou Whitaker.

Thanks for this, great memories. Sparky had #2 hitter & series MVP Trammell sacrifice bunt in the 8th inning, setting the stage for Goose & Gibby. I doubt many managers would do that these days.

I had to work while the game was on. As a huge Tiger fan, I did everything to avoid the game because I was recording it on my VCR (they were watching bits of it in the other room at work). I got home...watched the game through the 8th inning and I swear, right when Dick Williams was out on the mound, my VCR shut off...I had run out of tape. I had to wait around for the news later that evening to see the final score. This is the first time I've seen the game all the way through...thanks!

Now if only the 2014 Tigers can recreate the magic and 'ROAR' as they did in '84! BLESS YOU BOYS!

Wow - the same Bruce Bochy for the Padres who's now the manager of the Giants? Amazing.

It is kind of nice to see Gossage, the ultimate swaggering hard-throwing relief ace, get a dose of humble pie here. It's just too bad it didn't happen when he was with the Yankees.

Remember watching games on TV with George Kell in summer that was great summer moments and Erie Harwell on radio Wjr great times

Alan Trammel is just a good shortstop as Cal Ripken. If you look at the stats they are very similar

Great game! I was at the game before right over the Padres dugout...Tram came SO close to hitting 3 home runs...I got to meet Stan Musial at the game and he signed my program...total CLASS...the broadcast team is top notch..great to watch and listen to!!

I was there. Tore up the field after Larry Herndon caught the last out. It started raining almost immediately after the catch. I just instinctively went down on the field without even asking my Uncle. I grabbed about 4 feet of sod by a foot and folded it up and there was no security that confronted me. On the way to the car a lady asked for some of it, so I tore off a good 18 inches and gave it to her. The rest of it, I planted in my backyard. I was almost 13 years old.

This made Gibby a legend, at least in Detroit sports lore

World Series in the daytime as it’s meant to be! Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola. Baseball as I remember it 👍

Lance Parrish - nothing like a monster behind the plate. Detroit had it so good.

My GOD this game brings back great memories.

Wow - Tiger Stadium. Talk about memories.

The good ole days of sports! “Bless You Boys” !!!

When you have guys like Gwynn, Garvey, Templeton, Kennedy & Nettles, and yet your hitting star is Kurt Bevacqua, that's a problem.

Alan Trammell was named the MVP of the World Series.

Loved Vin Scully's call of the game and Gibson's home run off Gossage. Classic. But it also reminds of the great days of Ernie Harwell on the local Detroit radio broadcast. Ernie is definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of broadcasters in my book. IMO he's the best to ever do it.

The music theme, the World Series, & just everything brings back so many memories of how great baseball was when I was growing up. I was 10yrs old in '84. The Tigers dominated the Padres.

95% of the people who read about, thought about, looked at, or even saw any of this World Series wished it was the Cubs vs. the Tigers.

The very best thing that can happen to you as an 8 year old boy is to get a day like this. Now I’m about to turn 45. Sure would be nice to have one more day like this someday!

That was one of the best national Anthems I ever heard! Mitch Miller would be proud!

thank you for posting this. My dad's union hall was right around the " Corner" of Michigan And Trumbull .. native Michigander, lived in Chula Vista Ca. when the Mary Lou Retton won the gold in 84, and My Tigers did the same. wore my English D everyday in C.V. .. man they loved Mary Lou... HATED my tigers... glad i only stayed..1983-85. Go Tigers!!

Damn. I remember this game like it was yesterday

My mom, my two brothers and I were in the lower centerfield bleachers for game 4 and game 5. It is still the fondest memory I have of my troubled youth. It was so rare we did anything as a family as our father was out of the picture. As teens my brother's and I were so lost and this was the greatest escape of our youth. I dont think any of us realized for years how lucky we were that our mom (who ordered tickets through the Free Press) had ordered not one set but tickets for two games. Gibson was just a beast and I remember when he hit his second home run in the eighth we thought the upper deck was going to come down on us the stadium was shaking that much😮😮😮... 😅😅😅! I miss those days, life was tough, but it was also wonderfully simpler. Thanks momma😊

I spent many a ballgame at Tiger Stadium in the '60s. Back then, my grandmother from Germany, who immigrated to Detroit in 1949 after the war, became a Tiger fan and took me to so many games, I can't remember them all. Tiger Stadium was such a beautiful ballpark, all in forest green, and box seats back then were $3. Reserved seats, $2. Vin Scully, the master of silence during a big moment, didn't say a word for more than a minute and a half after Kirk Gibson's eighth-inning homer. And when he did, he commented about the discussion at the pitcher's mound over whether to intentionally walk Gibson or pitch to him. We all miss Vin. He was truly a poet.

Reason why I have so much respect for Vin Scully and Earnie Harwell is they shut up and let the fans do the talking. The emotion of the crowd is so much more captivating then some cheese ball announcer. TIGERS IN 14'!!!!

One of the BEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE! I ran down the streets screaming into the ran that night! Oh thank you GOD for that great moment! But of course, BLESS YOU BOYS!

I was a young man of 29 years, when myself, two of my good friends, and one’s father attended this game. It was electric in the old ball park. Gibson crushed both of his HRs!!!! No doubters. One of the great memories of my life.

I was born in late July of 85’, I have a strong feeling I was conceived on this night.

Love the shot of Thurmond after Gibson's first homer. Tigers ran over San Diego's starters in that series.

I was in a pool hall in Galveston, TX shooting pool, wearing my Tigers hat watching this. Sad to say I was the only one that reacted when they won.

That Padres lineup was pretty weak looking to me. At the same time, the Tigers were loaded and had won over 100 games that year. Alan Trammel, Lou Whittaker, Lance Parrish, Kirk Gibson....their lineup was stacked from top to bottom. The Padres never really had a chance.

I was in the outfield upper deck by left field. People were throwing turf up to us as souvenirs after the win. Mine was planted in my mom's backyard.

You can read Gossage's lips at 2:11:45 saying "Let's go after him". I think Custer said the same thing.

World Series games that fall on Saturday day should be afternoon games.

Vin Scully was nearly 60 years old at the time of THIS game back in '84…..and incredibly, he's STILL broadcasting baseball for the Dodgers….he goes back to when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn!……thank God for You Tube and treasures like NBC Baseball and the legendary Vin Scully.

My dream is to see the tigers win a world series in my life time, I was born in 1985 :(

What a concept, ONE nation, ONE National Anthem...oh mercy how I miss these days more now than ever...

This was the last WS game played outdoors in the afternoon. 3 years later, the Cards and Twins game 6 was played at the Metrodome in the afternoon. All WS games have been at night ever since.

19:19 Joe mentions Gates Brown... one of the best pinch hitters ever to step up to the plate.

man, the memories. I was 11 years old.

This game was played on a Sunday afternoon at the same time as the late NFL games that day (4:00PM Eastern). We will never see that happen again.

2:12:30 One of the biggest moments in tigers History. Kirk Gibson puts the nail in the coffin

My God. I was 26 years old then. I still feel the effects of that wonderful summer.

Me too. Used to love sitting in the RF upper deck, near the four poll. Sometimes, I could get seats in the front row, where you were actually over the field. Could heckle an opposing right fielder, really easy. Heck, you were so close to the field, in so many places.......great old stadium (despite the obscured view seats).

I pass what was Tiger Stadium nearly everyday on Michigan Ave. Its crazy to see an empty plot of land there. Looks so small, I cant believe it once held a mighty stadium there.

Sadly, we will never see an afternoon World Series game again.

So Alan Trammell is a Hall of Famer, but you can’t really have Trammell in the Hall of Fame without Lou Whitaker right beside him. They came into the majors at the same time, played more games as the middle infield than any one else in baseball history, they won Gold Gloves together, had almost identical career hitting stats (both over 2,300 hits), were both a part of this powerhouse World Series champion team and almost retired at the same time, all the while playing 20 year careers for the same team. If Trammell is in the Hall of Fame, Sweet Lou should be too.

Wow, thanks for post. This is awesome.

I am a cub fan since early 80s. When the Padres beat the cubs in the nlchamp I also become a tiger fan. I was so happy tigers won.

And thanks to the Goose, Kirk Gibson is forever etched into Detroit sports lore.

The '84 Tigers have to rank up there as one of the top teams, or possibly the top team, over a single season in the last 50 years. They were just like a runaway freight train that year.

I watched the whole game. What a great season that was - remember it like yesterday. Tigers were ROLLING.

@1.42.00 I can hear the upper bleachers in center field with one their creatively insane and profane chants. It starts out with one side yelling, "Less Filling!". Then the other side responds, "Tastes Great!". It goes like this back and forth like that a few times, then on cue it switches to, "F...You!" , "Eat S,,t!" Oh those upper deck "bleacher creatures" at Tiger Stadium. When things really got rockin' loud. they would stomp their feet, which made the whole stadium rumble and the upper deck centerfield camera shake. The sound of the rumbling floor would bounce out of the lower deck bleachers and project onto the field.

Sparky couldn't believe it! He was yelling to Gibby, " They're going to pitch to you, they're going to pitch to you!" My most memorable/favorite Detroit Tiger moment!! Wow!!

The man providing the VO for the opening spiel is veteran VO artist Les Marshak.

I'm from Detroit, and I was 3 years old when this happened! I remember when my family and I were in a town called Frankenmuth, and my mom told me stories that the World Series was heard on the PA system in one of the places there! It was an awesome time I must say!

Just what I needed! Bless You Boys!

My Dad was so mad that Sparky took Lopez out when he was pitching so well. He thought he deserved a chance to finish it.

A day game in the world series with Vin Scully on the microphone....how lucky we were...

Vin Scully and Joe garagiola or however the spelling goes. But they are 2 of my favorite announcers. I was 8 years old and watched every tigers game that was on tv. Get to the world series and my favorite announcers george Kell and al kaline got the snub. It was such a special time and I wish they were the ones calling play by play. That being said scully and company did a great job.

I’m just here catching up on my old history 😩

That ballpark was beautiful and magical new stadium sucks!!

22 years old, what a time to be first hitting the bars in NW Michigan. What a Tiger time

Seen a lot of comments about a hypothetical Tigers/Cubs WS that year. General consensus is that such a series would have gone the full 7 games with Detroit winning game 7 at home. Game 1 with a Sutcliffe/Morris matchup? Wow.

this is awesome! thanks for posting

I love Vin Scully