1988 World Series, Game 1: A's @ Dodgers 

RIP to the best play by play man ever, Vin Scully. Baseball, football, golf, he excelled at every one. This may have been his best call.

One of Vin Scully 's greatest calls. R I P Mr. Scully, all of baseball will miss you.

Major RESPECT to both Kirk Gibson & Dennis Eckersley for being great sportsman about this magical moment

This was one of the best MLB games of all time. It's a timeless classic. RIP Joe Garagiola. You're deeply missed. God bless your soul.

I could listen to Vin Scully all day long.

RIP Vince Scully you were the best baseball announcer of all time!

I no longer watch any of the major sports. I'm 62 now. But I will watch these old games all the time for MLB and the NFL-these are great. Thanks

The best thing about this clip is that it lets people who don't live in Los Angeles slip in to a long, warm Vin Scully bath. And as good as he is on TV he's even better on radio. NO ONE can paint a picture like Vinnie. This is going to be a tough year knowing it's his last. I'm going to savor it.

Watched this game with the grandparents, never forget it!

I'm an A's fan and even I had to give this a thumbs up. It's an iconic moment in baseball history. History is always appreciated...after about 25 years

I just teared up watching the bottom of the ninth. Best moment in baseball.

I will never get tired of seeing Gibson's at-bat... or hearing Vinny's shout "SHE IS.....GONE!". Loved it then, love it now.

Rip Vin. So glad to be able to listen back on these, we'll be listening to you forever.

Mike Davis' ability to extend the inning really made a huge difference.

even as an A's fan this is still one of the greatest moments in baseball history

Beautiful game. Beautiful moment at the end. The best baseball moment in my lifetime. Vin Scully's call. Fantastic. And I'm not even a Dodgers fan.

The best Game 1 ever of any world series and one of the best moments in baseball history! Beautiful Drama!

The game was amazing. The NBC theme music was amazing. Vin Scully was amazing. As always, he was at his best when the stage was the biggest.

"in a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happenend!" Absolutely classic Scully!!!!

Vin Scully: Put into the Hall of fame in 1982. STILL The Best in the Business!!

gives me the chills everytime I watch Kirk Gibson.

Scully is the best. Where most any other announcer (Joe Buck) would babble on about the historic home run, the A's heartbreaks, etc., Scully shuts up for a full minute and lets the crowd and picture tell the story. What a joy to be able to listen to him, for the 50 years I have been a baseball fan.

Miss you Vin Scully! You are the greatest.

Go easy, Vin. You were the greatest ever.

The great thing about moments like this are the replays. I will never tire of watching a great movie scene or one of these great sport moments.

The Gibson at bat was the greatest moment in sports history! Absolutely legendary. Between the lakers and this, the 80s were amazing.

How was a movie not been made about this moment yet..goosebumps still every time i see it

Rest in peace Joe Garagiola! You and Vinnie complimented each other well.. I will never forget 1988!

... this is the 1st time I've actually seen the game... at the time I was tending bar in a little French bistro in L.A., and the owner didn't allow TV's in the place. But he let me bring in a radio, so I listened to it... at the end, after the HR, the crowd was so loud that the radio announcer, Don Drysdale, couldn't be heard, so I didn't know what exactly had happened for several minutes. I knew it was something good, but I thought Gibson had singled to tie the game...

To see Kirk's final at-bat brought back many, MANY memories! The excitement & intensity was Awesome! The dejected looks in the A's dugout.... PRICELESS! Thanks for posting this vid!

The most exciting and dramatic moment I have ever seen in baseball and I've been a part of the game in some capacity since 1965. Above and beyond the home run, this was the greatest at bat I have ever seen! Gibson not only was hurt, but he was down 0-2 to the best reliever in baseball, battled back to 3-2 and then hit it out to win the game! Incredible.

This moment lives in my family lore. I'll always remember being six years old and my dad saying, "Eckersley's gonna make a mistake." What an incredible moment.

Thank you so much for posting this full game. I will never forget this game.

I can't think of any other heroic baseball moment that tops Kirk Gibson's home run. There have been plenty of amazing performances, but Gibson hitting a pinch-hit game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th with 2 out, on two busted legs, is the stuff of legend and will never be forgotten.

It must have been tough for Scully to remain impartial, considering that he had already been the voice of the Dodgers for so long.

Gibson has to be the best clutch player ever. The heart of a champion!

Thank you for posting. I’ve watched this game and this Series every autumn since 1988, either on my original Beta tape recording, my DVD purchased since, or on RU-vid. Joe garagiola and Vin made such a great team, their baseball acumen was superb; this was the last Series directed by the great Harry Coyle of NBC, and it was greatly directed. There’s such a smooth flow to every game, there’s something to see or hear even in the non-scoring innings. NBC’s theme music was great, too. And to think we used to get such great televised baseball as this without a subscription, free of pitching changes and stolen bases “sponsored by”, and without overlaid graphics throughout the game.

The drama while watching this all play out live was unbelievable. Watched it with a friend and when Gibson hit that shot we just jumped up and down in his living room like a couple of crazy people...I'm sure that was happening all across the City. Best LA sports moment ever no doubt!!

I still remember watching this live when I was 16 years old.

Here after the news of vins passing . He’s always going to be part of our family . 😭

Kirk Gibson HR as Lance McAlister had said set the tone for the 1988 World Series

I'm so glad I didn't live in L.A. until 1998. Look at the freaking smog!!!!!! Granted I was only 40 minutes away but my god. It's hard to believe this was in 1988. It was nothing like that when I moved there.

remember gibson talking about that pitch. i think it was his hitting coach told him you can bet dollars to donuts that if you get eckersly to a 3/2 count he will throw you a back door slider. so he was looing for that pitch and when it came he put it in the bank that for my money was the most dramatic home run . there have been series winning walk offs but those were people that were healthy and were capable but gibsons injuries is what made it special

The brake lights!

I'm actually here to watch the whole thing.

I remember this game like it was yesterday

Couple of interesting historical moments during this game: 1) Vin Scully predicts Kirk Gibson will not play tonight "for sure." 2:12:04 According to Gibson, back in the trainer's room watching the TV, this comment by Scully spurred his decision to make himself available to pinch hit. 2) The beginning of the steroid era, Canseco denies using. 2:17:39

This was the first World Series game that I ever watched (TV). I was ten years old. (My son is ten years old now. He plays the game with passion.) Coming from a family with plenty of baseball history, the game was pretty important to me in the first inning. After the ninth it was everything!

This still hurts. Oakland won 104 games that year and were the best team in baseball. Nobody gave L.A. a chance. We came back and won it in 89 and got swept in 90, but 89 was the only World Series we won out of the 3 and that is a hard pill to swallow.

Gibson's HR is the single biggest momentum swing of an at-bat in the history of the MLB postseason! What separates it from the rest is not only the level of competition the Dodgers were facing, but the fact that they won leading to their "down the season stretch" unhittable ace pitching Game 2! Those A's were ridiculously good and their seemingly invincible aura was challenged during that game and then sapped by Gibson's swing of the bat! It was the entire series in my opinion! I was in my junior year of HS and vividly remember the exact spot where I was sitting watching it to this day

Thank the Good Lord, Amen. Those were the days when people had some integrity. Kirk Gibson is the man!

One of the best moments EVER in baseball!

Thank you very much for posting this game. The '88 World Series is my all-time favorite series of all time- my brother and I would re-watch Kirk Gibson's historic home-run over and over again, and then reenact it in our back yard. Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola have amazing chemistry- Scully is one of the greatest announcers in all of sports history. (In my opinion he's the very best.) My only question is whether there is any way that you could post the other games in this series? I'd love to see all of the games, but I would especially LOVE to be able to watch Game 5- where the Dodgers, and Orel Hershiser- clinched the championship.

I was 9 years old and was in Vegas with my parents and brother when this game was played. My Dad asked if I wanted to bet on the game. I said give me the A's for 10$ to win the game. I saw jose hit the grand slam in the first and then went down to the arcade to kill Operation Wolf and Rampage. Didn't know I lost till the next day. I still have my betting slip.

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Also, the 1988 World Series was the first year that players wore the World Series logo on their uniforms.

I remember this game at bat - I was 8 years old #greatmemories!!!!

I WAS WATCHING THE GAME WITH ALL AS FANS, GLEN HUBBARD WAS PLAYING FOR THE AS we all played with him HERE IN OGDEN UTAH GROWING UP,,, WHEN HE HIT IT I JUMPED UP AND WENT CRAZY, they still wont forgive me to this day;;

The 35 dislikes is Eckersley, who's changed his account around 35 times since this video originated on youtube.

2:35:45 is every baseball player's dream. 9th inning, 2 outs, tying run on 2nd, and then BOOM!

I was nearly 10 years old I was playing baseball outside with my friends and came into the house around the 8th inning. I saw this unfold so many minutes later and never forgot. Just amazing!

On 2 bad legs, Kirk Gibson wins the game, and lifts his team to an eventual Series win.

Great games, I remember vividly watching this game on TV, that amazing ending. Not even a Dodgers fan, but that was pretty damn dramatic & exciting.

RIP Vin. You will be missed.

RIP Vin Scully the Greatest to ever do it

This game just never gets old. Kirk Gibson will always be considered the toughest s.o.b. in modern baseball and the greatest clutch hitter as well.

The most devastating loss in Oakland A's history!

How many people skipped right to Gibson's at bat? (-:

25yrs on and I still get goose bumps....Hollywood could not have written a better ending

I really was excited watching this game, little did I know that my sister, Kim and some of her friends were at that game. What a game, and I was glad that the Dodgers won that 1988 World Series.

Gotta love the guy slamming on his breaks in the parking lot. Tried to beat traffic on the way home, misses one of the greatest moments in the history of baseball lmao

After Gibson's HR, there is over one full minute where you don't hear a word from the announcers. That was the genius of Vin Scully. But I think they must have cut the power to Joe's mike, because Garagiola never knew when to shut up (kind of like Joe Buck).

Greatest walk-off EVER!!!

Dodgers Champions once again in 2020!!!

I wish my brother George was here. What a game, I remember it well.

What a moment that was! And Vin's call was nothing short of brilliant.

What a beautiful opening shot of Los Angeles😍

The statement "In a year that ......." is one of Scully's finest, and one of the most iconic in baseball history -- Jack Buck is terrific, but his call of the HR is pale by comparison.... VIN is THE MAN .... KIRK was THE MAN on this night ! !

Agreed! I love how he said absolutely nothing for the perfect 90 second pause and just let the crowd roar, you could feel the environment enough to get goosebumps through the radio call. I remember watching this game live, with my dad and his friends; Ed Parkin, Rocky Hill, Rick Uhlir, and Big Pat Milhollin. I was shocked, and a little upset because I was a Ricky Henderson fan.

I was watching this game in '88. Thank you, It re-kindled my love for baseball after it was broken by Dave Henderson in '86 against the Angela. I love Hatcher's Fire, Sax's fire, Gibson's fire. I wish my current home team, Seattle Mariners, would watch stuff like this... they need it.

45:15 Tv Banner says:Jose canseco “has never hit a grand slam” Jose Canseco: hold my steroids

One of my favorite childhood memories with my dad... remember like it was yesterday. Both screaming and high-fiving while mom was wondering wtf the fuss was about... lol

best at bat I've ever seen.

Just realized that not only was it his only at bat for the series but also his last at bat in a world series for his career. The dude is such a stud. In the post interview he praises and thanks his teammates for giving him the moment instead of letting his head swell and taking all the credit. thinking back on this when we was watching it live on TV.....we were jumping up and down and i actually hugged my mother in law at the time...Thanks Gibson! lol

It's mind blowing how stacked the A's were that year.

i was 18 years old and i remember exactly where i was and what my dad said when we watched this happen live on TV ...

I ditched work to go to this game. We bought tix in the parking lot and sat in the red section behind home plate. best baseball memory of all time!

On top of being the best baseball announcer ever, Vin Scully is also just a very nice man. One year, my dad got box seats for a Reds-Dodgers series from the company in Cincinnati that he was doing business with. He flew my mom and I out for the weekend to enjoy the games. Saturday afternoon, after LA had thrashed the Reds the night before, I decided to walk to Riverfront from our hotel. On the way, I came up behind this shorter, older man who was wearing a suit. As I came up beside him, I saw it was Mr. Scully. I asked him if he'd mind if I walked with him and he said, "Not at all!" And we just talked baseball all the way to the park. He said he was on the verge of cutting back to calling home games only soon, among other things. He had a great sense of humor and was as down to earth as a guy could be. I didn't ask for an autograph because I didn't want one. Just the chance to talk baseball with him was awesome enough. I shook his hand as we parted when we got to the stadium and thanked him. And he thanked me for walking with him.

While Eckersley came out on the short end of this epic moment in MLB history, he was still one of the best ever. (which contributed to what made this so phenomenal) In MLB history, here's a list of all players who have won a Cy Young award, won a World Series, been named league MVP, won 20 games in a season, recorded 50+ saves in a season, thrown a no-hitter and was inducted into the Hall of Fame: 1. Dennis Eckersley That's an elite club.

Interesting listening to the talk of a 'steroid controversy' during the broadcast. If they only had known

This never gets tired.😃👍🏾

Memories like this are gone for ever because of time warner

LONG LIVE VIN SCULLY!

Kirk Gibson shocked the NY Mets and the Athletics.

now thats how you react to a HBP. sax gets up and runs to first. no extracurricular BS. while i like watching a good brawl, you gotta admire when they cut the BS and focus on the game

Thank you for this channel!! It really helps the isolation!! Thank you

Whenever I feel down I just need to search in youtube for game 1 of 1988 series. This is baseball. Thank you very much!!

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LOL. In the fourth inning, Garagiola say " I spoke with McGwire and he says he doesn't care about the home run and just wants hits."

This is actually the SECOND iconic homer Gibson hit in a World Series. The first was in Game 5 in 1984 for Detroit. Both times he humbled a cocky superstar closer who went against the manager's orders and pitched to him. (Goose in '84, and Eckersley in '88.)