Game 7 1968 World Series - Full 9th Inning - Detroit Tigers v St Louis Cardinals 

This was before baseball was ruined by money. Thanks for posting.

I remember my mom letting me stay home from school to watch this series One of the best series ever!

My grandpa was on the Detroit tigers, Cardinals, oakland athletics, and the pirates but he was mostly on the tigers he is Daryl Patterson ;)

A nice ovation from Cardinal fans for the visiting pitcher Mickey Lolich who pitched brilliant baseball for Detroit. What class and a great WS !!

The names of all these guys mean something to me. I couldn't name 4 guys on the Tigers and Cardinals today.

I was 14, that year we LOVED the Tigers. Knew every players name. I had a small radio, carried with me always, never missed listening to a Tigers game. One of the greatest years of my life.

*I saw an interview once that Tim McCarver gave about this World Series. He said that he and his teammates, who were confident as defending World Series Champions, picked Roger Maris's brain about the Tigers and their pitchers (Maris was in the American League with the Yankees for years), as they had some concerns about facing 30 game winner Denny McClain in the Series. McCarver said Maris told them that they'd probably hit McClain in the Series (the Cardinals actually shelled him twice), but they should be really be concerned with facing Mickey Lolich. McCarver said the team had its doubts with Maris's assessment. Turns out Maris was spot-on, and was in the on-deck circle when McCarver made the final out in the Series.*

Ernie Harwell! Al Kaline! Mickey Lolich! Freehan catching that ball off of McCarver! Oh my Detroit youth. I remember it all. Rushed home from school with a transistor radio pressed to my ear to catch the end of the game. Went downtown with my dad and saw all wonderful hell busting loose. Paper flying out of all the windows, ankle deep in the street. The team that saved the city, and gave it one of its greatest days.

I was a 12 yo Michigan boy during the 68 World Series, and a rabid Tiger's fan. I can't begin to tell everyone just how wonderful it is to see this again. Can hardly wait for baseball to start up again this Spring. "Play Ball"!⚾️

Quite simply the best starting pitching performance in world series history. 3 complete game victories with game 7 pitched on 2 days rest.

I love looking at the audience all dressed up in suits and ladies in dresses. My, how times have changed!

Sadly enough...waiting on deck when McCarver popped out to end the series....and playing his last big league game..the legendary ROGER MARIS

Two days rest and throws a complete game. Amazing!

My all-time favorite Tigers team. Came from behind time and time again. So many 9th inning miracles. Downtown Detroit was absolutely crazy. 22 years old then, and it seems like yesterday. Sad, though, to see the Tigers who have since passed away. Norm Cash, Jim Northrup, Ray Oyler, Gates Brown and announcers George Kell and the immortal Ernie Harwell. Love the '68 Tigers!

The pace of the game is so much faster back then.

One of the GREATEST performances in MLB history, in the World Series, by THE DETROIT TIGERS.

My dad was a photographer for the 1968 World Series...I sadly lost my father in May last year...I love you dad💔😿#RIPERNIEHARWELL #RIPALKALINE #RIPGEORGEKELL Great men and great Tiger broadcasters and players.

Great win Tigers! Lolich----a pitching machine!

11:39 This interview is so satisfying to watch. Kaline was already a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame at this point in his career, but this was his crowning moment. He’d waited 16 years to even get the chance to play in the World Series, and he absolutely seized the opportunity. A .379/.400/.655 slash line with 0.48 WPA and 9.18 cWPA would probably get him World Series MVP in most years. But right there, we’re witnessing a legend complete his resume with that elusive championship ring. As a Yankee fan, it gives me chills.

I was 11. My WHOLE meaning in life was to run home from school, knock out my paper route, and make it home by the first pitch. Talk about pressure.

I was in Vietnam in '68. Luckily, the radio broadcast was carried on Armed Forces Vietnam Radio. I set my alarm and listened to it live broadcast, sometime around 2 or 3 in the morning : ) It was great to hear my Tigers win!

The first World Series ever that I can remember. I was eight years old. I remember my idol Orlando Cepeda.

a great one has passed today, but his memory lives thru your wonderful telecast that i just (not just highlites) saw, a bonding moment for Tiger fans everywhere, 68 Series Game 7. Al Kaline pure Detroit, the ultimate pro and a real gentleman.

Mackey Lolich belongs in the hall of fame.

Notice - the hitters don't back out of the box after every pitch... Notice - Curt Gowdy and Co. do not hype upcoming TV shows... A fan notices...MM

Those of us that lived in Michigan...what a phenomenal year for baseball and the Tigers. So exciting.

As a Detroit native now living in CA, I never get tired of watching this...this has got to be the most iconic moment and day in Detroit Sports history. That team is still revered, every one of them.

Weird listening to the great Harry Caray in his St. Louis days. Great stuff.

The greatest World Series of my 70 year lifetime. Great because it was such a surprise. And because it was the last Series before the playoffs were instituted. And because Gibson set the all-time World Series strikeout mark. And because nobody in the universe expected the Tigers to beat Gibson. And because the great Kaline, playing in his only World Series ever, hit .379 and added a home run as I recall. This was a massive upset - akin to Alabama being beaten in football by Wake Forest.

"Well thank you, Mickey, and have a nice quiet winter."

Before there was Madison Bumgarner in 2014 vs the Royals, there was Mickey Lolich in 1968 vs the Cards. Phenomenal performance.

I was a 10 year old kid sitting in a downtown Atlanta soul food restaurant watching this game. What a great memory you brought back! Boy! How I miss those days and that era of baseball. Thank you!

As a kid, I ran home from school to watch this game. I was only able to pick up the last inning. I remember the Mike Shannon home run.

God this brings back memories. I was only 4 but I remember it. Also great to see Ernie Harwell. I remember we would turn the volume on the TV down and turn up WJR and listen to Ernie.

Lolich looks so cool...like he's just waiting for a bus.

Bill Freehan was my hero growing up in Detroit, and he was the reason I was a catcher in all the baseball leagues I played in, many years ago...

My brother and I and a friend were watching this on our tv in Detroit. I was 14 at the time. They got the last out and we went nuts. After a 23 year drought the Detroit Tigers had finally won the World Series. My friend and I got on the Joy Road bus and went downtown, trying to get over to the east side to see our girlfriends. We never made it....lol Downtown was an absolute party. Traffic was at a halt, people were celebrating, drinking in the streets, it was like Mardi Gras. No violence, no looting, just everyone joining in on something that brought the city together after a tense, long, violent hot summer that saw riots in the streets. It was one of the happiest moments in the city's history. I'm 60 now and I'll remember that day for the rest of my life.

The last classic inning of Major League Baseball!

Lolich ,what a stud ,he has the numbers to be in the hall of fame

Loved the ‘68 Series! Very exciting

Love this clip. For nostalgic people like 64 year old me, this is heaven. Loved not only the ninth-inning, but the celebration interviews. Especially Mickey Lolich on how he critiqued his own pitching. How many of today’s pitchers would admit weakness on the game they just pitched? Plus his pitching analysis On the difference between feeling weak and lacking energy, and what it does to one’s sinking fastball. Very informative

I can’t think of a single thing that’s better about baseball now than then...

This is a treat. DC suburbs here. 12 years old in '68. I admired Bob Gibson, had a "Stormin Norman" mitt. 2 great teams, and the St. L fans show real class with an ovation for good work by visiting pitcher, Micky Lolich. Great stuff. Cheers

What? A World Series ending under God's sunlight? Not at 1 a.m.???

I was in the 8th grade in the fall of '68 and I remember be in school the day this game was played. Nobody but nobody thought the Tigers had a chance of beating Gibson. After all he had those 17 K's in game one and was nearly unhittable in his next start. Back in the day of day baseball, wow, great memories.

A great World Series and a great come back by the Tigers.

There was so much about that game that reminds me why I used to love the game. The game moved very quickly. The lack of tv replays was something i didn’t miss. I liked listening to the game as it sounded like a radio broadcast with pictures. I loved seeing my favorite Tiger player Gates Brown in the locker room. It is probably the nostalgia of seeing my childhood again but was it better then? Kaline, Horton, Freehan, Lolich. American League pitchers batting. My family moved to Detroit the day this series ended. I remember asking my mother why all the car horns were blowing. I only wish ESPN would have left the original score graphics in place. I don’t mind the old “chyron” look.

This can be called the last World Series. Starting in 1969, the playoffs commercial corruption absolutely ruined the concept of championship baseball. Now we get night games in late October, early November - football weather - they call the World Series, and it rarely is a competition between two teams who were the best team in their league over 162 games.

Baseball sure ain’t what it use to be

As a diehard Yankees fan, I love seeing my Yankees win titles all the time of course but this video is a delight to watch.

Al Kaline compliments the Cardinals. Pure class. Harry Carry and Ernie Harwell in the same broadcast. Classic.

I remember my Dad talking about the 61 Tigers and how they came so close to the dance. Then he’d straighten up and talk about his World Champion 68 Tigers. When we didn’t have that much to talk about there was always baseball. He would toast the Tigers with a Strohs beer and said we’d love to eat some doughnuts at Mickey’s place. Bless you Dad, I love our baseball talk

I wish they had the 2 announcers from both teams announce today like they did in the old days. Today's network announcers have no passion for the game.

I would LOVE to see a World Series game played during the day... even better a twilight game, start time 4pm

When I was in 5th grade we got to pull our desks out into the hallway at school and we got to watch the 68 world series. That's when I became a Tigers fan for life. I thank Westwood Elementary for having the opportunity to watch some of those great games.

The last inning of the last game of the last no doubt champions of each league. Fitting that the Tigers should be the winners!

Roger Maris watched the last out of his career from the on deck circle.

God does this take me back. I was in the 5th grade of elementary school during the series. To illustate what a big thing baseball was in Detroit back then, they brought a television into each classroom during the afternoon to watch the first 5 games of the series. Running home during the 7th inning stretch. For the last 2 games they sent us home 2 hours early to watch the game at home. It was a truly electric moment when they won. Thanks for this video.

Mickey Lolich was Series MVP, and there were few ever more overwhelmingly deserving. He went 3-0, with 3 complete games, and a 1.67 ERA. Beat HoFer Bob Gibson in Game 7. We won’t be seeing that matched anytime soon.

I was 14 and remember this series very well. As a Tiger fan, I was in awe of the season that Gibson had and knew that the Tigers weakest link was their starting rotation. In fact, Tigers fans had a saying that described the Tiger's starters...."Lolich, McClain and pray for rain". Ultimately, though, McLain's arm was used up from winning 30 and Lolich that was the workhorse. Back when baseball was still a game.

I watched this game when I was in 5th Grade. At that age, Tigers baseball was THE thing for me. It was a critically important event for the city of Detroit after the unrest in 1967 & '68. I cannot thank you enough for posting this.

2 days rest wow.

One of my best summers in my life growing up in Detroit listening to every game on A.M. radio 😂

I was 7 and remember coming home from school and watching the last few plays. I clearly remember watching freehan catch the pop-up, but all these years later I always wondered if my memory was correct. NOW I KNOW! THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great finish to a great World Series, but can you imagine that Ken Burns' video "Baseball" made absolutely no mention of the Tigers' victory in the 1968 World Series? The Tigers were behind three games to one, but won three consecutive games to pull it out and win the World Series, but Ken Burns did not think it was worthy of mention.

Why Mickey Lolich is not in Cooperstown is amazing.

As a young boy...first series I followed....watched in school....great memories

I was at Glen X's house -- we watched the whole series there because he had a color TV! We were juniors in high school and skipped school to watch the all the day games of that series. Mickey Lolich pitched that complete game on two days rest; nobody does that anymore! Thank god we didn't have to hear Harry Caray, though... we turned the sound down and listened to Ernie Harwell do the radio play by play. A couple weeks earrlier, Glen and I were at the second to the last regular season game at Tiger Stadium -- when they clinched the pennant. That was a wild, wild night! I still have a piece of forest green 2x4 from the Tiger stadium center field wall from that night. The fans all rushed the field after the game -- some kid had ripped it off the wall by the flagpole at the 440' marker and a cop grabbed him so he dropped it. I picked it up and took it home with us. I stapled my ticket stub to that board and still have it to this day. We headed for downtown and our bus got stuck in the traffic jams on Michigan Avenue, so we walked about two more miles down to the stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull. People were just going nuts... solid car horns... people hugging each other... blacks hugging whites and whites hugging blacks... it was the best thing that could've happened to the city. Remember, this was only one year after the horrible 1967 Detroit riots, but for that brief period everybody forgot all about the racist shit and celebrated together. It was quite a sight to witness and to be part of. Won't ever forget that day.

Al Kaline and Ernie Harwell, tigers baseball.

My favorite World Series. I became sentient as a sports fan that summer. God bless "the battery" ~Al-Kaline !

We were all around the radio when this happened, work was done for the day! 3 of my heroes/ friends played in this and we all went nuts to see them win the series!!

Freehan was a very good catcher.

rest in peace ray oyler one hell of a shortstop and a seattle pilot in 1969,

ray oyler was one hell of a shortstop and one hell of a guy he worked at boeing for while after leaveing baseball just one of the guys, rest in peace ray

Both pitchers pitched 9 innings and hit their spot in the order. That's the way the game was made to be played. Most teams had only 4-man starting pitching rotations, and let their pitchers go deep into games if it looked like they still had stuff. Denny McClain won 31 games that year. Today it's a miracle if a pitcher wins twenty, and lucky if he even gets 30 starts.

The city of Detroit needed this victory in so many ways. It was such a blessing.

Great Come back by The Tigers 🐅 Lolich was Amazing 👏

I remember this, I was in elementary school and kept telling anybody who would listen that my Tigers were going to comeback and win the series even when they were down 3-1. After the series this kid walks up to me on the schoolyard and says dude you were right we both just started laughing......this was the best! Go Tigers!.....

I was only 5 years old when that happened, but the image of Bill Freehan catching that pop up is burned in my memory

Unbelievable how much better baseball was in the 60's and 70's. Games lasted 2 hours, Starters finished games, players played because they loved the game, stars remained loyal to their teams!! Bob Gibson anywhere but St. Louis? Al Kaline anywhere but Detroit? it truly was AMERICA's PASTIME.

Awesome baseball....Not one mention on how many pitches Gibson or Lolich threw. Love it!!.....ever since the incessant banter about how many pitches the starting pitcher threw that became "fashionable", the MLB game has become mediocre. This is how you announce a baseball game!!!! Take notes 21st century commentators.

Greatest World Series of all time. Bar none. I still get chills a half century after the fact.

I was in the 5th grade in 1968, our teacher Mr Schmidt wheeled in a TV set & we watched most the game during class.

thanks for posting, I was born in 71 and used to play a game called micro-league baseball 68 tigers were a team on that game, they were my favorite, now I can finally see the team I used to beat the teams my friends used to choose in head to head.

The game went a lot faster when the umps called strikes in the upper part of the zone back then.

1.67 ERA for Lolich in the series? Incredible. I watched the game at my school gym.....I was 8 years old and a serious Tiger fan.

This is the last World Series that I didn’t see. I was just 6 and probably playing with my Hot Wheels cars. I remember the 1969 Series (Mets vs. Orioles) and every one since then. Go Cubs!

This Detroit team I was 13 years old my favorite team of all time I’ll never forget the joy of them winning against the Cardinals McLain winning 31 games And Mickey Waiting three games in the World Series

I was watching Ken Burns "Baseball" on netflix, I watched the first 8 episodes to get to the one about the 60s, They talk endlessly on how statistics matter, but when they get to 1968 they don't even mention the Tigers, No mention of McClain's 31 wins, the game had not seen a 30 game winner since 1934, and not likely that the sport will ever see another. They do talk about the 68 World Series, they cover it in this manner, Gibson struck out 17 Tigers in game 1 of the series, they don't even say who won the series that year. How do you claim to be a Historian, and not even cover the biggest story in Baseball that year, Our number 17 Denny McClain, won 31 games, the Cy Young, and the MVP of the American League. Lolich carried us thru the World Series, and had 17 wins in the regular season. Detroit was second in the AL in 67 and WS Champions in 68, and second in the AL in 69, then MLB lowered the Mound by 5 inch's. Ken Burns fails to mention that as well. Not one mention of any of the great Stars on that team,

Even though he didn’t do well in the Series, Denny McLain did win 30 games that year. The last 30 game winner to date....

RIP Bobby (my brother) ... A Tigers fan taken too soon but I was thinking of you today and watched this and hopefully somehow you were watching it with me. Tear'em up Tigers! Let's go!

The culmination of my youth. I was 13 years old when The Tigers completed this remarkable comeback from being down 3 games to 1, to take the series 4-3. I had been following the Tigers since I was 6 years old. As a kid it seemed that the Tigers would never win the World Series. But in 1968, a year I still hold close to my heart, they did it, and set off a statewide celebration. Kaline Cash, Freehan, Stanley, Northrup, Horton, Wert, Mc Auliffe, Lolich, Mc Lain, Wilson, Dobson, Patterson and more. These were the heroes of my youth. I will never forget these guys, and the joy they brought to The City if Detroit, and the State of Michigan. “ GO GET EM TIGERS”.

The year of the pitcher next season the mound would be lowered..

This was back when baseball was "The Game". It wasn't filled with al of the bullshit that you have in the game today. Boy, I sure do miss the way the game was played. GO GETT'EM TIGERS!

1968 was such a magical year for the Tigers. It wasn't even about winning but how they were coming back late in games and winning in exciting ways. They made the city of Detroit forget about that ugly riot a year before.

Master class of pitching by Lolich. He was the MVP and a great pitcher. Extremely underrated, he was as Maris said nasty. One of my heroes growing up

Freaking Lolich was a beast. He pitched nearly 400 inning that year. The bull pen didn't warm up anyone during the game. That is how confident they were with Lolich on the mound.

I will love Mickey Lolich until I die.

I remember coming home from school in the 4th grade (Bay City MI) and our portable "2nd TV" in the kitchen was showing that bottom of the 9th of Game 7. My mom who was not really a sports fan had the game on when I got home and I remember Bill Freehan lifting up Mickey up after that last out. Somehow I seem to recall someone bringing a champagne bottle 🍾 out there from the dugout, but I could have been mistaken. Long time ago and I was 9. A great day. Have a better recollection of the A L East Champion Tigers 🐅 4 years later in 1972 and of course the "Bless You, Boys," World Champion Tigers of 1984. From that historic 35-5 opening to the season, right through Game 5 of the 1984 World Series against the Padres, the Tigers were never out of 1st Place.

I was 12 years old in 1968 playing in the Canadian Little League Championship tournament across the river in Windsor,it was a Sunday,our billets took us to Tiger Stadium that August day but sadly the Tigers were out of town,my billet purchased a Tiger's penant for me, I still have it 52 years later,a year after the Detroit riots,"The Motor City is Burning", I can't describe how empowered I felt that sunny hot day standing next to Tiger Stadium,in a dreamstate...1968,man I never came down off that one,The Detroit Tigers World Series Champs,Kurt Gowdy doin the games too,wow.Like the other comments here reveal,it was all baseball,all class,no one stepping out every pitch,fixing their batting gloves every pitch,that garbage should be outlawed and the Ken Burns baseball documentary snubbing the Tigers and all the stellar achievements of those great Tigers of 1968,well that is a big time disgrace for sure,them Tigers beat the powerhouse St Louis Cardinals,winners of the 1967 World Series from the previous year,they were our baseball heroes,us little guys idolized those men,the Cardinals and the Tigers alike,those were the days my friend...we thought they'd never end !!!