Manny Ramirez had such a gorgeous swing. That was such a classic lineup when he was in Boston with Ortiz, Youkilis, Pedroia, Varitek, Damon, Lowell, Nomar, Ellsbury, etc.
Favorite period of watching baseball ever. I remember i was like 12 flipping through channels and I landed on a bottom of the 9th red Sox game with David Ortiz coming up to batt down 3, I'm pretty sure he hit a grand slam
Ramirez and Ortiz probably wouldn't have even been in those "classic" lineups if not for all the juice they were taking. It's easy to seem like a consistent, reliable player... and therefore get into the line up more often... when the only reason why you're less injury-prone is because your muscle mass is artificially inflated by prohibited steroids.
I don't believe enough people know just how ridiculously unlikely Todd Pratt at 4:45 was. The guys career had been written off a few years prior. He spent a couple years as an employee at the baseball academy. Mets signed him a year prior and he was only in the game because Mike Piazza got injured in game 3, and he replaced him. He started game 4 due to that injury to Piazza. He was 0-4 in the game and 0-7 total. Baseball is crazy
@@TwistedRiverOutdoors no I’m taking about in both of their World Series they only won home games which no team had ever done that before, and there’s lots of evidence showing the reason for this was they were using the air conditioning to affect the hitting team.
David Ortiz had walkoff hits in three consecutive postseason wins for the 2004 Red Sox: the home run which won Game 3 and the ALDS against the Angels, then the home run which won Game 4 and the bloop single which won Game 5 of the ALCS against the Yankees. Those last two occurred on the same day.
@TRH I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I expected Edgar Martinez's game winning hit in the 1995 ALDS game 5 to be included, since it's considered the hit that saved Seattle Baseball, and the crowd went absolutely berzerk
Well, obviously given some of the other comments, it's because they're a Yankees fan and Edgar hit The Double off the Yankees, and we can't have that, can we? /S
I didn’t see Joe Carter’s walk off but it must have been great. I totally don’t understand why Joe Carter is not in the Hall of Fame. Sometimes recognition comes too late, as it did for Nellie Fox for example.
I've been looking for this mention. Everyone keeps bringing up Gibson and Puckett, but Fisk is just as iconic as nearly anything else in the history of the game!
Mazeroski, game seven walk off to win the World Series. Never been replicated. Freese was close, but game seven hits different; especially considering Maz was not exactly a power guy at all.
Don't know much about 1970s new York city I guess lol. My friend, look up Cleveland Indians 5 cent beer night against the Texas rangers in I think 1976, you're mind will be blown!
Bill Mazeroski's was better because it won GAME 7. Winner take all. Then again Carters came with his team trailing... but still... it was only game 6. And losing that game wouldn't have lost them the Series Both great homeruns but we have to microscope it if we're talking greatest ever
Mazeroski's was. Number 1, it came in Game 7, and #2, because Maz wasn't exactly someone you'd expect to hit a 400' HR. He only had 138 career dingers.
I remember watching that game when Joe Carter hit that homerun against Mitch Williams and the Phillies. As soon as the ball hit the bat I turned off the T.V. I already knew damn well that sh*t was gone.
I was watching on TV, Joe was 1or 0 - for 22 in the series. I sat there saying c'mon Joe, you're due man. I was out of chair as he hit it,knew it was a no doubter. Crazy game
Kirk Gibson was one of the toughest players ever. He rarely smiled - a true grinder. If anyone would have played through an injury, it was Gibson. He sure made his one plate appearance in the 1988 WS count. That HR broke the A's, who were a huge favorite to win the series.
For real. I'm a lifelong die hard packer fan, so if you aren't as well then you don't understand how fucking true this is 🤣🤣🤣 joe cuck and troy fagman are the most annoying announcers in the history of the job!
I'll see your Joe Buck and raise you Howard Cosell on the Chambliss call. That's any game across any sport, too. John Sterling could be insufferable sometimes, too.
It was their first pennant in 12 years, which was like an eternity to Yankee fans of that era. From 1947 to 1964, they won something like 15 out of 18.
