I love that little moment at 1:05:42 here with Costas and Kubek with the homer hanky and Costas trying to put the hanky on Kubek's head. Their dynamic in the booth was almost like Kubek was the big brother and Costas was the little brother. Kubek was a mentor of sorts to Costas, I think, in his early days at NBC. Wasn't above gentle admonishes though--apparently there was one incident where Costas made the mistake of bringing up the play in the '60 World Series where Kubek was hit in the Adam's Apple by a bad hop grounder--which apparently he was quite sensitive about and didn't like to talk about. When Costas brought it up on the air, supposedly put a hand on Costas's thigh to stop him--didn't want to make it clear on the air but made an unseen gesture saying--"nope, don't go there!" But this was a great partnership, no question.
I am a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan, and this series broke my heart. We battled the Blue Jays all season and came up on top, should have beat the Twins, but they got hot at exactly the right time. I was 10 years old, and after this game, I couldn’t watch anymore, because I knew we were going to lose. I think we stole game 4, but I knew we were doomed….been mad at the Twins ever since 😅
The Tigers were coming in red hot after overtaking the Blue Jays for the AL East division title during the last weekend of the season, while the Twins lost their last 5 entering the postseason but had already clinched the West the week before. The Tigers were obviously heavily favored....and then the Twins' Gary Gaetti slammed a pair of Home Runs off of Detroit's Doyle Alexander in Game 1....and the rest is history.
If only saw it for this playoff series but I love how the camera stats on the team walking off the field for an extended time compared to other baseball broadcasts. Idk it just looked really cool and I’d wish they’d go back to that instead of going strait to commercial instantly .
Unfortunately Detroit was the far better team. Pun intended. Minnesota had a lousy season record where the Blue Jays and Tigers were storming the A.L. in 1987.
First title since 1954. Sure the northstars had played for a cup only 6 years earlier but there was no way in hell the stars were beating al arbour and the long island lighting co with 4 games at ft neverlose
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Love this sport, so much just wish they would leave it alone . All the rule changes are ruining the game, and talking about robot umpires may be the last straw. Instead of catering to those who currently do not watch, why not leave it alone for the one's who have always enjoyed. to many teams make the playoff's instant replay runner at second base without earning it, make it go away and back to game that it used to be
I can't believe I get to watch this. I remember watching the away games on tv while "being sick" and staying home from school. Playing NES and watching this was heaven.
Goosebumps listening to that open. I remember hoping we didn’t have to play Detroit because I think they beat us in almost every game that year. Amazing time
It's ironic in a sense that the Metrodome was primarily built for football, but it was the Twins who enjoyed their greatest successes in that building. Meanwhile the dome came and went, and the Vikings still haven't gotten to a Super Bowl.
What do I remember about this game? The very end. I ended up cutting a date short that night so I could catch the rest of the game. Turned on the tube and Reardon just got the 3rd out to get the Twins out of a jam. And the rest was history.
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John Paulson it's VERY rare that giving up a prospect for a proven player comes back to haunt the team that gave up the prospect. Normally those kinds of trades are highway robbery because just by simple odds most of even the greatest prospects don't ultimately turn out as hoped. But Smoltz for Alexander is definitely a rare exception.
@@ADEAL918 alexander going 9-0 was a fluke. let's say the tigers got smoltz. it wouldn't make sense for detroit to keep an ace. the team was getting old slashing payroll and unable to compete against toronto new york cleveland in the 90's.
@@ADEAL918 In 1989 the Twins made a trade that got them a prospect who had a good career and helped them win the 1991 World Series. They traded Frank Viola to the Mets and got four pitchers, three of whom made the major leagues and two who had good careers. Rick Aguilera was the proven pitcher they got and they also got Kevin Tapani, David West and Jack Savage. Savage never made the big leagues and West was so so in his career but Tapani and Aguilera had good careers for the Twins.
Doyle Alexander at times was down right nasty. He ended his career with 194 wins to 174 losses, he definitely bounced from club to club even pitching for my Baltimore Orioles. Just to think one year later Kirk Gibson would be a Dodger and he would hobble off the bench in the bottom of ninth to hit that epic home run off HOF Dennis Eckersley to send the Dodgers to a game 1 victory in the '88 World Series, what a nice career he had as well.
Every Tiger fan curses the Doyle Alexander trade even to this day. Because of course, the player who went to Atlanta was a little known minor league pitcher named John Smoltz….
Same reason why game 1 of the 91 ALCS was in Minnesota and why game 1 of the 1989 ALCS was in Oakland. rotation. back then during the odd years, the West division gets the Home field advantage while the East division gets Home field advantage during the even years.
@@andrewpestotnik5495 part of the reason was in those days there were a lt more NFL/MLB shared stadiums than there are today. This allowed for possible shifting of NFL games with more notice.
@@paulsonj72 The year before in '86 the Mets were originally slated to have homefield advantage for the NLCS but the Astrodome in Houston was unavailable for Games 3-4-5 in Houston because the NFL's Houston Oilers were playing at home that weekend so they switched it up so that the Astros wound up hosting the 1st two games instead of the Mets. Thus avoiding a scheduling conflict between the Astros and Houston Oilers. Not that it mattered to the Mets tho, they still won the series & clinched in Houston nonetheless.
