This is the reason I love baseball! Everyone in the stands knew what was happening...even though it was the visiting team! I remember this game. I was 16. I grew up in Brooklyn and in those days the Yanks went on the west coast trip late in the year. So, I had fallen asleep and I before I looked up at the box score in the newspaper the next morning (as I always did back then), my cousin called and told me about it. I’ll never forget it. I shoulda cut out and saved that box score. It was a good time to be a Yankee fan back then. They had just won the championship the year before as Boggs celebrated by riding on back of an NYPD horse! Couple of cool things about the video: Hall of Famer Rod Carew can be seen in the dugout as the Angels hitting coach. And, of course Boggs ended up in the Hall. Nice to see Charlie Hayes who made the last out of the ‘96 Series. Also great to hear Kaat and Singleton call the game. Great memories!
I remember watching that game, I was miserable the Yankees never did well against the Angels on those west coast swings, but man that brought a smile to my face.
**One week earlier** Paul O'Neil: "There goes Boggs working on that measly little knuckler of his again." Tino Martinez: "Why doesn't he just go field some grounders or something?" Paul O'Neil: "I know you've heard his drunken ramblings. He's convinced he's a great pitcher." Tino Martinez: "I really think he's starting to lose it, Paul. I'm seriously worried about him." Paul O'Neil: "Yeah......Me too."
Barney: And I say Britain’s greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston Boggs: Pitt the Elder Barney: LORD PALMERSTON Boggs: PITT....THE....ELDER Barney: Alright you asked for it Boggs 😂😂😂😂😂
I beg to differ. Wilson Valdez actually pitched the top of the 19th with a 1-2-3 scoreless inning and got the win when the Phillies scored in the Bottom of the 19th.
You must not be old enough to have seen Rocky Colavito. Rocky showed off his rifle arm at the end of his career by going 2 2/3 innings allowing just one hit and getting the win. He then played right field in the second game of that day's double header and hit a home run.
And Boggs went on to win the World Series with the Yankees later that year. I was very happy for him because even when he played for the rival Red Sox I always liked and respected him
mark k - He was my idol also.. Played 3rd base all the way through school. I was actually happy he went to NY. That man deserved a ring and he got one. Of course it would have been so much better if he were still with the Red Sox
@@CHman712 Yes Sox had an amazing comeback. Perfect way to break the curse. Let’s bot forget the fact that Yanks are only team in the entire history of MLB with an over 500 record against every other team. Pure dominance of the sport by every metric🍻
hfontanez98 Ya I miss the old guys Boggs, Mattingly, Brett.....I have always said players today are not what they use to be. The superstars back then still had a love and respect for the game and their fellow players. There is a video of Jeter talking about Mattingly and how he had only played with him for part of a season 15 games, but when their postseason run ended, they were all on a bus I believe and Mattingly told the team he was retiring, Jeter said there wasn't a dry eye on that bus.
Boggs was the third best knuckleball pitcher to suit up for the Yankees. Number two was Phil Niekro. Number one by a wide margin was Mickey Mantle. Anybody that saw Mantle throw his knuckleball said it was better than Hoyt Wilhelm, Eddie Fisher, Jim Bouton, Barney Schultz, or Wilbur Wood. He never got to pitch in an official game like Boggs. That look on Mel Stottlemyre's face was priceless.
@Trigger Warning I beg to differ. Mantle's knuckleball was better than Hoyt Wilhelm's, as told by former big leaguer Dutch Leonard. It's one thing to allow an aging Boggs or prior to that a Rocky Colavito at the end of his career to pitch, but when Mantle was throwing fast knucklers that moved considerably in the last few feet, which was in the same time period where he was winning the Triple Crown, Casey Stengel would have been fired to let him pitch and risk injury in a meaningless game. The only knuckleballer that threw the pitch at the speed Mantle could throw was R.A. Dickey in the short time where he was at the top of his game. Boggs proved it can be done, and Mantle's knuckler was better. Joe Niekro was an excellent teacher of the pitch, so good that he taught a young girl the pitch, and she became the star player in the Florida youth league, eventually getting to pitch batting practice to the Tampa Bay Rays.
I hate and despise the Yankees of today all celebrity like but I appreciate their former players of the past. Wade Boggs, Mickey Mantle, Roger Clemens (first run), Yogi Berra, etc.
dang, The Come-Pollos went thru the meat of the Angels lineup (the Kingfish, GA, and Todd Greene) without giving up a run? Impressive! It had to be all them chickens and beer he had before each game
