NOTE: This is Game 2 and not Game 4 as initially described. In front of the home crowd, Rickey Henderson swipes four bags against Toronto in Game 2 of the 1989 ALCS.
I was a kid during the mid 80s where guys like Coleman and Rickey terrorized pitchers on a daily basis. The game has changed so much since that point in time.
I am Blue Jay fan, painful to watch those games as a kid. Ricky is awesome, but the Blue Jays were just outclassed in 89. A few years later, we the A's were a joke, and Ricky came over in 93, which was, weird. The Jays were blessed to have Ricky as part of their history both 4 and against. Fun guy to watch, brilliant athlete and role model. How can you not love Ricky.
While the Gibson homer did shake them, and Orel shut the A's down in Game 2, I feel they could have bounced back after the McGwire walk off in Game 3. For reasons we will never truly know, the Oakland just collapsed overall in that series. Canseco and McGwire alone were a combined 2-36 which is baffling considering what they did during the regular season.
Adam Ames We already know the reasons, it was a combination of the A’s blowing it and Dodgers coming through in the clutch. And both 2 hits Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco got were homeruns.
@@flame-sky7148 It's crazy, but I thought about the fact that if you had Rickey Henderson, Barry Bonds and Pete Rose together, you would have the people with the most games played, most at bats, most runs scored, most steals, most hits, most home runs, and most walks. Most of the stats off the back of a baseball card. There is a possibility that Albert Pujols breaks the record for career RBI's as well.
@@flame-sky7148 Yes, it is fun to see them. Rose retired when I was a kid, well after his prime, so didn't see much of him, but I was a huge A's fan growing up so saw a lot of Rickey Henderson, and Barry Bonds was a perennial all-star as well on TV quite a bit.
This was not Game 4. Oakland hosted Toronto in Games 1 and 2 and Toronto hosted Oakland in Games, 3, 4 and 5 in 1989. In 1992, it was the opposite, Toronto hosted Games 1, 2 and 6 and Oakland hosted Games 3, 4 and 5 .
Thank you for correcting me. This is quite embarrassing for me. I posted this in January, and cannot quite remember why I messed up, but I believe I was working on a Canseco video package at the same time where he hit the monster HR in Toronto - which was Game 4.
