Eckersley and the A's would win the earthquake-interrupted '89 Series, against the Giants.
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The Dodgers won Game 1 and took the Series in five games. Gibson was waiting on the backdoor slider and rocked it 400 feet, over the right-field fence. “It was really stupid, because something off-speed is probably the only thing he can get to at this point.” "I was tired of throwing fastballs, so I thought to myself, if I give him something off-speed, maybe he'll pull it off," Eck told ESPN in 2008. Finally, though, Eckersley, who had thrown nothing but fastballs to the ailing Gibson, made the biggest mistake of his career.
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That's the short list for most dramatic postseason homers ever, and Gibson's pinch-hit poke-with a bad wheel, against an unhittable Dennis Eckersley, with the Dodgers a run down in the ninth to the heavily favored A's in Game 1 of the World Series-may be the most electric ever.īefore Gibson could have the signature moment of his notable career, he had to battle from two strikes down to a full count, and his dribbler up the first-base line stayed just foul. October 15, 1988: Bobby Thompson, Bill Mazeroski, and Kirk Gibson. The homer is so big that it takes a place among the biggest in the Yankees' storied history, right up with those by Chris Chambliss (1976 ALCS) and Reggie Jackson (1978 WS). "Walking off the field in 2003 with that feeling in your stomach, it doesn't get worse than that," says Millar, now an MLB analyst. Kevin Millar was a member of that '03 Sox team and he remembers the moment well, if not fondly.
There's a fly ball, deep to left! It's on its way! There it goes! And the Yankees are going to the World Series! Play-by-play man Charlie Steiner calls it like this: Wakefield did indeed start Boone with a knuckler…and Boone swung. Mired in a deep slump (2-for-16 in the series so far), Boone debated whether to take the first pitch, to get a look at Wakefield's jittery stuff before taking a swing at it. Inserted as a pinch runner in the eighth inning of a tie game, Boone led off the bottom of the 11th inning against Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. October 16, 2003: Aaron Boone didn't start Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series-but he ended it. "As far as special moments go, it doesn't get any better than that," says fellow all-star and 2001 retiree Tony Gwynn. He becomes the oldest player (40 years, 10 months, 16 days) to hit a home run in the All-Star Game, eclipsing Stan Musial, and is named the Game's MVP for a record second time. When he steps back in, Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park delivers the first pitch.and Ripken sends it over the fence in left field. He received a warm ovation, so affectionate and long that he had to step out of the batter's box and acknowledge it. Ripken, a landslide selection to start at third base for the American League, came to the plate in the third inning to the theme from the movie, The Natural. So it was no surprise that he would deliver a great moment in his final All-Star Game in 2001. Case in point: He homered in the game he matched Lou Gehrig's 2,131-consecutive-games-played record, and again the next day when he broke it. July 10, 2001: In addition to being baseball's all-time Iron Man, Cal Ripken could rise to the occasion.
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