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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Feb 22, 2019 20:51:36 GMT
Guys, I know absolutely nothing about Baseball (except from loving Field of Dreams and The Natural!) but this:-
is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in Sport. Does baseball have any other moments which come close to this?
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Feb 22, 2019 20:52:52 GMT
Guys, I know absolutely nothing about Baseball (except from loving Field of Dreams and The Natural!) but this:- is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in Sport. Does baseball have any other moments which come close to this? Google Carlton Fisk game 6. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 21:02:09 GMT
nothing compares to it
some may argue Joe Carter and Blue Jays.
what about a very distant cousin.
Boone and the Yanks?
some old school baseball fans can tutor me on this - I think what made Gibson special was he was 'hobbled', no?
i.e. he may have been on his last legs and he stepped up to the plate to be a hero?
it's quite 'Roy Hobbish' from 'The Natural'
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Feb 22, 2019 21:05:44 GMT
nothing compares to it
some may argue Joe Carter and Blue Jays.
what about a very distant cousin.
Boone and the Yanks?
some old school baseball fans can tutor me on this - I think what made Gibson special was he was 'hobbled', no?
i.e. he may have been on his last legs and he stepped up tot the plate to be a hero?
it's quite 'Roy Hobbish' from 'The Natural'
Gibson was the bloody sock but legit. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 21:08:43 GMT
nothing compares to it
some may argue Joe Carter and Blue Jays.
what about a very distant cousin.
Boone and the Yanks?
some old school baseball fans can tutor me on this - I think what made Gibson special was he was 'hobbled', no?
i.e. he may have been on his last legs and he stepped up tot the plate to be a hero?
it's quite 'Roy Hobbish' from 'The Natural'
Gibson was the bloody sock but legit. Are you insinuating that Schilling put Ketchup down his sock and was being a drama queen?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 21:11:43 GMT
I'm going to be a giant homer here and go Matt Stairs against the Dodgers in the playoffs as the Phightens were on their way to a WS.
I - as well as the entire Tri- State area went through the roof - you could hear a loud massive explosion of cheers like an atomic bomb going off in a 250 mile radius.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Feb 22, 2019 21:14:54 GMT
Gibson was the bloody sock but legit. Are you insinuating that Schilling put Ketchup down his sock and was being a drama queen?
Ketchup, grape juice, whatever. Schilling was a tool. Great pitcher but a tool. If Ted Nugent played baseball he’d be Curt Schilling. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Feb 22, 2019 21:20:18 GMT
This is better. It's all about context. Game 6 instead of game 1; the Red Sox long history of failure; Pudge being a New England native. The fact that the Sox ultimately lost the series adds to the moment in a weird way, if you're a Sox fan. Pudge famously said he used to tell people the Red Sox won that series three games to four.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Feb 22, 2019 21:24:00 GMT
it's quite 'Roy Hobbish' from 'The Natural'
Ha ha, yeah - I just finished watching that and was reading some stuff when I came across the Kirk Gibson link. It's so similar, both walking wounded, even the build up with the foul hits. Never really thought about it before but baseball has a uniqueness about it in being a team sport but at it's heart it's a test of man against man. You could maybe argue penalties in football or other sports but I don't think that's really the same - not a fundamental element of the game and the odds are heavily stacked in the taker's favour... |
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Post by fjenkins on Feb 22, 2019 22:38:25 GMT
As an A's and Giants fan, there are a few things I can't look at when they show them on TV: Gibson's 88 knock. Spezio's 7th inning home run in game 6 of the 2002 WS.
And Derek Jeter. The flip. WTF did Giambi NOT slide? If he would have slid, he would have been safe.
I was walking around (LA) the next day and just happen to have my A's jacket on and at least three people said to me "Why didn't Giambi slide?"
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Post by klawrencio79 on Feb 22, 2019 22:46:02 GMT
This is probably a homerism thing and it wasn't a playoff game or anything close, but I still get goose bumps when I watch this clip of Piazza's HR in the first game in NY after 9/11:
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Post by Geddy on Feb 22, 2019 22:48:35 GMT
Joe Carter 93 tops that as his blast ended the World Series; only Mazeroski can say the same.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 22, 2019 23:38:09 GMT
The drama was in Gibson's legs. Had he one into the gap and all three A's outfielders had heart attacks, he still would have been thrown out at 1st. He couldn't run, he could barely swing. It had to be a home run.
I would say Bobby Thomson surpassed it. There wasn't as much on the line (Giants got creamed by the Yankees in the 1951 WS). But it was two bitter rivals. Dodgers-Giants was THE baseball rivalry. Former Dodger manager Leo Durocher managing the hated Giants. The drama played out for the entire season, Giants erasing a 13 game lead. Dodgers needed 14 innings on the last day to beat the Phillies and force the three game playoff. Splitting the first two games of the playoff. And on baseball's biggest stage when baseball was America's biggest sport.
Newsreel of the last game, without Russ Hodges "The Giants Win the pennant". Dodgers manager Charlie Dressen made a huge mistake. With runners on 2nd and 3rd, he should have put Thomson on base. The Staten Island Scot tortured the Dodgers and Branca in particular. Giants had a rookie on deck. Yeah, you don't want to put the winning run on base, but I'd rather pitch to the rookie.
His name, Willie Mays
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