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- A Freese in October: David Freese’s Game 6 Jersey Among Artifacts on Hall of Fame Tour
- Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
- The Bruin linebacker and the Clipper guard are trying to make a difference for those enduring challenging times YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW
- Oct. 18, 1977: Reggie Jackson hits three homers in World Series clincher to become 'Mr. October'
That puts it up there with legendary home runs from the likes of Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. It's the kind of homer that would give Ellis flashbacks even without the LSD. Frank Robinson was named the MVP of the game, but Jackson was the talk of Major League Baseball. First, a little bit of backstory leading up to Jackson stepping to the plate at the 1971 rendition of MLB's Midsummer Classic.
Torrez caught the final out of the contest, a popup of an attempted bunt by pinch-hitter Lee Lacy. Yankee fans stormed the field, overwhelming police officers. Jackson shoved his glasses in his pocket, took off his helmet and tucked it under his arm like a football, and started weaving through the crowd like the fullback he had been at Arizona State University. Without glasses, he had poor depth perception, and knocked over a fan in his drive to the dugout. In the second, New York’s Chris Chambliss smacked a home run to score Jackson (who had reached on a four-pitch walk) tying up the ball game at 2-2.
A Freese in October: David Freese’s Game 6 Jersey Among Artifacts on Hall of Fame Tour
The slugger faced off against the Pittsburgh Pirates' Dock Ellis, who was on the mound for the National League. Also, Ellis famously may or may not have thrown a no-hitter on LSD, but that's a story for another day. As in a work of fiction, Torrez pitched the final game after Ed Figueroa was withdrawn and said he wanted to be traded. The Dodgers took a two-run lead in the first inning and Chambliss tied the score with a two-run homer in the second. Reggie Smith hit a home run to put the Dodgers ahead in the third.
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Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
In his last at-bat in the fifth-game loss, Jackson hit a home run off Don Sutton that seemed meaningless, but which became significant two days later. In the eighth, Jackson completed his sensational showing by mashing a Charlie Hough knuckleball into the distant black batter’s eye portion of the bleachers, joining Babe Ruth as the second player to hit three home runs in a World Series game. Stepping to the plate in the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium, Jackson pounced on the first pitch he saw from Dodgers starter Burt Hooton, blasting a two-run homer into the right-field seats. Jackson mashed another two-run blast when his opportunity came around in the fifth, this one off Elias Sosa. The 1977 Series was the first World Series televised by the ABC network since 1949 and the first since television of the Series started in 1947 not to be televised, at least in part, by rival network NBC.
The Yankees scored two runs each in the seventh and eighth; the two runs in the eighth coming on back-to-back homers by Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson. Nevertheless, Dodger starting pitcher Don Sutton pitched a complete game for the win. Before the game, Linda Ronstadt sang the national anthem, standing alone in center field wearing jeans and a Dodgers warmup jacket. Baker atoned for his first-inning error by hitting a three-run homer in the third off Yankee starter Mike Torrez. The Yankees regained the lead with single runs in the fourth and fifth on an RBI groundout by Rivers, who finished the game with three hits , and an RBI single by Chris Chambliss.
The Bruin linebacker and the Clipper guard are trying to make a difference for those enduring challenging times
On the last day — after 173 games that counted and one in Syracuse that didn’t count in the standings — Billy Martin was granted the bonus he campaigned for on his contract and Jackson, the figure of controversy all season, hit three home runs. Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees heads for first to round the bases after knocking out his third consecutive homer in the eighth inning of the World Series game in New York, Oct. 18, 1977. 17 It should be noted for the record that on Opening Day 1978 at Yankee Stadium , Jackson hit a home run with two men on in the first inning, against Wilbur Wood of the Chicago White Sox, on a 2-0 pitch. That made for an astonishing four consecutive home runs at Yankee Stadium, on four swings.
The Dodgers were leading by run when Jackson hit the first of his home runs in the fourth inning, following a Munson single, to give the Yankees a lead they never relinquished. In his remarkable performance on Oct. 18, 1977, Jackson cracked a drive off three Dodgers hurlers on three consecutive pitches in the deciding game of the Fall Classic. The Dodgers almost tied the game in the fourth when Ron Cey sent a drive to deep left that Lou Piniella leaped up and caught. Jackson ended the scoring with an opposite-field home run off Rhoden in the sixth inning. The Dodgers tied it at 3–3 in the ninth inning Dusty Baker led off with a single and was almost picked off first when pinch-hitter Manny Mota failed on a bunt attempt. Mota flied out, but Steve Yeager walked and pinch-hitter Lee Lacy drove Baker home with a single.
Jackson began his career with the Kansas City Athletics in 1967, one year before the team moved to its current home in Oakland. He made his first All-Star Game with the Oakland A's in 1969, when he led the American League in slugging percentage and OPS. His second Midsummer Classic appearance was at the 1971 All-Star Game in Detroit, where the Hall-of-Fame hitter showed the literal definition of "light-tower power." The legendary right fielder's prowess in the postseason, where he won five championship rings and two respective World Series MVP awards for the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees, is what defined the Hall of Famer's MLB career.
Nelson, though, hopes his practice of checking in on the fifth floor at the hospital on campus will catch on, whether it’s with his peers on the football team or athletes in other sports. For Nelson, his experience being hospitalized after suffering a posterior dislocation of his sternoclavicular joint in his final high school football game in Wisconsin led him toward the hospital a few paces from the Bruins’ practice field. They aren’t always the brain-numbing time suck we moms might assume; they can be therapeutic, something fun that can help kids cope with tough situations, said Anna Pubustan, the child life specialist with whom Nelson coordinates his visits.
Win ElliotALCSNew York Yankees over Kansas City Royals (3–2)NLCSLos Angeles Dodgers over Philadelphia Phillies (3–1)World Series program←1976World Series1978→The 1977 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's season. The 74th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion New York Yankees and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees defeated the Dodgers four games to two to win the franchise's 21st World Series championship, their first since 1962, and the first under the ownership of George Steinbrenner.
In the bottom half, catcher Thurman Munson led off and singled to left. On the next pitch, Jackson turned on a fastball and put into the right field seats for a one-run Yankees' lead, which chased Hooton. With Elias Sosa pitching, Chambliss lifted a high fly to shallow left between Russell and Baker that fell for a double, then went to third on Nettles' ground out to second. Piniella made it 5–3 with an unchallenged sacrifice fly to left field. Dent walked and Torrez grounded out to shortstop to end the inning.
1977 AL Cy Young award winner Sparky Lyle took the win in Game 1 and, coupled with his wins in Games 4 and 5 of the 1977 ALCS, as of 2019 is the only pitcher to win three consecutive decisions in a single postseason. In extra innings, the Yankees got their leadoff hitters on in both the tenth and eleventh innings but did not score due to failure to lay down sacrifice bunts. Finally, in the 12th, Randolph led off and doubled and Munson was walked intentionally. Yankee manager Billy Martin at first wanted Paul Blair, the next hitter, to try to sacrifice again, but after two failed attempts, Martin had Blair hit away and Blair singled home Randolph with the game-winner. In the bottom of the third inning, Jackson entered the game to take an at-bat for pitcher Vida Blue.
For the eternal record books, the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 8-4, last night to win the World Series, four games to two. “The last line in the history books will say, ‘Semi-colon, the Dodgers and the Yankees also played,’ said Steve Garvey of the Dodgers, who had seen enough in one week in October to understand the Yankee season that began in March. At least to understand a little bit of it; nobody understood all of it even at the end. Yankees' Reggie Jackson watches the path of the ball on a swing as he knocks second homer in fifth inning of World Series game in New York, Oct. 18, 1977. It was Reggie’s second consecutive home run in two official at-bats, going back to the one he’d hit in the previous game at Dodger Stadium. On top of being one of the most clutch hitters in baseball postseason history, Reggie Jackson totaled 563 home runs and 1,702 RBI over his career.
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