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- Tony Gwynn: The near-.400 hitter and Padres legend ' YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW
- Chris Broussard: Penny Hardaway was one of basketball's "most unique and gifted players"
- October 18, 1977: Reggie becomes ‘Mr. October’ with 3 home runs in World Series
- YANKEES WORLD SERIES GAME 6 REGGIE JACKSON 3 HOME RUN TICKET STUB GAME
- Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
The matchup of the Yankees and the Dodgers harkened back to the "Subway Series" matchups between the two teams of the 1940s and 1950s. The two teams had met in eight previous World Series, with the Yankees winning in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, and 1956 and the Dodgers in 1955 and 1963. The 1963 series was their first meeting after the Dodgers had moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958.
Jackson led his team to an 8-4 victory by hitting three home runs in game six of the championship. Jackson's three-homer gave owner George Steinbrenner the first of his six World Series titles. Rhoden, a good hitting pitcher, hit a ground-rule double to left, and Davey Lopes followed with a two-run homer off Yankee starter Ron Guidry. The Dodgers scored nothing else off Guidry, as he pitched a four-hit complete game. Among the star-laden lineup was an emerging superstar, Ron Guidry. Early in the season Guidry was moved from the bullpen into the starting rotation, finishing 16–7 with a 2.82 ERA.
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NBC had been the exclusive television network of the Series from 1950 to 1976 and had covered that year's Yankees–Royals and Dodgers–Phillies playoff series that year. As was customary at the time, the competing teams' local flagship stations were allowed to air a simulcast of ABC's national broadcast. The Dodgers pushed across a run in the ninth, but Torrez pitched his second complete game win of the Series. Although free time is a rare commodity for a collegian with football responsibilities and an eye on his international development studies major, Nelson will come to spend his at the hospital, usually playing video games. Or how about those video game players destroying the competition at Fortnite around lunchtime last Wednesday? No way their online opponents, similarly anonymous, could have pictured the pair on the other end of that Battle Royale.
The 1977 Yankees season, including the World Series, is one of the subjects of Jonathan Mahler's 2005 non-fiction book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, which was subsequently adapted into the 2007 ESPN mini-series The Bronx Is Burning. After the 1977 World Series, Melissa Ludtke, a reporter for Sports Illustrated, sued MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for having been denied access to the Yankees' clubhouse during the series, asserting that her 14th Amendment right was violated. Before the game, a moment of silence was held in memory of entertainer and former Pittsburgh Pirates co-owner Bing Crosby, who died earlier that day. This was the first World Series in which the ceremonial first pitches were from the mound instead of from the Commissioner's box, although this did not become permanent until 1989. We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community.
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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.
New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson hits the first of his three home runs off Burt Hooton of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fourth inning of Game 6 of the World Series, Oct. 18, 1977, at New York's Yankee Stadium. Jackson's three home runs helped to an 8-4 win, clinching the World Series championship. “High…” Keith Jackson said as he began to describe the ball that Jackson smashed to center field. Merv Connors had eight career home runs, the fewest career home runs by any player with a 3-homer game on their resume. Jackson had three hits in four at-bats off Seaver, including run scoring doubles in the first and third innings in a 3-1 Oakland win. All-time World Series home run leader Mickey Mantle appeared in 12 World Series.
October 18, 1977: Reggie becomes ‘Mr. October’ with 3 home runs in World Series
Reggie Smith homered in the third to put Los Angeles up by a run. Babe Ruth was the first player to hit three home runs in game at least once both leagues, once with the New York Yankees in 1930, and once in the National League, with the Boston Braves in 1935. Even better, the homer cut the AL's deficit from 3-0 to 3-2, and helped the Junior Circuit earn a 6-4 win -- snapping the NL's eight-game winning streak in the Midsummer Classic.
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.
Jackson walked the first time he faced Burt Hooten with the Yankees trailing, 2-0. Who’s ever going to hit three home runs in a deciding World Series game? Series not held in 1904 because the NL champions refused to participate, and in 1994 due to a players' strike.
With his Game 5 first-pitch homer and his four-pitch walk in the second inning of Game 6, Jackson homered on his last four swings of the bat in the Series, each off a different Dodger pitcher. The last eight pitches delivered to Jackson in the Series were all productive for the Yankees—the four-pitch walk in the second inning allowed him to score on the Chambliss homer. On October 18, 1977, in the sixth game of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees outfielder Reggie Jackson hits three home runs in a row off of three consecutive pitches from three different pitchers. Only the great Babe Ruth had ever hit three homers in a single World Series game —but he didn’t do it on consecutive pitches or even consecutive at-bats.
“When I seen him hit that pitch that far I seen the greatest performance I ever seen in a World Series.”16 Who could argue with Lasorda? In two World Series games, Jackson had hit four consecutive home runs, on four swings, against four different pitchers. His three shots in Game Six had all come on the first pitch of the at-bat. At the time, only Babe Ruth had ever hit three home runs in a World Series game, having done the deed twice, in 1926 and 1928 (As of this writing, the feat has since been equaled by Albert Pujols in 2011 and Pablo Sandoval in 2012.). Jackson’s five home runs in a single Series are still a record (Chase Utley also hit five in the six-game 2009 Series).
As chants of Reg-gie, Reg-gie, Reg-gie rolled through the stadium, the man himself emerged from the dugout again to doff his helmet and salute the crowd. Randolph recalled years later, “Once he hit the second home run, I knew he was going to hit another one, because he was in such a good groove.”8 With his two home runs, he had knocked Hooton and Sosa out of the game. The score was now 7-3, and for all intents and purposes the Dodgers were finished.
October” honorific took root after the Bombers’ loss in Game 2, when Jackson questioned some of the decisions that manager Billy Martin had made. Yankees captain Thurman Munson quipped to reporters, “Billy probably just doesn’t realize Reggie is Mr. October.” The world would find out for certain six days later.
It’s the not-so-flashy, everyday stuff – a meal, a video game – that’s really impressive, really impactful, really real. Jackson would have more important hits in his career, but for sheer impact, few can match this one home run. Oh by the way, Jackson went on to clear the Tiger Stadium roof in 1984 with the now-Los Angeles Angels , but that's a story for another day.
In the fifth inning, Jackson hit a searing drive into the rightfield stands for another two-run homer. And in the eighth he hit one more drive, higher and farther than the rest, 475 feet into the unoccupied blacked out area in centerfield, a place reached only once before in the rebuilt Yankee Stadium. Yankees Reggie Jackson, right, is greeted by Thurman Munson, left ,and Chris Chambliss after hitting his first homer in the fourth inning of the sixth World Series game against Dodgers at Yankee Stadium, Oct. 18, 1977.
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