Table of Content
- 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
- Reggie Jackson & his legendary three-homer World Series game
- Oct. 18, 1977: Reggie Jackson hits three homers in World Series clincher to become 'Mr. October'
- Reggie Jackson's ASG Home Run
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 As in a work of fiction, Torrez pitched the final game after Ed Figueroa was withdrawn and said he wanted to be traded.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.
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.
Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
In the top of the sixth inning, Steve Garvey beat out a bunt and, with two out, attempted to score from first on a hit-and-run single to center field by Glenn Burke. Mickey Rivers, who did not possess a strong throwing arm, threw home. Replays showed Garvey clearly beat the tag but he was called out at the plate. The Yankees tied it in their half of the sixth inning when Willie Randolph hit a home run off Don Sutton.
Yankees' Reggie Jackson follows through on a swing as he knocks second homer in fifth inning of World Series game in New York, Oct. 18, 1977. On this day in 1977, New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson earned his nickname "Mr. October" by clubbing three home runs in a World Series game. New York won the game and the series and Jackson was awarded his second World Series MVP, the first player ever to win the award with two different teams. And STILL, you kids just don't know how great Reggie Jackson really was. The Yankees led the Dodgers three games to two, so they could put the Series on ice with a victory this night. To the mound the Yankees sent Mike Torrez, the winner in Game Three.
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.
Rafael Palmeiro , David Ortiz , and Gary Sheffield are the only 500 Home Runs Club members without a 3-homer game. Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
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The Yankees won seven of them, but in 1955 and 1957, an injured Mantle missed a major portion of each Series. Brooklyn beat the Yankees in 1955 and the Milwaukee Braves won in 1957. About an hour before the first pitch, a fire had started in Public School 3, an abandoned elementary school a few blocks east of Yankee Stadium. During the game, ABC cut to a helicopter camera for an overhead view of Yankee Stadium and the surrounding neighborhood, catching the fire. The Yankees took the lead in the eighth inning when Munson doubled home Randolph. Later in the inning, the Yankees loaded the bases with one out, but Dodger reliever Elías Sosa struck out Lou Piniella and retired Bucky Dent on a forceout to end the threat.
A conclusion, a championship was there to be seen, believe it or not. Yankees Reggie Jackson shakes hands with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn as Kuhn congratulates him after the Yankees won the World Series over the Dodgers in New York, Oct. 18, 1977. Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees is intent on the game as he waits his turn to bat in the World Series at Yankee Stadium, Oct. 18, 1977. He retired following the 1987 season with 563 home runs and 1,702 RBI and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1993.
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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