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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Game 5
The National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers were managed by Tommy Lasorda, who was in his first full season as manager. The 1977 Dodgers became the first team to have four players hit 30 or more home runs in one season, as Steve Garvey hit 33, Reggie Smith hit 32, Ron Cey hit 30, and Dusty Baker hit 30. The pitching staff, which led the National League in ERA, 3.22, were led by 20-game winner Tommy John and closer Charlie Hough with 22 saves.
Torrez finished with nine strikeouts in the complete-game win. New York Yankees manager Billy Martin, left, and his premier slugger Reggie Jackson laugh during a post-victory news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium, Tuesday night, Oct. 18, 1977. Jackson clinched the World Series championship for the Yankees in game six against the Los Angeles Dodgers with an unprecented three consecutive homers in a series game. In this Oct. 18, 1977 file photo, New York Yankees slugger Reggie Jackson, center, is swarmed as he makes a run for the dugout after the final out and the Yankees' win of the World Series title, New York.
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We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions. “I think more people than you think are looking for ways to help out,” Nelson said. “There’s kind of waiting for that push, a gentle push in the right direction.
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.
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.
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.
The New York Yankees returned to the World Series after being swept by the Cincinnati Reds the previous year. Two other key players were acquired by the Yankees through trades. Shortstop Bucky Dent was picked up from the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Oscar Gamble, pitcher LaMarr Hoyt, and $200,000. After only one year with the Oakland Athletics, pitcher Mike Torrez was acquired in exchange for pitcher Dock Ellis and utilitymen Marty Perez and Larry Murray.
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.
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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