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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
- Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
- Reggie Jackson’s three Game 6 home runs lift Yankees to World Series title
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.
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Played from October 11 to 18, the Series was televised onABC. Thurman Munson led off the Yankee fourth with a single and then when Jackson hit the next pitch on a line into the rightfield stands, there was Munson waiting at the plate for him. The two men, who had been antagonists all season and probably always will be, clutched each other. The Yankees had the lead they never lost and those two men had admiration for each other, if not affection. But in the American League championship series against the Royals, Jackson slumped and was eventually benched to start the deciding fifth game after recording just one hit in 14 at-bats in the first four games. In 1973, which was Jackon’s first Series, he almost single-handedly beat the New York Mets greatest pitcher, Tom Seaver in the sixth game of the Series.
Jackson’s three-homer game put an end to a season of turmoil that began when he left Baltimore for New York via free agency following the 1976 campaign. With a tumultuous clubhouse throughout the 1977 season, the Yankees thrived and Jackson hit 32 home runs and drove in 110 runs as New York won 100 games and the American League East title. The next day, against left-hander Jon Matlack, Bert Campaneris hit a two-run third inning home run to put the A’s up by two runs. After Joe Rudi singled, Sal Bando popped up but Reggie blasted a two-run home run for a 4-0 lead on the way to the World Championship. With complete games pitched consecutively in Games 2 through 6 , as of 2019 this was the last World Series to be completed without a pitcher recording a save.
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Like those belly laughs coming from the other side of the wall Monday evening at Harold & Belle’s, a creole restaurant in Los Angeles. The other diners there that night couldn’t have known it emanated from a party including Reggie Jackson – aka Mr. June, the Clippers’ star conversationalist and playoff hero a couple of seasons ago. Yankees' slugger Reggie Jackson connects for his third home run in the eighth inning off a pitch from the Dodgers' Charlie Hough during game 6 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 18, 1977. New York won the game 8-4, for their 21st World Series championship.
Jackson and the Yankees went on to win the World Series again in 1978, giving Jackson five World Series championships during his time in Oakland and New York. Jackson became the first player to hit five home runs in a single World Series. Reggie Jackson celebrates with his Yankees teammates after hitting a home run during the 1977 season. Then, Dodgers pitcher Charlie Hough went into his windup and delivered. “Reggie Jackson has seen two pitches in the strike zone tonight. And he’s hit them both in the seats,” Jackson said on the night of Oct. 18, 1977.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
So now I feel like kind of got that push and some guys have come in, and I’m sure once the season’s over and their life is a little less busy, we’ll probably see a lot more people coming in. Fans perched on the railings, one leg over the barriers, anticipating the last out and the wild dash onto the field, a number of them leaning too much and tumbling onto the field to scramble back to the perch again. The Yankees raised onto their toes and then Mike Torrez clutched the last pop fly and the Yankees burst toward the dugout to beat the crowd and to overtake the incredibility of it all. Bronx – With excruciating delight the last pitches, the last moments, the last breaths drew out.
Reggie Jackson – 3 home runs in Game 6 of the World Series 1977
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.
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