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  • The Double.

  • People don't realize how big this moment was. The biggest moment in mariners' history, best team in mariners' history, called by the greatest sportscaster in MLB history. This right here is true gold. Even the mariners winning a world series would not beat this moment right here.

  • which of these players are stll around? O_o

  • @IamLukeSilz92

    I think A-Rod is the first one to jump on Griffey (no homo intended). You can see his face for a quick moment at 0:19.

  • Hello, I'm from Finland and I would like to know what Niehaus means by saying: "they're going to wave him in!" Is it like the other Seattle players show Junior that he will make it before the ball gets to catchers glove? Could someone tell me? Thanks. :)

  • @Nikoduurius Since Junior probably shouldn't be looking at the ball when he's rounding third, they have a Third base coach, who gives the players (Junior) signals when on second, third and/ or rounding third. You do have the other half right, But instead of the players waving him in it was the third base coach "saying" that he could beat the ball to the plate. (The players could be in the dugout signaling him that he could make it, but be really only looks at the third base coach). :)

  • @yatrix89 Thank you very much!

  • That's the season that 25 yanks couldn't beat our big Johnson.

  • Clutch Edgar.

  • why would any one dislike this video

  • @CptSpockSkywalker yankee fans

  • Born in 86' I grew up in the 1990's watching MLB, sad to know now in 2011 that all those years I was so passionate about the sport the whole thing was fraudulent on behalf of the players using drugs. Jr. was definitely not abusing steroids and IMO he was the most exciting player I ever saw (best swing?) and he did all that without abusing steroids.

  • @dukedub Yeah, Jr had the sweetest swing I, personally, have ever seen. A swing so technically sound, and considering he is 6'3" and a naturally powerful man, he could hit homers like slicing butter...

  • 16 years ago...I think Mariners fans are due for a new great sports moment.

  • The Greatest Moment in My Sporting Fan life...It stills gives me chills and brings a Grin to my Face! Such a great call too by Dave.We Miss you Dave...RIP

  • R.I.P. Dave..its been 1 year today..You will never be forgotten!

  • Passion announcing.

  • I still don't understand. How in the world did Griffey score from 1st base all the way to home in that hit? The guy had absolutely inhuman speed which must've been possessed in some way. No human can run like that.

  • man what the hell happend to those good days when the mariners kicked ass now

  • Everytime I hear this I get the chills, probably the greatest baseball moment ever. Actually probably just the greatest moment in history!

  • 1 person must be a yankee fan

  • i'm here cuz i'm just a baseball fan and junior was my favorite player as a little leaguer. I remember watching this as a young kid and it was one of the best finishes to a playoff game I ever saw. Hated the yankees so I was rootin for seattle. Side note, this was donnie baseball's final game of his amazing career. (giants fan perspective)

  • My dad pulled my brother and i out of school to drive from spokane to seattle to watch the elimination game against the angels. My family somehow went to game 4 and game 5. this is the greatest memory of my childhood. it's one of four times that I ever saw my dad cry

  • God I miss Dave.... I was there for this game. I was in the second grade. My dad pulled my brother and I out of school to drive across the state (we live in spokane) for the one game playoff against the Angels. We had tickets to game 4 and game 5. To this day, I rank that game has one of the best moments of my life. It's one of the only times in my life I've ever seen my dad cry.

  • kingdom<3

    

  • one of the greatest childhood moments of my life, I was only 10 years old, and this was my 2nd time to a baseball game, 1st one in the playoffs

  • Niehaus 1995 the double shirt available now at homers apparel for just 10 dollars! All local, all custom Seattle based merchandise! the site is- homers.bigcartel Don't forget the DOT COM. Thanks for the support, GO M'S!

  • worst day of my life

  • @henhao1972 Awfully sorry about that, sour grapes Yankee fan

  • I'm a Phillies fan but what makes this moment so epic is the commentators voice and energy throughout the play ending with "I don't believe it!". Hollywood can't write scripts that good!

  • @manwithoutfear05 And yet, no disrespect to Niehaus, but I think Musburger's nationally televised call was actually better. Alas, I can't find it anywhere on the internet.

  • @jhamler1 Except for calling Gerald Williams "Bernie" on the throw, I totally agree. But I'm not a Mariners fan.

  • This day i become a Seattle Mariners fan and I so crazy for them until now. I hope get moments like that again. Sodo Mojo!

  • I have a scar from hitting my head on the bottom of my loft bed because of this while watching it in my dorm room in college. I was istting on my couch and jumped up off of my couch in excitement and nailed myself, needed 7 stitches. But NOT until I ran down the hall and taunted my buddies from New York :)

  • @rivendale34 Dick.

  • @Snuffle1UPagus i know how u feel, it was tragic how the first Blue Jay radio voice, Tom Cheek passed away and hes still not in hall of fame

  • this was the year that really got me into baseball, great memories from my childhood. I was in 1st grade that year

  • greatest sport moment in seattle sports history. though we dont have many to speak of.

  • Brent Musberger's call was better than that.

  • favorited.

  • greatest Mariner moment ever. We'll miss you Dave :)

  • THATs the mariners I remember

  • oh my WEENNIESS!!!

  • Macklemore's "My Oh My" best use of this clip

  • xanatos

  • Too young to remember but the Yankees are the best! Sign people with 100 million contracts and still manage to not win the World Series year after year!

  • @patrickphan2

    We won in 2009.

  • Come on Yankee fans, don't disrespect our moment. Dave Neihaus for life, RIP. Will never forget your calls.

  • @ducklefty

    I have the utmost respect for Neihaus.

  • All my respects to what the Yankees did in the mid to late 90's! But three words summarize it all.... Griffey: Yankee Killer!

  • Watching this almost brings tears to your eyes.. What a wonderful era of Mariners baseball. Hearing Dave's voice reminds me of warm summer evenings sitting on the back patio at grandparents house, having a bbq listening to the ball game. With the pine trees and wind chimes blowing in the soft breeze, it was always complete with Dave's voice in the background.

    RIP Dave, you will be especially missed this coming season.

  • I blame Osama Bin Laden for the Mariners not having a World Series. We were on fire in 01'. 116 wins, great players, incredible season. But when the 9-11 attacks happened and baseball stopped for a bit, we just lost our momentum. Baseball is a game of rhythm and staying hot, especially going into the post-season. Also, management keeping Griffey through the 2001 season would have helped.

    We'll win the big one someday. This city needs it.

    Seattle forever. Go Mariners

  • @BrandonSchlepp

    Even if the mariners would have kept griffey through 2001, the Yankees still would have won. I don't think it was bin laden's fault. The m's ran out of gas in the 2001 A.L.C.S.

    If the m's are going to win a W.S., they would have to stop trading good players like cliff lee. 

  • @carlinrulez666

    umm, the Yankees didn't win the World Series in 2001...Also, Cliff Lee is irrelevant to the Mariners. He would have left at the end of the season anyway. But you are right, we need to start investing in good players. Lou Pinella would have taken us to a World Series if management would have listened to him. For many seasons, all he asked for was one more good bat, and they never gave it to him. So he left. A damn shame.

  • @BrandonSchlepp

    I meant the Championships in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. And, why couldn't the m's get better players for Lee?

  • @carlinrulez666

    Because we had to drop Lee anyway, and the other teams, and anyone following the trade knew that. We could not pay for him the following year, and so anyone could have gotten him as a FA in the offseason.

  • @carlinrulez666 Well the 2001 mariners were arguably the best team assemble in the past 50 years and in game 3 before the visted ground zero they won 14-3 and they lost game to a walkoff home run. Also people around the mariners say that they had regained the magic in game 3 but it was gone after they visited ground zero. Probably the only time in history America was rooting for the Yankees because they were the underdog and it finally got to them.

  • @norba6kat

    In the regular season, yes. But the 1998 Yankees were better even though they won 114 games and a World Title. But the 1961 Yankees were the best team in the past 50 years. m's ran out of gas, and couldn't win when they needed to the most.

  • @carlinrulez666

    We won 116 in 2001.

  • @tdubthatsme

    Yes, but no Championship to show for it. At least when the Yankees won 114 games in 1998, we won the World Series that year.

  • @carlinrulez666 nobody likes the yankees, go away

  • @LOLChris360

    Ask me if I care. I am a Yankee fan and I will stay as long as I want.

  • Macklemore 'My Oh My' is an inspiring song about this moment. Watch the video for it, it's amazing

  • the one dislike must be a ny yankee

  • and actually howd i forget the 2001 loss at arizona. the 4peat was about to happen

  • @res340

    Who would have thought that Rivera would give up the Series winning hit to Gonzalez? The Yankees should have won that series.

  • Top 3 worst sports moments of my life to go along with the Knicks losing to the Rockets in games 6/7 and the fight and series loss to the Heat in 97.

  • @res340

    I would agree with you, then the collapse in 2004 happened. I am a Yankee and Knicks fan too.

  • @carlinrulez666 I was upset in 2004 but at least I saw them win 4 times. This was before any of that happened. The Yanks weren't that good then started to get better in 93 ( 2nd place). I was then crushed in 94 with the strike just like expo fans. Then this happened.

  • @res340

    I was crushed in '94 as well. I was only 8 at the time. The 2004 collapse would be the worst thing as a Yankee fan that I have seen. I saw the 1995 A.L.D.S. as a 9 year old, and seeing the Yankees lose to Seattle, broke my heart. Well, at least we got revenge against them in '96, when Dwight Gooden no-hit them. A Yankees-Mariners rivalry started in '95, when Jim Leyritz was hit by a pitch by Randy Johnson. He actually challenged Johnson to a fight.

  • @carlinrulez666

    Griffey Jr. also said that he would never play for the Yankees, for how they treated his dad, when Sr. was a Yankee. There is also a story that Billy Martin, former Yankee manager, would chase Jr. as a kid, out of the clubhouse, since he didn't think kids should be there. There was also a near bench clearing brawl between the two teams at Yankee Stadium in '96, and in the Kingdome in Seattle, Paul O'Neill got into it with john marzano. However, I will always go for the Yankees.

  • @carlinrulez666  Yes the O'Neill brawl with the catcher was insane. And the Leyritz walk off HR in game 2 of this series put them up 2-0. I remember JR saying he would never be a Yankee also. I actually have a 1995 AL Wild card hat in very good condition. Wore it to game 1 at the Stadium.

  • @res340

    Nice that you still have the cap. As far as Griffey goes, the Yankees never needed him. Leyritz was clutch for the Yankees during his time with the team. Bob Costas said that they, "Could put him in a resort in the spring and summer, as long as he comes back in October." Personally, I think Leyritz could fuck up Randy Johnson in a fight.

  • @res340

    In addition to Gooden's no-hitter in 1996, which was one of the best no-hitter's that I've seen, we also got revenge against them in 2000 and 2001. I remember in game 4 of the 2000 A.L.C.S. when Roger Clemens struck out 15, allowed one hit, and threw inside to A-Rod. The following season, the Mariners won 116 games, and they still couldn't get past the Yankees.

  • i was 10 and i'll remember this call from Dave til the day i die

  • Proud to say I was born in 1995.

  • Im not a Mariner fan, but this gives me chills when I watch it, what a great moment, and it contains my favortie player (Ken Griffey Jr.), only a shame he never got to go to a world series :(, and if wasn't for injuries he'd have 700+ homeruns

  • That one moment saved Major league Baseball in the Pacific Northwest. It's so sad that Junior Griffey never got to play in a World Series.

  • Thank you for posting this, MartinsMaine. Capturing this moment with Neihaus' play-by-play (vs. ABC's play-by-play) is what it's all about. Will never forget this moment in Mariners history. RIP, Dave.

  • The moment in Mariner history that Dave will be most remembered by, despite his colorful commentary throughout his career. I imagine he is now sitting in the broadcaster booth in the sky telling the tale of 1995 season to whoever is tuned in.

  • @MartinsMaine couldn't have said it better myself :)

  • Join our effort to rename SAFECO FIELD to Niehaus FIELD! on facebook!

  • You will be missed greatly Dave, but never forgotten

  • R.I.P. Dave. You were awesome.

    Damned shame the Mariners couldn't get past the Indians. Had the Mariners ownership done everything it could to have re-signed Griffey, Johnson and Rodriguez instead of letting them go, and had that idiot GM Woody Woodward gone out and gotten a decent closer instead of running Bobby "Lame Ass" Ayala out there to blow save after save every night, the story of the Seattle Mariners would have been completely different.

    Fans in Seattle deserved better.

  • @rayjr62 Yeah man the next year losing Tino Martinez , Jeff Nelson and Sojo to the Yankees changed both teams fate... Mariners ownership really let us down.... 96 Yanks won it all and Seattle didn't even make the playoffs... YOU keep a player like Tino Martinez and a solid pitcher like Jeff Nelson... STUPID STUPID move by Mariners ownership....

  • @funkyflights and steling hickcock didn't do much for the mariners and i believe pitched a no hitter wiht the yankkes a few years later

  • @norba6kat

    He was never that great though.... MAN I just hated watching the Mariners ownership destroy what could a been a dynasty in Seattle...

  • @norba6kat

    Hitchcock never pitched a no-hitter for the Yankees.

  • @rayjr62 That's the politics of sports right there. Ayala. I forgot about that guy.

  • Time to break out the rye bread and mustard grandma, it's grand salami time! RIP Dave

  • Best sportscaster ever. He will be missed by everyone in this region.

  • RIP Dave Niehaus

    

  • Condolences to his family as well as the team he loved, Seattle Mariners! He will be missed.

  • I'll miss you forever dave. I love baseball and you are one of the biggest reasons why. I'll never forget this call. May you rest in Peace.

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