 Welcome back to watching bass ball the first part of this show we did a bunch of World Series moments from every world series from 1972 737576 2019 now we've got to figure out what we want to watch next we're going with game 163 of the 1978 season yankies and red sox in a tie breaking game because because I like the older stuff better. And this one seems like a good one. I do, since we're kind of restarting this, and if anyone's watching this for the first time, there's a misconception out there, Jake, that we're trying to give the audience information. No. No, no, no. We are watching something and reacting to it. And we're like, why don't you guys take notes and study first? And I was like, we're not informing you. No way. We're reacting to this. So I mean, I've seen bits and pieces of this game for sure because, yes, Network always plays them. I've never seen it in full. I know it's about the star players. But yeah, there'd be stuff that I am learning for the first time that you guys may know. And that's the point of this. That's the goal. Yeah, and I normally give a couple notes beforehand. If you want to look up 1978 American League East tiebreaker game, it has its own Wikipedia page. And I just think some important tidbits. The Yanks and Socks had won the ALE pennant the previous three years. Mike Torres, who starts this game, went from the Yankees to the Socks. The Yankees went full need season. Steinburner with Suspending Guys fired Billy Martin. And then, yeah, it all accumulates in this one game. The Yankees caught them. There was the Boston Massacre. Four games, they destroyed them. Red Socks win the final eight to create this game. And Jim, the other fun fact that I think is just important for sports, because we've been lucky with the new wildcard to see some 163s. This was the first 163 game since 1948. And it's Yankees, Red Socks. Like, this was huge. Damn, yeah. That's awesome. I didn't know that. What was the deficit? How much was the Red Socks lead? Is it 10 games? At one point, the Red Socks had a 10 game lead in the division. Yankees were third at that point. And then, yeah, there's a whole paragraph. I mean, the Steinburner went full Steinburner, which is pretty exciting. But, yeah, then it all accumulates in this. So the Red Socks just took the lead in the sixth inning. And we're going to go top seven and see the Yankees respond. Coming up for the New York Yankees, we have Greg Nettles, Chris Chambers, and Roy White. That's favorite player. OK. So, you know, back to bad cameras. This looks like a particularly terrible VHS copied version of this game. Ideal. But so Nettles is up. And Torres is still on the bump. I believe so. I believe so. Trying to get the old box score up. I got it now. He didn't like that strike call. Because I think he thinks called him on the swing, which we know he didn't. They called that on the pitch because no such thing as a Czech swing in the 70s. Did not exist. Yeah, man. And the other thing, I mean, Mike Torres, who is on the bump, as I mentioned, he left teams. And he won two games in the World Series the year before, I believe. Ron Gidry this year, Jim. Giggity, giggity. I know you kids don't care about win-loss records anymore. 25 and 3, he finishes this season. When it gets to that level, you have to respect it. You have to care. And I think the other numbers, the peripherals went with it. But. What was his OPA? What was his ERA plus? It wasn't like 200? The Gado. I think his ERA might have been 174. So that's pretty good. Shameless taking. Big hacks. 208 ERA plus. 208 ERA plus. 100's average. He was 100% better than that. I don't know if that works. Look at those shadows. Shadows are falling. Single left, it looks like. Keep me in your heart for a while. Yeah, Shameless is on. Roy White comes up. So everyone knows this game and nicknamed Bucky fucking Dent. What I had to figure out is like, why was it such a surprise? Because I never get it. Because he wins World Series MVP. It's on a team. And then I have a bullet point list here. So here's some knowledge I'm giving you that I learned two seconds ago. Bucky Dent hadn't hit a home run since August 16th, 16 weeks earlier, and was in a horrible slump. Not that he was ever like, oh, batsman. But he was in those six weeks. He had a 235 slugging percentage change. 235 and a 250 on base. So Brite, shit tag. We got another base hit there. How old is Torres? We'll pull up the baseball reference, too. So yeah, so Nettles flew out to right. Shameless single. Roy White single. We've got Jim Spencer. Jim Spencer. And yeah, just I think some other names that maybe people know or don't know or would want to know. This Yankees team, Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson, Sweet Loop Nella, Reggie Jackson, Nettles, Shameless, Roy White, or Bucky Dent, as you're about to find out. And then on a socks team, Jerry Remy, Jim Rice, Yas, Carlton Fisk, Freddie Lin. These are two good teams. What did the Yankees lost in 162, and the Red Sox won it? So I wonder if the Yankees won that. This one in the Vanessa. Correct. Hummer. Although it looks like the Red Sox record was 99 and 64. Baseball Reference does the record after the game, like the end of the day record, because it has the Yankees being ahead. Interesting. Why wouldn't they do day after record? Baseball Reference. Come on. They beat them. Oh, spoiler. A mound visit. What do you think they're saying out there? It's Bucky Fuck Den. They're a strike. Is they even up? I don't think we're at, bud. I think we're at Jim Spencer. He pinch hit. He pinch hit for Doyle. Jim Spencer pitch hits for Brian Doyle, batting eighth. And I'm excited to see this. So again, we're learning and watching this together. It's a different experience a little, but it's supposedly this at bat is supposed to end with a fly ball to left. So I'm wondering if it's a scary fly ball to left or a not scary fly ball to left. All right. Mike Torres was 31 years old. Unless it's birthday, it comes before October. Yeah, so we just turned 32. Happy birthday. Ugly swings, man. Seen a lot of ugly swings. Ugly swings. I think, though, I do enjoy this era. You know I mentioned this a lot during the watching baseball, but this kind of pre-astroturf, you definitely see the swings get choppier, because it was an easier way to get a hit. These guys took big hacks, man. They did. The astroturf really changed baseball. I wonder if there was a lot of thesis papers or a lot of long articles about astroturf changing the way baseball was played. Because just from our viewing, it did. We saw the swing down come way back. The swing down, I mean, the whole bunting from each time period. Pine tar? Torres, is there a pine tar in the thumb? It's honey. Famously used honey. I made that up. I'm sorry, people. It's a YouTube video. Yeah, I know. We made the joke that there were no check swings in the 70s, and I already was like, ah, people probably don't realize that. I haven't watched every single video where they don't get that much attention. Like, we didn't see a check swing called a strike. Ever? For a really long time. Yeah. We only watched until the 90s. We only watched bits, but yeah, it was very, very. Are you like that long-sleeve collared undershirt? I kind of like it, TBH. I always appreciate the answer. Not a scary fly ball, turns out to be. Just a little drop the barrel chip shot. So man, two outs, the nine-hole hitter, Bucky Den. And yeah, it's starting to make a little more sense in my head movies when Bucky wasn't a hitter, was slumping the magnitude of this game. That's a good way to get the F-bomb in between your normally just names. The shadows look brutal. Tough to hit. Tough to hit. They've got people in the crowd in the center wearing white shirts. It's a tough environment. Look how much he chokes up for the first pitch. You see guys choke up with the two-strike approach, but. This is KBO Bucky Den. Dude, I never understood choking up. Like if Bucky Den steps up there and chokes up from the very start, right? Look how high his hands are. Just get a smaller bat, dude. If you're doing that every pitch, if you have a two-strike approach, I understand you want the length and the coverage on the other top, but just get a smaller bat. That's how you're using it every pitch. I kind of see what you're saying, but also not. I mean, you get some of the perks of the bigger bat with a little more control. It's a preference. I think that swing and a miss adds to the budget. That's tough. So, OK, let's jump into the Yankees fan perspective. You're dying right now. You're down to nothing. You think that your heroic comeback this season is all going to a waste when you see Bucky Den swing like that, falls on his bum, gets up, he's kind of hurting afterwards. You're not feeling good right now. Look like a nice little screwball pitch. And also, I appreciate you saying bum. Bumming. I'm for the kids. You know that. Minus my section. Eighth grader followed me on Instagram today. And it's like, oh. What is this about? Just like a foot massage? I think he fell, man. He fell and he rolled pretty ugly. I know, but the trainer doesn't come out and do whatever that was these days. A little massage, really. A little five-second like. He was like, kneading dough. Maybe it was a little magic. You're going to hit a home run. Is that a stance? Oh, OK. I thought he was like, had a Kevin Muclis stance. OK. Come on. Oh, no audio. Audio, DJ. Can we go back? One, I forgot I didn't have the audio on the whole time. So I don't know if that's better or worse. It feels benign to me. I know that we're 50 years later and all that. I also always blew my mind that this isn't the seventh inning. I just think of walk-offs and stuff as those are the remembered at bats. But I don't know. Let's watch it again. I think it's just the shock factor, man. Bucky Dent doesn't do this. I also wish we could see the ball. Was that a lollipop pop-up? Or was that a line drive? Because there's a huge difference in what happened to the pitcher. I think it's a Fenway pop-up home run, man. I think you listen to the way he called it. And he's like, oh, he says it's to Yastremsky in the corner. Gotta take advantage of it. Just skim the top. Bucky Dent's highest career home runs in a season is eight. Hell, yes. It looks like he gets under and just slices it up. But you can't really see a thing, so just barely. That sucks. I mean, worst case, it was hit the top of the wall, and it's a two-to-one game. Don Zimmer's the manager of the Red Sox. Don Zimmer. A lot of Yankee greats. Yogi Bearer is on the bench for the Yankees, just old men that I grew up adoring. Young Don Zimmer. Respecting. Respecting, yeah. Backdoor slider or something like that. Five hits each, and the Yankees are up. So, yeah, say that hits the top of the monster. It's probably first and second or first and third. Two-to-one. I think, and again, maybe this is my Yankee's bias kicking in, but I'd rather be up three to two than down two-to-one. I think they score more runs this anyway, so I'm saying it. Watch how close it is. You can't see the ball one bit. Oh, there it is. I found it. It was a lollipop, because it's coming down. So it's just a pop-up. It's like a, I mean, Yankees. It's an out at any other stadium. 29 other stadiums, that's an out. And, oh, yeah, the Yankees have a short porch too. Every stadium has quirks. I love all of them, but yeah, that's just how unlucky it is. It was pre-expansion. There weren't 29 other stadiums. Oh, look at the polo grounds dimensions. Eat a bug. Foul tip at the play. Eat two bugs. That's fun, though. It's fun that it wasn't a bomb, it's just a little pop-up. I bet you it didn't feel good off Bucky Den's bat at all. Like he didn't make contact and think. I think he did feel good off Bucky Den's bat for the time he was having, yeah. Anything in the air felt good. Yeah. Here comes him, named my dog after this man. Bob Stanley's coming in. Bob Stanley coming in out of the ball pad. Wow. Some good names in this game. We get the final pitcher for the socks is Dick Drago, Drago. Yeah, I saw that name, and I was so excited, Dick Drago. Their third baseman is Jack Brohammer. I mean, kidding me. Brohammer? Brohammer. Yeah, I mean, maybe like Dick Brohammer would be cool. Jack Guy with the penis is what his name is. Warm-up pitches. Thurman's coming up now? Who's that? Yeah, Thurman. Thurman Munson, hitting two hole. Yanks went, get ready to gossage in this game. That's mean. It's pretty nice. Shadow sneaking up. Yeah, there's a lot of shadows. Suck, kind of sucks. Thank God for the dual screen. Dual screen? Mickey Rivers having trouble getting back to first base. I think they've, like, tagged him in the face twice. That's kind of suck. And he's off. That looked like the ball was there. Tight play, tight play. Let's see. Got them two pick offs, he just goes. Mickey Rivers, I mean, he's still steal spaces. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it looks in. One hop. One hop this time. Mickey Rivers' second stolen base this game. I mean, Mickey Rivers goes the whole time we're staying in steal spaces. That's just what that guy does. Mickey Rivers had 70 stolen bases in 1975. This is, what, 1978? He had 25, so came down a little bit, but. His toes were hurting him. My toes, man. Thurmond Munson. This doesn't count as postseason numbers, but Thurmond's postseason numbers add up to him getting the job done right there. And yep, not going to celebrate in the slightest. Hands to the hips. Always. Pinch run. That looked like a bad swing, too. Like he got it, but it looked like he kind of stepped in the bucket and then kept his hands with it. That's what the broadcast said. He doesn't get all of this one. Now here he comes, Jake. Sweet Lou. You're a Red Sox fan. This is full nightmare. Yeah, it sucks. Like you can't believe this inning's still happening. And you had Bucky Dent up with two outs. And the inning before, Jake, they scored, right? And then they had two men on, I believe. And Fred Lynn hit a ball to right field that Lou Pinello like tracked down and basket caught at the warning track. So I could have added to it. All right, we're going to skip to the bottom of the ninth, which is always hard to find on these old broadcasts. He's shrimpsies at second. That's not the bottom of the ninth, right? I think that's eighth. Bam. Here you go, for good eyes, sir, because when you need a mortgage, well, when you need a home, where do you go? For good eyes, sir, because when you need a mortgage, well, when you need a home, where do you go? Yeah, so before the Bucky Dent home run, Boston's win expectancy was 82% after it was 36. It's a nice shot. The Boston five, he's got banks still in business. I don't know. They got bought out. Yeah, looks like in 1993, the Boston five got bought out by the Citizens Financial Group, which is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Citizens Bank bought them out. RBS. Here's the goose. The goose is loose. Second inning of work, Jake. And he got bounced around a little on the bottom of the eighth and gave up a double and three singles. How much fun did newspapers and radio shows when the Yankees went from the Gator to the goose? I mean, as much fun as we're having right now. Yeah. Gator to the goose, haven't seen that since. Some animal hunting reference, I don't know. I couldn't do it. I don't know what that lifestyle. I couldn't do it. He doesn't need that lifestyle. People get off his ass about it. Thank you for having my back. Dwight Evans flyed out. So it's a one-run game. There's George. Yeah, and as you mentioned the inning before, Yaz hit an RBI single and Freddie Lynn hit an RBI single. Look at all that's happening in the goose's windup. Good speed. Gets on base. Yeah. Like a radio call. It's like a radio call. It's almost like poetry. Good speed. What does this guy do? It's on pace. He's got good speed. He gets on base. Goose. It's OK, Logitech, because he's not the lead off runner. Good speed. Gets on base. Who's up in the pen? Sparky Lyle. Thank you. Gata, Goose, Sparky. Dude, I love old school. I love this style of commentating. It's so funny. They literally, it's radio. But they're putting. So radio has to paint the picture, right? But at this day and age, it seems like they thought they had to paint every picture. So when the camera goes through the dugout to Don Zimmer, George Steinbrenner, maybe he was doing both. But that wouldn't make sense to the radio listener, because they're not seeing it. Yeah. He complements every scene. There's Don Zimmer. I think it has to do with the graphics and stuff. And you're saying still transitioning from radio. You can see it in front of you, but you also can't. That's just funny. Let's see. This doesn't happen anymore. Like you show the link. The Yankees dugout. Bob Lemon, Ott Fowler, Yogi Berra. Watch on. This is a very famous plot. Very, very famous play, because that's the tying run that he stopped from going to third. And he and Pinella completely loses it in the sun. And he only sees it once it hits the grass in front of him. Look at the sun, man. Look at that stab. If he doesn't make that, it's a tie game. If that goes past him, that runner's scoring. Are you frozen? Let's see. You there? Here. You're frozen. Did you see the Lupinella? I saw the Lupinella. You started talking famous, and then it said you disconnected. That camera worked. All right, so yeah, you got disconnected for a second. But the stab that Pinella makes in the sun, if it gets by him, the game's tied on that play. That guy just booms it, because he's got to run and chase the ball, throw it in, do a relay, all that. So the game's tied. So that stab is crazy. And then the next play, they get the runner to third, but now it's two outs. That right field looks hellish, though, with how sunny it is. Is it still like that at Fenway Daygames? Or is this a weird time? I think they're in a good day game. Yeah, I think we've seen when they've thrown J.D. Martinez out there and stuff. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. So now you get, I mean, he had to go through Remy, Rice, and Yaz, Goose. It's a good baseball. It's like a lot of good baseball players. In fact, great baseball players. Err, eight, White Evans. The history of this ballpark and the franchise, the fact that both the American and National League this year went over 20 million for the first time in baseball history, totaling better than 20 million for both of them. What was that stab? They went over 20 million, what? I have no idea. Was it attendance or something? They were 20 million, then 40 million, so I have no idea. Yeah, attendance? Payroll stuff? I don't know. I don't think payroll was there. Oh, the other tidbit about the Bucky dent homerun was he wasn't using his own bat. Someone gave him the bat and was like, hey, yours is cracked, use mine. It was Mickey Rivers' bat. Maybe that's why he was so choked up. I think Bucky was a choked up guy, slap hit him. And a single in this ball game. Damn, homerun and single in the game with the tying run at third. And the other thing that's going through my head is Sparky Lyle's up in the bullpen, and he's a left. I mean, I don't know if Gossage had rules back in the day, like you just don't take him out unless he blows it. Bob Lemon ain't taking them out. Red Sox out hit the Yankees at this point, according to that graphic. And according to this image, Goose is a blurred face monster. I was interested to see what the celebration is for this. Fan on the crowd, fan on the field. I guess that is true, man. I mean, you go straight to the semi-finals if you win this game, you could celebrate it. Yeah, it's like a DS today. Yeah. The Yankees went and they beat the Royals three games to one. And then in the 78 World Series, as we watched already, they beat the Dodgers in six games. And World Series MVP is Bucky Dent. I think his numbers in the World Series were crazy. Let me see, I'll find him. In the World Series, Bucky Dent hit 417 with the 440 on base percentage. He just needed 163 to get him kickstarted, Jake. The 162 was spring training for Bucky Dent. That's all it takes, man. One spring, little confidence. Send your whole team to the playoffs. I think we have an interview. Reggie hugging everyone. Oh, there's the boss. Steinbrenner who suspended Reggie Jackson earlier that season. Different team dynamics. Big-ass camera. All right, so that's the 1978 game. 163. I think our idea was to try and find some more Game 163s. I mean, that's the first one since 1940. That one surely, I mean, might be on TV. I doubt it. Might be on YouTube. I doubt it. So we'll hunt down Game 163s and watch all of those. And we'll be back on Wednesday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday for watching baseball. Sequence with Trevor Poof on Tuesday and Thursday. Thank you very much for watching. We appreciate it. Enjoy the rest of your day. Goodbye.