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With the dearth of actual live, real baseball to watch this spring, like many other baseball die-hards I’ve taken to watching old Boston Red Sox games on YouTube. It’s actually been great fun to go back and watch (or in many cases, re-watch) games, some of which I haven’t seen since they aired and some which were from before I was born. If you’ve never watched this game, you owe it to yourself to do so; in my forty-plus years on this planet, it’s still one of the greatest and most dramatic moments in baseball I’ve ever seen.
Henderson batted in the seventh inning and struck out, while the Angels added two more runs in their half of the seventh. The pitch...To left field, and deep, and Downing goes back, AND IT'S GONE! The Red Sox get four runs in the ninth on a pair of two-run homers by Don Baylor and Dave Henderson. —Al Michaels, ABC-TV Here's the pitch...there's a fly ball to left field...Downing is going back...back...back...IT'S GONE!
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When Mauch brought closer Donnie Moore in to finish the game, it seemed as though the crowd’s sense of inevitability returned… they were ready to party. Buckner led off the inning with a single and hobbled down to first base before being replaced with Dave Stapleton. The Angels were already acting like they had won the pennant and the feeling grew when they put up two more runs in the seventh to expand their lead to 5-2.
California added two runs off reliever Bob Stanley in the seventh, and led 5-2. Dave Henderson hitting the home run that kept the Red Sox in the 1986 A.L.
Dave Henderson
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Boston had men on base in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, but could not get anyone past first base. Boston drew first blood in the second inning, when Jim Rice led off with a single and Rich Gedman lined a two-run homer into the right-field seats. Henderson began his career in Seattle as the first draft pick of the new Mariners franchise.
Dave Henderson World Series Stats
In the 1989 ALCS the Athletics beat the Toronto Blue Jays in five games. Henderson hit 5-for-19 (.263) with one home run and one RBI during the ALCS. At the time, the Angels were playing at home and were ahead in the series 3 games to 1 over the Red Sox. Henderson had appeared in Game 2 and Game 4 as a late-innings defensive replacement for Tony Armas, and was hitless in one at bat. In Game 5, Armas sprained his ankle in the second inning, and was replaced by Henderson, who entered the game to play centerfield in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Angels now had a 3–2 lead, with Henderson the likely scapegoat, should the Red Sox lose the game.
Angels backup catcher Jerry Narron led off with a single and was advanced to second on Pettis’ sacrifice bunt. After intentionally walking Jones, Schiraldi gave up the game winning RBI single to Bobby Grich and improbably, the Angels won the game 4-3 and took a commanding 3-1 lead in the series. Meanwhile, Witt threw a complete game and only allowed five hits and the single run. The 8-1 loss was mirrored by the very underwhelming showing from the Red Sox bats. The Sox hadn’t been to the postseason since the one game playoff in 1978 and hadn’t been to the ALCS since 1975.
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Barrett continued his torrid series by going 3-for-4 with an RBI, Rich Gedman was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Spike Owen was 4-for-4 with two RBI, and Bill Buckner was 2-for-4 with an RBI. This was also the first game of the series where Buckner was hobbling so badly that it was painful to watch. His mobility had been limited all season and in the earlier games of this series, but it was so bad in this one that he could barely run to first or walk back to the dugout. Owen hit a two-RBI triple in the bottom of the seventh and the Red Sox won easily by a final score of 10-4. Interestingly, in this game it was the Red Sox contact hitters who did the most damage. Boyd did a lot of fist pumping, talking to himself, and walking around in circles on the mound and I remember as a kid that Red Sox fans liked it while other teams thought he was showing them up.
I always thought he was just trying to fire himself up more than anything else. The Red Sox struck first when Rich Gedman drove in a run in the second inning, but the Sox could’ve had more if they had paid attention to details a bit more. Overall, it was pretty sloppy in the field , exacerbated by the setting afternoon sun, but Hurst pitched great and the Red Sox evened up the series at a game apiece. Apart from Rice and Evans, none of the other Red Sox were on the team in 1978 and most had never been in the postseason before.
Moore’s next pitch was a split finger fastball that didn’t dive as much as he wanted it to. Henderson swung and hit the ball over the left field wall for a two-run homer that improbably gave the Red Sox a 6-5 lead while stunning and silencing the crowd. Watching all these years later and even knowing what happened, this was still an incredibly dramatic, pulse-pounding moment. What’s been lost to the mists of time is that it was almost all for naught. After Rice struck out looking, Witt looked set finish the game and pitch the Angels into the World Series.
Kike Hernandez entered 2021 and wanted to demonstrate that he could be an everyday player in the major leagues after his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers typecast him into the role of a utility man. Reliever Garrett Whitlock hoped to establish himself as a major leaguer when the Yankees handed him a 40-man roster. That was also brought out to me with all of the takeout slides at second base and the several collisions on plays at the plate. That’s how I grew up watching and playing baseball and those two things are sorely missing in today’s game. After watching all seven games of this series, the biggest and most noticeable thing was the pace of play. The games had a pleasing, quicker pace of play that was in stark contrast to how the game is played today.
He is survived by his sons, Chase and Trent, his wife Nancy and his first wife Lori. “It’s a shock, just out of nowhere,” said Dennis Eckersley, Hall of Fame relief pitcher on those teams. Lux stood with his mouth closed to first base, unable to believe that the baseball was left in the park. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. Gedman drove the first run in with a groundout and then, after loading the bases again, Boggs hit a line drive that hit the second base bag and caromed into right field to bring in two more. It just seemed like everything was going right for the Red Sox and horrifically wrong for the Angels.
In the 1988 ALCS, the Athletics faced the Red Sox and swept them in four games. Henderson batted 6-for-16 (.375) with one home run and four RBIs during the ALCS. The Athletics advanced to the 1988 World Series where they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games, including their Game 1 loss on Kirk Gibson's famous home run. Overall in the 1988 postseason he batted 12-for-36 (.333) with one home run and five RBIs, and he played center field for all of Oakland's games.
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