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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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The Yankees won seven of them, but in 1955 and 1957, an injured Mantle missed a major portion of each Series. Brooklyn beat the Yankees in 1955 and the Milwaukee Braves won in 1957. About an hour before the first pitch, a fire had started in Public School 3, an abandoned elementary school a few blocks east of Yankee Stadium. During the game, ABC cut to a helicopter camera for an overhead view of Yankee Stadium and the surrounding neighborhood, catching the fire. The Yankees took the lead in the eighth inning when Munson doubled home Randolph. Later in the inning, the Yankees loaded the bases with one out, but Dodger reliever Elías Sosa struck out Lou Piniella and retired Bucky Dent on a forceout to end the threat.
In the fifth inning, Jackson hit a searing drive into the rightfield stands for another two-run homer. And in the eighth he hit one more drive, higher and farther than the rest, 475 feet into the unoccupied blacked out area in centerfield, a place reached only once before in the rebuilt Yankee Stadium. Yankees Reggie Jackson, right, is greeted by Thurman Munson, left ,and Chris Chambliss after hitting his first homer in the fourth inning of the sixth World Series game against Dodgers at Yankee Stadium, Oct. 18, 1977.
Game 5
That puts it up there with legendary home runs from the likes of Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. It's the kind of homer that would give Ellis flashbacks even without the LSD. Frank Robinson was named the MVP of the game, but Jackson was the talk of Major League Baseball. First, a little bit of backstory leading up to Jackson stepping to the plate at the 1971 rendition of MLB's Midsummer Classic.
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.
Reggie Jackson's "539-Foot" HR is All-Star Game History
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.
Jackson’s amazing home-run streak helped the Yankees win the game and the series, the team’s first since 1962. In the fourth, Dusty Baker flew out and Rick Monday singled to left. Catcher Steve Yeager pulled one over third base, but it kicked out to left fielder Lou Piniella, who gunned out Yeager at second, and Torrez struck out Hooton to strand Monday at third.
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.
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.
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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