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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
- YANKEES WORLD SERIES GAME 6 REGGIE JACKSON 3 HOME RUN TICKET STUB GAME
- Reggie Jackson hits 3 HRs in World Series: Newsday’s 1977 game story
- Game 5
- 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.
Tony Gwynn: The near-.400 hitter and Padres legend ' YOU KIDS DON'T KNOW
Jackson began his career with the Kansas City Athletics in 1967, one year before the team moved to its current home in Oakland. He made his first All-Star Game with the Oakland A's in 1969, when he led the American League in slugging percentage and OPS. His second Midsummer Classic appearance was at the 1971 All-Star Game in Detroit, where the Hall-of-Fame hitter showed the literal definition of "light-tower power." The legendary right fielder's prowess in the postseason, where he won five championship rings and two respective World Series MVP awards for the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees, is what defined the Hall of Famer's MLB career.
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.
Chris Broussard: Penny Hardaway was one of basketball's "most unique and gifted players"
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.
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.
October 18, 1977: Reggie becomes ‘Mr. October’ with 3 home runs in World Series
The Dodgers were leading by run when Jackson hit the first of his home runs in the fourth inning, following a Munson single, to give the Yankees a lead they never relinquished. In his remarkable performance on Oct. 18, 1977, Jackson cracked a drive off three Dodgers hurlers on three consecutive pitches in the deciding game of the Fall Classic. The Dodgers almost tied the game in the fourth when Ron Cey sent a drive to deep left that Lou Piniella leaped up and caught. Jackson ended the scoring with an opposite-field home run off Rhoden in the sixth inning. The Dodgers tied it at 3–3 in the ninth inning Dusty Baker led off with a single and was almost picked off first when pinch-hitter Manny Mota failed on a bunt attempt. Mota flied out, but Steve Yeager walked and pinch-hitter Lee Lacy drove Baker home with a single.
On the last day — after 173 games that counted and one in Syracuse that didn’t count in the standings — Billy Martin was granted the bonus he campaigned for on his contract and Jackson, the figure of controversy all season, hit three home runs. Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees heads for first to round the bases after knocking out his third consecutive homer in the eighth inning of the World Series game in New York, Oct. 18, 1977. 17 It should be noted for the record that on Opening Day 1978 at Yankee Stadium , Jackson hit a home run with two men on in the first inning, against Wilbur Wood of the Chicago White Sox, on a 2-0 pitch. That made for an astonishing four consecutive home runs at Yankee Stadium, on four swings.
YANKEES WORLD SERIES GAME 6 REGGIE JACKSON 3 HOME RUN TICKET STUB GAME
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.
“When I seen him hit that pitch that far I seen the greatest performance I ever seen in a World Series.”16 Who could argue with Lasorda? In two World Series games, Jackson had hit four consecutive home runs, on four swings, against four different pitchers. His three shots in Game Six had all come on the first pitch of the at-bat. At the time, only Babe Ruth had ever hit three home runs in a World Series game, having done the deed twice, in 1926 and 1928 (As of this writing, the feat has since been equaled by Albert Pujols in 2011 and Pablo Sandoval in 2012.). Jackson’s five home runs in a single Series are still a record (Chase Utley also hit five in the six-game 2009 Series).
Willie Randolph bunted, but Yeager pounced on it and forced out Rivers at second for a fielder's choice, and Munson hit a low fly to center for the second out. After a throw to first to keep Randolph close, Jackson connected on the first pitch off Sosa, a screaming low line drive into the right field seats to make the score 7–3. Los Angeles manager Tommy Lasorda brought in lefthander Doug Rau to face Chambliss, who grounded out to Garvey at first. New York tied it in the second as Chris Chambliss lifted a 2–1 pitch from starter Burt Hooton into the right center seats after Reggie Jackson walked on four pitches, but the next three batters went down in order. After Lopes and Russell grounded out again in the top of the third, Smith put Los Angeles up 3–2 with his third homer of the Series, pounding a 1–1 pitch well into the right center seats. Cey lined an infield hit to third, knocked down by Graig Nettles, but Garvey flew to center to end the threat.
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.
The Dodgers countered with Burt Hooton, whose fine performance helped Los Angeles take Game Two. In the World Series, Jackson hit five home runs in the final three games – driving in eight runs and finishing with a record 25 total bases. He was named World Series MVP for the second time in his career, matching his performance in the 1973 World Series with the Oakland Athletics. In the eighth inning of Game 5, however, Yankees manager Billy Martin called on Jackson to pinch hit – and Jackson delivered a run-scoring single that cut the Royals’ lead to 3-2 and led to New York’s eventual 5-3 win. In the fifth inning, Elias Sosa served up Jackson’s second home run and in his final at-bat, Jackson led off the eighth inning with a 475-ft shot into center field off Charlie Hough, which was Mickey Mantle territory. The Dodgers won the fifth game, forcing the teams back to Yankee Stadium for the sixth game.
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.
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