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The tie-breaker was necessitated after the Yankees and Red Sox finished the season tied for first place in the AL East with identical 99–63 (.611) records. Entering the final day of the season on Sunday, October 1, the Yankees had a one-game lead; they lost 9–2 to Cleveland while Boston shut out Toronto 5–0 to force the playoff. [ 1 ]
In 1978, Dent is widely remembered for hitting a three-run home run that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead in the AL East division tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox. [1] This was all the more remarkable because Dent was not a power hitter; his seventh-inning home run was one of only 40 he hit in his entire 12-year career.
1978 American League East Tiebreaker - New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox #11 March 7, 2011 Bucky Dent and Lou Piniella: 1988 World Series Game 1 - Oakland Athletics vs. Los Angeles #10 [15] March 14, 2011 Kirk Gibson and Dave Stewart: 2001 World Series Game 7 - New York Yankees vs. Arizona Diamondbacks #9 March 21, 2011 Joe Torre and Tim McCarver
1 GA Review. 16 comments. 2 Bucky Dent. 3 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: 1978 American League East tie-breaker game/GA1.
November 16 – France Laux, 80, St. Louis sportscaster who gained fame as voice of the 1930s Cardinals, calling their games (and those of the American League's Browns) from 1930 through 1942; focused on Cardinals in 1943 and then switched to Browns in 1948, continuing with them part-time until 1953, their last season in Missouri before they ...
Prior to the start of this game, both teams had to deal with bad news. Ron Guidry, he of the incredible 25–3 Cy Young Award-winning season, would be unavailable to start until Game 4, if played, at least. Guidry pitched the AL East division tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox and was starting to have arm
Some of baseball's most iconic moments have come in the 163rd game of the season, a tradition that won't continue this season. RIP Game 163: MLB's new postseason system ends storied one-game ...
Sims began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. [5] In the early 1980s he was a sports reporter for the short lived "Satellite News Channel".Moving to radio, Sims became the host of WNBC's SportsNight (1986–1988) (replacing Jack Spector), a five-hour nightly sports call-in show that was a precursor to the all-sports talk format of WFAN. [5]