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Dent earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the Yankees in 1977 and 1978, both over the Los Angeles Dodgers and was voted the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1978. Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park at the end of the 1978 regular season. [1] [2]
Bucky Dent (New York) Umpires: Ed Vargo (NL), ... The 1978 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 season.
The Cubs had won the first 2 games of the series (1984 marked the last time that the League Championship Series was a best-of-five series) over the Padres. Incidentally, Durham went 3-for-20 in the NLCS, garnering two of his three hits in the final two games on home runs (his shot in Game 4 had given the Cubs a 3–2 lead).
[13] [14] [15] The Yankees traveled to Fenway Park and defeated the Red Sox 5–4 in the one-game playoff for the AL East title; the Monday afternoon game featured light-hitting shortstop Bucky Dent's famous three-run go-ahead home run in the seventh inning. Jackson's solo home run in the eighth was the winning margin.
This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. By guest blogger Mike Brewster I remember that Bucky Dent's home run came at precisely 5 p.m ...
Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to “Bucky F*cking Dent,” a father-son story set against the 1978 Red Sox vs. Yankees pennant race. The movie was written, directed by and stars David Duchovny.
The game is best known for Bucky Dent's seventh-inning, three-run home run that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead. [19] Later that month, the Yankees again won the World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers. [16] Guidry won the 1978 American League Cy Young Award unanimously. [15]
“Reverse the Curse,” the second movie written and directed by David Duchovny (the first was “House of D,” in 2004), is based on Duchovny’s 2016 novel “Bucky F*cking Dent,” and ...