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Jeffrey Maier catches Derek Jeter's home run in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS
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- 10/9/96: Derek Jeter's questionable home run in Game 1 of the ALCS makes Jeffrey Maier an unintentional hero in NYC
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I don't care if you're a Yankees fan or not, you gotta admit this was straight robbery.
Of course
-Die Hard Yankee Fan
Well of course, but go Yankees!
+PabloCruise91 Maybe just for that game. But the Yankees would dominate the Orioles in Baltimore in all 3 games. I don't think that fan interference had as big an impact on the series as people think.
+PabloCruise91 I don't watch baseball, but this is hilarious. Honestly, if I was a ref I'd call it a home run. Fans are a part of the game too lol
+PabloCruise91 The umpires were not going to give the Orioles any calls because of the Roberto Alomar incident late in the season. Alomar spat on an umpire, John Hirshbeck, while arguing and commented about the illness theHirshbeck's son had. The league announced Alomar was suspended three games, but the suspension wouldn't start until next season and not during the playoffs.
The umpires threatened to walk off the job before the playoffs, especially when Baltimore qualified as a wild card. The Orioles got screwed here, but this was simply the umpires getting back at this team since one player was allowed to still play.
What does it say about our culture that this kid is a hero for reaching into the field of play and grabbing a ball, and Bartman had to go into witness protection for trying to catch a ball hit into the stands.
It's sad isn't it? If that ball was off the bat of an Oriole and it would have been called a homerun imagine on how different things would have been for him.
His life would have been ruined. Not to mention this was sure out, and the foul ball Bartman got probably wouldn't have been caught anyway.
***** that makes no sense. You realize they have instant replay now don't you?
+Ian Victorine It doesn't say anything.
Try not to overexaggerate. Bartman did not go into witness protection, he just chose not to be in the public spotlight.
This play started the Yankees dynasty. It's eerily similar to how the New England patriots dynasty was started by the "tuck rule". Both dynasties started by a controversial play.
Good call
Kim Chi~ The fan reached over and taking a potential out, single, or double, which according to the rulebook is NOT a home run is nothing like a bad rule approved by the NFLPA.
When the fuck did the NFLPA start writing the rules in Baseball???
Except unlike the Raiders, the Orioles were playing in a best of 7 series. If they lost in 5 then they don't deserve a benefit of doubt for going down that easily.
Kim Chi really dude you really think that tuck call was the right call gtfoh
No it didn't
I've been a Yankees fan since I was 11 years old. I admit this was robbery.
Wilson Fisk I'm sorry but it's a well known fact that the umpire Richie Garcia signed autographs before game 2. As you said the call was robbery but for a umpire to sign autographs after he blew that he should have lost his job.
Wilson Fisk this was only game one the Yankees weren’t gonna lose the series
We still would’ve won the series, we won three in a row on the road, just like in the World Series, and every other World Series. Oh wait... never mind, we don’t need to win three straight on the road, when we sweep the World Series. Like we did two straight years.
I am not saying this greatly impacted the series, but this was just cheap. The fact that the Yankees fans supported this kid was just wrong.
@@patrickgray5633 Garcia was also involved in scandal. He, and an ump from the national league, Frank Pulli had associated with Florida-based bookmakers who were known drug dealers. Both umps had problems paying off their gambling debts. With that in mind, it is not out of the realm of possibility that, that could have been involved in some way here....being paid to throw games and such. Anyone with one eye could see this was not a home run, but fan interference, and in the postseason, there are umps down the lines in the outfield and they can see plays like this very well.
As a Yankees fan I think this should not have been a home run. This was a bad call.
***** No, I'm a Bartolo Colon fan, thank you very much.
Well, I'm glad you can admit that lol. Pretty disgusting of a call
Yeah, that should've been an out, not a HR. There was clearly fan interference involved when that kid had reached out his glove to catch that ball instead of the player.
Thank goodness that Instant Replays & Challenges are involved now.
Wilson Fisk :: I got no problem with the call. LOL ::
The people in the crowd shouldn't be celebrating and those other guys were trying to catch it too..... they don't give a fuck
I vividly remember watching this live. After only the first replay it was clear Terasco was denied the out. The umpires totally mishandled it. I'm a lifelong Yankees fan but I also believe in fair play.
As an O's fan thank you I can finally stop crying after 26 years lol
actually the only thing the reply showed me was that maier didnt wind up with ball, i was yelling interference as was my dad, and no i`m not and orioles fan
As a Red Sox fan, glad some Yankee fans are at least honest about it. Orioles are doing great this year, as who knows if Orioles forgive Jeffrey Maier, if they win it all, since 1983. Just like both sides forgiving each other for Bill Buckner from 1986. Playoffs is a sensitive matter for October MLB Playoffs.
If replay & challenges existed back in 1996, I think this might have been overturned
Johnny Roberts if replay existed back then, the Yankees don't have a dynasty. The league usually makes calls, adjusts the strike zone and other things of that nature for the Yankees' benefit. Now with replay, things are much more fair.
In fact, early on baseball was a dirty game, who knows how many of the 27 championships were illegitimately won?
Everyone talks of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal because they were caught. Who knows how many other teams did similar things during the time, not just the Yanks but everyone else.
Money,steroids,and labor issues with players and umpires were a big part of 90s baseball.The sports was on the verge of collapse sue to overwhelming competition to the NFL. Money is still the big part of baseball but the big markets have to revenue share now and gives a better playing field to smaller market teams. Seling make have had his critics and controversies but he has changed baseball for the good part and made it more fair and balanced. A few bad calls and things still might occur but thank god he helped implement a replay review system that was much overdue. Manfeld is now making the game move better. Thank god the Yankees are not the evil empire they once were.
spfan 99 - sure bud, cry some more.
- Easily. This play today would've been overturned & Jeter probably would've been out. Or...maybe given a ground-rule double. Although the ball was coming down before it even reached the stands anyway. Tarasco likely makes the catch w/o Jeffrey Maier's presence. Ultimately, they were right in that this play had some affect on the outcome; the Yankees won it in the 11th via a Bernie Williams walkoff blast to leftfield. The O's won the next day to tie the series heading to Baltimore but the Yankees overwhelmed the O's & swept all 3 games at Camden Yards to swipe the pennant. And...also went on the beat Atlanta in the World Series. Thus, the Yankees' late-'90s dynasty would become a reality as a result.
plenty of replays shown in this video hehehehe
NBC doing sports in the 90s...best games ever. Biggest drama. Miss these days
Totally agree! They had the best broadcasts...certainly better than Fox
Most things were better then as we didn’t have the internet to amplify everything. Only we didn’t have 1080p then😂
@@trentbatemannow it’s 2180p! We get to relive this moment so it’s not all that bad.
@@HarrisonHollers not in my house it isn’t 🤣
This shit would only be a HR in New York and everyone knows it.
You’re right about that!!!!!
so what
So this kid was regarded as a hero but the other poor cubs fan was given death threats?
Musicrecords10 because maier helped the yankees, whereas bartman destroyed the cubs lol
***** Yes but this changed the outcome of the series where as the cubs incident they can't blame bartman because not only did they give up a lead but blew game 7
Musicrecords10 i know, but cubs fans are stupid
***** Indeed, I felt so bad for Steve Bartman
It's different because the Cubs fan did it to his home team. If this were the other way around and he stopped the Yankees from making a catch it would have been a different story. This kid probably would have had to change schools and move. Plus this is also a kid vs a grown man. And don't try to act all high and mighty. Let the Yankees have been your team and you would have been cheering for the boy as well. Any fan would. You don't care how your team wins as long as they win. You're not going to call the umps up and tell them to reverse their call.
I was at Jeffrey Maiers house teaching his brother Brian piano when he caught the ball. His mother was in the kitchen watching the game and she came out screaming when she saw Jeffrey caught the ball. Definitely an experience and I was inadvertently part of it.
Regardless, Baltimore had plenty of opportunities to win and they blew it plain and simple.
Cool story, but he should have caught the ball
That’s wild!
Cool story ty
Sure.
This situation is way worse than Bartman yet he still gets all the shit. It's a home run while the Bartman was a foul ball.
Bartman hurt the home team, this kid helped the home team.
Blame mosises alou's reaction after bartman
Only because it was the Yankees stadium. If this was the Orioles stadium he would have had 10x worse bartman had
If you actually understand what’s going on it’s legitimately the opposite of Bartman..
He saved the Yankees at their house bartman hurt the cubs at their house. Big difference
That's one of the very reasons why Instant-Replays & Challenges are now implemented in MLB, because otherwise, a lot of teams would've gotten away with shit like this today.
@Starlin Castro 100% agree. Baseball is far better off the other way.
Jeffrey Maier is the 26th man in the Yankees 96' roster to help the team won the Gold
Today makes 20 years since this happened. I was a ten year old O's fan in 96. Now I'm thirty and after all these years I can say...I still hate Jeffrey Maier!
I was 9 years old at the time, and I still vividly remember that moment to this day. I grew up in Maryland, and I am still a huge O's fan to this day.
Ffflcnphnx7 If only baseball had instant replay back then. Yeah, I'm still orange and black too.
As a Yanks fan we pay homage to his statue in the city
lololol And I bet you still think planes took down the towers too huh? lololol
You hate Jeffery Maier? What’s wrong with you? He was just a kid doing a kid thing. We won three in a row on the road, just like in the World Series and just about every other World Series. We outplayed you!
Crazy how long the MLB went on with instant replay on TV coverage but no official replay review.
I still want to punch that kid 18 years later!
Go O's!!!
Just a kid making a mistake. Don’t blame him for your failures! We cooked you in three straight games in Baltimore. You were completely outplayed.
I'm not even a Baltimore fan. And I still want to punch this kid in the face! He made multiple television appearances and didn't seem to understand that he was in the wrong.
@@TheSBleeder probably because he was 12 years old
@@fse2520you dumb as I can guarantee you would be twice as mad if u got robbed come on man learn some discipline
Rich Garcia's reaction when Benitez arrives is so classic. "How would you have seen that?" then waves him off. Killer.
One of the worst calls in baseball history, considering it was a playoff game.
We still cooked them in Baltimore
Sham! Absolute sham of a call.
That ump probably had a bet on the game! Or retarded. One or the other for sure!
That may be the first time Richie Garcia ever made a call in favor of the yankees. We used to hate that guy at the stadium.The worse the call he made the more animated he was defending it and he would get in your grill or run you from the game if you disagreed w/him. a real prick IMO.
We still cooked you guys. Three straight in Baltimore.
FSE exactly , Yankees were gonna win the series either way
@@Noog6284 don't forget, the Yankees lost the first 2 games at home in the World Series then won out in Atlanta. So losing game 2 of the ALCS wouldn't have caused any mental gap as proven by the World Series.
This homerun should have never counted.
You’re right about that!!!!
well it did and the yankees went on to win the World Series then again in 1998 and again in 1999 and again in 2000 🤣cry about it somewhere else
@@cgunn101 Yeah but Arizona broke their hearts in 2001, game 7😂😂😂
@@cgunn101 stay classy my friend... stay classy
@@Mrd9960 don't you love when the fans of the team that benefits from poor officiating's only argument is "cry about it more" knowing damn well they would cry harder tears if it happens to their team
What makes it worse is that the kid is being treated like a king after he interferes with the ball.
Jeter owes that kid a college fund
Joesph Thibodaux nah. We still cooked the O’s that series. Three straight in Baltimore. We outplayed them!
FSE yeah exactly it wouldn’t have mattered. Just like in 98 with Tinos grand slam, that was definitely strike 3 but Yankees still would’ve won that series
IMO this is the best call by Costas as a MLB announcer. Close second is the Ryan Sanberg game in June '84. And Costas is a diehard Mantle and Yankees fan growing up from Long Island NY. The Commentary by Joe Morgan and Bob Ucker was also very good on this historic and controversial play that lead to replay being in MLB around decade later. . And Costas is a diehard Mantle and Yankees fan growing up. And as a Yankees fan Jeffery did interfer with the ball but Tarasco would not have caught it. Should been a ground rule double.
LMAO Tony would have absolutely caught the ball. It’s really not even debatable. He positioned himself underneath it and didn’t even have to jump. Pause the video at 1:20. You can clearly see the path the ball was on in relation to Tony’s glove. Other than an error happening this would have been an out
If he interfered with a Yankee trying to make the catch he’d be the Steve Bartman of NY.
People would call for his head...
Baltimore fans would call for his head if what happened to Tarasco had happened in Baltimore as well.
I always imagined it was a closer play, but that was a terrible miss by the umpire.
What would you expect from Rich Garcia?
Yea but to be fair he didn’t get to see the replay 20 times like we did
Kudos to Bob Uecker for nailing exactly the reason why Garcia blew the call. Garcia overhustled and was looking in straight on and when you see the replay from a straight on look, you lose the depth perception and get an optical illusion that the ball hit the top of the wall and went in. That was how it seemed to Garcia and its only when you've got the views from an angle that the true picture of what happened becomes evident.
Nope. He knew exactly what he was doing. The umpires had it out for Baltimore.
Going Back To the Track, To The Wall, and What Happens Here? 0:12
+Stiven Bonilla Bob Uecker: "Oh!"
I can tell you what should've happened. Interference call and the kid gets escorted out of the stadium.
nopt what should have that's for damn sure
Richie Garcia was later tied to illegal gambling, which NEVER gets brought up when discussing this. Seems pretty clear to me that this was a Tim Donaghy thing years before that happened.
Imagine being that kid today being able to say “I caught Derek Jeter’s home run in Game 1 in the 1996 ALCS and became a Yankee legend.”
If he somehow showed up in the new stadium, Probably the Yankees will give him a free season ticket for life as a reward for helping the team capturing the Gold back in 96
He did not catch it.
I am convinced this was a retaliatory call for the Roberto Alomar incident.
And this is why we now have challenges and instant replay in today’s game 😂
I can remember this day in my life as the moment that I realized that life really isn’t fair.
The anti-Bartman
Thumbs up because of the fan in Kansas City in Game 6 of the ALCS!
It hit the rail behind the green wall! It would've bounced back onto the field if the guy didn't grab it.
It's kinda crazy how one kid dreams of catching a baseball at a MLB game can screw an entire franchise over for his one wish to come true...
Anyway, the less talked about subject in this story, what a good hit by Jeter!
epic hit
Not really a good hit. Especially since he needed fan interference in order to get a homerun over a wall that’s only 314 feet away. That’s pathetic actually. Any other stadium, that’s an easy out.
Good fly out
The reason this call went against the Orioles was because of an incident involving their second baseman, Roberto Alomar. Alomar got into an argument with Umpire John Hirshbeck the last weekend of the season, spat on Hirshbeck, and made an inappropriate remark about Hirshbeck's son who had a rare illness.
The league suspended Alomar but announced the suspension would begin at the start of the next season and not the post season should Baltimore qualify. The Orioles made it as a wild card, and the umpires threatened to walk off the job if Alomar was allowed to play. The umpires union chief smoothed things over, but the umpires were still upset that Alomar was allowed to play.
When I saw this, I knew all the umpires were uniting behind Hirshbeck and making sure any call that could go against the Orioles would.
The way he emphatically points into the stands (which isn't even the proper signal) and does so looking straight at Tarasco instead of signaling to his fellow has me convinced of the same thing.
That was actually somewhat more plausible than what the Orioles fans in this comments section have been claiming.
Nowadays Alomar is a HOF member. Bad manners are worse than PEDs.
I had completely forgotten about that, good god you're right.
You know I’m a yankees fan (die hard) and I never thought of that. It was a lousy call and that theory is possible
Orioles should have won this game and would have if not for this little cheater. They may have went on to the WS at that point. I can't say this is responsible for 14 straight losing seasons, but Orioles had little chance after this.
shocktrauma85 But the Orioles won Game 2 and had three games in their own backyard and were swept in Games 3-5.
JoJoGunn It's more like 313 foot "homerun." The Right Field porch is 314.
Meanwhile, the Orioles buttfucked the 1996 ALCS by losing all three games at Camden Yards despite getting a split in the Bronx.
Um the Orioles did have the best record in baseball the next season, only to be done in by Cleveland in the ALCS that year.
***** Thanks to Armando Benitez serving up a gopher ball to Tony Fernandez in Game 6 of the 1997 ALCS.
1996 and the guy is still mad
I remember watching this game on tv, I cant believe its almost 30 years ago this happened. I remember it like yesterday.
Richie Garcia was also in controversy two years later in GM 1 of 1998 World Series, remember, the bases were loaded as Tino Martinez was at the plate in a 2-2 count, and Padre pitcher Mark Langston had a borderline line call that should have been called for strike 3 but called it a ball, the next pitch Martinez drilled a grand slam to the upper deck in right.
yes that was a clear strike no question about it.
Fabulous memory! Remember it well...
You'll get over it.
Ugh.
Didn't realize Garcia was behind the plate that night. I remember Mark Langston buckling when he didn't get the called third strike on that 2-2 pitch.
Yanks would have won that series anyway, but the competitive part of Game 1 deserved to continue with the score still tied at 5.
Very tough call to make without replay. It was bang, bang. Easy to see if a replay, but no replay in those days.
How? Garcia was 5 feet away! Jon Miller called this right from the booth 400 feet away.
imagine that was zack hample
How to win Championships: Roids and Jeffery Maier.
Hahahaha oh man I forgot how pathetic non-yankee fans are
ACS Shap
Did i hear.. Rafael Palmero!
ACS Shap Plot Twist: Jeffery Maier was rejected by the Yankees when he tried out for them before the draft.
spfan 99 The O's should have signed him.
ACS Shap
Lol
Shame on all those grown men jumping on the ground to steal the ball away from Maier.
Today's replay system would have reversed this call.
Mo doubt
Kid interferes in ball game and gets treated like a hero.
Assuming the Yankees went to Baltimore down 0-2, the O's winning the series wasn't a done deal. The Yankees were down 0-2 to the Braves, went on the road and won all 3 games in Atlanta before winning game 6 at Yankee Stadium. The Braves were a much better team than the O's. Even a Yankees fan like myself will admit it was a bullshit call, but it didn't change the course of history. The Yankees had the Core 4 and were destined to create a dynasty.
I've been a Yankees fan since I was 3, and yes, this was a robbery.
Oh thanks for clearing that up. I couldn't tell by the video.
I mean even Jeter looks a bit confused.
True lol
An identical incident happened once at the Kingdome against Seattle.
Let's just say Piniella threw an epic tantrum.
We could debate this over and over. There's no question it was fan interference, and Jeter should have been out, but there's a reason why the Orioles didn't get this call. The umpires were united against the Orioles.
During the last weekend of the season, Baltimore's Roberto Alomar argued pitch not in his favor, started arguing with home plate umpire John Hirshbeck, spat onHirshbeck, and did the classless thing of saying Hirshbeck was too wrapped up in his family issues involving his son's illness. The League suspended Alomar but announced the suspension would not start until the '97 regular season, making Alomar eligible for all Oriole post season games. The umpires threatened to strike the playoffs.
The umpires ultimately decided any close or questionable call was going to go against the Orioles. Personally, if the League had suspended Alomar for the first three games of the playoffs, this bad call doesn't happen.
You know what? I had forgotten about that. It makes sense now
2:35 "If you're Davey Johnson, you HAVE TO get thrown out of the ballgame here." The announcer even sees the injustice here and is not shy about it
I didn't blame Davey Johnson. I would have taken the team off the field, tell the umpires went to the locker room and saw replays and refuse to even play the game. Jeffrey Maier is a person Orioles fans don't ever forget.
Jeetah looks so young... geez I was 15 when this happened. I was just reading about Bartman and remembered Jeffery Maier. Sigh, time goes by, doesn't it?
This kid is the complete opposite of Steve Bartman, one turned into a hero, the other into a villain lol
Nobody cares if you're a yankee fan. Anybody who isn't blind knows this was a bad call.
lol, that's such a bs call. I can understand why some O's fan still hate this kid to this day 😂. Before anyone say that it's just a kid, the people hating on him still were around his age or younger so the point is moot
I remember headline in local sports page said “Kid robs Orioles”
It was way different in New York lol
Umpire is an obvious Yankee fan. He was on the wall looking directly along the wall. He HAD to have seen the kid reach out over a foot into the field of play. This was absolute robbery. No excuses.
More of an Alomar critic.
Was signing autographs for Yankees fans before a game later in the series.
Costas was born to call baseball games.
- The New York Daily News disclosed that in 1989 Rich Garcia and National League umpire Frank Pulli had associated with Florida-based bookmakers who were known drug dealers.
- Three days later, the Boston Herald reported that, according to information collected from federal wiretaps, both umpires had problems paying off their gambling debts.
- Garcia, along with fellow supervisors Marty Springstread and Jim McKean, were ousted on March 6, 2010 as a result of a 2009 postseason which was plagued by various high-profile questionable calls that drew a firestorm of criticism from fans and the media.
This happened on my parents wedding lol
I think I was most pissed at how this kid got glorified. It clearly never was going over and they treated this kid like Jesus. I live in the NY/NJ area and remember this being ALL over the news. Then the kid is like 11 years old, talking shit on TV like he's a hero and actually caught it...he didn't even catch it! It rolled up his arm Lol. This was surreal and I haven't a clue how the ump botched it...
the fix was in; somebody was on the take. that umpire was crooked as a barrel of snakes. clearly fan interference, not a "homer"
Talk about how 1 play can have an effect on 2 organizations that perpetuates for decades.
Instead of a 2-0 series lead coming home to Baltimore, the Yankees end up winning the WS, the Orioles went wire-to-wire the following year and ended up choking once again in the ALCS.
They then go into a perennial funk for 15 seasons, only to finally get out and win more games than anyone from 12-16, but still keep choking in the ALCS.
The Orioles had the highest win percentage of any professional sports team from 1966 through 1984. They won 100 games I think 13 times. But, they choked in 3 of 6 WS, and choked in another 3 ALCS to the A's in the mid 70's.
It's still one of the greatest organization in MLB history, but they sure have choked more than most.
Consider how great the Colts were with Johnny U and Bert Jones, and then they had their team robbed.
It really is an unlucky sports town if I've ever seen one.
And that, my friends, was the beginning of "Maier-ball."
One of the WORST calls in playoff history... Ump is a zillion years old....
and Tarrasco had all the way - MAYBE should've sold it a bit more or, GOD FORBID, jumped...
1:56 Tarasco's got the moves.
I'll never understand why the American League and its umpires always felt the need to genuflect in the direction of the Yankees and lick their boots.
Why did the umpire say it was a home run when the interference was clear?
Because the Yankees always get advantages on calls, even if it is that blatant
From the view of the camera, it's quite blatant. Unforetunately, the umpire was neither flying in the sky nor directly under the ball. Towards the end of the viedo, they showed the view the umpire would have had, and from that it looked like the ball bounced off the top of the wall.
+Chris Falk The umpire was Ritchie Garcia & he was shown to have a perfect angle to see the interference! He was incompetent!
lmao.....then Garcia was seen the next game signing autographs for Yankees fans along 3b dugout area.
Yeah, in the World Series that year game 6 Grissom clearly was safe on a Girardi passed ball @ 2nd and they called him out and in game 4 the dumb umpire ran into Dye and he dropped the ball he otherwise would have caught and Jeter would have been out. Next pitch Jetern singled and eventually came around to score.
Yankee fans of past glory days were the "12th Man"...ha ha.
But credit Jeffrey's dad. He refused Donruss's offer to issue a baseball card with Jeffrey on it. Good people.
He did allow Jeffrey to go on The Today Show that week, however.
I remember watching the game on TV. It's hard to believe that it was more than 20 years ago.
Not if you know how time works
And years later Rich garcia got fired. Karma
how is messing up a call karma. The umpire was doing his job and he just made a bad call lol
I was behind home plate with my uncle this game. I was 9 years old. A lot of people forget Bernie hit a walk off in the bottom of the 11th. I’ll never forget walking by the Diamond Club after the game hearing a bunch of drunk dudes chanting, “BERNIE, BERNIE, BERNIE!!” My favorite game I’ve ever been to.
Exactly. It might not have gone 11 innings. Would the Orioles still have gone as deep into their pen? which of course has a direct influence on the course of the series.
Richie Garcia was one of the worst umpires of all time, this wasn't the only call he blew. He wasn't just blind, he was dumb. I'm guessing he didn't understand the rules, didn't even realize it was interference. I'd suggest he was paid off but I doubt he was clever enough to profit from his many many mistakes. On the other hand there's this blurb I took from Wikipedia which summarizes some of the other scandals he was involved in.
'Garcia took part in the 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation which was engineered by Richie Phillips, the union's executive director. When the strategy backfired, Garcia lost his job because his resignation was one of the 22 accepted by Major League Baseball. After working as a consultant for the baseball commissioner's office, he was hired as an MLB umpire supervisor in 2002.[12] On March 8 of that year, the New York Daily News disclosed that in 1989 he and National League umpire Frank Pulli had associated with Florida-based bookmakers who were known drug dealers. Three days later, the Boston Herald reported that, according to information collected from federal wiretaps, both umpires had problems paying off their gambling debts. The punishment MLB had applied to Garcia and Pulli at the time was only two years' probation.[13] Garcia, along with fellow supervisors Marty Springstead and Jim McKean, were ousted on March 6, 2010 as a result of a 2009 postseason which was plagued by various high-profile questionable calls that drew a firestorm of criticism from fans and the media.'
An incompetent employee with a union contract that says he can never be fired. Sends his boss his resignation as a negotiating ploy! Then MLB keeps him around anyway so he can spread his incompetence and corruption for another ten years. I wish law enforcement would devote more time looking into questionable officiating, I feel the basketball fixing scandals are only the tip of the iceberg. College football and boxing are two sports that especially stand out as crooked.
I'm a Yankee fan but I feel really bad for Tarasco :(
Yeah that would really suck
It should not be a homerun but he probably wouldnt catch because the ball looked like it was gonna bounce of the wall and the way he tried seemed like he would not catch it.
Correct but it was still interference if it was 2014 Jeter would be cooked
I felt bad for Davey Johnson despite winning a ring in 86 look at the crap this guy had happen to him in his career. 95 Reds fire him why living with his girlfriend owner didn't approve. O's this & hes fired caused Alomar didn't attend a mandatory event owner backed Roberto. Then Washington Strasburg innings situation no post season pitching. What this guy had forced down his throat from his bosses & bad calls it's a shame.
my mom worked in the city with Tarrascos mom during that time in Manhattan lol.
That was 21 years ago already? Man time flies.
This is why I will forever and always cheer against the Yankees
The only reason they didn’t call it fan interference was because the Yankees were the more popular team, no more, no less.
This is still, to this day, one of the worst umpiring jobs in the history of baseball. Embarrassing.
Truth.
This and the Eric Gregg game in the 1997 NLCS
Don Denkinger: am I a joke to you?
@@jmuduke99 what terrible call happened in that series?
@@christendo5733 The infamous Eric Gregg “strike zone” game. Eric Gregg never called a post season game again after that debacle.
Throwing garbage at players and officials? Stay classy New York:)
The Armored Blue Dragon red sox fans are much worse. Trust me.
You wouldn't know classy. In the old days everyone wore classy suits but threw garbage at players and heckled them with no penalty. The only reason baseball is "classier" now is that there are so many petty rules that make you be perfect.
Nova Prospekt Can you show me one incident of Red Sox fans throwing crap onto the field, en masse? Because there's definitely one of Yankees fans doing that (Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS) If not, have no idea what this 'they're worse' declaration is based on
Korean Jesus LOL... yeah.. that snowball throwing incident and Giants stadium showed just how “classy” NY sports fans are. NY sports fans are the worst in the country. Half the Yankee so called “fans” do not even know who plays first base for them. They just wear the hat as a damn prop. I should know, I lived in that third world shithole they call the Bronx for 19 years. That aside.. the new stadium they have there is nothing but a big corporate toilet bowl. It even looks like one, literally.
@@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII nah the cubs almost got someone murdered
This kid was looked upon as a hero, Steve Bartman was threatened with violence.
One helped their team, the other robbed theirs of an out. Still not Bartmans fault the Cubs couldn’t close the series though.
During the 90's-2000's playoff yankess run, they got soo many breaks before legal replay.
I mean really only this and Tinos grandslam but thats not instant replay reviewable. The flip giambi was out and on that timo perez play the ball stayed in play and he was out as well. Going back to what I said about Tino the yanks would have probably won that series anyway tho they did sweep them and that 98 team was sick.
@@nowrestlingiq7317 You forget the bullshit calls on Jose Offerman in 99. If the Sox win Game 1, the series becomes a LOT more interesting with a guaranteed Game 6 and the original Pedro the Yankees couldnt hit lurking in Game 7.
Just like the Celtics and Canadiens dynasties, even the Yankees got lucky sometimes.
If a fan reaches over the wall and takes the ball, fan interference. And the Orioles were then shocked and never made it to the playoffs until 2012, man I hate the Yankees
The Orioles have only their Owner, Peter Angelos to blame for not making the playoffs all those years... Only Jeffery Loria (who owned the Expos/Nationals and now owns the Marlins) is/was a worse owner in recent times.
As the Maier he should have been evicted from the stadium (mainly to protect him from any Orioles fans that might be there, as Baltimore isn't that away from New York).
But you understand that is fan interference and is an automatic out.
BestOutcome80 I do agree with that as a Yankees fan but the orioles were in the alcs in 1997
Don't forget the fact that they were in New York
As a Yankee fan it was a wrong call, but One bad call never makes a series..... that is why there is the best of series !
At the end of the day, now that Derek Jeter's career is over and looking back at this play. If Instant Replay had existed back then as compared to now, that play would have just been a double, inning continues and who knows what would have happened next. Maybe Bernie or Tino would hit a game tying hit or lead winning homerun. Tarrasco was not going to catch that ball at all, even if Maier didn't interfere. He didn't jump and his arm wasn't going to reach that ball.
I dunno they have replay and still get half the calls wrong.
he didnt have to jump, the ball was heading into his glove that`s why he was standing there he was getting ready to catch the ball
@@davidaltman4710 Doesn't mean he would have caught it considering the trajectory of the ball from one angle shown.
@@davidaltman4710 The hit was bordering the RF wall, Tarrasco was a hard time trying to catch the ball even under normal conditions.
That said, he was denied of a chance, however minimal, of putting Jeter out.
just imagine if he robbed paul o'neill. the kid's family would have to move out of new jersey.
I mean this, the Mark Langston non strike call vs the Padres in '98 that led to the Martinez GS. Yankees got so many calls during this era it was so easy to hate them.. I mean just blatant bad calls that had serious affects on series..
The title of this post must be from a Yanks fan....because it should read, 1996 ALCS Gm 1: Maier interference. I love how he is considered a "hero" for something that was basically a blown call, which Richie Garcia admitted the next day....goes to show that cheating is condoned just by the title.
tranceofdances But the Baltimore Orioles still tied the series 1-1 heading back to Camden Yards hosting three games and lost all three of them.
I remember Mike & the Mad Dog blasting the NY media calling Meier a hero.
but how is it cheating fans do that all the time he was just a fan doing the same thing anyone else would if we saw a homerun ball coming near us.
@@nowrestlingiq7317 It wasn't a homerun ball. It clearly doesn't make it into the stands without the kid reaching over the wall. The kid wasn't a "hero", we was a fan with a glove interfering with the game, and the umpire blew the call. In today's game, it would have been overturned. What makes it cheating is how the fans in the stands celebrate the kid afterwards, and all the attention he got for doing it.... something that SHOULD have been ruled as fan interference which changed the outcome of the game I might add....and possibly the series.
I’m a Yankee fan and this was a bad call but we still would’ve won
We? Did you play. And guess you had a crystal ball to know the outcome. This is why most people hate Yankee fans.
Umpire miss call
It’s insane how it was still a home run. Lol
I mean to blatantly see the fan reach over and catch it with absolutely everyone seeing it on the replay is crazy!
Baltimore got screwed. Now Houston got screwed.
Not really, the ball bounced off Betts' glove and went back on the field. It wasnt even a home run
@@KHayes666 - His glove is into the seats and thus fair game. Picture an invisible wall continuing upward. Once Betts glove goes past the wall it's no longer fan interference. Had the fan reach at or past the wall then it would be fan interference.
You can’t say that. Both of those ALCS’ you’re talking about ended in 5 games. Boston were better than and completely outplayed Houston, just like we were better than and outplayed Baltimore.
Orioles fans will still blame this kid for why they lost all three games in Baltimore that series.
EVERY single slow motion replay showed the ball was coming straight down
to the outfielder. That's why he didn't jump for the ball....no need to
as it wasn't over his head.
Raffy was taking more than just Viagras as I recall.
It's not like the Orioles have never won a World Series-- they did it in 1983, so there's that. If the Orioles have never won a World Series in their history, then I could see them having a beef.
Bob Costas: Kid reached way out to catch the ball.
Also Bob Costas: The ball would have hit the top of the fence.
I think he walked that back when Joe pointed out the flight path of the ball.
What the Tuck Rule was to Tom Brady's career, this play was to Derek Jeter's career.
Yankee fan since age 6 (1956). Not a Home Run, and we shouldn't have gone to the World Series in '96.
Rick Chalek yo... we still won three in a row in Baltimore. Let’s say we did lose this, and we were down 2-0 heading into Baltimore. We still did what we did in the World Series. Won 3 on the road after dropping two at home. I find it very hard to believe with that momentum we would’ve lost two straight at home to Baltimore. We smothered the Braves game 6 at home! We’ve dominated road playoff/World Series games. 12-1 in three straight World Series’ from 98-00. We were that damn good.
You have to be deluded if you seriously think the Orioles would have won the ALCS that year, especially with their pitching ERA over 5 and couldn't even make it a series.
Jeffery Maier = 🐐
It's because of this we have instant replay--today's Astros/A's game had a Maier incident happen again to Stephen Piscotty.. but thanks to replay, Stassi was ruled out, and the fan was ejected.
Richie Garcia was completely and totally incompetent. He not only got this play wrong, there was another play in foul territory down the RF line in the 9th that Garcia blew.
Tarasco has got to jump up and steal it from the fan, he didn't even jump. He figured I will just let the fan interfere then the umpire will will in my favor. If you are a player in a situation like that, you've go to jump up and steal it from the fan.
When you camped under the ball (which Tarasco mostly was), you are more likely to drop the ball when jumping vs. reaching up (more body movements involved).
Maier's glove likely didn't appear in his field of vision until it was too late to change course.
If he jumps for it and misses, it’s possibly an in the park home run.