You never forget your 1st time. As a 21 year old in 1996, who saw The Yankees barely miss in 1985, collapse in 1987, then fall apart from 1989-1992, have the strike of 1994 end our season, and be absolutely devastated by Edgar Martinez in 1995, I cried my eyes out in joy when that foul pop up landed in Charlie Hayes’s glove. This is, and will forever be, the greatest sports moment of this NY fan’s life!
I was a freshman in high school when this transpired. The Braves have always been my NL team and the Yankees my AL team. Bittersweet but exciting series.
I can totally relate to this. I became a Yankees fan in 1993 at age 11. Them falling short to the Blue Jays for the division stung. Then I felt robbed by the 1994 strike taking away what was a sure World Series win. Then the 95 ALDS vs the Mariners was such a crushing loss that it took me a week to get over it. So when I saw this amazing run to the championship, it was thrilling and satisfying. I remember sweating it out with the Texas Rangers and Juan Gonzalez in the ALDS before Bernie Williams emerged as a superstar that series. I remember the Jeffrey Maier homer and Bernie, Daryl Strawberry and Cecil Fielder pounding the Orioles through the ALCS. And man oh man, I remember that World Series against the defending world champion Atlanta Braves. I remember going down 0-2 thanks to Smoltz and Glavine and the press writing the Yankees off heading back to Atlanta while boasting of a budding Braves dynasty and their vaunted starting pitching. Then…David Cone puts on a heroic pitching performance in Game 3. The Yankees come All the way back from 6-0 in Game 4 and then Jim Leyritz hits the big 3-run homer off Mark Wohlers in the 8th inning that shifts the tide of the series, followed by the great Wade Boggs drawing a bases-loaded walk for the game-winning run. Then Andy Pettitte outduels Jon Smoltz pitch for pitch in Game 5, and the Yankees get revenge on Greg Maddux in Game 6 with big hits from Derek Jeter and Joe Girardi. And John Wetteland and Mariano Rivera were absolutely unhittable that series. When Hayes caught the final out, it felt cathartic, it felt exhilarating and it felt sweet as can be. Yes, the 1998 championship was arguably the greatest team of all time, 1999 was the year they cemented themselves as Team of the Decade and 2000 gave us the Subway World Series. But 1996 was the most memorable one to me. Pinstripe Pride all day. 💪🏼
@M When the US win the World Cup in Qatar, then you can make that assumption. If you prefer soccer over baseball, don't comment that on a baseball video. What a idiot. 🤦🏻
I watched crappy Yankees teams in the 80's and early 90's, never would i have thought I would see them win a World Series, never mind 5 in my lifetime!
Fun fact about this game. My parents got married on this day, and my dad is a huge yankee fan. During their wedding they had the DJ listen to the radio to give scoring updates. After the wedding ended they went to a bar to watch the final 2 innings and watched the final out. It was my dad's best day of his life for 2 reasons, he married my mom and he got to witness the yankees win a world series for the first time in 20 years with her.
That's a thing I dread, getting married the day of my team playing a crucial championship game. I hope your mom was somewhat of a Yankee fan so she could understand him caring that much about the Yankees on their wedding day.
@@Mike-fd1lq Jesus dude. You really take a stranger's concerns and fears on the internet that personally and then tell ME to grow the hell up? Ha. You do realize humans don't have all their hopes, dreams, excitements and fears neatly prioritized in order of importance, right? You are allowed to have your own variations like this because it's your own fucking mind. Give me a fucking break dude.
Yes it does. Keep in mind a losing team doesn't bring out fans. Find videos of the early 90s Yankees. Upper decks were completely empty. Now watch videos of the 2017 Yankees. Check out Didis wild card home run
I went to a few of the ALDS and ALCS games in 2017. That’s the closest to the old stadium I’ve seen. Was much more alive than it was in 2009 when they won it all.
Spoke too soon. In 2017, 2018 and now 2019, the new stadium is loud like the old one. Yankees finally have a talented core of great players who bring a winning culture back to America’s baseball team.
Eugenio Vieira I feel like the series against the Astros this year the place is really going to be shaking like the 90s, especially if it’s the game to go to the WS. Also I think if they get to the WS, it’s really going to be rowdy since it’s been 10 years since we won.
@Kevin Michael We christened it with a championship. An amazing one. It then gave us moments like becoming the only team to hit 3 grand slams in one game and Raul Ibanez ' heroics. Then the 2017 playoffs proved the "new stadium doesn't compare" old man talk is simply both wrong and lame. I was there in 2017. Ortiz is a paradigm to cheating and lying to win a title, and Fenway Park was always a disgrace... but is a disgrace on a fundamental and moral level after 2018, and the fans and players in the era of your precious Bench, Fisk, and Yaz (all overrated dicks by the way) only WISH they had fans and players going as nuts as we did in 2017. In the words of Bob Dylan, "please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand", sir.
What a series and what year. This is my favorite WS win because it was the first one I witnessed. Thank you Yankees for all the thrills throughout the years. RIP Don Zimmer
@M When the US wins the World Cup in Qatar, then you can make that assumption. If you prefer soccer over baseball, don't comment that on a baseball video. What a idiot. 🤦🏻
Cried like a baby when Hayes caught the final out! Born in 1977 and I have always been a Yankee fan since I was 5! Truly are GREAT night! Also wanted to say, Bobby Cox is a class act! What a gracious humble confident manager. Miss his managing and wish more people today not just in sports but in life have his class! It's sadly becoming rarer and rarer with each passing year!
Bryan Green if you listen to the post-game interview in this game though, he was really brilliant because he got a well-deserving dig in at the umpires who really DID play a role in the Yankee comeback in this series, and he did it by denying that he was doing it, thus maintaining his class. He said "we don't blame the umpires!" But obviously by even bringing that up, (he wasn't asked about it, it was his initiation) he was subtly reminding everybody that there actually WAS something to blame them for. Wily words from Cox. Though he, too, contributed to the loss with that unorthodox intentional walk of Bernie Williams in Game 4 when it advanced two runners and led to the Yankees' two runs in the 10th.
@@ADEAL918 I think what Bobby Cox displayed in that postgame interview was that you can agree to disagree with some of the calls on the field but once the final out is recorded you just walk off the field and leave it at that. It's hard for a lot of managers to do that sometimes, it's but a simple little thing really. Ultimately, Cox didn't make any excuses after it was all over. He really was one of the great managers in the sport as well.
ckendall67 I don’t fully agree that this was what he was doing though. And I agreed with what he did. That series WAS influenced by umpire related incidents. He wasn’t asked about the umpires at all, why mention them unsolicited even by saying “we don’t blame them” unless you’re trying to give a little subtle reminder that there actually IS something to legitimately blame them for. To do so is a sly way of blaming them BY claiming you’re not. I liked that. He maintained his class by not openly blaming them, but he reminded everyone watching that this WAS, in fact, a factor in what happened.
@@ADEAL918 Yeah I guess you have a good point. I think Cox was upset with Welke over what happened in Game 4 as well( when he got in the way by mistake while Jermaine Dye was trying to make that catch in foul territory & it sort of helped the Yankees start a rally soon after ), and that call in Game 6 at 2B, Grissom easily beat that throw too, that was a missed call by the umps. Not that the Series was decided by those two incidents alone, it's just that stuff like that happens sometimes. Imagine if they had replay back in '96 then the initial call on the field would've been overturned & Grissom would've been safe at 2B and who knows what happens after.
You'll never see anything like it in baseball ever again. For them to 3peat and win 4 of 5 under the 3 rounds of playoffs form is absolutely amazing.....We have 25 years of data on the 3 round playoffs . It's basically a total crapshoot of randomness
Before the Falcons blew a 25-point lead...the Braves blew a 6-0 lead in game 4 of this series where they could have gone up 3-1. The legend of Derek Jeter was born in this series.
And MLB baseball bias umpiring and steroid era use of steriods blew a 20 year relationships with Middle America and African Americans that embraced the Braves. The World Series ratings after that lost to TV sitcoms and pro wrestling of the late 90s and regular season football games. It biased towards the Yankees and Black America and Middle America saw this and baseball got to hockey levels in popularity that even White kids started playing soccer more than baseball. After this World Series Black people in the Black Mecca of Atlanta understood how baseball at that time felt about cities like Atlanta and how it felt about Black Americans and people of color so the higher ratings went to the NFL and NBA and Black youth began going there instead of baseball. This World Series showed that MLB at the time favored the big market instead of Middle America and that they did not embrace Black America and the team that Black America embraced so baseball got its ratings from older White viewers and from the New York area off the northeast and White kids in Middle America began playing soccer and the World Series games lost in the ratings to regular season NFL games and TV sitcoms that still valued Middle America and Black America.
Me too. I was 9 years old. My Dad had season tickets in Main Reserve level Section 15 Row 1 seats 1 and 2, and sold seats 3 and 4 for over 20 years. My dad passed in 2004 and My mom and I didnt renew them after 2010 season. Second year at new stadium..we didnt like where they put us.. Totally different angle.. they matched it by price and not location of old seats. Great game, and great year. I was at Goodens no hitter vs Seattle back in early June 96 as well
I envy you!!! I grew up in Seattle. I was a HUGE Derek Jeter fan. Loved this era of Yankee Baseball, but never had a chance to see a game at Yankee Stadium. My parents weren’t big on travel and by the time I was moved out and financially stable the stadium was no more. 😢
Became a passionate Yankee fan as a first year Little Leaguer in the summer of '61. This game will always be one of my happiest nights as a Yankees fan. The Yankee faithful rocked the Stadium that night.
the 90's pittsburgh penguins, 90's red wings, 90's cowboys, 90's yankees and especially the 90's Chicago Bulls! 1990's the best dynasty era of sports!!!!
I just relocated to Albuquerque, NM from NY when they won. It never gets old watching over and over again. The neighbors thought I lost my mind screaming my head off!!!!
I remember after game 2 a writer for an Atlanta Newspaper said the Braves were so good they could beat the 1927 Yankees. I wonder what he had to say after they couldn't beat the 1996 Yankees.
Probably some bullshit about winning the most games in the 90's. Because that's all they got. Wanna know who won the most games in the 80's? the yankees. haha
I remember after game 2 a writer for an Atlanta Newspaper said the Braves were so good they could beat the 1927 Yankees. I wonder what he had to say after they couldn't beat the 1996 Yankees.
I just found all the Atlanta papers from that October week and the journey the writers take from "this series is over" to "uh-oh" to "the yankees just came back and beat us 4 straight .. how?' is nothing short of bliss to read
I was at a wedding that night. I had no desire to be at the wedding. I found the bar in the wedding hall with a TV. They turned the game on. By the 9th, the entire wedding party and guests were in the bar watching the game. It was so loud I could not hear the sound at all. I heard it for the first time on VCR the following day. LOL
The Jeter single in the 3rd gives me Goosebumps. The commentators don’t even have to say anything because the crowd reactions says it all about Yankee fans 🔥🔥
Best part about it- the class of Jeter reaching first base and knowing he did his job and that's it..it's the 3rd inning and they're up 2 zip..even if it's the World Series. Then watch him score in the same inning. Makes you wanna go back in time so badly just to watch real baseball again. Watching a man out there play the game. And they were all like that back then, especially the Yankees. Watching baseball now is like watching fucking little league kids and a bunch of dumber than dirt rejects out there do "bat flips" and dance around like toddlers...in regular season games on plays that mean nothing no less. Times it by 1000 in any postseason game. And this is what people like, this is what MLB advertises now. It's a disgrace how fucking dumb things have become.
People can talk about the Yankees bullpen outpitching the Braves bullpen that led to the 1996 World title, but people can't overlook Joe Torre's critical switch in Game 3 when he benched Tino Martinez and Wade Boggs for Charlie Hayes and Cecil Fielder. Fielder batted .391 in the 1996 WS and Hayes chipped in with a RBI in Game 4. Tino went on to conquer his own postseason demons in 1998 when he batted .385 in the 1998 WS.
+joesakic91 Good points. Joe Torre had a knack for making good decisions at the right time. When Torre saw what was working, or had a high probability of working, he knew exactly what to do and when to do it. Charlie Hayes was producing. Fielder was generally regarded by many to be this big huge HR hitting machine who also strikes out a lot. But to those watching the 1996 WS, Fielder was getting base hits and clutch RBIs.
The triple by Girardi one of the greatest Yankee hits of all time...you could just feel the Yanks were destined to win watching him hustle along the bases.
Mike Goldthwaite I cannot stand the Yankees, especially being a Twins fan and seeing the many versions of the curse in recent memory. But there are several guys associated with this Yankee team that you just can't help but like, no matter how much you may dislike the team--Jeter, Rivera, Girardi, and Torre especially.
My uncle lived 6 blocks from Yankee Stadium, he used to take me to games all the time before he passed in '93. I remember watching this series and thinking how much he would've loved to seem them win one again. These are times that I could never get back, but it's fun to relive them.
This was kind of an underdog team. the one two years later, the '98 one, was one of the best teams ever, and favorites to win it all. But this team was not expected to beat the Braves.
I am a lifelong Yankees fan and this ended a long drought. I am glad that the Twins-Braves series of 91 pulled me back to baseball. I had left after the early 80s. A friend told me that the Braves would take out New York and everyone favored the Braves to win. I had watched the Yanks love to Seattle the year before. Baseball people had been talking about the Yankees building in 1994 or so but you never really know when something kicks off until years later when you can look back. I was 28 then and got a lot more out of this title than the ones in 77 and 78. I remember them but I was too young to understand everything like in 96 and since.
Gary Cooper I started watching baseball right after the 1994 strike. My spirit got up when the Yankees clinched the wild card in 1995. So devastated how they blew their 2-0 series lead against Seattle. I lost interest when the Yankees trailed 2-0 in the WS. But ever since Leyritz hit the tying 3 run homer, I became a die hard yankee fan.
@@courtgizzle I was a baseball fan before & after the strike of '94. I just couldn't see myself not being interested, I can always sit back and watch a game on TV no matter what. And I remember how a lot of folks wrote off the Yankees after they lost the 1st two games yet I had this 'weird' feeling the Yankees still had a shot even after being down 0-2, I don't believe I could've actually seen them winning 3 straight down in Atlanta initially but I just felt for some reason the Yankees were still going to make it an interesting Series. And was I right. :-)
I started watching them when was 14 in 1995 only to be crushed with the loss against the Mariners, also knowing it was Mattingly's last year. So this one really meant the world to me!
I always loved Jimmy Key. Him and Jim Abbot where the first pitchers that impressed me as a kid and got me interested in following great pitchers. Key won with Toronto as well. He was a great pitcher
@@josephnajarian2038 Say what you will about Joe Buck, he was really exceptional in the booth in his World Series as an announcer. And calling that final out still rings loud for Yankee fans nearly a quarter-century later. :-)
They get pumped. It's pretty emotive these days too. Think of Soto winning the wild card game last year. TEAMS GO NUTS. Dogpiles went out of fashion is all, injuries are abound.
and so it began...after watching the yankees as a kid through the early 90s wondering if they would ever be great again...the dynasty began, what a run!
I'll always remember seeing Boggs riding around after this game on one of the NYPD's horses around in the stadium, considering he at that point was terrified of horses
I'm 48 from Queens NY and I'm a Mets fan to the death. however, I watched this entire season with the Yankees and loved every minute of it. what an incredible season. They reminded me of the Chicago Bulls of that year who went 72-10 and won the championship. the Yankees were stacked with super talented veterans and young players as well.
I started watching The Yankees in 1984, at 8 years old. I'd heard all of the history, I knew that my hometown team was something special, and we had one of the best players in baseball in Don Mattingly, who won the batting title that season (.343) outdueling teammate Dave Winfield (.340) But alas, they would suck for over a decade. I never thought I'd see them win. I will NEVER forget this game. It'll always be the most special to me. Girardi's triple is something I'll always remember.
Yup. 'Nuff said. This series was a painful one for me. 2:36:20 made me feel the pain of almost 23 years ago. What a series though. Gotta hand it to the Yankees.
giovannipancia I get a kick out of Cox's post game interview, getting in the best of both worlds. He acted classy but by even having to say "we don't blame the umpires" that was a backdoor way of acknowledging there WAS such blame to be assessed and that umpires DID play a factor in this one--both Welke's failure to get out of Dye's way in Game 4 that led directly to a run the Yankees never should have had in a game that went extra innings, and then the Grissom missed call at 2nd in this game that likely cost the Braves a run since it was followed by a double. Cox was a gentleman in not acting like a sore loser by openly putting the blame on those plays, but by specifically making the reference, he was likely also subtly reminding everyone that without those plays the Braves likely would have won this series.
Hey, as a Yankees fan, I tip my hat to you, that was the toughest of the 4 championships we won in this era. That Braves team was no joke. But the Yankees could not be denied that year. Who would’ve figured that this team would be the start of a dynasty?
@@Jeff_PryceI know. When Cox says "we've been here 4 out of the last 5 years and I defy anybody to say they've done that" when this was the start of the Yankees not just GOING to 4 out of 5, but winning 4 out of 5 LMAO. Kinda crazy
I am not a Yankee fan but I actually feel that this particular Yankee team is underrated. Their lineup, while not incredible, had it all with table-setters in Jeter and Boggs to RBI men in Tino and Fielder to straight up pro hitters in O'Neil and even some Straw and Girardi. Their starting pitching was better than good but what makes this team so, so good was that they reduced it to a 6-inning game. If you were behind after 6, forget it. Mo and then Wettland would shut the door.
Amazing how the Braves outscored the Yankees 16-1 in games 1 and 2, and were 5 outs from taking a 3-1 lead and couldn't get it done. The Yankees had no business winning this series. But this is why it's a best of seven and not a best of five.
@@DMalltheway Still they were pretty snakebitten for a while until this year where the Braves this season seem to have something in common with the 1996 Yankees.
I was in 5th grade when this happened and at the height of my little league baseball fandom. I'll never forget staying up late watching this with my dad.
Also the first of 20 🌎 Series telecasts for 🦊 and the first of 20 🌎 Series for longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and the first of 16 🌎 Series for the Joe Buck-Tim McCarver tandem.
It was the start of MLB baseball not being mainstream to Americans because of bias umpiring and steroid era use of steroids blew a 20 year relationships with Middle America and African Americans that embraced the Braves. The World Series ratings after that lost to TV sitcoms and pro wrestling of the late 90s and regular season football games. It biased towards the Yankees. Black America and Middle America saw this and baseball got to hockey levels in popularity that even White kids started playing soccer more than baseball. After this World Series Black people in the Black Mecca of Atlanta understood how baseball at that time felt about cities like Atlanta and how it felt about Black Americans and people of color so the higher ratings went to the NFL and NBA and Black youth began going there instead of baseball. This World Series showed that MLB at the time favored the big market instead of Middle America and that they did not embrace Black America and the team that Black America embraced so baseball got its ratings from older White viewers and from the New York area off the northeast and White kids in Middle America began playing soccer and the World Series games lost in the ratings to regular season NFL games and TV sitcoms that still valued Middle America and Black America. We saw how MLB felt about us. The umpires should have wore Klan masks. I guess these guys forgot all about the national leagues Jackie Robinson and and about Atlanta's Hank Aaron and that Black America's team is always Atlanta the Black Mecca and how White Middle America embraced the Braves on Super Station TBS.
Coming from a braves fan I was a kid at this time yall were the team of the 90s straight up . Plus I like the Yankees too I loved watching Derek Jeter my family was so mad on this night lol
@@courtgizzle So the Yankees should be recognized then as 2017, 2018, 2019, & 2020 World Series champions then, correct? Newsflash....you don't always get what you want in life.
@@courtgizzle Yankee fans today demand to be 'given' the World Series championship rather than the team earn it on the field. Much different from the '90s when the team got it done on the field and fans weren't crying about conspiracies and other teams 'cheating' and 'robbing' the Yankees like you guys do now every year. The Yankee teams of the late-'90s were much easier to root for, even for a guy like me who's not necessarily a Yankees fan. They were a fun team to watch back then. Not so much the current Yankees teams, they're good alright but hardly good enough to root for, at least for my liking. Maybe it's because of all this "Yankees should be GIVEN the championship, it belongs to the Yankees, we were robbed!" nonsense nowadays.
Nobody: @@ckendall67 : "so then you just want ALL the titles THEN????? GOD yankee fans want EVERYTHING just handed to them, not like it USED to be, GAAHHH..."
Dodgers Fan, Thanks for the support!! Looking forward to watching more of your podcasts, you are both stars in the making!! How about a future Why am I a Dodgers fan podcast????
It's always better when a team wins the series in their hometown! Edit: Wish the Cubs could have won it in Chicago but after 100+ years you gotta take what you can get!
As a Red Sox fan, I have tons of respect for competitive rivals that won frequently like the Yankees and Cardinals. Despite our 86-year drought, some teams had chances to surpass our five world titles at the time and can't do it like the Braves and Tigers.
Pretty funny how 1996 was only their 15th best season, W-L wise, in the last 18 seasons (not counting 2014), yet that season, as well as 2000 (17th) feature of their World Series titles. What a weird sport.
I was in the stands, quietly keeping my score card, worried I would jinx the team by cheering. Watching this again today I don't remember half of it. I do remember Hayes catch, then being picked up and twirled in the air by some stranger and beer raining down everywhere. Watching this game now I was still nervous even though I knew what happened. This game will always be a happy memory for me. Let's go Yankees let's get back to it. Also I just caught Joe Bucks comments about dynasty at the end...warning against calling anyone a dynasty as unknowing to him at the time the birth of the NY dynasty started
In 95 I moved from NY where I was born and raised to Atlanta... what a time man! The Yanks were hated in Atl. Atlanta was the city of the 90s and the Braves were supposedly the team of the 90s. There were so many NYrs that were living in ATL. It was a memorable time for sure and the Yanks KICKED ASS!! WHAT A FN TEAM!!
wvXvxvXvw Ummm... The Core 4 was from the farm system. So was Bernie. By the way, every single team in sports spends to win games, that argument is so antiquated.
@@wvXvxvXvw Tom Yawkey spent 44 years trying to buy a championship and came up empty. Judging the Yankees is like judging a book by its cover. BTW, the reason why the Yankees have the highest or Top Three highest in payroll is because they have an ownership that puts money back into the team and locks up their players from within.
Yankees Derek Jeter jersey $145 1 Yankees Ticket lover level seat $250 2 Large Cokes and 2 hot Dogs $20 Watching the YANKEES WIN ANOTHER WORLD SERIES PRICELESS
Thanks TRChamp08. The Boston Red Sox simply got it done and executed the best between the two clubs. Our guys like Adam Wainwright just didn't get it done despite trying. I have nothing to be ashamed of. The St. Louis Cardinals remind me of the New York Football Giants: a team that has yet to win a decade outright, but still in the top three in overall championships won.
There's absolutely nothing like being a yankee fan its the best feeling in the world the world's greatest sports franchise in history endless great players and hall a fame players endless championships endless world series champions 27 world championships beyond compare to any sports franchise it puts the Yankees alone in that specific field and lets not forget all the come from behind wins from regular games to world series games its just too much to take in because of they're unique winning history it makes you proud to be a yankee fan no matter what part of the world you live in yankee fans are yankee fans anywhere in the world
I was born in 67 so I remember fondly the 77 and 78 title teams followed by many years of nothing including blowing 2-0 lead in WS in 81. I still remember this night like it’s yesterday . My wife(who was 4 months pregnant with my first born) and I at a friends house full of Yankee fans and plenty of booze which meant this game was either on a Fri or Sat night(can’t remember the exact night) The birth of a dynasty. They were some great times.
The Braves really needed to win a second championship in the '90s to truly validate that era. This was obviously our best chance (at least after '95...'91 was a great chance) but there's no reason we shouldn't have been able to win another one by 2000 even without finishing the job in this series.
Bryan Green but catchers do tend to be slower than other ball players. That's why Buck made the comment about "he can run for a catcher" (remember his two broadcast partners had both been catchers.)
I was at this game!!! I don't remember much except seeing Boggs ride the horse at the end, but it's a great memory my family has that we were all there together.
Tension was high in this series, given what the Yankees were up against. Made the victory that much more incredible. A nice sentimental evening. My daughter being 2 years old, and me remembering the 77 and 78 Yankees as a kid. Still have the championship hat. I wondered if the Sox and Cubs fans heard me screaming from inside my townhome at the time, as I was living in a far west Chicago suburb.
Karen Took the kids class act all around. Even for someone like me--a Minnesotan who hates the Yankees--you can't have anything but mad respect for Joe Torre. And Girardi, his successor, is the same way.
You never forget your 1st time. As a 21 year old in 1996, who saw The Yankees barely miss in 1985, collapse in 1987, then fall apart from 1989-1992, have the strike of 1994 end our season, and be absolutely devastated by Edgar Martinez in 1995, I cried my eyes out in joy when that foul pop up landed in Charlie Hayes’s glove.
This is, and will forever be, the greatest sports moment of this NY fan’s life!
I was a freshman in high school when this transpired. The Braves have always been my NL team and the Yankees my AL team. Bittersweet but exciting series.
Well said. That 96 WS was pretty special. In my book it's 98 but 96 is a close 2nd
I can totally relate to this. I became a Yankees fan in 1993 at age 11. Them falling short to the Blue Jays for the division stung. Then I felt robbed by the 1994 strike taking away what was a sure World Series win. Then the 95 ALDS vs the Mariners was such a crushing loss that it took me a week to get over it.
So when I saw this amazing run to the championship, it was thrilling and satisfying. I remember sweating it out with the Texas Rangers and Juan Gonzalez in the ALDS before Bernie Williams emerged as a superstar that series. I remember the Jeffrey Maier homer and Bernie, Daryl Strawberry and Cecil Fielder pounding the Orioles through the ALCS.
And man oh man, I remember that World Series against the defending world champion Atlanta Braves. I remember going down 0-2 thanks to Smoltz and Glavine and the press writing the Yankees off heading back to Atlanta while boasting of a budding Braves dynasty and their vaunted starting pitching.
Then…David Cone puts on a heroic pitching performance in Game 3. The Yankees come All the way back from 6-0 in Game 4 and then Jim Leyritz hits the big 3-run homer off Mark Wohlers in the 8th inning that shifts the tide of the series, followed by the great Wade Boggs drawing a bases-loaded walk for the game-winning run. Then Andy Pettitte outduels Jon Smoltz pitch for pitch in Game 5, and the Yankees get revenge on Greg Maddux in Game 6 with big hits from Derek Jeter and Joe Girardi. And John Wetteland and Mariano Rivera were absolutely unhittable that series. When Hayes caught the final out, it felt cathartic, it felt exhilarating and it felt sweet as can be. Yes, the 1998 championship was arguably the greatest team of all time, 1999 was the year they cemented themselves as Team of the Decade and 2000 gave us the Subway World Series. But 1996 was the most memorable one to me.
Pinstripe Pride all day. 💪🏼
@M Nobody gives a sh!t to be honest. Personally, I think Soccer is complete trash and boring as hell
@M When the US win the World Cup in Qatar, then you can make that assumption. If you prefer soccer over baseball, don't comment that on a baseball video. What a idiot. 🤦🏻
When I watched this on my Nana's couch, I didn't envision being able to watch it on the internet over 15 years later.
I watched crappy Yankees teams in the 80's and early 90's, never would i have thought I would see them win a World Series, never mind 5 in my lifetime!
Same here the shit they were putting out on the field in the late 80's and early 90's , i never thought I'd see them go to the world series
Nearly 24 years later :O
I taped it with my vcr---still have it 👍
I'm watching it on my telephone!
Paul O'Neill was always one of my favorites ever, damn what a ball player he was!!
Paul O'Neill....Mr. Secretary
He was my dad's favorite player......he was the emotional drive for that 90s team....
Maybe if the present day team has a player like him, they'd be more consistent at least.
That was some roll over the pile on celebration 😂
Fun fact about this game. My parents got married on this day, and my dad is a huge yankee fan. During their wedding they had the DJ listen to the radio to give scoring updates. After the wedding ended they went to a bar to watch the final 2 innings and watched the final out. It was my dad's best day of his life for 2 reasons, he married my mom and he got to witness the yankees win a world series for the first time in 20 years with her.
That's a thing I dread, getting married the day of my team playing a crucial championship game. I hope your mom was somewhat of a Yankee fan so she could understand him caring that much about the Yankees on their wedding day.
Wow what a great story
@@billny33 You should dread much bigger things than this dude, guy is over here sweating luxuries. Grow the hell up
@@Mike-fd1lq Jesus dude. You really take a stranger's concerns and fears on the internet that personally and then tell ME to grow the hell up? Ha.
You do realize humans don't have all their hopes, dreams, excitements and fears neatly prioritized in order of importance, right? You are allowed to have your own variations like this because it's your own fucking mind. Give me a fucking break dude.
18 years bro😁 (1978)
So sad this atmosphere no longer exists in new Yankee stadium... this place was truly alive.
Yes it does. Keep in mind a losing team doesn't bring out fans. Find videos of the early 90s Yankees. Upper decks were completely empty. Now watch videos of the 2017 Yankees. Check out Didis wild card home run
I went to a few of the ALDS and ALCS games in 2017. That’s the closest to the old stadium I’ve seen. Was much more alive than it was in 2009 when they won it all.
Spoke too soon. In 2017, 2018 and now 2019, the new stadium is loud like the old one. Yankees finally have a talented core of great players who bring a winning culture back to America’s baseball team.
Eugenio Vieira I feel like the series against the Astros this year the place is really going to be shaking like the 90s, especially if it’s the game to go to the WS. Also I think if they get to the WS, it’s really going to be rowdy since it’s been 10 years since we won.
@Kevin Michael We christened it with a championship. An amazing one. It then gave us moments like becoming the only team to hit 3 grand slams in one game and Raul Ibanez ' heroics. Then the 2017 playoffs proved the "new stadium doesn't compare" old man talk is simply both wrong and lame. I was there in 2017. Ortiz is a paradigm to cheating and lying to win a title, and Fenway Park was always a disgrace... but is a disgrace on a fundamental and moral level after 2018, and the fans and players in the era of your precious Bench, Fisk, and Yaz (all overrated dicks by the way) only WISH they had fans and players going as nuts as we did in 2017.
In the words of Bob Dylan, "please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand", sir.
I just wish Don Mattingly waited one more year.
But then there would have been no Tino
@@coolbeeanz7322 +
Donny baseball doesn’t need one. But yea it would have been amazing!
@@jameslisle7775 It would have been better to get one however.
Agreed. Hard watching him raise the ‘96 banner.
What a series and what year. This is my favorite WS win because it was the first one I witnessed. Thank you Yankees for all the thrills throughout the years. RIP Don Zimmer
@M When the US wins the World Cup in Qatar, then you can make that assumption. If you prefer soccer over baseball, don't comment that on a baseball video. What a idiot. 🤦🏻
@M no one cares. Go get a life you stupid limey.
Love Zim! RIP
The whole damn AL Beast loves Zim. Thanks for getting him some Rings before he went home.
I LOVE these days. No advertising. No companys logos. Very simple. Good old days.
Paradise compared to hell (now).
Agreed❤
@@KBP120these damn kids won’t get off my lawn
Cried like a baby when Hayes caught the final out! Born in 1977 and I have always been a Yankee fan since I was 5! Truly are GREAT night!
Also wanted to say, Bobby Cox is a class act! What a gracious humble confident manager. Miss his managing and wish more people today not just in sports but in life have his class! It's sadly becoming rarer and rarer with each passing year!
Bryan Green if you listen to the post-game interview in this game though, he was really brilliant because he got a well-deserving dig in at the umpires who really DID play a role in the Yankee comeback in this series, and he did it by denying that he was doing it, thus maintaining his class. He said "we don't blame the umpires!" But obviously by even bringing that up, (he wasn't asked about it, it was his initiation) he was subtly reminding everybody that there actually WAS something to blame them for. Wily words from Cox. Though he, too, contributed to the loss with that unorthodox intentional walk of Bernie Williams in Game 4 when it advanced two runners and led to the Yankees' two runs in the 10th.
FACTS
@@ADEAL918 I think what Bobby Cox displayed in that postgame interview was that you can agree to disagree with some of the calls on the field but once the final out is recorded you just walk off the field and leave it at that. It's hard for a lot of managers to do that sometimes, it's but a simple little thing really. Ultimately, Cox didn't make any excuses after it was all over. He really was one of the great managers in the sport as well.
ckendall67 I don’t fully agree that this was what he was doing though. And I agreed with what he did. That series WAS influenced by umpire related incidents. He wasn’t asked about the umpires at all, why mention them unsolicited even by saying “we don’t blame them” unless you’re trying to give a little subtle reminder that there actually IS something to legitimately blame them for. To do so is a sly way of blaming them BY claiming you’re not. I liked that. He maintained his class by not openly blaming them, but he reminded everyone watching that this WAS, in fact, a factor in what happened.
@@ADEAL918 Yeah I guess you have a good point. I think Cox was upset with Welke over what happened in Game 4 as well( when he got in the way by mistake while Jermaine Dye was trying to make that catch in foul territory & it sort of helped the Yankees start a rally soon after ), and that call in Game 6 at 2B, Grissom easily beat that throw too, that was a missed call by the umps. Not that the Series was decided by those two incidents alone, it's just that stuff like that happens sometimes. Imagine if they had replay back in '96 then the initial call on the field would've been overturned & Grissom would've been safe at 2B and who knows what happens after.
Derek Jeter: "We won the World Series".
George Costanza: "In 6 games".
Constanza, always the pessimist......lol!!
Who?
Shockthehonor shame on you for asking that
Costanza was knocking em out the park😂
You must be stupid shockthehonor if you have never watched the show Seinfeld
God, I loved those 1996-2001 Yanks.
You'll never see anything like it in baseball ever again. For them to 3peat and win 4 of 5 under the 3 rounds of playoffs form is absolutely amazing.....We have 25 years of data on the 3 round playoffs . It's basically a total crapshoot of randomness
@@dukedematteo1995 I mean the Yankees had the highest payroll and had a lot of steroids users like roger clemens.
@@josecarranza7555everyone had steroid users during that time
The best way to become a champion is to beat the champion. This championship was so sweet.
Greatest World Series winning pile on of all time
I can't believe twenty years has come and gone. Was a much younger man then, but will never forget this world series. Great job Yankees!!!
Before the Falcons blew a 25-point lead...the Braves blew a 6-0 lead in game 4 of this series where they could have gone up 3-1. The legend of Derek Jeter was born in this series.
And MLB baseball bias umpiring and steroid era use of steriods blew a 20 year relationships with Middle America and African Americans that embraced the Braves. The World Series ratings after that lost to TV sitcoms and pro wrestling of the late 90s and regular season football games. It biased towards the Yankees and Black America and Middle America saw this and baseball got to hockey levels in popularity that even White kids started playing soccer more than baseball. After this World Series Black people in the Black Mecca of Atlanta understood how baseball at that time felt about cities like Atlanta and how it felt about Black Americans and people of color so the higher ratings went to the NFL and NBA and Black youth began going there instead of baseball. This World Series showed that MLB at the time favored the big market instead of Middle America and that they did not embrace Black America and the team that Black America embraced so baseball got its ratings from older White viewers and from the New York area off the northeast and White kids in Middle America began playing soccer and the World Series games lost in the ratings to regular season NFL games and TV sitcoms that still valued Middle America and Black America.
TolitoGangster ...you good?
TolitoGangster you have too much time on your hands lol
TolitoGangster what nigga?
TolitoGangster yo. Chill with the nonsense
Man, I remember wanting to be JUST LIKE Chipper Jones growing up in the 90s. Nostalgia is something else.
I was at this game. No BS.
I wasn't even born yet lol
Lucky you!
Me too. I was 9 years old. My Dad had season tickets in Main Reserve level Section 15 Row 1 seats 1 and 2, and sold seats 3 and 4 for over 20 years. My dad passed in 2004 and My mom and I didnt renew them after 2010 season. Second year at new stadium..we didnt like where they put us.. Totally different angle.. they matched it by price and not location of old seats.
Great game, and great year. I was at Goodens no hitter vs Seattle back in early June 96 as well
What song played after the last out? Seems like I recognize it.
Same here man. Bleachers. 11 years old. Nothing greater
I envy you!!! I grew up in Seattle. I was a HUGE Derek Jeter fan. Loved this era of Yankee Baseball, but never had a chance to see a game at Yankee Stadium. My parents weren’t big on travel and by the time I was moved out and financially stable the stadium was no more. 😢
Became a passionate Yankee fan as a first year Little Leaguer in the summer of '61. This game will always be one of my happiest nights as a Yankees fan. The Yankee faithful rocked the Stadium that night.
the 90's pittsburgh penguins, 90's red wings, 90's cowboys, 90's yankees and especially the 90's Chicago Bulls! 1990's the best dynasty era of sports!!!!
Penguins and Red Wings weren't dynasties.
Rylan Dawe i know but both teams won more than 1 stanley cups in the 90's. 91-92 penguins and 97-98 red wings.
+1990Thunderbolt *especially the 90's Yankees. Only one of those that matters.
Brian Brennan honestly. out of all the 90's sports teams. sorry but i choose the chicago bulls. michael jordan man!
Not the 90's Cowboys
I just relocated to Albuquerque, NM from NY when they won. It never gets old watching over and over again. The neighbors thought I lost my mind screaming my head off!!!!
I remember after game 2 a writer for an Atlanta Newspaper said the Braves were so good they could beat the 1927 Yankees. I wonder what he had to say after they couldn't beat the 1996 Yankees.
Probably some bullshit about winning the most games in the 90's. Because that's all they got. Wanna know who won the most games in the 80's? the yankees. haha
I remember after game 2 a writer for an Atlanta Newspaper said the Braves were so good they could beat the 1927 Yankees. I wonder what he had to say after they couldn't beat the 1996 Yankees.
I just found all the Atlanta papers from that October week and the journey the writers take from "this series is over" to "uh-oh" to "the yankees just came back and beat us 4 straight .. how?' is nothing short of bliss to read
Atlanta newspaper: the 1996 braves are better than murderers row
*Game 6 ends*
Atlanta newspaper: well shit
Yogi Berra said it himself "it ain't over till its over"
I was at a wedding that night. I had no desire to be at the wedding. I found the bar in the wedding hall with a TV. They turned the game on. By the 9th, the entire wedding party and guests were in the bar watching the game. It was so loud I could not hear the sound at all. I heard it for the first time on VCR the following day. LOL
Lol was it a good game?
Paul O'Neill flipping over the pile. Priceless.
The Jeter single in the 3rd gives me Goosebumps. The commentators don’t even have to say anything because the crowd reactions says it all about Yankee fans 🔥🔥
Best part about it- the class of Jeter reaching first base and knowing he did his job and that's it..it's the 3rd inning and they're up 2 zip..even if it's the World Series. Then watch him score in the same inning. Makes you wanna go back in time so badly just to watch real baseball again. Watching a man out there play the game. And they were all like that back then, especially the Yankees. Watching baseball now is like watching fucking little league kids and a bunch of dumber than dirt rejects out there do "bat flips" and dance around like toddlers...in regular season games on plays that mean nothing no less. Times it by 1000 in any postseason game. And this is what people like, this is what MLB advertises now. It's a disgrace how fucking dumb things have become.
That Girardi triple still gives me chills to this day
People can talk about the Yankees bullpen outpitching the Braves bullpen that led to the 1996 World title, but people can't overlook Joe Torre's critical switch in Game 3 when he benched Tino Martinez and Wade Boggs for Charlie Hayes and Cecil Fielder.
Fielder batted .391 in the 1996 WS and Hayes chipped in with a RBI in Game 4.
Tino went on to conquer his own postseason demons in 1998 when he batted .385 in the 1998 WS.
+joesakic91 Good points. Joe Torre had a knack for making good decisions at the right time. When Torre saw what was working, or had a high probability of working, he knew exactly what to do and when to do it. Charlie Hayes was producing. Fielder was generally regarded by many to be this big huge HR hitting machine who also strikes out a lot. But to those watching the 1996 WS, Fielder was getting base hits and clutch RBIs.
It was very hard for opposing teams to deal with the depth of the Yankees teams of the late 90s.
@Lighthouse in the Storm What come?
The triple by Girardi one of the greatest Yankee hits of all time...you could just feel the Yanks were destined to win watching him hustle along the bases.
as a young kid watching that, I knew it was HUGE. His best hit as a Yankee.
Mike Goldthwaite their future manager
Mike Goldthwaite I cannot stand the Yankees, especially being a Twins fan and seeing the many versions of the curse in recent memory. But there are several guys associated with this Yankee team that you just can't help but like, no matter how much you may dislike the team--Jeter, Rivera, Girardi, and Torre especially.
My uncle lived 6 blocks from Yankee Stadium, he used to take me to games all the time before he passed in '93. I remember watching this series and thinking how much he would've loved to seem them win one again. These are times that I could never get back, but it's fun to relive them.
The 1996 New York Yankees are one of my favorite teams ever I will always be a Yankees fan for life
I started being a yankee fan right after the 1994 strike.
I love the Yankees. Yankees for life!!
This was kind of an underdog team. the one two years later, the '98 one, was one of the best teams ever, and favorites to win it all. But this team was not expected to beat the Braves.
@@courtgizzle They haven't had a losing season since you've become a fan.
Still by far the greatest world series pile up in history
I remember this like it was yesterday. Simply incredible!!
I am a lifelong Yankees fan and this ended a long drought. I am glad that the Twins-Braves series of 91 pulled me back to baseball. I had left after the early 80s. A friend told me that the Braves would take out New York and everyone favored the Braves to win. I had watched the Yanks love to Seattle the year before. Baseball people had been talking about the Yankees building in 1994 or so but you never really know when something kicks off until years later when you can look back. I was 28 then and got a lot more out of this title than the ones in 77 and 78. I remember them but I was too young to understand everything like in 96 and since.
Gary Cooper I started watching baseball right after the 1994 strike. My spirit got up when the Yankees clinched the wild card in 1995. So devastated how they blew their 2-0 series lead against Seattle. I lost interest when the Yankees trailed 2-0 in the WS. But ever since Leyritz hit the tying 3 run homer, I became a die hard yankee fan.
@@courtgizzle I was a baseball fan before & after the strike of '94. I just couldn't see myself not being interested, I can always sit back and watch a game on TV no matter what. And I remember how a lot of folks wrote off the Yankees after they lost the 1st two games yet I had this 'weird' feeling the Yankees still had a shot even after being down 0-2, I don't believe I could've actually seen them winning 3 straight down in Atlanta initially but I just felt for some reason the Yankees were still going to make it an interesting Series. And was I right. :-)
@@courtgizzle Bandwagon fan spotted
RIP Bob Watson And Don Zimmer….
I started watching them when was 14 in 1995 only to be crushed with the loss against the Mariners, also knowing it was Mattingly's last year. So this one really meant the world to me!
Damn that old stadium could rock. It may never be matched again
I always loved Jimmy Key. Him and Jim Abbot where the first pitchers that impressed me as a kid and got me interested in following great pitchers. Key won with Toronto as well. He was a great pitcher
2:36:10 the Yankees are champions of baseball!
Rewatching this in 2019. Legendary call
bigblue999 Joe Buck’s greatest call ever.
This one was special tho even as a 11 yr old
@@josephnajarian2038 Say what you will about Joe Buck, he was really exceptional in the booth in his World Series as an announcer. And calling that final out still rings loud for Yankee fans nearly a quarter-century later. :-)
Players don’t celebrate like this anymore. Love Wade Boggs reaction!
They get pumped. It's pretty emotive these days too. Think of Soto winning the wild card game last year. TEAMS GO NUTS. Dogpiles went out of fashion is all, injuries are abound.
and so it began...after watching the yankees as a kid through the early 90s wondering if they would ever be great again...the dynasty began, what a run!
I'm just glad legends Wade Boggs and Tim Raines finally won their World Series rings late in their careers.
Dont forget big cecil fielder! He had went to japan and back!
Yankees were stacked with legends!
Also John Wetteland, who had been on a legit contender two years earlier before the strike shut down the season.
@@LeonardStauffer They even had Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden on those teams. So many big names on that team.
@@redpillfreedom6692 I'm glad you mentioned him, he was great out of the pen for the Expos.
I'll always remember seeing Boggs riding around after this game on one of the NYPD's horses around in the stadium, considering he at that point was terrified of horses
Really? He was riding that trot later on really well.
Why am I still clapping and going crazy when the Yankees score?
25 years ago today. Best Yankees team towards the end of the century. They were all fighters.
25 years later. The team the Yankees beat in this video are the World Series Champions now lol how ironic!
I remember first seeing this when I was 10 and now I am 27. This really takes me back... Thanks.
This was my favorite sports moment EVER I’m a proud Yankees fan for real
Imagine billy in the dugout for this run!
I'm 48 from Queens NY and I'm a Mets fan to the death. however, I watched this entire season with the Yankees and loved every minute of it. what an incredible season. They reminded me of the Chicago Bulls of that year who went 72-10 and won the championship. the Yankees were stacked with super talented veterans and young players as well.
"The Yankees are champions of Baseball!"..All was right with the world...LOVED IT!!!
Thank you for this I was there, 7 years old ! Too lit that night!
59:56 for Girardi's triple
"He can run for a catcher" lol
I started watching The Yankees in 1984, at 8 years old. I'd heard all of the history, I knew that my hometown team was something special, and we had one of the best players in baseball in Don Mattingly, who won the batting title that season (.343) outdueling teammate Dave Winfield (.340)
But alas, they would suck for over a decade. I never thought I'd see them win. I will NEVER forget this game. It'll always be the most special to me. Girardi's triple is something I'll always remember.
Tim McCarver: “Guys, our booth is shaking.”
Bob Brenly: “I think the whole city is shaking!”
I was thirteen years old in the bronx, I was there! amazing game and still have my ticket!
I can watch it over and over again. Never gets old!
It still gave me chills to watch this!
What a heartbreaking loss as a Braves fan.. We went up 2-0 then lost 4 consecutive games
Yup. 'Nuff said. This series was a painful one for me. 2:36:20 made me feel the pain of almost 23 years ago. What a series though. Gotta hand it to the Yankees.
giovannipancia I get a kick out of Cox's post game interview, getting in the best of both worlds. He acted classy but by even having to say "we don't blame the umpires" that was a backdoor way of acknowledging there WAS such blame to be assessed and that umpires DID play a factor in this one--both Welke's failure to get out of Dye's way in Game 4 that led directly to a run the Yankees never should have had in a game that went extra innings, and then the Grissom missed call at 2nd in this game that likely cost the Braves a run since it was followed by a double. Cox was a gentleman in not acting like a sore loser by openly putting the blame on those plays, but by specifically making the reference, he was likely also subtly reminding everyone that without those plays the Braves likely would have won this series.
@Lighthouse in the Storm damn right
Hey, as a Yankees fan, I tip my hat to you, that was the toughest of the 4 championships we won in this era. That Braves team was no joke. But the Yankees could not be denied that year. Who would’ve figured that this team would be the start of a dynasty?
@@Jeff_PryceI know. When Cox says "we've been here 4 out of the last 5 years and I defy anybody to say they've done that" when this was the start of the Yankees not just GOING to 4 out of 5, but winning 4 out of 5 LMAO. Kinda crazy
I still cry watching these ‘96 champs! Kool n the gang! Hell ya! Thank you God for inventing the Yankees!
I am not a Yankee fan but I actually feel that this particular Yankee team is underrated. Their lineup, while not incredible, had it all with table-setters in Jeter and Boggs to RBI men in Tino and Fielder to straight up pro hitters in O'Neil and even some Straw and Girardi. Their starting pitching was better than good but what makes this team so, so good was that they reduced it to a 6-inning game. If you were behind after 6, forget it. Mo and then Wettland would shut the door.
The pile on at the pitcher's mound was awesome!!!
Amazing how the Braves outscored the Yankees 16-1 in games 1 and 2, and were 5 outs from taking a 3-1 lead and couldn't get it done. The Yankees had no business winning this series. But this is why it's a best of seven and not a best of five.
Before the Falcons choked a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl, the Braves blew this World Series lead. It must be an Atlanta sports thing.
@@serge014 Not now
@@DMalltheway Still they were pretty snakebitten for a while until this year where the Braves this season seem to have something in common with the 1996 Yankees.
I was in 5th grade when this happened and at the height of my little league baseball fandom. I'll never forget staying up late watching this with my dad.
The start of a dynasty
Also the first of 20 🌎 Series telecasts for 🦊 and the first of 20 🌎 Series for longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck and the first of 16 🌎 Series for the Joe Buck-Tim McCarver tandem.
Wilson Fisk Yes it was... 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000.
It was the start of MLB baseball not being mainstream to Americans because of bias umpiring and steroid era use of steroids blew a 20 year relationships with Middle America and African Americans that embraced the Braves. The World Series ratings after that lost to TV sitcoms and pro wrestling of the late 90s and regular season football games. It biased towards the Yankees. Black America and Middle America saw this and baseball got to hockey levels in popularity that even White kids started playing soccer more than baseball. After this World Series Black people in the Black Mecca of Atlanta understood how baseball at that time felt about cities like Atlanta and how it felt about Black Americans and people of color so the higher ratings went to the NFL and NBA and Black youth began going there instead of baseball. This World Series showed that MLB at the time favored the big market instead of Middle America and that they did not embrace Black America and the team that Black America embraced so baseball got its ratings from older White viewers and from the New York area off the northeast and White kids in Middle America began playing soccer and the World Series games lost in the ratings to regular season NFL games and TV sitcoms that still valued Middle America and Black America. We saw how MLB felt about us. The umpires should have wore Klan masks. I guess these guys forgot all about the national leagues Jackie Robinson and and about Atlanta's Hank Aaron and that Black America's team is always Atlanta the Black Mecca and how White Middle America embraced the Braves on Super Station TBS.
Yankees won the next 20 World Series after this one
@@TolitoGangster Cry more.
I had just moved to Atl from LI NY where I grew up. What a time man....what a time! YANKS beat the team of the 90s
Coming from a braves fan I was a kid at this time yall were the team of the 90s straight up . Plus I like the Yankees too I loved watching Derek Jeter my family was so mad on this night lol
Paul’s iconic flip over the dogpile 👍
I cried like a baby! I love our Yankees.i watch this replay all the time. Miss you George.
I’m so mad about the stupid Astros cheating, I was going for Yankees in 17, and 19!
They would of also take it in 2018 if the damn Red Sox didn’t cheat
@@courtgizzle So the Yankees should be recognized then as 2017, 2018, 2019, & 2020 World Series champions then, correct?
Newsflash....you don't always get what you want in life.
@@courtgizzle Yankee fans today demand to be 'given' the World Series championship rather than the team earn it on the field. Much different from the '90s when the team got it done on the field and fans weren't crying about conspiracies and other teams 'cheating' and 'robbing' the Yankees like you guys do now every year. The Yankee teams of the late-'90s were much easier to root for, even for a guy like me who's not necessarily a Yankees fan. They were a fun team to watch back then. Not so much the current Yankees teams, they're good alright but hardly good enough to root for, at least for my liking. Maybe it's because of all this "Yankees should be GIVEN the championship, it belongs to the Yankees, we were robbed!" nonsense nowadays.
let's not forget the red sox cheating against us in '18 to win the division
Nobody:
@@ckendall67 : "so then you just want ALL the titles THEN????? GOD yankee fans want EVERYTHING just handed to them, not like it USED to be, GAAHHH..."
The video quality here is simply exquisite! Wow!
That stadium is loud.
I miss going to that stadium..
Old Yankee Stadium was the best!
Dodgers Fan, Thanks for the support!! Looking forward to watching more of your podcasts, you are both stars in the making!! How about a future Why am I a Dodgers fan podcast????
It's always better when a team wins the series in their hometown!
Edit: Wish the Cubs could have won it in Chicago but after 100+ years you gotta take what you can get!
If it wasn't for the All Star Game, Cubs would've clinched game 7 in Chicago.
As a Red Sox fan, I have tons of respect for competitive rivals that won frequently like the Yankees and Cardinals.
Despite our 86-year drought, some teams had chances to surpass our five world titles at the time and can't do it like the Braves and Tigers.
Pretty funny how 1996 was only their 15th best season, W-L wise, in the last 18 seasons (not counting 2014), yet that season, as well as 2000 (17th) feature of their World Series titles. What a weird sport.
I was in the stands, quietly keeping my score card, worried I would jinx the team by cheering. Watching this again today I don't remember half of it. I do remember Hayes catch, then being picked up and twirled in the air by some stranger and beer raining down everywhere.
Watching this game now I was still nervous even though I knew what happened. This game will always be a happy memory for me.
Let's go Yankees let's get back to it.
Also I just caught Joe Bucks comments about dynasty at the end...warning against calling anyone a dynasty as unknowing to him at the time the birth of the NY dynasty started
The yankees are the Monster of the world of the baseball
In 95 I moved from NY where I was born and raised to Atlanta... what a time man! The Yanks were hated in Atl. Atlanta was the city of the 90s and the Braves were supposedly the team of the 90s. There were so many NYrs that were living in ATL. It was a memorable time for sure and the Yanks KICKED ASS!! WHAT A FN TEAM!!
I love that they played the Independence Day OST Ending, really shows a nice win for the Yankees.
Independence Day just came out that same summer.
Damn, I miss 90s baseball...😒 A better, simpler time. Had my whole life in front of me....
And a dynasty was born.
Bought, not born.
wvXvxvXvw Ummm... The Core 4 was from the farm system. So was Bernie. By the way, every single team in sports spends to win games, that argument is so antiquated.
@@wvXvxvXvw Care to explain their core players that came from their farm system?
@@wvXvxvXvw Tom Yawkey spent 44 years trying to buy a championship and came up empty.
Judging the Yankees is like judging a book by its cover.
BTW, the reason why the Yankees have the highest or Top Three highest in payroll is because they have an ownership that puts money back into the team and locks up their players from within.
Dynasty of having the highest payrolls in all seasons and full of steroid users.
NEVER GETS OLD!!
Yankees Derek Jeter jersey $145
1 Yankees Ticket lover level seat $250
2 Large Cokes and 2 hot Dogs $20
Watching the YANKEES WIN ANOTHER WORLD SERIES
PRICELESS
MtR Ws So you think it’s funny to celebrate that type of crime? Dumb.
@@xavierramos1270 Yankee haters in a nutshell.
@@mattwilkins9978 luckily people were a fan of him FOR SPORTS.... not for pedophelia
@@notimportant3686 Indeed though Wetteland's case came as a shock unlike people like Mel Hall whom one can kind of see coming.
Thanks TRChamp08.
The Boston Red Sox simply got it done and executed the best between the two clubs. Our guys like Adam Wainwright just didn't get it done despite trying.
I have nothing to be ashamed of. The St. Louis Cardinals remind me of the New York Football Giants: a team that has yet to win a decade outright, but still in the top three in overall championships won.
those were the days!!!
There's absolutely nothing like being a yankee fan its the best feeling in the world the world's greatest sports franchise in history endless great players and hall a fame players endless championships endless world series champions 27 world championships beyond compare to any sports franchise it puts the Yankees alone in that specific field and lets not forget all the come from behind wins from regular games to world series games its just too much to take in because of they're unique winning history it makes you proud to be a yankee fan no matter what part of the world you live in
yankee fans are yankee fans anywhere in the world
We need a 3rd Yankees era
1st: 30's to 50's
2nd: 90's to 00's
3rd: 10's to 40's
Yankees supposedly the winningest team of the 80s.
1st Dynasty: 1927-1943 Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio
2nd Dynasty: 1947-1964 Mantle, Berra, Maris
Mini Dynasty: 1976-1981 Chambliss, Munson, Jackson
3rd Dynasty: 1996-2003 Jeter, Williams, O'Neill, Posada
PlayStation GamerJay lol so since the A-Rod era
I was born in 67 so I remember fondly the 77 and 78 title teams followed by many years of nothing including blowing 2-0 lead in WS in 81. I still remember this night like it’s yesterday . My wife(who was 4 months pregnant with my first born) and I at a friends house full of Yankee fans and plenty of booze which meant this game was either on a Fri or Sat night(can’t remember the exact night) The birth of a dynasty. They were some great times.
The Braves really needed to win a second championship in the '90s to truly validate that era. This was obviously our best chance (at least after '95...'91 was a great chance) but there's no reason we shouldn't have been able to win another one by 2000 even without finishing the job in this series.
Yeah losing 4 world series over 8 seasons is tough...losing back to back is insane and 3 in 4 seasons smdh
90's kid here. My two favorite teams of all time were on top of the world,Chicago Bulls and The New York Yankees!
Big time!
That was impressive the way Girardi legged out that triple, ...for a catcher to run like that
Bryan Green but catchers do tend to be slower than other ball players. That's why Buck made the comment about "he can run for a catcher" (remember his two broadcast partners had both been catchers.)
As a Mets fan I was rooting hard for the Yankees. So many ex Mets on this Yankees team. Also they played the Braves of all teams. @59:57, amazing
who would have thought that jeter went almost another 20 years
And now he is in the HOF
Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Jeter. Those are the five best Yankees of all time.
Chipper jones
I was at this game!!! I don't remember much except seeing Boggs ride the horse at the end, but it's a great memory my family has that we were all there together.
1:02:13 "Base hit! 2 to nothing New York!"
Stephen M Man did that place start rocking
57,000 then as opposed to 48,000 now. Nothing beats old Yankees stadium. Even the fans were louder back then. Today's game sucks.
Can we talk about how the stadium played the theme from the movie Independence Day when the Yankees were celebrating?
Makes sense. Biggest movie that summer.
Tension was high in this series, given what the Yankees were up against. Made the victory that much more incredible.
A nice sentimental evening. My daughter being 2 years old, and me remembering the 77 and 78 Yankees as a kid. Still have the championship hat.
I wondered if the Sox and Cubs fans heard me screaming from inside my townhome at the time, as I was living in a far west Chicago suburb.
Joe Torre will always my favorite yankee manager
Karen Took the kids class act all around. Even for someone like me--a Minnesotan who hates the Yankees--you can't have anything but mad respect for Joe Torre. And Girardi, his successor, is the same way.
The better thing is that it brings a smile to my face to know that my Yankees beat one of the best teams out there tonight.
the entire bottom of the 3rd inning epitomizes that era of Yankee baseball. End of story.
when the building would shake! Loudest ever when girardi triple
I miss when the camera would shake from the crowd cheering
I love the Yankees so damn much