Look how much faster the pace of play is - batters staying in the box. Love hearing all the anecdotes from Vin Scully, those brown Padres uniforms, stirrups, Tiger Stadium.
Not that much difference, as this is about 2 hours and 15 minute game, with all the commercials removed. With the commercials included, this is probably a 3 hour game. The average game today is 3 hours 2 minutes.
I was 18, crossed the border from Canada and watched the Tigers win from the streets outside Tiger stadium. Great party, great time, great memories. Tiger Stadium what a classic ballpark!
Thank the media for bitching. You see, on this day the 49ers lost their only game of the season on a Gary Andersen field goal, never mind it was only a single header game and flex scheduling would be 30 years off, it was still "abhorrent" to the mighty media that the World Series would be on during a slate of NFL games. So the next year the World Series was on NBC, it followed an NFL doubleheader. ABC carried the last one to date (game six in 87)
starting a world series game at 9pm and going until 1am sucks. This was a perfect starting time. If people want to watch an NFL game at the same time, there's Buffalo Wild Wings now.
The sheer number of College Football games on Saturday and the NFL being the 800-pound gorilla of sports and dominating Sundays prevent there being daytime games in the World Series.
2:12:33 Vin Scully: "And There It Goes!!" Most memorable Tiger home run of my lifetime. I was 13 then and I appreciated a legend in Vin Scully, while we Tiger fans had another legend in the late Ernie Harwell.
"Ball one on Kirk. Here's the pitch..he swings and hits a long drive to right, AND IT IS A HOME RUN FOR GIBSON!! A three run homer! The Tigers lead it 8-4 in the eighth inning!" R.I.P. Ernie Harwell, radio voice of the Tigers
Bless you Boys!! I miss everything I see in this game ,my dad’s love for baseball ,the Tigers is a 1980s winning team the city Detroit actually loving one another
Just listening to Vin & Joe call this game brings back so many memories. Baseball was so much more fun to watch back during these times. The Love of and respect of the game by these guys just draws you in even more.
I like how Scully and Garagiola simply stopped talking the final 3 minutes to allow the TV audience to experince what it would look and sound like if they were there. No one does that anymore. I miss that.
Joe was a very popular guy among baseball people. He was a former player, of course, but also an author of baseball books and a pal of Yogi. But you're right, he wasn't much of a baseball announcer.
Same here. I grew up at Tiger Stadium and Comerica was built when I was I. High school. Way more of a fan-friendly experience at Tiger Stadium. Felt like there was no bad seat in the house at Tiger Stadium
R.E. M. I agree completely....and I was at this game!! A lifetime memory before the heavy rains hit later that night to chase everyone back inside and end the street celebrations.
Thanks for this, great memories. Sparky had #2 hitter & series MVP Trammell sacrifice bunt in the 8th inning, setting the stage for Goose & Gibby. I doubt many managers would do that these days.
That's very interesting to say, because the one thing I'm hearing more and more from former players about those in the game today is that they're too emotional and setting a bad example for kids with their celebratory antics after hitting home runs. You know, the kind of antics like Gibson pulled after that 8th inning blast in this very game.
@@rowdycmoore there's a difference between having a love for the game and acting like an entitled, spoiled child like many of the younger players today.
The Tigers were 35 - 5 after 40 games. Unbelievable. Maybe the most dominating team ever over 1 season. I was in attendance at Comiskey Park in Chicago in April for Jack Morris no-hitter. Tiger Stadium never looked better than this game..
At the time they were the only team in MLB history other than the 1927 Yankees to lead their division wire to wire in the regular season & then win the World Series. I dont know if anyone's done it since.
@@davidlafleche1142 That was an epic comeback to be sure. Lolich wasnt even the Tigers best pitcher that year but he sure came through large in the clutch. He even took down the immortal Bob Gibson. And it was a brilliant series for Mayo Smith.
I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was twelve years old and the game aired on a Sunday afternoon. I was a Dodger fan, so I didn't really care who won...at first. However, as the series progressed, I started rooting for the Padres. Well, they got thumped! Not only in this game, but in Game 3 and Game 4. They didn't get out of Tiger Stadium alive! Watching this game again, I forgot how intense stadium fans were back then. The Padres in those brown and yellow uniforms, appeared soft in that environment. The uniforms were nice, mind you, but they just seemed like a soft West Cost team going up against a hardnose and hungry Midwestern team. Also, I love how the game was played back then. A lot more hits and stolen bases, as opposed to home runs and strike outs....Bring back stirrups and high socks PLEASE!!!
My mom, my two brothers and I were in the lower centerfield bleachers for game 4 and game 5. It is still the fondest memory I have of my troubled youth. It was so rare we did anything as a family as our father was out of the picture. As teens my brother's and I were so lost and this was the greatest escape of our youth. I dont think any of us realized for years how lucky we were that our mom (who ordered tickets through the Free Press) had ordered not one set but tickets for two games. Gibson was just a beast and I remember when he hit his second home run in the eighth we thought the upper deck was going to come down on us the stadium was shaking that much😮😮😮... 😅😅😅! I miss those days, life was tough, but it was also wonderfully simpler. Thanks momma😊
"And there it goes! For Michigan State and all of Tigerdom!" Gotta love it!And what a wonderful rendition of the national anthem by the Univ. of MichiganMen's Glee Club!
Everything about this World Series game is awesome. Classic Tiger Stadium as the setting, Vin Scully (the GOAT) on the mic with Garagiola. Gibson, Garvey, the Goose, a young Tony Gwynn, Sparky and Dick Williams. What stars and characters! What a travesty that Detroit had Tiger Stadium torn down. They should have preserved it as a landmark!
@@SeanP7195 Why not we had Vietnam won if Congress hadn't gone back on our word to back the South after Nixon resigned the Viet Cong never would have taken over. The Commies agreed to Paris Peace talks..but we fucked the South and totally abandoned them and left them without military aid.
I'm with you. I was a lifelong Tiger fan who enjoyed the 35-5 run at the beginning of the season, the sweep over KC, and this series, but there was almost no drama. It all felt like a foregone conclusion, and SD was a mediocre opponent. Kudos to the poster of this; it brings back fond memories.
2:12:25 -- The overshadowed, forgotten big-time World Series home run by Kirk Gibson. Absolutely CRUSHED it! (off hall of famer Goose Gossage, no less)
It may not have been the greatest HR in World Series history, but all things considered, it was by far the most satisfying. The media hype surrounding the Padres after they fluked their way into the playoffs and pulled an even bigger fluke over the Cubs, was insufferable. Especially the ex Yankees who wouldn't STFU about Steinbrenner, (who Nettles out and out accused of murdering Thurman Munson.) Goose refusing to walk Gibson, and Sparky laughing at the Padres for that debacle was as satisfying as Bautista's bat flip.
@@CGMedia2023Fluked by the Cubs? After that Game 1 anomaly the Cubs bats went to sleep, not to mention the Padres and Cubs split their season series down the middle, they were more evenly matched than people think. Plus, they cruised to the NL West title, much like the Tigers did.
Great game! I was at the game before right over the Padres dugout...Tram came SO close to hitting 3 home runs...I got to meet Stan Musial at the game and he signed my program...total CLASS...the broadcast team is top notch..great to watch and listen to!!
I had to work while the game was on. As a huge Tiger fan, I did everything to avoid the game because I was recording it on my VCR (they were watching bits of it in the other room at work). I got home...watched the game through the 8th inning and I swear, right when Dick Williams was out on the mound, my VCR shut off...I had run out of tape. I had to wait around for the news later that evening to see the final score. This is the first time I've seen the game all the way through...thanks!
It is kind of nice to see Gossage, the ultimate swaggering hard-throwing relief ace, get a dose of humble pie here. It's just too bad it didn't happen when he was with the Yankees.
Vin Scully was nearly 60 years old at the time of THIS game back in '84…..and incredibly, he's STILL broadcasting baseball for the Dodgers….he goes back to when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn!……thank God for You Tube and treasures like NBC Baseball and the legendary Vin Scully.
Growing up as a Tigers fan, I, too miss Tiger Stadium, too, Adam. But one of the definitive reasons Tiger Stadium had to go was on the screen when Parrish homered in the seventh inning. They showed the Tiger clubhouse celebrating. It was a cramped clubhouse without much room. As a sports writer in the 1970s, I knew that clubhouse. The dugouts were small and cramped. The toughest thing for me is that I've gotten used to Comerica Park. It's actually a fair park for both hitters and pitchers.
yes i too miss tiger stadium the smell of moldy piss and 5$ beer took my now 3 grown children to a game in 96? gibby was back we sat in center field bleachers nice guy gave me two free tickets still cost me two days pay but i loved it
I just have to point out Fred J aminson's comment in this thread as being the biggest piece of shit in America. Having said that... I covered the Tigers for a radio station there in 1987, operated the scoreboard in 1997, and played in an exhibition baseball game there in 2001 just before it closed as part of Detroit's 300th anniversary. And didn't treat people like Fred did, ever.
Reason why I have so much respect for Vin Scully and Earnie Harwell is they shut up and let the fans do the talking. The emotion of the crowd is so much more captivating then some cheese ball announcer. TIGERS IN 14'!!!!
I was a young man of 29 years, when myself, two of my good friends, and one’s father attended this game. It was electric in the old ball park. Gibson crushed both of his HRs!!!! No doubters. One of the great memories of my life.
@Midnight Owl When Templeton first came up, he was a great player all-around. He had 100 hits from both sides of the plate in one of his early seasons in the late 1970's. For a few years, he was a feared hitter. Supposedly, he got lazy.
Wiggins batted .364, so he did his job. And it didn't help that McReynolds was hurt. But yes, Martinez & Brown were horrid. But OTOH, this was my Tigers' year, and I doubt the Cubs would have beaten them, though it might have been a better series.
The music theme, the World Series, & just everything brings back so many memories of how great baseball was when I was growing up. I was 10yrs old in '84. The Tigers dominated the Padres.
One of the BEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE! I ran down the streets screaming into the ran that night! Oh thank you GOD for that great moment! But of course, BLESS YOU BOYS!
Loved Vin Scully's call of the game and Gibson's home run off Gossage. Classic. But it also reminds of the great days of Ernie Harwell on the local Detroit radio broadcast. Ernie is definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of broadcasters in my book. IMO he's the best to ever do it.
I was there. Tore up the field after Larry Herndon caught the last out. It started raining almost immediately after the catch. I just instinctively went down on the field without even asking my Uncle. I grabbed about 4 feet of sod by a foot and folded it up and there was no security that confronted me. On the way to the car a lady asked for some of it, so I tore off a good 18 inches and gave it to her. The rest of it, I planted in my backyard. I was almost 13 years old.
I spent many a ballgame at Tiger Stadium in the '60s. Back then, my grandmother from Germany, who immigrated to Detroit in 1949 after the war, became a Tiger fan and took me to so many games, I can't remember them all. Tiger Stadium was such a beautiful ballpark, all in forest green, and box seats back then were $3. Reserved seats, $2. Vin Scully, the master of silence during a big moment, didn't say a word for more than a minute and a half after Kirk Gibson's eighth-inning homer. And when he did, he commented about the discussion at the pitcher's mound over whether to intentionally walk Gibson or pitch to him. We all miss Vin. He was truly a poet.
I'm from Detroit, and I was 3 years old when this happened! I remember when my family and I were in a town called Frankenmuth, and my mom told me stories that the World Series was heard on the PA system in one of the places there! It was an awesome time I must say!
It's amazing. Don Zimmer, Tom Lasorda, Dick Williams and Roger Craig were all on the same team. I bet the Dodgers had some great bench conversations in those days because none of those guys played.
That Padres lineup was pretty weak looking to me. At the same time, the Tigers were loaded and had won over 100 games that year. Alan Trammel, Lou Whittaker, Lance Parrish, Kirk Gibson....their lineup was stacked from top to bottom. The Padres never really had a chance.
sldl04 the Cubs were actually supposed to be in that world series but the padres were no slouch, the '84 Tigers were one of the best teams of all time though.
sldl04 no they didn’t. But they had some hitters though. A little older than you’d like in most cases but their real problem was their starters sucked. To this day I’m not sure how they hell they beat the cubbies. Damn curse!!!
I agree it should definitely have been the Cubs playing the Tigers in 84, but if it did end up being the Cubs, Detroit could of lost, but it ended up being the Padres. Detroit definitely deserved this victory that year. The team was undeniably. Going 35-5 in 40 games is outstanding to do. When they did that, you knew they would have the championship.
Whoa 😳.. Padres had a weak lineup? Tony Gwynn Steve Garvey Craig Nettles That’s a decent core and a great defense at the corners. If they held on to Winfield they may have actually won a title... love those ‘84 uni’s!
As an American League fan I was rooting for the Tigers, of course, but looking back all these years that version of the Padres was a really fun team. Lot of characters. Only good for one year, but what the heck. They got to the World Series. The Tigers could be looked at as a kind of disappointment. Not for 1984, but they should have won more than one World Series with the talent they had.
This was the last WS game played outdoors in the afternoon. 3 years later, the Cards and Twins game 6 was played at the Metrodome in the afternoon. All WS games have been at night ever since.
@1.42.00 I can hear the upper bleachers in center field with one their creatively insane and profane chants. It starts out with one side yelling, "Less Filling!". Then the other side responds, "Tastes Great!". It goes like this back and forth like that a few times, then on cue it switches to, "F...You!" , "Eat S,,t!" Oh those upper deck "bleacher creatures" at Tiger Stadium. When things really got rockin' loud. they would stomp their feet, which made the whole stadium rumble and the upper deck centerfield camera shake. The sound of the rumbling floor would bounce out of the lower deck bleachers and project onto the field.
The very best thing that can happen to you as an 8 year old boy is to get a day like this. Now I’m about to turn 45. Sure would be nice to have one more day like this someday!
Sparky couldn't believe it! He was yelling to Gibby, " They're going to pitch to you, they're going to pitch to you!" My most memorable/favorite Detroit Tiger moment!! Wow!!
I watched this year of Tiger Baseball from start to end. I was born in 68 a few weeks after that WS. my dad died in july of 84 so I remember that year quite well. Went to a game a few weeks later when we went back home to Detroit after the funeral just to get away, and watched Lance Parrish park one on the lumberyard across the street from the park. One of my most vivid memories from when I was a kid.
I was a youngster who saw the Royals win in 1985 and was so happy to see us win again in 2015, but this was after two decades plus of 90 plus losses and such a debacle and futility. I felt like nothing was ever going to happen, or nothing would ever turn the tide. So, my thought is, you never know. Baseball can be a strange game. Things change.
You will definitely see it even though they're going through a slow process a rebuild but they will get there and what it all.... now the Lions winning a Superbowl your chance of getting struck by lightning are better don't hold your breath
So Alan Trammell is a Hall of Famer, but you can’t really have Trammell in the Hall of Fame without Lou Whitaker right beside him. They came into the majors at the same time, played more games as the middle infield than any one else in baseball history, they won Gold Gloves together, had almost identical career hitting stats (both over 2,300 hits), were both a part of this powerhouse World Series champion team and almost retired at the same time, all the while playing 20 year careers for the same team. If Trammell is in the Hall of Fame, Sweet Lou should be too.
Me too. Used to love sitting in the RF upper deck, near the four poll. Sometimes, I could get seats in the front row, where you were actually over the field. Could heckle an opposing right fielder, really easy. Heck, you were so close to the field, in so many places.......great old stadium (despite the obscured view seats).
Vin Scully and Joe garagiola or however the spelling goes. But they are 2 of my favorite announcers. I was 8 years old and watched every tigers game that was on tv. Get to the world series and my favorite announcers george Kell and al kaline got the snub. It was such a special time and I wish they were the ones calling play by play. That being said scully and company did a great job.
Top 10 films of 1984: 10. Splash (Touchstone Pictures) 9. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Paramount Pictures) 8. Romancing the Stone (20th Century Studios) 7. Footloose (Paramount Pictures) 6. Police Academy (The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. Pictures) 5. The Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures) 4. Gremlins (Warner Bros. Pictures) 3. Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm) 2. Ghostbusters (Columbia Pictures) 1. Beverly Hills Cop (Paramount Pictures)
Glad this is still up after several years judging by the comments....."Goose Busters", hahaha. Best. There will never be another like Kirk Gibson.. baseball will never be like it was before the 90's. Never. Seems so disrespectful now, anything goes....just something isn't right. Raised on "TIGERS".
The '84 Tigers have to rank up there as one of the top teams, or possibly the top team, over a single season in the last 50 years. They were just like a runaway freight train that year.
'68 team wasn't too bad, either. They won a lot of games in the ninth innings, especially in Detroit. Had an lp record "The Year of the Tiger" that was a lot of fun listening to.
@@OneLastHitB4IGoTru dat. ‘68 Tigers beating Bob Gibson in game 7 is the MLB equivalent to the 1980 miracle on ice. That messed Gibson up for a long while after.
I pass what was Tiger Stadium nearly everyday on Michigan Ave. Its crazy to see an empty plot of land there. Looks so small, I cant believe it once held a mighty stadium there.
Honestly the 80's were the best years to be a baseball fan- Tiger Stadium, Old Comiskey, Yankee Stadium.... names like Gibson, Molitor, Yount, Clemens, McGwire, Brett, Ripken... it was so good and had legendary announcers like ernie and colorful owners like Bill Veeck in Chicago (loved Disco Demolition night) and Steinbrenner in New York - I feel old typing this but it was a special part of my childhood. Love the fans running onto the field LOL You'll never see stuff like that again.
Magical season!! There have been olny 2 Aurelios in the majors and two of them played for the Tigers - Lopez and Rodriguez, two of my all-time favorites! Both of them were killed as pedestrians by automobiles.
Look how much faster the pace of play is - batters staying in the box. Love hearing all the anecdotes from Vin Scully, those brown Padres uniforms, stirrups, Tiger Stadium.
Not that much difference, as this is about 2 hours and 15 minute game, with all the commercials removed. With the commercials included, this is probably a 3 hour game. The average game today is 3 hours 2 minutes.
And I thought the game place was slow then!
@@alexh8613 Just about nailed it. Official time of this game was 2:55. With the 2023 rule changes, average times of games are down to about 2:40.
1984 was a great time to be a Republican in Michigan!
No pitch clock needed.
I was 18, crossed the border from Canada and watched the Tigers win from the streets outside Tiger stadium. Great party, great time, great memories. Tiger Stadium what a classic ballpark!
BRING BACK WORLD SERIES DAYTIME BASEBALL!
Thank the media for bitching. You see, on this day the 49ers lost their only game of the season on a Gary Andersen field goal, never mind it was only a single header game and flex scheduling would be 30 years off, it was still "abhorrent" to the mighty media that the World Series would be on during a slate of NFL games. So the next year the World Series was on NBC, it followed an NFL doubleheader. ABC carried the last one to date (game six in 87)
rylandawe you are one incredibly smart individual!!!! I’d make you the Commisioner of baseball if I could. You’d do a far better job!!
starting a world series game at 9pm and going until 1am sucks. This was a perfect starting time. If people want to watch an NFL game at the same time, there's Buffalo Wild Wings now.
rylandawe Day time World Series still exist on the west coasts when the game starts 5 or 6 pm pacific time.
The sheer number of College Football games on Saturday and the NFL being the 800-pound gorilla of sports and dominating Sundays prevent there being daytime games in the World Series.
2:12:33 Vin Scully: "And There It Goes!!" Most memorable Tiger home run of my lifetime. I was 13 then and I appreciated a legend in Vin Scully, while we Tiger fans had another legend in the late Ernie Harwell.
Nobody carried baseball better than NBC. Scully and Garagiola were the best!
I wasn't even around in 1984 and I love this!!!!
I agree. Vin and Joe were the best 👍
Perfect chemistry
Absolutely. It's too bad they didn't have it for very long. Maybe six years. But both Scully/Garagiola and Costas/Kubek were great.
My uncle won cy young and mvp award in this year year im pride for him.
He was best closer in baseball and I loved his hair you should be proud
Dude !!! Awesome!!! U have royal blood
@Les Moore im not umpire..
@Lancer____ Dog you have some problem for that..
@Lancer____ Dog thank you..sorry for my words...is because some persons always talk about that..like bad..
One of the better world series games that gets overlooked.
Jeff Mitchell For a five game series, the games were all close and hard fought.
Kirk gibson would do an encore as a dodger 4 years later in the 88 world series
"Ball one on Kirk. Here's the pitch..he swings and hits a long drive to right, AND IT IS A HOME RUN FOR GIBSON!! A three run homer! The Tigers lead it 8-4 in the eighth inning!"
R.I.P. Ernie Harwell, radio voice of the Tigers
With due respect to Reggie Jackson, Kirk Gibson was a pretty good Mr. October too.
“He don’t wanna walk you!!”
Bless you Boys!! I miss everything I see in this game ,my dad’s love for baseball ,the Tigers is a 1980s winning team the city Detroit actually loving one another
Just listening to Vin & Joe call this game brings back so many memories. Baseball was so much more fun to watch back during these times. The Love of and respect of the game by these guys just draws you in even more.
I like how Scully and Garagiola simply stopped talking the final 3 minutes to allow the TV audience to experince what it would look and sound like if they were there. No one does that anymore. I miss that.
Vin did. Joe kept on yapping. Listen again...
Did Joe ever shut up? God rest his soul, but I don't feel that he was that great of an announcer.
Joe was a very popular guy among baseball people. He was a former player, of course, but also an author of baseball books and a pal of Yogi. But you're right, he wasn't much of a baseball announcer.
You said it!
Garagiola's son Steve was a sports reporter at WDIV in Detroit at this time.
Tiger Stadium was a great place.....Comerica Park is ok, but I prefer Tiger Stadium.
Same here. I grew up at Tiger Stadium and Comerica was built when I was I. High school. Way more of a fan-friendly experience at Tiger Stadium. Felt like there was no bad seat in the house at Tiger Stadium
Midwest Side Hustles you must of never set behind a steel beam lol. But I here ya I sure do miss her too
My 2nd favorite ballpark after Wrigley Field. (I'm talking about the pre-mutilated version of Wrigley.)
langwell21 yeah, I was lucky enough to avoid a steel beam seat 😂
R.E. M. I agree completely....and I was at this game!! A lifetime memory before the heavy rains hit later that night to chase everyone back inside and end the street celebrations.
I miss Tiger Stadium that old dump. I was 13 when this happened living in Temperance MI. God bless Gibby and that 84 squad. Bless you boys
Thanks for this, great memories. Sparky had #2 hitter & series MVP Trammell sacrifice bunt in the 8th inning, setting the stage for Goose & Gibby. I doubt many managers would do that these days.
RIP Tony Gwynn.
Tony was the last out.
Go Tigers !
Would've seen .400 easy but for bonehead owners in '94--200 ABs more would've been one for the ages. 🇺🇸
Padres. Number. 1. Batos.
TG ❤❤❤❤❤
Tiger Stadium 🏟️ RIP 🪦 ☹️
Gibson played hard with a lot of heart and a real love for the game, you don't see that much anymore.
That's what made him great! You have to love what you're doing to be at the top!
That's very interesting to say, because the one thing I'm hearing more and more from former players about those in the game today is that they're too emotional and setting a bad example for kids with their celebratory antics after hitting home runs. You know, the kind of antics like Gibson pulled after that 8th inning blast in this very game.
@@rowdycmoore there's a difference between having a love for the game and acting like an entitled, spoiled child like many of the younger players today.
The Tigers were 35 - 5 after 40 games. Unbelievable. Maybe the most dominating team ever over 1 season.
I was in attendance at Comiskey Park in Chicago in April for Jack Morris no-hitter.
Tiger Stadium never looked better than this game..
At the time they were the only team in MLB history other than the 1927 Yankees to lead their division wire to wire in the regular season & then win the World Series. I dont know if anyone's done it since.
@@staunchx 1968 Tigers?
@@davidlafleche1142 Good team but the 68 Tigers were not wire to wire
@@staunchx They were close. Any time a fat guy like Mickey Lolich can beat a tough team like the Cardinals three games is still awesome.
@@davidlafleche1142 That was an epic comeback to be sure. Lolich wasnt even the Tigers best pitcher that year but he sure came through large in the clutch. He even took down the immortal Bob Gibson. And it was a brilliant series for Mayo Smith.
The good ole days of sports!
“Bless You Boys” !!!
I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was twelve years old and the game aired on a Sunday afternoon. I was a Dodger fan, so I didn't really care who won...at first. However, as the series progressed, I started rooting for the Padres. Well, they got thumped! Not only in this game, but in Game 3 and Game 4. They didn't get out of Tiger Stadium alive! Watching this game again, I forgot how intense stadium fans were back then. The Padres in those brown and yellow uniforms, appeared soft in that environment. The uniforms were nice, mind you, but they just seemed like a soft West Cost team going up against a hardnose and hungry Midwestern team. Also, I love how the game was played back then. A lot more hits and stolen bases, as opposed to home runs and strike outs....Bring back stirrups and high socks PLEASE!!!
My mom, my two brothers and I were in the lower centerfield bleachers for game 4 and game 5. It is still the fondest memory I have of my troubled youth. It was so rare we did anything as a family as our father was out of the picture. As teens my brother's and I were so lost and this was the greatest escape of our youth.
I dont think any of us realized for years how lucky we were that our mom (who ordered tickets through the Free Press) had ordered not one set but tickets for two games. Gibson was just a beast and I remember when he hit his second home run in the eighth we thought the upper deck was going to come down on us the stadium was shaking that much😮😮😮... 😅😅😅!
I miss those days, life was tough, but it was also wonderfully simpler. Thanks momma😊
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it warms my heart that the Tigers could provide some happy family memories for you during that troubling time,
Loved those 84 Tigers....Trammell and Whitaker both should be in HOF!!
half way there
Hope sweet Lou gets in
They're both in
@@nickscorpion8725 No Trammel got in last year with Jack Morris on veterans commetee. Lou is not in.
@@BBBYpsi sweet Lou Need His Ass In Then
"And there it goes! For Michigan State and all of Tigerdom!" Gotta love it!And what a wonderful rendition of the national anthem by the Univ. of MichiganMen's Glee Club!
Back in 84' I was very disappointed that the Cubs lost the NLCS! But now, I marvel at how good the Padres really were !
Me too, watching this game now. This was the last time Tigers won WS !!
How good the Padres were? Whaaaaaaaaat?
Everything about this World Series game is awesome. Classic Tiger Stadium as the setting, Vin Scully (the GOAT) on the mic with Garagiola. Gibson, Garvey, the Goose, a young Tony Gwynn, Sparky and Dick Williams. What stars and characters! What a travesty that Detroit had Tiger Stadium torn down. They should have preserved it as a landmark!
We will miss you Tony Gwynn, Tony first appears around the 8 min mark.
Rules for Living: 1) NEVER pitch to Kirk Gibson in the World Series with the game on the line.
Rule 3) Never engage in a land war in Asia
Rule 6) Somedays your the bat, some days your the ball !
LOL "Rules for Living" (guffaw)
7) Never fight a war against the Russians in the winter.
@@SeanP7195
Why not we had Vietnam won if Congress hadn't gone back on our word to back the South after Nixon resigned the Viet Cong never would have taken over.
The Commies agreed to Paris Peace talks..but we fucked the South and totally abandoned them and left them without military aid.
I'm with you. I was a lifelong Tiger fan who enjoyed the 35-5 run at the beginning of the season, the sweep over KC, and this series, but there was almost no drama. It all felt like a foregone conclusion, and SD was a mediocre opponent.
Kudos to the poster of this; it brings back fond memories.
What a night that was, so long ago. "He don't wanna walk you you!" Sparky yelling at Gibby from the dugout.
I went to the game with my stepfather and we left after the Kirk Gibson homerun. Miss those days.
2:12:25 -- The overshadowed, forgotten big-time World Series home run by Kirk Gibson. Absolutely CRUSHED it! (off hall of famer Goose Gossage, no less)
Apparently the only one who forgot the HR is YOU
They pissed him off when he struck out
It may not have been the greatest HR in World Series history, but all things considered, it was by far the most satisfying. The media hype surrounding the Padres after they fluked their way into the playoffs and pulled an even bigger fluke over the Cubs, was insufferable. Especially the ex Yankees who wouldn't STFU about Steinbrenner, (who Nettles out and out accused of murdering Thurman Munson.) Goose refusing to walk Gibson, and Sparky laughing at the Padres for that debacle was as satisfying as Bautista's bat flip.
@@CGMedia2023Fluked by the Cubs? After that Game 1 anomaly the Cubs bats went to sleep, not to mention the Padres and Cubs split their season series down the middle, they were more evenly matched than people think. Plus, they cruised to the NL West title, much like the Tigers did.
Great game! I was at the game before right over the Padres dugout...Tram came SO close to hitting 3 home runs...I got to meet Stan Musial at the game and he signed my program...total CLASS...the broadcast team is top notch..great to watch and listen to!!
The 84 Tigers was an all star line up. Kirk Gibson, Darrel Evans, Chet Lemon, Alan Trammel, Lance Parrish and Lou Whitaker.
I had to work while the game was on. As a huge Tiger fan, I did everything to avoid the game because I was recording it on my VCR (they were watching bits of it in the other room at work). I got home...watched the game through the 8th inning and I swear, right when Dick Williams was out on the mound, my VCR shut off...I had run out of tape. I had to wait around for the news later that evening to see the final score. This is the first time I've seen the game all the way through...thanks!
RIP Aurelio López señor smoke
Best set up man I ever saw....
One of the greatest teams EVER!!!!!!
Alan Trammel is just a good shortstop as Cal Ripken. If you look at the stats they are very similar
+justin c Ripken is way overrated because of the streak.
+justin c lousy manager
Mike Blarney which player
Alan Trammel should be there as well as Jack Morris who won more games than any other pitcher in the 80's
And now he's in the HOF. It's so great to see a wrong get righted. It gives me faith in this world.
Wow - the same Bruce Bochy for the Padres who's now the manager of the Giants? Amazing.
It is kind of nice to see Gossage, the ultimate swaggering hard-throwing relief ace, get a dose of humble pie here. It's just too bad it didn't happen when he was with the Yankees.
It did ... 1981 loss to Dodgers
Ira Haimowitz And the Brett HR in the 1980 ALCS.
......and the Pine Tar Game just a season earlier in 83 also by George Brett.
Vin Scully was nearly 60 years old at the time of THIS game back in '84…..and incredibly, he's STILL broadcasting baseball for the Dodgers….he goes back to when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn!……thank God for You Tube and treasures like NBC Baseball and the legendary Vin Scully.
Remember watching games on TV with George Kell in summer that was great summer moments and Erie Harwell on radio Wjr great times
damn i miss that field
Growing up as a Tigers fan, I, too miss Tiger Stadium, too, Adam. But one of the definitive reasons Tiger Stadium had to go was on the screen when Parrish homered in the seventh inning. They showed the Tiger clubhouse celebrating. It was a cramped clubhouse without much room. As a sports writer in the 1970s, I knew that clubhouse. The dugouts were small and cramped. The toughest thing for me is that I've gotten used to Comerica Park. It's actually a fair park for both hitters and pitchers.
Good memories in that dump.
yes i too miss tiger stadium the smell of moldy piss and 5$ beer took my now 3 grown children to a game in 96? gibby was back we sat in center field bleachers nice guy gave me two free tickets still cost me two days pay but i loved it
So do i great memories there!!!!!
I just have to point out Fred J aminson's comment in this thread as being the biggest piece of shit in America.
Having said that... I covered the Tigers for a radio station there in 1987, operated the scoreboard in 1997, and played in an exhibition baseball game there in 2001 just before it closed as part of Detroit's 300th anniversary.
And didn't treat people like Fred did, ever.
Now if only the 2014 Tigers can recreate the magic and 'ROAR' as they did in '84!
BLESS YOU BOYS!
Or '24 Tigers. Good job clinching the WC tonight
@@irwinfletcher8440And just yesterday 10/02/2024 they beat Houston to advance to the ALDS against Cleveland.
Reason why I have so much respect for Vin Scully and Earnie Harwell is they shut up and let the fans do the talking. The emotion of the crowd is so much more captivating then some cheese ball announcer. TIGERS IN 14'!!!!
I was a young man of 29 years, when myself, two of my good friends, and one’s father attended this game. It was electric in the old ball park. Gibson crushed both of his HRs!!!! No doubters. One of the great memories of my life.
World Series in the daytime as it’s meant to be! Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola. Baseball as I remember it 👍
Chad Quick: Yea, I couldn’t stand it when ABC hosted it. Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell were horrible. Al micheals made it bearable.
Wow - Tiger Stadium. Talk about memories.
My GOD this game brings back great memories.
When you have guys like Gwynn, Garvey, Templeton, Kennedy & Nettles, and yet your hitting star is Kurt Bevacqua, that's a problem.
Midnight Owl Dick Williams should have made some lineup changes. Martinez and Brown were atrocious in this series.
@Midnight Owl When Templeton first came up, he was a great player all-around. He had 100 hits from both sides of the plate in one of his early seasons in the late 1970's. For a few years, he was a feared hitter. Supposedly, he got lazy.
“Kurt f**king Bevacqua couldn’t hit f**king water if he f**king fell out of a f**king boat.” - Tommy Lasorda
Well said. Padres never showed up for this series. They spent all their coins against Cubs.
Wiggins batted .364, so he did his job. And it didn't help that McReynolds was hurt. But yes, Martinez & Brown were horrid. But OTOH, this was my Tigers' year, and I doubt the Cubs would have beaten them, though it might have been a better series.
The music theme, the World Series, & just everything brings back so many memories of how great baseball was when I was growing up. I was 10yrs old in '84. The Tigers dominated the Padres.
Lance Parrish - nothing like a monster behind the plate. Detroit had it so good.
I agree. And for that reason I agree with Goose’s decision to shake off Kennedy’s 4-fingers & “go after” Gibson with 1st open.
One of the BEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE! I ran down the streets screaming into the ran that night! Oh thank you GOD for that great moment! But of course, BLESS YOU BOYS!
Loved Vin Scully's call of the game and Gibson's home run off Gossage. Classic. But it also reminds of the great days of Ernie Harwell on the local Detroit radio broadcast. Ernie is definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of broadcasters in my book. IMO he's the best to ever do it.
I was there. Tore up the field after Larry Herndon caught the last out. It started raining almost immediately after the catch. I just instinctively went down on the field without even asking my Uncle. I grabbed about 4 feet of sod by a foot and folded it up and there was no security that confronted me. On the way to the car a lady asked for some of it, so I tore off a good 18 inches and gave it to her. The rest of it, I planted in my backyard. I was almost 13 years old.
Alan Trammell was named the MVP of the World Series.
No Hernandez the relieve pitcher was MVP
Damian Martinez Hernandez was AL MVP in 1984 as well as the CY Young Winner. Trammell was MVP of the World Series.
That was one of the best national Anthems I ever heard! Mitch Miller would be proud!
Damn. I remember this game like it was yesterday
I spent many a ballgame at Tiger Stadium in the '60s. Back then, my grandmother from Germany, who immigrated to Detroit in 1949 after the war, became a Tiger fan and took me to so many games, I can't remember them all. Tiger Stadium was such a beautiful ballpark, all in forest green, and box seats back then were $3. Reserved seats, $2. Vin Scully, the master of silence during a big moment, didn't say a word for more than a minute and a half after Kirk Gibson's eighth-inning homer. And when he did, he commented about the discussion at the pitcher's mound over whether to intentionally walk Gibson or pitch to him. We all miss Vin. He was truly a poet.
2:12:30 One of the biggest moments in tigers History. Kirk Gibson puts the nail in the coffin
Love the shot of Thurmond after Gibson's first homer. Tigers ran over San Diego's starters in that series.
I'm from Detroit, and I was 3 years old when this happened! I remember when my family and I were in a town called Frankenmuth, and my mom told me stories that the World Series was heard on the PA system in one of the places there! It was an awesome time I must say!
Did you eat the famous chicken?
It's amazing. Don Zimmer, Tom Lasorda, Dick Williams and Roger Craig were all on the same team. I bet the Dodgers had some great bench conversations in those days because none of those guys played.
That Padres lineup was pretty weak looking to me. At the same time, the Tigers were loaded and had won over 100 games that year. Alan Trammel, Lou Whittaker, Lance Parrish, Kirk Gibson....their lineup was stacked from top to bottom. The Padres never really had a chance.
sldl04 the Cubs were actually supposed to be in that world series but the padres were no slouch, the '84 Tigers were one of the best teams of all time though.
sldl04 no they didn’t. But they had some hitters though. A little older than you’d like in most cases but their real problem was their starters sucked. To this day I’m not sure how they hell they beat the cubbies. Damn curse!!!
Robert Johnson The 84 Padres had a great bullpen, especially in the NLCS. The starting pitching was okay, but not on the level of Detroit.
I agree it should definitely have been the Cubs playing the Tigers in 84, but if it did end up being the Cubs, Detroit could of lost, but it ended up being the Padres. Detroit definitely deserved this victory that year. The team was undeniably. Going 35-5 in 40 games is outstanding to do. When they did that, you knew they would have the championship.
Whoa 😳.. Padres had a weak lineup?
Tony Gwynn
Steve Garvey
Craig Nettles
That’s a decent core and a great defense at the corners.
If they held on to Winfield they may have actually won a title...
love those ‘84 uni’s!
I watched the whole game. What a great season that was - remember it like yesterday. Tigers were ROLLING.
My God. I was 26 years old then. I still feel the effects of that wonderful summer.
it was unbelievable from the start, even the buzz from Lakeland was that something special could happen
As an American League fan I was rooting for the Tigers, of course, but looking back all these years that version of the Padres was a really fun team. Lot of characters. Only good for one year, but what the heck. They got to the World Series. The Tigers could be looked at as a kind of disappointment. Not for 1984, but they should have won more than one World Series with the talent they had.
I may not be a hall of famer but I've had some hall of fame moments.
~ Kirk Gibson
A day game in the world series with Vin Scully on the microphone....how lucky we were...
This was the last WS game played outdoors in the afternoon. 3 years later, the Cards and Twins game 6 was played at the Metrodome in the afternoon. All WS games have been at night ever since.
@1.42.00 I can hear the upper bleachers in center field with one their creatively insane and profane chants. It starts out with one side yelling, "Less Filling!". Then the other side responds, "Tastes Great!". It goes like this back and forth like that a few times, then on cue it switches to, "F...You!" , "Eat S,,t!"
Oh those upper deck "bleacher creatures" at Tiger Stadium. When things really got rockin' loud. they would stomp their feet, which made the whole stadium rumble and the upper deck centerfield camera shake. The sound of the rumbling floor would bounce out of the lower deck bleachers and project onto the field.
The very best thing that can happen to you as an 8 year old boy is to get a day like this.
Now I’m about to turn 45. Sure would be nice to have one more day like this someday!
Sparky couldn't believe it! He was yelling to Gibby, " They're going to pitch to you, they're going to pitch to you!" My most memorable/favorite Detroit Tiger moment!! Wow!!
"They dont wanna walk you!... they don't wanna walk you... Hey (wink) use this (swings arms like he's batting)" classic Sparky moment.
I was in the outfield upper deck by left field. People were throwing turf up to us as souvenirs after the win. Mine was planted in my mom's backyard.
My neighbor went as well.and they got a piece of the sewer system. A green type plate . 😄
This game was played on a Sunday afternoon at the same time as the late NFL games that day (4:00PM Eastern). We will never see that happen again.
1984 all over again when baseball was our great pastime. Pretty cool.
19:19 Joe mentions Gates Brown... one of the best pinch hitters ever to step up to the plate.
My dream is to see the tigers win a world series in my life time, I was born in 1985 :(
+EL Jim O 1985 It will happen, man. MY Detroit Tigers!
I watched this year of Tiger Baseball from start to end. I was born in 68 a few weeks after that WS. my dad died in july of 84 so I remember that year quite well. Went to a game a few weeks later when we went back home to Detroit after the funeral just to get away, and watched Lance Parrish park one on the lumberyard across the street from the park. One of my most vivid memories from when I was a kid.
I was a youngster who saw the Royals win in 1985 and was so happy to see us win again in 2015, but this was after two decades plus of 90 plus losses and such a debacle and futility. I felt like nothing was ever going to happen, or nothing would ever turn the tide. So, my thought is, you never know. Baseball can be a strange game. Things change.
You will definitely see it even though they're going through a slow process a rebuild but they will get there and what it all.... now the Lions winning a Superbowl your chance of getting struck by lightning are better don't hold your breath
EL Jim O 1985 you’re going to have to wait a while. Blame big poppie and his damn grand slam. Damn it!!
So Alan Trammell is a Hall of Famer, but you can’t really have Trammell in the Hall of Fame without Lou Whitaker right beside him.
They came into the majors at the same time, played more games as the middle infield than any one else in baseball history, they won Gold Gloves together, had almost identical career hitting stats (both over 2,300 hits), were both a part of this powerhouse World Series champion team and almost retired at the same time, all the while playing 20 year careers for the same team.
If Trammell is in the Hall of Fame, Sweet Lou should be too.
You can read Gossage's lips at 2:11:45 saying "Let's go after him". I think Custer said the same thing.
kevbo mevbo: Custer didn’t have a chance. Goose? He blew it!
Gibson and then Parrish? I don’t know. Pick your poison. I respect Goose’s call.
Wow, thanks for post. This is awesome.
I was in a pool hall in Galveston, TX shooting pool, wearing my Tigers hat watching this. Sad to say I was the only one that reacted when they won.
man, the memories. I was 11 years old.
Me too. Used to love sitting in the RF upper deck, near the four poll. Sometimes, I could get seats in the front row, where you were actually over the field. Could heckle an opposing right fielder, really easy. Heck, you were so close to the field, in so many places.......great old stadium (despite the obscured view seats).
Vin Scully and Joe garagiola or however the spelling goes. But they are 2 of my favorite announcers. I was 8 years old and watched every tigers game that was on tv. Get to the world series and my favorite announcers george Kell and al kaline got the snub. It was such a special time and I wish they were the ones calling play by play. That being said scully and company did a great job.
Ikr I was 9 yro. But it should be rule that the home town guys get to call the game on nat TV ffs
''Ya, Don't walk walk him, Don't walk him, Don't walk him, Hey Rodger, he didn't wanna walk him Hahahahaha''. Love you Sparky
22 years old, what a time to be first hitting the bars in NW Michigan. What a Tiger time
Top 10 films of 1984:
10. Splash (Touchstone Pictures)
9. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Paramount Pictures)
8. Romancing the Stone (20th Century Studios)
7. Footloose (Paramount Pictures)
6. Police Academy (The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. Pictures)
5. The Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures)
4. Gremlins (Warner Bros. Pictures)
3. Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm)
2. Ghostbusters (Columbia Pictures)
1. Beverly Hills Cop (Paramount Pictures)
95% of the people who read about, thought about, looked at, or even saw any of this World Series wished it was the Cubs vs. the Tigers.
Well that just goes to show you still have to win it on the field
Cub fans get over yourselves.
@@bartleby2012 - I'm not a Cubs fan, just stating a fact.
Cubs would have given the ‘84 Tigers a much better match. The ratings would have crashed through the ceiling.
The man providing the VO for the opening spiel is veteran VO artist Les Marshak.
To hit a home run like that, for the team that you watched growing up in Michigan. Doesn't get much better than that.......
Until 1988 called....
Glad this is still up after several years judging by the comments....."Goose Busters", hahaha. Best. There will never be another like Kirk Gibson.. baseball will never be like it was before the 90's. Never. Seems so disrespectful now, anything goes....just something isn't right. Raised on "TIGERS".
The '84 Tigers have to rank up there as one of the top teams, or possibly the top team, over a single season in the last 50 years. They were just like a runaway freight train that year.
'68 team wasn't too bad, either. They won a lot of games in the ninth innings, especially in Detroit. Had an lp record "The Year of the Tiger" that was a lot of fun listening to.
Agreed!!!!
@@OneLastHitB4IGoTru dat. ‘68 Tigers beating Bob Gibson in game 7 is the MLB equivalent to the 1980 miracle on ice. That messed Gibson up for a long while after.
I pass what was Tiger Stadium nearly everyday on Michigan Ave. Its crazy to see an empty plot of land there. Looks so small, I cant believe it once held a mighty stadium there.
World Series games that fall on Saturday day should be afternoon games.
I was just a bus ride down Grand River from Tiger Stadium seen many great games lot's of great memories.
Honestly the 80's were the best years to be a baseball fan- Tiger Stadium, Old Comiskey, Yankee Stadium.... names like Gibson, Molitor, Yount, Clemens, McGwire, Brett, Ripken... it was so good and had legendary announcers like ernie and colorful owners like Bill Veeck in Chicago (loved Disco Demolition night) and Steinbrenner in New York - I feel old typing this but it was a special part of my childhood. Love the fans running onto the field LOL You'll never see stuff like that again.
Sorry , the sixties were the best
And thanks to the Goose, Kirk Gibson is forever etched into Detroit sports lore.
❤Remembering those Tigers began that 1984 year 35 wins 5 losses... WOW!
Magical season!! There have been olny 2 Aurelios in the majors and two of them played for the Tigers - Lopez and Rodriguez, two of my all-time favorites! Both of them were killed as pedestrians by automobiles.
I am a cub fan since early 80s. When the Padres beat the cubs in the nlchamp I also become a tiger fan. I was so happy tigers won.
Just what I needed! Bless You Boys!