Bob Costas, Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker have been terrific superhero trio for the MLB postseason on NBC from 1994-99, including the World Series (1995,'97 & '99).
It is a great trio. It is surely missed when compared to the generic Fox Sports announcers of the past 25 years. All three are Hall of Famer’s in my book.
Throughout their history, the Cardinals have always been the Padres playoff kryptonite. Cards hold a 3-0 series record vs. the Friars in the DS (including 2 sweeps), 9 wins vs. only 1 loss. For many fans of my age this was the first taste of Cardinal playoff baseball which we've come to expect on an annual basis today. Loved those 90's Cardinal teams featuring Lankford, Jordan, Pagnozzi, and of course the Wizard!
“Quality Start” is a fictional stat created by agents to use as leverage when negotiating contracts for their clients. Ask Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax or Juan Marachel to define a quality start and they will tell you it is a game where you pitch 9 innings and win. In 1964, Marachel beat Warren Spahn 1-0 in a 16 inning game with both pitchers going the distance. Spahn was 43 years old at the time. Back then pitchers went on 3 days rest and both guys made their next regularly scheduled start. Funny, back then nobody ever heard of Tommy John Surgery.
Also doesn't help that the ERA of a minimal requirement of a quality start is 4.5 which is mediocre and not something anyone with a right mind should be hyping up on unless a team needed a 4th or 5th starter that badly.
I thought they still wear the blue road caps when they play other teams with red caps like the Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, etc. I’d go for the navy blue cap with a red bill for road games. The all-blue cap looks too much like the Red Sox caps. I do really like the STL logo with the red middle on the blue caps, however.
@@ericsigersmith2831 I was at game 3 in STL hoping to see a sweep. Cards lost 3-1, Carp finished them off the next night... I couldn't be at Game 4 sadly
And they were also up 3-1 on the Yankees in the 1942 World Series and won in 5. And they were up 3-1 on the dodgers in the 2013 nlcs and won in 6. The cardinals actually do better in best of seven series when the series is tied 2-2 instead of being up 3-1
If anyone asks who is the best football player to play baseball, the answer is pretty clearly Brian Jordan. Unlike Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, Brian could actually play baseball at a very high level.
Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders were great baseball players too. Look at their stats. It's more of Brian Jordan wasn't that great of a football player like Bo and Deion were. Brian Jordan played only 3 NFL seasons, so it kind of even out.
At 1:25:26 I can see my dad and I looking for the ball that Gant hit into our stands. At 1:27:25 you can hear the crowd react to me throwing the ball back on the field. The reaction was delayed because I didn't want to get caught haha. No joke. That was me.
I remember I was 17 and the bartender at the TGIFridays i worked at swore s.d. was on they're way to W.S. And bet me they'd beat the cards ! And was such a dick after they got swept!
How is Trevor Hoffman overrated? that's absurd. His records speak for itself. MLB Records Regular season Most career saves in National League 601 Most consecutive seasons with at least 40 saves[a] 4 (1998-2001, 2004-07) Most seasons with at least 40 saves[b] 9 (1996, 1998-2001, 2004-07) Most career strikeouts per nine innings by a reliever 9.36 Most career games pitched with one team in National League 902
The saves stuff is meaningless, just an indication of how he was used. "Most career games pitched with one team in the NL" is the most who-cares "record" imaginable. The only thing that matters is the K/9 numbers. Which is fine. But his record in "big games" (like this one) is atrocious, and I hold relief pitchers to higher standards in that regard than everyday players and even starting pitchers.
@@josecarranza7555 LOL. Those aren't records. That's trivia data. What's next: most left-handed batters faced after 4:00PM? And at least 3 of those 5 "records" are BS. 9.36 isn't even close to the record for K/9 rate for a reliever. Aro;dis Chapman's is 14.8. Craig Kimbrel's is 14.1. Billy Wagner's was 11.9. Francisco Rodriguez was 10.5 . Papelbon's was 10.0. And that's just a few off the top of my head. Hoffman also doesn't hold the record for most consecutive seasons with 40 saves; he shares it with K-Rod & Kimbrel, and he shares the most 40-save seasons record with Mariano Rivera. All 3 of them also managed to win at least 1 ring in their career. Hoffman is in the same class as Billy Wagner and Joe Nathan: nobody cares that you can get 3 outs against a 100-loss team in September when you blow postseason games. He has 3 big blown saves in only 12 playoff games: This game, the 1998 World Series Game 3 and the complete meltdown in the 2007 Wild Card Tie-breaker. Not a big-game pitcher.
I miss Jack Murphy Stadium. Loved how full it was and the beauty of the overhead shots, especially at night.
It’s almost down 🏟
Bob Costas, Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker have been terrific superhero trio for the MLB postseason on NBC from 1994-99, including the World Series (1995,'97 & '99).
Costas and Morgan were ok, but Uecker was terrible.
It is a great trio. It is surely missed when compared to the generic Fox Sports announcers of the past 25 years. All three are Hall of Famer’s in my book.
Gotta love Bob Costas doing the announcing duties for this game!
Throughout their history, the Cardinals have always been the Padres playoff kryptonite. Cards hold a 3-0 series record vs. the Friars in the DS (including 2 sweeps), 9 wins vs. only 1 loss. For many fans of my age this was the first taste of Cardinal playoff baseball which we've come to expect on an annual basis today. Loved those 90's Cardinal teams featuring Lankford, Jordan, Pagnozzi, and of course the Wizard!
What's crazy is that the Cards haven't even played the Cubs, Pirates and Reds this many times in October. COMBINED.
3-1 now baby!!
@@wesf7782 you barely beat a 31-29 team in a fake playoff series, and then proceeded to get destroyed by LA
@@owensnuddster814 little did you know that it would take L.A another 24 yrs to win a Half season WS.. #GoRedBirDs
10 yrs later it happened to SD again .#RedBirdS
NBC Sports had the best pregame music
Mhmm exactly felt like the Olympics.
The Cardinals started turning around with this season. New owners and Tony Larussa managing started what we see today in St. Louis. Go Cards!
How'd that go against the Braves....
I remember 8 year old me crying after this game and proclaiming my hatred for Brian Jordan
Haha
GorillaRadio88 i cried too 19 year old when Cami #21 homer to tie the game and then i cried at the end of the game
Rick Honeycutt still looks the same today as a pitching coach for the Dodgers. R.I.P Ken Caminiti
Trav D. Honeycutt is either an old looking young man or a young looking old man....I can’t decide which one.
Is this mlb channel ? Been trying to find these
“Quality Start” is a fictional stat created by agents to use as leverage when negotiating contracts for their clients. Ask Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax or Juan Marachel to define a quality start and they will tell you it is a game where you pitch 9 innings and win. In 1964, Marachel beat Warren Spahn 1-0 in a 16 inning game with both pitchers going the distance. Spahn was 43 years old at the time. Back then pitchers went on 3 days rest and both guys made their next regularly scheduled start. Funny, back then nobody ever heard of Tommy John Surgery.
Also doesn't help that the ERA of a minimal requirement of a quality start is 4.5 which is mediocre and not something anyone with a right mind should be hyping up on unless a team needed a 4th or 5th starter that badly.
Gary Gaetti, one of the last to wear the flapless batting helmet.
I met him in 1997. Nice guy.
Him and Ozzie Smith.
John Olerud wearing that helmet playing first base for the Mets
Steve Finley and Ken Caminiti were the players with double digits in home runs in the Padres line-up.
Finley became a power-hitter in 1996. The most home runs he'd hit in a season prior to that year was 11. He blasted 30 that year.
steroids.
@@josecarranza7555 Too skinny.
@@jtstevenson81 Finley was like a poor man's Jim Edmonds at the plate. Veteran CF with 30 HR power, while Edmonds had a few 40 HR seasons.
That first pitch was more a strike than any I've ever seen. Wow on the ball call.
Trevor Hoffman generally got lit up in the post season.
To be fair, he wasn't as bad as Billy Wagner who was a dumpster fire in the postseason.
I used to get so nervous with him out there...weird as that sounds. Especially late in his career. That fastball wasnt touching 90 toward the end.
True. So did Goose Gossage.
@@iamhungey12345 Was there anybody worse than Joe Nathan? The guy appeared in 10 playoff games, and his team lost 9 of them.
MLB on NBC >>> Fox MLB
Cardinals need to wear those navy blue caps on the road again
Agreed
Good ole royce clayton
I thought they still wear the blue road caps when they play other teams with red caps like the Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, etc.
I’d go for the navy blue cap with a red bill for road games. The all-blue cap looks too much like the Red Sox caps. I do really like the STL logo with the red middle on the blue caps, however.
Trevor Hoffman's last postseason save was 2006, Game 3 in the 1st ever playoff game at Busch.
Thought padres got swept and that was when the padres had mike piazza and for some reason Peavy at his best got lit up also
@@ericsigersmith2831 I was at game 3 in STL hoping to see a sweep. Cards lost 3-1, Carp finished them off the next night... I couldn't be at Game 4 sadly
I was at this game! I have never experienced anything like Cammys homer. Insane
To think this team was up 3-1 on the Braves.....
And the 2012 Giants
The 85 Royals
The 68 Tigers
The 67 Sox (still won but were forced to a game 7)
And they were also up 3-1 on the Yankees in the 1942 World Series and won in 5. And they were up 3-1 on the dodgers in the 2013 nlcs and won in 6. The cardinals actually do better in best of seven series when the series is tied 2-2 instead of being up 3-1
@@josephsarto689 but those one's don't piss me off like '85, '96, '12. Damn, I bet '68 really sucked too.
If anyone asks who is the best football player to play baseball, the answer is pretty clearly Brian Jordan. Unlike Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, Brian could actually play baseball at a very high level.
Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders were great baseball players too.
Look at their stats.
It's more of Brian Jordan wasn't that great of a football player like Bo and Deion were. Brian Jordan played only 3 NFL seasons, so it kind of even out.
At 1:25:26 I can see my dad and I looking for the ball that Gant hit into our stands. At 1:27:25 you can hear the crowd react to me throwing the ball back on the field. The reaction was delayed because I didn't want to get caught haha. No joke. That was me.
CoastersBolts That's awesome but what color shirt you both had on?
@@davidtitorivera I was wearing a gray-ish shirt and he was wearing either a white or yellow polo shirt tucked into shorts.
CoastersBolts that’s awesome
I was born during game 3 of that series
You're absolutely right cards 85
Tony Gwynn....enough said
Him and larry Walker and nomar for one year were the only ones I know in my lifetime to even come close to Ted William's 400
Cardinals own the Padres 🤣🤣
Strange man that Eckersley character
Last game was on red sox 98 ALds lmao
I remember I was 17 and the bartender at the TGIFridays i worked at swore s.d. was on they're way to W.S. And bet me they'd beat the cards ! And was such a dick after they got swept!
Way Way Way too many advertisments!
Too many commercials... can’t watch from this subscriber
What did Eckersley throw besides a slider?
A hanging slider? Hehe
TREVOR TIME!!!!!!
Okay, I never knew Eckersley was a Cardinal.
It's Funny That Eckersley Hasn't Blown A Save In The NLDS In 1996
Hated Brian Jordan so much after this game. Luckily the Padres for revenge over him when he played for the Braves.
This Is What Brian Jordan Got Paid To Do And Did So Very Well In 1996
Eck vs Rickey
2:36:01 Brian Jordan.
No Mark McGwire yet, he must not have joined the Cardinals until the next year
Yes, he was traded from the A’s to the Cardinals halfway through the ‘97 season.
16:05 how do umpires get this shit so wrong, like Lonnie Smith’s steal of home in the 82 World Series, pathetic
Back drop is White Glare..ump missed lead off hitter strikes..called balls n misses safe at home..horrible calling.
6:23 anybody with a brain knows the Cardinals got robbed in the 85 WS
Never thought much of Hoffman....overrated
Agreed, and I'm a Padres fan.
How is Trevor Hoffman overrated? that's absurd. His records speak for itself.
MLB Records
Regular season
Most career saves in National League 601
Most consecutive seasons with at least 40 saves[a] 4 (1998-2001, 2004-07)
Most seasons with at least 40 saves[b] 9 (1996, 1998-2001, 2004-07)
Most career strikeouts per nine innings by a reliever 9.36
Most career games pitched with one team in National League 902
The saves stuff is meaningless, just an indication of how he was used. "Most career games pitched with one team in the NL" is the most who-cares "record" imaginable. The only thing that matters is the K/9 numbers. Which is fine. But his record in "big games" (like this one) is atrocious, and I hold relief pitchers to higher standards in that regard than everyday players and even starting pitchers.
@@josecarranza7555 LOL. Those aren't records. That's trivia data. What's next: most left-handed batters faced after 4:00PM? And at least 3 of those 5 "records" are BS. 9.36 isn't even close to the record for K/9 rate for a reliever. Aro;dis Chapman's is 14.8. Craig Kimbrel's is 14.1. Billy Wagner's was 11.9. Francisco Rodriguez was 10.5 . Papelbon's was 10.0. And that's just a few off the top of my head. Hoffman also doesn't hold the record for most consecutive seasons with 40 saves; he shares it with K-Rod & Kimbrel, and he shares the most 40-save seasons record with Mariano Rivera. All 3 of them also managed to win at least 1 ring in their career.
Hoffman is in the same class as Billy Wagner and Joe Nathan: nobody cares that you can get 3 outs against a 100-loss team in September when you blow postseason games. He has 3 big blown saves in only 12 playoff games: This game, the 1998 World Series Game 3 and the complete meltdown in the 2007 Wild Card Tie-breaker. Not a big-game pitcher.
@@Tyrannis07 Obvious troll
The sign Caminiti for president - well there's cocaine in the White House so he would have been right at home.
Holy fucking adds!!!!
Geeze Joe Morgan was a terrible analyst
Caminiti was a juicer that year and died of roid rage
Lol...Ken Caminiti...what a roider!!
Even before the steroids, Caminiti was a damn good 3rd baseman.
RIP