very enormous Other than Rijo, just guys who got the job done in the rotation and then the Nasty Boys. Larkin and Davis were the stars in the lineup but davis had a ‘down’ year after a breakout in 87 and Larkin hadn’t reached his potential while Chris Sabo was the best hitter outside them
Nothing like old school baseball and that Reds team would only lose once more during the '90 postseason! I was the # of years old you were in months during that playoff! Four months after I'd graduated from HS
Eric davis n strawberry....were not only friends, but they were alike...both could've been hofs, Davis career derailed because of injuries, strawberry drugs....did u see a slim n young JB.
Ended up here as I'm on a classic baseball kick from my childhood after watching the Astros win the World Series days ago. With the benefit of 2022 eyes, interesting to see how foolish Rijo looks throwing to 1st SEVEN TIMES(!!!) during Sid Bream's 3rd inning at bat to keep Bonds from stealing 2nd. And with 2 outs no less! I screamed out loud forget the runner, get the batter out! Bream ended up taking the distracted Rijo deep to tie the game. LOL.
I love how you worded that, as if people in 2022 are smarter than people in 1990 lol. What a douchey generation we’re in. And you’re probably older than I am 🤦♂️.
Proud to say this was the very first Major League baseball game I attended. Being from Nashville Tennessee all we had.....and still have are the AAA Nashville Sounds. I was 13. I got to leave school an hour early to make the 3 and a half hour drive with my dad. We checked into the Clariton Hotel, then went and ate at Gold Star Chili downtown downtown and then caught the game. I was VERY confident as a young Reds fan in a quick 4 game sweep of the Pirates. Of course I was shocked when a guy, coincidentally named Bob "Walk" beat Jose Rijo as they lost 4-3. Happily I'd get that 4 game sweep I was expecting about 2 weeks later when it REALLY mattered, against the "unbeatable"....roided up A's on the biggest stage in the baseball. I can proudly say my father and I went back and were in attendance for games 1 and 2 of the world series as well. We went to game 2 of the NLCS as well and I got to miss a day of school Friday which was extra awesome to go with that game 2 victory lol We checked out a neat little baseball card shop in that downtown plaza area where I begged my dad to buy me HIGHLY overpriced 1960 Topps Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson baseball baseball cards, our Hank and Frank cards as my dad would go on to call em, which I STILL have to this very day🙂 We sat behind first base in the second deck about 10 rows back, same seats in the World Series also. Tonight is THE first time I have ever seen the actual televised games, so you better believe there will be a whole lot of pausing while I look for us two needles in the haystack. I'm determined to find us lol I wish my dad was still here to look back on this with me. And as a little special added bonus.....who woulda known I'd be getting to watch, in person, the eventual all time homerun champion 17 years before he hit number 756, during the year his assault on the record arguably really began, the year of his first of many MVP winning seasons. Some people can say they got to see Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron.....Mantle play....but I got to see Bonds on those two days, and heck, I guess McGwire also....a few weeks later🙂 I'm just a casual Reds fan these days. I went crazy for the Chicago Cubs and my father's hometown, boyhood team The Detroit Tigers not long after The Reds magic 1990 season. Watching this game and the next is going to be a lot of fun, and keep my eyes really busy lol
I'm a lifelong Braves fan, but that opening - the picturesque scenery, the narration, the music - don't tell me today's is better than this. It was majestic then - and now. It made me want to buy a ticket to see the game in the cold between these two teams.
From 12:06 to 12:36 Bonds, Bream and Lavalliere introduced back to back. Nobody knew at the time that 2 years later the three would be linked for life after the end of game 7 of the NLCS.
@@ethanweeter2732 that doesn’t mean the call at home plate was a bad call. Van Slyke DID tell Bonds to move in, that you’re absolutely right about. But as it was, the call wasn’t wrong.
Ok I’m not old enough to have watched this series but I’m watching it now because I love watching sports from eras I missed. Something isn’t right though. I keep hearing that pitchers back then didn’t throw hard and today’s pitchers have way more spin rate and all that. What am I missing? The pitchers in this game look like they’re throwing gas with nasty off speed stuff. Am I tripping Or what? They look just as good as pitchers today if not better.
Umpires (Game 1) (21:06) HP Harry Wendelstedt (Crew Chief) (7th) 1B John McSherry (7th) 2B Paul Runge (7th) 3B Dutch Rennert (6th) LF Jerry Crawford (4th) RF Gerry Davis (1st)
The pirates and the athletics would have been probably a great world series but the reds got hot at the right time ....And pirates starting pitcher Bob walk never looked comfortable on the mound. ...
So sad what’s happened to these 2 formerly great franchises. Only thing good about them now are their past histories and ballparks, their owners Nutting of Pittsburgh and Castellini down in Cincinnati are utter fucking jokes
I don't like to make predictions, but..if we (Reds) manage to beat this tuff Bucs team, and the A's win their series, then I see us sweeping them in the W.S. Yup, the A's just don't measure up to the Reds..sweep!
Paul Hansen II think. You might be able on TH-cam just put. 1990. Game two of the national league champion series and it might come up even if you only get high lights maybe 15. Or 25 min try it and see what happens I remember 1979. When these met Enjoy the Game have a good night
@@rusd1300 I am pretty sure I have game two on either DVD or VHS. All of my sports recordings are packed away right now though as I am transitioning into, hopefully, a house soon. Whenever I am settled in and be able to go through my recordings I will be in touch with you. Thanks for posting these games. I am going to try and watch all of these Reds game from the 1990 post season as it is the 30th anniversary of them this year, 2020. My oh my how time has gone.
dennisaugusta Well I'm glad they fixed that. That's not remotely fair. Reds fan for life, but Pittsburgh outperformed Us statistically in nearly every category and therefore EARNED home field. I guess homefield wasn't thought to be as big of a factor back then? Anyways... just glad we fixed that. Thanks!
. For years pete rose lied that he didnt bet on games, so no one should believe him saying he bet on his team winng, but it's BS, betting is betting on games leads to many disasters from organized crime being involved, players losing on purpose and so on. pete came out when he released his book. Look up the black sox scandal, then come back here.
If I remember correctly, CBS dropped Jack Buck from their MLB coverage all together in favor of Sean McDonough because: 1) He was never their first choice in the first place. He was only in the A-team w/ Tim McCarver out of shher desperation because Brent Musburger, who was going to be the lead play-by-play man when CBS was about to launch their MLB package was abruptly fired on April Fools Day 1990. 2) Rudy Martzke, who was arguably the most influential and/or preeminent sports broadcasting critic/columnist in the United States was very critical of Buck's on-air performance. CBS had a lot riding on their MLB package, and I'm sure that Buck became the natural fall guy for why their coverage wasn't considered quite up to par as say NBC's coverage (w/ Vin Scully, Joe Garagiola, Bob Costas, Tony Kubek, etc.) of recent memory. CBS also felt that Buck wasn't doing enough to make Tim McCarver shine or look good. 3) Buck did himself no favors w/ his flippant derogatory, borderline biased comments about Bobby Vinton's botched attempt at the "Star Spangled Banner" ("Well if you're Polish and from Pittsburgh, you can do anything you want with the words!!!") prior to one of the 1990 NLCS games in Pittsburgh. Buck also had an annoying habit of calling out big plays before they were officially determined (take for example, his call of Jerry Willard's game winning sacrifice fly/Mark Lemke's game winning slide at home in Game 4 of the '91 World Series).
1. barry larkin ss 2. billy hatcher cf 3. hal morris 1b 4. eric davis lf 5. Big O'Neill rf 6. chris sabo 3b 7. jeff reed c 8. mariano duncan 2b 9. jose rijo p
The Pirates had a better record than the Reds but for some dumb reason the Reds got to be the home team to start the series. Of course they always screw over the Pirates.
Tim McCarver is just as annoying 27 years later as he was in 1990. It boggles the mind how much prime time color commentary he provided, his opinions masquerading as baseball strategy or fact.
I know he can be grating, but I learned a lot about baseball listening to him on WWOR in the 1980s. Also, at least one of his opinions that were mocked was proven with computers and statistics. He always talked about how he framed pitches with his glove as a catcher to get strike calls on close pitches. People said umpires weren't so easily fooled. Well, with these pitch-tracking devices now, someone reviewed the data and found that the same umpires called more strikes on close pitches for catchers that use the framing technique than those that don't.
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Sabo!! Larkin!! Eric Davis!! Oh, the nostalgia. Feels like old buddies. And no one took a knee.
Bonilla, Bonds, Bell, Van Slyke. Loaded team on the other side
This is awesome! I attended this game, but I haven't seen the video since. This is a gem!
I love 💕 it when they called it "The River City Rivalry." (Pirates vs Reds!!!
I went to this game with my Dad. Thanks for uploading it.
joeboo629 lucky
A rare mistake in the out field by Eric Davis. He was such a talent.
Same here! Seats were awful, but goddamn was it one of the greatest moments with him!
@@joeboo629 he made up for it later in the series throwing out bonilla at third also in world series game 1 homer against stewart
Outstanding theme music! Awesome stuff!
Who knew then pat O’Brien would leave the greatest set of voice mails about 15 yrs later
one of the best played LCS I've ever seen. all the defense. all the pitching. all the managing.
What a great year going down to riverfront in 1990.
LOVING these old games during the covid19 months
Great Baseball. The Reds created a enormous surprise.
very enormous Other than Rijo, just guys who got the job done in the rotation and then the Nasty Boys. Larkin and Davis were the stars in the lineup but davis had a ‘down’ year after a breakout in 87 and Larkin hadn’t reached his potential while Chris Sabo was the best hitter outside them
I was around 18 months old when this series occurred! I'm glad I can watch it today.
Nothing like old school baseball and that Reds team would only lose once more during the '90 postseason! I was the # of years old you were in months during that playoff! Four months after I'd graduated from HS
In 1987 all of baseball was hailing Eric Davis as the next Willie Mays
If not for injury he may have
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C BASEBALL IS AMERICA'S PASTIME. WE DON'T CLAIM TO BE THE BIGGEST SPORT IN THE WORLD.
@MAN UTD Huh??? Not when baseball is on....
@M who cares
Eric davis n strawberry....were not only friends, but they were alike...both could've been hofs, Davis career derailed because of injuries, strawberry drugs....did u see a slim n young JB.
My dad took me to this game as my 18th bday gift.
Ended up here as I'm on a classic baseball kick from my childhood after watching the Astros win the World Series days ago. With the benefit of 2022 eyes, interesting to see how foolish Rijo looks throwing to 1st SEVEN TIMES(!!!) during Sid Bream's 3rd inning at bat to keep Bonds from stealing 2nd. And with 2 outs no less! I screamed out loud forget the runner, get the batter out! Bream ended up taking the distracted Rijo deep to tie the game. LOL.
I love how you worded that, as if people in 2022 are smarter than people in 1990 lol. What a douchey generation we’re in. And you’re probably older than I am 🤦♂️.
even though my Pirates lost the series... these are wonderful memories...
i love how barry trots slow around the bases like he actually was the one who hit bream's hr. awesome.
Proud to say this was the very first Major League baseball game I attended. Being from Nashville Tennessee all we had.....and still have are the AAA Nashville Sounds. I was 13. I got to leave school an hour early to make the 3 and a half hour drive with my dad. We checked into the Clariton Hotel, then went and ate at Gold Star Chili downtown downtown and then caught the game. I was VERY confident as a young Reds fan in a quick 4 game sweep of the Pirates. Of course I was shocked when a guy, coincidentally named Bob "Walk" beat Jose Rijo as they lost 4-3. Happily I'd get that 4 game sweep I was expecting about 2 weeks later when it REALLY mattered, against the "unbeatable"....roided up A's on the biggest stage in the baseball. I can proudly say my father and I went back and were in attendance for games 1 and 2 of the world series as well. We went to game 2 of the NLCS as well and I got to miss a day of school Friday which was extra awesome to go with that game 2 victory lol We checked out a neat little baseball card shop in that downtown plaza area where I begged my dad to buy me HIGHLY overpriced 1960 Topps Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson baseball baseball cards, our Hank and Frank cards as my dad would go on to call em, which I STILL have to this very day🙂 We sat behind first base in the second deck about 10 rows back, same seats in the World Series also. Tonight is THE first time I have ever seen the actual televised games, so you better believe there will be a whole lot of pausing while I look for us two needles in the haystack. I'm determined to find us lol I wish my dad was still here to look back on this with me. And as a little special added bonus.....who woulda known I'd be getting to watch, in person, the eventual all time homerun champion 17 years before he hit number 756, during the year his assault on the record arguably really began, the year of his first of many MVP winning seasons. Some people can say they got to see Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron.....Mantle play....but I got to see Bonds on those two days, and heck, I guess McGwire also....a few weeks later🙂 I'm just a casual Reds fan these days. I went crazy for the Chicago Cubs and my father's hometown, boyhood team The Detroit Tigers not long after The Reds magic 1990 season. Watching this game and the next is going to be a lot of fun, and keep my eyes really busy lol
I got to go to game 4 in Pittsburgh. Magical.
I remember this well. I am a Reds fan, and I was in the 5th grade in 1990. What a great summer to be a Reds fan. I think game 1 was on a Thursday.
I'm a lifelong Braves fan, but that opening - the picturesque scenery, the narration, the music - don't tell me today's is better than this. It was majestic then - and now. It made me want to buy a ticket to see the game in the cold between these two teams.
thanks Rus..thisgame sure took my mind off corona 19..thanks for uploading.
31:16 I first thought Bonds played the ball horribly with his body position, but look again, and watch how the ball just makes a hard left turn!
That Astroturf was insane.
Two evenly matched teams in terms of talent and skill
Paul O'Neill one of the most underrated ball players
Big O'Neill looked like he was clutch hitter
From 12:06 to 12:36 Bonds, Bream and Lavalliere introduced back to back. Nobody knew at the time that 2 years later the three would be linked for life after the end of game 7 of the NLCS.
Because of a bad call by Randy Marsh.
What was bad about it? Bream beat the tag. It was a bad throw.
@@williamkanejr3233And Slyke told him to scoot in just 2-3 feet. The throw missed by about 1 ft.
@@ethanweeter2732 that doesn’t mean the call at home plate was a bad call. Van Slyke DID tell Bonds to move in, that you’re absolutely right about. But as it was, the call wasn’t wrong.
A classic and sorry not to see the games back on CBS!!! the first nlcs and alcs + the world series I saw on television!!!!
hope you can upload more 1990 postseason..thanks again
The future NL Central rivalry opponent till [1994 - Present].
Surprising ending. Good game.
Ok I’m not old enough to have watched this series but I’m watching it now because I love watching sports from eras I missed.
Something isn’t right though. I keep hearing that pitchers back then didn’t throw hard and today’s pitchers have way more spin rate and all that. What am I missing? The pitchers in this game look like they’re throwing gas with nasty off speed stuff. Am I tripping
Or what? They look just as good as pitchers today if not better.
Commentators:
Jack Buck, Tim McCarver & James Brown (Cincinnati)
Pat O'Brien & Whitey Herzog (New York)
3:25: Hey guys...I'm here for my audition for Steve Perry's spot in Journey. Is this the backstage area?
Umpires (Game 1) (21:06)
HP Harry Wendelstedt (Crew Chief) (7th)
1B John McSherry (7th)
2B Paul Runge (7th)
3B Dutch Rennert (6th)
LF Jerry Crawford (4th)
RF Gerry Davis (1st)
The pirates and the athletics would have been probably a great world series but the reds got hot at the right time ....And pirates starting pitcher Bob walk never looked comfortable on the mound. ...
Second-base umpire got it ALL wrong that night, a pity !
So sad what’s happened to these 2 formerly great franchises. Only thing good about them now are their past histories and ballparks, their owners Nutting of Pittsburgh and Castellini down in Cincinnati are utter fucking jokes
which game did Big O'Neill dominate
I don't like to make predictions, but..if we (Reds) manage to beat this tuff Bucs team, and the A's win their series, then I see us sweeping them in the W.S. Yup, the A's just don't measure up to the Reds..sweep!
Do you have game 2 of the NLCS?
I was confident I did, but turned out all I had were highlights :(
how or where did you obtain these games?
Paul Hansen II think. You might be able on TH-cam just put. 1990. Game two of the national league champion series and it might come up even if you only get high lights maybe 15. Or 25 min try it and see what happens I remember 1979. When these met Enjoy the
Game have a good night
@@rusd1300 I am pretty sure I have game two on either DVD or VHS. All of my sports recordings are packed away right now though as I am transitioning into, hopefully, a house soon. Whenever I am settled in and be able to go through my recordings I will be in touch with you. Thanks for posting these games. I am going to try and watch all of these Reds game from the 1990 post season as it is the 30th anniversary of them this year, 2020. My oh my how time has gone.
Who said "Kick some ass" at 12:30?
Probably Backman
i still hate bream
1992 NLCS Game 7
I think the Reds ground-crew needed to wet down that damn dusty infield.. impossible calls to make @ 2nd base!
Why would you pull O’Neill?
Wrong calls from second-base umpire, both Sabo and Bream touched the base before the tag... but whatever.
The chicken runs at midnight
Is Bobby Bonilla still getting paid?
Jim Leyland is the most stressed out person of all time
Bonds was more likeable early in his career when he played for my Pirates
Jose Lind looked like Sammy Davis Jr.'s son
This Pirates team was very good I remember them well. They deserved at least one championship between 190-1992.
they sure deserved to at least play in the WS ....I'm 45 and have seen just about every team play those games, except my Pirates
They deserved what they got. They had their chance 3 strait years.
@@harryiglesias right
James Brown on the field for MLB with CBS lol
Why do I like Jack Buck but not Joe Buck?
The last NLCS until 2000 to not feature the Braves
And yet the Reds won just as many World Series as the Braves did the 90s
Yeah!!!!! Suck it Reds!
They won the world series that year, genius.
Can someone explain to me why the Reds got home field advantage when the Pirates posted a better regular season record?
Zachariah Pearson... Back when they had 2 divisions from 1969-1993 they would rotate home field between the East champion and West champion
dennisaugusta
Well I'm glad they fixed that. That's not remotely fair. Reds fan for life, but Pittsburgh outperformed Us statistically in nearly every category and therefore EARNED home field. I guess homefield wasn't thought to be as big of a factor back then? Anyways... just glad we fixed that. Thanks!
They did the same things with the World Series too-- it alternated each year.
You're right though-- it doesn't seem fair and it really doesn't make sense. Reds fan for life here too!
Alternated each year. Ironically, that alternating helped the Reds in the WS. They had homefield even though Oakland had a better record.
Bonds has a great arm? Sid Bream would disagree.
Where the hell was Pete Rose?
Yeah , my fave player pete rose was expelled in '89
Marshal Jim Duncan
In a federal prison. Check out his brother Dave talking about it with James Brown at 1:20:50
Betting on baseball games and lying about it later.
jack bran Betting on baseball is automatic banned from baseball.
You should learn baseball first before commenting.
. For years pete rose lied that he didnt bet on games, so no one should believe him saying he bet on his team winng, but it's BS, betting is betting on games leads to many disasters from organized crime being involved, players losing on purpose and so on. pete came out when he released his book.
Look up the black sox scandal, then come back here.
The Reds had no business sweeping the A's in the WS
1990...Cincinnati bastards beat the Pirates
thanks rus. i have not watched these games since 1990 when i was a sophomore in high school.
I was in 7th 🤣
Thanks Rus, great to see these games again.
LOVE it classic CBS sports its like a time machine....... CBS made a mistake when they fired Jack Buck in 91......Thanks
If I remember correctly, CBS dropped Jack Buck from their MLB coverage all together in favor of Sean McDonough because: 1) He was never their first choice in the first place. He was only in the A-team w/ Tim McCarver out of shher desperation because Brent Musburger, who was going to be the lead play-by-play man when CBS was about to launch their MLB package was abruptly fired on April Fools Day 1990. 2) Rudy Martzke, who was arguably the most influential and/or preeminent sports broadcasting critic/columnist in the United States was very critical of Buck's on-air performance. CBS had a lot riding on their MLB package, and I'm sure that Buck became the natural fall guy for why their coverage wasn't considered quite up to par as say NBC's coverage (w/ Vin Scully, Joe Garagiola, Bob Costas, Tony Kubek, etc.) of recent memory. CBS also felt that Buck wasn't doing enough to make Tim McCarver shine or look good. 3) Buck did himself no favors w/ his flippant derogatory, borderline biased comments about Bobby Vinton's botched attempt at the "Star Spangled Banner" ("Well if you're Polish and from Pittsburgh, you can do anything you want with the words!!!") prior to one of the 1990 NLCS games in Pittsburgh. Buck also had an annoying habit of calling out big plays before they were officially determined (take for example, his call of Jerry Willard's game winning sacrifice fly/Mark Lemke's game winning slide at home in Game 4 of the '91 World Series).
Tim McCarver was no jewel either
Sports Fan Yup just ask Deion Sanders
I'm sorry, but Jack Buck was really boring. It's boring listening to him calling game 7 of the 1991 world series.
The last LCS to feature teams wearing sans-A-belt pants, and V-neck Pullover jerseys. Thank Bob!
Man, I got chills watching that intro
I do to, I love them intro and music.
Lannis31 it's the theme from "The Untouchables"
1. barry larkin ss
2. billy hatcher cf
3. hal morris 1b
4. eric davis lf
5. Big O'Neill rf
6. chris sabo 3b
7. jeff reed c
8. mariano duncan 2b
9. jose rijo p
Check out Pete's brother Dave Rose at 1:20:50 talking to James Brown about Pete following the team from prison
Crazy. He looks just like him!
@M good for you and your father
Even then Buck looked old and tired...
Dave Rose looks like and sounds like Pete
The Pirates had a better record than the Reds but for some dumb reason the Reds got to be the home team to start the series. Of course they always screw over the Pirates.
It was on a rorating basis dumbass
Pirates won game 1. They immediately got the home field back
Tim McCarver is just as annoying 27 years later as he was in 1990. It boggles the mind how much prime time color commentary he provided, his opinions masquerading as baseball strategy or fact.
What's worse is he is a recipient of the Ford C. Frick award for broadcasting excellence. 😂
Brian Downing
Amen brother!
Tim McCarver is one of the best color analyst I've ever heard and seen on TV. I guess everyone has their own opinions.
I agree, Michael! His work with Jim Palmer and Al Michaels in the 1988 NLCS was my favorite.
I know he can be grating, but I learned a lot about baseball listening to him on WWOR in the 1980s. Also, at least one of his opinions that were mocked was proven with computers and statistics. He always talked about how he framed pitches with his glove as a catcher to get strike calls on close pitches. People said umpires weren't so easily fooled. Well, with these pitch-tracking devices now, someone reviewed the data and found that the same umpires called more strikes on close pitches for catchers that use the framing technique than those that don't.
2 dislikes by Doug drebek and Andy van Slyke
4 now, my guess is Bonds and Bonilla
The cookie cutter stadiums were much louder than the bullshit ass new stadiums of today. I don't care what anybody says. New isn't always better
That AstroTurf was not fun to play on when it was hot and it was hard on a player's knees.