Tom Lawless during his 8-year career in the regular season batted only 531 times, hit only .207, drove in just 24 runs, and had only 2 home runs. During the 1987 season he was 2 for 25 with 0 RBI. In the 1987 World Series, he was 1 for 10 with this home run being his only hit. Despite a poor career, he will always have this memory.
Simplygu, and maybe the money too! The bat is now up for auction, inscribed with the HR details, and his signature. Now listing at Lelands.com at almost $1,500. www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/big-flippin-deal-lawless-famously-tossed-bat-is-up-up/article_94c72c9e-0ef2-5c91-a003-aeb3f5a1c0e5.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest
The bat-flip says, I made history off this dude on one pitch, one-at-bat. Tom is somewhere chillin, thinking at least my final home run was memorable and dramatic.
Fum fact: The man who got the save for the Cards in that game was Ken Dayley, who also happened to be the same man that allowed Lawless' very first MLB home run three years before. Pretty cool.
The bat may have stayed in the air longer than the HR ball did! The bat is now up for auction, over $1,000 almost at $1,500 at Lelands.com! "The bat spun and spun and landed itself as the No. 1 bat flip of all time in a recent ranking of such things by MLB Network. It surpassed the bat flips that have come during today's highlight saturation and social media age. Not even Blue Jays Joey Bautista could clip Lawless' flip." www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/big-flippin-deal-lawless-famously-tossed-bat-is-up-up/article_94c72c9e-0ef2-5c91-a003-aeb3f5a1c0e5.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest
My all time favorite radio call is Jack Buck's call of this baby (actually one of his lesser known calls). After he called it gone you heard a long radio silence followed by "that is difficult to imagine.,"
Mine also. Jack said, "Long fly ball to left, this might leave the park. (Moment of silence while the crowd reacts) It's a three-run home run for TOM LAWLESS! Now that is hard to imagine! He had four hits all year!
@@freeguy77 that doesn't count because it was the playoffs it's not like the college version of playoffs where whatever the athletes do in the playoffs Gets added to their regular-season and career totals
@@jonesvaughn8946 Ok, technically it was not the regular season. So what? The rareness, unexpected shock of it, the timing of it (a 3-run HR), and of course that memorable bat flip, made Tom Lawless a household name for then, and still today for those who remember. Same for Glenn Brummer stealing home to win a game in the '82 season, or Ozzie hitting that left-handed HR in the '85 World Series. "Go crazy folks! Go crazy!" --Jack Buck
@@hsoutdooradventures3755 Ummmm, YES! Tom Lawless and Glenn Brummer did a completely unexpected thing, so they will always be remembered by Cardinals fans! Of course they aren't Ozzie (who said anything about comparing them to Ozzie--but you!), but they did an exciting thing for the team, and that is what matters!
Al Michaels had to have shit himself after seeing that homerun! I also love how Lawless thinks he hit the ball over 500 feet but it managed to just barely clear the fence at 360 feet.
You also have to remember. Busch Stadium II was seriously a hard place to hit home runs. Add that to the fact that the Cardinals outside of Jack Clark didn't score runs via the home run ball at all. Game three of this series after the Twins stomped the Cardinals the first two games in their park. Top of the first 2 outs, Kent Hrbek hits a ball that would have been an easy home run in that indoor softball stadium called the Metrodome. It didn't even make the warning track.
Busch Stadium was actually a neutral park back then, according to park factors. The Cardinals just didn't build their team for power at all. They were all about pitching, defense, getting on base and wreaking havoc.
They had a lot working against them in this series, including the most grossly one-sided home-field advantage I've ever seen in baseball, at that Homer-dome in Minneapolis.
I remember in the 2014 season when this guy was named interim manager of the Astros (he was their most recent manager before Hinch in fact) thinking I knew that name from somewhere so I looked him up and sure enough, it was this HR and bat flip I remembered him for.
One of the loudest crowds I remember hearing in every world series I've watched since 1987. The 86 Mets crowd was very loud too! All the games at Busch in this series there's a whistle sound effect
The other thing I remember about this was. They said a minute later that Ken Dayley who was in the bullpen for the Cardinals. Gave up Lawless's first homerun in '84. But he probably enjoyed this one more.
It's great to be a Cardinal fan! World Series caliber bat flip! I kinda think that Lawless wondered of he really hit it as well as he thought did and was in disbelief that he was looking at something that he'd rarely seen from that perspective. After all, how many times did he ever actually get ahold of one?
Next to the bat-flip coming from a dude with two major league HRs, the best part about this: the ball BARELY cleared the wall and there he is, walking as if he put the ball into the upper deck 20 rows deep. If it falls a couple feet short, he would've hit the longest single in history. I read afterward that he stated he was walking because he thought it was an upper deck shot, while his teammates and coaches were yelling at him to start running (because they didn't think he had gotten enough of the ball to get out of the park).
The point is, white guys are always talking about 'acting like you've been there before'. Well, in a fucking World Series game...this clown was pimpin' his homer harder than Rickey Henderson at his best and not hustling. But everyone thinks it's awesome when a guy like Tom Lawless does it. Hypocrisy much?
There's a book I have called The Code. Frank Viola said that if he would've drilled Lawless if he had faced him again in the game. But Viola was taken out three batters later.
Nick Johnson Lol, its thinking like Viola and books like "The Code" is why baseball is stuck in 1956. I respect and love baseball as much as anyone but while players are coming up younger and younger fans are older and older. No one would think twice if that was done in Dominican Republic, Japan or Korea where they actually take baseball as a GAME and aim to entertain. We american fans take ourselves wayyyyyy to seriously with stuff like this.
I remember how the Cardinals hated the Mets for their showboating but this, by definition, is a bit of hypocrisy. Well, anyway, I'd also say that the '85 and '87 Cardinals were the most unique team I ever saw. Get on base and steal, steal, steal. Artificial turf was a huge factor as well. But it worked.
in the 1987 world series film entitled there's no place like home Tom Lawless hit only 1 lifetime Major league HR prior to that AB and that was the only other time that he had ever hit
@Vincent Cuttolo yeh keep telling yourself that. So all the home runs the Twins hit on the road.......explain that? The Twins just out played the Cards. That team could flat out hit the ball. Let's not forget they had hall of famer Kirby Puckett on their squad who was a human dynamo on a baseball field.
Vincent Cuttolo ....and what was that employee’s name? Willing to bet you have zero reference to prove that bunch of baloney. Then all the indoor stadiums must do this little trick? OMG!! What a sore loser after 32 years. Unreal!! The story you are referring to was the first year the Metrodome opened in 1982. To prove their point that no funny business was going on they hung those yellow ribbons up so you could see the air flow.
That's why we love sports. Sure it's great to see the greats do their thing, but it's just as fun watching the other guys find themselves in a big moment.
So much better than Bautista's or Cespedes's bat flips. Had one home run in his ENTIRE CAREER! And only had one more after. Lawless was awful... and he pimps the shit out of it
To be truthful, while you are right. I truly believe he was stunned by the whole thing. As they said, it was his second major league home run. So he had no idea it was coming. Plus, Busch Stadium II back in those days. NOBODY hit home runs there. The Twins hit a few in games 1 and 2 that series. Top of the 1st, Hrbek hits a ball and went into his home run trot. And the announcers said, Sorry Hrbek, that won't even make the warning track. You have to earn your home runs here.
Totally explains Jeffrey Leonard hitting home runs in the first two games of the LCS. Because NOOOOOBODY hit it out of Busch Stadium. And they booed the shit out of his One Flap Down. Amazing.
Give me one example of a player of the away team being given a standing ovation for hitting a home run in the other teams park..... Especially in a playoff game no less.
The point is, you're acting like it was some impossibility. And Leonard was basically pimping his own home run and they booed him and knowing St. Louis, probably added a few slurs to boot. But Lawless...good ol' boy. Because that's how this country is. Blatant with the racial hypocrisy. And always ready to shift the goalposts to make an excuse seem valid.
I don't know why people say Lawless barely hit it out. It cleared the fence by a good 10-20 feet. Fully justified to do the slow walk and admiring gaze. And, of course, the epic bat flip.
On this date (October 21) in 1987: The Cardinals’ Tom Lawless hits a 3-run bomb off the Twins’ Frank Viola in Game 4 of the World Series and tops it off with an epic bat flip. The Cards won 7-2. It was Lawless’ 2nd career HR (in 5 seasons up to that point).
On this date (August 16) in 1984, After nearly six years, Pete Rose was reunited with his hometown Cincinnati Reds when the Expos traded him for infielder Tom Lawless. The Reds immediately named him player-manager, replacing Vern Rapp.
In his biography, Don Baylor was in the Twins dugout. When Lawless was trotting to third base, Baylor said that he could hear Twins 3b Gary Gaetti calling Lawless every name in the book for the batflip! 😂 Whitey Herzog had a good one too, in the post game press conference a reporter asked Herzog about the bat flip and insinuated that Lawless ran the bases like he had hit 500 HRs. Herzog replied, "well he has hit 500, but they only come at 4:00!!" 😂😂
Everybody looks absolutely stunned (even the umpires and his coaches) EXCEPT Tom Lawless. Before this 3-run blast off Twins ace Frank Viola which won Game 4 of the 1987 World Series, his name might as well have been Tom Homerless. One of the great moments in baseball history.
I just noticed how much more foul territory was in play back then, now I can’t stop looking at it, it’s almost drastically different, it’s about as an impactful change as lowering the mound was
Yes, but this might have been also the first bat-flip in the history of baseball (I've heard this mentioned on a couple of diff videos), so it might not have been thought of, as badly as it is now.
The birth of the bat flip. From an .080 hitter, off Frank Viola in the World Series. Simply amazing to this date.
Baseball is a funny game
Al Michael’s has a great memory. Glad he talked about it tonight
Tom Lawless during his 8-year career in the regular season batted only 531 times, hit only .207, drove in just 24 runs, and had only 2 home runs. During the 1987 season he was 2 for 25 with 0 RBI. In the 1987 World Series, he was 1 for 10 with this home run being his only hit. Despite a poor career, he will always have this memory.
Simplygu, and maybe the money too! The bat is now up for auction, inscribed with the HR details, and his signature. Now listing at Lelands.com at almost $1,500. www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/big-flippin-deal-lawless-famously-tossed-bat-is-up-up/article_94c72c9e-0ef2-5c91-a003-aeb3f5a1c0e5.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest
B V , sorry, but Lawless was a utility player. Not a pitcher.
It's a helluva story. Great memory to have. He flipped the bat like he was a home run wizard. Hilarious.
I think he was thinking more like ‘about damn time’ with that bat flip lol
The bat-flip says, I made history off this dude on one pitch, one-at-bat. Tom is somewhere chillin, thinking at least my final home run was memorable and dramatic.
Just heard Al Michaels say to look it up on TH-cam during the ABC Sunday Night Baseball telecast, and here I am!
Me too
@@bigdill_3922 🙂
ChiSox@Cubbies Sunday Night Baseball booth interview with Al Michaels brought me here and I’m grateful.
The bat flip that ends all other bat flips. Truly epic.
- Either Lawless's or Bautista's for sure, can't go wrong either way. :)
Here because of Al Michael’s commentary in the Cubs vs. Socks Game. What a moment!
Fum fact: The man who got the save for the Cards in that game was Ken Dayley, who also happened to be the same man that allowed Lawless' very first MLB home run three years before. Pretty cool.
Truly a fum fact
They say the bat is sill in the air to this day.........
The bat may have stayed in the air longer than the HR ball did! The bat is now up for auction, over $1,000 almost at $1,500 at Lelands.com! "The bat spun and spun and landed itself as the No. 1 bat flip of all time in a recent ranking of such things by MLB Network. It surpassed the bat flips that have come during today's highlight saturation and social media age. Not even Blue Jays Joey Bautista could clip Lawless' flip."
www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/big-flippin-deal-lawless-famously-tossed-bat-is-up-up/article_94c72c9e-0ef2-5c91-a003-aeb3f5a1c0e5.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest
Unbelievable comment. Thank you for the epicness and wit!!!
The greatest bat flip in the history of baseball.
Brendan Cahalan jose bautista bat flip was pretty lethal.
Considering he had no business hitting a home run in the World Series to begin with, yeah greatest bat flip ever.
VIVA CARDS!
That's what makes it all the more amazing.
I agree
@@mvrdamonxy7942 Jose Bautista
I've just witnessed this for the first time and I am beside myself. Tom Lawless, you are the GOAT.
The Al Micheals interview during the Cubs/White Sox game brought me here!
My all time favorite radio call is Jack Buck's call of this baby (actually one of his lesser known calls). After he called it gone you heard a long radio silence followed by "that is difficult to imagine.,"
Mine also. Jack said, "Long fly ball to left, this might leave the park. (Moment of silence while the crowd reacts) It's a three-run home run for TOM LAWLESS! Now that is hard to imagine! He had four hits all year!
.080, 1 lifetime home run? Hell yeah! Get your money's worth!
3 lifetime HRs. This one was his 2nd.
@@freeguy77 that doesn't count because it was the playoffs it's not like the college version of playoffs where whatever the athletes do in the playoffs Gets added to their regular-season and career totals
@@jonesvaughn8946 Ok, technically it was not the regular season. So what? The rareness, unexpected shock of it, the timing of it (a 3-run HR), and of course that memorable bat flip, made Tom Lawless a household name for then, and still today for those who remember. Same for Glenn Brummer stealing home to win a game in the '82 season, or Ozzie hitting that left-handed HR in the '85 World Series. "Go crazy folks! Go crazy!" --Jack Buck
@@hsoutdooradventures3755 Ummmm, YES! Tom Lawless and Glenn Brummer did a completely unexpected thing, so they will always be remembered by Cardinals fans! Of course they aren't Ozzie (who said anything about comparing them to Ozzie--but you!), but they did an exciting thing for the team, and that is what matters!
Al Michaels had to have shit himself after seeing that homerun! I also love how Lawless thinks he hit the ball over 500 feet but it managed to just barely clear the fence at 360 feet.
You also have to remember. Busch Stadium II was seriously a hard place to hit home runs. Add that to the fact that the Cardinals outside of Jack Clark didn't score runs via the home run ball at all. Game three of this series after the Twins stomped the Cardinals the first two games in their park. Top of the first 2 outs, Kent Hrbek hits a ball that would have been an easy home run in that indoor softball stadium called the Metrodome. It didn't even make the warning track.
I don’t think Lawless thinks that
If I only hit 2 career HRs I'd pimp the 💩out of it too, esp if I hit one in the World Series.
Busch Stadium was actually a neutral park back then, according to park factors. The Cardinals just didn't build their team for power at all. They were all about pitching, defense, getting on base and wreaking havoc.
The Cards nearly pulled it off in 87' without a good portion of their line-up in the playoffs. This was Herzog's best job as a manager.
Wondering if Jack Clark had played this series the outcome would be different.
@@eltravo2112 Jack Clark was always hurt
They had a lot working against them in this series, including the most grossly one-sided home-field advantage I've ever seen in baseball, at that Homer-dome in Minneapolis.
Who’s here after Al just reflected on it during the Cubs v White Sox game in 2021?
If this happened in today’s world the internet would break.
People love bat flips.
That’s not true. It’s common now. Back then, doing this was a really big deal.
Joey Bats has nothing on this bat flip. Best bat flip of all time!
Would like but it’s at 69
I remember in the 2014 season when this guy was named interim manager of the Astros (he was their most recent manager before Hinch in fact) thinking I knew that name from somewhere so I looked him up and sure enough, it was this HR and bat flip I remembered him for.
Thank you for this baseball gift.
Al Michael's always the best
Hitless Lawless- i remember this like it was only 30 years ago- God Bless The Cardinals !!!
Lawless probably shows this video to his grandkids every day.
“Yep, that was your grandfather…”
great last name, great bat flip
One of the loudest crowds I remember hearing in every world series I've watched since 1987. The 86 Mets crowd was very loud too! All the games at Busch in this series there's a whistle sound effect
This is Classic , TY Al Micheals
Was this the invention of the "Bat Flip"?
At the moment of his epic bat flip, who knew that the great Tom Lawless still had 1/3 of his career HRs yet to hit?
The other thing I remember about this was. They said a minute later that Ken Dayley who was in the bullpen for the Cardinals. Gave up Lawless's first homerun in '84. But he probably enjoyed this one more.
I was there, place went nuts!!
It's great to be a Cardinal fan! World Series caliber bat flip!
I kinda think that Lawless wondered of he really hit it as well as he thought did and was in disbelief that he was looking at something that he'd rarely seen from that perspective. After all, how many times did he ever actually get ahold of one?
Next to the bat-flip coming from a dude with two major league HRs, the best part about this: the ball BARELY cleared the wall and there he is, walking as if he put the ball into the upper deck 20 rows deep. If it falls a couple feet short, he would've hit the longest single in history. I read afterward that he stated he was walking because he thought it was an upper deck shot, while his teammates and coaches were yelling at him to start running (because they didn't think he had gotten enough of the ball to get out of the park).
Todd Bacile A ball that scrapes the back of the line has the same effect on the scoreboard as a huge upper deck shot.
The point is, white guys are always talking about 'acting like you've been there before'. Well, in a fucking World Series game...this clown was pimpin' his homer harder than Rickey Henderson at his best and not hustling. But everyone thinks it's awesome when a guy like Tom Lawless does it. Hypocrisy much?
Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot ok Mr. Agenda guy
The point is, he hadn't really been there before
It's only because he hit 3 home runs in the bigs over like a ten year span. He gets a free pass. I know it's bad, but is it not hilarious?
Great HR, even better bat flip! Cant beat a HR in the World Series! 💕👍
if the cardinals would have won that series he would have been a legend
There's a book I have called The Code. Frank Viola said that if he would've drilled Lawless if he had faced him again in the game. But Viola was taken out three batters later.
Nick Johnson Lol, its thinking like Viola and books like "The Code" is why baseball is stuck in 1956. I respect and love baseball as much as anyone but while players are coming up younger and younger fans are older and older. No one would think twice if that was done in Dominican Republic, Japan or Korea where they actually take baseball as a GAME and aim to entertain. We american fans take ourselves wayyyyyy to seriously with stuff like this.
+Terrell Zimmerman Just watch college football to further your point.
I remember how the Cardinals hated the Mets for their showboating but this, by definition, is a bit of hypocrisy. Well, anyway, I'd also say that the '85 and '87 Cardinals were the most unique team I ever saw. Get on base and steal, steal, steal. Artificial turf was a huge factor as well. But it worked.
Here because Al Michaels told us on Sunday Night Baseball on ABC to look it up
Tom Lawless' bat up there with Bobby Shmurda's hat.
Al Michael and Sunday night baseball brought me here
Old school baseball all the way....!!!!
I remember laughing watching this as a kid lawless watching it like he’d hit it 450
in the 1987 world series film entitled there's no place like home Tom Lawless hit only 1 lifetime Major league HR prior to that AB and that was the only other time that he had ever hit
@ 1:08 for the #swagger
Not even a Cards fan, but that makes me smile.
BE A CARDS FAN
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That was pure wrist and elevation power ! That stach gave em a boost up
I wonder what Sam Dyson would think of that bat flip?
+Decoy he'd probably try to slap his ass
It's August 8, 2021. I got sent here by Al Michaels.
Cards could just not get one win at that monstrosity in Minneapolis with a decibel level of a squadron of jet fighters taking off.
POV: Your here because Al Micheal’s told you to be here
That was so sweet. The Cardinals should have won that series.
Eric Honecker why?
@Vincent Cuttolo yeh keep telling yourself that. So all the home runs the Twins hit on the road.......explain that? The Twins just out played the Cards. That team could flat out hit the ball. Let's not forget they had hall of famer Kirby Puckett on their squad who was a human dynamo on a baseball field.
Vincent Cuttolo ....and what was that employee’s name? Willing to bet you have zero reference to prove that bunch of baloney. Then all the indoor stadiums must do this little trick? OMG!! What a sore loser after 32 years. Unreal!! The story you are referring to was the first year the Metrodome opened in 1982. To prove their point that no funny business was going on they hung those yellow ribbons up so you could see the air flow.
@@tdavidg9176 the Twins have been Awol since 1987 while the Cardinals have played in 4 World Series since winning two of them
@@twostop6895 the Twins won another WS in 1991. Might want to look that up.
This is probably the most filthy bat flip I've ever seen!
Great moment when the non superstars of game have there moment. Especially on the biggest stage. It shows it takes 25 men to win
That's why we love sports. Sure it's great to see the greats do their thing, but it's just as fun watching the other guys find themselves in a big moment.
So much better than Bautista's or Cespedes's bat flips. Had one home run in his ENTIRE CAREER! And only had one more after. Lawless was awful... and he pimps the shit out of it
To be truthful, while you are right. I truly believe he was stunned by the whole thing. As they said, it was his second major league home run. So he had no idea it was coming. Plus, Busch Stadium II back in those days. NOBODY hit home runs there. The Twins hit a few in games 1 and 2 that series. Top of the 1st, Hrbek hits a ball and went into his home run trot. And the announcers said, Sorry Hrbek, that won't even make the warning track. You have to earn your home runs here.
Totally explains Jeffrey Leonard hitting home runs in the first two games of the LCS. Because NOOOOOBODY hit it out of Busch Stadium. And they booed the shit out of his One Flap Down. Amazing.
Give me one example of a player of the away team being given a standing ovation for hitting a home run in the other teams park..... Especially in a playoff game no less.
Like Matt Adams off Clayton Kershaw won't be the case for him!
The point is, you're acting like it was some impossibility. And Leonard was basically pimping his own home run and they booed him and knowing St. Louis, probably added a few slurs to boot. But Lawless...good ol' boy. Because that's how this country is. Blatant with the racial hypocrisy. And always ready to shift the goalposts to make an excuse seem valid.
I don't know why people say Lawless barely hit it out. It cleared the fence by a good 10-20 feet. Fully justified to do the slow walk and admiring gaze. And, of course, the epic bat flip.
your right. I never realized that before but that was a 12 foot wall back then too. The ball is 10 to 15 rows deep in most parks now.
80s baseball>>>
Al Michaels brought me here today. Do I really see that? 8 8 2021
Rumor has it Jose Bautista was born during game 5 of 1987....
You just know he practiced that a million times at home.
On this date (October 21) in 1987: The Cardinals’ Tom Lawless hits a 3-run bomb off the Twins’ Frank Viola in Game 4 of the World Series and tops it off with an epic bat flip.
The Cards won 7-2.
It was Lawless’ 2nd career HR (in 5 seasons up to that point).
Anyone else here because of the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast on August 8th 2021?
On this date (August 16) in 1984, After nearly six years, Pete Rose was reunited with his hometown Cincinnati Reds when the Expos traded him for infielder Tom Lawless. The Reds immediately named him player-manager, replacing Vern Rapp.
Here after MLB on ABC
Great moment. But we couldn't win in the Homer Dome.
Indoor Soft-ball Stadium.
In his biography, Don Baylor was in the Twins dugout. When Lawless was trotting to third base, Baylor said that he could hear Twins 3b Gary Gaetti calling Lawless every name in the book for the batflip! 😂 Whitey Herzog had a good one too, in the post game press conference a reporter asked Herzog about the bat flip and insinuated that Lawless ran the bases like he had hit 500 HRs. Herzog replied, "well he has hit 500, but they only come at 4:00!!" 😂😂
You mean 4 PM?
If I only hit 2 home runs in my career I'd be flippin' my bat too
I can't stop watching this and laughing.... this is great
😳 Still can’t believe he hit that outta here!
Talk about an unlikely hero
How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball?
Classic! I lived it.
Al Michael’s just sent me here
ESPN dropped the ball on not having this in their Top 10...still remember it like yesterday
Al Michael's on Sunday night baseball brought me here
The OG of bat flipping
I remember watching this live..as a Reds fan it would have been equivalent to Shogo Akiyama hitting such a huge homerun..lol
Majestic
Legend!
How did games #6 and 7 work out for ya?
Everybody looks absolutely stunned (even the umpires and his coaches) EXCEPT Tom Lawless.
Before this 3-run blast off Twins ace Frank Viola which won Game 4 of the 1987 World Series, his name might as well have been Tom Homerless.
One of the great moments in baseball history.
Where did the bat go when he flipped it lol
The greatest thing about this imo is the fact that the ball BARELY cleared the fence 🤣🤣
Eloy Jimenez brought me here
White Sox/Cubs today brought me here too!
I just noticed how much more foul territory was in play back then, now I can’t stop looking at it, it’s almost drastically different, it’s about as an impactful change as lowering the mound was
Frank Viola was a good pitcher but if you give up a home run to Tom Flawless Lawless it's time to ponder retirement.
+Dan Grider And the Cy Young in 1988
Fuck you.
+Blah Playhard No thanks.
Get your shine box, Senator.
+Blah Playhard No thanks
Whitey Herzog, when Lawless got back to the dugout:
"Next time you hit the ball, run the damn bases!:
🤣
Who is here because of sunday night baseball??
You gotta give the pitcher credit for staying cool after that. If this was today, he would have pegged the next batter.
Yes, but this might have been also the first bat-flip in the history of baseball (I've heard this mentioned on a couple of diff videos), so it might not have been thought of, as badly as it is now.
The Cards were hitting maybe 100 home runs a season back then
Al Michaels sent me here
Al Newman (1 career HR) just looks at him approaching second like “There goes my her-rooooo: watch him as he goes.”
Epic.
Best bat flip ever!
Hits the ball at 1:06... doesn't start running until 1:13. Lol #savage
It’d be awesome if that was in mlb the show.
Ball barely clears the fence. He stares and flips bat. Regular Babe Ruth.
Here because of Sunday Night Baseball lol
The disrespect on that bat flip 😂
Al Newman was almost looking at him sideways as he went around second base. Utter disbelief
This guy has 2nd career HR , walks about 25 feet then bat flits and they gave Bautista heck?
Back in the days when the opposing teams didn't throw tantrums when a player admired a homer or did a bat flip.
Call it the element of surprise here.