1984 World Series Clinching Home Run
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- With men on 2nd and 3rd base and only one out, Goose Gossage argues with manager Dick Williams against intentionally walking Kirk Gibson. Gibby has already homered, walked and singled in the game. During the protracted debate at the mound between Goose and Williams, an incredulous Sparky Anderson is yelling out to Gibson, "He don't want to walk you."
As a 13-year-old kid and not able to get inside, my family and I hung outside by the right field wall listening to Ernie with all the others that couldn't get in and when the homerun left and hit the stands, I put my hand up against the wall and literally felt the wall vibrating and the noise of the fans erupting. It is a memory I will never forget.
Nobody knew how to "not talk" during pivotal moments like Vin Scully. Just a broadcasting master.
Ernie Harwell?
This was one of the biggest sports moments of my childhood. Rest in peace Vin Scully.
I remember reading the morning paper in the spring of 1984 and the Tigers were 35-5. Crazy. They never let up the whole season, just a great team.
You’re right about that!!!
Vin Scully should announce every world series game forever.
That's not a bad choice. How about Brian Anderson or Don Orsillo?
Rematch of the 1972 World Series managers. Substitute A’s vs Reds for Tigers vs Padres. Sparky’s revenge.
do not agree
A's were a great team
iceman91321 I agree 1000%!! I was really hoping he’d at least call the World Series last year! I know that there was a petition to try to get him back in the booth, but it didn’t work.
Everybody knew after this Blast by Gibson that the Tigers sealed their fourth world championship. I was 21 when it happened and I remember it like yesterday. Bless you boys
I was 31 and it never gets old.....did you see at the end of the video Gibby pointing and yelling at Sparky....hes say you owe me 10 F------g bucks....
When sparky yell at Gibso he dont want to walk you....Gibson yelled in how bout $10 bet if I hit one in upper deck.....as aw know he did.....I was fortunate enough to meet Gibby last year at a pic signing and he DID get the $10.......
I was 21 as well back in 1984 and I am a lifelong Tiger fan. That was one of the great moments of my youth as a sports fan.
This team is my favorite World Series team. EVER! What a start to the season. So much fun to watch. I vividly remember my hometown Indians snapped that big winning streak at Tiger Stadium in 84 on a Friday night. That was a fun game to watch.
35-5 to start the season , still best start ever for that many games in MLB, i was at this game as a 14 yr old best moment in my sports life and i appreciate it more everyday as im now 51 :)
Man did this bring back some good memories !
Two World Series home runs for two different teams in two different leagues off two different Hall of Fame closers.
That's badass!
And still not in the HOF
Great moments for Gibson, unquestionably but those bums on the mound hardly deserve enshrinement at Cooperstown instead realistic appraisal of their limited contributions and glaring shortcomings as pitchers would be a lot healthier for the game. Having no choice but to work out of the "blow-pen" for better or worse...mostly for the better Could Gossage ever have hacked it as a real pitcher i.e., going 9 every 3, 4, or 5 days with success and re: Eckersley ..he was done as a starter/complete pitcher way back in the day and very reluctantly accepted his demotion to reliever before realizing he could 'game the system' by pretty much facing just a couple of batters under very specialized situations and circumstances so as to create the illusion that he was some formidable force to be reckoned with.
@@tommyriam8320 are you serious.
@@timcollins3794 Are you a retardate?
You’re right about that!!!
I remember that moment as an 18 year old. Brings a year to my eye remembering the great Tigers years of my youth. #BlessYouBoys
i was 14 and at the Game in the upper deck in left Field , Next to the "Bleacher Creatures " in Center LOL ;) greatest sports memory of my life :) That 84 team had so much talent top to bottom Bergman, Brookens , Parrish , Tram , Lou, Chet , Kirk , Larry, Rozy, Milt , Jack ,Dan , Lopez, Willie , and geez thats just a quick bunch off top of my head :) ,i know i left a few out and Sparky runnin the show :)
His next World Series at-bat, against another Hall of Fame reliever, was the home run that won Game 1 in 1988.
and in the process he join the selected band of batters who hit a world series HR in both leagues
He also hit 2 consecutive World Series home runs. Gene Tenace did it in 1972, in the same World Series in his first two World Series at-bats.
Andruw Jones had HRs in his first two WS at bats. Gibson had HRs in his last two.
I remember that. Also stole a homerun with his glove in that same game. Thanks for posting that!
And he almost need a wheel chair to run.
- "He don't wanna walk you!" - Sparky shouting to Gibson from the dugout.
Gibson made them pay for that decision. ;-)
This blast ultimately sealed it for the '84 Tigers.... :-)
yep
Then Sparky yelled, as the ball left the yard..."YEAH! YEAH!!! DON'T walk him! DON'T WALK HIM!!!"
I wonder if Dick Williams got canned after that series. He should have. Absolute no-brainer to walk Gibson with a base open and only 1 out. Any contact scores a run. Set up the double play at least.
I'll never get tired of this
Gibby deserves to be in the Hall. He was integral and had two of the most memorable game clinching/game walk off home runs in World Series history. Most are happy to play in the fall classic. Kirk excelled.
Not to mention that he turned a bunch of nobodys into World Series champions in 1988. . . .
One of the greatest moments in baseball history.
Absolutely !
F***ing gold! Whenever someone asks, "How do you watch baseball? It's so boring!", I should just show them this video.
Doc Hogan check out Gibson vs Goose Gossage in 1984 WS.
When it's your year it's your year. 1984 belonged to the Tigers.
Bless You Boys! 1984 Tigers! 104 wins! They led from Spring Training all the way through the Series!
True!!!
Sparky and that smile
Best of luck to Kirk and his family. It's just been reported that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Kirk Gibson should be in the hall of fame. Came up big in the post season.
Kershaw will be in the HOF and Always did LOUSY in the Post Season. Makes No Sense.
A good day to watch this, 35 years after taking it in from lower deck bleacher seats at beloved Tiger Stadium, a treat that cost myself and three friends just $10 each.
I sitting here right now watching the Cubs vs. PADRES and had to pull this video up! I was 14 years old, grew up just S of 8 mile and Ryan in the D and that Sunday night was magical! Ran down to 8 mile and traffic was crazy, didn't even wanna go to school the next day, I'll never forget my first greatest sports moment!!
Bless you Boys⚾️
Not far from Pershing HS.
@@lousanto1054 had I went there I almost could've walked to school, would've sucked in the winter though😋
I took drivers ED @Osborne though😎
@@klasseact6663 I know this general neighborhood very well. Buddy's on 6 & Conant! Yummy!
@@lousanto1054 I know this isn't going to sound like a born and raised Detroiter but Buddy's sucks. I've been living in Chicago since 2009, so I'm sure you understand. I used to think Pizzapopulus was good. I'll say this though, Jets has landed here in Chicago a couple years ago and that's a pleasant surprise!
@@klasseact6663 I totally get it. I used to teach in Detroit and had Chicago stuff hanging in my classroom. Live in Goodrich now and teach in Fenton. I love Chicago pizza so much. We usually get out pizza from papa bellas in Ortonville.
Great moment for tiger fans. Kudos to Gibson of course but also to the Goose. Had the balls to take on a dangerous hitter in a big moment. Todays game is run by robotic calls courtesy of analytical geeks. Sometimes you just have to challenge with your best.
That was a great Padre team, especially the infield, but nobody could've stopped the Tigers that year.
This is true. The 84 Tigers were a team for the ages.
35 wins in the 1st 40 games won the AL east division wire to wire with the Best regular season record in baseball for 1984
I feel bad for the Padres, their 2 World Series appearances were against 2 great teams. The 1984 Tigers and 1998 Yankees.
- '84 Tigers just blew everyone away that year. With all due respect to the '86 Mets, the '84 Tigers might've been the best single-season team of the 1980s, just for the fact that they dominated BOTH the regular season & playoffs( Mets dominated their regular season in '86 but the playoffs vs Houston & Boston were a tougher grind although the Mets won the World Series in the end ).
I'd argue that the '86 Mets had a much tougher playoff and World Series draw than the Tigers did. The Astros with Mike Scott on the mound were unbeatable the last two months of the season, and the Red Sox were loaded with talent, and had all the momentum in the world coming off their series with the Angels. But I do agree that Tigers team was pretty stacked. It's tough to say who had the more impressive team.
I could not believe this...I was devastated...
one of the best moments in detroit baseball history
justin c probably the best moment in tigers history although maggs home run in 06 in the alcs was pretty good as well know one thought they would make the series that quickly after losing 100 something games
Those two pale in comparison to Freehan catching the final out of the '68 championship. If you weren't there you will never know or understand what that team meant to the area. '84 was great, but not really close. Winning the pennant in '06 isn't even in the "ballpark".
@ The '84 Tigers team was the most dominant Tiger team of my rooting for them since 1956. But the '68 Tigers were special to me because it was the first time in my lifetime (I was born in 1947, two years after the '45 world champs) that I could puff my chest out and say, I rooted for a World Series winner. And you're right when you talk about what the '68 title meant to the area...only one year after the disastrous Detroit riots. No city needed something more to smile about than Bill Freehan's catching Tim McCarver's popup in foul territory.
Agreed!!!
There was a section of outfield seats at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium called Templetown lol
Kirk Gibson: I'll never hit a more famous home run than that! Thank you, God!
God: Well... about that....
One of the greatest teams to win a World Series very underrated
sportsguy 9999 No doubt. Much like the 86 Mets, it’s a shame this team didn’t win more titles after this. This team was loaded.
Wakefield, Robinson,Howard and now,Willie Hernandez! Heaven is a ball players paradise with these great players!❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Why on earth would you pitch to Gibson in that situation?! 😵💫
This is a Franco-Harris-Immaculate-Reception type moment for Tiger fans. We all remember where we were when this happened. Good times.
Yes sir, as a kid I listened to all the Tiger games on my clock radio, when they werent on TV. Gibby went through a lot to get to that point. A couple years before, he missed 60 games with a broken wrist and people wondered if he would ever pan out. He was always hurt and struck out a lot. This moment, thit bomb he launched to the upper deck, it was so special.
And as a Dodger fan, we all remember where WE were when he hit the come-from-behind walkoff against Eckersley in the '88 series, which was actually voted as the Dodgers Greatest Moment in history. Great times.
"And look at Gossage...shocked to his toes!!"....oops, sorry, wrong reliever, wrong team... my bad.
Yea. I am looking for thersion of this with the live mike on Sparky Anderson. He is goading Gibson by yelling "he doesn't want to walk you! He thinks he can strike you out!" Which really psychs Gibson up. One of the greatest moments in baseball.
Took a while, maybe, but if you can bear a little Tommy LaSorda with it, here it is...th-cam.com/video/dmukTdo-WuY/w-d-xo.html
Goose Gossage lip reading: "Let's go after him." 1:37
oatmeal33 You're right. This didn't end the World Series. But in some regards to Tiger fans, you can say this put the icing on the cake or put the nail in the coffin for the series.
This wouldn't be the last time Vin Scully let a Kirk Gibson moment speak for itself.
It was an old stadium but it was a beauty as well....every game i went to and every game i watch on tv or listened on the raido i felt a part of damn i miss that ball park ⚾🐯
Better than Comerica Park.
Even as an eleven year old watching this game I knew that he needed to walk Gibson. I guess his pride got the best of him
Right up there with Lasorda deciding to pitch to jack Clark in 85 NLCS for dumbest moves with first base open in game deciding series.
- This was Gibson's biggest HR of his career up to that point. But then, 4 years later....
ckendall67 my pops nearly became a victim of murder when he ran around my mom's bedroom screaming after Gibson's historic blast won Game One for LA, he had been a Dodgers fan for 25 years then but now it's 55. also for Gibson's Detroit homer here who woulda thought it get put into a Kidsongs video a year later A Day at Old McDonald's Farm
Gossage had Gibson's number up to that point. I think he was 1 for 11 against him. That's why Gossage wanted to pitch to him. Gibson got Sparky's attention, held both hands open and pointed out. "I'll bet you $10 I hit it out." He did. True story.
The best $10 Sparky ever spent
Well this was obviously the greatest World Series homerun Gibson ever hit.
I love my 1984 Tigers but to me his 1988 as a Dodger was sweeter.
@@maggiesatterfield2402 I respect Gibson's '88 homer as a great WS moment, no doubt. But it galls me when so-called experts talk about Gibson, they fawn all over 1988, but NEVER mention 1984. If the Tigers had been the Yankees, Mets or Dodgers, 1984 would've been a legend, not some hard-to-find item on TH-cam.
remember it well, detroit tigers dominated that season from beginning to end. the unlikely national league championship was the padres (who had never reached post season in their first 15 years) vs. the cubs (who hadn't been in post season since 1945 (39 years)). padres 50 years and counting with no world series championship, the last 12 years no post season.
Best part of that highlight? No Joe Buck to ruin it.
That 1984 team was a machine
68 and 84 were sweet!
Michigan was blessed to have Gibson play both football and baseball here- and now he does color for the Tigers' games,
and we finally realize just how smart and talented he really is.
I'm glad you mentioned this because I am really enjoying listing to Gibby on the Tiger TV broadcasts both last year and this year. He has been such a "jock" for all of his life...star football player at State, professional baseball player, etc. it's easy to assume that the guy had brawn and great hand/eye coordination and speed, but was probably brainless. Well, if you assume that, you would be wrong. Great baseball mind. great insights into the strategy of different situations from both a player's and a manager's perspective. Great "feel" for each situation and the ability to predict many moves in advance just based on his experience. Very laid back and, in many cases, very funny guy. It's awesome that the Tiger's talked him into doing this. I love it.
@ Well...you have your opinion and I have mine and opinions are like ass holes...everybody's got one. I admit that Gibby's "delivery" is not as smooth as Rod Allen or many "broadcasters", but i like to listen to him talk baseball. I don't care how polished he is behind the mike. He's a baseball legend...who gives a shit how he sounds or that he goes off on tangents. It's all interesting stuff. As for actual baseball experience, Rod Allen isn't qualified to carry Kirk Gibson's jockstrap yet he always talked like he was some kind of a legendary major leaguer. He played in a grand total of 31 major league games over a 3 year period with 3 different teams, never hit a home run in the majors, and has a career major league batting average of 220...including a very impressive .091 average in his final year with the Indians. He's a friggin hack. How that guy ever ended up on TV as some kind of an expert analyst is beyond me.
Gibson was an animal. He could do what ever he wanted to. No one would say shit to him. Back when men played the game.
yup he was so sad how he never made an All-Star team one time in his career u would think for a guy like him he would make at least two or three.
Oh....come on....real men have always played baseball....now just as much as then. Fastballs are still. 97 m.p.h. Don't tell me that Today's sluggers and great pitchers are not just as strong.
ray Gordon "Men were men in my day. They're not men any more." Fred Snodgrass, recalling his playing days circa 1910
ahhhh. cue "those were the days" with edith and archie bunker singing.
@@tomitstube No doubt. Ive thought about it a lot. I believe its arguably the greatest decade baseball ever had. You had the final years of some of the absolute greatest baseball broadcasters, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Ernie Harwell, Scully, others. Sure, there was the turf carpet, but so what. The mix between the grass stadiums and the artificial turf clubs made for some great great differences for the human eyeballs as well as teams building themselves more with speed which I contend is sorely missing today. It was a decade that saw the Yankees titleless. It was before they cheapened the homerun, and hell I aint even talking about the roids. It was before they lowered the mounds, lowered the walls and shortened the distances. It was indeed when men were men. It was just better. I truly believe it was the golden age of baseball. No one wants to say it. I will.
Kirk Gibson is a gotdamn legend. Maybe not a hall of famer...but he and Bo Jackson are in the same company as a far as amazing baseball feats and highlights
Bless you Boys!!
Bless You Boys! :-)
1:45 Awesome..Nettles and Gossage together like the 70's champion Yankee days. Gossage had big balls, but straight up lost this one...I mean it's a tough match up with a lefty power fastball hitter for a RHP anyway, let alone a Gibson... Gossage was my boyhood hero, and that will never change.
That was the VERY BEST team, in the BEST ballpark, in MLB history. We only went to 2 games that year, watching Gibby smack TWO homers WAY UP into the LF upper deck in the SAME game. We followed every play of every game, called by Hall-of-famer Ernie Harwell, on WJR, for a once-in-a- lifetime baseball experience! The 84 Tigers set the best start, 35-5, a record which STILL stands. Sparky Anderson won World Series' in BOTH leagues, and masterfully managed the most OUTSTANDING lineup ever. Everybody played---no superstars or bench-warmers--ALL CHAMPIONS!!
"And there it goes"... That , my friends is what Hall of Fame broadcasting sounds like.
Lesson to future MLB managers: If Kirk Gibson is batting with the game on the line. Walk him. Do not pitch to him. I have a feeling that Parkinson's disease in is for one hell of an ass kicking.
The Tigers were already ahead when Gibby hit the homer.
and?
But there's a big difference between being down 1 run and being down 4.
CLINCHING...not game winning or walk-off. You idiot.
Just love it when people pitch Gibson inside every time he made contact on the inside it was the long ball
Gibson belongs in the Hall. He had a very solid career, and the perhaps the most memorable, clutch home run in World Series history.
Gibby had two World Series clutch Homers. Game 5 as a Tiger of 1984 against Gossage and Game 1 as a Dodger of 1988 against Ekersley. Gibson is one of the great players of all time in my book. He gave 100% all the time.
Pump the brakes, m. He came up big. But he doesn't fukken belong in any fukken hall.
i don't know his lifetime statistics. but if they are decent enough, he's deserving to be inducted into the hall of fame.
M L "perhaps the most memorable, clutch home run in World Series history"
Only if you don't know about a host of others. Personally, I'll take Mazeroski's in 1960.
Tom Hall Joe Carter comes to mind as well
It’s not one of baseballs greatest moments, but it’s numbered one for me
How did Garry Templeton miss second base? That's unbelievable.
If only Gossage had been a knuckleballer...the ball would not have traveled as far into the stands. Also credit Dick Williams (1929 - 2011) for not being the dumbest guy out on the mound.
Well as it turned out the final score was 8-4 Detroit. The Tigers were already leading 5-4 before Gibsons HR. So this HR that Goose gave up was really meaningless in the final outcome. It was really just icing on the cake
Terrific 84 Tigers team. An all time great team.
The boys of summer.
Kirk Gibson, the king of the big moment.
Saw it on live tv
From that moment on
Padres never came back and lost WS 4-1
Game recognizes game. And the Tigers were unbeatable that season. Still, at least the Padres got there.
he dont wanna walk you!
Terry Kennedy, very underrated left handed hitting catcher.
Man remember that Sunday i was a nervous rack all day but seeing Kirk Gibson hit that home run I jumped my house when carzy
I was the opposite. I woke up "knowing" the Tigers would finish it up that day.
Every time SD came back, I "knew" Detroit would respond. It was a very good day!
the earlier HR by Lance Parrish was one of the hardest hit balls I have ever seen.
Lance was as strong as they came. A very under rated catcher back then. He was just as good as any defensively for sure.
And there it goes!
Vin Scully with the perfect call.
I know the career numbers aren't there exactly, but Gibson should be in the Hall of Fame. He is the Jack Morris of hitters of his era, and Jack eventually got in, thankfully
I believe Kirk Gibson is the only player in major league history that have back-to-back at bat home run in the World Series for two different teams
The late Dick Williams was one of the game's greatest managers and he deserves his spot in Cooperstown but he ROYALLY fucked up here... You can only dominate a guy so much before he figures you out, and that's exactly what happened here. Williams should have been more firm in not allowing Gossage to pitch to Gibby, history or not.
1:37 “Let’s go after him” Both Kennedy and Williams wanted to walk him, but for some reason goose didn’t. He paid the price
It's called pride for a pitcher...he doesn't want to back down from anybody, strategy wise probably the wrong decision.
We’ve remembered this video A Day at Old Macdonalds Farm.
Gooses coach kept giving him the sign to walk him.he didn't want to. They talked about it on the mound.and a few moments later it was in the upper deck
This wound up being the final game the Padres wore those God Awful shit brown road uniforms.
Best home run of his career.
Never cared much for Kirk Gibson, but this was a cool moment. My uncle was at this game. Tore his seat out of the stadium and took it home with him
Hits HR, breaks several teammates' arms with high-fives
This isn't a series clinching home run. It's just insurance runs. It's not even the 9th inning. The only series-clinching home runs in baseball history were hit by Bill Mazeroski and Joe Carter.
Also, the HR didn't give the Tigers the lead. It just lengthened it. Lance Parrish got the GWRBI in the 7th, with his own HR off Gossage.
It wasn't technically the World Series clinching home run, but the Padres were for all intents and purposes, finished after Gibson hit that home run.
should have been the Cubbies in that WS
The Cubs drought is over. Quit your gripping.
Anthony Kernich I have a good friend who argues that the Cubs would’ve beaten the Tigers in 84. I referred him to a Therapist for his delusional thought process. I think that the Cubs would’ve given a harder fight...maybe 4-2 in games...but no one was beating the Tigers in 84. It was their year.
No, ant. It shouldn't have been the Cubs. They needed someone to perform the heimlich maneuver.
It's not really about the drought, though. The Cubs were the class of the NL that season. Sutcliffe, Sandberg, Jody Davis, Lee Smith, Leon Durham. As a Mets fan, I respected the Padres but feared the Cubs. '84 was their year.
You can see Gossage say “let’s go after him”.
Our favorite part.
If a player could get into the baseball HOF just on momentous HRs, then Kirk Gibson would be near the top of the list. However, not via is career: 255 HR, .268 BA, 870 RBI
Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. I have to agree. Lifetime stats, hurt by injury, are not HOF worthy. And the Game 5 hr is my all time fav.
My dad and I argued Morris being HOF: him against, me in favor. I think that Morris is a “lower tier” HOF, but worthy nonetheless. His career ERA makes him lower tier, but other stats are favorable.
He had the good grace to buy a Morris HOF T-shirt in Lakeland last Spring.
Agree, Doc. Who is next? Dusty Rhodes?
Balls against Brains: Even though Manager Dick Williams wanted to Intentionally Walk Kirk Gibson, Goose Gossage wanted to show some fortitude. Guess who won the battle?
Two Padres fans disliked this video.
The 84 Tigers were badass...I'm still upset that my Cubs choked as it would have been such a great match up and I realize the Tigers would be the betting favorite but a live dog for sure.
"He don't wanna walk you!"
Sparky knew.
2 big homers in WS. What a clutch player Gibby was
The "other" 23 that was Kirk Gibson that could have been Ryne Sandberg
Vin Scully's Southern California prejudice is evident in his call. LIsten instead to Tiger Hall of Fame broadcast Ernie Harwell call the shot.
Gossage should have gone with the backdoor slider.
Oh, wait.
Left handed hitting Catcher Terry Kennedy in the thumb nail. Good player.
Imagine a team that 1: Has Steve Garvey on the roster, and 2: In Steve Garvey, they have at best only the fourth most repulsive human being on the team. The Padres had, in their starting rotation, three card carrying members of the John Birch society--Eric Show, Mark Thurmond, and Dave Dravecky. Even if I wasn't a lifelong Tigers fan, it would have been joyous beyond imagining to see the Tigers pound the living crap out of them.
Vin called both of Gibson’s two famous HR’s
Now you understand "Restore the Roar!"
I believe that Gibson's 1st at bat in the majors was a strikeout to Gossage. WATCH THE OTHER CLIP HERE ON YT THAT SHOWS SPARKY IN THE DUGOUT YELLING TO GIBBY "HE DON'T WANT TO WALK YOU!!!!"
Kirk sure had a way of destroying closers...4 years later, on basically no legs, he tore the heart right out of Eck, who at the time was pretty much unhittable....and here of course, he made Goose pay dearly..