I was a chubby 15-year-old acne-faced Mexican teenager back in 1981, so watching Fernando cause such a craze in the Major Leagues was such an inspiration not only to myself but to so many other Mexican/Latino kids at that time. Every time I think of my high school years I can't help but think of my sophomore year & the excitement of living through the height of Fernandomania. Even though he only had about 7 good productive years in the majors, no one can ever take away that 1981 magical year that will always belong to Fernando Valenzuela! Viva el toro forever!!!!!!!!
My Father knew Fernando's Agent Tony DeMarco and would get tickets from him in the early to mid 80's. Fernando Valenzuela should be in the MLB Hall of Fame. All though his numbers declined after 1991, he still ranks in the top 10 in career strike outs, though a Dodger future Hall of Famer is on the verge of 3,000 career strikeouts; Clayton Kershaw.
I was a skinny white guy in LA. I loved that magical run. Years later I caught his no hitter on he radio (so think Dave Stewart may have pitched one the same day)?
Por mucho, el mejor beisbolista mexicano de la historia y uno de los mejores deportistas de todos los tiempos, te saludo con respeto, sr Valenzuela saludos desde Ecatepec, México !
Fernando was Amazing in '81 and My Family got to see all of his Games at Dodger Stadium! Back when Starting Pitchers where expected to Complete the Entire Game! No Middle-Relief, No Closer.
There were, indeed, players who served, regularly, in 'middle-relief' and/or 'closer' roles HOWEVER , only out of true necessity , for the most part and were certainly _not_ venerated in the grotesque manner in which they are regarded in today's perverted version of the "grand old game"
I can never forget this game! The morning after this game, there was a sports headline on the Herald Examiner that read: Etchohuaquila 1, New York 0 Meaning that the Dodgers won this game 1-0 as Etchohuaquila was where Fernando was born in Sonora, Mexico.
Heard a story about Fernando back in the 80s, he would help put food on the table with his rock throwing skills. No doubt about it with his most excellent control.
This is a ridiculously stupid comment. You think improving your strength and power with good nutrition and a strength program is the same as steroids. Idiotic.
@@7srchoed what's really retarded is your comment. All the juice in the world won't make you a pro pitcher. And if it was being used, it was at the beginning stages of perfecting.......what did I "trigger" with a particular word......oooooh .....
Fernando Mania was a crazy & fun thing to witness, and even crazier & more fun to be in the middle of! What a awesome year that was for The Dodgers & all us Fernando crazed fans, it & he was something special 💪👍 #Go Big Blue Wrecking Crew!! #Thanks for the memories El Toro!!
@@fast03vette4me Oh Hell yeah they were/are! Fernando Mania & Magic Mania were jump'n off at the same time! It was & is a GREAT time to be from the LA area!! 💪😎
I get extremely prideful when I remember El Toro AKA Fernandomania! I was 4 years old growing up in a single parent home. My mother Rest In Heaven would put on the game on television and muted it while listening on the Spanish radio channel Jaime Jarrin narrate (with that larger than life voice) the ball games every time Fernando Valenzuela would pitch! Fond memories! There will never such a high caliber of ball player than Fernando! Los “Doyers” as my mother would say along with every other Mexican in Los Angeles!
I worked at a Buick dealership body shop. Our head tp paint manager had a corner of the shop with an easy chair, pole lamp, table, radio and TV all for watching the Dodger games. He was set and his department put out TOP NOTCH paint jobs back then. That was a time. Great memories.
Mike Scott pitched his heart out in defeat. His best game ever as a Met before they gave up on him and traded him to Houston where he turned his career around completely. I remember watching the WOR telecast that night and the Kiner's Korner postgame show had LaSorda and Scott.
1986 was a big year for Mike Scott. He pitched a no-hitter to clinch the NL West for the Astros and probably would've pitched the Stros into the World Series if the NLCS had gone to a game 7 --- the Mets had no answers for him in that series.
Recuerdo a Fernando en el 81 ,82 después de debutar en grandes ligas vino ese año en invierno a jugar al Pacífico también. En esos tiempos se pichaba hasta 150 lanzamientos por partido. Hoy en día a los 100 y dejan el partido . Les cuidan más el brazo por obvias razones. Grande Fernando. Novato del año y Cy young en el 81 y campeón mundial y contra los Yankees.
Didn't he have something insane like eight shutouts for the entire season?? Staggering to think that Vin Scully was already 30 years into his career at this point 🤯
@another. It was something like that. I was thinking it was more like 5 straight that began on opening day. If it weren't for the players strike in mid season of '81, Fernando would've won 20 games I'm sure. 😊
I was a 9 year old living in Brooklyn at the time and I clearly remember there being a buzz earlier that day that Fernando would be pitching against the Mets
Is it just me or these camera angles are 1 million times better than the ones now ?? Why do we have such wide-screens basically focused on everything BUT the player..
I was at this game and made $15.00 slipping my ticket stub through the window at the Baskin Robbins next to the field-level gate to let people sneak through to the lower level (I had a season ticket). Fun times!
I was a teenager at the time didn't care for baseball or Fernando but I had to watch him because everybody would be watching him ,then evenchely I became a fan couldn't escape it Fernando .
Recuerdo cuando lo vi por primera vez en televisión en vivo, no lo conocía, pero como se empezó a hacer muy famoso rápidamente, pues llegó el momento en que lo vi.
Fernando had 7 or 8 good seasons and it would seem like he was on HOF trajectory. I wonder if the Dodgers let him pitch to long into games in 1981 and beyond. Pitch counts did not become available until 1988. In that season starting pitchers threw 140 pitches in 55 games. Maybe that wasn't too many if you were completing games or at least going 7 or 8 hittings. That does not happen today. The average start today is probably 5 or maybe 6 inning at best. The game has really changed when it comes to pitching.
I was a chubby 15-year-old acne-faced Mexican teenager back in 1981, so watching Fernando cause such a craze in the Major Leagues was such an inspiration not only to myself but to so many other Mexican/Latino kids at that time. Every time I think of my high school years I can't help but think of my sophomore year & the excitement of living through the height of Fernandomania.
Even though he only had about 7 good productive years in the majors, no one can ever take away that 1981 magical year that will always belong to Fernando Valenzuela! Viva el toro forever!!!!!!!!
Very, very well said my friend. Countless people I’m sure would say something similar!
I watched him pitch live at Dodger Stadium early 80’s as a kid. Great memories.
My Father knew Fernando's Agent Tony DeMarco and would get tickets from him in the early to mid 80's. Fernando Valenzuela should be in the MLB Hall of Fame. All though his numbers declined after 1991, he still ranks in the top 10 in career strike outs, though a Dodger future Hall of Famer is on the verge of 3,000 career strikeouts; Clayton Kershaw.
I was a skinny white guy in LA. I loved that magical run. Years later I caught his no hitter on he radio (so think Dave Stewart may have pitched one the same day)?
The best line Vin Scully said about Fernando Valenzuela after his no hitter: “if you have a sombrero, throw in the sky.”
Por mucho, el mejor beisbolista mexicano de la historia y uno de los mejores deportistas de todos los tiempos, te saludo con respeto, sr Valenzuela saludos desde Ecatepec, México !
Fernando was Amazing in '81 and My Family got to see all of his Games at Dodger Stadium! Back when Starting Pitchers where expected to Complete the Entire Game! No Middle-Relief, No Closer.
There were, indeed, players who served, regularly, in 'middle-relief' and/or 'closer' roles HOWEVER , only out of true necessity , for the most part and were certainly _not_ venerated in the grotesque manner in which they are regarded in today's perverted version of the "grand old game"
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Goose Gossage anyone?
Those times were the best.
I can never forget this game! The morning after this game, there was a sports headline on the Herald Examiner that read:
Etchohuaquila 1, New York 0
Meaning that the Dodgers won this game 1-0 as Etchohuaquila was where Fernando was born in Sonora, Mexico.
Jajajaj, estuvo buenísima esa de Etchohuaquila 1-0 NY
Fernandos notorious screwball is a thing of the past. Not many major leaguers use it anymore. The way his would twist into the strike zone is magic.
Yu Darvish & Hector Santiago (who hasn't pitched since 2019) had them in their arsenal's
Screwball still exists and is fairly common, they just use different terms for the same pitch
It kills your arm. There are other effective breaking balls that put way less stress on the shoulder and elbow.
I never missed any of fernando's games when I was a kid in Mexico great memories
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Heard a story about Fernando back in the 80s, he would help put food on the table with his rock throwing skills. No doubt about it with his most excellent control.
No steroids...no sports strength coaches, just pure talented individuals
Actually both were around back then
Steroids where already being used .
Cocaine 😎
This is a ridiculously stupid comment. You think improving your strength and power with good nutrition and a strength program is the same as steroids. Idiotic.
@@7srchoed what's really retarded is your comment. All the juice in the world won't make you a pro pitcher. And if it was being used, it was at the beginning stages of perfecting.......what did I "trigger" with a particular word......oooooh .....
Fernando Mania was a crazy & fun thing to witness, and even crazier & more fun to be in the middle of! What a awesome year that was for The Dodgers & all us Fernando crazed fans, it & he was something special 💪👍
#Go Big Blue Wrecking Crew!!
#Thanks for the memories El Toro!!
Plus if you were L.A. located the Lakers were awesome too!
@@fast03vette4me Oh Hell yeah they were/are! Fernando Mania & Magic Mania were jump'n off at the same time! It was & is a GREAT time to be from the LA area!! 💪😎
May never happen again for a first year pitcher ... 7-0 with 5 shutouts and 6 complete games.
Legendary, and looks like a total regular dude off the street
Agree.
I get extremely prideful when I remember El Toro AKA Fernandomania! I was 4 years old growing up in a single parent home. My mother Rest In Heaven would put on the game on television and muted it while listening on the Spanish radio channel Jaime Jarrin narrate (with that larger than life voice) the ball games every time Fernando Valenzuela would pitch! Fond memories! There will never such a high caliber of ball player than Fernando! Los “Doyers” as my mother would say along with every other Mexican in Los Angeles!
@@djjllbc Fernandomania took over the country and ever kid was imitating his delivery.
That mfk screwball!!
how did the Mets not get a run with 7 hits and 5 walks... That's some good high pressure pitching getting strikeouts when needed
Its the Mets
The screwball and the record breaking infield of Cey, Lopes, Russell, and Garvey.
The Mets weren't so good back then..gritty but talent challenged.
Maybe lots of double plays?
@@jasonglessner1932 Very likely. Doug Flynn won a gold glove for the Mets as a 2nd Baseman, he was excellent at turning DP's!
I worked at a Buick dealership body shop. Our head tp paint manager had a corner of the shop with an easy chair, pole lamp, table, radio and TV all for watching the Dodger games. He was set and his department put out TOP NOTCH paint jobs back then. That was a time. Great memories.
WE NEED some more Fernando-mania games!
How many others are looking at videos like this to remember Vin?
Me! 😊
Thx Vin for the awesome call.
The Legend , The Spectacular Fernando “El Toro” Valenzuela, The Pride Of Mexican Baseball.
Simon
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He had the best pitching stuff for the dodgers. The best pitcher from Mexico.
Wow, a pitcher pitching the entire game??? How is this even possible??? Oh the humanity!
Fernando was an artist on the mound.
A little Earth, Wind and Fire in the background for the postgame show, awesome!
I met him a few times. Super nice guy!
Mike Scott pitched his heart out in defeat. His best game ever as a Met before they gave up on him and traded him to Houston where he turned his career around completely. I remember watching the WOR telecast that night and the Kiner's Korner postgame show had LaSorda and Scott.
I remember him well. I believe that he even led the league in strikeouts one year when he was an Astro.
@@so.cal.sportsetc.1293 Wasn't that 86? I could look it up but going analog here.
@@alexvasquez537 No, it was actually '81. I remember making the recording.
@@alexvasquez537 if you are referring when mike scott struck out 300 it was 86
1986 was a big year for Mike Scott. He pitched a no-hitter to clinch the NL West for the Astros and probably would've pitched the Stros into the World Series if the NLCS had gone to a game 7 --- the Mets had no answers for him in that series.
Este jugador debería de estar en el salón de la fama...
Recuerdo a Fernando en el 81 ,82 después de debutar en grandes ligas vino ese año en invierno a jugar al Pacífico también. En esos tiempos se pichaba hasta 150 lanzamientos por partido. Hoy en día a los 100 y dejan el partido . Les cuidan más el brazo por obvias razones. Grande Fernando. Novato del año y Cy young en el 81 y campeón mundial y contra los Yankees.
Cumplio casi todas las metas de uno en una misma temporada...un lograzo
Si por eso se lo acabo Lasorda
EL MEJOR PICHER MEXICANO
La humildad de Fernando Valenzuela
Very classy. Something that is missing with most sports today.
@@so.cal.sportsetc.1293 yes Sir , I'm totally agree with you.
Numero uno fernando valenzuela
His final thought in the interview: to thank his teammates. Class act!
@@so.cal.sportsetc.1293 Age 20, massive success coming all of a sudden, yet he remained the same down-to-earth kid.
Didn't he have something insane like eight shutouts for the entire season?? Staggering to think that Vin Scully was already 30 years into his career at this point 🤯
@another. It was something like that. I was thinking it was more like 5 straight that began on opening day. If it weren't for the players strike in mid season of '81, Fernando would've won 20 games I'm sure. 😊
Tenía 11 años, y en mi cuarto apagaba las luces y prendía el radio para escuchar a estos 2 grandes locutores en inglés y español.
Fernandomania was a wonderful slice of life.
It really was I couldn't wait to go to dodger stadium. Now don't want to be within 20 miles of that sewer on a hill
Dick John, it’s the same now, you were never a real fan anyway.
I was a 9 year old living in Brooklyn at the time and I clearly remember there being a buzz earlier that day that Fernando would be pitching against the Mets
Wonderful pitcher, An icon in the history of the Dodgers.
Is it just me or these camera angles are 1 million times better than the ones now ?? Why do we have such wide-screens basically focused on everything BUT the player..
I was only six years old when I seen him pitch in the astrodome. I think he was every Mexican American little league player’s hero.
"...when I _saw_ him pitch..."
You’re lucky, I wish I got to see him pitch at Dodgers stadium. Never had the chance
El mejor picher Mexicano de la historia de MLB. DODGERS #1
I was at this game and made $15.00 slipping my ticket stub through the window at the Baskin Robbins next to the field-level gate to let people sneak through to the lower level (I had a season ticket). Fun times!
I was a teenager at the time didn't care for baseball or Fernando but I had to watch him because everybody would be watching him ,then evenchely I became a fan couldn't escape it Fernando .
Inolvidable juegos de mi paisano, muchas alegrías nos regaló, que mi DIOS lo siga cuidando FERNANDO.
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His teammates adored him✌
Saludos desde el Bacame Nuevo, Etchojoa, Sonora, México...
Recuerdo cuando lo vi por primera vez en televisión en vivo, no lo conocía, pero como se empezó a hacer muy famoso rápidamente, pues llegó el momento en que lo vi.
What a great pitching staff, just to name a few; Hooton, Welch, Reuss, and Fernando. Can’t remember who else was in the rotation.
If I remember correctly, Orel Hershiser was there that year and so was Bobby Castillo (reliever)
@@EnglishMagic777 Orel made his debut with the Dodgers in 1983. Bobby Castillo was definitely on the team that year.
@Jo Jo Steve Howe was another pitcher on the staff that year.
Beautiful delivery!
fernando y hugo grandes de mexico y contemporaneos como blue demon y el santo como juanga y pepe que viva mexico y Ecuador tambien
A treasure. Thanks for posting! Where can I get one of those jackets? 😎
Siempre espectscular, siempre efectivo, siempre FERNANDO. Gracias Dodgers.
He would end with 8 shutouts after getting his 5th so early in the year.
and i think was a short season because of the strike
@@jjuanmarin great point. I forgot about that. The strike canceled a third of the season.
He put up great numbers for the dodgers. The legend of the Dodgers.
Grandioso querido Fernando, cuando tendremos uno como tú con DGO Generales, estuviste pero de contrario
Fernando had 7 or 8 good seasons and it would seem like he was on HOF trajectory. I wonder if the Dodgers let him pitch to long into games in 1981 and beyond. Pitch counts did not become available until 1988. In that season starting pitchers threw 140 pitches in 55 games. Maybe that wasn't too many if you were completing games or at least going 7 or 8 hittings. That does not happen today. The average start today is probably 5 or maybe 6 inning at best. The game has really changed when it comes to pitching.
I remember him struggling badly early in the 1988 season. They finally just put him on the shelf for the rest of that championship season.
That guy was extremely humble
He was 8-0 with a .25 ERA in his first 8 games. No closing pitcher..... enough said.
Yes, the bullpen had the night off, whenever Fernando pitched.
@@pep590 That's nuts. The rest of the pitchers had an extra day of rest just because of Fernie's longevity.
@@heir_to_the_promise I totally agree. Great point.
Unforgettable.
He was so great for the dodgers in the 80s.
Parte de la defensiva,Ron Cey,"El pingüino"hace tiempo que no lo veia
In this current Era, where do you see "complete games" and "shut out games" ?? As many strikeouts as innings you've pitched ??
How does Mazzilli swing on a 3 - 0 pitch in a one run game, bottom of the ninth?
grande fernando y jarrin al senor jarrin tambien lo escucho desde nino
I Wonder how many pitches did fernando trew in this game...140?
We miss you Vince! Fernandomania !!!!
Vin
My hero go doyers!💙
damn..............fernando was 21 years old here yet looked like he was 45-50.......
Fernando parece no tenía ni idea de lo que le decían en inglés. Con la mirada perdida en el vacìo...casi a punto de reír.🤣🤦🏻♂️
How you going to swing 3-0 in that scenario?
10:12 Doggett's toupee is insane.
That's not Jerry Doggett, its Ross Porter.
My remembrance of Valenzuela is that he was pudgy. His body looks relatively svelte in this game.
🇲🇽 Méx-cellent Fernando‼️👏👏
Si el beisbol mexicano llegase a obtener una presa olímpica favor de preparar un PASTEL para celebrar este logro.
SOFTBOL FEMENIL.
How fast is he pitching 93-94?
With today's radar guns, low 90s.
also fun to see a young jaime jarrin with a mustache
Fernando Mania
Fernando ....great that is it
Animo toro...
Just think with the way MLB is today you will never see this again.
he would pitch all 9 innings
HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE REPORTER WAS ASKING that's why he kept smiling at es "un indio ladino"hahahah
He was older than he revealed
Yo soy newyorkino, pero Valenzuela hizo lo mejor. Ósea yankee
If this game was against D. Gooden on a Friday night. Then I was there.
I think Dodgers won 1-0
No this was 1981 during Fernando first full year.
@@eddiewilbanks1382 yes that's the year I went. 👍
Fixed
get a job, the man worked hard for kit, Fernando was the men
"somehow this youngster from Mexico,acts like he´s pitching batting practice, unveliable
Really??? Mazzilli hitting 3-0 when you're down 1-0 with 2 outs in the ninth??? So were the pre-Davey Johnson Mutts
NO SOUND!
El Toro.
That screwball🤮🤮
El Toro!!!!
Lasorda se lo acabo.muchos inings
Etchohuaquila 1-0 New York
All those complete game shutouts were wonderful, but also ruined Fernando Valenzuela's pitching arm and led to a shortened career.
I get etremely
Those last three Mets were scrawny.
Retire the jersey!!!
wow, just wow