Kerry Wood's 20 Strikeout Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- On May 6, 1998, a rookie pitcher from Texas took the mound for the Cubs against a stacked Houston Astros lineup. That pitcher was 20-year-old Kerry Wood. Wood dominated Astros hitters that day, marking his place in baseball history when he struck out 20 batters in nine innings to tie the major league record. Just four pitchers in MLB history have accomplished the feat.
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I was a delivery driver in Michigan and my boss was a huge Cubs fan. I was able to get WGN radio in my truck while driving around, but my boss couldn't pick it up on the radio in our building. We didn't have cell phones yet, just two way radios. When it got to 12 strikeouts I started calling out to my boss and counting up the strikeouts as they happened. I pulled into the parking lot just as he got to number 20 and I walked in the door and found my boss and yelled, "20!!!" and we both started jumping around and yelling. I wasn't even a Cubs fan, but it was just a cool moment and a cool way to experience it.
I have watched this game over and over and over and over and over last 20 years......but cannot get sick of it
Best pitched game Ive ever seen. Sad to think what Kerry Woods career would have been if he had stayed healthy.
Me either. It's hard to top. What a game!
@@sukhastings4200 Him staying healthy was always a big “if” though. His pitch counts were in the stratosphere even in this very early stage of his career. Flamethrowers are always liable to burnout, especially when overused.
Stephen Strasburg was bubble wrapped so as to avoid him from befalling the same fate as Kerry Wood.
I remember coming home for lunch turning on the game and never made it back to work!!
Same.
It was nice being able to watch free baseball on WGN as a kid.
And they can't figure out how the Cubbies got so popular?! Morons...
Best day I ever skipped in high school.
POV: you skip school and end up singing at a carnevle like Ferris bunker lol.
Wow that’s pretty cool 😎
They finally put up the Chicago announcers! Now all they need to put up is Pat Hughes' radio broadcast
I remember ESPN talking about this game non stop for days. Pretty amazing.
Remember what Steve Stone saying a collage of these Ks would take up most of "Sportscenter"? Well, Chris Berman spent abput 30 minutes on this alone .
I remember this game. Hard to believe this was 1998 with a young Kerry Wood - it just doesn't seem that long ago. I am chomping at the bit for Cubs baseball, and I am certainly going to miss the Cubs on WGN.
7:16 First batter To Craig Biggio Struck out Swinging 1st inning #1
9:03 Derek Bell - Struck Out swinging 1st Inning #2
10:31 Jeff Bagwell - Struck out Looking 1st inning #3
18:23 Jack Howell - Struck out Swinging 2nd inning #4
19:59 Moises Alou - Struck out Swining 2nd inning #5
21:14 Dave Clark - Flied out 2nd inning
29:50 Ricky Gutierrez - Base Hit 3rd inning
31:32 Brad Ausmus -Struck out Swininging 3rd inning #6
34:28 Shane Reynolds -Sacrifice Bunt 3rd inning
35:21 Craig Biggio -Ground Out 3rd inning
50:17 Derek Bell - Flied out 4th Inning
52:08 Jeff Bagwell - Struck out Looking 4th Inning #7
54:00 Jack Howell - Struck Out Looking 4th Inning #8
1:02:40 Moises Alou - Struck Out Looking 5th Inning #9
1:03:40 Dave Clark - Struck Out Looking 5th Inning #10
1:04:41 Ricky Gutierrez - Struck Out Looking 5th Inning #11
1:12:36 Brad Ausmus - Ground out 6th Inning
1:14:06 Shane Reynolds - Strike Out Looking 6th Inning #12
1:15:20 Craig Biggio - Hit by Pitch 6th Inning
1:17:55 Derek Bell - Foul Popfly 6th Inning
1:24:01 Jeff Bagwell - Struck out Looking 7th inning #13
1:25:34 Jack Howell - Struck out Swinging 7th inning #14
1:27:33 Moises Alou - Struck out Swining 7th inning #15
1:30:18 Joe Mantegna Interview
1:36:12 Dave Clark - Struck out Swininging 8th inning #16
1:39:17 Ricky Gutierrez - Struck out Swininging 8th inning #17
1:40:22 Brad Ausmus -Struck out Looking 8th inning #18
1:52:17 Bill Spiers -Struck Out Swinging 9th Inning #19
1:55:00 Craig Biggio -Ground Out 9th Inning
1:55:55 Derek Bell -Struck Out Swinging 9th Inning #20
Thank you for this!
Thanks
Nicely done!
14:13 Brown Strikes Out
15:33 Moradini Strikes Out Looking foul tip
17:43 Sosa Strikes out swinging
29:06 Orie strikes out swinging
38:26 Wood strikes out looking
41:46 Moradini strikes out swinging
49:40 Rodriguez strikes out looking
1:00:31 Orie strikes out looking
1:12:19 Sosa strikes out swinging
1:21:47 Rodriguez strikes out swinging foul tip
What an amazing accomplishment for Kerry Wood! Thanks for this video!
I am a major cubs fan and I became one after watching the 2016 world series. I am not even close to 1998 being my birth year but I still love watching this game. I watch it every time I'm going on a trip its kind of like a ritual. When I was going to Chicago in April I had to watch as much as I could because most of the time I watch ten minutes and than I have to leave but this time I got ready so fast I could watch a lot more. (My birth year is 2011 in June do the math). Go Cubs Go. W
I remember being at my store working at the time of this game, I had it on the radio and had several customer's telling me to change it but I said not today. I had a feeling about this kid that day. Near the end of the game my store's front area was loaded with people as we listened to the last 2 innings of the game and hearing the final strike out called giving Kerry 20 we all cheered. He holds the rookie record for strikeouts in a game, the National league record for most strikeouts in a game and shares the Major League record for most strikeouts in a game. He did that on this day, and even now 25 years later he still has them. I was lucky to have heard this game, I just wish I could have been there for it.
Whatever happen to the mantra “the customer is always right”? LOL
@@kramalerav Sorry to tell you this but, The Customer is not always Right. Most of the time they are very, very wrong in general.
So happy this is available!
That Steve Stone sweater tho...
My first ever Chicago Cubs game was on April 21, 1998. I was 15 days short from witnessing history!!😭
I was there! It was also Wood's first professional complete game.
The [great] announcers said more than once that they hoped he could go seven innings.
One of the great baseball games, ever.
It's actually the best pitched game in baseball history according to Bill James' game score stat.
"HERE COMES THE HOOK!"
"Good morning, Good afternoon, GOOD NIGHT!"
@@sukhastings4200 strike 3 called a LASERBEAM through the middle
The dulcet tones of the legend Steve Stone never gets old.
He's also a fantastic analyst. i'm surprised he didn't get a national job considering all the morons like Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan who were on the air instead
Wow, they should make a documentary about this game
They did: th-cam.com/video/IWbQyRAvZRc/w-d-xo.html
I believe he was being silly. :P
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
LOLLLLLLLL
They hsve
Man I wish I was around to watch this
At least we have TH-cam
I'll never forget it
Same
It was pretty awesome.
"Jerry Meals might be a key guy in this ball game."
lol you ain't kidding Chip!
It’s so crazy rewatching these games as a 34 year old, oppose to watching them live as a 10 year old. Back then all the ball players were adults. Kerry was only 20?!! A KID!!! Wow.
Amazing watching this unfold live, what a game!
Kerry Wood is 9th all time in MLB history in strikeouts per 9 innings with 10.32. Wood had 1,582 strikeouts in 1,380 innings pitched in his career. He would have been a member of the 3,000 strikeout club if it weren't for all of the injuries he endured.
I stayed home that day cuz I had homework to get caught up. I listened mostly but started watching about the 7th inning because of all the excitement.
7:18 Kerry Wood breaks the home plate umpire
I can close my eyes and it takes me to the day my dad and I watched this game.
Wayne Messmer starting it out. Great feelings. Watched this game with my Mom. Unforgettable!
What a voice eh
Mets fan here: 1998 was truly a magical year for the Cubs. If a team was on cinderella-mode in 1998, it was the Cubs, even more than the Yankees.
It hurts me that Cubs couldnt win a title with Sosa and Wood on the team. They had chances in 1998, 2001, 2003, and 2004, but yeah
Early but I'm objectively late by 22 years
Shane Reynolds Strikeouts
14:13 Brown Strikes Out
15:33 Moradini Strikes Out Looking foul tip
17:43 Sosa Strikes out swinging
29:05 Orie strikes out swinging
38:25 Wood strikes out looking
41:46 Moradini strikes out swinging
49:40 Rodriguez strikes out looking
1:00:31 Orie strikes out looking
1:12:18 Sosa strikes out swinging
1:21:47 Rodriguez strikes out swinging foul tip
LOVE this. Thank you for posting!!!
It's crazy to now see the "fist pump" at the end knowing now that he did it because he had no walks in a complete game, and the fact that this is the point where he felt pain in his elbow which would become a big problem for him.
26 years later and still a gem of a game! #flytheW #playthedamnsong
There are few games that are as good re-played as they were live. This was one of them.
Not a perfect game in the statistical sense, but a perfect game to re-watch regularly. Opens with a reminder that the young #34 still has a lot of learning to do, the national anthem by the timeless voice of Wayne Messmer, old sponsorship advertisements, then nothing but magic. Everything about this game is magical.
Wood was so damn close to a 21 strikeout perfect game. That would've been a MLB record and possibly that one feat might've put him in the HOF.
I've watched this game maybe 50+ times. The Houston broadcast with JD and Brownie is fun too.
I watched this game live as a young kid also playing little league baseball at the time. So many great teams to watch in this era of baseball. But the cubbies were my hometown team. What a game… still a nail biter after all these years. Both pitchers were neck and neck through the 6th inning.
Yay finally after 30 years someone put baseball where I can watch it 🥳🥳 This game is definitely making a great first impression LoL
THIS IS THE BEST.
CONGRATS KERRY
26 years ago today…. Where has the time gone?
Prophetic words - "The way Kerry Wood is throwing, they don't need many runs today"
Nice to see this with the WGN telecast.
I remember watching this game on WGN in STL. Kerry Wood’s stuff was insanely nasty. Disappearing corkscrew fastball and knockout slider and curve that he could throw with impunity. His fastball just exploded out of his hand, and every batter was like a full second behind it that day
I remember being with my college friends driving around the ballpark that day. I was drop off and I heard the special day Kerry struck out 20 Astros.
I stayed home that day cuz I had homework to get caught up. I listened mostly but started watching about the 7th inning because of all the excitement.
Amazing…watch his thumb shaking as he holds the earpiece in his ear. Just a good kid with lightning in his arm that night.
My dad went to high school with Kerry wood yup Grand Prairie high school I’m pretty sure it was north but man I love his pitching I look up to him so much he’s my favorite player I’m going to chagrin my number to 34 when I get the chance.
Statistically, the best game ever pitched.
Mind boggling stuff. Never seen a curve ball doing things like this.
At 2:00 the announcers before the game are saying the 'stros are the toughest task for any starting pitcher... cubs throw Kerry to the wolves.. lol
Stat that really illustrates the level of dominance in this performance: In a complete 9-inning baseball game, the Houston Astros put 8 balls in play. And since one of them was a foul pop-up, they only put 7 in fair territory.
It's amazing that he walked none either with only one hit. Definitely one of the most efficient and greatest ball games ever!🎉🐻🐻🐻
Hell yeah, now i can watch it in great quality, Cheers
This game shredded his elbow
Wood said it was the fist pump at the end that hurt his elbow, not his pitching that day. That could make some sense considering that, unlike actual pitching, one generally doesn't work on proper mechanics for safe fist pumps. Celebration injuries from doing spur of the moment unpracticed things are definitely a thing in most if not all sports.
Ty for posting.
Definitely one of if not the
most dominant pitching performance of all time
Electro actually by game score, it is the best pitching performance ever.
I would be shocked to see anyone get more than a 105.
the most dominated pitching ever then nolan Ryan
or the most broken knees ever
I remember watching this at the time! Crazy day!
Kerry wood strikeouts
8:36 Biggio strikes out swinging
10:05 Bell strikes out swinging
11:36 Bagwell strikes out looking
19:28 Howell Strikes out swinging
20:46 Alou strikes out swinging
33:58 Ausmus strikes out swinging
53:28 Bagwell caught looking
55:05 Howell caught looking
1:03:10 Alou strikes out looking
1:04:16 Clark punched out looking
1:06:00 Gutierrez caught looking
1:14:38 Reynolds caught looking
1:25:05 Bagwell strikes out swinging foul tip
1:27:00 Howell strikes out swinging
1:28:23 Alou check swing strikeout
1:38:40 Clark check swing strikeout
1:39:50 Gutierrez strikes out swinging
1:41:10 Ausmus caught looking
1:54:22 Spiers strikes out swinging
1:57:03 Bell strikes out swinging to end the game
Saw an instagram post about this and immediately looked it up
as a kid in Louisiana, the Cubs and the Braves were the only two teams i could watch with regularity. I miss WGN
Check out the at bat around 1:20:26 ump calls a pitch well outside a strike, than one right down the middle a ball. Amazing
HAPPY NEW YEAR KERRY!
This is awesome
best thing i ever saw
This game never gets old lol , back a year later for some more hehehe
I am hoping to one day hear the WGN Radio broadcast of this historic game.
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and Good Night!
Happy New Year!
With the score at only 1-0 into the 8th inning and Kerry Woods mowing the Astros down with regularity, one wonders whether the Astros might have been better served somewhere between the 3rd through the 8th innings by breaking Wood’s rhythm of repetitively striking out hitter after hitter with by dropping down some inside baseball bunting and really making him work on that mound and wonder what the Astros might do next.
Factor into that equation, also, that the continual rain 🌧 made the playing field wet and Wood would be disadvantaged in having to field bunts.
Of course, however, expecting players of this vintage to even know how to execute properly executed and hidden bunting skills would be expecting too much.
Great performance by Kerry Woods and his battery mate. No thinking cap 🧢 on management of the “lead leading” Astros, however, as the strikeouts continued with metronome regularity even if the manager had awakened to the strategy.
Sandy Koufax pitched a PERFECT game against Bob Henley (1 hitter) in 1965. The announcer called it a no-hitter, a downplay!
10:04 What a NASTY Curve! If only he was still this good...
Happy bday best moment in history
I wasn't there but i was THERE watching it on WGN in Chicago!
SuperStation!
Kerry: I couldn’t even tell you how many I had.
Steve Stone: Well you had 20, did they give you the baseball at least?
Kerry: Nah, not yet.
Steve Stone: Make sure you get that young man, that’s one for the mantle piece.
Good grief Charlie Brown, I love baseball and the Cubs!
Sometimes it goes your way, but sometimes it don't. The facts of life.
The astros broadcast is good also of this game .
Do I see Pink Hat Guy in the stands?
Go look at Kerry's stats against the DBacks in Arizona in his very next start. 😲
If I’m the shortstop and I know Wood’s on the record pace, I bobble that Biggio grounder or throw a little wild to keep it alive 😉
Other things in this game. 1) Jeff Blauser. Cub killer with the braves. Cub killer with the cubs. 2) ah those Arnie Harris fan shots.
Ha. Another thing. thru 3 innings, Reynolds had more strikeouts than Wood.
Ryno is my fav Cub but Alou, Gracie, Kerry, and simply dozens of other men are quite close.
GO CUBS GO!
Lets Go Cubs
I just watched this whole game, not fast forwarding when the Cubbies were at bat. Wood was an absolute force that day! Amazing. He should have been a Cincinnati Reds pitcher because everyone knows the Reds are the best.
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There should have been an Earl Campbell jersey [for the University of Texas connection] and a Walter Payton jersey in the K lineup.
21:10 announcer says "no homers, no ribbies".
HERE COMES THE HOOK!
35:16 Will Ferrell in the American flag shirt??
Why is this not on MLB's Flashbacks reel in between inning changes
POV: your from the documentary
Anyone decided to write a book about this series like the one they did with the cards and cubs?
Jesus, Stoney. That sweater would embarrass Bill Cosby.
Mandela effect I CLEARLY remember the Orie missed opportunity being in the late innings and a debate on whether it was error or not.
1:24:52 whew that was close. Indeed it was
Did WGN really not use a scorebug in 1998 or did that get edited out here?
Nope, they didn't start using one until 1999
What incredible, is that this game doesn't seem to reflect the rest of his career, as his stats are painfully average, and he only played 14 seasons.
All that movement you see here is essentially what caused that - his slurve and mechanics, plus being worked so hard led to frequent trips to the DL, and surgeries.
This Kerry Wood didn't last, because it simply wasn't possible. Those pitches were just too unbelievably nasty that it came at the expense of his very health.
The only question really is whether it was worth it. If Kerry pitched more conservatively, he may have had a longer, more reliable career, but he'd never have this.
1:33:06 "Wonderful" and "The Godfather 3" *DO NOT* belong in the same sentence together.
3 up 3 down in the first inning all by strikeout? You know it's gonna be a long day.
What luck. I wanted to see a strikeout at random and manage to click at 51:26..... seeing the only hit of the game.
No more 🗑I'm a Braves fan way to go Chicago today
I have an excuse for not being there. I wasn’t born yet.
Clemens did it twice.
I am one of the people that wasn't at this game.
I remember watching this live and thinking this guy is the next Nolan.
To bad Dusty hurt Jerry and Priors young arms.
I have always been and will forever be a Brewers fan but I will always respect and love the Cubs and the fans.
dusty had nothing to do with it. it was how managers managed. riggleman kept him in there for well over 100 today and THIS game was the first time he felt pain that would lead to tommy john that led to his career getting derailed.
kerry and mark have also gone on record defending dusty and saying they were just as culpable.