I would say as a Reds fan it was a great upset but I think the 88 Dodgers beating Oakland was bigger cause the Dodgers outside of Kirk Gibson they weren’t exactly knocking the fences down.
I remember getting this VHS for Christmas in 1990. I probably watched that thing a hundred times throughout my childhood lol. Haven’t seen it in 20+ years! When I was in 1st grade, my Mom and I went to Cincy, to go to King’s Island and visit her friend that lived in town. That was early Oct 1990. Looking back on it, it was right in the middle of the NLCS. When we got there, I found out that one of the Reds was her next door neighbor. Then learned it was Hal Morris. He wasn’t exactly the biggest star on the team, and was still early in his career, but he was the very first athlete that I ever met. I was 6 years old, so my sports knowledge was limited. Like I knew who Sabo, Larkin, Dibble, Myers, and Davis were, but I didn’t know who Hal was. It didn’t matter, because I loved the Reds. Gets this… I saw Hal go out to his mailbox, ran over to him, and asked him if he’d get me Chris Sabo’s autograph. How rude was that?! LOL He chuckled and told me Chris wasn’t keen on signing autographs, but Hal gave me HIS autograph and took a picture with me. From then on, Hal was always my favorite ball player. Met him a couple more times before he left Cincy. Super nice guy. Anyhow, thanks for the upload! Brings back a ton of memories!
44:41 It's funny hearing Rickey bring up that Pittsburgh said that Cincinnati got all of the breaks. Champions make their own breaks and you can tell thought that as well with the "must be their year" comment
Total team effort. Between the NLCS and WS, virtually ever Reds player, whether in the regular line-up, on the bench, in the rotation or in the bullpen, had some meaningful contribution to this championship. Winningham, Braggs, Bates, Oester, Armstrong....everybody did something. A couple of years later, I talked to Herm Winningham, and he said that his bunt single on an 0-2 count in the 8th inning of Game 4 was not called by Piniella. Winningham did that on his own. Good thing it worked, or he would've really caught it when he got back to the dugout.
That team got to the WS 3 years in a row, heavily favored to win all 3, tons of hype and Bravado, only win 1. That one win is marred by a tremendous earthquake. The 2 losses are a sweep and a gentleman's sweep. That era must have felt like you should have gotten way more although I'm sure it was fun too.
You make it sound like Pete drafted and/or acquired these players. Here's a reminder : he choose to start Kurt Stillwell over Larkin , so Pete's not perfect in evaluating talent or their readiness.
S. Chris T. Only one that could rival it was the '54 sweep by the (97-57) Giants over the (111-43) Indians. '90 still at least had two one-run games. '54 didn't have any (though Game 1 was a walk-off win, but on a three-run homer by Dusty Rhodes). But the scores of those games were 5-2, 3-1, 6-2, and 7-4.
@M Lol! This is the United States and the MLB is the pinnacle of every kid in the baseball world. America plays to our own tune. That's MLB and the NFL. Great athletes in soccer. It will NEVER be the sport Americans place at the top.
@@adamdorgant9454 Along with the Big Red Machine sweep of the Yankees in 4 in 1976. But I laid late into the night in 1990, in my daughter's hospital room, with my transistor radio turned to the lowest volume setting while she fitfully slept at 6 months of age. It was by no means clear that our daughter would recover. The Reds won in 4. I stood in my underwear late in the night pumping my fist at the WS victory. The nurses didn't appreciate it. She eventually recovered and of course the two had NOTHING to do with one another. But my child's strength, from her Creator God, was ultimately a magnificent time in her Mother's life and my own. She is 30 now and thriving, completely rejecting the give me something for nothing attitude of today. She is a testimony to Jesus Christ, and reminiscent also of those 1990 Cincinnati Reds ( not to her of course, but to myself personally).
Great player but I couldn't stand him crying about 90 Reds getting the breaks shut up they kicked your ass. Not only that Henderson would rub it in I remember a Padres Brewers game San Diego up big late Henderson stealing bases for no reason Davey Lopes Brewers skipper went nuts.
@@patrickgray5633 Yeah, it's too bad Ricky sometimes didn't recognize the Hall of Fame career he had had. But there can be little doubt that career had been secured in 1990. Ricky, Lou Brock and Joe Morgan the very best best fielders, but the best BEST base runners in history.
@M Considering this has been posted multiple times, it's clearly an attempt to make Soccer relevant in the most coveted sports market in the world; the United States. Very nice try. Americans don't care care. Baseball and NFL football is what Americans care about.
As a Giants fan, I love to remind A's fans of 1990 when they gloat about 1989. I was 13 yrs old when I watch the heavily favored Oakland A's get their asses cooked like a thanksgiving turkey. The A's haven't been back since. Ha ha congrats Cincinnati!
+burger N Fries Eric the Midget was an A's fan. That's why I can't stand em. Also, being a Reds fan, I appreciate the Giants love. I hope to see a SF vs KC world series this year.....with a Leake vs Cueto game 7 matchup. It's about a 50,000:1 longshot, but it could happen.
When you're battling a team in your division with a $308M payroll, it's tough to compete. Especially with the Cubs & Pirates clogging up the wild card race this year. Still, at least your team is still in it. Crazier things have happened. My Reds are 22 games out in the WC and 30.5 behind the Cardinals. No hope at all for years to come in Cincinnati.
Andy Price The Giants showed the dodgers that money don't buy championships in the NL west. The dodgers will likely get sent home by the cardinals again. As much as we Giants and cardinal fans have great respect for each other, we know that they are rooting for the dodgers because the last team they want to face are the Giants. As for Cincinnati, they are in rebuilding phase. Still a dangerous line up to face. The Giants will have to go that route soon. We have too many washed up veterans. The 1990 reds were amazing. The media gave them no chance. The A's players were very cocky and felt they had the trophy in the bag. The fans were already talking about the victory parade before the first pitch of game 1. The reds just totally obliterated the A's.
burger N Fries as a lifelong Reds fan I tell people La Russa is so overrated. He may have 3 rings he should have 5 or 6 with those A's teams won 1 outta 3.
I will always remember this series. Sitting in a hospital watching Game 4 on a small tv waiting room. After watching the Reds storm the field after winning, I was thinking, how did Cincinnati sweep the mighty Oakland so easily? Anyway, two smaller market teams matching up for the greatest prize. I love old baseball.
Yeah as a Reds fan I always wondered what he could have done & I admit I was 6 during this series I didn't think he was hurt as bad as he was Marge Schott should be ashamed the way she treated Davis was terrible she didn't want to pay his way home!!! I believe that's why Eric left after the 91 season
Yeah, but even before then, Davis had (unfortunately) been getting hurt. He never played more than 135 games in a season. Which sucks, because he was probably going to be a 40/60 guy in 1987.
@ 32:53 game 2's hot topic & 1990 world series Strangest moment @ 34:32 Commentators start haveing their own relay calls @ 34:48 there's Tim McCarver who not only comentated That 89 fall classic on ABC but the following 4 world series on CBS aswell
Would have been very interesting to see how this WS would have gone if the WS HFA didn't alternate. If the WS started in Oakland instead of Riverfront- not saying the A's win, but I don't know if it's a sweep.
Spoken like a true scumbag Oakland Losers fan! GTFOH! The Reds were winners from day one that year, leading in first place from day one! Could the Oakland Losers say the same...NO!!! The Reds were obviously THEE best team in baseball that year by a mile & they proved it in the World Series. Heck, the team the Reds beat in the National League Championship, the Pirates, were a better team than the A's.
@@chrisuncleahmad789 I deny it. It was 3 games in Oakland. The Reds EARNED the starting 2 games. They swept the Pirates and both played the same number of games. Qualify it all you want, but the As weren't even close to the calibre of the Reds.
Thank God the Reds won Game 4 with Hatcher & Davis down Herm Winningham & Glenn Braggs they were nice players but they were bench players not as good at Davis & Hatcher.
Was Canseco always a terrible fielder, or was he just having a bad week? Seems like the whole series would have been different if a real RF was out there.
+Andy P I was a Reds fan living in Monterey, CA at the time so I remember a lot about this series. I actually got to go to game 3! Canseco was actually a really good player for a while. He hurt his back prior to the series. He wasn't a horrible fielder. He wasn't the greatest ever, but he wasn't too bad. Unless you count the time a ball bounced off his noggin for a ground rule double!
Canseco was never a great fielder. He looked especially bad in this series because his back was hurt somewhat and sometime during the series he injured his finger in a household accident. That transformed him from a bad fielder (mediocre on a good day) to a terrible one.
@@1981lashlarue PROFESSIONALS rise above a FINGER injury in the World Series and have no need for 'juice' in the batter's box. One of the most unworthy player, of his contract, in the 1990s. Not who MY kids modeled themselves after.
If a home run hit against you in the first inning of the first game is so demoralizing to you and your teammates that you never recover from it for the rest of the series, you don't deserve to be champions. I don't think that is what actually happened. The Reds just played better than the A's. A lot better.
+StFidjnr He was actually a starter for most of the season....First half was better than the second, though. He actually started the All-Star game in Chicago that year.
Dumbfounded to this day. Baines, Canseco, Henderson, Henderson, McGee, McGwire, Lansford, Eck, Randolph, Stewart, Welch. This team had everything lined up to sweep Cincy and yet Oak fell flat beyond comprehension.
@@patrickgray5633 Yeah, the bullpen was a big part of it. Also, Rijo was a *lot* better than he was given credit for. He was actually probably better than Stewart, though Stewart had the big game rep. Ultimately, the Reds won the close games, and that flipped the series. It could have very easily been 2-2 after four games, which would have been tough for the Reds with some of the injuries they were dealing with at the time
A's Line-Up P Bob Welch P Dave Stewart P Mike Moore P Dennis Eckersley P Gene Nelson 1B Mark McGwire OF Jose Conseco 2B Rickey Henderson OF Willie McGee OF Dave Henderson DH Carney Lansford SS Walt Weiss C Terry Steinbech 3B Harold Baines 2B Willie Randolph Reds Line-up P Danny Jackson P Tod Browning P Jose Rijo P Randy Myers 3B Barry Larkin 2B Eric Davis OF Paul O'Neill SS Chris Sabo OF Mariano Duncan OF Billy Hatcher 1B Todd Benzinger
It sounds like she grew up in a baseball environment, so she probably got used to calling every baseball player by last name, even players she got close with.
Wanna know why the Yankees weren't in a World Series between 1981 and 1996? Trading away guys like Jose Rijo. And the Reds wouldn't have won anything without future Yankee Paul O'Neil.
Trading Rijos is what got them Rickey Henderson and keep in mind even the A's didn't really do much with him as well. Not every trades the Yankees had made in the 1980s are like the Buhner trade you know, let alone the stupidity of the McGee trade that made no sense.
I trust the Indians to get back there again someday but Cincinnati has been pretty wobbly since 1990. They never seem to make the playoffs two years in a row or win any plqyoff series. Damn, I just realized Cincy has only 2 pro sports teams and neither of them have won a playoff series since '90!
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It did catch the line but even if it hadn't it would still have been fair because it went over third base. If a bounding ball (one that has already touched the ground) bounces over any part of first or third, it is fair. It does not matter where it lands.
I know [edit] -Joe- Jack Buck is widely regarded as a legendary announcer, but in this series....I just didn't see it. Maybe he wasn't as sharp as he once had been, I dunno. But his calls on pivotal plays seemed flat, and his incessantly informing the viewers how many consecutive outs each pitcher had recorded drove me absolutely nuts all series long. "...aaaand that's 4 straight outs for Rijo.....pop up....Gallego's retired, and that's five straight outs for Rijo..." Like anybody cared. I have no idea why he deemed that meaningful. This was the first exposure I'd had to him, and I found it difficult to correlate his reputation as a great broadcaster with his play-by-play in this series.
Jack Buck you mean, right? Maybe he found that meaningful because he knew that no Reds starter should be dominating that lineup and yet Rijo persisted. It was kind of subtly saying something about 'when is this powerful A's lineup going to wake up here?' His disbelief in the upset seemed to really color his announcing there. I can see how that would still feel like overkill and leave a bad taste in your mouth though. Personally I think he more than made up for it with his commentary in the '91 World Series. I enjoy listening to his call of those games. He also had the famous Kirk Gibson radio call.
You are 1000% right. Buck showed extreme bias against the Reds to the point of absurd. McCarver was a blowhard who couldn't shut his mouth if his life depended on it.
It sickens me to the core that Cincinnati not only won this Series , but swept it . Say what you want about Canseco and McGwire, but this Oakland ballclub was STACKED as defending champions and couldn't do a damn thing ! To make matters worse , Marge Schott was a racist and a bigot ! At least when the Dodgers won it in 1988, they won it with class !
alonzomourning33 IM a DODGER but to Paint the REDS of 1990 with a Bad Brush because 1 lady opened her mouth on a few occasions is not characteristic of the entire REDS Franchise, nor is it a reflection of the Players on the REDS or the season they had. I thought in 1988 DODGERS Pitching would never be beaten or any team come close, Man was I WRONG. CINCINNATI WS I Respect because they were in Last in their Div or League just 1 and 2 years earlier. Slight Edge to the DODGERS in 88 for Hitting but Edge to this REDS Pitching. Both my DODGERS and these 1990 REDS were built the same way. REDS and their fans deserved this.
Remember watching this series as a kid. Arguably the greatest upset in World Series history!
Idk, the braves lost to the twins lust one year later, and an u demeaned Dodgers team won 2 years earlier, still a crazy upset tho
Billy Hatcher was unstoppable!
I thought the same as a kid. But the reds were in first all year they dominated.
I would say as a Reds fan it was a great upset but I think the 88 Dodgers beating Oakland was bigger cause the Dodgers outside of Kirk Gibson they weren’t exactly knocking the fences down.
it has to be…the A’s were by far the best team in baseball from 1988-1990
Last time the Reds played in a World Series. On a bright note, the Reds have an active 9 game win streak in the World Series.
27 wins in today's major league game is unheard of. Some guys don't even reach that number in two seasons.
I remember it well. I was in college that year.
I remember getting this VHS for Christmas in 1990. I probably watched that thing a hundred times throughout my childhood lol. Haven’t seen it in 20+ years!
When I was in 1st grade, my Mom and I went to Cincy, to go to King’s Island and visit her friend that lived in town. That was early Oct 1990. Looking back on it, it was right in the middle of the NLCS. When we got there, I found out that one of the Reds was her next door neighbor. Then learned it was Hal Morris. He wasn’t exactly the biggest star on the team, and was still early in his career, but he was the very first athlete that I ever met. I was 6 years old, so my sports knowledge was limited. Like I knew who Sabo, Larkin, Dibble, Myers, and Davis were, but I didn’t know who Hal was. It didn’t matter, because I loved the Reds. Gets this… I saw Hal go out to his mailbox, ran over to him, and asked him if he’d get me Chris Sabo’s autograph. How rude was that?! LOL He chuckled and told me Chris wasn’t keen on signing autographs, but Hal gave me HIS autograph and took a picture with me. From then on, Hal was always my favorite ball player. Met him a couple more times before he left Cincy. Super nice guy.
Anyhow, thanks for the upload! Brings back a ton of memories!
Great stories. That def got a laugh out of me.
I had this VHS tape too!
Greatest Upset Ever!
Love late 80s and early 90s baseball. These two teams were SOLID!!!!
44:41 It's funny hearing Rickey bring up that Pittsburgh said that Cincinnati got all of the breaks. Champions make their own breaks and you can tell thought that as well with the "must be their year" comment
33:00 Wanna feel old?? Lil Tucker Browning is knocking on 30
That little Jose Rijo baby is now 35-36. 😳
Total team effort. Between the NLCS and WS, virtually ever Reds player, whether in the regular line-up, on the bench, in the rotation or in the bullpen, had some meaningful contribution to this championship. Winningham, Braggs, Bates, Oester, Armstrong....everybody did something.
A couple of years later, I talked to Herm Winningham, and he said that his bunt single on an 0-2 count in the 8th inning of Game 4 was not called by Piniella. Winningham did that on his own. Good thing it worked, or he would've really caught it when he got back to the dugout.
Dan the Man perfect bunt, cannot believe did on his own,🤯
Big O'Neill had a great nlcs especially games 2 & 4. Big O'Neill did everything in game 2 & was a force in game 4
Pat O'Brien gets me more relaxed with the narration on the 1990 world series baseball. :)
The Coliseum sure was pretty back then. Loved that Ice Plant beyond the bleachers. It was always a site to see.
Sabo or Hatcher could've also been MVP of this series.
Yeah, you can especially make a good case for Sabo. I would have probably given it to him over Rijo with his hitting and superb defense.
I would of gave it to Hatcher. He batted .750 in that series and drove in all kinds of runs. he was a hitting machine in that series
1981lashlarue Reds fan here loved that team loved Sabo but I disagree respectfully pitching is the key. Rijo was locked in!!!
I'm from Cincinnati and seen the Big Red Machine.
The ninety Reds were awesome.
Great video. This is the first series I ever watched as a kid.
As a kid, I went to one of the WS games in Oakland.
Since I was a life-long A's fan, this series was very painful for me to watch.
That team got to the WS 3 years in a row, heavily favored to win all 3, tons of hype and Bravado, only win 1. That one win is marred by a tremendous earthquake. The 2 losses are a sweep and a gentleman's sweep. That era must have felt like you should have gotten way more although I'm sure it was fun too.
Lou may take the credit for winning that year but alot of people need to be reminded that was the team Pete Rose built !!
You make it sound like Pete drafted and/or acquired these players.
Here's a reminder : he choose to start Kurt Stillwell over Larkin , so Pete's not perfect in evaluating talent or their readiness.
Well done, thanks for posting, brings back very nice memories 😃
This WS victory by the Reds, is/was arguably the most "one sided" WS victory by a team, who were the consensus pick to lose it...
S. Chris T. Only one that could rival it was the '54 sweep by the (97-57) Giants over the (111-43) Indians. '90 still at least had two one-run games. '54 didn't have any (though Game 1 was a walk-off win, but on a three-run homer by Dusty Rhodes). But the scores of those games were 5-2, 3-1, 6-2, and 7-4.
It was one of the biggest Upsets in World Series History, period!!!
@M not in the US soccer will never outrank Baseball or American Football in ratings
@M Lol! This is the United States and the MLB is the pinnacle of every kid in the baseball world. America plays to our own tune. That's MLB and the NFL. Great athletes in soccer. It will NEVER be the sport Americans place at the top.
@@adamdorgant9454 Along with the Big Red Machine sweep of the Yankees in 4 in 1976. But I laid late into the night in 1990, in my daughter's hospital room, with my transistor radio turned to the lowest volume setting while she fitfully slept at 6 months of age. It was by no means clear that our daughter would recover. The Reds won in 4. I stood in my underwear late in the night pumping my fist at the WS victory. The nurses didn't appreciate it. She eventually recovered and of course the two had NOTHING to do with one another. But my child's strength, from her Creator God, was ultimately a magnificent time in her Mother's life and my own. She is 30 now and thriving, completely rejecting the give me something for nothing attitude of today. She is a testimony to Jesus Christ, and reminiscent also of those 1990 Cincinnati Reds ( not to her of course, but to myself personally).
Ricky Henderson always played like a champion.
Great player but I couldn't stand him crying about 90 Reds getting the breaks shut up they kicked your ass. Not only that Henderson would rub it in I remember a Padres Brewers game San Diego up big late Henderson stealing bases for no reason Davey Lopes Brewers skipper went nuts.
@@patrickgray5633 Yeah, it's too bad Ricky sometimes didn't recognize the Hall of Fame career he had had. But there can be little doubt that career had been secured in 1990. Ricky, Lou Brock and Joe Morgan the very best best fielders, but the best BEST base runners in history.
RIP greatest of all time
47:03 was the final straw to Eric Davis line of injuries & it was the most crushing his HOF talent was ruined by injuries.
Patrick Gray yes, very sad, hella potential was Davis.
Eric the Red was a once in a lifetime talent. An amazing athlete and just a damn good ball player.
He did well after this on the Orioles then had cancer.
@MANCHESTER UNITED When you get there, let us know
@M Considering this has been posted multiple times, it's clearly an attempt to make Soccer relevant in the most coveted sports market in the world; the United States. Very nice try. Americans don't care care. Baseball and NFL football is what Americans care about.
Last time Cincinnati won a world series and last time the Oakland A's won a pennant.
them mullets were big in the oakland ball park
The wire to wire Reds and the NASTY boys
As a Giants fan, I love to remind A's fans of 1990 when they gloat about 1989. I was 13 yrs old when I watch the heavily favored Oakland A's get their asses cooked like a thanksgiving turkey. The A's haven't been back since. Ha ha congrats Cincinnati!
+burger N Fries Eric the Midget was an A's fan. That's why I can't stand em. Also, being a Reds fan, I appreciate the Giants love. I hope to see a SF vs KC world series this year.....with a Leake vs Cueto game 7 matchup. It's about a 50,000:1 longshot, but it could happen.
Andy Price would be nice, but the Giants are pretty much done. Too many injuries and our pitching is atrocious.
When you're battling a team in your division with a $308M payroll, it's tough to compete. Especially with the Cubs & Pirates clogging up the wild card race this year. Still, at least your team is still in it. Crazier things have happened. My Reds are 22 games out in the WC and 30.5 behind the Cardinals. No hope at all for years to come in Cincinnati.
Andy Price The Giants showed the dodgers that money don't buy championships in the NL west. The dodgers will likely get sent home by the cardinals again. As much as we Giants and cardinal fans have great respect for each other, we know that they are rooting for the dodgers because the last team they want to face are the Giants.
As for Cincinnati, they are in rebuilding phase. Still a dangerous line up to face. The Giants will have to go that route soon. We have too many washed up veterans.
The 1990 reds were amazing. The media gave them no chance. The A's players were very cocky and felt they had the trophy in the bag. The fans were already talking about the victory parade before the first pitch of game 1. The reds just totally obliterated the A's.
burger N Fries as a lifelong Reds fan I tell people La Russa is so overrated. He may have 3 rings he should have 5 or 6 with those A's teams won 1 outta 3.
@ 10:17 Pat O'Brien worked with CBS at the time and tells the CBS sports World series tv commentators
I will always remember this series. Sitting in a hospital watching Game 4 on a small tv waiting room. After watching the Reds storm the field after winning, I was thinking, how did Cincinnati sweep the mighty Oakland so easily? Anyway, two smaller market teams matching up for the greatest prize. I love old baseball.
Doing the lord's work, thank you!
Look at the Oakland A's from 1988-1992 and look at them in 2023, how sad
Being from Ohio and a big REDS fan.. this was Awesome!!!!
I was three years old. My first memory of this World Series came about the time I was eight or 9. How do you not call this a Cinderella story?
Wild that over 10 years later lou piniella and Tony larosa would manage the Cubs and cardinals
41:30 "He corks another one to left field", the A's announcer said about Sabo. That was a reference about Sabo corking his bat. Savage! Lol
Uh, not quite.
Yeah. Sabo's corked bat incident didn't come for another several years.
after nlcs game 1 lost, the 2nd game Big O'Neill had a great game that got the reds rolling
i love the ad at the start, god i miss the 90s
41:30 Well that was an ironic way to describe a Sabo hit :)
I was a year old when they went wire to wire and won the title
I was 13 for the 75 WS and 14 for the 76 series. Neither 76 nor 90 WORLD SERIES went "to the wire."
Of all the big series Dave Stewart had throughout his career, this was not one of them.
Great video!!!!
i savor every moment of this, last time reds were good.
That’s not true unless you only count being good as winning the World Series.
I was at game two with my extremely pregnant wife who gave birth to my daughter 5 days later.
Ha so you must have felt a connection to Tom Browning during that game. He def had a very relatable issue there.
Was it your kid??
Ha. I still have this on VHS 🤣
Only losers say that the winners get all the breaks.
@ 19:18 Davis stuns Goliath
+StFidjnr That was a great headline!
At 22:13 that's me running up the steps... lol.
I'm somewhere under the scoreboard in game 1 lol
+geoff weissenberger You're famous! Haha. Super cool that you were there though. I was 7 years old and watched every minute of the series on tv.
I was in Yokosuka Japan watching on TV
Eric Davis was never the same after he suffer that kidney injury he was suppose to be the next Willie Mays.
As a Reds fan he was the best talent I've seen in my time I wasn't around during The Big Red Machine years
Yeah as a Reds fan I always wondered what he could have done & I admit I was 6 during this series I didn't think he was hurt as bad as he was Marge Schott should be ashamed the way she treated Davis was terrible she didn't want to pay his way home!!! I believe that's why Eric left after the 91 season
+Patrick Gray I agree, she was horrible to him. They had so much talent. Larkin and Sabo were very underrated.
Yeah, but even before then, Davis had (unfortunately) been getting hurt. He never played more than 135 games in a season. Which sucks, because he was probably going to be a 40/60 guy in 1987.
Douglas Bates yeah Sabo was very solid Larkin being elected to Cooperstown shows his credentials.
The look on larussas face throughout said it all...
@ 20:22 'sweet' LOUUUUUUUUUU piniella living up to his name here
@ 32:53 game 2's hot topic & 1990 world series Strangest moment
@ 34:32 Commentators start haveing their own relay calls
@ 34:48 there's Tim McCarver who not only comentated That 89 fall classic on ABC but the following 4 world series on CBS aswell
Best day of my life
Payback for 1972!!
Would have been very interesting to see how this WS would have gone if the WS HFA didn't alternate.
If the WS started in Oakland instead of Riverfront- not saying the A's win, but I don't know if it's a sweep.
As a Reds fan, I agree. I was only 15 at the time in 90, but I remember it well.
It would have been a sweep the Reds just outplayed Oakland. It didn't matter where it started, the Reds were going to finish them off.
Spoken like a true scumbag Oakland Losers fan! GTFOH! The Reds were winners from day one that year, leading in first place from day one! Could the Oakland Losers say the same...NO!!! The Reds were obviously THEE best team in baseball that year by a mile & they proved it in the World Series. Heck, the team the Reds beat in the National League Championship, the Pirates, were a better team than the A's.
@@nathanhale5455 You can't deny starting at Riverfront was a big boost.
@@chrisuncleahmad789 I deny it. It was 3 games in Oakland. The Reds EARNED the starting 2 games. They swept the Pirates and both played the same number of games. Qualify it all you want, but the As weren't even close to the calibre of the Reds.
Thank God the Reds won Game 4 with Hatcher & Davis down Herm Winningham & Glenn Braggs they were nice players but they were bench players not as good at Davis & Hatcher.
Uh, yeah, Braggs and Winningham on the bench are red meat in the hole. Thank God the Reds won in spite of Hatcher and Davis out there. 🙄
Was Canseco always a terrible fielder, or was he just having a bad week? Seems like the whole series would have been different if a real RF was out there.
+Andy P I was a Reds fan living in Monterey, CA at the time so I remember a lot about this series. I actually got to go to game 3! Canseco was actually a really good player for a while. He hurt his back prior to the series. He wasn't a horrible fielder. He wasn't the greatest ever, but he wasn't too bad. Unless you count the time a ball bounced off his noggin for a ground rule double!
+Douglas Bates didn't he have one bounce off his head for a homer.
Canseco was never a great fielder. He looked especially bad in this series because his back was hurt somewhat and sometime during the series he injured his finger in a household accident. That transformed him from a bad fielder (mediocre on a good day) to a terrible one.
@@1981lashlarue PROFESSIONALS rise above a FINGER injury in the World Series and have no need for 'juice' in the batter's box. One of the most unworthy player, of his contract, in the 1990s. Not who MY kids modeled themselves after.
@@michaelbee2165 I'm not sure what your response has to do with what I said.
"Why...you would think they just won the World Series."...because they did!
3:53 name that tune
12:55 I still believe to this day that the Series was over. Broke the A's back
If a home run hit against you in the first inning of the first game is so demoralizing to you and your teammates that you never recover from it for the rest of the series, you don't deserve to be champions.
I don't think that is what actually happened. The Reds just played better than the A's. A lot better.
@ 3:53 name that tune
it it me or is it wierd that oakland a only trips to the world series been 3 peating as al champs
Not sure what you mean since they had won in 1989 and had a 3-peat dynasty in the early 1970s.
Nice beanball in game 4
@ 31:21 the (rosie reds) skeptics rating
@ 48:57 ehhh.... Pat O'Brien. Too pumped I'll say
this was an OK world series, but not the best. the 91 world series was epic, both Twins, Braves were worst to first teams.
It was a four game sweep. Of course it's not the best.
The BEST was '75 Cincinnati REDS over the Boston Red Sox.
33:00 that nurse is rough as hell with that baby lmao.
I wonder, how it was for Pete Rose to see the Reds winning, without any kind of involvement from him.
briagadaress I bet he was fine. I'm sure Pete still won big that day.
@ 25:37 the kind hearted member of the reds bullpen
+StFidjnr He was actually a starter for most of the season....First half was better than the second, though. He actually started the All-Star game in Chicago that year.
+Andy P That's true, Armstrong was great the first half of the season.
I wanted bad eyesight so bad as a kid so I could get Rec Specs.
A's should have won game 2.
+mikem987 Buuuuut they didn't
Dumbfounded to this day. Baines, Canseco, Henderson, Henderson, McGee, McGwire, Lansford, Eck, Randolph, Stewart, Welch. This team had everything lined up to sweep Cincy and yet Oak fell flat beyond comprehension.
Luke Enno It was the perfect storm of the A's overconfidence, and the Reds overachieving...
The Reds bullpen was a machine. Dibble Charlton Myers all of those guys were like closers.
@@patrickgray5633 Yeah, the bullpen was a big part of it. Also, Rijo was a *lot* better than he was given credit for. He was actually probably better than Stewart, though Stewart had the big game rep.
Ultimately, the Reds won the close games, and that flipped the series. It could have very easily been 2-2 after four games, which would have been tough for the Reds with some of the injuries they were dealing with at the time
6:15 the buccos end the reds 3 game win streak by winning game 5
5:56 the bucs took a (Bob) Walk on the losing side
The last title in any of the Big 4 leagues for an Ohio-based team until the Cavs won the NBA title in 2016.
Is it just me or is it super weird that Rijo's wife calls him "Rijo"?
I thought the same thing. Ha!
Andy P Lol, and he ultimately called her "gold digger", as he kicked her to the curb, a short time later in the 90's...
Chris Berman on ESPN nickname Jose" Blame it on" Rijo
A's Line-Up
P Bob Welch
P Dave Stewart
P Mike Moore
P Dennis Eckersley
P Gene Nelson
1B Mark McGwire
OF Jose Conseco
2B Rickey Henderson
OF Willie McGee
OF Dave Henderson
DH Carney Lansford
SS Walt Weiss
C Terry Steinbech
3B Harold Baines
2B Willie Randolph
Reds Line-up
P Danny Jackson
P Tod Browning
P Jose Rijo
P Randy Myers
3B Barry Larkin
2B Eric Davis
OF Paul O'Neill
SS Chris Sabo
OF Mariano Duncan
OF Billy Hatcher
1B Todd Benzinger
You have several player's positions wrong and its Tom not Tod Browning.
You left off 2 of the Nasty Boys , Norm Charlton & Rob Dibble.
Did you just say Rickey Henderson was a second baseman?
Why does Rijo's wife keep referring to him by his last name?
Who knows, why can't she just call him by his first name Jose!!!!
exactly sounds like a business marriage :)
You got that right geodeuce
She looks like Kim Kardashian
It sounds like she grew up in a baseball environment, so she probably got used to calling every baseball player by last name, even players she got close with.
geodeuce kind of shows why the marriage ended a couple years later.
Love Willie McGee
Wanna know why the Yankees weren't in a World Series between 1981 and 1996? Trading away guys like Jose Rijo. And the Reds wouldn't have won anything without future Yankee Paul O'Neil.
I agree because Big O'Neill was the main reason why they beat the pirates
Trading Rijos is what got them Rickey Henderson and keep in mind even the A's didn't really do much with him as well. Not every trades the Yankees had made in the 1980s are like the Buhner trade you know, let alone the stupidity of the McGee trade that made no sense.
I hope to see an Ohio World Series someday
I trust the Indians to get back there again someday but Cincinnati has been pretty wobbly since 1990. They never seem to make the playoffs two years in a row or win any plqyoff series. Damn, I just realized Cincy has only 2 pro sports teams and neither of them have won a playoff series since '90!
I mean the Indians have only been to 3 World Series since then 🤷🏻♂️
@@nathanprentiss7578 Reds been to zero since this one over 30 years ago.
Barry Larkin should've been the MVP
55:25
Tina wears the same outfit in I Just Love Bugs Michael wears the same outfit in 1 2 3 4 5 Senses Luci wears the same orange shirt in Eat Drink And Be Healthy Min wears the same pink shirt in A Splash Party Please
Ball was foul - 32:24
mikem987 no, it touched the white line and was behind third base. fair ball.
It did catch the line but even if it hadn't it would still have been fair because it went over third base. If a bounding ball (one that has already touched the ground) bounces over any part of first or third, it is fair. It does not matter where it lands.
I know [edit] -Joe- Jack Buck is widely regarded as a legendary announcer, but in this series....I just didn't see it. Maybe he wasn't as sharp as he once had been, I dunno. But his calls on pivotal plays seemed flat, and his incessantly informing the viewers how many consecutive outs each pitcher had recorded drove me absolutely nuts all series long.
"...aaaand that's 4 straight outs for Rijo.....pop up....Gallego's retired, and that's five straight outs for Rijo..." Like anybody cared. I have no idea why he deemed that meaningful.
This was the first exposure I'd had to him, and I found it difficult to correlate his reputation as a great broadcaster with his play-by-play in this series.
Jack Buck you mean, right?
Maybe he found that meaningful because he knew that no Reds starter should be dominating that lineup and yet Rijo persisted. It was kind of subtly saying something about 'when is this powerful A's lineup going to wake up here?' His disbelief in the upset seemed to really color his announcing there. I can see how that would still feel like overkill and leave a bad taste in your mouth though. Personally I think he more than made up for it with his commentary in the '91 World Series. I enjoy listening to his call of those games. He also had the famous Kirk Gibson radio call.
You are 1000% right. Buck showed extreme bias against the Reds to the point of absurd. McCarver was a blowhard who couldn't shut his mouth if his life depended on it.
41:31 HE CORKS ANOTHER
It sickens me to the core that Cincinnati not only won this Series , but swept it . Say what you want about Canseco and McGwire, but this Oakland ballclub was STACKED as defending champions and couldn't do a damn thing ! To make matters worse , Marge Schott was a racist and a bigot ! At least when the Dodgers won it in 1988, they won it with class !
alonzomourning33 IM a DODGER but to Paint the REDS of 1990 with a Bad Brush because 1 lady opened her mouth on a few occasions is not characteristic of the entire REDS Franchise, nor is it a reflection of the Players on the REDS or the season they had.
I thought in 1988 DODGERS Pitching would never be beaten or any team come close, Man was I WRONG.
CINCINNATI WS I Respect because they were in Last in their Div or League just 1 and 2 years earlier.
Slight Edge to the DODGERS in 88 for Hitting but Edge to this REDS Pitching.
Both my DODGERS and these 1990 REDS were built the same way.
REDS and their fans deserved this.
Better team won. Underrated, underestimated, wire to wire in 1st place. Best bullpen ever.
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