1978 ALCS, Game 4 (Royals-Yankees) (ABC)
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- -Complete ABC broadcast of Game 4 of the 1978 ALCS between the Yankees and Royals. The Yankees wrap up their third straight AL pennant behind the pitching of Ron Guidry and Rich Gossage with the offense coming on solo homers by Graig Nettles and Roy White.
-Freddie Patek's post-game interview is the definition of "no class."
Keith Jackson was smooth on the mic - including the closing credits and the standard - “this has been a presentation of ABC Sports, recognized around the world as the leader in sports television”. Can’t remember how many times I heard that after watching games in my youth. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks so much epaddon my favorite player at the time was Roy White, but when he went to Japan to play Graig Nettles became my favorite player. Once again thank you so much from a 69 year old retired Grandfather
I loved Roy too. Chambliss and Dick Tidrow were close behind
The 77' and the 78' seasons are still two of my favorites of all-time. Of course they're the first 2 seasons I remember as a 6 and 7 year old. Also, all the kids in the neighborhood had the cheap plastic batting helmets which were a big deal back then. Funny, the only teams kids had were the Twins (was our local team), Royals, Yankees, or Dodgers. Everyone loves a winner.
Same w/me only I was 7 and 8.
Yankee Pride, no longer exist. Between bulldozing this beautiful shrine and Hal’s ownership all the mystique is gone. Forgot to mention this great KC team, unbelievable talent.
Agreed. I am a New Yorker and the destruction of Yankee Stadium is despicable!.
These Yankee & Royal teams were stacked! Excellent teams! The 1970s Yankees were next level! Im grateful to have gone to one game at old Yankee stadium before they ripped it down!
Babe Ruth 🏡 home yankee stadium @@frederickpando9444
Both Guidry and Catfish were 9-1 down the stretch to earn a playoff game w Boston...the Dent game.
Baseball back then no politics love it still better to watch then now 👍
Thanks for this. Got my adrenaline running again after 43 years.
Listening to Keith Jackson never gets boring.
And Howard was no Yankee fan.
Really? I never liked him as a baseball announcer. Cosell was the man that brought life to the baseball games. I even liked Joe Buck better than Jackson for play by play.
Starting pitcher for KC Dennis Leonard a graduate from Oceanside High School on Long Island.
Really great share, thanks. The DVD I once had was the WPIX broadcast, with White, Messer and Rizzuto. Seeing the ABC feed and the postgame stuff is priceless. Thanks for the great memories.
If you had the WPIX broadcast of this game, then I am *really* sorry to hear you lost it. I would have loved to have seen their full game broadcast on the TV side (I have WPIX audio of the Bottom 8th to signoff that I've thought of trying to merge with this footage like I did WPIX audio on 76 ALCS-5 but I can't get a perfect synch at this point).
@@epaddon I'm gonna look again and see but I couldn't find it the last couple years and moves
Bob Lemon was a great guy. He told the Yankees to go out and have fun. You were champions last years and you know what to do. Like Craig Nettles said in 1978 "When Lem came all the bullshit stopped." It is so true. He brought calm and stability to the team. His memory be eternal. HOF Bob Lemon
Amen to that !!
Graig
Baseball without politics - the way it is meant to be.
Get off my lawn
The video literally opens with the playing of the national anthem. That's as political as you can get.
Ask Jackie Robinson how "baseball without politics" was. Segregation is political. Integration is political. The banning of the Black Sox was political and legal. The 1968 World Series took place against the backdrop of race riots in Detroit. This idealized version of the game you pine for never existed.
@@bmorebamma 😂😂😂
Nor stupid screens in our face, guady graphics, ugly ad verts ob the grass on uniforms, all over. No Stupid cloxk, or changing the entirenatureof the game in extra innings or limiting how many times a pitchercan throw to first. Now half thr clubs make the playoffs that means the best may not win as much. Manfred has badly damaged the game, and made it so children and adults alike are saddedn3d by this cheap version of baseball. Its part of the Plan to.ruin Americas game. No.doubt. Angelos s son will not even allow CASH to be spent in his ball park. That is so wrong. Un american to the max. Godless too, that Angelos JR had a colorful rainbow flag painted on the outfields grass. Mocking God s promise to Noah. We all sin but come on. The ugly "inner city" uniforms are pointless ugly crap. Plain and fruity at the same tike. Led boards replqcing hand operated out of town scoreboards. They have the ability to post more info,but they do less with it.
The future is looking worse as Satan is desperate. He knows his time is running short.
The national anthem is not political ! it's unifying and gratifying
1978 was an amazing season in MLB! Yankees vs Royals & Dodgers vs Phillies....
I have a DVD copy of this game, but this by far is much better quality. My copy is nowhere near as clean is this one is, excellent find!!!
thank you for posting this game hope to see many more posting.
Baseball was more exciting in the past, my opinion. I don't see stars of the caliber of these guys, I mean there are able players today but these had something, A magic, a charisma, they were bigger than the game.
Nettles at 1:47:43 -- Unreal. Sparky Lyle in the Bronx Zoo referred to "Nettles making those plays that seem unbelievable, except that he does it all the time."
Don't forget game 3 of 78 series!
epaddon for baseball commissioner!! Your posting these great games demonstrates demonstrates an amazing knowledge of the game and each of these posts is like a gift that keeps giving so pardon my late thanks. I never thought I would see this game again. The shrewd strategy would have been for Herzog to have Clint Hurdle bunt, but even if KC had tied the game it looked like another Chris Chambliss scenario and as the announcers said, the weakest part of the Royals team was their bull pen and moreover, I felt this was the weakest KC club of the three years they played the Yankees with the '77 club being the strongest. I think they missed the power of John Mayberry at first. and the hitting of Quirk, Poquette and Jim Wohlford which the bat of Darrell Porter over Buck Martinez could not make up for.
Thank you so much.
So interesting to watch '77 and '78. Guidry pitched both last games and was chased out in '77. Brett hit a triple his first at bat both games. And Yankees WIN, beating KC three straight seasons. And Rivers' catch was a Willie Mays-like grab... maybe better since he was injured
Ron Guidry was a Great / Phenomenal Lefty handed Pitcher during the era.
He got chased out in 1981 with two back to back homers @ L.A. Dodgers.
Royals were the Philadelphia Phillies of the American League. Their 3-game pennant sweep in the '80 ALCS had to be so satisfying for every frustrated KC fan shouting "Damn Yankees!" out loud in '76, '77 and '78.
As a lifelong Yankee fan., George f.n Brett.. always came to play..serious as fck…
00:36:00 The Graig Nettles home run to tie the game
01:18:45 The Roy White Home Run to win the game
Was there with my dad and older brother to witness my second pennant clinching victory in 3 seasons
Awesome - another (formerly) lost classic. 😊 Why the YES Network can't come through on these.... 🙄
Love my 1978 Yankees!! 😁😁😁💪💪💪
I came of age as a Yankee fan in the early 70's. The Mets were the big team. They had Tom Seaver, and Jerry Grote, and Nolan Ryan. They won the World Series in '69 and the pennant in '73. The only thing the Yankees were known for was wife swapping. The Red Sox won the pennant in '75 which was worse. '77 and '78 was like manna from heaven.
Nettles saved Guidry's bacon in 1978 playoffs and world series.
Nettles was amazing.
Ron Guidry had the best year I ever saw in 78, he went 25-3.
You ever “seen”.. not you ever “saw” I’m from the 1960’s Catholic Grammar School Police!! My Nuns would be so proud of me!! 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡😎
@@MIKIEEYEZ1975"had ever seen" if you really want to impress the nuns!
Thurman Munson should be in the HOF, no question. One of the greatest Yankees.
.292 lifetime BA, .357 in the postseason, .373 in the World Series, 2x WS champion.
This Yankee Team was One Tough Team !!!!!💥💥💥💥💥
Thanks for the 1978 ALCS game!
At 2:13:00, is that Howie Rose with the WHN mike behind Bob Lemon?
Yes, I do believe it is! Howie had started working for WHN the previous year according to his book. The guy next to Uecker, trying to get face-time for himself is NY Governor Hugh Carey who was running for re-election at the time.
Yes it is
Keith Jackson and Dave Diles - two ABC broadcasters more closely associated with college football.
you never hear Cosell talk good about any of the Yankee players he does talk about Yankee flaws or anything they have trouble doing but he does talk about opposing players and how well they do against the Yankees pitching or hitting he keeps talking about it through out the game
ROCCO SCOTTI !!! The greatest anthem singer of ALL TIME!!
All players reverant during the anthem, Hit and runs, stolen bases, quick paced pitching, hard sliding...The best era in baseball( the 70's), don't say the 60's,80's, O0's,10's... Especially the steroid 90's-
My favorite Yankees team and my favorite era.
You are so right Eva Reverant! Today's players most are punks!
Great memories from my childhood. Thank you for posting. Love the Yankees. I never liked George Brett. One of those smug players I enjoyed seeing him lose. Even though Fisk, Yaz, Garvey, etc were the enemy I respected them. With Brett just utter dislike.
That’s because he was a Yankee Killer
Brett was a better player than anybody that ever played for the yankees except for maybe Ruth.
@@larrynester4713 With all due respect to your opinion, I don't know if I could agree with you regarding this matter. But I definitely agree that George Brett was one of the ALL-TIME greats!! George Brett was a dynamic Hall-of-Fame player.....
@@johnjacobs7928 So who else besides Babe? Lou?, Mickey?
Yankee players get a New York hype that most other players don`t get.
Changing sports if Alex Ovechkin played in New York his name would be on par with the greatest all time sports stars ever.
get real@@larrynester4713
who was that signing National Anthem? keith said something about Rocco.?
You're the best. Subscribed!!!
Nettles may not be a hall of fames but he was clutch and a gold glove third baseman
Patek had a legit gripe. Three years in a row of that crap would make anybody salty. Took the umps 7 more years to make up for it.
Patek had no "legit gripe." The umps had also made bad calls against the Yankees the previous day. Crybaby Freddie just didn't have any class to admit he got beat and knew he could get away with it because sportswriters wanted to push the "Damn Yankees beat up on poor underdog Kansas City again" narrative.
Freddy Patek was right that Willie Wilson was safe. Patek was wrong as to that being the reason why the Royals lost.
The Royals just didn’t get any timely hitting that night. Especially with runners in scoring position.
That could happen when you are facing 1978 Ron Guidry and one of best power relievers in baseball history in Goose Gossage.
Nettles number should long have been retired.
Technically it is for Roger Maris. They'd have to do a separate "retirement" ceremony to honor it for him as well.
@@epaddon: they should. I never should have thought Maris should have had his number retired - despite the record.
Nettles is the man!
@@stevedrums1675 There's no reason why the Yankees can't "double retire" No. 9. They did it with Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey (8). And of course "42" was retired for both Mariano as well as Jackie Robinson. But that's a little different because it was a league wide thing.
To see Thurman smile and laugh in the post-game interview is so poignant, considering that the same time the next year he'd already be dead.
I think Keith Jackson flew to Dallas after game 3 the previous afternoon to call the Texas-OU Red River shootout at noon earlier this day, then flew immediately back to NYC to call this that night...
Wow 45 years later and I still remember that weird reporter during the celebration in the Yankees clubhouse mouthing silent words during the interviews really strange I remember me and my stepmom laughing wondering what that guys deal was 😂
Royals never beat the Yankees with Thurman Munson the Dodgers never beat the Yankees with Thurman Munson! In the big game! Think about that!
The Captain was special
Thurman was definitely special. Perhaps the same could be said of Roy White, Mickey Rivers, and Chris Chambliss. Those 3 left the Yankees before the 1980 season. I think Roy went to Japan, Mickey was traded to Texas, and Chris traded to Atlanta. Clutch players all.
@@jimfriery8641 Chambliss got traded to Toronto for Rick Cerone and then the Jays traded him to Atlanta a couple weeks later.
Yes, now I remember, thx for the corrrection
@@jimfriery8641 Rivers had his best year statistical wise..in 1980 with Rangers
What a play by Mickey Rivers at 32:54! That was almost like Willy Mays there!
I thought the same thing.
I think so too
Whitey takes out Al Cowens who finished 2nd in the MVP voting a year ago, so Gossage can face a left handed batter (Clint Hurdle). I'll take Over-managing for $1000, Alex Trebek.
GOAT MLB Comeback
just as good as Whitneys national antham
Leonard was 21-17? Holy Crap. Nowadays, a pitcher is lucky if they get 20 decisions in a season!
The very next year Phil Niekro went 21-20. You'll never see that happen again.
6 months before i was born.
Who was that, that sang the national anthem?
2:06:54 the man holding the WHN microphone (yellow and black mike flag) is Howie Rose, the current radio play by play man for the Mets.
I guess you're not a fan of Rocco Scotti. I don't know why it wasn't Robert Merrill.
Patek's crying in the dugout the year before in the 1977 ALCS was better....
@36:08.. that fan jumping out the stands to get a ball.. what was he thinking? 😂
Did Steinbrenner actually have them playing James Cagney's Yankee Doodle after the Yankee home runs?
Pete LaCock. 2nd greatest 70’s name behind Dick Pole! Random trivia LaCock was the son of Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall.
Does that make him Pete LaCock Jr.?
Watching for Rainbow Wig Man😳😂 always with the best seats!
KC was so awesome back then!
Herzog’s decision to PH Cowens can be second guessed. Patek spared nothing in that post-game interview. What he said about the call was correct. And he also alluded to the force out at second that ended the Top of the 9th of the fifth game in 1976. There it also seemed like Cowens got in prior to the throw getting to Randolph, and it did look like Brinkman anticipated the call there too. But Patek should’ve shown more class.
Of course Patek could have been reminded of the bad umpire call that went against the Yankees the previous day (the trap ruling on the ball Rivers clearly caught) and also the question of whether Luciano got it right on Piniella at the plate so his insinuation that it was always going against the Royals didn't hold water. It just struck me as amusing how the same kind of complaining had it come out of Steinbrenner's mouth would have been beaten to death by sportswriters who gave Freddie a pass on this.
Remember also that Patek got caught stealing the day before with Brett at the plate & 2 out after Brett had already parked two off Catfish, with Brett leading off the next inning with his 3rd HR. While Dan Quisenberry was a big factor in how the Royals finally beat the Yankees in 1980, it's also worth noting that Patek was long gone to California by then & replaced by UL Washington.
@@epaddon Agreed. This was also absolute frustration on his part.
@@epaddon he might also add that in 77 and 78 their bullpen wilted in big spots while the Yanks never did.
@@dzanier It goes to show how deep that Yankee bullpen was when they also had a guy like Rawly Eastwick on their roster and rarely had to use him and I don't think they used at all in the post season. At least from 1977 on IIRC.
Wah, wah, wah. K. C. Choked........Best team won., pure & simple....
Wow Craig Ferguson did a great rendition of the National Anthem
Let's go Yankees!
Royals Wilson stole 3rd base in the 3rd inning but was called out. Unfortunately, the umpire missed the call.
78 Yankees great pitching, contact hitting, great defense, power when needed missing from 2024 team power yes, defense no
You have 2 opposites ends of the spectrum in the booth: the deep, well-trained voice of the great Keith Jackson versus the annoying, nasal, interrupting voice of Howard Cosell.
Thankyougreatgame
I'd rather watch any game on You Tube up until 1988 before I'd watch the crap that the game has become now.
I said the same thing recently! I would love to see all Yankee games from like 1973-1988.
KC had a few crybabies in that series
TIME Magazine ranked Freddie Patek on the Top 10 list worst MLB all-stars ever. His sore loser personality should also go on the Top 10 list of biggest MLB sore losers ever.
if only we (The Blue Jays) didnt decline a Guidry for Bill SInger trade in 1977!!!!
Precisely, and according to Marty Appel, the former Yankee PR director, the Blue Jays passed because they had made Singer one of the main faces of their initial marketing campaign leading up to spring training that year. 😬
@@user-sw9rj6hj4z yup
Could you imagine the Jays having Ron Guidry and Dave Stieb at the top of their rotation? 🤔
Is it me or does Nettles kind of look like Matthew Perry with Curly hair??
This was satisfying because I always hated KC back then
Cosell ruins everything he touches. For me, listening to the game becomes a chore.
I forgot how annoying Howard Cosell was
Yeah...Cosell is NO Joe Buck! 🤣
57:27 - Wasn’t he in Robocop? Lol
Rapid Ron!!
Patek blaming the umps is loser speak. No coincidence KC got over the ALCS hump when they got rid of him and Herzog.
Couldn't agree more. That crybaby outburst of Patek's was bush-league and as bad as anything Steinbrenner got pilloried for in the press. But Yankee opponents always would get a free ride in the media for their remarks.
@epaddon players from a winning culture don't blame others or make excuses. They hold themselves accountable because there is always more they could have done when they lose a game. In retrospect, it's easier to see why KC blew 3 in a row with players like Patek having this attitude. Btw, Patek was 0-5 in the biggest game of his career. (Game 5 1977 alcs)
these Yankees have bettre players- way bettr- than the champs of 2023.
Holy Jesus Christ! Rose Ann sang the Star Spangle Banner better than that!
I want to say Bob Lemon seems younger without his hat and glasses. And his hair soaked
Louisiana Lighting Gator Ron Guidry
32:49
Howard Cosell is nauseating to listen to. Total arrogance and self serving, yet doesn't have much knowledge of the game. 👎
Numerous team's have donated millions for minors to get sex change operations.Tigers and Ray's are 2 of them.But they also don't want the public to know.Pretty weird can't vote,drink,gamble or buy smokes but sex change is fine.Feel bad for the one's who grow up to regret it.Kids make lots of mistakes like i did that's why they don't let them do the other things cause they are not mature enough