San Diego PADRES at Atlanta BRAVES 6/17/96 Original TBS Broadcast
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- Recorded and Digitalized straight off the original recorded VHS master tape, and has been recently restored/remastered making its debut on the Phenia Film MLB archival channel on CZcams.
Game 1 of the 3 game series from Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, original TBS Broadcast with Pete Van Wieren, Don Sutton, Skip Caray and Joe Simpson. Starting pitchers RHP Sean Bergman (3-6) for San Diego and RHP Greg Maddux (5-5) for Atlanta. Braves have lost 7 of their past 10 Games while San Diego has been struggling losing 9 of their last 10. Braves with a run in the bottom of the 1st on a balk call followed by an RBI single from 1B Fred McGriff. Braves score 4 runs in the bottom of the 3rd on a 2-RBI double from 3B Chpper Jones and a passed ball from Padre catcher Brian Johnson.
Greg Maddux has another great outing, pitching 8 innings giving up 1 run on just 4 Padre hits. Braves reliever Mark Wohlers pitches the 9th and gives up 1st Major League Homerun to Padre rookie 1B Jason Thompson a 2-run shot, Thompson who played only 13 games in his Big League career. Maddux with the win (his 6th) and Sean Bergman with the loss.
Also Includes This Week in Baseball 6/14/96 with game highlights and interviews
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The nostalgia brought tears to my eyes. The line up music makes me think of my pops in Huntsville AL. Thanks!
Amazing! Thank you so much for posting all these classic maddux videos, he was my favorite athlete when I was growing up, and I find watching him pitch very inspiring. These videos you keep posting mean a lot to me, so thanks!
awesome thanks Marc glad these games are out there for all MLB fans to see now..an escape from todays beer-league MLB
Exactly, I feel the same way you do about today’s game, it makes me very upset, I completely agree with you and I tell people all the time that the game started to die in the mid 2000’s. I consider 2004 the last great year, and the ensuing few seasons were ok, arguably worth watching, as that generation’s superstars wound down their careers and still had some magic left, but in my opinion it was all completely downhill from there, and the game is long dead, I merely wonder if they can ever resuscitate baseball.
I miss the days when Major League Baseball featured great starting pitchers who pitched deep into games and wanted to finish what they started- maddux, pedro, randy johnson and many others were what made me fall in love with the game, it was beautiful to watch, and inspiring.
I think nowadays there are no truly great starting pitchers anymore, and they mostly get injured because they are told to max out on every pitch and don’t pace themselves. It’s ironic and upsetting that teams now place an undue emphasis on the pitch count and defend this obsession by claiming that limiting pitch counts protects pitchers from injury when in reality, by maxing out every single pitch for “only” 90-100 pitches they are setting themselves up for injury. Pitchers should stop worrying so much about the pitch count and instead learn to pace themselves so they can pitch deep into the game and stay healthy, it worked for the first 100 years of the sport.
If baseball wants to bring fans back I think they need to prioritize the role of the starting pitcher because the starting pitcher is baseball’s equivalent of the quarterback in football: he’s the protagonist of the game; and just as nobody wants to watch a football game that has no great quarterbacks nobody wants to watch baseball with unrecognizable personalities filling all the pitcher’s positions, there’s nothing inspiring, nothing to relate to.
It pains me to consider how far baseball has fallen, it was once so great, it used to rightly be called our national pastime. In The Old Man and The Sea, the old man muses over and over about the great Dimaggio, and he draws inspiration from the great Dimaggio in his epic struggle to catch his fish.
The old man had Dimaggio to look up to, i grew up watching Pedro and Maddux, but currently I see nobody in the game worth watching.
But on a positive note, I believe that if there’s anyone who can fix this mess it is Theo Epstein; after all, he did end 2 curses, and he has said in an interview that he intends to try to legislate starting pitching back into the game by incentivizing teams to keep their starters in longer; so I remain hopeful, but I also presume it will be a long time till this is rectified, if at all, unfortunately.
But when i watch these old games that you’re posting, these classic pitching performances, it connects me to some of the happiest moments of my childhood, and it’s exciting because I’ve never seen these particular games before so I can enjoy the suspense of not knowing what the outcome was as if I had watched it for the first time back in 1996; but I also like the benefit of hindsight and knowing that virtually any game maddux pitched during his run of dominance between 1992-1998 is probably yet another masterpiece of wit, strategy, execution and determination.
So thanks for your work, I greatly appreciate these videos!
Oh man, the nostalgia. Thanks for uploading this!!
Thank you
And after the game folks it's Godzilla vs Megalon. Try to miss it.- Skip Carey.
Vintage Maddux!
So many hall of famers in this game....rickey henderson...fred mcgriff...chipper jones...tony gwynn...greg maddux....bruce bochey....bobby cox...trevor hoffman
and then you can look at the roster and even the front office of the Braves and add Glavine, Smoltz and GM John Schuerholz
Don’t forget Don Sutton
Was watching to see if Maddux called his pitches this game don't think he is yet
Thank you so much for the upload! Do you have any more Padres games from the 1996 and/or 1998 seasons?
thats all she wrote
Thank you for the uploads!! Just curious do you have September 27, 1998?? Braves vs Mets???
check the game inventory (videos)
Many thanks as always.