Cleveland Indians inside the park home run leads to benches clearing vs. Seattle Mariners LIVE 1998
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- David Bell hits 1st inning inside the park home run off Randy Johnson, who throws at Kenny Lofton twice in the third inning. Benches clear and ejections are made. From April 15, 1998 and recorded on VHS on Fox Sports.
Starter jackets check, bad ass umpire caps check, gangsta managers check, best decade in baseball imop check. Respectful fans check.
Comment is on point! Couldn't agree with you more.
All 4 sports were best in the 90s honestly
@@playdiscgolf1546 heck yeah
@playdiscgolf1546 As a Bulls fan, I agree with you about NBA in the 90s, but those 87-84 games were brutal to watch sometimes. That being said, I'll take the 90s anytime over today. The rivalries were real. The teams legit did not like each other. And none of the 3- ball, no D stuff from today. Those games were wars.
@@JDubs997 true story 🤙🤙
The best time in baseball. The 90s were absolute fire for every sport. And Lou Pinella was a straight gangster
Peak roids
Sweet Lou is a badass!
he was a grown ass man acting like a child.
Even our man in Minnesota, Tom Kelly, was a gangster. Mild-mannered, soft-spoken, cigar-chewing, horse-track gambling gangster. Good times then, huh!?
It was the best of times.....and the worst. The juicing was prevalent during this era. Not saying Randy was but many other steroid sluggers were.
Is it weird that I remember every player and this game was over 25 years ago, yet I don’t know very many players who play today?
Yes because baseball used to be fun. Now it's garbage.
This is such a spot on comment - one of those things that you don't realize yourself until someone else puts it to words.
There are 8 possible future HoF in this game (Griffey, R. Johnson, A-Rod, Edgar, Thome, Manny, Lofton, Vizquel). This will never happen again.
@@MeneTekelUpharsinmost of them aren’t and will not be in the hof
@@CCPAFEL But they played like ones
This was the greatest Cleveland lineup of all time.
No way. Next season 1999 lineup was the best Cleveland lineup ever. Same as this lineup except add Roberto Alomar .323 avg, 24 HR, and 120 RBI and add Richie Sexton's 31 HR and 116 RBI. Omar Vizquel hit 50 points higher than the previous season and Manny Ramirez hit 40 points higher
@@alexh8613 Both were great squads. Man, that '99 2-0 choke to Boston is still gutwrenching to this day.
@@Skazellino Yeah, as a Red Sox fan, we didn't expect to win that series.
Not even close
Seattle hâd 4 HOF players on that team. (AROD will be in someday)
Once you saw the Starter jackets, you knew it was close to October baseball. Best time of year
Lmao! This was in April
@@teelowteelow356 So. Doesn’t change the fact that it feels like October baseball when the teams are wearing jackets
Now it's cheap hooded sweatshirts. Hey it's all about the bottom line. MLB sucks.
What ever happened to Starter?
@@TheBigBigSean Purchased by Nike in 2004 (probably to remove competition) and then sold by Nike to Iconix Brand in 2007. They still make jackets for some pro teams in the old style. Your best bet to find a vintage Indians jacket is Ebay, though.
It's absolutely amazing how many hall of famers Seattle had on their team in the 90s (that were in their prime as well) and they couldn't even appear in a World Series.
You can thank the Yankees for that. AL was stacked in those years.
@@brothermichael8442 Yah I know.... but it still pisses me off lol.
@@brothermichael8442the Ms only lost to the Yankees after they'd traded most of their HOF's away
@@aa-ze5cz i know man.. i grew up in seattle watching that team and went to tons of games at the kingdome .. still butthurt
baseball is a fickle mistress
80's and 90's were the pinnacle of all sports...I hate watching sports today
It's still awesome dude. You probably just outgrew it. That's OK too
Athletes were much tougher in the 80s and 90s especially in the NBA and MLB.
@jimgray3346 the athletes are still awesome...better than ever. The game and rules have changed. I'm in my mid 40s. .not too old. The games are just different and the wokeness is what really pushed me away
@@HereonTubeYousports have always somewhat resisted the wokeness.
Consider the Phillies dropping bud light as a stadium beer after that trans mess
the thing I can’t stand the most is the gambling aspect and the, how can I say, angry-ness of it. Fuck happened to the umps? Makes it unwatchable. Even football and the refs.
They keep trying these weird experiments in Baseball that are not needed. Greatest game ever invented. Quit fucking with it.
Don't you just love how baseball players and coaches act tough once their being held back?
I think that goes for most guys, baseball players or not.
*they're, their is possessive.
Also you're lucky the grammar police are holding me back.
Yah so Fuuuuny that if they let lofton & pinalla go, well just gonna say, See ya at your funeral Uncle Lou ⚾⚾🤣👏
I was a teenager living off e.185th when this Indians team was rolling. Great childhood memories.
late 1950’s they were the Dayton Indians two blocks almost n my back yard-I was the ballboy $1.for each ball returned-when left went to Cleveland they left all papergoods visors u name it
@@daytonwoodford4386 awesome memory, thanks for sharing
Go Tribe
@@daytonwoodford4386I believe you are confusing a minor league team with the Cleveland Indians of the MLB who began play in 1901 in the mlb
Muldoons!!!!!!!
I watched this with my dad as it was happening one of the best memories
Damn, i miss when baseball was like this
I didn’t see any baseball 😄
Don't you... More exciting to watch than now although I still love the game...
there has already been like 6 or 7 bench clearing fights this season, punches thrown even. players still get thrown at deliberately, and theres been a handful of manager ejections already in the last month. No idea why you think its not like this still.
Chief Wahoo on the hat and those red Indians jackets!
@@kayceeyouChief Wahoo is dead. Let that racist logo go, man.
ngl, a Randy Johnson slider is still probably like 90mph
I thought he was Arizona? Maybe trading. But Randy is amazing pitcher.
@@daytimestudios3678 uhhh... what?
@@daytimestudios3678 He started out with the Expos, to Seattle, then to Arizona, then the Yanks, back to Arizona and he finished with the Giants.
close, if I recall correctly, his sliders were often 87mph
@@choco1101 that was later in his career, in the 90s (like this clip) he was hitting low 90s with his slider, consistently
Hearing Dan Patrick and Randy Johnson reminiscing about this was gold.
The mid-late 90s Indians were awesome to watch I love watching these recaps
“We just chillen” -Albert Bonilla
Yeah, there's no way I'm standing in the the right batter's box with Randy Johnson throwing sliders on the mound. I value my life.
But you will stand in the left?
Especially when your guy just hit a home run. Then you get hit intentionally.
first pitch "that was a slider". second pitch "THAT was meant for your head".
If O remember right Randy’s fastball was over 100 mph.
Sliders do get away and that first one probably dod…second was intentional…
Love the old baseball…you knew the rules, played and took the consequences.
It’s not just the pitch…its the headgame!
@@PatriciaMadsen-cu7wj
Big Unit was clocked once at 103. But even late in his career, was throwing 95+ both fastballs and sliders.
Kenny was asking for a "Bow-Tie"
lol there was no doubt about the 2nd pitch
@@Sterlingx11there was no doubt about that FIRST pitch!
My favorite 2 Reds managers ,Sweet Lou and current manager David Bell.
I loved Sparkey Anderson but those 2 and Pete Rose are there as well.
Wait it's THAT David Bell? O dang....I didn't put 2 and 2 together.
I obviously knew Lou.
Bell was the everyday 3B for the 116 game winning 2001 Mariners and along with Brett Boone a 3rd generation big leaguer on the team.
Too young to remember Sparky huh?😅
Sparky won a Championship with The Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers becoming the first manager to win it all in both leagues. He's the greatest manager the Reds ever had and the greatest Manager The Tigers ever had. He's 5th or 6th all time in wins as a manager.
Brian Giles actually came in to catch and had 2 RBI's, but the Tribe ended up losing.
Can't believe Lou didn't have a heart attack at some point during this.
This was far from Lou’s most apoplectic moment! He could (and did) do a lot better than this!
I love that this sort of stuff is preserved for posterity. Magical times in baseball in those days, when there was still some nobility and respect for the game.
Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you so much for putting this video on the tube. Brings back tons of memories!
Randy Johnson still sour on Loftons hustle from 1995 scoring from second on a passed ball in the clinching ALCS game.
Lofton stole every base on Unit I'm surprised he didn't steal his wallet 😂😂😂😂
@@ShallOvercome24-7 ikr because he's black
@@ShallOvercome24-7he probably would've been less offended if he had 😂😂😂
He was also sour on the Mariners not giving him an extension in the off season. He had a rather poor last four months in Seattle, then found his mojo when he was traded to Houston. He actually got some votes for the NL Cy Young after that change in scenery.
@@MDK2_Radio rarely stated and talked about
Thanks for this, I've seen ESPN highlight clips from their broadcast, but never the full thing. This was damn testy.
Can’t believe this is 1998…I was 20 and it looks like 1986!
We're so used to HD resolution that anything standard def looks older than it really is.
@@Pocket_FoxThe recording quality definitely affects how old I thought it looked but it was also the haircuts,the team bomber jackets,the umpires old school uniform,the catchers protection,everything looks so dated but then when I think it’s almost 30 years ago!Crazy,time flies
No way
Fledgling internet, people weren’t so interconnected. Now we move at warp speed and it’s only gettin’ faster.
Filmed on a freakin motorola Razr no less
Doesn't matter if it was a slider or fastball. BY RULE, if the pitcher intentionally throws at a batter he is to be ejected from the game. Nobody in the stadium that not could have believed that pitch was accidental. And then.....he does it again. My God! What in the world was that home plate umpire thinking?
I like how a 90mph pitch isn’t supposed to jack someone up. You should be able to throw the bat back at them. Lmao
Agreed.
After the first pitch he warned both benches.
But after the second pitch, even after he just warned both teams, it looked like he was going to do nothing until Lofton charged the mound.
Very bad umpiring.
First pitch was unintentional. If you're throwing at a batter, you throw a fastball. That was Randy's point with the slider comment. Second one, that was a fastball :)
@@johne417...bullshit. he was throwing at him 100%
@@BrianSmith-ok8xe With the second one sure, but if you're saying he was throwing at him with the slider, Tell me you don't know the game without telling me you don't know the game
Lofton almost gets his head taken off 2x and gets thrown…..mk it mk sense
Johnson shoulda immediately been booted after the 2nd head hunt on Lofton. The fact it took 2 bench clearing altercations to get to that was unreal. Ejecting Lofton was completely unnecessary as he was twice the victim.
Lol you must be from Ohio 😂
...everyone here in Seattle's like
"awwwww cumon Ump, it was just some healthy backyard competitiveness" 😂😂😂
@@user-fs3iy7em2t actually grew up in El Segundo CA, an extremely competitive baseball town as last year's LLWS champs can attest. Knowing the intricacies that make baseball a little edgy at times but also understanding the line and when not to cross it is a delicate dance. But yes to avoid what coulda been an even worse situation Johnson shoulda been ejected immediately after the second pitch. He's way to good a pitcher to miss 2 in a row at someone's head. And @100mph I'd hate to see what woulda happened if it hit Lofton. Probably woulda exploded like a bird mid flight.
@user-fs3iy7em2t That's a dumbass attitude toward objects moving nearly 100mph coming at people's heads.
You know. That could straight up kill someone? That's not being competitive by any sane person's imagination.
@@user-fs3iy7em2t This is the over-co.pensating, testosterone-deprived male logic applied to anything "men" do as a defense to excuse the moronic dude-bro behavior that escalates every situation. People like this almost always get their ass beat when push comes to shove.
@@user-fs3iy7em2tI'd bet your adult diapers would be bursting at the seams with Randy Johnson throwing 102 at your head
Those starter jackets are so cool
🤣 Classics! 💯
i love how randy is just standing there, watching the fight he created
jeez i created a war in the replies
"... Maybe I'll hit a bird with a pitch next time just to see what it feels like"
Big and tall and that’s about it, he doesn’t want any smoke from lofton
Yeah, I can see not getting involved in the first one. That was just a slider getting away. But if you're going to buzz the tower at 97, you better get in there and back it up instead of letting your manager fight for you.
@@JDubs997 He was just annoyed that Lofton got so upset at the slider that he had to send a message with the next one. Note, like the announcer said, the fastball wasn't as close to him as the slider that got away. He wasn't trying to hit him or hurt him, just express displeasure with him getting butthurt on the first pitch.
@@LucianDevine Johnson was a gutless punk. Pure and simple. He wants to pretend that he missed the strike zone by 4 feet with that slider? B.S. he threw at the guys head. It was the only way he could seem tough. He certainly couldn't back it up. And he didn't even have to get in the box.
If the ump reasonably suspects intentional targeting, the pitcher should get a stiff fine and suspension. The game is dangerous enough.
What? Bowling is more dangerous than baseball.
Bad heading on the video. What caused the benches to clear was the pitch Randy Johnson threw at Kenny loftons head.
Yeah what did the home run have to do with any of this lol
Idk but it was a cool play and fun to watch as a mariners fan who came to appreciate Bell when he played for us not long afterwards.
Very true
@@isaiahcoleman52because he threw at him the pitch after the HR?
Thanks for sharing this!
Mr Snappy. That's what his slider was called. I'd go watch him pitch every five days back in the kingdome. One of the all-time greats imo
Jomboy needs to do a breakdown
Would love to see it. Throwback breakdown
No - he doesn't. The less we hear from him, the better.
I think he did one already
@@davyhall6886 Who pissed in your corn flakes Karen?
@@davyhall6886cope about it
Absolutely absurd that Alomar and Lofton were ejected. The only reason they reacted the way they did is because the umpire failed to do his job by immediately ejecting Johnson after the second pitch.
It didn't work like that in the 90s. Nothing happen to be ejected.
You can't eject someone for throwing inside lol. Lofton and Alomar behaved like animals and that's why they got ejected.
@@johnd3233 You can for intentionally throwing at a batter, which that head high fastball absolutely was.
@@johnd3233 Tell me that you've never watched a baseball game without telling me you've never watched a baseball game.
Right.Johnson was too good to throw 2 consecutive pitches like that.100% intentional🤷🏽♂️
I love these old-school games. Randy Johnson was a beast. He just didn't care...not one bit.
Yeah cuz he didn’t to bat. That’s called a pussy
I was front row of right field for this game! Wow. I was 11. So cool to see this again!
Second pitch right by his eyes !!! Whoa
Only in baseball can you pick a fight with someone with a bat in their hands…..
@@playdiscgolf1546 same with hockey
Yeah, I'm a Mariners fan, but Randy had to go after that.
The ol' "Bow-tie Pitch", taught to him by the Ryan Express, who learned it from Satchel Paige.
@@ricoricky98 oh no doubt, but I’d rather be slashed than hit with a bat…haha
They're not booing, they're saying "Lou!". Man, those Cleveland fans sure do love Lou Piniella.
I was saying “Lou-urns.”
The announcer's comment was spot-on....he hustled out of the batter's box. Something you don't see these days, sadly.
You still see that today. 💀
OMG, the current Guardians do nothing but HUSTLE.
Ever heard of Jose Ramirez ?
You must not watch baseball anymore
@@TheMrSuge Fr. These boomers always make stuff up to hate on the current generation. 💀 don’t know why they hate the current generation but it seems they do.
@@TheMrSuge you mean indians
@@daveberry3853 Indians forever!
Holy shit, when Sandy Alomar is going ballistic you know shit is bad! 😆
Hilarious how Randy Johnson was standing around by himself, nobody wanted any of him. lol. 100% savage.
nothing to fear, go for his knees, don't matter how tall they are, they go down hard
After that second pitch, Kenny was headed to the mound, bat still in his hand. Randy earned that ejection, and deserved more.
Lmfao! @@djdeadbolt5911 u silly kids.😂😂😂 ur either 12 or a Cleveland Homer. 😂😂😂
@@cyclopsvision6370lmfao. Yeah. Way to make it obvious u never really fought someone bigger then u or know anything about fighting with out actually saying it.😂😂😂
@@Obelov what a weird thing to be a contrarian about in a chat about baseball players. YOU KNOW NUTTIN ABOUT FIGHTING LET ALONE IN DAH BASEBALL HAHA YAY I GOT TO COMMENT ON SOMETHING DURRR DURR DUR. What a nard.
Randy Johnson is the scariest pitcher of all time. You can tell Lofton didn’t want any
Bro is like the Lich King.
scariest because the catcher was protecting him. why didn't he let the batter flat him?
No Bob Gibson was scarier than Randy.
@@oloruncorey6745 Gibson was a special case. He had an objectively good reason (usually a respect issue) if he was displeased with you. And players knew that. They _knew_ they were in the wrong. That's a different kind of "scary" than you'd have for a pitcher who's just a hot-head . . .
Is it just me, or are the hats from this era just way better looking? Way more clean with bigger and more clear logos
Those old AL Umpire hats were 🔥 and so were the national league ones as well
Back when the leagues operated separately and had a President. Once MLB ditched league Presidents, the writing was on the wall.
That's the funniest gangster shit ever.
"Fuck you! It was a slider!"
*Benches clear*
"Alright, alright, let's calm down. Fine --it was a slider. Fuck it. Let's just play. Alright, throw the next pitch, Randy... SON OF A--!"
I would have thrown the bat at Johnson after that second pitch
I'm taking it with me to avenge Ventura.
These baby ass pitchers...
Subbed you up for tbis recap! Classic Randy Johnson head hunting 101!
Lots of pitchers were fearless, but not like Randy!
Great post man, keep em coming!
What do you have to fear when you attack someone with a range weapon and they can't retaliate? Batter didn't even retaliate and him and his teammate got tossed 😂 I swear people don't realize how big of bitches hot-tempered pitchers are...
The is the first time I've seen this and I knew straight away where that second pitch was headed. Great fun.
Can't imagine why Piniella wasn't tossed. Wonder what magic word Alomar uttered? Lofton should never have been ejected.
If the umpire had issued warnings before that second pitch, Lou should have been tossed as well. So maybe it wasn't an official warning (to both benches) Either that, or the video didn't show it.
@@transitfan954 Yes, I hear you. This was 1998, not sure when the automatic ejection rule came into effect after a warning.
Lofton may have attempted to charge the mound, or could have been an instigator
@@cyclopsvision6370 Mabe but there is no evidence of that.
Lol u can't throw Johnson without Lofton too...
But honestly, no one should of been thrown out, nothing ever happened.😂
God forbid they toss Johnson
The RULE REQUIRES ejection of Johnson & fine. O.I.C.
@WERC-lawyer for sure, immediately after the second one, can't toss the star I guess 😁
@@cwalker4719 Lofton was a star.
@WERC-lawyer true, guess they're just hating on Cleveland
1998, what a season!
Joey Belle vs. Randy Johnson would have been an epic mound confrontation. There would be pieces of the big unit scattered across the infield.
It's amazing how much chaos some bad umping can cause.
THIS^^^^ Johnson should have been given the heave-ho by the ump milliseconds after the second pitch.
IKR? The second headhunt, with the fastball, should have seen Johnson tossed immediately even if Lofton was charging him.
Two badass teams
Randy was one the all-times and a competitor for sure. But yeeeaaaahhhhh, he had to get tossed.
Lofton acting like he wanted to go to the mound... 🤣🤣🤣
He knew better.
True but Johnson was not a tough guy. 6'10" and 145 lbs.
hold me back, bruh, hold me back, he dont wan none of dis!!
Yeah, but he kept his bat.....
They will always be the Tribe and that was such a great season. Love YA!!!
Yeah he threw at his head then lied about it
He didn't the first time, but he did the second time and should have been (more) immediately tossed
Kenny Lofton was one of my favorite players as a kid, Randy Johnson is from my hometown 🤯
It’s hilarious how Randy acted like nothing was happening the whole time, even after being ejected.😂
Lofton shouldn't have been tossed. He reacted appropriately to the second pitch.
He reacted inappropriately to the first pitch, which made the second pitch happen in the first place.
Yes, Randy Johnson was a wise ass on the second pitch
Nah.. he a bitch.. players get that all the time today and don’t react like a whiny baby
Randy was like, "Ok, you want to see what it looks like when I throw at you?"
I was thinking the same thing. He wants to complain when he came inside the first time let him know what it's like to be actually thrown at.
Pitchers like Johnson are cowards.
@@Nuschler22yeah, and if you two were in prison together you would be his girlfriend!
So he did it, twice
@@Nuschler22lmfao😂😂😂😂 u must not have been alive in the 90s or u wouldn't say such dumbass nonsense. Lol😂😂😂
cleveland was an allstar team, Lofton/Alomar,/thome/
Cleveland no doubt had some awesome ballers (big Jim Thome fan here) but the M's also had their stars that year. Ken Griffey Jr, Edgar Martinez, A-Rod (pre-steroid), Jay Buhner, Big Unit. And of course LOOOOUUU! Not too shabby--until our horrible front office broke up what should have become a dynasty.
I was behind home plate with my brother and Grandma at this game and remember it like it was yesterday.
Goddamn that mullet and the nonchalance... Randy was magnificent.
Gosh darn
90s baseball is the best ever and early 00s.
When the Diamond Backs won the World Series baseball fans went crazy!!!!
Wrong 60'S 70'S 80's! Today OVER Paid 💰💸 Crybabies 😢😭
@@KB-eo9bu Yeah, baseball was serious national business in the '60s, before the NFL started to dominate after Namath and the Jets won a Super Bowl. Namath gave a big boost to the NFL, I think.
Taking a look at the sold-out and electric crowd, one might assume this to be a playoff game or a season/home opener. It is not.
MLB is killing itself. Too much interleague play = less division rivalry= less fan engagement, plus pitchers can’t even pitch inside without fear of being ejected for getting batters off the plate
Indians fans used to pack the Jake. The electricity is long gone.
@@afridgetoofar1818 You are correct… but it is important to remember that the new ballpark opened in 1994, the roster being much improved and actually good, and that the Browns left town after their 1995 season. These were all contributing factors in Jacob’s Field being a ridiculously awesome madhouse in the mid-to-late ‘90s.
@@johnnydropkicks believe me, I was a diehard fan back then. I also remember the resurgence in from 2004-2007. After 2010 I sorta stopped following as a die hard fan and have been casual ever since
@@afridgetoofar1818 Your story applies to me exactly. 👍
I still have my Kenny Lofton jersey.
When, Chief Wahoo, was alive and thriving ❤️💪
Didn’t know Lofton could break dance!
Well he’s black so it’s not that outside the realm of possibility 😂😂
Who was Seattle's center fielder? He should have been over in left field backing up the leftfielder -- who appeared to time his leap wrong.
1998? That was some scrub you never heard of, probably. Ken something...
@@Fred_LougeeKEN something a sweet swing but overweight and often lazy. Completely exposed when he went to Cincinnati
@@bnegs521 Minimal work ethic but still hit 600 HR and finished with just under .300 BA. Imagine if he had actually put hard work into his play.
A couple of years after his move to the Reds I was talking with some guy who had just moved here from southern Ohio. He regurgitated the party line about Junior destroying his knees on the Kingdome astroturf, I politely explained to him that someone tearing their hammie trying to score from first on a clean double in the first month of the season is the result of not staying in shape.
@Fred_Lougee THank you for posting that 👍
This is amazing
David Bell was FLYING
Yeah, he was the Big Unit, and you had to admit, he could bring it. But still, that second pitch was a total dick move.
As Randy himself once said (regarding a slider), “Hey, I’m still working on some of this stuff!”
Randy should have played Freddy Krueger in the movies lol
This was awesome
As The Big Unit's glorious mullet is bowing in the late season wind.... ⚾️
Randy Johnson was so respected benches being cleared and he just stands on the mound and nobody on the other team even goes near him lol
He was blocked out. Believe me, the Tribe would've fucked him up otherwise.
They knew they would have to hit against him again.
@BrianSmith-ok8xe lol yeah ok
I highly doubt he can fight. He is tall and skinny.
The Unit was still crusty over Lofton scoring from 2nd base on a Johnson wild pitch to slam the door on the 95 ALCS
Best batting gloves of all time
Throwing at players is cowardly. Can't stand it.
I think hit by the pitch should be rewarded with 2 bases instead of 1. There should be more consequences to hitting someone. The batter shouldn't get the same as if he was intentionally walked
@@josephmorabito6992if the first wasn’t intentional, the second isn’t an unfair message.
The batter overreacted to the first one
Johnson throws at Lofton on purpose twice, and two Indians get ejected. Makes sense.
This was a quality game, the way batters swung for pitches had an unreal approach. Today, it's as if hitters come out of a test tube trying to fit a profile with metric details for statistics.
Uh yeah sure
I miss the Indians, that was a real team before they became a socially acceptable franchise.😊
Nothing wrong with social acceptance if you win! Go Guards!
1:25 - Was that Jomboy's dad? 😂
Haha
I like Randy Johnson, but this seemed a bit classless. If David Bell, who if I recall, wasn't exactly renown for his speed, can hit a stand up inside-the-parker on you, that's on you.
Johnson was intimidating Lofton because he was a big time stolen base threat with one out. Bartolo Colon was throwing well so they needed to be careful about run support. It had nothing to do with Bell. Just a lucky hit.
McCarver?? “Yayauhhhh, that wuz a SLAHHHderr.” 🥴
I miss these days
Randy was ready to whoop some ass 😂😂
Lofton was praying the catcher stopped him from getting all the way out to Johnson.
…nah
True, that skinny little ninja didn't want to get his ass kicked that's why he took two steps and stopped immediately.
He brought the bat with him. I'd bring the bat with me too if I had to retaliate against Randy Johnson. You can't just let him do that, either. So you have to bring the bat otherwise most men aren't gonna be a threat.
That second one was up and in. Just seems crazy. Love Randy Johnson here. Not scared a bit. Great baseball if you ask me and I'm not that big a fan these days. Just awesome.
He’s the one throwing the ball…
Doesn’t get into any type of fight…
And doesn’t have to bat at all….
He had nothing to be scared about……
……………
I wouldn’t want Randy Johnson walking at me like that or throwing at my head. Johnson and Pedro are the two most intimidating pitchers of all time.
Who the hell was Johnson kidding - those were both intentional because he got shown up. Throwing at batters is an essential part of the game, but there was no need to throw at him in that situation. Randy Johnson ALWAYS proved that he never, ever deserved the benefit of the doubt.
Johnson 100% tried to hit him
Nah. If he wanted to hit him, he would have. He was sending a message.
Great era of baseball!
Sorry guys, please explain me why Randy pitched inside to Lofton and not, eventually, to Bell!!!
Randy starts a fire then sits back to watch haha
Big fan of Randy Johnson, but if you almost hit someone high, slider or no, both you and your manager should just hush
@@Heathcoatmanthe first pitch was closer than the second, both a few inches away
@@fungdark8270 And they were up and in as well. When you 'miss by a couple of inches' two pitches in a row, it's no longer just a miss
LMAO AT LOU!
Lou has been a butt hole from the first time he stepped on a baseball field.
Love how Johnson calmly waits for the next opportunity to throw at Lofton's head...even when the catcher was positioned down and away. Don't mess with RJ...dude was terrifying on the mound.
Randy johnson best pitcher i've ever seen - sitting in the stands when he struck out 20 cincinnati reds - feisty
Johnson should’ve been ejected the second he threw that second heater at Kenny. Kenny should not have been tossed.