1991 WS, Game 7: Braves @ Twins
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- Game 7 of the 1991 World Series needs little intro, but here goes: Jack Morris throws 10 scoreless innings, Gene Larkin knocks in the series winning run in the bottom of the 10th, Twins win the World Series.
This video is the original CBS broadcast with Jack Buck and Tim McCarver, including pre and postgame coverage.
This World Series was one of the most exciting ever. Kept everyone on the edge of their seat.
1:40 “And now an entire season is one game short of becoming…a masterpiece.”
They saved the best for last. And it did.
Not a Twins fan but I remember watching the entire '87 WS rooting for the Twins because Kirby Puckett was one of my favorite players EVER, I even emulated his stance and everything. And then I remember this '91 series even better because I was in HS and about to enter semi-pro ball. Those were FUN times, that's all I wanted - baseball was FUN. As soon as it stopped being fun - I stopped playing. But watching the Twins when Kirby was in center field - was ALWAYS FUN. Kirby is straight up one of the greatest players to ever play - who doesn't get that statement made about him enough. He's one of the greatest center fielders to ever play the game on either side of the ball - and THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING. It broke my heart the day he got called up to the club up in the sky. But now he's in the REAL majors - and I bet he's still knocking it out of the park and climbing center field fences to rob home runs from all time greats......sincerely yours From a New York Mets fan who will always LOVE the '87 and '91 Twins because you beat the '87 Cardinals and '91 Braves lol. BTW - smartest thing the Twins did was acquiring Jack Morris - one of the biggest of the "big game pitchers" of the 80s and 90s.
Cool kudos for Kirby! I just finished watching espn 30-30 about the 86 Mets. I was a senior in H.S. that year and rooted for the Mets because one of the few cable stations I had was WOR out of N.Y. and watched them the majority of the season (didn't get Twins games). The Mets sort of became my National League team that year. I remember that Buckner play like yesterday...what a series that was too.
Twins fan and native Minnesotan. This series was truly one of a kind and a story book in every way. I can think of no words that can honestly describe what we were all so fortunate to have added to our Major League Baseball legacy in these 7 games. It wouldn't have been possible without this great Braves team whom I have always respected as equally as our great Twins team. To them both: Thank you.
I’m a Yankees fan ! But I gotta say this was the best World Series I’ve ever seen 👍👍👍
Braves lose. Braves lose
Right next to the Diamondbacks beating the Yankees in 2001😆😝
THAAAAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE....THAAAAAÀAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE....SEE YA!!
Mad respect for saying that
That handshake between Lonnie and the catcher, a simple act of sportsmanship between two players who know they are part of something special
I like this upload more than the MLBs version. This one has more footage after the game. Jack was legendary! Go Twinkies!
Agreed. Classic Twins > MLB.
16:25 Greg Olson, Braves catcher, got a nice ovation from the Twins crowd.
Greg was born in Minnesota, and went to the University of Minnesota.
He made his MLB debut in 1989 with the Twins, where he played in 3 games in 1989.
He then became a free agent after the 1989 season and was signed by the Braves.
Jack Morris pitched a 10 inning shutout in game 7.....that will never, ever, happen again. All heart.
You might be right but another Twins pitcher did something that truly will never happen again … pitch 60 career shutouts.
Somehow I forgot to say who that was. Bert Blyleven.
Yep the manager today starts sweating when the starter reaches 70 pitches. I miss old school baseball, it was just better back then.
@@Robert-hp4ul- and not in the HOF
I just accepted an internship offer from the Twins organization, very excited
Unreal that after this amazing 1991 WS, and also an amazing 1987 WS, that the state of Minnesota did not bring up the creation of a new stadium for the Twins, to the point that they almost got contracted after the 2002 season.
Jack Morris strikeouts:
31:42 Morris K’s Gant
43:54 Morris K’s Hunter
1:16:23 Morris K’s Justice
1:39:51 Morris K’s Gant again
1:58:05 Morris K’s Olson
2:00:49 Morris K’s Belliard
2:34:29 Morris K’s Lemke
2:55:50 Morris K’s Smith
Along with 2001 and 2016 best Game 7's I ever saw!
2001 and 2016 pales in comparison to 1991, so does 1975
Gene Larkin and Kirk Gibson were hero's in different scenarios but can be judged in the same vein.
Greatest double play in franchise history @ 2:17:26 Still gives me chills every time I see it!
And Jack's call is perfect, Out there....OUT THERE!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen another 3-2-3 double play turned in any game. It was only possible because Bream, with chronic knee trouble, five previous surgeries, and running with a cumbersome brace on his right knee, was one of the slowest runners in baseball.
@@ADEAL918 it may not happen very often because apart from good execution it's also crucial for the 1st baseman to field the ball close to the bag.
@@ADEAL918I remember one the Mets turned...was Hernandez-Carter-Hernandez. Runner was a dumptruck of a catcher I think.
As an old Twins and Minnesota sports fan I treasure games 6&7 of this series because even if a Minnesota team in the last 32 years could have made a championship game how could they live up to these games? Even more than mourning the fact that Minnesota sports have been sub par for so long, I mourn for the NL not having the DH anymore. We’ll never have another game like games 3&4 that set up games 6&7.
Everyone's trying to hold back a smile but most people can't while they hear that girl sing the national anthem. I feel like her mom was one of those pageant moms and told her to make it special.
What a duel.
My dad always would tell me the greatest games are often 1-0 games. He told me this as a five year old in 1993. I think this was the game why he said that. And now i totally understand why.
Jack Morris pitching 10 innings and still throwing smoke in game 7? You will never see that again. Oh and a shutout too.
30 years ago today!
Esta fue y es una de las mejores series mundiales que he visto , simplemente inolvidable , gracias por los recuerdos
👍👍👍👍👍
This never gets old!
Greastest World Series period, past or present.
The noise in that Metrodome was really deafening
The Anthem was so amazing!!! Not too mention the Twins win!!
I actually miss the coverage of CBS
I certainly miss their opening and closing music and montages. Really shows the nobility of the game. Fox is worthless at that. What I DO really like about Fox is their pre and post game crew with Burkhart, A-Rod, Papi, and Hurt. Best possible coverage to mix and match would be CBS’s music and montages, Fox’s pre and post-game shows, and the ‘80’s ABC broadcast crew of Michaels, McCarver, and Palmer.
@@ADEAL918 couldn't agree more
I’m a Yankee fan !! I still say this was the best Series ever !!👍👌👍
THAAAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE...THAAAAAAAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE...SEE YA!!
3 Best Game 7's of All-time, with 2001 and 2016! The Cubs have Finally won it All!
@jimnfl7134 1975 had the best Game 6
@@colleenross8752 was not alive for that.
I like that they didn't have to deal with low temperatures. When I was a kid, WS games were played during the day and earlier in the fall.
Philippine Airdate: October 28, 1991
TV Network: PTV-4
Telecast Producer: Vintage Sports Television
Hosts: Ronnie Nathanielsz and Christine Jacob
Commentators: Ed Picson and Quinito Henson
Field Reporters: Katherine De Leon-Villar and Chino Trinidad
©1991 Vintage Enterprises, Inc., People's Television Network, Inc., and Major League Baseball Properties, Inc.
Congratulations to the 1991 champions.
I was in high school for the 87 World Series and in college for 91.
Watched every pitch of both. Both years the Twins won all four games in the old dome. Almost unfair.
0:11 the greatest game 7 intro in world series history pre 2016
This world serie was one the most emocionants from MLB Minnesota Twin y Atlanta Braves
Morris piched 10 innings?scoreless..i totally forgot..wow.baseball just different game today
18 inning shutout inning game is the record by John Montgomery Ward (1882), Ed Summers (1909), Walter Johnson (1918), and Carl Hubbell (1933)
I forgot the rouser they played over the speakers when the Twins came up in the first inning. Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones. Now that’s a rouser compared to some of the stuff they play today to fire up the crowd which is more akin to a soporific.
In the 5th, when Lemke was on 2nd and Lonnie Smith bunted, Hrbek's foot was still on the bag when he caught the throw but Smith (who foolishly stopped running) was ruled safe.
1:52 Here's the CBS intro!
The games were definitely better when broadcast on the networks. The FOX games seem like sort of "canned broadcasts." Love Lasorda in the booth for managerial insight. Tonight it's "Johnny Wholestaff" For the trophy!!!! So much better. Now it's the FOX World Series Pregame show. Not a fan. It sucks how so many 90's Champs had my Padres on them. Winfield, McGriff, Shane Mack, Mike Pagliarulo, Joe Carter, the Alomars, Sheffield. So many great players for us to not win ourselves. Kirby was such a good guy. Minnesota should be proud he was theirs. Damn, those were the days when pitchers cowboyed up 10 IP. #RIPKirby
This was a good. Word series 1991 wow
I'm a Twins fan but i felt bad for Smoltz. Had he been a seasoned veteran like Morris he might have talked Cox into letting him stay in the game. Bobby Cox made a lot of bad decisions in this game.
Smoltz said that himself, he said later that being as young as he was at the time, he didn’t feel like he had the standing to argue with his manager the way Morris did, which certainly shows his competitive fire, but the truth is it wouldn’t have mattered because he was removed on the second mound visit of the 8th inning, when the manager is required by the rules to remove the pitcher. Once he goes out to the mound when either he or the pitching coach has made a previous visit that inning, as Mazzone had in the 8th, the pitcher is automatically out of the game, so he isn’t allowed to change his mind at that point.
Jack Buck's last national tv broadcast unfortunately. Not sure why they replaced him with Sean McDonough the following season.
Greatest world series ever played
Commentators:
Jack Buck, Tim McCarver, Jim Kaat, Pat O'Brien & Tom Lasorda.
Kirby putkett, Dan gladden.shane mack ken Herber.Tom kelly.jack morris Al Newman Greg Gagne
Two years later the Toronto Bluejays would become only the second team to end a World Series with a HR(Joe Carter).
The only World Series to end on a HR was the 1960 WS but it's ranked number 27 by ESPN in ranking of the WS. To this day it's still the only WS game 7 to end on a HR
It's also a joy watching a World Series where the network doesn't try to show all their celebrities pimping their shows. Nobody gives a damn, FOX. Get it right. The 3 networks did it right. Great series.
would Morris have stayed in the game if it went longer?
yes, TK said he would have needed a Shotgun to take him out.
He was at 126 pitched. Middle of the Braves batting order was due up. Gant, Justice, Bream. He'd have gotten the 11th but that's probably as far as they'd push it
That 8th inning was too similar (both the top and the bottom). Both the Twins and the Braves got out of bases loaded jams thanks to inning ending doubleplays
Ironically, the Twins firstbasemen, Hrbek, was involved in both doubleplays
Anyone got a homer hankey
In my top dresser drawer.
Ear Weaver of the Orioles would always boycott the player introductions after Game 1 of the ALCS and after Game 1 of the World Series. Just one of the teams would be lined up on the field. Weaver rocked.
I honestly dont see the point of doing it after a game 1 of each series, so I agree with Weaver there
Like i said in my comment Éxit 34 in San Paul Minnesota High ways Dedicated to Minnesota Twin center field kirby putkett for spent his carrers with Terrific Number which was selected to coospertown
Wow MLB had a draft that went at least 27 rounds
Umpires (Game 7) (28:19)
HP Don Denkinger (AL) (Crew Chief)
1B Harry Wendelstedt (NL)
2B Drew Coble (AL)
3B Terry Tata (NL)
LF Rick Reed (AL)
RF Ed Montague (NL)
Why really cares?
Way to go Twinkies
they are not the Twinkies anymore, not those two years anyway.
Just to be clear prince said "party like it's 1999" not until.
22:45
02:56:19 "he is a warhorse that guy right there"
How did that 90 year old man obtain a ticket to 283 straight World Series game's?
Pat Olsen was an entrepreneur that started a manufacturing and oil exploration company after he quit playing baseball, so he was rather wealthy. Obviously the home fans would have the easiest time getting tickets but there would be some for sale to the general public. If I did my math right, that meant he'd attended every World Series game since 1948.
3:06:55
I always thought Morris must have thrown an enormous number of pitches in those 10 innings. It turned out he threw 132. Smoltz threw 100, Stanton 20 and Pena 24 for a total of 144 pitches for Atlanta.
Also, screw Ted Turner. He's as bad as Bill Gates.
Had Lonnie Smith scored, and everything else stays the same, then he would've had a WS victory with Philly, St.Louis, KC, and Atlanta.
if Lonnie smith scores we win the World Series!! So sad so sad
don't be so bitter, they won it in 1995. And Twins have not been close to World Series ever since 30 plus years later.
Chuck Knoublusgh. Mike parrialulus.chilly David Rick Aguilera were.part that World.serie
I don't get walking both Puckett and Hrbek who up to that point done absolutely nothing in the series. You just don't walk the bases loaded with only one out. Atlanta gave this game away and the series
Trying to get a double play or at least a force out at home. Larkin couldn’t run at all so if he hits a grounder inning over.
Braves should of had this WS so close
My favorite quote about the series was "The Braves didn't lose the series, the Twins just won it".
Wow Bobby Cox sucked? Intentionally load the bases and let the right hander face the lefty needing only a sac fly to win the series? No reason for the second intentional walk. Just gave his own pitcher no margin for error! I'm so disillusioned, Bobby?
You obviously know nothing about baseball. Once Knoblauch sacrifice bunted Gladden over to third, any long fly ball was gonna beat them know matter who hit it. Your best bet at that point is to load the bases so that you have a force out at any base and then throw to 1st to complete a double play, or worst case you throw home for the force to keep yourself alive for at least one more batter. Same strategy the Twins used in the top of the 8th when they intentionally walked David Justice to load the bases and pitched to Sid Bream, who grounded into a double play to end the inning.
@@SuperfanDK Cox had a RHP vs a RHB with 1 out 1st & 3rd! NO WAY you load the bases! It's too easy for the batter with the bases loaded! (I know more about baseball than 99.9% of the population, I bet)
Both the Twins and the Braves did that same strategy in the 8th inning of intentionally loading the bases to set up the force and it paid off for both of them as both innings ended with a double play. But it backfired for the Braves in the 10th.
Though I remember Kelly once saying that he would never have his closing pitcher intentionally walk somebody. Pena intentionally walked 3 guys.
@@jayNicks10 Yeah, but look at the closer Kelly had compared to what Atlanta had, the lack of a strong closer was a problem that kept coming up for them during their entire run in the 90s ('95 being the one year that it wasn't).
@@shawnsheikh1183 So you would rather pitch to a batter who had batted .284, 20 HRs, and 84 RBI on the season and had 12 RBI in his postseason career (2 ALCS and 2 WS); instead of either Jarvis Brown (the DH going into the inning) who only batted 37 times and had 0 RBI on the season, and never had a postseason hit; or Gene Larkin who only had 19 RBI on the season, was 2 for 10 in postseason at-bats, and had a leg injury that slowed his ability to run the bases?
Stanton may have gotten Hrbek in the 8th, but that was when the bases were already loaded and Atlanta still had an inning left to respond. Cox wasn't going to push it with Hrbek in a game-ending situation with a base open, and I doubt that there were too many other managers that would in that situation.
If not for the blunder by lonnie Smith the braves would have multiple championship
It was a baserunning blunder but it's easy to lose the ball in the Metrodome, with its white tent roof and deafening noise.