Yankee Trivia!!?

Question

In 1978....the one game playoff with the Red Sox.....3 part question for 10 points.......who hit the winning homerun.....who was the pitcher and what team did this pitcher play for the year before!!!........

First 3 guys are so wrong!!

none of the first 6 have all 3 correct answers.....really a trick question....

Tommy D appreciate the "pain" but you are only 2/3 right!!

Probably will get 44 answers before someone gets this right!!

Nacdud....you are correct....Reggie hit the game winner.....Dent's homer only put them ahead.....Reggie Jackson #44!!

Answer 1

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R. Jackson
B. Stanley
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Dent hit his 3-run HR in 7th inning off Torrez

Reggie Jackson hit game-winning HR off Bob Stanley in the 8th inning

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Answer 2

Reggie Jackson hit the winning homerun. Mike Torezz was the pitcher. Finally Mike Torrez played for Oakland Athletics the year before.

Answer 3

Reggie Jackson hit the home run
Mike Torrez was the pitcher
He played for the Yankees and the Athletics the year before

Answer 4

Bucky Dent hit the home run.

Mike Torrez was the pitcher that he hit it off of.

Mike played for the Yankees and Athletics the year before.

Answer 5

Bucky Dent hit the HR
Mike Torrez was the pitcher
Year before he pitched for Boston

Answer 6

Bucky Dent
Mike Torrez
Torrez was a Yankee and an Oakland A----


Bucky Dent's Home Run
October 2, 1978
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by Harvey Frommer

Here they go again - the team from the Bronx and the one that plays in the Fens. Two special series in May 2003 - with the arch rivals doing it one more time. Head to head, for bragging rights and the top of the heap in the AL East.

The mother of all such moments will always remain what happened on October 2, 1978 "When I hit the ball," Bucky Dent recalled, "I knew that I had hit it high enough to hit the wall. But there were shadows on the net behind the wall and I didn't see the ball land there. I didn't know I had hit a homer until I saw the umpire at first signaling home run with his hand. I couldn't believe it."

Neither could the Red Sox. Don Zimmer, then Boston's skipper, changed the Yankee shortstop's name to "Bucky F_____g Dent." Red Sox fans had even more salty phrases.

Dent's home run was the headline grabber in that one-game playoff game between the historic rivals at Fenway Park before 32,925. The Yankees were down to the Sox in the AL East by 14 games on July 19. After Billy Martin was fired as manager, Bob Lemon led the team to a 52-21 record. Losing 14 of 17 in September, the Sox made a late-season run winning their last eight games, catching the Yankees on the last day of the season.

New York's 24 game winner Ron Guidry gave up two runs to Boston through six - a home run to Carl Yastrzemski and a Jim Rice RBI single. Mike Torrez, a former Yankee, was the Boston pitcher.

Chris Chambliss singled. Roy White singled. That's how the top of the seventh began for the Yankees. All was just foreshadowing for Earl Russell Dent out of Savannah, Georgia. A fine defensive shortstop but not much of an offensive threat, he had hit but .243 for the season. For the last 20 games he had batted a puny .140. But the Yankees were out of infield replacements. Regular second baseman Willie Randolph was injured. Fred Stanley, the only other available mid-infielder, was slotted to come in and replace Brian Doyle, who had been hit for earlier in the inning.

Dent stepped in. Just hoping to make contact, the 5'-9" Yankee peered out at Torrez, the 6'-5" Red Sox pitcher. The two were locked in, locked up.

Dent fouled the second pitch off his foot. The count was one and one. There was a brief delay as the Yankees trainer tended to Dent. Mickey Rivers, the on-deck-batter, pointed out that there was a crack in the handsome infielder's bat. Dent borrowed a bat from Rivers.

All set, Dent swung at the next pitch; the ball cleared the infield heading out to the left field wall. The wind and destiny moved the ball higher to its date with the Green Monster.

"Deep to left!" Bill White, Yankees broadcaster shouted, "Yastrzemski will not get it!" Yaz backed up. He had been in this position before. But he knew it was hopeless. The ball sailed into the 23-foot net above the Green Monster, the 37-foot wall in left field. Three run home run!

White, Chambliss and the entire Yankee bench were there waiting at home plate. It was all Bucky Dent that October day. "I was so damn shocked," Torrez said. "I thought maybe it was going to be off the wall. Damn, I did not think it was going to go out."

Not many remember that the Red Sox still had a chance in the bottom of the ninth. But Goose Gossage got Carl Yastrzemski to pop out with 2 on and 2 out. Not many remember that the victory in that game was earned by Ron Guidry, moving his record to 25-3.

"I had a dream as a kid," the player who was born Russell Earl O'Dey said. "I dreamed some day I would hit a home run to win something."

Answer 7

a million. cody ransom 2. roger clemens??? 3. mark earlier 4. Supercalifragilisticexpiali-Brosius and Brosius the Ferocious 5. jeff nelson 6. 23 7. Trot Nixon 8. Terrance lengthy 9. Chris Ray 10. Carl Everrett

Answer 8

1). Bucky F'ing Dent hit the home run
2). Mike Torres was the pitcher
3). He pitched for the Evil Empire the prior year.

Answer 9

Bucky Dent off Mike Torrez and he pitched for the yankees one year in 1977.....