I was there that night. It was ridiculous. Along the third base line. It had just started raining and the place just went nuts when Jimmy Leyritz hit that home run. People hugging strangers, crying, high-giving. Unbelievable. Will never forget it and I still tell my children about it. Even though we lost the series, that night was the actual beginning of the Dynasty. The rest is history.

Notice the fan get apprehended at SS area as he greets Leyritz.

Leyritz had some of the biggest hits in Yankee history

Classic! John Sterling sounds the same now as he did then

I was at this game in the mezzanine 1st base side. Most electrifying sports moment I've ever attended to this day.

@sabrinaphillips916

2 жыл бұрын

I was there too! Along third base. Absolutely ridiculous. I miss that time in New York so much. It was electric. The whole City was coming back. But yeah, when Leyritz hit that I went absolutely nuts. Will never forget that night ever.

@Nowthisispodracing4

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I was way up in the upper deck on the third base line. I will never forget that atmosphere. The “F U Randy” chants in the tunnel at the end of the game were hilarious too.

@sabrinaphillips916

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nowthisispodracing4 wow…you just brought back a memory of the “F U Randy” chants!! I totally forgot about that! Yeah, that night was do special. The rain just started falling and Sinatra on the loudspeakers. High-giving strangers. It was all amazing. Nice to connect with people who were there…nice to share it with you

This was John Sterling and Michael Kay's coming out party for calling an end to a game because for many many years before there was nothing to cheer for... Who would have known all the equal to better moments that would come after..

Amazing and Incredible Home Run by Jim Leyritz

I was in my truck in NJ. It ended at 115 in the morning. It was POURING that night!!listened to the whole thing on the radio and it was the greatest game ever. Ever.

@cambonious23

2 жыл бұрын

I do remember the rain coming but I was in my room and had classes the next day studying and watching. Pretty cool stuff

One of the greatest games ever played

The Yanks had the best home run siren!

Damn, I forgot how fast The King got around the bases.

This is a great video to revisit for many reasons. I grew up in good ol’ Brooklyn. I’ll never forget this night. I was 14 years old and this was my first chance to see my Yankees go to the playoffs, especially my childhood idol Don Mattingly. A few weeks prior, they had won the wildcard game in Toronto. I remember my sister and I celebrating in our second floor apartment. On this night, I had to beg my mom to stay up once the game went into the 13th. She insisted that we go to bed, but I begged and begged. When Jimmy Leyritz hit that out, I was in Cloud Nine. It was such a true moment that lacked any cynicism. Unfortunately, a few days later, I’d see Edgar Martinez drive in Griffey in Game 5. That was the last time I actually shed a tear. Of course, when you’re 14, you have an excuse. I watch this as a 37 year old now. My, how the years go by. So odd to hear the youth in Michael Kay’s voice. Of course, I grew up with Sterling and Kay calling games in WABC 770.

@dwedge914

2 жыл бұрын

Same here..I agree and understand with everything you said. Little did we know at the time a dynasty was brewing and this would be one of many many memorable games. However, I was at game 1 and when they introduced Mattingly it was one of the most thrilling moments in sports for me any way.

@mdntcowboy6500

Жыл бұрын

I think I shed a tear as well when Griffey was driven in. But it still doesn't take away from that Leyritz home run. Of course, the following season, the Bombers won it all.

Is it me or did it land in a similar spot to The walk off that Chris Chambliss hit in the 1976 ALCS.

@darrins601

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Thanks crime in sports podcast

young michael kay and sterling excited

@StivenBonillaNY

5 жыл бұрын

Holy Cow

I remember always thinking this homerun looked so much like the Chamblis hr.

@harrymann5523

6 ай бұрын

Except after Chambliss homered fans poured on the field. After Leyritz homered one guy got on the field. And he wasn’t doing anything all he wanted was handshake Leyritz.

Lou Pinella said you won your last game of the 95 season to a couple Yankee fans leaving that night. He was right.

@superbrownbrown

3 жыл бұрын

*Pinella also said that the Mariners were "taking the Yankees back with them to Seattle" for Game 6 after they lost Game 4 in the 2001 ALCS, putting them down in the series 3 games to 1. He was wrong. The Yankees successfully closed them and their 116 win regular season out in a Game 5 blowout.*

I had just left to go home when he hit that home run. I had to go to work the next day.

@gregmarcus9739

4 жыл бұрын

YOU NEVER LEAVE!

@cliffpadilla5871

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregmarcus9739 i had to be at work the next morning. I was traveling from The Bronx all the way down to southern Brooklyn. I honestly didn't want to leave.

@gregmarcus9739

4 жыл бұрын

@@cliffpadilla5871 OG Bleacher Creature Section 37 & 39. Just gotta go to work tired. I refused to leave in 89' when Tigers beat Yanks 15-1. Never leave! I was there that night. Mattingly's homer landed 5 feet in front of me. Leyritz homer landed about 15 feet in front. Greatest game ever and the streets were rockin after at almost 2 AM. Black, White, Puerto Rican, Dominican all hugging, happy celebrating. We could use that now.That's why there's nothing better than Yankee Baseball! Never leave!

@cliffpadilla5871

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregmarcus9739 ironically, the pope visited NYC, including near where I worked at the time, the next morning. I forgot that I had a hole in my pocket. When I went to get my work ID (I worked across from the United Nations), I attempted to get my work ID. That's when I noticed that I lost it and I couldn't go into work.

@cliffpadilla5871

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregmarcus9739 where do the bleacher creatures sit in the current stadium?

Strawberry should have played!

Too bad yankees couldn’t win this series for Mattingly

Notice that Sterling at this point in time wasn't doing the nickname calls for homers and "the Yankees win!" was not sustained. Those were things that developed in the next year starting with Bernie Williams walk-off home run in Game 1 of the 96 ALCS and as the Yankee dynasty became established. That alone proves the lie that Sterling has always been a showboater etc. His calls were more a natural reflection of the emerging Yankee dynasty because he wasn't trying to dress things up in the dark days of the early 90s.

95?

@LeighMet

6 жыл бұрын

yup

ALDS*

WFAN Mike and the Mad Dog played Sterling’s call numerous time the next day and that’s what ensured Sterling’s call lived in infamy…and unfortunately launched his cheesy self-aggrandizing calls for decades to come. Ugh! But for that one night, it was great radio

@theabsorbingman2492

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up

Ah when baseball players were like truck drivers not ballet 🩰 dancers..pulling their tummy muscles and foot bone 🦴 strains.,,making 39 million and in need of rest days…