1996 WS Gm4: Full at-bat of Leyritz's three-run homer
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- 10/23/96: Watch the full at-bat of Jim Leyritz's three-run home run off of Mark Wohlers to tie the game for the Yankees in the 8th
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And that ladies and gentlemen was the start of the great Yankee run
the braves collapsed and gave that to the yanks not so much the yanks out playing the braves the braves fucking owe the yanks and I hope to live to see it this year would be fine for me
Then in 1999 where the Braves gets swept.
@@RixSlade-hl2se shut up little girl
Pettite outpitched Schmoltz in Game 5.
@@chriscarlson516 True story 😎⚾
People forget how dominant the Braves were in this series before that HR. This was the turning point of a lifetime
No. The Braves came home and lost game 3. Then choked in game as I predicted
Their total stats were totally dominant. The one area that killed them was the bullpen.
@@Wolf.88 right. Most people thought the series was over after 2 games, except you. LOL
@@Wolf.88
That's what you claim.
Where's your evidence to prove your claim?
I bet that you haven't got any evidence...
This home run started a dynasty!
Most underrated homerun in baseball history.
Most likely the result of steroid use. Leyritz is an admitted user.
Because it’s the Yankees no one cares but Yankee fans
@@blacjackdaniels200 I watched this game with my grandfather when I was a kid (lifelong Pirates fans from Western PA.) I'll never forget our excitement when Leyritz hit this homerun against the hated Braves. It is still one of my favorite baseball memories.
Absolutely
No one has disliked this
Momentum shift of the decade..
Fred Ball yes indeed
You said it!
You God damn right it was. I'll never forget this at bat/homer.
@@whatsupdanger3045 Without a doubt. I was watching this ... 16 years old. Devastated that Yankees were getting crushed.... this single swing turned around the entire thing. This is literally the only thing I remember from this series as everything else has faded.
Literally
In 61 lifetime Post Season AB’s, Leyritz had 8 HRs and 20 RBI’s. That is damn good.
This at-bat singlehandedly passed the torch of 90s-era baseball from Atlanta to New York City
Nick Petrillo Atlanta my ass buddy so what they won division titles they won World 1 World Series 1 okay they beat Cleveland thanks to Tony Fernandez booting that ball at second base so that don't count okay I'm a reds man I was born and raised in Cincinnati f*** them Braves they suck dick okay bottom line are the Buffalo Bills a f****** baseball
do you remember 1976 I do sweet sweep!!
@@victorialouden1912 calm down
@@victorialouden1912
Yeah, I get that you don't like the Braves they won more games in the 90's decade than any other team in MLB. And 14 division titles in a row is record we won't see broken in our lifetimes.
@Gharian Price
No what? The Braves did win more games in the 90's than any other team, and they did win 14 division titles, which is considered to be one of the sports (not just baseball) records that may never be matched.
These are facts, like it it not.
Jim Leyritz. Quite literally the Robert Horry of baseball. Bob Costas said it best in 1999; “You can send this guy to a resort from April to September, as long as he comes back for October.”
Well said. They might as well call him “Big Shot Jim.”
Great comparison.
Horry has 7 rings, Leyritz has 2 but I get the clutch comparison. #Respect
This is why the braves only won one world series in the 90s at key moments they would choke even with runners on base always pulled the ball never hit it where it was pitched
@@Jeff_Pryce Big Hit Jim
Those 90’s Yankees teams were not only very good but they were clutch.
The legend Tim McCarver perfectly predicted the end of the Yankees dynasty just as he predicting it’s beginning by foreshadowing Jim Leyritz’s home run. Rest well Tim.
Eerie yet true!
Yes!!!
A few things started and ended right here:
- The end of the Braves' dynasty, in its infancy.
- The start of the Yankees dynasty.
- The end of Mark Wohlers as a dominant closer.
- The beginning of "The Curse of Atlanta Sports", which would extend to ALL Atlanta professional sports teams; most recently, see "28-3".
When this was going on, I was across the street going through apprenticeship school at the IBEW building, which is right on the other side of the freeway from Fulton County Stadium. You could hear the groan of the crowd all the way over there when Leyritz hit that HR.
Aaaand, now add one more to the curse of Atlanta sports.
1 championship is not a dynasty. No one outside of Atlanta celebrates finishing 2nd.
Cool info 👍🏼
Nah... the Braves won the NL East in 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. They just close the deal when needed
@@MrTCHOSS well so what? what did they get for all those division titles? a participation trophy?
Can make the case that HR by Leyrtiz to tie the game was literally the biggest hit of the WS otherwise we would be down 3 games to 1 and probably would have lost the series since the momentum would have shifted back to Atlanta. A strong case even be made that this homer started the Yankee Dynasty.
Highly legitimate
no
Could be.
Joseph yep. Had we lost, Steinbrenner would have no doubt went on a reckless tirade and demanded some of our young core be traded for veteran help
@@dantegood2195 It's the reason why when someone said how he would trade one of those titles for 2001, I would have to disagree. I wouldn't even trade 2000.
The homer that lunched a dynasty
LUNCHED
OMNOMNOM
@@dougg2012 😭😭😭😭
Back at the track to the wall we are tied !!!!!!!!!
John Garozzo I remember that game. Yankees were trailing 6-0 and I thought this series is over and Atlanta will do it again. But that moment I was sleeping . I heard both my parents screaming with excitement. I spoke up and saw the score 6-6. I was like whaaaaaaaat
At the wall*.......we are tied. six six here in the eighth.
@@coreygibson87 Similar story, except everyone else gave up and went to bed after the bottom of the seventh. Everyone got up when I started going nuts in my room. Only other times I felt like that, the two back to back game tying and winning home runs in the 2001 series and Boone's blast.
THE BEST CALL EVER!!!
Huge props to Tim McCarver here, calling it before it happened. He had the same uncanny insight in Game 7 of the 2001 WS with Gonzalez walk-off against Rivera.
Makes you think Clairvoyance 🤷
@Michael Favela The mind of a catcher.
He detests the Yanks though
Stayed up late on a school nite watching this screaming from my room
Big time Hit
I was devastated.... Atlanta/Georgia Sports Victim here.....
Still get chills watching this. Thought the series was about to be all but over. Did not believe there was a chance he'd hit one out.
This is my old best friends dad. Mr leyritz has remained in baseball his whole life, coaching & what not. Great man. And btw he cooks a mean BBQ
Hearing that thud of the boards is amazing
Scotty P i remmeber i was laying on the floor sromach flat in front of he TV. As I saw the ball kept carrying my head rose up. And that thud on the back wall made me jump in the air from almost a flat position
ConkeyCrack haha yessss
I nearly climax when I hear this
I always imitate that thud
I hate Joe Buck but MAN that was a good call by him
i met leyritz earlier today and i got a signed baseball from him :D
THEE HR that started the Yankees 90s dynasty!
And to think-this is when that WS run officially started. Crazy.
Yanks got rid of leyritz right after the series, but he played another fall classic 2 years later with san diego. 2 things that fascinated me the most about him was 1. his batting stance and 2. the way he twirls his bat between pitches. What a great, underrated player.
Big game, big time clutch hitter. At his best when it mattered most.
8 HRs in 62 post season ABs. A back up, and sometimes 3rd string undrafted catcher hit 8 postseason HRs in 62 ABs!!
2 game winning HRs(the 15th inning walkoff in the rain in 95 & another in 98 for SD), one game tying with 2 outs in the 9th off a great closer who threw 100mph, another off Randy Johnson, the last HR of the 1990s in the 1999 World Series, one off Erickson in the 96 LCS clincher, and of course this classic off Wohlers that changed Yankee history.
His story is crazy.
Don't forget the way he got plunked ten times a week.
I will never forget watching live from Ireland as Jim nubbed that slider and turned the whole series. That was an amazing set of teams the Yankees had in that era
Good God, it's amazing to think how many CLUTCH hits Leyritz got for us.
He also hit the last home run of the 90s in the 1999 World Series Game 4. One of the most legendary underrated Yankees. And btw love your channel Baddog!
@@jameslisle7775 he played for the padres then
I was late for work because of that home run
Remember I was in bed cause next day have go to school. Jim hit a homer ,my dad start screaming with joy and everybody woke up.lmao .
Both the 1996 New York Yankees and the 2019 Washington Nationals have one thing in common: those two teams won eight games on the road to win a MLB World Championship.
The Yankees were undefeated on the road that postseason...insane!
@@lemmiwinks09 Yep. The 1996 New York Yankees were 8-0 on the road in that postseason.
The 2019 Washington Nationals went 8-1 with their only loss came in Game 1 of their 2019 National League Division Series clash against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Although history & official statistics will show the Yanks won this series in 6 Games, it was at this very moment the Braves lost the World Series...once Leyritz tied it with this blast after being down 6-0, I knew it was over...any true baseball fan, fan or not of either team, you could feel the momentum change instantly
you were totally correct about that.. i'll never forget that feeling. I knew we had them
There’s no question this was the darkest day in the history of the franchise. But now is just a bad memory after 2021
That is some serious hindsight.
Yes. It was all over with that swing. It was glorious.
As a Yankees fan, I can agree. I was very down on the Yankees after Game 2. I thought we had no chance of winning in Atlanta against the defending world champions with THAT pitching staff.
Then with one mighty swing, as soon as I heard “Back, at the track, at the WALL, WE ARE TIED!” I screamed in joy because I suddenly felt like not only had we come back, but we were about to become the new kings of the mountain. And once Pettitte outdueled Smoltz in Game 5, I went “Welp, there went the Braves’ opportunity.”
I was a die hard braves fan growing up, but Leyritz has the greatest batting stance of all time.
I was as diehard Braves fan in the 90's as well, but yeah, Leyritz had a great stance, and he had the Braves pitcher's numbers.
Another guy that could always eat up Braves pitching was Moises Alou.
Leyritz was a tremendous postseason hitter. I remember in ‘98 him hitting home runs off both Randy Johnson and Billy Wagner.
Hayes, Duncan, and Leyritz. Crazy.
Great foresight by Tim McCarver during this at bat. Get beat with your best pitch, not your third best. Wohlers hung a slider and Leyritz made him pay.
I would've thrown a hanging splitter instead of a slider if I were Mark Wohlers.
@@joesakic91 That's part of the irony. He didn't throw a single splitter the entire at bat All fast balls, and sliders. One can only imagine because Leyritz barely got a piece of the previous slider, he could get him on it, but Wohlers was not accurate with it. Throwing a fastball, even splitter at that point possibly would have struck Wohlers out, as he was looking for the slider. Still, incredible, clutch at-bat.
The problem was, Wohlers couldn’t beat Jim with his best pitch. He was throwing 100-mph fastballs all through the at-bat, but Jim kept making contact. He couldn’t strike Leyritz out. So Wohlers tried to trick him with a slider, but instead it hung over the plate a little too long.
We all know what happened next.
2:53 the sound of the Bronx being born again
Can’t stop watching it
I remember this but don’t recall it being the 8th inning. I thought it was the 6th for some reason. The Yankees were really running out of time. The Braves really choked this one away. Up 2-0 in the series having won both games in NY, blowing a 6-0 lead in this game that would have put them up 3-1, failing to get a run in Game 5. This Yankees team had incredible fight. Clutch squad.
The Yankees *did* have a big 6th inning. They had cut the deficit to 6-3, and had 2 on and no one out. The Bielecki struck out 3 in a row.
Wohlers was the closer so it had to be late. In fact Bobby brought him into the game in the 8th
I dud too! I think because they were done 6-0 to begin.
the bat twirl!
My favorite home run call EVER
The changing of the guard. The passing of the torch from the Braves to the Yankees.
Do people look at it that way? I don't know anyone that does. Atlanta won only 1 world series in their "dynasty". Not much of a dynasty
@@johnszczerba9979 in a way, yes. Attention definitely started to shift away from them. Atlanta baseball pretty much riled from 91-96 as far as popularity. 91 and 9s wsa and 93 national league appearance, 94 strike, 96 ws title. I mean, even the world series titles they lost, they were usually the more popular team
@@johnszczerba9979 Yeah, people do. Atlanta, to their credit, was setting a standard for excellence with all the division titles they won that decade and the three World Series appearances. The only other team with championship success that decade at this point was the Toronto Blue Jays, and they’d BEEN done by this point. Had Atlanta won this series, they probably would have started a dynasty. They were already being called the “Team of the 90s”. Instead, this moment killed that momentum off and laid the foundation for the Yankees becoming the true Team of the 90s.
The Braves including Maddux happened to be horrendous in big spots.
This was such a great moment!!
Jim Leyritz, Cecil Fielder, Chuck Knoblauch, Scott Brosius, Chad Curtis and Luis Sojo. Some of the Yankees' unsung heroes who came up with clutch hits that led them to four World Series titles under Joe Torre.
Cecil?
@@chrisuncleahmad Yes. Look at Game 5 of the 1996 World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
@@chrisuncleahmadYup. Cecil Fielder turned into a monster singles hitter in this series. He showed that he wasn’t all just power. He was a key player in the Yankees winning this series, and he had a great postseason that year, as well.
The dude battled to stay alive until his pitch came
Wohlers couldn't throw his fastballs by him. Leyritz was on to them as he's a dead fastball hitter.
@@pomerlain8924 Even a splitter won't faze Jim Leyritz.
Ironically, Leyritz was expecting a fastball. He was trying to go opposite field with it. The announcer even said "It wouldn't be beyond Leyritz to try to pop one over the *right* field boards." But he was "fooled" by a slider. He was in front...sort of. Rather that going opposite field, he pulled it down the *left* field line.
And just like that Wohlers career was flushed down the toilet....
Wohlers should've thrown his fastball. Just like the Seahawks should've handed the football to Beastmode.
@@jonmolina948 At the end of the day Seahawks choked just like the Falcons. Same goes for 1996 Braves and the 2011 Rangers (who blew a 3-2 lead).
@@jonmolina948 Leyritz was a dead fastball hitter. And as we saw, he just missed on 2 of Wohler's fastballs that we 98 and 99 mph. Chances are, had Wohlers tried to keep bringing the heat, Leyritz still hits a homer.
@@pomerlain8924 True, but it's better to get best with your best pitch, not your third best pitch.
Even if Mark Wohlers threw his splitter, it will still be acceptable.
I was 10 years old in 1996’ sitting at the Ottawa lanes bowling alley sports bar sipping a coke while my parents had their ma n pa bowling night when I saw this home run. I’ll never forget it.
Very underrated HR
One of my favorite childhood sport memories. Jimmy Leyritz had THE COOLEST BATTING STANCE EVER!
I’ll never forget this moment. This HR killed me as a kid watching Wohlers continue to go with his slider even though it wasn’t working.
Wohlers has always defended his over use of his slider to this day.
Our Braves have endured a lot of heartache over the years but I’ll never get over this home run. Just one of those moments that leaves you slack-jawed when it happens to your team. Like a lot of Yankee fans have mentioned, how many more championships do the Braves win if they close out this game?
One of the Dopest Batting Stances of all time
One of the most epic calls and home run that started the Yankees dynasty! If it wasn't for this home run by Leyritz, the Braves could've possibly one 3 straight championships themselves.
leyritz is such an odd player - he hit 90 home runs in nearly 3k career plate appearances. he hit 8 home runs in 72 playoff plate appearances, most of which were pivotal points in the game. guy just stepped it up on a big stage.
Yup, he was clutch in October
Biggest homer in yanks history along with Aaron Boone and Bucky dent
madgameradam I don't think so buddy how you can throw Aaron Boone out that list Bucky Dent yeah jims blast yes!! mantels against the reds in 61 to win it.
As a Red Sox fan i agree that Aaron Boone doesnt belong. That homerun meant nothing. The Yanks went on to lose in the World Series in 03 and choked to the Sox in 04. This HR was wayyyy bigger for NYY
@@musicalmelodies3595 since you're a Red Sox fan of course you're not going to think that Aaron Boone's home run belongs in that list.
@@rianjohnsonscrackpipe3647 most people except Yankee fans don't put Boone''s HR in Game 7 as a major HR. Maybe for the rivalry of course but it didin' t accomplish much considering the Yankees went on to lose againts the Marlins in 6
@@musicalmelodies3595 not a Yankee fan. I look at his overall career stats and he was just an unlikely person to come up big. So yeah it was a huge home run. Right up there with Dent
IMO, This was the pitch and the game that began Wariano Rivera rise to be who he became. He never wanted to feek that pain ever again. And recognition to the Yankees, they stuck with him for their mutual benefit.
One the best world Series moments wow New York Yankees
I'm not a fan of either of these teams, but I was watching this game as a 13 year old. That thud after the ball cleared the fence is a sound that I've always remembered.
This home run will haunt my dreams forever
And it's one of my fondest Memories from the 1990s.
That and Ed Sprague and Kirby Puckett
If you were watching this series when it was happening, there is no way to overstate the dramatic tension, and this home run was absolutely the climax of the series.
Honestly, I think the way Leyritz fouled off both fastballs in this at bat spooked Wohlers. He didn't miss those fastballs by much as he was right on them. Wohlers probably figured if he threw that fastball too much, he'd eventually time it right and hit it over the fence... but still... no reason to give up on your best pitch. It's also possible (though unlikely considering he was throwing 98-99 in this AB) that he was gassed considering this was his 85th game (out of 87, reg. and postseason combined, which is a lot of game) at this point. Either way, he ruined the chances of a Braves dynasty and his own career with one slider.
I was 8 years old when I watched this home run. It was the first World Series I could actually remember although I had watched others, this was the first I really paid attention to. Although I’m an A’s fan I’ll never forget the yanks being down 2-0 in the series to then watch Leyritz hit this bomb and change the series. Made me love baseball even more.
I love bucks call on this remember it from my childhood staying up late to watch world series, at the track at the wall we are tied!!!!
I liked how there was a microphone out by the foul pole. You could hear the ball slam into plywood. Extra devastation.
Absolutely one the most important home runs ever
Turning point of the series. What a huge homer.
I remember watching this and thinking he didn't get enough of it but at least the runner on 3rd would tag. Leyritz didn't even think he got enough of it. This was a great World Series, one of my favorites.
2:43 Joe Buck gets a lot of displeasure from some baseball fans but this homerun call is iconic and one of the best
Joe is a good 'un
THIS HOME RUN HERE!!!!
1996, we was talking about this game in middle school, just started 6th grade, Jim Leyritz hitting those bombs in the world series...
This home run is one of my greatest childhood memories
Bravo Jim eres el mejor aun te recuerdo con los padres de San Diego.blessyou
That was beyond doubt the biggest home run of their dynasty
This HR not only changed the series but changed who was the team of the 90's. Braves were headed for a 3-1 series lead and likely back to back titles. Instead the Yankees come back and go on to win four titles in five years.
Jimmy wore a t-shirt that say "It ain't bragging if you can do it." Jimmy did it!
Totally one of the biggest Yankee moments ever, the Opening of a Dynasty.
Even more remarkable is Jim Leyritz's Home Run WAS ON THE ROAD. Bill Masoroski in 1960, Mookie Wilson in 1986, Kirk Gibson in 1988 and Joe Carter in 1993 hits were all AT HOME IN THEIR TEAM'S OWN BALLPARK.
As a Yankee fan, I still take my hat off to those 90s Braves. Those teams were stacked and at times seemed to run like a machine. And the starting pitching was absolutely sick! Very professional and business-like ball club. Having won all those divisions and pennants is impressive, but I don't understand why they didn't win more WS.
The last pitch of the potential Braves dynasty, and the first pitch of the Yankees dynasty.
" We Are Tied "
Talk about a series changer, the Leyritz home run did just that. They went on to win that game and the rest is history.
Series and legacy changer.
Most UNDERRATED call by BUCK
Wohler was ahead of his time. 100 fastball with a 86 slider. If he played today he’d be in better shape and an absolute monster
Yet he threw a hanging breaking ball. Jim was late on the fastballs ugh. Throw one high and in and he misses!
He was in a bad marriage.
He would be the same.. He was clocked as high 103 in 96'..
Braves have never the same since. Still cursed in 2019.
I agree
@valoguy Only one postseason series win so far for the Braves in this millennium.
@@joesakic91 theyll get it one day.... hopefully
aaand, cursed again.
They won 8 division titles in a row after this. They just couldn't win it again
What a great World Series that was. Nail biting.
Couldn’t believe it when it happened! What an at bat!
the king jimmy leyritz had some clutch hits for the yanks 💪
I remember getting on a classmate of mine the day after this game. She said Wohlers was a cousin of hers and would shut the Yankees down. He was never the same after this.
That's a sexy batting stance right there.
😂😂
When I was a kid and I played street ball, I used to twirl the bat just like him in between at bats! One of my favorite Yankees of all time!
That bat twirl was low key 🐐 status lol 😎
I was only a kid when this game happens and was already asleep since they were done 6-0 but my fam was watching the game downstairs and after he hit this HR my dad and uncles ran up and through out of my bed and carried me down to watch rest of game even though I had school the next day
This homer changed the entire series and the legacy of the Yankee dynasty
This is by far my favorite world series finale. That's mainly because those 2 were my favorite teams especially back then. So I was torn in this final. I slightly wanted the Yankees but it was a very close decision. The Braves back then when on top of their game had a very similar style of play to the Yankees, which made for a very entertaining world series.
Incredible player throwback
What a great rivalry that's was in those years ! Both teams loaded to teeth with talent
Most of you know the story: Atlanta was leading the series 2-1, and were up in this game 6-0 bottom of the 5th when the Yanks cut it down to 6-3. After this home run the Yankees never looked back
I remember this day i was 14 my house was quiet i was the only yankee fan lol
how are you like n the ass whipping boston is giving u?
+Rix Slade - Sit down kid.
FunnyAndSmart I was 16. The House was quiet until that. Than I screamed loud as I could for a solid 5 minutes. He’s my favorite player of all time and my favorite home run ever. Nothing tops that for me not even Boone lol
I remember I was 21, at my girlfriends apartment getting ready to bust that ass and told her to hang on a minute.
B Brown you meant boyfriend
That was the hit. That exact moment, the dynasty began. Full steam ahead from then on.
To me this HR is more iconic than Aaron Boone's HR. Not to take anything away from Boone's HR. But damn!!! I remember I was 19 years old and had moved to Pennsylvania a few years back after being raised right next to yankee stadium. I actually came back to NY and got to see my yankees win the world series for the first time in my life. Yankees now need a few more WS rings to keep the yankee mystique going..
Harold Frets we’re going to get some more. Maybe just one more pitcher and I think this year could be ours.
If it’s not this year, maybe a few more years
I'd be happier with the Dodgers winning the WS this yr
Epic AB!
I always loved Leyritz's bat spins/flips after each pitch. I remember many hours of trying to learn/practice doing the same in my youth. "The King" always had a unique style/vibe in everything he did during his MLB career. Leyritz was one of the most clutch post season players ever in hindsight. Although he did drop that fly ball in LF as a rookie that resulted in Andy Hawkins being the only MLB pitcher to throw a no hitter and lose the game. Pre Yankee Dynasty the consensus mlb narrative prior to this swing was the reigning "Team of the 1990s" World Series Champion Braves with one of the greatest pitching staffs of all time in there prime years absolutely spanking and embarrashing a clearly inferior looking Yankee team. Leyritz completely flipped the game/ world series and future legacy of both teams on its head with one swing. Leading to the Yankees never losing a world series game again in 1996 and sweeping the Braves in there 1999 World Series rematch. This swing was probably the exact moment the Yankee dynasty of the 1990s officially began. Criminally underrated world series moment.
The swing that started that World championship series run
I fell of bed when this happen classic Moment3