WS 1988 Gm1: Jack Buck call of Gibson memorable at-bat 10-15-88
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- It was game 1 of the 1988 World Series 10/15/88. A's at LA against the underdog Dodgers. Mr. Automatic Dennis Eckersley takes a 4-3 lead into the 9th inning. After walking Mike Davis, Kirk Gibson comes to bat. TV video is from NBC Sports. Audio is Jack Buck and Bill White on CBS Radio. "I don't believe what I just saw!"
I have only ever heard Vince Scully’s call of this until Today, how did I miss this Gem of a call for the last 35 Years!?
I believe this was the radio call synced to the video. Awesome call!
Both these calls are epic. Scully was on NBC TV. Buck was on CBS Radio.
I'm a biased Cardinals fan but I've always felt this call was the best of this moment. Scully's call was also a great one, but "I don't believe what I just saw" with Buck's energy was magical.
Don Drysdale has a great call too
Jack Buck and Vin Scully simultaneously make the greatest calls in baseball history
That would be great if they were somehow within earshot of each other, and trying to one-up each other. My two cents: Buck's call perfectly encapsulated the home run. Scully's call perfectly encapsulated the moment.
Brian, no just Scully....Buck’s call was mediocre and pedestrian
@@jackhana7374 you are mediocre and pedestrian
@@brianwebb6620 well of course I am....that’s how I recognized Jack Buck as mediocre and pedestrian!😁😁🤪🤪Duh! C’mon, pick up your game Brian 😝
@@jackhana7374 I thought the call was great. But to each their own.
"I don't believe what I just saw"
Truer words were never spoken. Most exciting, unbelievable moment in sports history, and this is coming from a 50+ year Yankee fan.
Right? I'm an LA native, but seriously. Series game, home-state rivals, bottom of the ninth, 3 and 2....and a home run out of the blue! That's baseball at it's best.
Battled back from 0-2 fouled off a few. That dribbler that went foul. The entire at bat is so much better than the :30 clip of the actual homer. It was a climax which made it 100x better.
I hope you felt the exact same way with the freedom Freddie version too 😂
Please, get in line behind the 2004 Bosox series. Freemans a beast though, had him on my fantasy keeper league for the past 3 yrs.
Gibson blowing off the post-game interview at the end is the most underrated part of this. Dude just hit one of the biggest home runs in the history of baseball and instead of taking the spotlight he just wants to go celebrate in the locker room w/ some beers and pain killers. Legend.
He eventually came back out and gave an interview. He had to because no one wanted to leave the ballpark!
Gibson told the PR guy he just wanted a couple minutes in the locker room with the team first. NBC went to commercial and then they got the interview.
Kirk Gibson did give an interview after the game at one point. I distinctly remember him calling his home run a story book home run. It’s what every little leaguer dreams of, when he’s playing baseball.
I was 30 years old when that happened. It was a Saturday night, and generally, we didn’t talk about sports and the like in Church on Sundays. But we did that one. It was relative to Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris’s Immaculate Reception. That little ole Assembly of God Church had a sports story to share with each other.
Well worth checking out his post game interview with Costas once he came back out. Legend.
Having the calls of both Jack Buck and Vin Scully on this moment. What a right culture we were in the '80s.
One of the bests part of this video is at 06:48 when the car in the parking lot hit's it brakes and he's just realizing he missed witnessing one of the great moments in World Series history. You know someone in that car is yelling "YOU JUST HAD TO LEAVE EARLY!"
I've spent 30 years using that car's tail lights, coupled with the home run, as an example of why you never leave early as well.😂
One of the greatest calls in baseball history. Pure emotion and excitement from a professional broadcaster.
Correction, the GREATEST call along with Vin Scully "she is gooone!! "
I would argue 'pure emotion and excitement' are exactly what is missing from today's broadcasters.
I'm also not a fan of all the logos on the uniforms these days.
The case can additionally be made that their are too many ads on the current baseball fields.
I wish today's baseball could be more like it is here.
For some reason I'd never seen this video. But I remember being at my brother's house when this game ended and listening to Vin Scully. Good to hear it from the "other side". Obviously Jack Buck was the hometown guy. He did a great job of calling the moment, even though the A's lost. "I don't believe what I just saw!" Great line.
I agree! Excellent call by Jack Buck. It was a total shock
I mute the tv sound in any event
It's funny how Vin and Jack have such different styles but are each the best at it.
Vin sets the scene and the story. He helps your own eyes write their own story. You can tell he adjusted to television over the years.
Jack paints the picture for you. He is so detailed and thorough without talking too much. Definitely a radio guy.
The two best that ever did it.
Bill White was pretty good, too!
You said it perfectly. Thanks
i’m a cardinals fan thru and thru but this is truly one of the greatest moments in sports history. to do that and do it while you’re hurt. you can see how much pain he’s in. what a champion
Not only that, but Kirk was batting against a cy young winner...
Who cares who you're a fan of, just say you enjoy this moment.
@@LinkRocks I care who he’s a fan of.
Eck hadn’t won the Cy Young yet at that point in his career
Gibson did it again for the Tigers I believe in 1988 ?
“I don’t believe what I just saw.” Amazing call. I remember this moment, chilling.
It was amazing that two of the most legendary voices in baseball broadcasting history provided equally legendary calls on one of the most dramatic at-bats in major league annals...just wonderful stuff!
Lasorda's vertical leap approached one and a half inches when he bounded out of the dugout!
yeah, he didn't have those old leg muscles anymore. but he could still raise his arms. the man lived and breathed Dodgers.
Maybe we could slide a credit card under his shoe, lol
He had that adrenaline pumping!
His man boobs gave him a couple black eyes on that jump.
LMFAO
This was one of the most beautiful baseball moments I ever saw in my life. You couldn’t have written it any better.
When I heard that phrase by Jack buck? I also remember the phrase I can't believe what I just saw. That phrase will be remembered for a long time to come.
Jack Buck underscores what's missing in modern baseball. He and Vin Scully is so reminiscent of those great days of radio sportscasting - they cut their teeth on radio and knew how to bring excitement and drama to the radio audience. When TV emerged, these guys brought those radio skills with them and it made for great TV coverage. So much so, my dad (born in 1915) would often watch games on TV with the sound turned off and listen to the games over the radio. He did this all the time in his latter years.
I knew the Dogers were going to lose so turned the TV off and listened to the radio. When Gibson hit the HR I lunged for the TV remote. When the TV finally warmed up Gibson was approaching 2nd base. And Jack Buck was bellowing throughout my living room. What an incredible moment. Jack Bucks call is a classic. I heard it live on my radio. What a memorable experience!!!
This was one of those moments in time where years later, you will remember exactly where you were when it happened. Jack Buck could not have been more perfect when he said it was one of the most dramatic moments not just in baseball history, but in sports history. RIP Jack Buck. 🙏🙏
I was on the phone with a co worker, we both sarted screaming in the phone...
Beautifully said. I grew up in STL and had the privilege of listening to he... and Harry Caray, in 1967 when I became a Cards fan at age 9. After Harry was fired after 1969, Jack took over until his death in 2002. What a pleasure he was to listen to, and was as revered in STL as Vinny was in LA. Jack's radio station, KMOX, reached 40 states at night. Sigh. The last great announcers are Jon Miller in SF, and Bob Eucker in Milwaukee.
Yup, this is one case where what could have aged as hyperbole ended up being right on the money.
I remember! Tigers fan, MSU alum. At Tiger Stadium for game 5 clincher in 1984.
Close game late. Gibson had hit a towering HR earlier in tge game. Came to the plate v Goose Gossage. Runners on 2nd and 3rd, 2 outs with first base open.
Padres Manager Dick Williams heads to the mound. Everyone in the House expects them to intentionally walk Gibby.
Goose says "I can take him".
Gibby goes deep. Same HR trot. Crowd goes ABSOLUTELY CRAZY and 3 outs later, the Tigers are world champs!
Shoutout to the driver in the background behind the stadium hitting the brakes as Kirk hits the home run.
Vin’s call is legendary but it was on TV. Buck’s call on radio, which required more description, was also excellent and a joy to listen to.
"Gibson, shaking his left leg, making it quiver, like a horse trying to get rid of a troublesome fly. ---2 balls & 2 strikes, with 2 out." Vin Scully during this at bat. Can’t get any more descriptive than that.
Listening to this years later, for some reason, THIS TIME, I’m really captured by the surprise in Jack’s voice. Legitimately caught off guard. The ability to react to it live. Captured the disbelief/amazement in just a couple moments!
Yeppers!
I still remember my dad explaining this to me on the early 2000s and I thought he was pulling my leg. When they would play this clip during the world series I just watched in awe. "I don't believe what I just saw" gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it
Gibson was in a phone booth putting on a cape right before he came out truly a superhuman sports moment i still don't believe what i just saw
I was representing my university at a college night in suburban Houston that night, and heard Jack Buck’s 9th inning call of this amazing moment as I was driving home. I nearly drove off the road.
I’m glad Jack was doing radio and Vinny was on TV. Both calls were perfect for their respective media.
That’s funny, because I was approaching downtown on I-10 coming from Baytown, and the same thing happened.. No love for the Dodgers because they were in the Astros division back then, but I always rooted for the NL team in the WS..
I was pumped.. Pretty sure I invented the term “LETS GO!” that night.. lol..
Yes they were perfect, in that had they been swapped, i have no doubt they wouldve both executed it perfectly, maybe even the same
The best moment in modern baseball history. Jack Buck and Vin Scully were frozen in time.
Few plays in the history of the game can even compete. This was “movie ready”.
well said. It's not that Scully's call was bad, it's Buck's call was out of this world amazing. It really captured the emotion of the moment, with his voice. I love how Buck was talking about how it was impossible for him to come out, leading up to the call.
@@JamieTheBangles11Fan Scully's call was amazing in it's own way, mostly in how he stayed silent for what seemed like a minute, letting the roar of the crowd just pour into your TV screen. No TV announcer one does that.
And then the first words out of his mouth are fantastic: "In a year of improbables, the impossible just happened!"
Scully and the late Jack Buck were two of the all-time great broadcasters.
@@PatrickJohnsonPaddyj1325 I think as someone said, Jack Buck did a better job of catching the emotion of the moment. Scully's call was almost like an amazing retrospective of everything and there is nothing wrong with that. But in the emotion of the moment, Jack Buck called it; the way we all felt when watching it happen.
Both were good calls, but my favorite from Scully was Game 6 of the '86 World Series: "Behind the bag, it gets through Buckner, here comes Knight and the Mets win it!!" And then he stood silence while the Shea Stadium crowd went into a frenzy.
It is nice to be able to watch the whole sequence as it is really hard to appreciate how badly he was hurt. You usually just see a clip and hear that he had a bad leg but until you see the entire at bat you really don't realize how hard he was struggling. You can also see how he is basically just using his arms to try to hit. Can't use his lower body at all to drive the bat which makes it even more incredible.
That call will give me goosebumps every time I hear it until the day I die.
The unsung hero: Mike Davis, drawing a WALK off Eckersley.
Absolutely and then stealing second.
There is always at least one unknown, unsung hero in every vital scenario, Braden... One never knows when they may be the one... That's what makes life so truly incredible and mystifying... And at times beyond imaginary
As Joe Garagiola said on the Scully call, the homer would have only tied the game. The walk put the winning run at the plate.
You couldn’t ask for a better finish to a game. Credit to Tommy Lasorda for having the stones to put him in. And Kirk Gibson for delivering.
And Eck for throwing a low pitch to a guy who couldn't lift his bat.
He was clutch all the time
this still gives me goosebumps :)
This entire 'at bat' had more drama and intrigue than anything out of Hollywood in the last 10 years.
Go Sabres.
Exactly! Bottom of the ninth. Tying run on base. 3 and 2. And on the way there, attempted steals, the home crowd booing every time the pitcher checked the first base runner, multiple foul or almost-fair balls. As if that wasn't enough, two California teams in the final series, a record setting pitcher and a beloved/injured record setting hitter!
And as you imply, you could only make this stuff up. But no, it really happened. Maybe it SHOULD be a movie. Hmmm.
October 15,1988, I was sitting behind the left field foul pole in the 2nd deck at Dodger Stadium. It seemed forever while Kirk Kibson limped from the Dodgers dugout taking his cuts, barely being to move his legs as he strutted up to home plate. One foul ball after another. From the 2ned deck you couldn't see the ball going foul....... until.... a roar came from the crowd. The crowd went nuts. I will never forget Conseco drifting back to the right field stands. What a moment in time..... never to be forgoten
Still the greatest moment in baseball I have ever seen
To think Gibson had already done this 4 years earlier for the Detroit Tigers. Whatever the Dodgers were paying Gibson they certainly got a return on their investment.
"... This game will end on a dramatic note one way or the other." LOL!!
Greatest plays ever in baseball. As an English man on holiday in California, couldn't understand why this super restaurant in Oxnard was nearly empty, then came Gibson and the rest is history 😊
As an Oxnard-born/Camarillo-raised Californian, I can’t understand why an Englishman was in Oxnard. 😉
@pinverarity First stop on our holiday touring California. Really enjoyed that WS, Tommy Lasorda, Hersheiser and of course Gibson 😀
@@theretiredmariner2488 Glad you had such a good time! I suppose I still carry some of the teenage prejudices that one has about the place one grew up. To me, Oxnard/Camarillo was a cultural dead zone, and the idea of anybody from the UK willingly spending time there would’ve confused the crap out of me. Like going to the UK and visiting lovely Slough, maybe. 😉
I was a pretty helpless Anglophile, and if you had told me that at some point half of Monty Python, half of the Sex Pistols, a British royal, and Joe Strummer would be living within a 45-minute drive of my suburban home, I would’ve asked for a referral to your dealer. 😉
I have watched this video countless times and got chill bumps every time.
Longtime Tigers fan here.....Gibby is my favoirite player of all time.....he was just clutch af
Would have been even greater if he wasn't hurt so much but he played so hard it contributed to his injuries.
@@motorcitymanman7711 yeah that's true
His only AB of the WS that all but clinched the championship. This was the stuff of legends to put it lightly. Once of the clutch playoff performers of all-time. Gibby was the heart and soul of the 84 Tigers WS team too. In an eerily simular situation, against a HOF pitcher (Goose Gossage) Gibby took Goose deep to put the 84 WS on ice for the Motor City Bengals.
Didn’t know Bill White was in booth with Jack Buck and White does an excellent job as analyst.
Gibson be like “screw the interview” to that TV guy. I am going right to the ice bath!
Right... but he had to come right back to do the NBC interview with Bob Costas...lol Unbelievable moment, and Buck and Bill White were great on this call, very descriptive as you have to be on radio painting the picture beautifully for the listener.
How amazing is it there are 2 AMAZING calls of this moment, Vin Scully's on NBC TV but for my money Jack Buck's call is just a little bit better, being the radio man he had to be more descriptive
The Love of baseball for Tommy Lasorda, specially for the Dodgers was pure Heart, no question about it. Thank you for the memories..May he rest in Paradise
There was a great backstory in Sports Illustrated. Kirk is under the stands taking some swings. Thwack, thwack, thwack. Tells Lasorda "I think I have one good swing left in me." Watching the full at bat makes the ending even more dramatic.
God, Buck had that great classic old school broadcasters voice. Maybe not as good a broadcaster as Scully, but his emotion and voice was perfection for radio.
Yes Jack had that old school, perfect voice for radio. Think smoking 3 packs a day helped? Lol... When he came up in the 1950s, everybody smoked. But I digress. Jack Buck was my favorite announcer of all time.
Lived in los angeles many years. Always brings a tear to my eyes
One of the greatest calls of all time, but yet Vinny, saying less is more, is a better call for me!
I close my eyes and re-Live this moment often as I was behind 3rd base cheering for about an hour , no one wanted to leave ! I couldn't speak for days !@
The electricity started when Davis got on base, and when gibson came out of the dugout , we all went wild, not a dry eye or anyone sitting in their seats!
When Davis stole 2nd I got goose bumps, , I'm not sure if #23 Gibson actually hit the ball with the bat or if it was the electricity of the crowd that pummeled it out !!
A magical moment, the longest screaming in sports history, lasted for about an hour
On NBC, Vin Scully - "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!"
No disrespect to Vin Scully, who is the hands-down GOAT among announcers, but Buck's call is better. In just seven words he caught EXACTLY what millions of people were thinking at that moment.
@@johnhunter2294 No doubt. 100 percent.
@@johnhunter2294 I have great respect for Jack Buck but no way was his call better than Vin's. I did love "And we'll see ya tomorrow night" though. But Joe Buck is an entirely different story. :)
This is why we watch baseball. You can be good but to be clutch when it counts the most makes you a legend.
Awesome to relive and watch this amazing moment in World Series history with two mlb legendary announcers actual live game calls available and presentation of the game...that's why the HOF has an announcer award and it's part of the fabric of the sport and there is also umpires and commissioners and owners in Cooperstown...and if you consider yourself a fan hopefully you get a chance to drive there sometime and see the museum, and the preservstion of and review and documentation of the history of things and museums are great and important in my book... and we need more of them....
Greatest home run of all time. Period.
Yes it is and as a Twins Fan I agree even though Kirby Pucket hit a memorable one in game 6 of the World Series, Ironically enough Jack Buck called that one as well! This one however is on a level of its own!!
Gibby hit 2 deep balls in game 5 of the 1984 WS to clinch the title v the Padres.
One of the greatest clutch athletes ever. Also a GREAT, All American WR at Michigan State!
LOVE HIM!
In a year that has been improbable , the impossible has happened! RIP Vin
"I don't believe what I just saw"! Muscled it out with only his upper body.
Gibson played linebacker in college. His upper body strength was insane.
Gibson not just hit the homer to win the game and make history…. He defended that at bat like there was no tomorrow. For that he deserves another life in paradise
I watched it live on TV when I was 11 years old. It was a stunning turn of events. I remember sitting there with my mouth open as it went over the fence. Lasorda must have thought he was a genius to pinch hit Gibby in that situation.
I watched this and the 84 ws.truly amazing
Thank you Mel Didier. He was the scout who said as sure I'm standing here, with a 3-2 count, Eckerskley will throw a backdoor slider to a left-handed batter. That's why Gibson called time with a 3-2 count. It dawned on him what Didier said.
That whole team was full of my heroes. When Kirk did that, you could see the Athletics completely lose the will to play anymore. Kirk Gibson and Pete Rose, two guys that would do everything in their power to win the day.
always hard to lose no matter what side you're on. but Eckersley was no slouch neither. years later he and Gibson met for a filmed discussion of that PLAY. Gibson said he 'knew' that last pitch was going to be a fastball, and didn't have to swing that hard because he (Eckersley) had "provided all the energy". Must have been one heck of a fastball.
It's ridiculous to say the A's lost their will to play. The main reason they lost 2 of the next 3 games... Orel Hershiser. Anyone who knows the game will tell you Orel Hershiser's pitching was why the Dodgers won it all in 1988. Had nothing to do with the will of the Athletics.
Any day
That '88 Dodgers team was really an embodiment of their manager. They were a scrappy, feisty squad that didn't back down from anyone. They played hard, and played to win.
That's a silly and insulting claim that the A's lost the will to play because an injured player won the first game of the Series with a 9th-inning HR. If it was a college team you might have a point, but these were pros who knew how to lose a heartbreaker and come back the next day ready to perform. A play like this could certainly get in the heads of a team if it was game 6, but not game 1.
Happy this was a Saturday night got to stay up late and watch this 🥰😊
Jack Buck I remember listening to u and Coach Hank on Monday night football 🏈 I would rather listen to you guys do the Call on WEST WOOD 1. Radio. On W J N O am West palm beach Around 1990 thanks for the memories.
This! They were the best on those national NFL radio broadcasts.
My son had this book for school one good swing Kirk forgot about the pain in his leg
I never realized how long that AB was, that was a battle
It would have been much shorter if Larussa hadn't have been so worried about the base runner. You know Eck didn't care about him, he wanted to get that batter struck out. All those throws over there really extended the amount of time you had to digest about what was actually happening.
One of the greatest momements in baseball history of my lifetime and def in the top 3 of ever.
I’m a LA native and I had just moved to Eugene, Oregon and was watching this in a bar, surrounded by A’s fans. I didn’t buy a drink the rest of the series
Greatest moment in baseball history ! He couldn’t even walk ! Flicked his wrist hit the greatest he mlb history ! Game 1 series was over right there
Five days later, Fernando Valenzuela earned his second World Series ring, his first in seven years.
One of the greatest sports moments of my life. Was at my girlfriends house, and when Gibson hit it out, I was bouncing off the walls, hollering and screaming. What a night.
This is the greatest moment in sports history…in my opinion. Nothing will ever top this moment.
THISSA GONNA BE A HOME RUN!
!!!UnBeLiEvAbLe!!!
Greatest call ever!!!
That look on Tony Phillips face as he left the dugout told the whole story.
Wondered who that was. Yeah, he looks completely distraught-
Jack Buck is King
He is the prince.....Vin Scully is KING
Buck had the greatest call EVER!!!
Amen!
Watched this live, 10 yrs old....it was fantastic!
I'll never forget this, because this is the call I heard live. I was working for a hotel, and part if my job was to drive around patrolling the parking lot. I knew the game was on in the hotel bar, but I was afraid I'd miss something, so I circled the parking lot throughout the whole at bat. Right when he said "This is gonna be a home run", I swear, I thought he was going to yell "Holy shit", next. Awesome call of one of MLB's all-time greatest moments.
Give Bill White some credit for the call as well, a great Yankees announcer who was working for the World Series that year for Dodgers radio station
great evening. I remember watching the game on television. the late vin schully also landed his efforts!
6:48 will never get old
As an Oakland resident at the time, I still have not recovered from this game.
I watched this at the bar at Tio Leo's in San Diego. I called this shot when Gibson came to bat. Nes, the bartender said he would buy a round for the house if it happened. It did, but he didn't. He bought me one though.
1:11 If that's not the ultimate baseball jinx, I don't know what is.
When you win a world series game, and essentially the series, with a walk off your hamstring suddenly doesn't hurt quite as bad.
Checking in after Freddie’s walkoff :)
I was at this game, upper deck behind first base, rooting for the A's :(. I was an epic moment, felt like an earthquake:).
When I think of great athletes that weren't HOFer's but had iconic moments, Gibby is one of the first to come to mind.
The expression of the third base coach says it all. Sheer joy and excitement. Still like Drsdales call
That's going down in Dodgers baseball history!!!
I was watching the game live with my gf at the time. The Dodgers we’re down and out for a while in the game; nothing going on… 2 out in the 9th I started yelling “put in Gibson - put in Gibson… Home Run wins this game” … Gibson came in, hit the ball and I almost fell off my chair! I still get goosebumps from the hit and Kirk double-pumping around second base … hobbling his way to the plate!
Jack Buck, simply the best!
He blew right by the interviewer like a speed bump. A beer some ice cold beers my teammates and I’m set
I don't believe what I just saw.!!!
injured warrior had one more left in him...
Kirk Gibson is the reason I wanted to play baseball
Scully has the more iconic call, but "I don't believe what I just saw!" Is also great. To think we had both of these guys at the same time.
There is another radio call of the Gibson home run which I think may be lost: The Oakland A's broadcast, which would be either Bill King or Lon Simmons. I have never heard it.
RIP Lasorda, Tim Crews, Mike Sharperson. I think Amalfitano is still alive.
Loved Mike Sharperson
That call by Lasorda has to go down as maybe the greatest instinctual call of all time.
And, I loved Scully saying, "You talk about a roll of the dice, this is it."
Kirk Gibson vs Dennis Eckersley I totally agree memorable best known for his one and only plate appearance...
The way Jack introduces Gibson coming out of the dugout 😄😄😄😄
came here after the walk off grand slam by freddy in game 1.
One moment created two unforgettable calls.
His only at bat of the series!