[Alberta's Child]

I was a young kid but I remember that game well. The “play-in” game meant both teams finished the season with 163 games. Guidry pitched on short rest and won the game to finish the season with a 25-3 record — one of the most dominant seasons by a starting pitcher in the modern era.

Bucky Dent’s unlikely 3-run homer in the 7th changes the game in an instant. Reggie Jackson hits a titanic home run to center field for the fifth Yankee run in the 5-4 win. Lou Piniella loses a ball in the sun in right field but still manages to get his glove on it and save a run late in the game.

[LS]

Those Yankee teams were so loaded.

I remember the World Series team where Reggie hit 3 home runs in a game: Rivers, White, Chambliss, Munson, Dent, I think Hunter was pitching for them then. Not really a soft spot in either the pitching rotation or the lineup.

[TBP]

Both teams came in to the game 99-63.

[TBP]

Yankee fans worried that now they’d have to use Ken Clay and Jim Beattie in Game of the ALCS. For once, they were both good and the Yankees won that game.