July 04 I think it was when Ruben Sierra hit a walk off homer in the bottom of the 9th with the score tied at 0-0 vs Toronto.
There was another one in Fall of 2007 when Melky hit a walk off against the Blue Jays in extra innings. Some wild back and forth game. 12-11.
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Clemens throws the bat at Piazza 2000 WS
David Wells perfect game 98
2009 ALCS clincher vs Angels (only good memory from new stadium)
1999 WS - booing Jon Rocker was fun
Game 1 98 WS - yanks were losing all game and blew up in 7th inning rally
and you could move down to the premium seats after a few innings. Those were good times.
2000 Game 5: The "We Didn't Fly Across the Country to Lose" game. Six runs in top of the first; A's claw back; pen shuts it down. Phenomenal seats behind home plate at face value because they went on sale after Game 4 and there was a conflicting Niners/Raiders game across the Bay.
2001 Game 3: The flip. What more can be said? I wasn't behind home plate for this one, and I saw the play unfold from a seated position through a forest of bodies. But . . . I saw it.
2001 Game 4: A's were still up 2 games to 1 but both players and fans were reeling from the night before. I kind of felt sorry for them as Yanks showed no mercy, 9-2 final. When Jermaine Day broke his leg with a batted foul ball, I never heard a full stadium so quiet.
He came over and said "come on we're going to a Yankees game". Made the drive from New Haven to the Bronx and from the second I left the car I was captivated, the smells, crowds, sounds, etc were just magical.
Seeing the stadium, hearing the announcers, and my favorite player Reggie Jackson hit a triple. It was a random Tuesday (?) game against the California Angels and Reggie helped the Yankees win.
Maybe 77 or 78.
I didn't grow up a Yankees fan, but I was definitely a Reggie Jackson fan and I'll never forget that game and my first real baseball game.
I was also at Fenway Labor Day weekend whatever year it was to see Mike Mussina barely miss history coming an out away from a perfect game. If that game ended differently it would have to make my list.
98 season finale, Shane Spenser broke some HR record. Yankees won their 114th game. The same day McGuire hit #72 and they showed it on the TVs in the concourse. Cool day.
Saw a few playoff wins, no losses. The one that stands out is game 5 2001 against the As, this was the Jeter flip series. Bald Eagle was in the house along with VP Dick Chaney. Yanks won the series that night.
My first game was in 1979, all I cared about was seeing Reggie hit a HR. Played the Angels or As, can't remember. Yanks won. No HR for Reggie.
Another great one was 97 ALDS Game 1 against the Indians. Yanks were down 6-1. They hit back to back to back home runs to come back and win 8-6. Raines, Jeter and O'Neill IIRC.
Another great one was 97 ALDS Game 1 against the Indians. Yanks were down 6-1. They hit back to back to back home runs to come back and win 8-6. Raines, Jeter and O'Neill IIRC.
I was at that Indians game too. Traffic was a bitch, didn't get to our seats until it was already 5-0. Fortunately the best was to come.
Saw Mantle play his last year
1st game back at the Stadium after it was refurbished. Catfish was the big free agent signing and they beat the A’s.
Haven’t made it to the current stadium because it’s a long way from Alaska.
Anyway, I look up and I see a lady who I worked with at KPMG. It's been a long time, but I think her name was Amy Larson. I knew she was related to a big wig at Microsoft because in the mid 90s, KPMG was signing a deal with Netscape to provide Internet services and that was an embarrassment to Microsoft so there were back door wheeling and dealing and a day before the partners meeting they made an agreement with Microsoft and Bill Gates spoke at the meeting.
Lo and behold, her brother was Chris Larson, a minority owner of the Mariners. And that was him. So I say hello to her and she introduces me to him. I give him some shit for wearing a Mariners shirt (which he covered up) and but was a nice guy. I have an open invite to the owners box in Seattle if I'm ever out there (editor's note- I've never been out there).
So there is my story, and the Yankees won the game so it was all good.
Saw Mantle play his last year
1st game back at the Stadium after it was refurbished. Catfish was the big free agent signing and they beat the A’s.
Haven’t made it to the current stadium because it’s a long way from Alaska.
That’s a great list
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Pivotal 3rd game in famous Boston Massacre in Fenway Park. I was sitting behind the Yankee dugout with my wife and another couple (avid Red Sox fans). Guidry was superlative as he was all year. He allowed hits to two out of the first three Boston batters and never another on his way to a nine inning two hitter. Yanks win 7-0 and the Red Sox earth was shaking. The Yanks completed the 4 game streak in Fenway the next day and continued their march to catch the Sox. Yanks outscored the Sox 42-9 over the 4 games.
I loved Gator.
Taking the A train on that long straightaway where the subway can rock out a bit-then switching to the D.
Old Stadium.
Got there for batting practice. Hard to believe grass could be so green.
Sox taking batting practice. Even from where we sat way back and down the first base line this one tall guy has a swing that stood out and the sound of the ball being hit was just different and sharper than anyone else on the field.
Even Mickey Mantle who I was told was our best player and a great player (and easily greater than Duke Snider but equal to Willie Mays according to Grandpa) was nowhere near as elegant nor a fascinating a hitter to watch.
Of course, they were all bumpkins compared to JoeD who was nothing compared to Lou Gehrig and he was nothing compared to Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was lazy or he would have been even greater and Ty Cobb was mean so forget about them and just work down from Gehrig
Ted Williams. His last year
Second was meeting Joe DiMaggio and seeing The Mick hit a HR at an Old Timer's Day... somewhere around 76 or 77
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Holy shit so did I! Lol!
Come back from 2-0 to force game 5 stadium was rocking had 1 guy show up in an A's hat which was ripped off his head and tossed around the bleachers. Inhung on to the snapback from it.
Standing on the bleachers for the Mo 6 out save and then dancing ti New York New York on the way out. Great experience
Jeter 3000th hit
Gujdry 14 Ks
I had tickets for the game that got rained out the day before. The next day he hits 3k on a HR. Whatever. The makeup game was that September and all the substitutes played.
Fine with me becauae that was the weekend the Giants beat the Eagles in Philly of 2011.
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I'll allow it. :-) Two things I remember from the game. Winfield hit a bullet into the Monuments. Then when they were milling around home plate at the end of the game, none of us in the bleachers knew what they were doing. One guy had a transistor radio, yes a transistor radio. He said, "They're checking the bat". Next thing we know, Nettles jumps up, pounds his glove, the umps ring up Brett and pandemonium.
April 9, 1996 home opener in the snow vs. KC - Joe Torre's first home game as manager.
April 30, 1996 longest 9 inning game up to that point vs Baltimore in Baltimore. Yanks won. Andy Pettitte started but didn't last long.
May 1, 1996 - the day after in Baltimore they went 15 innings and Pettitte closed out the win for NY after starting the night before.
I was in awe of the stadium and Hank hit a home run that day...NO BS. Only barely remember but I do some.
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It was a great game. Two.
2nd - 1996 ALCS Game 5 at OPACY. Yankees win and clinch the AL Pennant.
3rd - 2009 home game vs the Royals. Johnny Damon goes 6/6 with a walkoff ground rule double.
Favorite Yankees moment -
Back in 1993 my father took my older brother, his friend and I to an exhibition game in DC. The Yankees were supposed to play the Mets at RFK stadium but it rained before the game and the field was too wet to play. Prior to the game being called, we were standing near the Yankees dugout. I ended up getting Paul O'Neill's autograph along with Frank Howard, Matt Nokes and Jim Abbott all on a ball that I brought with me. After they called the game, my brother and his friend went on their own to try and get autographs near the team bus. My father and I went another route. My father made a wrong turn inside the stadium concourse and we ended coming out where the players exited the stadium to board the bus. At one point, I turned to my side and Mattingly was standing right next to me. I asked if he would sign my ball, which he did with no hesitation.
Best moment of my life at the time. My father still gets a kick telling that story.
Also was at game 4 of the 2001 ALCS when Soriano hit a walkoff homer. Upper deck was shaking pretty good. Who knew that was just the start of some absolutely magical Yankee lightning home runs we’d get to witness over the next 2 weeks. Also, the Yankees single handedly sent the Mariners franchise into a tailspin. Payback I guess.
Another was against the Orioles April 28, 2017. The crowd was dead for most of the game as the Yanks were down big but that year, you didnt count them out. Ellsbury with a grand slam. Yes. Ellsbury. I cant believe I actually saw him more times than I thought playing as a Yankee.
Game 1 1998 WS- 7 in the 7th. Knoblauch/Tino Bombs. Tino' GS almost made the Stadium collapse.
Game 1 1999 ALCS- Bernie saved my marriage. In the 10th the wife said we were leaving after the 10th because it was late and work the next day. I said no F'in way am I leaving a playoff game. Next thing we know Bernie hits a walk off bomb off Rod Beck. Every time the kids see Bernie Williams on tv they say "mom and dad that's the guy who saved your marriage right?"
2001 game 4 ALCS Soriano walk off. After Jeter's play in Oakland that year Scooter Rizzuto would come out after the national anthem and mimimick the play. God I miss that guy.
In the new stadium I remember the first time I took my daughter. She was like 8 or 9. She turns to me in the 8th inning and says " I'm sad, it's the 8th inning and that means the game is over soon." That's when I knew I raised a baseball fan.
I could go on forever.
First pitch to Bernie, home run to tie it. First pitch to Justice, home run to win it.
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Most of the other Met/Yankee games I've gone to there didn't go as well.
For Jeter, besides all sorts of displays on the scoreboard, the stores immediately unveiled a bevy of memorabilia, which I purchased (some to wear and one to potentially frame). For A-rod, right after the hit, I went to one shop looking for anything. No pin. No t shirt. No postcard. Nothing. I asked and they said nothing was ordered and they probably won't have anything to acknowledge at a later date either.
I don't remember a ton from the game, except - the Yankees won, my uncle had bought be a "Boston Sucks" t-shirt, Thurman had a decent game, a couple guys hit HRs.
I put this down as my best game (it was the 1st one I ever went to), because I still remember how it looked/felt to walk into the Stadium from the tunnel, and see that field and just being amazed at what all of that looked like in real life and not just on TV.
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I was also at GM 6 versus the Indians in 1998 and the clincher versus the Braves in 99 (very anticlimactic game in the sweep, but Clemens pitched that one and after a terrible inaugural season here for his standards here and it was kinda cool).
Anyway, there is nothing like the Bronx in October in all of sports. There was nothing like that old stadium, getting off the 4, grabbing some beers with my friends at that old bowling ally and going into the stadium and just hearing it rock.
One thing I am fortunate about was that I had just graduated college and moved to the city and lived in Murray Hill when the Yankees dynasty run started in 96 and it was a great place to be in your 20s, just hopping on the train and going to games.
I have been to several other NYY playoff and world series games, but nothing tops 1976 game 5 ALCS versus the Royals.
2) Other game was also Sox-Yanks. It was in 2008 during Gardner's rookie year. I hadn't been to a game in a few years (maybe even the above game) since my dad had passed away in 06 and he and I would always go. My dad's coworker (Sox fan) ended up taking me to a game to keep the tradition alive as it were. The game ended up really close and went into the 10th when Gardner walked up Papelbon with a single up the middle. That game always stands out to me when I think back on the games I went to, and its like 99% of the reason Gardner is probably my favorite current Yankee.