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REPLAY OF: 10/5/02 – ALDS Game 4: Yankees @ Angels

David Wells Versus Jarrod Washburn

The Angels’ first playoff series win.

Count how many times they remind us that Roger Clemens flew back to New York to be ready for tomorrow's game. They say it with certainty through just about five innings.

Not to spoil it, but in the bottom of the 5th, Shawn Wooten's homer turns everything around, and If my memory is right, it comes right after a sort delay to retrieve a beachball. So... just sayin' thanks to whoever hit that beach ball onto the field...

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I bet that Soth

Brings Percy in during the 8th

Whoops wrong game

I read that as Game 2, not Game 4.

Got me all confused

Kept waiting for Percy to come on then…

What to watch for in the 5th inning

The staggering number of balls that would have been caught by a halfway competent defense.

Watching that game — in person! Boo-yah! — made me realize all at once that the great Yankee era was over. The 1996-2000 version played real smart baseball. Kind of like our Mauch teams in the ’80s, only with guys in their primes.

I was there

This game was awesome! I remember leaving the ballpark that day high-fiving all the other Angel fans, and yankee fans walking away shamefully.

Yankees fans

couldn’t get out of there fast enough too! Leaving the stadium that afternoon was definitely a highlight of that whole post season.

on ESPN Classics, I am currently watching the 1994 Kenny Rogers perfect game

against the Halos, wish I could watch Game 4 2002 ALDS instead

just caught that signoff

Ken Brett RIP

yes, indeed, I always liked Ken Brett

on a brighter note, it was fun to see the crime dog Rex Hudler playing third

SORIANO LEADS IT OFF

bitching about the strike zone

sit down!

soriano

DON'T BLOW THIS WASHBURN!!!!

strike zone looking terribly in favor of the Yankees.

this is so cool they're replaying these games
bengi gil, wow

i just spit my drink out

platooning AK

The Soth did it his way even then…

yep

the same thing everyone complains about today.

This was one of 2 productive platoons in 2002.

Soth also effectively platooned Spezio and Fullmer at 1B.

WTF?

Ron Coomer?

maybe it is the hi-def

but players these days look bigger than they did way back in 2002

In Giambi's case, he really was bigger...
Robin Ventura!!

You can still see the lumps on his skull from Nolan Ryan’s fist.

Johnny!

Rivers.

and THAT is why we should sign Manny!
Where is scot boras???

His dugout suite is EMPTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to run out that bunt Bengie!
Benji Gil and Shawn Wooten

Rally Platoon!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, Juan was running fast!
Look at that Limber Soth run.
I never realizedJuan Rivera had such blinding speed...
Benji Gil...

wish we still has him…

WOOT DOG

it was the beachball from the RF pavillion!!!!!!!!!!!

WooWooWooten!!! Oh yeah...
Home Run Napoli, er... I mean Wooten
Hitting frenzy...here we go!!!
One inning

10 hits
8 runs
No superstars.

God, I loved that team.

Watching that team

gives me goosebumps. It was pure beauty, the whole playoff run.

I had forgotten-

Just how dammed sweet that fifth inning was. They tore the Yanks all new bodily orifices, small ball, homers, singles, opportunistic baserunning, every weapon in the Halo arsenal. Damm Good!

Yup. Baseball at it's finest.

What a joy to watch…

I'm digging the Serie Del Caribe

Live Baseball is better

And I missed the fifth

Coming back from the gym, and Trader Joe’s en route. Thought I could go fast enough…think I missed it the first time around, too.

I love how with the Yanks down 9-4 in the bottom of the 7th, two outs

The damn announcers are/were STILL convinced the Yankees are/were going to take this Series.

Haha

“Go Home Yankees! Go Home Yankees!!!!!!!!”

Why do they keep flashing a picture of President Obama between innings

while the commercials are going on? That’s kind of weird.

subliminal messages

the liberals want to control your brain… :P

You must adapt.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!

LIGHT IT UP!

WOK SUCKS...

I had to work late tonight, and I missed the replay of the game on Fox Sports West. Who won?

WOK

I meant WORK

I don't know

but it wasn’t anyone from New York or Boston, so ESPN didn’t cover it.

I hate AT&T

Get this. And I’m not making it up.

I got home last night and turned on FSW. It said…and I quote…“This game has been blacked out in your area.”

So now, AT&T’s wonderful U-verse system believes that I will not only travel 4 hours to watch a game, but also 6 years backwards in time.

Write to them and bitch

Call them and bitch. Write to Fox and bitch about ATT, etc…

I have.

I have. And I have.

I’m switching to Direct.

And let ATT know *why* you switched
Absolutely.

I really thought at first that they were trying to put a good product out there. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Darin Erstad's Dying Quail ...

… just out of the reach of Alfonso Soriano. If Soriano catches that Texas Leaguer for the second out Benji Gil tags up and scores to put the Halos ahead. David Eckstein later scores before Troy Glaus flys out to rightfielder Raul Mondesi (reminiscient of Doug DeCinces flyout to Dwight Evans with one out in the bottom of the 9th of the 1986 ALCS Game 6—some ghosts never die) for what would have been the third out (if game events are all predestined). The Angels would have had only a triplet fifth inning instead of octuplets and a 4-2 lead instead of 9-2.

When else have I failed to see a second baseman catch a critical pop fly? Oh yeah, in the 2008 ALDS Game 3 when Howie Kendrick missed Jacoby Ellsbury’s pop up for the first ever 3-run single in post season play. What goes around comes around. Sometimes they fall in for us and sometimes they fall in against us.

When Erstad’s pop up fell in to drive home the go ahead run I turned to the Yankee fan standing next to me and said “Don’t worry. That will look like a line drive in the box score!”

This was the first time I had viewed the video of 2002 ALDS Game 4 as I was at the game in person (section 520 or 521 directly above a tunnel looking directly down the third baseline). The ALDS Game 4 fifth inning eight point touchdown (go for two!) was incredibly surpassed in ALCS Game 5 when the Halos recorded a ten spot in the 7th inning versus the Twins. Last night I told myself I would just watch the game through the fifth inning and then turn the set off. Nope. I watched the game until the end. How sweet it is!

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