The Yankees are coming out with an “Essential Games of Yankee Stadium” DVD with this being the last year at Yankee Stadium. The cool thing about it is that they are letting the fans pick the games. Click here to vote (Pick 5 games, one from each era: 1970-89, 1990-99, 2000-08).
Here are my picks:
5. 1976 ALCS Game 5: Chris Chambliss hits a walk-off homer to send the Yankees to the World Series and is mobbed on the field.
4. July 1, 2004: The Dive. Derek Jeter dives in the stands to catch a Trot Nixon pop up, ends up bloody and leaves the game. ARod plays SS, Sheffield plays 3B and John Flaherty hits a walk-off 2B.
3. 2001 World Series Game 4: Tino Martinez ties the game on a two-strike, two-out homer in the bottom of the ninth. After the clock strikes midnight, Jeter hits a walk-off homer to right and is crowned Mr. November.
2. 2003 ALCS Game 7: Grady Little leaves Pedro in, Jorge Posada ties the game. Aaron Boone sends the Yankees to the World Series on a walk-off homer off Tim Wakefield.
1. 1996 World Series Game 6: The game that started the dynasty. Joe Girardi gives the Yankees a lead they won’t give back with a 4th inning triple as they go on to win their first World Series in 18 years.
June 2, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Great post. Where would you put Game 5 of the ‘01 Series? That one has always stood out for me due to the Paul O’Neill chant and the Brosius dinger, but you’re right, it is hard to choose it over Game 4.
June 2, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Game 5 ‘01 was a huge win for the Yanks and it really looked like they were going to win the series there, up 3-2. I ranked it under Game 4 because of Jeter’s walk-off HR. It’s more special than Soriano’s walk-off single in game 5. Good point about the O’Neill chant, totally forgot about that. Either game would be a good choice.
Still, I feel like there should be a seperate DVD of just classic Jeter games. We could put Game 5 on my list and add Cone’s perfect game instead of the dive game.
The Jeter DVD would have:
The dive game
Game 4 ‘01 WS
The Jeffery Maier game (’96 ALCS game 1)
2000 WS game 4 (leads off game with HR, Yanks win 3-2)
The Flip game