Sumballgame, Huh?
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Now, this is one that I would love to see on Yankees Classics.
August 27, 1972 – second game of a double-header at the original Yankee Stadium. Here’s the boxscore.
Not exactly Sparky Lyle’s best day as a Yankee. Then again, Lyle did pitch in the first game that day and got the win.
Actually, August 27, 1972 was a special day in the Bronx. The Yankees won that first game that afternoon in the bottom of the 9th, 7-6, scoring two runs in the 8th to tie and one run in the 9th to win. And, that second game…well…what a game!
The Yanks were winning, 6-1, after seven. The Royals scored four in the 8th and three in the 9th to go ahead, 8-6. New York rallied in the 9th – including a two-out, pinch-hit, single from Thurman Munson to knot the score at eight.
And, it stayed that way until the sixteenth inning when Celerino Sanchez, Jerry Kenney, and Stick Michael reached base – and then Horace Clarke provided the walk-off sac-fly to win it for the Yankees.
I didn’t go to my first Yankees game until the next year in August 1973. And, that one was a great game too.
But, man…oh, man…those lucky Yankees fans who were at the ballpark on August 27, 1972. They had themselves about 8 hours of one heckuva time at the Stadium. If you were one of the some-25,000 that were there…hey…tell us about it!
