Sutton was the key addition that summer right before trading deadline for Brewers. They almost blew big lead

He wasn't in his "prime" but his 4-1 record and his experience helped the Brewers that year make it. I went to so many games from 1977-1985 but Don Sutton was one of the few players I never got to meet after the games. People would wait outside of County Stadium🏟for the players to come out after they showered and got dressed. I was so lucky to have met Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Moose Haas, Jim Gantner, Cecil Cooper, and so many more. Even Bob Uecker and they were all usually awesome guys, but some days, a loss, or a bad game, they had them. It was a blessing to have been able to meet them.

NL West was also up for grabs on the last day of the season

@paulsonj72 @ 2:50:00 Giants fans losing their mind after the last out. Dodgers/Giants never had any chill 😂

I also traveled up for that double header from DC with a high school buddy. Storm Davis walked the bases loaded in the first inning and got out of the jam somehow without giving up a run.

Well you picked a good one because I went to hundreds of games there & the crowd that night was the noisiest I’ve ever heard there. It was one hell of a night.

now they play at midnight, october baseball in the afternoon sun is uniquel.

Watching this now & this is baseball heaven.

This was also during the NFL strike. The world was watching and yount was great

Yes! Because he brought out extreme reactions of love & hate was prob key reason he lasted so long on ABC. Ironically he hated baseball, but prob wished he could be manager himself. In terms of pure announcing, he was the professional. He never did anything w/o researching because just describing the action wasn't enough. In his early career he would tape interviews with athletes for future reference or use. (had a large library & basically was his own research department) He hated the homer announcer & brought critical journalism into the booth. Your following Cosell was an education in itself. Can imagine him roasting ownership & the sport today.

He was the right announcer for the moment.

The Milwaukee Brewers of 1970-present vs. the Milwaukee Brewers of 1901.

thats what I recall. 3 game lead at start of series. Orioles swept double header on Fri, won Sat. Dead even then. Crowd was goign crazy with brooms yelling sweep each game. shame they couldnt win this one

Yep. Orioles had to sweep the 4 game series to win the AL east. They almost did....

Absolutely correct. The two teams were tied going into the final game.

Palmer played in a few games into the 1984 regular season.

1979-1983 was the BEST five year period in the O's history, without a doubt! When Orioles' Magic was born and the city fell in love with the team!

They won it all in 1983 but that was under Joe Altobelli’s managing, no?

Don't give up. Look at the Giants. Still amazing was their '10-'14 run under Bochy. But that team was managed by an experienced & savy ex catcher who knew the game & players. Don't know about today's tilt to metrics. Ultimately it's ownership & whom you hire to make key decisions both as GM & Manager.

@@rokyericksonroks Yep.

I'm a huge Orioles fan too. The Brewers lead was three games, not four, when they rolled into town on Friday night. The Orioles won the first three games of the series to tie for the division lead which set up the last winner take all game.

Great 👍 post!

Many consider Yount’s ‘82 to be the greatest season a position player had in the 80s.

Was lucky to grow up in Milwaukee and got to watch him play a lot.

Love You Tube & can watch real baseball. Real Baseball. I'd place this game next to Game 163. 1978. Bosox v. Yankees. "The Dent Homer"

Surprisingly, not one mention of his attempt to take the batting crown either. I skimmed through to his bats and never heard a mention?!

@4640jds Harold Baines?

I noticed that too. Gantner is blonde and left handed.

That's because today's players are pussies.

And then followed that two games down...unfortunately up 3-2 didn't pan out.

@@larryb6822 That World Series loss was a soul crusher for me. I grew up here in Milwaukee. I spent more time at County🏟Stadium🏟 than I did at home...lol. I adored this team. ALL of the players were really amazing to the fans. Spending 15-30 minutes after the home games signing autographs in the parking lot. This team from 1976-1977 to 1982 were by far the most popular and exciting time in Brewers history. They brought HOPE! A small market (I HATE THAT TERM!), but a smaller market team, fighting the Yankees, Red Sox, the💰money🤑💰the🤑💸revenue💰🤑the💸💲marketability. Extra money💰💰💰💰💰for endorsements. Players who went to New York, Boston, Los Angeles, California, etc. they got more everything, prestige, living the lifestyle of a celebrity. Teams like Milwaukee, Minnesota, and oddly Oakland were scrambling to keep up. Now that said, these years I mentioned brought the entire city of Milwaukee together! I can remember my Pops and I getting in the car and driving down 27th Street with a pennant waving out the window. Horns of EVERY CAR Beeeeep beeeep beeeeep beeeeep! It was a baseball ⚾️ DREAM when we beat Baltimore then I was back to terrified after California had us. But Cecil Cooper's 2-run base hit to take the lead, then Pete Ladd shutting them down in the 9th inning! Again a DREAM COME TRUE! World Series bound! FINALLY! Up 3 games to 2. ONE MORE GAME AND WE ARE CHAMPIONS!🏆 We lost game 6. Tied 3-3. Then my worst day came. St.Louis beat us in game 7. It ended! Then what was misery and pain, or so I thought anyway. The next month. November 13th, my buddy growing up. The man who helped raise me. My Yahtzee partner, my best pal when I was a little squirt. My Grandpa had a massive heart attack and passed away that day. The loss of the Brewers, not that it was irrelevant, but compared to what our family faced, it was irrelevant. I had just turned 15. I can't put into writing how I felt over the next 6 months. My grades dropped off. I failed a class. That year was the biggest year ever as far as highs and then sadly lows, the lowest of lows. 40 years later, now especially when I watched this game, the games with the Angels for the ⚾️A.L.Championship🏆⚾️ there is a huge swelling of tears, of Joy! Then the tears of sadness hit, as I remembered the month after. 📈📈📈📈📈 Up then down then up then down the WAY UP, then CRASH, THEN💥💥BOOM!💥💥 ⚾️⚾️Baseball⚾️⚾️ has always stayed a HUGE part of my life. The Brewers always have been and always will be my number one team! My Grandfather taught me many things. First and foremost, FAMILY IS ALWAYS, HAS TO ALWAYS BE YOUR NUMBER #1 PRIORITY! My Grandparents were married in 1915. They just turned 18. when my Grandpa died in 1982 at age 85, they were still married. For 67 years they were ❤🤲❤in LOVE and together. My Grandma was a tiny little gal. 5'1" before age and her curved spine turned her to a 4'9"-4'10" lady. My Grandpa👴was 5'10". He was not a imposing man however if you threatened his family especially me(I was their only grandchild), he would attack like a bear guarding his family. My Grandma👵as well. At just under or over 5' depending, she was tiny. But she was a spitfire! I called her my little bird.🐥 Whenever she'd laugh, giggle, or have a big smile, her nose would scrunch up and it looked like a chicken's rear end. And SHE showed it to me! LOL! These uploads of this series, then the playoffs, and then the World Series, showed how something interesting for some people can be extremely special and memorable for someone else. These games flooded my memories back! For that I say THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU! AND ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU!!!!!

@@EdsterIII Baseball might be compared to a soap opera. The history itself is part of the reason we follow. The payroll disparity with baseball would most likely, otherwise, be addressed. The rarity of a World Series becomes priceless. That 82' season defined "sitting on the edge of your seat." I am glad your Grandpa got to see it, and I am sure you shared every moment. I was 16 (driving). I would sit in my car during lunch to catch a bit of a day game on the radio. During the summer, I carried a radio with me everywhere (I don't even care about my cell phone that much). I had Cooper's hit off Luis Sanchez recorded on cassette tape, but I have since misplaced it. Thinking back, I spent three years in a foster home as a kid, so that I actually cried... Over the years, and as you have learned, I don't let sports get to me (relatively speaking). I participate in fantasy baseball, and when I listen to Yankee fans suggest they are "excited" about the season, I just smile inside. They have no idea what it is like to be competitive as we have recently. Enjoy 2022, and just know it is an accomplishment. But hey, remember, after Cooper's hit, if Kuenn had not replaced Gorman Thomas with Marshall Edwards in center field, we may have lost that game. That's just how it went :-)

One other thing.. Even though they the O’s were losing, I remember me, and so many people were upset that they took the game off for that amount of time! It came back on, and it was like WTF(of course back then there was no WTF 😂) 10-2?!

Ooooo Nellie lol

Yes. 2021 baseball is not MLB. Even pre '20. Realize a sport evolves, but sometimes not for better. Expansion itself in '90s (Rockies & Marlins) essentially meant fifty to sixty players entered MLB who really shouldn't.

They probably should have won? LOL. We didn’t have the reigning Cy Young and MVP in Rollie Fingers, and the ‘82 Cy Young winner, Pete Vukovich, was playing with what was discovered to be a torn rotator cuff in the offseason. And Robin Yount destroyed you in the most important game of the season. You were lucky to still be alive at the end. The Orioles were a great team in ‘82. But to opine you “probably should have won” a game you got blown out of 10-2 is laughable.

Yes, it was wonderful week guty...which motovated led the club for 83.

Yeah. It's a lot to ask for--to win four games in a row. Revealed weakness in Brewers equally.

@@theaterdreamer You are very silly. Yes, the O's should have won. They entered this game on a 33-10 roll since August 20th. The Brewers on the other hand, were reeling. Losing 7 of their previous 11 coming into the game. The O's had all of the momentum. It was a home game. They'd won 5 straight games against Milwaukee in the previous 8 days. So, yes they should have won. Detroit really helped you guys out with their 9th inning heroics to beat the O's the week before.

New Milwaukee vs. old Milwaukee (Brewers/Braves), right?

@@bmasters1981 Yes.

Yes. Equally for all sports. Game flow is interrupted now with just too many commercials & timeouts. Expansion in sports has diluted talent. Different era then.

Palmer talks frequently about regretting the HR pitches to Yount.

Wasn't the NFL also on strike when this game happened?

Problem with the NFL, I have no choice but to spend no less than $1,000 a year to watch the one team I have been watching since I was 8.

The NL West title was also in play that day as the Dodgers and Braves were fighting it out. Atlanta had a one game lead and were playing the Padres and the Dodgers were playing the Giants. ABC would broadcast any games that had pennant race implications on the last day and in 1982 there were three games on Sunday that helped determine the playoff picture. That’s why Brewers/Orioles didn’t go national. Had the NL West been decided than this game goes national.

Yes...gulliver kept running around 3rd because he did not see ripken sr who was so out of position...i was not at this game...but went to many games that year as a young teenager...and started working there in 1983 as concession helper and all star ballot distributor...great memories..

Yeah. Baltimore had a great team. The Brewers just couldn’t overcome their injuries. Show me another franchise in baseball history that had back-to-back Cy Young winners, and saw their careers essentially end. Rollie Fingers missed all of 1983. He came back strong in 1984, but after one more subpar season in 1985, his career was over. And Vukovich was the saddest of all. He was never a true staff ace. But he was a good 2/3, and a real workhorse for the Brewers. He had been playing with a torn rotator cuff. Made only 3 starts in 1983. Missed 1984. Came back in 1985 and was awful across 22 starts. He made 6 more starts in 1986, and his career was over. That was just a hell of an obstacle for the Brewers, losing their two best pitchers like that.

theaterdream Excellent points. The 80’s had a lot of Cy Young winners who just never panned out as elite past their award winning season, though Fingers is not on that list.

@@travismcdonald6576 Where would you put Gooden? What could've been.

Anything I've read has portrayed Candlestick as kind of a dump, so it wouldn't surprise me tbh

Cool you had future hall of famers in Monitor, Yount, Fingers,. Howard cosell, Keith Jackson and Bob Uecker

Very simple math that day. Winner take all.

I came here from SI vault December 27, 1982 issue. They gave abc a Heidi award for screwing up the video of this play😂 😂

They were truly awesome.

Right on!!!!!

That is the dumbest thing I ever heard.😂😂

I was at the game the day before also.

@@Bob31415 Me too! Memorial was rocking that day!

@@joeski734 Was that you sitting in front of me?

I was at the game also in the upper deck. On the third base side. I was 13. We lost but the fans refused to leave and chanted and made noise for a long time till the Orioles can back out to tip their caps. It was like a huge religious experience. I have never forgotten it.

He never gave up a grand slam either

That is an awesome record he went to Scottsdale High School in Scottsdale Arizona

Earned a Masters in Soil Science.

Jim Palmer was a great pitcher, one of my all time favorites

@@philiptucci2458 Same here. Nothing crazy or fancy with him he just went out and pitched lights out so many times. Growing up in Milwaukee in the 70's I was so lucky, I got to see Jim Palmer pitch on several occasions. He was a phenomenal athlete! And as I said a lights out pitcher! Add to that he had Eddie Murray's amazing bat in the line-up. That was a awesome team! If it wasn't for the billion dollar Yankees, I wonder what could have been?

....but did get to be a part of another World Series winning team and even won one of those WS games in a relief appearance..

CutterHistorical And he had that failed comeback in 1991.

One of the greats. Yeah. You can pitch only so far, which is why guys like Niekro & Ryan were remarkable.

What the hell are you talking about? “That hit in the top of the 8th to win it” ???? It was 4-1 Milwaukee at that point. That run made it 5-1. You scored 2 runs. You gave up 10. It was never close. No “calls went against you.” LOL. The Brewers had 11 hits, of which two were doubles, one was a triple, and four were home runs. The Orioles were never in this game . Yount made sure of it.

And “it could have been a Baltimore lead”. What mind altering drugs were you on when posting this? It was 4-1 headed to the 8th, then 5-1, then 5-2. You couldn’t get within 3 runs. Not sure how “you could have had a lead.”

They replaced Bob Prince and Warner Wolf, who were far worse.

Cosell is a legend who could call anything. Baseball just wasnt his specialty. Those were boxing and football. He always did his research and was very knowledgeable. Plus i think the nfl was on strike during this time too.

@@sominboy2757 NFL was on strike then and if the NL West had gone to the tie breaker ABC would have done the game Monday Night due to no Monday Night Football. ABC had the rights to the tie breaker games in even number years.

Probably Roone Artledge.

@@paulsonj72 That above that fact that it was set up where, in even years, ABC had the All-Star Game and league finals (LCS), and NBC the World Series, and in odd years, NBC had the All-Star Game and league finals, and ABC the World Series.