Who’s here after Morgan Wallen’s song 98’ Braves?

Back when ESPN was good

This series is the 90's Braves in a nutshell. Good but too many mistakes in key moments.

RIP Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti, Odalis Perez, Stuart Scott. 😔

Morgan brought me here

For what it's worth, SD won 98 games that year. This isn't like when the Indians had only 86 wins the previous year when they made the World Series. They took their foot off the gas after clinching the NL West on September 12 (went 4-9 the rest of the reg. season). They could have been a 100-win team ala HOU/ATL. The 1998 San Diego Padres are a criminally underrated pennant winner.

It’s crazy that this is a song now

“you win some you lose some, it aint always home runs”

This remained the last playoff series win for the Padres until 2020.

Morgan Wallen's 98 Braves song brought me here.

Braves came so close to joining an exclusive club of a team that won 100+ games in a season and to also get swept in a postseason series, but they avoided getting swept. But the Braves in 1999 will join that exclusive club, as they will win 100+ games in 1999 and then got swept in the 1999 WOrld Series

I was 5 years old at Game 3 and always remember that collision at home plate and had been looking for it, so amazing to finally see it. Thank you so much for posting this.

That was not only Maddux first career save, but it was also his only career save I believe.

90s Braves underachieved

I really love that Kevin Brown batted in the 9th inning, got on base, and scored the cushion run. (I do not use the term Insurance Run for religious purposes)

But as fate would have it that Atlanta magic got it out by them damn padres

The first thing that sticks out is how juiced these guys were compare to todays athletes of 2022.

I remember watching them live at the Q for this 1998 NL title. The Q was alive sounded like thunder when you went to use the bathroom & heard the crowd. It was electrifying!

I moved to San Diego California in 1992. Never really was a big baseball fan. I played Little League baseball and as a kid I was a Cincinnati Reds fan… Don't know why. I was a kid. It wasn't till 1996 that I started getting hooked on baseball. Prior to that the Padres were terrible. You could go to a game and there will be only 5000 people in the stadium. But it wasn't until they beat the Dodgers and went to the playoffs that I got hooked. Baseball is my favorite sport now. In 1998. I was at the game four against Atlanta.

Ruben Rivera = the player the Padres did not want to give up in the July trading deadline in 1998 to get Randy Johnson from the Mariners

RIP Stuart Scott

It would've been nice if the Braves won the NL pennet just to validate that season

Still remember watching this in spare bedroom as a kid

I really thought Atl was gonna make the 3-0 comeback, specially after dramatic wins in games 4 and 5 in SD and heading back home for 6 and possible 7, with Glavine going in 6 and Maddux in 7, and Kevin Brown being overused. BUT, the curse of Turner Field. Atlanta, really???? No runs in game 6? All that noise in games 4 and 5, just to look pathetic in game 6? Really? Getting shut out TWICE in this series? ANd both at home???!!!

This is the only playoff series in Padres franchise history to go longer than 5 games.

8:07 DRAMA!!!!!!! And on the very first pitch, like "heres the baseball, Leyritz. Check it out for yourself"

This series and the 96 World Series are probably the chokes that Bobby Cox's Braves are remembered for most. Hard to think the Braves weren't the more talented roster coming into the series and would have given the Yankees a much tougher series

They got close but close doesn’t cut it. Had a good run but ended up with nothing.

Hoffman had the nastiest change up ive ever seen on a right handed pitcher, even more than Pedro

Putting in Brown for relief work was really stupid. They treated game 5 like it was game 7 and were very lucky it didn't backfire in the final series result.

I remember pumping my fist after the final out.....YES!!!!

Jerry Coleman 🔥

So the Padres in this 1998 postseason have now eliminated the 100+ wins Astros in the Division Series, and have eliminated the 100+ wins Braves in the NLCS. And now they face the 114 wins Yankees in the World Series. Lets see if Padres can make it three in a row.

Dennis Martinez (Atlanta) and Rafael Belliard (Atlanta) have both retired.

Listened to this game in the Middle East on the USS Kitty Hawk. Friar fateful for life.

I really loved The Murph. They tore it down a month ago, but watching it full for a Padres game is inspiring and soul stirring. We never needed all these new stadiums. The buckling of municipalities to sociopath demands is disgraceful. The last really good World Series may have been 2003, because 64,000 Floridians showed up when the Marlins made their run to their 2nd Championship. There have been other good matches, but nothing beats an overflowingly packed house making great noise.

This would end up being the last great moment in the history of San Diego pro sports.

The Braves were better but just had too many errors and the bench wasn’t that good. The 1995 Braves were the complete package.

CG SO Game 2 Brown baby!!

It is so weird to be hearing names like Wally Joyner, Walt Weiss, Andres Galarraga, and Kevin Brown involved in this series. Respectively, that is an Angel, Athletic, Expo and Marlin, all involved in this series, a real good one spoiled by the Spankees and their roster of treasonous sorts.

"I said it before these playoff started. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best." More prophetic words never spoken by Tony Gwynn. Coming off the upset win over the Astros, Gwynn and the Padres now have to deal with the 106-win Braves and the dominiant pitching on their part. The Braves are looking for their fifth pennant of the decade whie the Friars aim for their first since 1984. And for the Padres, more incentive to do so. There's a ballot measure in November--Measure C--where if the voters pass it, the funding will be granted for construction of a brand new ballpark in downtown San Diego. The Padres aim to vote YES on Proposition 1--as in win Game 1 at Turner Field in Atlanta. The Padres led, 2-1, going into the 9th. But Trevor Hoffman failed to hold the lead. So it was tied at 2 in the 10th. With two outs, former NL MVP Ken Caminiti took Kerry Ligtenberg deep for a 3-2 Padres' lead, which would be preserved by Donne Wall in the bottom half. Having stolen one on the road, Kevin Brown took matters into his own hands, arms, and bat. His 5th inning single off Tom Glavine scored the Padres' first run, and the only run Brown would need, as the Braves' offense suffered a BROWN-out by Kevin, allowing only three hits and striking out 11 in a 3-0 CG shutout. San Diego was now heading home up 2 games to none. The scene shifted to Qualcomm Stadium for Game 3, where Greg Maddux took the hill for the Braves' opposite Sterling Hitchcock. Atlanta took a 1-0 lead, but LF John Vanderwall--in the lineup in place of the injured Greg Vaughn--threw a perfect strike to the plate to nail Walt Weiss in the third. Catcher Jim Leyritz was on a collision course with Weiss but held onto the ball. Buoyed by the defensive gem, the Padres scratched home four runs to win, 4-1, and shockingly take a three games to none lead on the favored Braves. It looks like the Padres' may get the new ballpark after all, especially since they only need one more win to knock off the 2nd 100-win team in as many rounds. Eyeing a sweep in Game 4, the fans got giddy. Jim Leyritz--again--went yard in the 6th to put the Padres ahead 3-2. Nine more outs, and the pennant is theirs. But the Braves' bats woke up. Javy Lopez tied the game with a home run in the 7th, then after the Braves scored a run to take the lead, the Big Cat belted a grand salami to win. 8-3. Then, in Game 5, the Padres led 4-2 going into the 8th. Bochy went for the kill, and brought in Kevin Brown in relief to seal the deal. But with one out, the Braves had two on for the #8 hitter, Michael Tucker. Tucker turned off the decibel levels 110% with a stunning three-run blast. Atlanta add two more runs, and held on to win the game, 7-6, with Maddux recording his first career save. The Braves also became the first team in playoff history to trail a series 3 games to none and force a Game 6. Now, the Padres' fans had to be nervous. The series was going back to Atlanta, and the Braves had Glavine on the mound while Hitchcock started for the Padres. But Hitchcock had the Braves' hitters going psycho with five shutout innings. Glavine matched him until the 6th, when the Friars scored five times. The key play came when two runs scored on a dropped fly ball. Three Padres' relievers picked up where Hitchcock--the NLCS MVP--left off and preserved the 5-0 win. With that, the Padres were in the World Series for the first time in 14 years. OH, DOCTOR!! After all, San Diego became just the second team ever to beat two 100-win clubs in the same postseason (the 1988 Dodgers being the other). "Not many people gave us a chance against Houston. Not many people gave us a chance against Atlanta. But here we are," says Gwynn during the pennant celebration. A major accomplishment, but if they are to win their first World Series title ever, they'll have to beat another 100-win team, and it'll be the ultimate one of all--the Yankees.

Chipper Jones didnt show up in this series

Too bad Andrés Galarraga didn't hit well in the series 2-21

The dodgers are just the 90s Braves

Yo the braves beat themselves

Awful call at 0:18

I still cant believe Hitchkok won the NLCS MVP in this series. He barely pitched any innings in both games he started. I would have given it to Hoffman

go brvaves they’ve ere the best team ever

I forgot how much I hated the Padres

Love watching the braves lose 😅

one of the most joyous sequence of games in my life. until we got robbed in game 1 of the World Series by the worst non strike call in the history of baseball, turning the whole momentum of that series. at any rate.. GO PADRES.