I was there opening day in "78 with my Dad...God rest his soul. A sea of orange!! Thank you for all the memories Reg!! This should be required viewing for "23 Yanks.

I watched so many of those games during that magical 77-78 period. Big part of my life.

Heaven is going to be I'm 17 and Yankees are playing the Red Sox. The Scooter, Bill White and Frank Messer are broadcasting and the game goes on forever.

As a kid couldn’t wait to go to bed put the radio on and listen to these great announcers and players. A magical time.

R.I.P. the Scooter Phil Rizzuto

Red Sox fan here. This season ruined our childhood. We refer to Bucky as Bucky "F***ING Dent! We all hated the Yankees, but deep down, we respected them. They were talented and tough. 1978 was an incredible season!!

My HS years No matter how many WS the Yanks won or will in my life 77/78 will always be my teams Also Phil , Bill & Frank my guys in the booth

Rest In Peace to Thurman Munson

I have been saying for years and I will keep on saying it: This 1978 Yankees team is the greatest Yankees team ever. The 1927, 1939. 1949, 1953, 1961 and 1998 Yankees all great in their own right. But this team I would proudly and respectfully stack up against any other Yankees team, and any other MLB team. I was 14 when the 1978 Yankees accomplished this and the only thing I can say to younger fans: If only you had been here to experience it!

That one game in Boston was one of baseball's best baseball games ever the pressure was unbelievable. Great games do not have to be 12-10

This was the year I got into baseball as a seven-year old kid. I remember early in the season how the Yankees were losing a lot, and my family got a kick out of me complaining that they sucked. Then when they started coming back and gaining on the Red Sox I got totally obsessed. When Bucky Dent hit that home run at Fenway we had the game on in the car as we drove to my grandparents' house for dinner on Rosh Hashanah. We went to game 5 of the World Series, which the Yankees won something like 12-2. I remember people running around screaming after the game ended.

The 1st full season I followed as a kid. Good times at 8.

Lasorda stalling at the mound letting his reliever get his throws in: “What do you think I should do?”

I remember watching this when it originally aired on WPIX-TV in New York.

The greatest under pressure team ever..Reggie thrived on that shit and Guidry was unhittable. Nettles Thurm,Chambliss,Randolph,Rivers,Pinella all solid pros and Billy and George,Jeez..Legends!!

Billy was a classic. The bottle ended up killing him.

What a magic year for New York Fans!!!!

I remember when the Yankees were 13 games behind Boston in mid-July and I was sure the season was over. I never even imagined the Yanks could come back and win it all. But they did! As soon as Billy Martin was fired, the Yanks started winning and they didn’t stop until they had won it all! Greatest comeback I ever saw.

The Yankees at there finest, that was the ultimate team..

What a year that was!!!!

Man I remember that season well.

RIP George Shame your son Hal recently said he DOES Not want to be like you.. Shameful George U belong in the Hall Baseball history Cannoy be spoken about without mentioning you.Sincerly , a NY Yankee fan since 1973

I wasn’t born yet. Back before the days of smartphones and social media. Also analog photography and technology.

This comeback will never touch 2004 and the Sox comeback from 3-0 in the ALCS. Greatest comeback / CHOKE in the history of sports.

The day Bucky Dent got his middle name.

I was 19 and all was right with the world

I was home from my new prep school that Thursday night after the year began (7th grade), and tuned into the Yankee game when they won 15-3, then watched Friday night as they won 13-2....then closed out the series.

Roy White never got enough credit

My favorite month, Sept. 1978 of that season.

I don't know what's better, the video or your shirt!

It was the greatest comeback at That time......but then came 2004, and a rewriting of history.

Hey Sox fans stop saying that the greatest comeback was 2004. that was the playoffs not the regular season. 1978 Yankees greatest comeback ever! deal with it.

that 1st base umpire was on fire with that call

What people tend to forget is that while the Red Sox did have a 14-game lead on the Yankees on July 19, they did not lead the AL East by 14 games. The Yankees had slid to third place by that time and the Red Sox led the Milwaukee Brewers by nine games. Someone else mentioned that Boston had to rally in the final week of the season just to get into that playoff with New York, and that's exactly right. They trailed the Yankees by 3-and-a half games heading into the final week and ran off eight straight wins to pull even with the Yankees on the final day of the season and force the playoff. What I did find surprising, however, was that even when the Red Sox went on their mid-season rampage and appeared to be running away from the rest of the AL East, they were a very mediocre road team for much of that season, and were never more than four games over .500 on the road at any point that year. They would finish just 40-41 that season away from Fenway.

A magical time

Feels odd that... ...while I was watching this LIVE, the "Bucky F*n Dent" at-bat would become one of those legendary moments in sports, just like the ones I wasn't alive for, (or too young to remember) that I've seen a few hundred times, Still remember being razzed, relentlessly, by kids in my neighborhood that summer. I was a HUGE fan. At the 14 and a half games out mark, I thought I would NEVER hear the end of it. But, on THAT day... "Bucky F*n Dent". Oh yeah. Vindication.

The 3 teams the Yankees terrorized throughout the 70's: Red Sox, Royals, and Dodgers.

i was at the last game of the seaon at yankee stadium a loss to the cleveland indian 9-2 to force a coin toss one game do or die against the hated red sox the next day..i was 13 yrs old and learning to be a yankee..never stopped since..fuckin bucky dent is the man.

Guidry deserved MVP that year he dominated baseball including MVP Jim rice

Gossage really had a hard time of it early in the season. But eventually he figured it out.

Too bad they didn't mention the real catalyst for the comeback (Lemon said it did more for the team than picking up a 20-game winner would have): the newspaper strike in August, which effectively shut down the Bronx Zoo, as the clubhouse and road trips were cleansed of the NYC sportswriters (each a viler POS than the last) who did everything in their power to make the players hate each other.

When baseball was great. Not any more.

Never understood how Billy Martin got fired but only for a little while and I’ll hire you back on this date. If I was Bob lemon I’d tell George to pound sand.

Got to love that fake crowd noise. Same as This Week in Baseball I think

0:17 Oct 2nd 1978...What a game! Both teams would have made in the playoffs today. Here's the standings before the game. 4 teams in the AL EAST had 90 wins or more. Boston went 13-2 .867 the last 15 games of the season and won 8 straight. Since Aug. 4th, the Yankees went 40-14 .741 pct.in their last 54 and won their last 6 of 7. Since July 13th, the Yankees went 52-21 .712. On JULY 19TH Boston was 62-28, the Yankees were 48-42, 14 games back. W L GB PCT NEW YORK 99 63 ---- .611 BOSTON 99 63 ---- .611 MILWAUKEE 93 69 6 .574 BALTIMORE 90 71 9 .559 DETROIT 86 76 13.5 . 531 CLEVELAND 69 90 29 .434 TORONTO 59 102 40 .366

What is amazing is that game 3 against the Dodgers is that for the constant trouble Guidry was that he pitched a complete game.

I was in Kansas City when Reggie and Blair collided-had Reggie not screwed up the Yankees would have won and as a result there would not have been a playoff game and Bucky Dent would not be the Hero/Scourge he is today!

Good show. Thanks for showing the World Series. Back then we had the Dodgers number.

I ate some Reggie bars they were good but big, like the man himself. Was playing stickball on East 82nd Street in a garage with tennis balls using the walls for bases while this game played on the radio.

45 years and 3 World Series titles later, and he's still Bucky FUCKING Dent LOL.

The greatest comeback ever was the 2004 ALCS. Boston was down 3-0 against the mighty Yankees. Then they won 4 in a row including the last 2 at Yankee stadium. As a Yankees fan I was devastated. Even Mariano Rivera could not win a game.

That team had half a season to overcome the Red Sox lead. The '64 Cardinals comeback,just to name one,is far better.

I miss the BOSS!.his kids dont understand baseball

I often wondered if the guy who jumped over the wall @ 2:50, got to keep Reggie's home run ball, got 86d from the stadium or broke his legs and was escorted out of the stadium with no ball.

I think only Jackson, Gossage and Hunter are in the hall from this team. That's sick. Nettles was one of the most consistent players of the decade and had numbers very comparable to Brooks Robinson.

We can all go on with what would have happened, as with the sentiment below that Boston, when healthy, would have been superior in a seven-game series. That's conjecture and cannot be asserted as fact. The Yankees won, following Boston coughing up, (clear throat for effect) a 14 and 1/2 game lead in July. Ah yes, and, as we speak the tally is New York 27 and Boston 9. Not in your grandchildren's grandchildren's lifetime will that lead be overcome. Next. Y-A-N-K-E-E-S "We love the Yankees..."

Reggie Jackson, game 6, 1977 saw 7 pitches. At bat1: Ball, ball, ball, ball (He walked) At bat2: First pitch: Home Run At bat3: First pitch: Home Run At bat3: First pitch: Home Run And then... First pitch, opening day, 1978: Home Run

This was an RCA Selectavision Video Disc. I know, my family owned it!

At 14:59 a great play by Guidry and an emphatic OUT call by the umpire.

And although I'm not expecting the Great Scooter to admit it, the most important thing in that run was the NYC Newspaper strike, when all the sleazeballs that manipulated and disrupted the clubhouse were gone and the team could operate without any of those weasels around. THAT was the reason they started winning in August of 78'. You can draw a direct Iine of demarcation from August 10 when the strike began to the rest of that baseball season. Period.

The greatest comeback ever and the one game playoff in Boston bucky dent hitting that homer no one seen that coming and and they sweep Boston in the last series of the season in Boston to force the one game playoff

15:03 ump feeling the greatest comeback vibe

Hoping to see these two teams in the 2018 WS. 40th Anniversary of the 1978 WS. That would be VERY awesome!

Bucky Dent had 22 career HR in 2,600 AB going into this game and choked a third of the way up on the bat like a Little Leaguer.

This is the exact same script as "It don't come easy" narrated by Bill White.

Was it the Yankees comeback, or the Red Sox collapse? Dave Kingman played a big part in the month of September for the Yanks, but didn't have enough games to make the playoffs. Bucky Dent's 3 run Homer was a miracle.

What did Billy Martin say?

The '78 New York Newspaper Strike helped the Yankees.....A LOT!

Do you have a better thumbnail image for this video? As much as I like Rizzuto, his head looking at us like that doesn't do the video justice.

It WAS...until 2004!

You do not under any circumstance ask Reggie to bunt.

Bucky "Effin" Dent!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bottom of the 7th? Come on how could you screw that up..

The Reggie bars had to be very delicious.

What was the off the cuff comment Martin made ?

Thumbnail looks like Ben Stiller as Maury Finkel

Billy was wearing shades because he was crying the whole time.

Yankee Stadium killed the Dodgers 4 power hitters. Especially with ☠️ Valley in left center...

Bob lemon never argued and it worked, think about it. The exact opposite of billy Martin!

The other version with Bill White as the narrator was much better. They played the Beatles and even had the Star Wars disco theme! Lol it was called It Don’t Come Easy. The narration is almost exactly the same only Bill White speaks instead of Phil Rizzuto.

So what exactly did Billy say that led to his departure in 1978? Of Reggie and George he said: "one's a born liar and the other's convicted."

2:50 so do you think that kid just broke both ankles or did he crack his tibias too

wait, this isn't about the 2004 ALCS. Clickbait

I don't think this was the greatest comeback in baseball. The 1914 Boston Braves were 15 back and in last place on July 4th and eventually got very hot, beating the NY Giants by 10.5 games. They then swept the 3 time world champion Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. The 1977 Yankees were World Champions, so it was evident that the 1978 Yankees did have a lot of talent. The 1913 Braves finished 5th with a losing record in the National League. The Braves comeback was much more unexpected and stunning than the Yankees. Then there was the 1951 Giants' comeback, though of course they got swept by the Yankees in the World Series.

2004 was “The Greatest Comeback Ever” with the Boston Red Sox coming back from 0-3 to win the 2004 American League Pennant. A feat that will forever be Unmatched!

bar none

I liked Billy Martin as manager. But, he didn't deserve to have his uniform number (1) retired. He and Steinbrenner had a love-hate relationship. Steinbrenner's decision to retire Martin's uniform number after Martin's tragic death was purely an emotional decision.

What actually happened.. NY had injuries pre ASB BOS had injuries post ASB. Two great teams. Boston > NY in a 7 game series..when both healthy.

The greatest comeback ever happened in 2004 when the Yankees choked away a 3-0 lead and lost the series 4-3. The only team in baseball history to blow a 3-0 lead.

No…69 Mets

Is that Epstein in the fingernail?

You mean 2004 gtfoh with 1978

Bronx zoo

This was the second biggest comeback ever. The biggest was the 2004 ALCS disgrace!

Gossage is so overrated. Choked so many times in big games.

Reggie Jackson is so full of shit it's not even funny.

Doesn't come close to the 04 Red Sox!! ..GO SOX!!!

George should have stayed banned.

No! The greatest comeback of all time was 2004 when the Red Sox were down three games and nothing and they came back and beat the Yankees and then also won the World Series.

This was terribly produced given the historical significance of this season. And I am sorry, I like the Yankees but Phil Rizzuto’s voice is annoying.