1979 World Series | Game 7, Pirates at Orioles (10/17/1979)

[@barrymullen5242]

I wish the Pirates could make it back to the World Series. 1960, 1971, 1979, those were the glory days.

[@whitemamba0089]

They got alot of young talent that has potential could be 3 years or 5 or even more but I see a bright future that will happen relatively soon

[@SOLDIER_Class1_Avi]

I'm hoping McCutchen, Joe, Cruz, Gonzalez, Reynolds, Suwinski, Olivares, Grandal, Bart, Jones, Keller, Skenes, Falter, Perez will bring us there. I know some of them have similar positions. But they're my fav players of the team and I hope they'll get there in Cutch's last year.

[@terrylaunius5141]

Kudos to that PIRATES TEAM FOR MAKING US BELIEVE 🤫🤫🤫

[@teetoo3790]

Dave Parker , Willie Stargell with Howard Cosell calling it. Great game annd memories.

[@snowymountainlove]

i grew up in Baltimore and this was 12 days before my tenth birthday. I was heartbroken, crushed, gutted - basically introduced the whole cocktail that is shock/anger/denial and a shot of depression for a chaser. When Baltimore was up 3 games to 1, T-Shirt makers started running off World Champion Orioles shirts. After the Orioles lost, they put an iron-on on the back that said; "almost" I still have that shirt.

[@maddymud]

broke my heart too - Weaver should have never pulled McGregor.

[@clarakemp5463]

hey hey hey i avenged it i got that ball

[@wvb-woody7552]

Had JUST THE OPPOSITE response, when our Pirates came back to beat the Orioles. I considered that the greatest wedding gift I received, after just getting married.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Never print anything until the damn thing is won, there's your curse right there

[@rickross199]

I had just turned 10 in March😂🎉

[@jamesmiller6217]

at 2:26:34, look to the left side of the screen and you'll see the Pirates catcher beating the shit out of a fan during the celebration.

[@thomasgoshaw6406]

The statute of limitations has been reached.

[@tracymarko1766]

Good eyes my friend!

[@MrVarhansen]

Lmao

[@terrylaunius5141]

What!

[@bobhaze]

I had to go back and see if you were exaggerating...YOU WEREN'T! LOL, he was pounding that guy! Good catch.

[@wvb-woody7552]

What a great series that was!!!! Took me all night to stop jumping for joy, after the Pirates came back to win the series!

[@breakmylegs7294]

I remember watching this game as a kid, I thought for sure Eddie Murray had hit a grand slam in the 8th inning as the ball came off the bat

[@danielcorreard3746]

who could've guessed it would turn out to be the last world series they would ever win. sad to think about how nutting and other cheap ass owners have turned this team in to a laughing stock.

[@domingowarner6397]

I remember seeing the game in a b/w television set in Venezuela, alone, because I was the only one in my family that understood some baseball, beeing recent inmingrants to that country. Since that year baseball is my favorite sport . I returned to Chile 30 years ago but I follow the old ball game every year. Wish MLB begins ASAP and see the 41 year drought end!!!!

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Man the video for this is incredibly clean. Thank you for posting this

[@darrellmfume4020]

yes, it does look GOOD.

[@mesisson]

Great pitching moves, Earl.

[@louguzzo4977]

2 AWESOME uniforms.

[@144wychwood]

I was going for Orioles because Bucs edged out my Expos for NL East pennant. Still, that 79 Pirate’s team was one of all time greats.

[@crowtservo]

2:27:37 I met Grant Jackson and saw that World Series ring. Very cool.

[@domxem5551]

What a beautiful presentation with some of the players…

[@matthewadinolfijr2974]

drove in from nyc for game 7 friend was a pirate fan ran out on field after game and somehow worked my way into the clubhouse and joined in the celebration jimmy carter was there eventually got thrown out would love to find some video peace out

[@AmericasMountain]

So, Chuck Tanner's mother had passed away during the series and yet, Baltimore fans booed not only the Pirates during the introductions but they began with him? Wow, classy. SO happy that the Pirate's won!

[@mattmurphy5805]

Best uniforms in mlb history

[@rherbert57]

As an Expos fan, there was always a place in my heart for "Crazy Horse" Tim Foli. I was happy to see him earn his World Series ring.

[@danielcorreard3746]

watching this is very bitter sweet for me sweet bacause it's nice to watch the pirates win the world series again bitter because i know they will never ever ever ever ever win another one

[@kevinevans5921]

Intro, they said it was 38 degrees, It wasn’t even cold, it was warm. It was cold for the first two games. Some people think they have to make things up for the dramatic. As a matter a fact (even though they lost) Baltimore had a parade for the Orioles, and it was unseasonably warm.

[@bluebirdconundrum]

I am not a fan of either of these teams and yet I still feel this is perhaps the greatest World Series ever played. The gritty funk of the 70s hadn't quite given way to the glossy sheen of the 80s, and indeed the almost garish uniforms worn by these teams would be ditched not long after the 70s ended. Both the Pirates and the Orioles were pillars of baseball at this time too, and they had met in another World Series just eight years earlier that had ended in essentially the same way: a game 7 victory for Pittsburgh in Baltimore. In 1971, Roberto Clemente led the Pirates to victory; in 1979, it was Pops Stargell's turn. Great baseball, great players, great rivals, a unique and memorable era... 1979 had it all.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

This was the last time Pittsburgh won the World Series and they haven't had a fresh World Series Championship ever since

[@SteveAustin-jp3ev]

Just like 1968. The Detroit Tigers came back from a three to one deficit.

[@tlist1970]

Anyone else notice at 2:26:35 the Pirates catcher pounding on some fan on the ground? Be curious what that was about..lol

[@danieltulino5975]

That was my cousin Steve. The guy rushed him and my cousin thought it was an O's fan. My father and uncle were at the game and were only a few feet away. It wasn't until Ken Burns documentary did we ever see the footage. Eventually, the guy who rushed my cousin reached out to him, and they met up for dinner 40 years later!

[@tlist1970]

@@danieltulino5975 That's amazing and very cool!

[@thomasgoshaw6406]

1:12:48 - The bullpen buggy driver looks like Weird Al Yankovic.

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Hell yeah he does!!!

[@KevinPryde]

was 5 in 1979 great times but inflation was bad like it is today

[@maddymud]

just a few more feet on that Eddie Murray 8th inning out. lord, just gimme a few more

[@sir945]

1:21:46, the Stargell Home Run

[@maddymud]

Benny Ayala was a horror show in the outfield. Misplayed some sure outs into doubles

[@Wixom2200]

Orioles choked. They got beat in '71 , choked in '79.

[@marksinger3067]

Great game toooo many commercials turned it off.

[@leoncerne122]

Does anybody have footage of after the game on the field

[@vjlong4581]

It’s sad y’all have to post this. It’s also sad we haven’t even had another World Series appearance since this.

[@KeatingChick]

I hated the hats during that time period. But loved my Bucs!

[@terrylaunius5141]

Bird was not the word that cold nasty Game 7 night

[@ICLight412]

I was born April 18, 1980, 5 months after this and few months after Steelers 4th SB 15 miles NNE of Pittsburgh. Lived in that small coal mining town 28 years, Curtisville and bleeding black and gold 43. Somehow in Queens past 15 (my wife lol). Edit: just wish that nut would invest in keeping a strong core of buccos together and not be a farm team for top market teams…

[@philweiand4564]

I swear Dempsey played an outlaw in a Clint Eastwood movie

[@scottl.1568]

Sweet!

[@razkable]

Last time the pirates were relevant....

[@terrylaunius5141]

Broke my 13yr old 🙉 Heart

[@SuperStewpidasso]

The We are family years.....

[@popsstargell1038]

Let's go Bucs!

[@theshrivelstein7118]

2 thumbs down from salty baltimore fans no doubt

[@terrylaunius5141]

I thought it was the yr of the Bird

[@zephead4835]

If you grew up in Baltimore between 1966 and 1983 every year was the year of the bird as they were in six world series.

[@michaelleroy9281]

If there ever was a year or the Bird it was 1970

[@angelic7007]

The entire Pirates team was on cocaine because they were family and Willie Stargell supplied them all.

[@peteywheatstraws4909]

Yeah the domcerat covid stuff sux.

[@sylvesterquast9906]

Pirates and orioles world series 🤣 Kids today only know them both as bottom feeders 🙀

[@vjlong4581]

I’m a pirates fan but I’m 16 so I’ve never gotten to see them do anything except for 2013-16

[@JorgePerez-nl3jx]

I.saw.it.all