1985 NLCS Game 6 October 16, 1985

Copied from VHS tape to digital. Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS Cardinals at the Dodgers. It was a dramatic series capped my several dramatic home runs. I leave the commercials in intentionally as some have requested it so they can stroll down memory lane

[@ProfessorBMedia]

RIP Vin Scully, Joe Gargiola, Tommy Lasorda, Joaquin Andujar and National League Umpire John McSherry.

[@jonnydanger7181]

And Darryl Porter. who has the ugliest glasses in glasses history. Rip Darryl.

[@danzemacabre8899]

Bob Forsch whitey Herzog Darryl Porter and the first that died of all here, the 1985 Los Angeles Dodgers season

[@thomasl8734]

32.5 years later Jack Clark finally crossed home plate!!!

[@bconni2]

felt like punching him, watching that

[@DrewBlanton1959]

This is a treasure. Thank you for recording it and uploading it. Maybe the best game ever for a Cards fan.... I remember very well watching it live.

[@beakt]

I loved baseball in this era so much. Guys were skinny and quick, instead of hulking monsters, so they looked like us, and we could imagine ourselves out there. Runs were scored with hits and steals and fly balls.

[@gamernorcal]

Perfect Comment!

[@bbigjohnson069]

The Cardinals had that type of team because it suited their ballpark which had astroturf and didn't yield a lot of HRs. Coleman, McGee, could fly and were almost impossible to throw out stealing. O. Smith was fast and T. Herr was too until his knees got messed up. The Astros back then always had that kind of team too.

[@gamernorcal]

@@bbigjohnson069 McGwire and Canseco ruined it

[@bbigjohnson069]

@@gamernorcal 'roids ruined it. "Bash Bros." were like 2 for 39 combined in the '88 WS vs. LA. Canseco's slam in Game 1 and Mc's walkoff in Game 3.

[@spryfolII]

One of my favorite All Time baseball games and moments! Jack Clark was a STRAIGHT COLD KILLER! Why Lasorda decided to pitch to that "blankety blank" was beyond reason. This was one of Vin Scullys signature calls. The way he set it up, and the way it played out was incredible. Joe Garigiola was on point talking about how long Clarks trot was. Everytime I see it, it gets better and better. Jack Clark...A Grown Mans Man! No Doubt!

[@bbigjohnson069]

Listen to it again because you don't have it right 30+ years later. The expletive Lasorda was referring to was the on deck batter, Andy Van Slyke, who was a left handed hitter. Lasorda for sure would have walked Clark if a RHB was on deck. To him he was damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he walks Clark, and if VanSlyke gets a hit and 2 runs score, everyone would have said, " Why did you walk a RHB and have your RHP pitch to a LHB. You're an idiot." That was his dilemma. He didn't trust bringing in Reuss to pitch to Van Slyke or a RH PH if Herzog had one left on his bench.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Spryfol II Jack Clark, who couldn’t catch A Foul Ball.

[@ADEAL918]

bbigjohnson069 Lasorda later explained both the not wanting to set up a righty/lefty match-up (which alone still can be a bit dubious) but also that Niedenfuer had struck Clark out the previous time

[@Mr.NoName1972]

@@bbigjohnson069 If I were Lasorda, I would have ordered Tom Niedenfuer to walk Jack Clark and brought in Jerry Ruess to pitch to Andy Van Slyke. Might have worked out better.

[@bbigjohnson069]

Clark took 3 secs. longer than Kirk Gibson in '88 WS who was on two bad legs.

[@stephenvargo6076]

This is probably my favorite game to watch, as I drift off to sleep. I can just about quote the opening. I’m neither a Cardinals fan, nor a Dodgers fan, but I remember these teams as though it was last week. Thank you for posting.

[@brianbachmeier34]

Stephen Vargo I am actually doing that right now. Vin Scully was so graceful and easy to listen to.

[@Jiltedin2007]

Stephen Vargo And My Favorite Game to watch occurred later in the World Series In Game 7, in a Comedic Sense.

[@jamiethornton6101]

@@Jiltedin2007 Just speaking about broadcasters, I thought AL Michaels and Tim McCarver were just awful. These guys were much better.

[@CornPop471]

Nothing like a meaningful day playoff game

[@danzemacabre8899]

My favorite memory as a Cardinals fan; Pedro slamming his glove to the ground like a little leaguer ad Clark's ball Rockets away above his head

[@KevinPayton-fq8gd]

​@@danzemacabre8899I remember that too. He knew it was a goner from the moment the ball was hit.

[@VisualTedium]

Rip Whitey

[@agt462]

OMG thank you for uploading this game. I`m a lifelong Dodgers fan. This game was the only time I ever cried in baseball. I remember I was in high school and had some important test this day but didn't care. I stayed home and remember I was totally heartbroken and shattered after the Clark blast.

[@rockyracoon3233]

I was down for days.:(

[@turtle19dad]

Junior High PE class the teachers were announcing the score on the speakers. I got home just in time for Jack Clark.

[@nicholasbruno9497]

Games 3, 5 & 6 were day games! Awesome!

[@jamiethornton6101]

I love seeing the commercials. Brand new cars for under 7k. WOW. Just wow.

[@bbigjohnson069]

My parents bought a brand new Chevy C20 Silverado truck 1 ton rated fully loaded. I think it was $12K

[@idansolon4715]

I like it w/ the commercials.

[@DrewBlanton1959]

This is a gem... THANK YOU for posting it!!!

[@joeboo629]

Love all the mullets. Love 80's baseball.

[@crocodile1313]

joeboo629-- We preferred to call those haircuts "bi-levels" in the '80s. Btw, LOVE your screen name! "You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?" (Loved '80s movies too!)

[@bconni2]

@@crocodile1313 . i love 80's baseball, that's why i'm here too. but the quality of todays game is superior.

[@bconni2]

@Kingdom of the Son of God . you live in an alternate reality. god bless your sweet little soul.

[@CustomBPS]

I was at that game. We were chanting to get Nedenfurer off the bag and get a reliever in. When you heard the crack, you knew it was a home run. There were fist fights in the parking lot after this game.

[@rockyracoon3233]

There have been plenty of fist fights inside the stadium the past 15 plus years.lol

[@juliansmith4352]

Once Jack Clark hit that homerun I remember the Dodger outfielder slam his glove down in dismay can't believing De va ju happening again

[@narigon3942]

Excuse me? “That Dodger outfielder”? That’s the great Pedro Guerrero! 😆

[@juliansmith4352]

@@narigon3942 as a diehard st Louis Cardinals fan I loved it when Jack Clark hit that homer plus him toting enjoy the fact he just put in the World Series

[@narigon3942]

Julian Smith not as much as I saw the cardinals and Joaquin Andújar meltdown against the Royals and Brett Saberhagen and Dan Quisenberry.

[@juliansmith4352]

@@narigon3942 From that terrible umpire call in game 6 in which he was clearly out I knew they weren't game 7 John Tudor cut his hand Whitey Herzog was tossed by that same umpire who now was working home plate that whole night made me so mad for 3 weeks I didn't talk to nobody

[@narigon3942]

“The Dodger outfielder” was a great Cardinals player from 1988-1992. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

[@CornPop471]

Vin and Joe could have started making out in the opening they were so close

[@ericwilliamstotts]

Thank you so much for this. Re-watching it in its entirety upon learning of the death of Vin Scully, the GOAT and narrator of my childhood.

[@matthewhansen9423]

Jack the Ripper! I swear he had one of the longest home runs I've ever seen. It was when he was in Boston, at Fenway Park, and it looked like it hit off the Moosehead sign which literally was like a quarter mile away. I saw it one time on SportsCenter plays of the week. I hope someone out there in the world posts on KZbin someday. If anyone has it...post it plz!!!

[@leftykoufax7084]

The commercials remind me of the "nest" of hair I used to have on top of my head. Great series, nice post, thank you.

[@benmelvin5481]

William Sadler in the miller light commercial

[@garycourtier4668]

Although bitterly disappointed with the outcome, man did Dodger Stadium shine on that beautiful early autumn day.

[@ketchum6381]

Truth is lasorda never like Clark going back to his giants days the whole giants Dodgers rivalry. Lasorda got cocky wanted to show up Jack in my opinion wrong move. I heard Clark in an interview a few years back saying he had no love lost for the Dodgers players in the 80's Steve sax Mike Marshall and let's not forget Clark ran over Mike scioscia a few months earlier and put him in the hospital so maybe the Dodgers thought it was payback to disrespect him by not walking him. Clark said it was time for them to bleed Dodger blue lol what a call by vin scully.

[@bconni2]

Clark couldn't beat the Dodgers until he got to St Louis. Dodgers owned the Giants when Clark was in SF

[@ericn1450]

@@bconni2that is true though in 82 the Giants killed the Dodgers pennant hopes on the final day. The Giants issue was not really Clark who was their best player during that era. The Giants were good in 78 and 82 but in general they struggled with starting pitching. They did have some real good relievers though.

[@baylee03]

35 years later Jack Clark just reached home plate...

[@danzemacabre8899]

We used to joke "what happened first? The ball landing or Clark crossing the plate. It was nice of him to take some time to wish the Dodgers an early merry christmas as he shuffled by

[@richarddarlington1139]

The Dodgers were down by only two runs in the ninth and they just...gave up? What the hell, man? The game ain't over until the last out! That's what baseball is all about.

[@ketchum6381]

That Jack Clark blast took the life out of them that's for sure. You are right they seemed to have no fight in them after that.

[@Mr.NoName1972]

@@ketchum6381 Same thing happened with the Angels the following Post Season. After Donnie Moore gave up that home run to Dave Henderson and lost the game in extra innings, it deflated the Angels. The Halos looked flat those last two games in Boston.

[@johnnygonzales564]

❤❤ Cards fan that always enjoyed Vinny, just talks doesn’t try to be the perfect speaker OLD SCHOOL

[@davidlopez-rl4sh]

Great memories when baseball made you feel good

[@christopherduncan4033]

Oh so cool! Especially that the Redbirds are on a collision course with the Dodgers after making a historical run of 17 in a row to get the 2nd Wildcard. Yes!!

[@YesYou-zy7kp]

So let me get this straight...Lasorda puts in the same pitcher who gave up the walk-off to Ozzie in game 5?

[@DerrickMims]

So Ol' Boy gave up two game-winning HRs in a row? (Ozzie Smith game 5) Ugh.

[@turtle19dad]

Vin Scully true Master of the English language, and he and Joe were the masters of wit. "Almost a collision with John McSherry. If that would've happened, it would've been a 7 on the Richter scale." Too funny.

[@dwaynehabner9566]

Great commercials

[@williamdunphy352]

Umpires (Game 6) HP Jerry Crawford 1B Dick Stello (CC) 2B Bruce Froemming 3B John McSherry LF Terry Tata RF Paul Runge

[@cheesyvideo]

That's standard for LCS and World Series games

[@williamdunphy352]

cheesyvideo Thank you.

[@jamestepera3356]

Yeah I noticed McSherry at 3rd. Looked like he checked in at about 360 lbs.

[@sidDkid87]

*”that blankety-blank, van Slyke!!”* … *PRICELESS!!!*

[@aegisofhonor]

it's amazing how skinny everyone is, these days you see everyone bulked up like crazy.

[@herbwhite7384]

Great observation. what happened to us?

[@erichaynes7502]

@@herbwhite7384 I know, I couldn't stand the morbidly obese U.S. anymore so I moved to Thailand. I think it was those candy bags with fat free labels on them starting early 90's was a big cause

[@DanStrayer]

Vice episode “Out Where the Buses Don’t Run” might be a rather big contributing factor as to why this game was on so early on a weekday. Series & episode were classics. To say nothing of this game itself, to be sure 😉

[@CeeGee0711]

It's kinda awkward how Vin and Joe are about two inches apart at the beginning of the telecast.

[@turtle19dad]

Didn't get to watch this game as I was in class. (PE teacher kept giving us updates). Got home just in time to be pissed!!!! Tom bleeping Niedenfeuer!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬 Now I actually get to watch it. Both pitchers with hits, and a great game defensively by Duncan and an RBI. My sister was happy.... she had a crush on Duncan. And the time when the Bulldog wad a puppy.

[@BrianONEILL-qf2cs]

6:55 'Here are the Cardinals who will play-and their sensibilities and sensitivities have been protected by their manager...' This was about as close as Vin Scully ever got to a 'sick burn'.

[@ericn1450]

Great game though I was rooting for the Dodgers as it was happening. Wild they end it with a song from the Broadway show Pippin. Was Scully a closet Ben Vereen fan.

[@sir945]

Watch at 3:44:31 enjoy the look back at little more.

[@exchequerguy4037]

Lasorda right after the game brought up Niedenfuer to the cameras and praised him for all he had done for the Dodgers that year. A manager who knew how to handle people.

[@jamiethornton6101]

I wonder if Lasorda was thinking all these decades later that I should've walked him and pitched to that #$%&@# @!#$%@

[@bconni2]

perhaps. but he redeemed himself in 1988. managing a masterclass in the post season

[@charleswilliamsjr7234]

I was at St Francis hospital in 1985 in Monroe Louisiana getting ready to be born!

[@MGAF688]

The fact you remember this game will still not out of the womb is very impressive. I don't remember much before my third or fourth birthday.

[@nostalgiajim]

You were in the dugout...so to speak....or on deck....whichever...

[@charleswilliamsjr668]

Actually I was 18 hours old and yes I was still a baby also aired on KTVE Region 10 in Monroe Louisiana!

[@kurtzimmerman1637]

tommy herr was safe. signed, don dekinger.

[@CardCollector-jb8gt]

They topped short! Rip Frank Costanza!

[@glennlaird2899]

Perhaps you are not familial with MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. The LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES is a best of seven series. tickets for all seven games are sold before the LCS begins. In my case, returned tickets were sold before games 6 and 7.

[@cheesyvideo]

I am quite familiar with MLB. Not sure why you are bringing up ticket sales as tickets have nothing to do with the broadcast or playing of this game. This was game 6 of a potential 7 game series. The Cardinals won games 3 through 6, making game 7 unnecessary. The Cardinals then went on to the World Series were they lost in 7 games to the Kansas City Royals

[@kevinpayton2664]

Why Tommy Lasorda didn't call for the intentional walk on Jack Clark I don't know.

[@RA-fm8wr]

The Dodger pull pen was unreliable. He didn't trust them at all. Walk Clark and you have to bring in Ruess who was shelled the last time he threw

[@DanStrayer]

1:07:45 I say it’s a balk, but happy for an umpire to clarify for me. My reasoning is that lack of a step off by Hershiser’s back foot. Happy for clarification.

[@joedebaun4547]

Vin, stop with your blankety blank.

[@Jiltedin2007]

I know(In My Heart) that given The Circumstances of the 1985 World Series, the Dodgers would’ve been more civil had they have been there.

[@glennlaird2899]

I had tickets for game 7. LOL

[@josecarranza7555]

There was no game 7.

[@glennlaird2899]

@@josecarranza7555 Exactly my point.

[@josecarranza7555]

@@glennlaird2899 How can you have tickets to game 7 of the game did not exists?

[@danzemacabre8899]

I know the feeling I had reservations or my best friend did for world series tickets 2012 for the Cardinals, your Lil friends in No Cal ruined that for me along with Redbirds collapsing. That hurt a little but 2011 seems to take the sting away still to this day

[@Mr.NoName1972]

This Dodger team did not deserve to win the pennant after Niedenfuer chose to pitch to Jack Clark and then gave up after that home run. Cardinals gave it their all, but came up short in the World Series. However, I thought the Dodgers were going to go to the World Series, until Jack Clark hit that homerun.

[@charleswilliamsjr2095]

What was the name of the music?

[@williamdunphy352]

Vin Scully & Joe Garagiola on NBC.

[@stephenvargo6076]

William T Dunphy amen to that

[@williamdunphy352]

Stephen Vargo Thank you.

[@ADEAL918]

William Dunphy they had some power crews on NBC back then. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek were damn solid themselves. And of course that was also in the era of the ABC crew of Michaels, McCarver, and Palmer--another all time classic. Interesting thing too though--when NBC lost baseball after '89 and it went to CBS for a few seasons, Scully went to the national radio broadcasts for the post-season and would call the games with John Rooney and Johnny Bench. Did you ever hear any of those broadcasts? I never did but that must of been and interesting crew too.

[@J_Ru31352]

@@ADEAL918 Yeah I listen ed to the '91 World Series featuring the Braves and Twins on CBS Radio some of the time.

[@kevinpayton2664]

I loved listening to Vin and Joe.

[@jackdavis8596]

I never understood LA in 9th, should have walked Clark

[@romelovesdan]

Dodger arrogance..............Nearly everyone, including us in the stands, anticipated the free pass!

[@imaginethat765]

Clark had 22 homers that year, in only 126 games, to Van Slyke's 13 homers and he was also struggling in the series. Truly made no sense. And with a base open, the first pitch to Clark is a perfect hitter's fastball.

[@thefrase7884]

3:31:20......why we came here !!!

[@JoseGarcia-et2ep]

It happened to the Dodgers again in 2019, this time in the division series

[@michael.prescott4016]

that is long one in dodger stadium

[@turtle19dad]

Anyone else thinking McGee on first Niedenfeuer pitching and the meeting..... equals hidden ball trick?

[@bconni2]

1985 was almost heart break city in Los Angeles. Dodgers lose NLCS. Rams lose NFC title game. Raiders lose in divisional playoff game. but Lakers finish strong and win title.

[@jamestepera3356]

The rams had NO chance v the 85 Bears. Their happiest moment that day was when the clock hit 0:00 and they got to get out of Chicago with their bodies' still in one piece.....

[@joeyyarbrough336]

Why tommy?why didnt you just put him on 1st base. I believe the dodgers win that game.

[@michael.prescott4016]

walk him tommy

[@JabbaTheAmerican]

Jack The Ripper!

[@davidb5728]

it was so funny, how vin scully could perfectly read lasorda's lips for years and years..

[@ee9098]

Greg brock was worthless. I was 8 yrs old watching this guy strike out nonstop in the 80's🤔

[@winkydog184]

Mike Marshall was a stiff also especially when he replaced Keith Hernandez with the Mets!

[@travismcdonald6576]

The Dodgers thought he was the guy who could replace Steve Garvey, who was still an All Star playing for the Padres. What a joke.

[@rockyracoon3233]

@@travismcdonald6576 . Brock was definitely a bust.

[@bconni2]

Dodgers transitioned pretty good after losing their legendary infield. went to the NLCS in 1983 & 85 with the new guys.

[@ericcollins81]

They was running outta time they didnt show the nlcs championship trophy presentation lol

[@ThymeKeeper]

Funny how the home fans never yell "balk!" when THEIR pitcher fakes to third and wheels to first :D.

[@Mr.NoName1972]

3:38:35 Enos Cabell, Wtf was that?

[@MrBagui-ll6jx]

I think the Dodgers are badly stupid, should let Jack Clark walk make 4 balls with 2 outs! Can't believe just same happened to 2019 NL Division series in Washington Nationals vs. Dodgers way!

[@bconni2]

Dodgers won the WS last year. feel better now.?

[@MrBagui-ll6jx]

@@bconni2 lol that was last time won 1988 until to finally last year was short 60 games helped the Dodgers won. That's it . That's what Dave Roberts said THIS IS YEAR! so what? Short season ! Not 162 games? Lol.

[@bconni2]

@@MrBagui-ll6jx you're an idiot.

[@MrBagui-ll6jx]

@@bconni2 lol. I don't think so. Lol. Oh buddy!

[@beakt]

1:50:05 I don't understand what Bob Costas is saying here. Maybe there was something going on that would have made this make sense, some sort of inside joke, that I don't remember all these years later. Red Ruffing was the Mets pitching coach in 1962, and he was never a utility infielder nor did he play for the Toledo Mudhens, so it wasn't a Red Ruffing tribute (he was 80 years old when this aired, and died a few months later).

[@Maestrohbill]

Costas was pretending to be a baseball player. It was the same month Howard Cosell’s book was smashing former athletes who became announcers. The 62 Mets were the standard for futility so he was pretending to be an athlete and not a very good one at that.

[@josecarranza7555]

Seriously, you didn't sense his sarcasm?

[@beakt]

@@Maestrohbill Thanks for explaining!

[@beakt]

@@josecarranza7555 It's not a matter of sensing sarcasm. I didn't get the references.

[@Jiltedin2007]

I would have taken my chances with a weak hitting Andy Van Slyke with the bases loaded, instead of pitching to Jack Clark!

[@thomasl8734]

The real '85 WS champs.....they also should have gotten rings. George Brett still, to this day, never won a WS as a player.

[@ericcollins81]

Thomas Linski nope nope nope i will agree gm 6 was lost on the dekinger call but gm 7 stl got blown out

[@gregsomebody7247]

Wrong. Take the L like a man

[@jeffwright1722]

@@gregsomebody7247 Yep Cards had chance in game 7.....laid an egg

[@rjallman8705]

Nah , they had other chances . Better defense in the ninth would have got them out of that inning

[@thefrase7884]

Sorry guys a legitimate blown call....game 7 shouldn’t even come up on this discussion. Royals got this WS handed to them

[@MrDuds1984]

Again the dumbest decision in MLB history, you walk Clark as his run means nothing and you set up for a force anywhere to close out the game. Lasorda should have been fired after this game

[@rjallman8705]

Shildt would pitch to Clark also

[@cards1985]

I'd rather hear Jack Buck.

[@elserenocardinalify]

#farmerjohn

[@thomasl8734]

3:31:20......the blast !!!!!!

[@ihtnep]

2:12:16 Is that Jim Carrey?

[@MrYankeeSteel]

I don’t think so. I looked at it a few times I don’t see any resemblance other than the voice.

[@sonnyvalerio2631]

Numca me gust ese Mng..ton.lasorda ..era bn malooo..esa Mondonga...😓👉⚾️

[@jasonmenzies2165]

Why is on an MLB list as one of the 'greatest games?' Nothing happened in this game! Why then is it one of the 'greatest?'

[@ljunior75]

Love it. Take your time Jack. F the Dodgers.

[@gregsomebody7247]

Jack the Ripper!