1988 MLB: Reds at Braves 7/28/1988

[@mikesuggs1642]

Smoltz, Gant, Lonnie Smith, this team had the beginnings of those Great 90's Braves Dynasty!

[@JDR71]

Great blast from the past!! A couple of observations: 3B umpire Tom Hallion was in the famous video with Mets manager Terry Collins and the Braves' Ron Gant is now a Fox5 Atlanta anchor.

[@justinroark88]

I don't know Billy Sample, but his voice is smooth. He has good rapport with Skip.

[@jamesrfb]

Future Hall of Famer. 1:30:52

[@JP-wx6uh]

Man, one great thing about those 1980's cellar dweller Braves teams was that their games on TV were excellent sleep fodder - especially on hot humid summer nights.

[@hinglemccringleberry8100]

Here’s a cool fun fact: the next day Tom Cruise in Cocktail is out in theaters. Cool to mix these together. The first Summerslam in about a month from this game!

[@chrisstarr4523]

Couple of fun facts- nice!

[@jasonamil8820]

Smoltz's 2nd MLB start. I was at his first -- July 23rd at Shea Stadium. Even as a Mets fan, I kept track of him the rest of the year and copied out all his line scores from the paper -- this Reds team was a tough test for him and he didn't come into his own until 1989... still, the next best thing to being able to see his debut again.

[@chrisstarr4523]

He started the first MLB game I attended in August of 1990- big fan ever since.

[@cityhawk]

Didn’t John Smoltz come from the Tigers in exchange for Doyle Alexander?

[@michaelmeatheringham312]

@@cityhawk yes.... or more precisely fleeced from the Tigers for Doyle Alexander.

[@philipglassrules]

The world was a better place when the Braves were cellar dwellers.

[@wpreston86]

R.I.P. Bo Diaz. :(

[@Hinch2011]

F satellite dishes. 😕

[@joeboo629]

Man I loved to watch Eric Davis hitting. You could tell he wasnt 100% but man the bat speed.

[@rjwoolum9251]

My favorite player growing up!!

[@cityhawk]

If he didn’t get injured in the 1990 World Series, who knows what his career would have looked like.

[@BigDaddyCooI]

@@rjwoolum9251 Mine too. Use to copy his stance when I played little league (with little success, but still a cool stance). What could have been if he stayed healthy.

[@robertdog]

I think of Bad Lieutenant every time I hear "Kal Daniels."

[@Hinch2011]

Listening to Billy Sample puts me to sleep each night.

[@alexpratt932]

Eric Davis was so cool

[@cityhawk]

Didn’t Willie Gault used to be on The West Wing?

[@juliusmay8712]

0:40

[@lincster]

blue seater 1:47:00

[@Hallrk63]

This is John Smoltz 2nd career start. I watched the Braves and Cubs just about every day back then. Good chance I watched this game since I was a Reds fan first. Reds came in 2nd place every year Rose was the manager for a full season. He just couldn't get them over the top. It's always good to hear Skip,Ernie and Pete. They were very good and its hard to believe they are all gone now.

[@MarcusAurelius7777]

Awesome

[@johnroetker5067]

Pete was a better manger than some people give him credit for. Had a lot of young players he brought a long. I also probably watched this game i know i have a tape of it somewhere. Lived in va beach only chance to see the reds was when they played the mets or braves. Loved the braves anouncers rip.

[@justinroark88]

Watching TBS and WGN are great memories of mine as a kid.

[@bertmustin]

Wow. Joe West really needs to retire.

[@douglaslowe5]

I met him once in a sports bar in LA 1989. Fat drunken slob trying to impress girls with lame card tricks. He said he was an MLB umpire and none of us believed him, lol!

[@defiantone8556]

Ah yes, Jeff Treadway of the Reds would later join the Braves if I'm not mistaken. And Terry Blocker would later become a pitcher for the Braves.

[@ptccombatfitness6726]

LOL no no no

[@matthewbennett9791]

Treadway did play a few years with the Braves...I think 1990-1992. Blocker tried out as a replacement player during the strike but didn't make the cut.

[@rockmonroe1754]

Treadway was traded from the Reds to the Braves before the 1989 season for cash. He had some solid years for the Braves. Cincinnati should have kept him.

[@steveparkin2366]

Clouds hitting each other causes thunder. LOL!

[@joeboo629]

Nick Esasky plus Fulton County stadium = HR. Too bad he came down with vertigo in 90 when he signed with the Braves.

[@srvfan25]

He was a good player

[@Robb-uh6ep]

Went to high school with Nick nasacky and Danny tarterbull Carol city sr hi Miami fla

[@rjwoolum9251]

Ron Gant later became a Red

[@gnielsen07]

Helped the reds win the division in his only season there

[@cityhawk]

@@gnielsen07 Didn’t they get slaughtered by the Braves (4-0) in the NLCS?

[@gnielsen07]

@@cityhawk they did, the Indians also got beat by the braves. That cleveland team being one of the greatest ever to not win a championship. Atlanta was good . Cincy swept the dodgers leading up to braves series

[@MGAF688]

54-106 Braves of '88. I had cable TV (and thus TBS) for most of the 1980s. The Braves were on TV all the time. As much as I liked baseball, this team was practically unwatchable until 1991.

[@MarcusAurelius7777]

Nice 80s Braves knowledge.

[@wpreston86]

My little league team was the Braves, so I tried to like the Braves then. Living in Boston, TBS and WWOR from New York gave us National League games, so I got to see what was going on in the N.L. and not necessarily to see the Braves.

[@markneff1143]

I started watching in 1984. 2008 I believe was the last year of free Braves baseball on a daily basis.

[@cityhawk]

@@wpreston86 When I was in Little League I played against a team called the Braves. Much like the 80s teams, they were bottom feeders.

[@nflmlbclassics]

Hello. Thanks for these new uploads of MLB games. Just out of curiosity, do you have any MLB games not involving the Reds?

[@rusd1300]

My VCR tapes aren't labelled, so I don't know exactly what I have left to convert and upload (though random Reds games is a very safe bet). WGN/TBS broadcast all games back then, so Cubs & Braves are also well represented (whenever they played the Reds - of course).

[@gh990513]

+Rus D Would you happen to have any Braves Reds games from the 1992 season? I know they battled for the division for most of the year until the second half when the Reds suffered a lot of injuries. i remember both teams struggled to win on the road against each other that year!

[@timhaggerty3021]

You all are so Jealous regarding the Reds with what 14 divisions Champship and only one world championship I speak my case God bless All Always

[@Porter4213]

No commercials ?!

[@romcelreath]

I wonder if Pete Rose had money on this game. And I wonder which team he bet on.

[@cityhawk]

It’s the Braves, who wouldn’t?

[@swaugertim]

nice upload. this game took place on my 17th birthday.