Don Mattingly Baseball Career Highlights

[@BH02377]

“The Hit Man”. “Donny Baseball”. Should be a Hall of Famer, period!!!

[@richj6596]

One of the best players ever to play the game

[@priedthirdeye]

Thanks for posting! My favorite player of all time. A class act and the only bright spot of those 80s and early 90s teams.

[@salamisumo2]

Only? C’mon

[@salamisumo2]

Ya never heard of Dave Winfield, Willie Randolph, Bernie Williams, Rickey Henderson?

[@heebeemoe]

Or Griffey, Gwynn, Ripken, Boggs, or Ryan? The 80’s and 90’s were a great era of baseball.

[@USCFlash]

@@heebeemoe He's talking about Yankee teams, pal. Says it pretty clearly.

[@eric_bee]

Man he had such a beautiful swing. A work of art.

[@Brian_Brayden]

Best player in baseball from 84’ through 89’. Hands down. Also my favorite player of all time

[@johnre5342]

Maybe even 84

[@bretromano4137]

Maybe 84? He won a batting title that year. Let's count it! Led the league in doubles and hits also. Had over 100 rbis. Love this guy!

[@Brian_Brayden]

@@bretromano4137 yeah I just corrected my original comment to include 84’ 😁

[@Brian_Brayden]

@@johnre5342 yeah definitely 84’ also 😁

[@bretromano4137]

Ha ha! Awesome guys! Check out you tube video "sierra mattingly back to back"... listen to commentators....I think you guys will appreciate it. It's from '95 playoffs.

[@emeraldz07]

My favorite player. I miss him so much

[@yell0wberry]

You don’t have to miss him if you go to every Miami Marlins home game, LOL

[@bailey7440]

Me too

[@AMan-rg4en]

No nonsense with the first and third base coaches when he homered. Quick hand slap and keep moving. When he crossed the plate after a grand slam simple high fives all around then turn and lead all back to the dugout in a trot. Tremendous player.

[@baseballruski6047]

We can’t have players appearing to have fun, now can we?

[@AMan-rg4en]

@@baseballruski6047 I would enjoy watching players perform and act like they expect of themselves. Stanton pretending to take a football hand off rounding third is childish. He should be ashamed of his lack of athleticism.

[@baseballruski6047]

@@AMan-rg4en rounding 3rd after he hit the homerun?

[@pokeysdad17]

@@baseballruski6047 who do you think had more fun? mattingly or the .200 hitters of today?

[@RaiderX948]

Living on Long Island during the Hit Man's career and being a kid was special, Mattingly was a great player and for many years the best in baseball.

[@jamespgray6928]

Thanks so much for the defensive clips!! Some people forget he was a Golden Glover for a good part of a decade.

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

What a catch in right!

[@ohger1]

As a Yankee fan since 1965, the playoff loss to Seattle in 1995 that ended Mattingly's career is the only heartbreak I had as a fan. It hurts to this day.

[@BH02377]

Agreed!

[@USCFlash]

you weren't heartbroken by 81 WS loss? Or 01 & 03 WS loss?

[@ohger1]

@@USCFlash No. Wanting my team win is for me. I wanted that win for Donny.

[@USCFlash]

@@ohger1 So? I ask again, you weren't heartbroken by 81 WS loss? Or 01 & 03 WS loss?

[@ohger1]

@@USCFlash And I answer again - NO, I WAS NOT HEARBROKEN BY ANY OF THOSE LOSSES*. It's a freaking sport. My life is far too full and rich to be heartbroken by a loss by my favorite team, but I was heartbroken for Don Mattingly, one of the only two players I ever stopped what I was doing to watch an at-bat because I admired their skill. The other was The Mick, and I only saw him play his last three years when he was a shadow of the great player he was, but I still couldn't take my eyes off him. Same with Donny Baseball.. But *Donny* so wanted to win a championship that that loss to the Mariners to end his career was the only one that hurt, and I hurt for Donny, not so much for me. I hope that clears this up. *How can you be heartbroken by the '01 loss particularly. They had just won three in a row. When the Dbacks won that with the walk off dunker, my wife and I just looked at each other and shrugged and said "good for them". We don't have to win every year...

[@richrucci6908]

Grand Slam Mattingly!

[@ugaais]

Donnie Ballgame what a sweet swing…..from RI been a yankees fan since 1977 when I was seven remember seeing the first 2 home runs Reggie hit before I fell asleep been a fan ever since…Loved watching baseball with my grandfather and all through my high school years in the 80’s we watched so many Yankees games with Scooter and Bill White announcing WPIX which we picked up on cable… jeter, Mattingly, Reggie, Bernie, and Mariano my top 5 all time ….been fortunate enough to see the Yankees many times….live in SWFL now so I can only see them at Jet Blue during spring training against the Sux or go up to that crap stadium in Tampa……lol

[@ScotchIrishTarheel]

Ted Williams always preached to keep your hands back and wait on the pitch so you don't get fooled. Then to be very quick with the bat. Mattingly did that. He had one heck of a quick swing, almost hitting it out of the catcher's hands sometimes. And still pulling it to right field with power.

[@johnharrington1800]

Few players ever had a better season than Mattingly in 1987.

[@ujohnlynch2341]

His '85 and '86 seasons were better, sans the home run streak. In '86 hit .352 with 31 HR's; '85 he hit .324 with 35 HR's and 145 rbi's. That was absurd pre-steroid era.

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

That 145 RBI season was the most in 30+ years in the American League!

[@josephmcquillen6840]

Mattingly in 1986, only player in history of the American League with over 230 hits, 30 HRs and 100 RBIs in same season.

[@Filterite5]

Huge Jays fan here, so happy Don is on our side now 😊

[@CGlied]

Interestingly, this is also Wayne Tolleson’s career highlights of jogging home from second base.

[@jasonm921]

Very good :)

[@richardtoplitsky5143]

If mattingly would have played in 1996 he would of got a World Series ring

[@jefflafond4618]

I kind of feel bad for him because of this.

[@MarvinMonroe]

It's a complete joke that Don isn't in the Hall of Fame. I was born in 79 and am from Cincinnati so I was always rooted for Reds. And also always rooted for the NL in world series (even Braves who I hated). So I'm not biased towards Mattingly. Even after his back was hurt he continued to win Gold Gloves. Also Dale Murphy, consecutive MVPs? Are you kidding me, no one does that! It's just cuz Yankees and Braves sucked in the 80s

[@MrIceman2307]

Donnie Baseball was my favorite player. Tried to pattern my swing off his when I was in HS. Just so smooth and quick hands through the zone. He was one of few players who were close to DiMaggio in terms of K's vs. HR's. Joe was practically 1:1 and Donnie was about 1.5:1. Actually, the Yankees didn't suck in the '80's. Overall, they had the most wins of any team that decade but it was the only decade they didn't win a pennant. The last couple years were quite bad along with the first few years of the '90's and the Winfield - Steinbrenner scandal definitely made it worse.

[@jonathanbeatrice8317]

If it wasn't for his back injuries, there would have been no question he's be in.

[@timothygray7650]

I'm proud that I, Timothy Lee Gray got to shake his hand at the get together Mattingly gave at hospital used to be St. Mary's well his place I met him was off Washington Ave. By St. Mary's Hospital.

[@abrahamesparza01]

Because of his bad back wasn't able to do the old batting crouch. Still was a good hitter. Wish he had played another 5 years so he could have won a championship and gotten a better chance for the Hall.

[@username-zj9id]

He wasn't the same player after the back injury so I don't think he would have made the Hall. Playing longer would have only hurt his career numbers. They could have kept him on as a bench player for another season to get a ring though. And you could make the argument that he belongs in The HOF anyway. There are lesser players then him there

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

Great hitters make adjustments

[@yell0wberry]

Near similar numbers to Kirby Puckett and even Harold baines , so the veterans committee should give him another look. David Wright sustained the same injury otherwise he was on a path to the HOF as well

[@ujohnlynch2341]

@@Bruins-vq5ey He still won Gold Gloves and was a .300 + hitter after the back injury but he lost the ability to truly 'turn' on the pitch with any torque so his power numbers dropped drastically.

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

@@ujohnlynch2341 still a fantastic batsmen

[@bobbymira8234]

Thanks for the memories. He was my favorite player until Ken Griffey Jr (Sorry Don). Mattingly could do it all. I never knew he played 3rd base. LOL. How cool was that....

[@boejiden876]

You didn't know what position your favorite player played?

[@timothygray7650]

Excellent player of expected field positions. 1-base mostly.

[@JetDriver77]

One of the greatest Yanks of all time!

[@vinzklortho3013]

Shame he hurt his back. In his prime, he was one of the best of all time.

[@epagan83]

The HITMAN on deck

[@t21229513]

Those were the days. Even without winning it all they gave us kids great memories.

[@stradag21]

My favorite player ever!!!!!!! #yankees #hitman

[@billysheppard6091]

It's a no brainier... Captain Donald mattingly. The hit man . Donny baseball.. Donny doubles..for the hall of Fame... semper fi

[@BillHassel]

The Greatest. Rickey said so

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Love Donnie baseball 🤣🤣

[@jameshudson169]

a grand slam? it must have been 1987. it's a widely known little-known-fact that ALL of donnie baseball's grand slam come in 1987.

[@johnre5342]

6 of em. MLB record.

[@jameshudson169]

@@johnre5342 i believe the MLB record is 23. lou gehrig.

[@johnre5342]

@@jameshudson169 6 is the season record

[@jameshudson169]

@@johnre5342 i think you're right.

[@masonrahal6980]

When I first started watching baseball, HITMAN was the best hitter in the Majors. Pre-steroids. He put up monster numbers, considering the era.

[@bailey7440]

I miss those upper deck homers.

[@yell0wberry]

4:38…… I never seen a human being do that in my life, not even Keith Hernandez

[@timothygray7650]

Oh I played 1st Base man. When I played too.

[@jennapherhague5728]

No truly great Yankee deserves that World Series ring more than Don Mattingly.

[@WillCastillo]

Welcome to the Jays Donny Baseball

[@jamaaljoseph4275]

How Harold Baines is in the HOF and not Donny Baseball is beyond me

[@anthonytripp2251]

If you compare stats, Mickey Rivers was better than Baines, so maybe Mick the Quick needs a look.

[@jamaaljoseph4275]

Between 84-89 he was Tony Gwynn with power

[@yell0wberry]

I still think the veterans committee will vote him into the Hall of Fame……… along with Gil Hodges and Tommy John

[@breadoflifefaiupu8992]

Scott Fletcher too

[@daviddeconinck499]

I think steve garvey dave parker deserve it and maybe jimmy kaat

[@yell0wberry]

@@daviddeconinck499 Jim Kaat is in the Hall of Fame

[@billysheppard6091]

Did you hear that.donny hit man.broke the iron horse... .

[@jude999]

Why ruin it with the annoying music?

[@TheBatugan77]

Amen!

[@natsulee64]

looks exactly like a hall of fame player. any specific reason why he is not in yet and will he ever be

[@baseballruski6047]

He does not have a hall of fame resume

[@natsulee64]

@@baseballruski6047 he has better numbers than a good amount of guys who are already in

[@baseballruski6047]

@@natsulee64 like who?

[@TroysSweetCornhole]

Donnie Baseball

[@yankeeshighlightsandentert6973]

Any one released that every single defense play his hat fell off

[@TheSportsCardConnection-ig8td]

How is he not in the Hall of Fame??

[@baseballruski6047]

did not play long enough

[@TValentin23]

Oh hang on to the roof!

[@recoswell]

all those mid 80's empty seats

[@mrjamesgrimes]

6’0”, 175 lbs.... how’d he hit the ball so hard

[@yell0wberry]

He was actually listed at a hair under 200 pounds

[@mrjamesgrimes]

john jones since you made me go pull out my baseball cards...Topps cards 84-86 actually have him listed 5’11” 185 lbs. little bit shorter, little bit heavier

[@yell0wberry]

@@mrjamesgrimes I think I agree with that particular stat, looking at him up close back then, I never thought he was 6 feet or even 200 pounds

[@johnre5342]

You don’t have to be big to hit a ball hard. It’s technique and a fast bat and turning your hips correctly.

[@ugaais]

It’s all about creating torque from the lower body and eye hand coordination ……

[@JohnSmith-4U]

1:47 Before Budweiser went "woke"

[@boduke2299]

First ballot hall of famer, those people you disagree are out of their cotton picking minds.

[@josephmannix5120]

Fisk was better

[@bailey7440]

Apples and oranges

[@arturrofi5933]

If a third baseman’s leftie, he wouldn’t have to throw across their body when throwing at first, second, or home. Yes, foot work would play a huge factor but it gives a huge advantage in covering the line because they catch with their right hand and playing a few more feet away from the bag will help them close the gaps and NOT do that exaggerate shift that they do which winds up living huge holes in one side of the infield. A righty as a third baseman would have to play close to the line because they would have to catch the ball across their body if they don’t. Baseball is simple man and because we live in a world that is ran by the devil, we do things the opposite way of what they should be. 1st baseman should be righty and the third baseman should be leftie… you would have to be extremely skilled and special to be a leftie as a first baseman and righty as a third baseman to make it work flawlessly. Left field side of baseball should be lefties and right field of baseball should be righty, that means both, infielders and outfielders. Center field can be both, leftie and righty… shortstop, in my opinion, should be leftie due to the fact that most hitters are righty and their hits on the left side of the field. Second baseman can be both, but I prefer a righty to help turn double plays faster when they throw at the short stop covering second and if the shortstop is leftie, the bang bang play will be smother!