Don Mattingly sets MLB record for most Grand Slams in one season with 6 (1987)

[@randyvelarde7448]

Had the honor to play with this man for 10 of my 16 year career. What a player. Cap, thanks for the memories! HOFer easy, in my opinion

[@MarvinMonroe]

Without a doubt. Now, Paul O'Neil I could understand the debate and why he didn't make it although I think he deserves it more than some electees. (I'm a Reds fan from near Cincinnati) But Mattingly should be in 100%

[@hughdismuke4703]

It was a pleasure watching you also Randy. I remember Yankees from the 70's,, 80's and early 90's. Met many of you guys down at the old ball park in Chicago and the hotels. Don Mattingly to this day is the best hitter I ever saw, certainly the purist clutch hitter. The Yankees just kept putting them out there because then Jeets came along. But Donnie was something special to see. A lot of people say Mattingly doesn't have enough good seasons to be in the hall. I say that's because he packed a whole career into four solid years. Just one of his phenomenal years should qualify him. The hall should consider more than just numbers here. Best of luck to you man!

[@JW-dy8ru]

I went an A's game back in 2002. You were playing second base. I remember you being absolutely roided out. Impressive.

[@phantasm23231]

Mattingly was my favorite player growing up, but @randyvelarde7448 has a special place in my baseball Fandom as the first player to ever sign a baseball card for me via mail as a kid. Thank you so much for making a kids memory.

[@PabluchoViision]

I remember there was almost no position you couldn’t play!!!

[@petes.7967]

Crazy fact about my idol here: Mattingly never had a grand slam before that season AND never hit another the rest of his career. 😮

[@Ben-bs4od]

Should be in the hall of fame. No brainer.

[@DonTrump-sv1si]

If Kofax is in, Mattingly should be in

[@Ben-bs4od]

Wow. Excellent point!!!!

[@tommyfu9271]

I love how he just books it around the bases, no showboating no dancing.

[@stevejanowiak1982]

Unbelievable he’s not in the Hall. Dude was an absolute BEAST!!!

[@matts4240]

If it wasn't for his back, 400 home runs and HOF

[@MarvinMonroe]

It's such a joke. He and Murphy definitely need to be in HoF

[@yayo_h]

and keith hernandez

[@RD22]

Mattingly had an 8 game homerun Streak that year as well.

[@hughdismuke4703]

Yup!

[@JHollowayNetwork]

@@hughdismuke4703 He won AL MVP in 1985, but the Blue Jays ran away with the division that year.

[@millypoo7713]

Tony Oliva is in the HOF with career stats: .304 220 HR 947 RBI .353 OBP .476 SLG, 1,917 Hits. Don Mattingly is NOT in the HOF with career stats: .307 222 HR 1,099 RBI .358 OBP .471 SLG, 2,153 Hits and 9 GOLD GLOVES. Yes, I know they played different positions, but it shouldn't matter. Mattingly should be in the HOF! Note: I'm NOT a Yankees fan. My opinion is objective.

[@hughdismuke4703]

You're a baseball fan. Good points there.

[@DonTrump-sv1si]

White privilege

[@jasont7814]

Some of it depends on who else is on the ballot that year, but yeah, I would’ve thought he would e been there.

[@haedyncavanagh]

Mets fan here. Mattingly should absolutely be in. Best player in the game for about 6 years.

[@drnikusingh]

You guys all make great points, I fully agree

[@mtg1470]

If I had to watch videos of any ball player hitting, I'd chose Mattingly

[@timsullivan4687]

Good choice

[@hughdismuke4703]

Absolutely, I feel the same way.

[@thegrandpencil4374]

Ruth for me.

[@werenotclowns3241]

Amen! Paul Molitor being a close second.

[@privatehudson4432]

He should be in the hall of fame he was a stud

[@peterp2153]

His peak was too short. His 1984-87 were god level but after that he was basically Dave Magadan. And I love Mattingly.

[@johnre5342]

@@peterp2153 he injured his back in 1988

[@hughdismuke4703]

@@peterp2153 some one made a good point about Tony Oliva being in the hall with lesser numbers than Donnie. There are probably a number of players we can compare Donnie ball to who are in the hall.

[@jm7578]

He was the master of the upper deck home runs

[@ToddMichaelPost]

One of my favorite Yankees, I loved his home run trot…no showboating, just run the bases.

[@jonathanlegthigh8264]

My favourite baseball player of all time. I used to tune in NY Yankee games (WABC) on my shortwave radio all the way from Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, late summer nights when I was a teenager. Such a great, great memories. #23 FOREVER

[@DainHallett]

One of my all time favorites. Absolutely a hitting machine

[@babylonian.captivity]

God, that swing.

[@thegrandpencil4374]

The most impressive part of these is the one off the knuckle ball. Anyone who's seen anything even remotely approaching a big league knuckler knows what I'm talking about.

[@catdaddy2643]

Put the record setter in the HOF

[@michaelbrock1507]

Awesome player. Used to stay up as a kid and quitely watch almost every game

[@billysheppard6091]

The hit man... semper fi..

[@xxdmdeschamps72]

Such a unique swing, boom!

[@hughdismuke4703]

A lot of people forget also that Donnie was a huge doubles man. As a matter of fact he led the majors in double three years in a row. It wasn't just home feats he was reaching. He was what they use to call a 'spray' hitter because he could hit the ball anywhere, and an exciting clutch hitter. He could do it all.

[@dmh92577]

The record breaker shot was an absolute bomb..not alot of guys hit them up there...

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Interestingly he never hit another grand slam before or after the 87 season.

[@maverick7266]

Crazy to think about isn’t it

[@hughdismuke4703]

He didn't have to. He already set the record.

[@mrsjr78]

Mattingly! I thought I told you to shave those sideburns!

[@seferino]

Which sideburns ? 🫣

[@mrsjr78]

@@seferino You heard me hippie!

[@SaintPenguinAstroMaverick]

Hahahahahahahahaha

[@PS-vc2yz]

Off 3 lefties and a knuckleballer. Such a shame he didn't win a ring.

[@tommyfu9271]

he was the only lefty who could hit Randy Johnson.

[@norwich93CMP]

Nice, but no Channel 11 Scooter or Bill White commentators???

[@yell0wberry]

I love those days so much, those summers were always so hot sitting in the stadium, but things seem to feel good. Every time he came up to bat, it’s just sad that back in those days, the bandwagon fans were riding with the Mets, while Yankee stadium was nearly empty. Although neither stadiums will ever be empty Like that ever again, you can certainly see how phony fans are when your team is not doing too well.

[@ItsFrankieBoy]

People don't know the Yankees were the winningest team of the 80's in all of baseball. Most wins in the 80's

[@yell0wberry]

@@ItsFrankieBoy contrary to the record, they were also close to the Seattle Mariners with the most losses in the 1980s and the Yankees only made the playoffs three times only going to the World Series just once in a shortened season losing against the Dodgers

[@OutsideCleaners]

3:21 Don unloaded on that one, though his swing looked so easy

[@jasonarellano9470]

Did you know Mattingly had 6 grand slams in 1987, and that's all he had for his career

[@hughdismuke4703]

Yeah but what a hell of a year!

[@GusBauer-s7e]

Shame he didn't win a WS. Rickey was always on base.

[@He-Rex]

He deserves the Hall.....He did it right..... Reward it!

[@NatTurnerswitBurnerz]

They only showed five of them.

[@richardtoplitsky322]

Mattingly was such a great player he could hit field to bad never won a world series

[@MatthewDaSmitdog]

How fitting...getting your sixth...to the UPPER DECK of old Yankee Stadium...and against the hated Red Sox. PERFECT.

[@millypoo7713]

Hawk Harrelson @ 1:24 & 2:14

[@dan-vv8gs]

Grab some bench.😊

[@jamesmelia4179]

Put it on the board…yesss!

[@dan-vv8gs]

Don't stop now boys.

[@tommyfu9271]

drunken clown and awful announcer.

[@robertmurphy440]

One can only amagine if Mattingly, May's or Bo Jackson juiced...all 3 Baseball monsters

[@peterp2153]

I don’t remember the Yanks having attendance issues in the 1984-87 Mattingly “God” era but this is the second or third clip I’ve seen of the right field seats being utterly deserted.

[@yell0wberry]

Now you understand why there is such a dislike for these, New Age phony Yankee fans

[@NateSpencer-yz6ox]

The HOF is a popularity contest, surprising that the greatest Yankee to never win a World Series has been excluded though, he's a better player than a lot of people in the Hall including recent inductees who's careers ended after his Harold Baines and Fred McGriff.

[@steveparish4209]

As a Cleveland fan it's hard to love a Yankee, but Donny Baseball was easy to like. That said, 1987 was the juiciest ball year of all time. Dink hitting Wade Boggs hit 24 HR that year soooo . . .

[@jennapherhague5728]

@@steveparish4209 what!

[@MiketheBeerGuy]

Exhibition Stadium, Memorial Stadium, Arlington Stadium, pre-Jack Clark Yankee Stadium...the ballparks of my childhood! Back then we had beautiful baseball being played in awful stadiums. Now we have beautiful ballparks but awful baseball.

[@jtmcnasty]

F yea! My guy

[@johnreesekl6249]

Crazy to think, Don Mattingly, Will Clark, Mark Grace, and Keith Hernandez are not in the hall. I know what people are gonna say, "It's not the 'hall of very good'," but still these dudes could rake. Sure, not 'power' guys, but pure hitters, and superb fielders (I know not a premium position), but still. Did any first basemen from the 1980-90s make it into the hall, for some reason I am drawing a blank outside of Bagwell? I guess Harold Baines made it in with inferior WAR then all the guys above and provided no defense. I likes Baines a professional hitter if there ever was one. And, I am not saying Baines doesn't belong, but why not the first four?? Where they Lou Gehrig? No, but if that's the bar, no one's getting in! Edit: Ok Eddie Murray, well deserved. Another thing about the top four, I would bet donuts to dollars they didn't JUICE (If you don't count Hernandez snorting the "Devil's Dandruff").

[@tommyfu9271]

Harold Baines making it is a joke and he only made it bc Larussa and Reinsorf are on the veterans committee and they love Baines.It's the only reason Baines got in. I mean if we're going to lower the bar so much that it becomes put everyone in better than Baines than a ton more players are going to go in and it's really going to turn into a complete clown show.

[@johnreesekl6249]

@@tommyfu9271 It can't turn into what it already is. Pete Rose and Barry Bonds not being in the Hall kind of makes it questionable. Now, I am not saying they should go in, both are pretty unsavory, to put it nicely. But, there are other unsavory players already in. I am not sure Ty Cobb would get in with the modern voters, as he was also "unsavory." Not to pile onto Baines, and I probably wouldn't have voted for him, but there are worse players in the hall than him. Just all too random, but it should be "for the fans," not for the Bill James' of the world.

[@tommyfu9271]

@@johnreesekl6249 Arod Bonds Clemens and Rose should all be in. Baines had a nice long career most players would be jealous of. But the facts are the facts If he's not the worst HOFer ever he's likely the worst post integration HOFer.

[@johnreesekl6249]

@@tommyfu9271 We are in agreement.😀

[@SaintPenguinAstroMaverick]

I wonder why those right field bleachers were always empty?

[@Foxhound3857]

0:15 "Goodbye."

[@Mr._Moderate]

With more batting stances than you can shake a stick at...

[@GeorgeYoung-uh5by]

From 84 to 89. The BEST player in baseball. The best. But injuries hurt him the last 6 years. That's why he is not 😢 Hall of Fame? That's bad

[@johnllamas1832]

Hall of famer

[@ajwalker2365]

Donnie was real!!!

[@udrinkit]

What a swing. Griffey like.

[@trentbateman]

That’s what I thought. Best swing outside of Junior. I forgot how beautiful it was as I really only rewatch highlights from 96 on. Have to change that

[@jackprescott9652]

he was a powerful batter until 1990. After that season he became very weak. What happened to him?

[@dthornto31]

Back issues killed his career. He was arguably the best player in the game in the mid 80s.

[@jackprescott9652]

@@dthornto31when i was a kid i remember baseball media called him the Lou Gehrig of his generation.

[@dthornto31]

He was, and still is, my favorite player of all time. Still have his rookie card

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Mattingly never hit a slam before 1987, and never hit a slam after 1987.

[@kevinloignon7943]

Wasted season's by the ownership with Henderson, Mattingly, and Winfield on the team. I hated George back then........ and Buhner for Phelps.....damn.

[@jennapherhague5728]

@@kevinloignon7943 Henderson, talented but a cancer

[@werenotclowns3241]

Frank Costanza let him have it for that one!!!

[@georgeriley4818]

He only had 30 home runs that year. If he was more of a power hitter they'd probably walk him after his 4th grandslam

[@hughdismuke4703]

The thing people aren't taking into consideration is the fact other hitters have to get on base ahead of him to load em up. If you have no bases loaded ahead of you then no grand slam chance. The unique thing is Donnie took full advantage of it. And the real reason why Donnie didn't have an extended successful career was because of his back. He says he retired because of his family, but I think he used it as an excuse to retire. His back woes is why his home runs took a dive and missed a lot of games and pretty much why he called it quits. He was only about 34, 35 years old.

[@jamesmelia4179]

He was not a “home run hitter”. He was a line drive gap hitter who also led the league in doubles three straight seasons. Yes, he had 35 one season where the league leader hit 40, but if you look at his minor league numbers, he never hit over 10 in a season, and his prime seasons outside of that 35 HR season he hit 31, 30, and 23 twice. That particular season, he missed three weeks in June due to injury (remember the 21 day DL back then). He likely would have hit 4 or 5 more as he was really hot when he got hurt.

[@tommyfu9271]

@@hughdismuke4703 it's really just a freak thing. he his 6 grand slams in his career and all 6 were in that season.

[@drbonesshow1]

The all-time non-PED leader in GS is Lou Gehrig whose career was cut short. The most GS he had in one season was 4 in 1934.

[@millypoo7713]

Your brain is on PED'S with that ridiculous comment

[@SchroderPhotography]

too bad his back gave him problems later, hurting his career

[@Chukwillard]

He was on the juice.

[@jasont7814]

Such an alpha player, but a beta manager.