New York Yankees at Los Angeles Dodgers, 1981 World Series Game 3, October 23, 1981

[@WalkingTaako42]

Thank you, Fernando. As a Yankees fan this isn't a great memory for me, but I must respect a legend. May his memory be a blessing.

[@williammartin8007]

Congrats on the jersey retirement Fernando! Permanently etched in Dodgers history

[@richarddelgado2723]

One of the most remarkable performances in World Series history 😮 The amazing El Toro 34’ going all the way when it seemed over and over again he was continually in deep trouble… 155 pitches and yet he got his team back into the series…. Awesome!!!!….

[@Studio54.4]

Fernando’s spirit will help the Dodgers win the 2024 World Series. RIP FERNANDO GONE TOO SOON

[@adonismapother]

Crazy that this Friday is gonna go wild in the 2024 World Series The Dodgers and Yankees meet once again this is gonna be history! 🔥 Go Dodgers 💙🩵🙏🏻😇⚾️

[@rayramirez49]

LA 1981. Beginning of best decade ever. What a time to be alive! RIP Fernando Valenzuela #34

[@JB-qt8eh]

Watched this whole game in 2 024. RIP FERNANDO, THANK YOU.

[@supaklaw]

When pitchers went 9 innings, RIP Legend. Yanks fan btw. And I remember this series as a kid.

[@halo10001]

46:52 Ron Cey's homerun kind of reminds me of Mookie's homeruns into left field. Lets go Dodgers!

[@JaredSmith-z6v]

RIP El Torro

[@pnayeri]

149 pitches for Fernando! Wow! You can’t even imagine getting even close to that pitch count with today’s pitchers!

[@yolandaortega8711]

Fernando era un fenomeno,,

[@LongieR8er]

Descansa En Paz Fernando

[@rubengarcia8804]

Rip Fernando, the pride of Mexico and Dodgers legend

[@jolas9059]

Recuerdo con nostalgia aquellos años de la Fernandomania.tenia yo 18 años y veía los juegos en compañía de mi padre y mis hermanos, hera pura emosion.Fernando debería estar en el Salón de la Fama .

[@narigon3942]

Dodgers on both the ‘81 & ‘88 championship teams: Lasorda Mike Scioscia Alejando Peña Fernando Valenzuela Steve Sax Perranoski, Marc Cresee, and Manny Mota (coaches) Dave Stewart was on the losing side in 1988.

[@MarioMendoza-mw8vl]

The commercials bring memories 😞

[@juanyanez2105]

RIP Fernando Valenzuela

[@kevinolivas8075]

Fernando Valenzuela will always be a champion!

[@danielmontalvo8165]

Justo ayer que los angeles terminaron con los mets .tenía 8 años y observe este partido en una televisión en blanco y negro como la culminación de la serie donde los angeles dogers le ganaron alos Yankees de nueva York. Hoy se hace otra vez la realidad de tener en esta serie mundial a dos grandes equipos como lo son ojalá también para la afición sea una serie muy emotiva y de grandes emociones que gane el mejor .

[@fiftydoggy6627]

Way cool. Thanks!!!

[@jorgeponce5512]

Ron Cey had a terrific game that night.

[@cjones3710]

Palmer is great today as he was then on color. Love Jims truthfulness.

[@futbolsalvadoreno1850]

Fernando Valenzuela con 20 años lanzó como un grande

[@briagadaress]

It's cruel that Fernando has a medical condition now that these teams are facing each other.

[@jorgeponce5512]

3:23:13 Impossible not to love the guy. After an ordeal throughout the game, he strikes out Piniella for the win and just walks nonchalantly as if he had done nothing.

[@rockyracoon3233]

Yep, if he was on the Yankees and done the same thing Cosell would have shot off his mouth for 2 to 3 minutes. 😡

[@jonnydanger7181]

149 pitches for Fernando.

[@kr88ked]

this is insane

[@paulsonj72]

Al Michaels had the weekend games in 1981(and 1979 as well) in part so Keith Jackson would be able to continue to call college football on Saturday.

[@jeorgemanzzano3784]

🇲🇽Fernando Valenzuela walking down the mound like a true Boss after he strikes out lou pinella and the whole yankee team⚾️

[@TheSmarq17]

New drinking game: must chug a whole beer every time someone says, "shut-up Howard!" 😂

[@coreylevine8095]

RIP Fernando

[@김길동-j9z]

Game 3.MVP ~ Ron Cey 1th.3run homer 8th.diving catch(double play)

[@josealmodovar8371]

descanse en paz 🙏🕊️ Fernando Valenzuela humilde siempre y sencillo Dios lo Yamo a Su precesia Amen 🙏🫂

[@vikingjerome2438]

FERNANDOMANIA

[@raularroyo3471]

Best lineup on dodgers ever

[@MajorChipHazard16]

The '77 dodgers lineup was the best IMHO. This '81 team had to be the best defensive team. Especially when Fernando was on then mount

[@tomjohnson7529]

Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella and Don Newkim pitching for them? These guys did all have a spot on the same line up in the 50s and are in the HOF. I’m a lifelong Dodger fan, 63- same age as the Los Angeles version. You are correct in what you say as far as LA Dodgers, but not in the over 100 year history of the Dodgers. Even today’s Dodgers have a long way to go to match the 70s-80s though.

[@rumarspencer7302]

​@@tomjohnson7529Don Newcombe

[@rumarspencer7302]

​@@tomjohnson7529If these 2020s Dodgers can win it all this yr, they can have more than this era of Dodgers and even things up with Tommy Lasorda's 2 title teams.

[@TMC1982Part2]

2:32: I can't be the only one who finds it weird to hear Al Michaels before the start of a World Series game talk about earthquakes in California considering what would happen when he was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on October 17, 1989 before the start of the third game of another World Series.

[@177sk71]

2024 LA vs NY

[@tonygoodheart2442]

I was in 5th grade In Arongen Elementary School and.my Sister Mandy was in 11th grade in Highschool when the Yankees played the LA Dodgers in 1981

[@josephconnor2310]

Love the miller lite commercial! Being a Yankee fan of this era, I didn't love much else about this series. But have to hand it to Fernando. Gutsy performance.

[@rinpapa2006]

バレンズエラさん翔平を見守っていてください🙏

[@amu7410]

🙏

[@stevesilva1425]

You are now Fernando Valenzuela, you had 21 wins last season...

[@isaigr12]

Por siempre El Toro de Etchohuaquila. Viva Fernando Valenzuela

[@marcor22044]

Like 200 pitches

[@joseeduardoyepeztorres3341]

Excelente picheo

[@billyfranklin85]

Rare bad outing for Rag's. He'd been lights out that post season. The Yanks had their chances for sure. Valenzuela was off his game big time but we just could not deliver that knock out punch. Go up 3-0 and she's over baby. Missed opportunity and it cost us the series....

[@guadalupeflores6337]

😂

[@jeorgemanzzano3784]

🇲🇽Nuestro Fernando Valenzuela🇲🇽Nostro Fernando Valenzuela🇲🇽¡Viva Los Angeles Dodgers! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva Fernando Valenzuela!⚾️

[@TheodoreRizzo]

6:30 damn Lou Piniella looks and runs like he’s already a skip doesn’t look in very athletic shape.

[@martinfarmer9314]

Sweet Lou

[@nightowl5475]

Why did they purposely leave Reggie Jackson out of the beginning of the series. It’s gotta be a move by Steinbrenner. I guess big George has himself a new boy in Winfield. That shows a tremendous lot of disrespect for Reggie. The man gave the Yankees 5 great years along with increased attendance at the Stadium. Well, Reggie did ok with his 5 year contract to his new ball club, the California Angels! I stopped watching the Yankees when Reggie left. Btw, big George eventually screwed over Winfield. Dave Winfield was another great player and class-act that Steinbrenner tried to destroy. The baseball commissioner should of given Steinbrenner a lifetime ban.

[@dzanier]

It was a Steinbrenner move to leave him out of this game. In games 1 and 2 of this series he wasn’t yet over an injury he’d suffered in game 2 of the ALCS. He missed game 3 of that series. But yes, Steinbrenner did tell Lemon to not play him here. The way Reggie saw it was that George wanted him to be invisible so that nobody would be in an uproar when George didn’t resign him. And at 3-0, the series would’ve been over, at which point it’s possible he’d have benched him in Game 4. But with the Dodger win, George could no longer afford to take a chance. But after game 2 George was close to certain the Dodgers were done. That’s why he took the chance of benching Reggie. By the end of the 81 season George and Reggie were no longer pals. George treated many of his players badly. It was never anything personal in his eyes. George at times was a real loon.

[@nightowl5475]

@@dzanier That's Steinbrenner for you. He makes a big deal over the guy in the beginning, like he's courting a woman. I don't understand all the hostility he creates. Look, it's his ball club, he can hire and fire whoever he wants. I would handle it more on a professional level. If he felt Reggie was getting up there, he simply doesn't have to sign him, or sign him on a 2 year basis, which of course, Reggie or no ballplayer in their right mind would approve when they are in free agency. Reggie got the deal he wanted with the Angels. A 5 year multi-million dollar deal. Yet, after Steinbrenner let Reggie go, he was quoted many times to say, he regretted that decision. I think Steinbrenner is full of crap. He did the same thing with Dave Winfield. I can't see how anyone would want to work for that man. Billy Martin was a great manager but he sold his soul to the devil when he kept going back to New York to manage the damn Yankees. I would of managed a rival ball club and get as many ex-Yankee players as I can, and stick it to that baggle-snapper! Are ya with me?

[@dzanier]

@@nightowl5475 you pretty much summed it up perfectly. A lot of people should understand that although Steinbrenner deserves credit for bringing the Bombers back in the mid 70s and mid 90s, he’s just if not more responsible for their late 80s decline. And the success the team had from 76-81 and 93 onwards is more a reflection on the GMs: Gabe Paul, Gene Michael, Bob Watson and Brian Cashman. It’s one of my sincerest hope George does make the HOF.

[@dzanier]

@@tonypascale5317 he was not

[@epaddon]

@@dzanier Yes, he was not a racist. If he treated people badly at times, it was never in regards to race he treated them the same. And yes, the failure to play Reggie in this game IMO cost them the World Series because Valenzuela was begging to be beaten but the Yankees failed to deliver the blow. Sending up Bobby Murcer who had waited 16 years to be in a World Series to BUNT??? At least when Billy benched Reggie in Game 5 of the 77 ALCS, he knew when the right time to use him was. This World Series always hurt because it seemed like such an undignified end to the great 76-81 run of the team and only the 04 ALCS surpassed it for me (the 01 WS at least gave me the happy memories of Games 3-4-5).

[@thomaswolf723]

The HP umpire certainly gave Fernando some generous strike calls off the outside corner.

[@richarddelgado2723]

Ps Good thing Reggie didn’t give it a go in this game 😚….

[@yolandaortega8711]

Fue un juegazo,,

[@blondiemortimer8840]

스크류볼의 마술사

[@김길동-j9z]

Yankees is largely the a vacuum in Villy Martin and Thurman Munson Dave Winfield is a bubble Dave is overestimation player

[@eddieq2189]

The Dodgers got a lot of lucky breaks and a lot of lucky hits because of the Yankees errors and misplays on the field plus getting alot of help from Yankee pitching who let alot of theyre pitchers go out over the plate which the dodgers took alot of advantage of like I said they were very very lucky they took advantage of those breaks which is why they won game 3 lucky lucky dodgers if not for those breaks the Yankees would have won game 3

[@Rayburn58]

The Dodgers after falling behind 2 games came back and kicked the yankees ass. You can cry lucky this and lucky that all you want just like that loser howard cosell. The Dodgers got it done and kicked the yankees ass. You are a cry baby yankees fan. Poor yankees victims of bad luck. Cry baby cry baby....

[@jeorgemanzzano3784]

🇲🇽No Luck here, just mexicano power Fernando Valenzuela and The Los Angeles Dodgers that got the job done,that's all🇲🇽⚾️