St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs - 6/23/84 Ryne Sandberg Game 5 Hits, 2 Home Runs, 7 RBIs

[@daytradernupe]

The crazy part about this game is Willie McGee hit for the cycle and drove in 6 runs but, became a footnote. Lol

[@stymiesnerdly771]

June 23rd, 1984. Happy Ryno Day! 9X Gold Glove 7X Silver Slugger 1984 MVP Hall of Famer He will always be my favorite Cub

[@leogetz3570]

35 years later....never gets old!!!!

[@mrvlsmrv]

I've never seen Wrigley go this nuts. And I've seen a lot of Wrigley moments.

[@clarencedavismba5042]

36 years later - still magic!

[@bhmch39]

I love my cubbies and other cub fans

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

WOW almost 40 years ago. I remember this game very well. I watched on NBC that Saturday afternoon I was 16.

[@Jon-mf8ku]

I remember watching this on TV. To this day it is the greatest performance by one player that I have ever seen in a baseball game. The pitches thrown to Sandberg in both at bats in the 9th and 10th innings were identical. He took the first pitch, close call on the second pitch and in his wheelhouse on the third pitch. At the time Bruce Sutter was the best relief pitcher in the game.

[@malkinmalone]

Its hard to beat 2 game tying homeruns in the last at bat. I wonder if that has ever happened besides this game? pretty amazing.

[@jonBRYDENjon]

Sandberg is my favorite Cub.

[@dennisgeorge3238]

Watched this game at home that day...I still get chills! Sandberg was a tremendous player!

[@brooklyn7189]

Sutter’s reaction was priceless... man I miss these games

[@TheDude-yw4kn]

HOF! I loved watching Ryne Sandburg play especially on defense. GG!

[@adamdorgant9454]

What a game by Ryne Sandberg!!!!

[@msmilder25]

Remember living in the moment? Packed stadium, it's not the playoffs, this is just a regular season game. It's wonderful watching these games before cell phones. Every pair of eyes in the stadium watching the game, not checking messages, not looking at scores, not playing video games...love it. We'll never have that kind of game ever again.

[@stevemeinecke]

God, what great player love watching him when I was a kid

[@pjshutout3480]

My dad took me and my sister to this game when I was 16. We didn't go to many, but it was a beautiful Saturday, school just ended, so we took the L and scored SRO tickets. What an awesome day that was!! Never saw my dad as excited as that. My sister was smart and kept her ticket stub. She gave it to me 2 years later as part of a graduation gift and I still have it. Thanks sis!

[@Charlie-qe6lv]

Remember watching this game--UNBELIEVABLY entertaining. Loved this Cubs team. I think they were up on the Padres 2-0, then lost the series in the playoffs that year.

[@pjshutout3480]

Yeah, they lost the last 3 games in San Diego. Game 5 was supposed to be in Chicago, but the league screwed them out of it because Wrigley didn't have lights and they wanted it to be a night game for the TV audience. Still annoyed about that.

[@hogansavoy6525]

I've been fortunate to meet the man twice. My childhood idol. And both times he went out of his way to be nice to me a total NOBODY compared to him.

[@David-mh2jn]

The only MLB game named for a player, The Sandberg Game. This game put him on the map and set him up for legend status, Ryno did the rest. He has spoke of the training he got in high school and at Philly was all about contact, gaps and singles, speed. He said in spring of 84 Jim Frye called him over and said Ryne, I want you to start getting under the ball a little, I think you got a lot of power that you are not using, and if you could give us 25 HR's a season, it would do a lot for all of us. Sandberg said that talk changed the path of his career and likely turned him from a really good career player to a Hall of Famer. For what it's worth, the story from people that are keeping it real is that Ryne was not a very well liked player by a lot of dudes that played with him. He was known to be somewhat cold and standoffish, no jokes, not a big sense of humor. Rumor is that he didn't get the Mgr job with the Cubs after 2016 because of that rep. I don't know, just going by what I have heard, don't get me wrong, I love the guy and 84 was the greatest summer in my memory. I was at a game that year and we were sitting near the press box. My brother shagged down a foul ball and I got Harry, Tim McCarver, and Brickhouse (he was visiting in booth) to sign it. I still have that ball. For anybody who has not watched the short documentary on The Sandberg Game, you are in for a special treat. I will leave the link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnKxdmWKr7uogrM

[@10Peter25]

The cool thing is that after he developed his power stroke, he became one of a handful of players to lead his league in home runs and win the All-Star Game Home Run Derby in the same year. (Ryno is also one of only three players to win the Home Run Derby on his home field.)

[@michael.prescott4016]

the roar of the crowd so real

[@MrDuds1984]

The game that put him into the HOF

[@darrellmfume4020]

those 10 gold gloves, and 10 all-star appearances didn't hurt him either.

[@user-gn3ux7tu9f]

Wrigley in the Summer when you were a teenager - golden days

[@leogetz3570]

Bob Costas...."Today's game WAS produced by......." as if basically saying the game was over, and then right on cue, BOOM, Sandberg hits a 2nd homer off Bruce Sutter to tie it again!!!!

[@nalvarado1384]

Our game today was produced by Ken Edmison, Directed by Bucky Gunts, Mike Wiseman is the Executive Producer of NBC Sports, Coordinating Producer of Baseball, Harry Coyle. 1-1 pitch. HE HITS IT TO DEEP LEFT-CENTER! LOOK OUT!!! DO YOU BELIEVE IT - IT'S GONE!!!! ...... MATTHEWS TAKES A BALL, AND MOVE OVER WILLIE McGEE! THERE MAY BE A NEW PLAYER OF THE GAME. RYNE SANDBERG, 5 HITS INCLUDING 2 HOMERUNS, - HERE'S OZZIE, HE TOOK A BAD HOP, BUT THAT'S NOTHING FOR HIM, HE THROWS TO JORKINSON. WE WILL GO TO THE 11TH, TIED AT 11! SANDBERG IN THE CUBS' LAST AT-BAT HAS TWICE DELIVERED A GAME-TYING HOMERUN! A SOLO SHOT IN THE 9TH, A 2-RUN BLAST WITH 2 OUT IN THE 10TH! BACK AFTER THIS FROM YOUR LOCAL STATION!

[@pmdl23]

I remember this game and day watching at home and the 2nd homerun brought all the Cubs fans out of our houses to celebrate LOL it was like we won the World Series! If I remember correctly fans were upset Bruce left Chicago for St Louis and he was the best relief pitcher then so it was extra special

[@mysoundrights]

Bruce Sutter probably had insomnia that night!!

[@hogansavoy6525]

He still has nightmares.

[@DaveinNorthYork]

1984 was also the last season in which the St. Louis Cardinals wore those powder blue road jerseys. (They went back to the traditional grey road jerseys the following season in 1985.)

[@mrlaw711]

Memories of when MLB baseball was fun to watch, and there wasn't images of corporate America attempting to gouge us on every aspect of the game.

[@gbertolozzi6629]

6:41 Bruce Sutter's reaction! LOL - and I can't say I blame him! Way to go, Ryno!

[@aaronharris5069]

It was like, what the hell do I do against this Ryne Sandberg guy? 😂 Go Cubs! ❤️💙

[@MrT8599]

One of the greatest games ever shown on NBC'S "MLB Game of the Week" package. Imagine how Fox would've covered this game. Probably Joe Buck would be crying.

[@bonnifredrick7061]

Agreed. And remember, this was the back-up game for NBC. The Tigers game, with Vin Scully and Joe Gargiola as the broadcast team, was scheduled to be the "MLB Game of the Week," but it was rained out. So NBC aired the Cubs game instead.

[@rjpsuh06]

The alliteration of Costas’ call in the first inning 0:13: “And he SLIDES in SAFELY, SANDBERG takes SECOND”

[@MrJohnr47]

My favorite Cubs team ever!

[@cubzrulz]

Don Zimmer being the Cubs first base coach is news to me.

[@blu3collar949]

I was at that game. I had season tickets in 84 and 85. Took my dad who was a big Cub fan. Sandberg won MVP that year.

[@MrT8599]

I think we should have a Bob Costas greatest calls video. Definitely this game would be in the list. Robin Ventura's "Grand Slam Single" and Michael Jordan's "Last Shot" in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in 1998 would be on the list for sure.

[@clarencedavismba5042]

"Do you believe it!?"

[@Abr022575]

What an awesome display

[@unoi1591]

Sandberg and Grace always clobbered the Cardinals.

[@leogetz3570]

Coming up on the 40th anniversary!!

[@carguy9284]

Remember watching with my buddies, they could have thrown him a golf ball that day and still same result.

[@AGoodSportsShow]

I remember watching this game on 📺. Ryno!!

[@drakehilligoss1259]

Yes!

[@paulhill1632]

ESPN runs this game about once a year. Possibly the single greatest game in baseball history. Better than 1975 game 6, World Series.

[@anthonyrichard8001]

thx!!!!!

[@Hooozyer]

Ryne was he man. no one in Chicago wanted to spend money to put them in the playoffs

[@litaheffley6990]

Cool 😎 nothing better

[@imkitti1942]

Dude, u made my night I sent yr link to my cell to watch when I need a smile!! I still need the name of the 3rd base, called " The penguin "

[@HoosierGarage]

Ron Cey

[@imkitti1942]

@@HoosierGarage Thx dude, I remember going to Wrigley in the 80's when I was a kid w/ my dad & for some reason he is the player I remembered, I think he was @ 3rd base.

[@Hooozyer]

Jesus had tickets that day

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Sutter threw the same three pitches in both Sandberg AB. He deserved to get smoked!

[@nalvarado1384]

First pitch low. Ball one. 1-0 pitch. Strike called that was a high strike and Sandberg can't believe it. 1-1 pitch. THERE IT GOES! WAY BACK! IT MIGHT BE! IT COULD BE! IIIIIT IIIIISS!!!! HOLY COW!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! First pitch low. Ball one 1-0 pitch, strike called. They gave Sandberg the entire right field section. 1-1 pitch. THERE'S A LONG DRIVE TO LEFT. WAY BACK. MIGHT BE OUTTA HERE! IT IIIIIIISSS!!!!! HE DID IT AGAIN!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! HOOLYY COW!!!! LISTEN TO THIS CROWD. EVEEERRYBODY'S GONE BANANAS!!!!

[@millypoo7713]

That's because all he threw was 2 pitches his entire career... either a fastball or split fingered fastball(forkball).

[@Joscope]

W

[@toddjones6481]

You have to love a slugfest such as this in an era before steroids and juiced balls.

[@areyoufriendly]

0:10 Can we please advocate to bring this screen view back?!? Like, we know the runner is running, we don’t need a cut away to show him running. Ooooooh, so dramatic! Gimme a break. I want to see the throw.

[@retrocloud760]

That crowd. I know Chicago can get hot. Would men be allowed with no shirts today? Just a thought, lol.

[@aspe7187]

Notice how lean the players were. Even the fans were lean and not ashamed to go shirtless. Back before GMO grains, the low-fat foods craze, Nutrasweet/Aspartame and high-fructose corn syrup fattened the masses.

[@caroljuntunen3949]

I noticed that too! All for the almighty $!

[@MrJohnr47]

Rather hear Harry’s call

[@nalvarado1384]

First pitch low. Ball one. 1-0 pitch. Strike called that was a high strike and Sandberg can't believe it. 1-1 pitch. THERE IT GOES! WAY BACK! IT MIGHT BE! IT COULD BE! IIIIIT IIIIISS!!!! HOLY COW!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! First pitch low. Ball one 1-0 pitch, strike called. They gave Sandberg the entire right field section. 1-1 pitch. THERE'S A LONG DRIVE TO LEFT. WAY BACK. MIGHT BE OUTTA HERE! IT IIIIIIISSS!!!!! HE DID IT AGAIN!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! THE GAME IS TIED!!!! HOOLYY COW!!!! LISTEN TO THIS CROWD. EVEEERRYBODY'S GONE BANANAS!!!!

[@MrJohnr47]

Nicholas Alvarado Thanks for this. I can Herat Harry’s call!

[@douglascarlson9006]

I still think Javy Baez is better.

[@atontheregular5097]

Ur fuckin dumb

[@douglascarlson9006]

Javy can do more things - and I'm nearly 70 - I saw plenty of Sandberg - and former Cub and Phillie Manny Trillo was better than both defensively.

[@millypoo7713]

Yeah... better at swinging at pitches a foot outside or way over his head... and dogging it down the first base line.

[@douglascarlson9006]

@@millypoo7713 Sandberg went after at a lot of bad pitches too - I remember Dallas Green complaining about his pitch selection - he struck out twice as many times as he walked - Baez is a real player for the 21st century - he can do more things.

[@ChappieStClair]

Learn to appreciate both players. Javy is amazing but will never have a game named after him. NO ONE has a baseball game named after him! There’s just the Sandberg Game