View Full Version : Down goes Strawberry!
jamessemaj
02-23-2008, 02:23 AM
Remember when Armando Benitez turned an O's/Yanks game in to a yardsale back in '96 (I believe)? It culminated in Alan Mills dropping Darryl Strawberry like a bad habit in one of the dugouts!! That was fantastic!! Does anyone have footage of it? I'd love to see it!!
Stevo5278
02-23-2008, 02:42 AM
Remember when Armando Benitez turned an O's/Yanks game in to a yardsale back in '96? It culminated in Alan Mills dropping Darryl Strawberry like a bad habit in the visitors dugout!! That was fantastic!! Does anyone have footage of it? I'd love to see it!!
I did a google search on orioles brawls and the only video links were for the near brawl of last September against the Red Sox when Cabrera threw at a batter after balking in a run.
However, there is a short clip of the 1998 O's/Yanks brawl on youtube. It's ranked #3 on ESPN's Top 10 all-time baseball brawls list. The video counts down from #9 to #1 (don't know what happened to #10).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886nFTA3648
Enjoy,
Steve
JChav
02-23-2008, 04:33 AM
Remember when Armando Benitez turned an O's/Yanks game in to a yardsale back in '96? It culminated in Alan Mills dropping Darryl Strawberry like a bad habit in the visitors dugout!! That was fantastic!! Does anyone have footage of it? I'd love to see it!!
Oh how I loved that game...however, my feelings on Darryl are mixed...after all, he did give us Terps fans DJ:D
OsEatAlEast
02-23-2008, 10:38 AM
Oh how I loved that game...however, my feelings on Darryl are mixed...after all, he did give us Terps fans DJ:D
I don't know I always viewed this game a one of the worst I've ever seen. Especially when Tim Raines went deep on us right after the brawl.
I'm still of the opinion that the Yankees cheated that year. Every single time they needed a big homerun they got one. They must have had someone sitting in centerfield with binoculars and a walkie talkie. Or at least it seemed like it.;)
jamessemaj
02-23-2008, 11:04 AM
I did a google search on orioles brawls and the only video links were for the near brawl of last September against the Red Sox when Cabrera threw at a batter after balking in a run.
However, there is a short clip of the 1998 O's/Yanks brawl on youtube. It's ranked #3 on ESPN's Top 10 all-time baseball brawls list. The video counts down from #9 to #1 (don't know what happened to #10).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886nFTA3648
Enjoy,
Steve
Thanks, Steve!
Man, is Armando Benitez a terrible fighter or what?!
TheBee
02-23-2008, 11:14 AM
Didn't Alan Mills also go into the bleachers in LA to save Rick Dempsey during a Dodger brawl or am I mistaken?
KLINE
02-23-2008, 11:48 AM
When I think of that brawl it reminds me of a scene out of Major League 2.
Bob Uecker says: "And Willie Mays Hays is trying to hit Rick Vaughn, and why not everyone else has"
Terps23
02-23-2008, 11:54 AM
Awesome fight... I know a lot of people find brawls disgusting and what not, but I love em, just like I enjoy watching boxing and MMA. Seeing my favorite team take on the MFY was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen when I was 12 years old.
BaltBird 24
02-23-2008, 06:24 PM
It's all fun and games until your starting catcher is put into a headlock by a 90 year old man.
http://www.seaternal.com/baseball/Images/baseball%20fight.jpg
Boy Howdy
02-23-2008, 06:34 PM
The best thing about that Pedro Martinez - Gerald Williams battle is that it occurred when Williams led off the bottom of the first inning.
Williams got ejected (8 total ejections before the game was over), but Martinez took a no-hitter that was otherwise a perfect game into the 9th inning before finishing with a 1-hitter & 13 strikeouts.