Riley McAtee : If your goal is to kill time while social distancing, the 1973 Belmont Stakes isn’t going to do much for you. But that made Boston fans delirious the hope of more and better to come was enough. When Bill Mueller drove Roberts in with a single up the middle a couple of pitches later, it didn’t win the Sox the game. Roberts took off, Rivera delivered, Jorge Posada rifled the ball to second, and Jeter applied the tag … a split-second late. Rivera threw over once … twice … three times, to keep Roberts as close to the bag as possible. After Kevin Millar worked a walk, Terry Francona brought in Roberts to pinch run. It was the bottom of the ninth inning, the Yankees led 4-3 in the game and 3-0 in the series, and Rivera-the future first-ballot Hall of Famer and the greatest closer of all time-was on the mound. It’s easy now to forget just how momentous Dave Roberts’s steal was. Sure, the Patriots had upset the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI … but the other teams hadn’t tasted glory since at least the ’80s, and the Red Sox famously hadn’t won since 1918. But back in 2004, the same couldn’t be said. Jack McCluskey : These days, Boston sports fans can claim an overabundance of riches. Even if I hadn’t, Game 7 was so iconic that it would’ve been worth quitting three million and one times over. After Game 5, I threatened to quit if I couldn’t get off work in time to watch games 6 and 7.
Tokyo seven moments revisiting series#
Losing this series was so devastatingly embarrassing for the Warriors that it became a tagline: “Don’t let distract you from the fact that the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead.” I got that printed on a birthday cake. The possession when Kevin Love transmogrified into an agile defender to shut down Steph Curry.Ĭavaliers 93, Warriors 89. Say these strings of words out of context, and I promise you, the people around you will think of Game 7. No team had ever rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to force a Game 7 in the NBA Finals. Haley O’Shaughnessy : This was an instant classic before it even tipped off. The Warriors Finish Blowing a 3-1 Series Lead “When you are the last swimmer in a relay and that you have the opportunity to bring a title of this importance to your country, you don’t get out of this unhurt.” Ouch. “Alain is wounded,” the director of the French team said shortly after the race. Gaines, suddenly reanimated, nailed the call: “Here comes Lezak, unbelievable at the end!” Phelps won ( debatably) his most exciting race standing outside of the pool. But Bernard tightened up in his second 50, and Lezak, the old man, swam a blistering split nearly half a second faster than any other swimmer in the race. “I just don’t think they can do it,” Rowdy Gaines muttered at the beginning of the final leg, before Bernard even started to pull away. Who has to make up that massive gap for the Americans? The 32-year-old Jason Lezak! Ha!Įven the American commentators on NBC, just two finals into Phelps’s quest to win eight gold medals, weren’t optimistic. He talked his trash to reporters he’s coming into the final 50 meters with a body-length lead he’s already the record holder for the fastest 100-meter split in history and he’s not even swimming against Phelps.
Here Comes Lezak!Ĭhris Almeida : Frankly, I’d forgotten about this part: NBCĪlain, my man, are you serious? Why would you do this to yourself? You were favored to win a relay race against a 4x100 team featuring Michael Phelps, the star of the 2008 Beijing games, the swimming guy who trained for four years without taking a day off. Less than two weeks later, the dream was over. Thirty-eight points, four rebounds, seven assists, Knicks win. Lin snatches the rebound, goes coast-to-coast, sea-to-shining-sea, puts Derek Fisher into a fucking puree for the layup in traffic. I can tell you the play when my spirit left my body and went to commune with my ancestors: just under three minutes left in the first half, Knicks up 45-38. All along the BQE, I could see televisions tuned to the game. I took a cab home to Brooklyn because I didn’t want to miss a second. Is this real life? Nothing made sense in the best way possible. Jeremy was a ball-dominant slasher with a shaky jumper. Lin had played starter minutes for three games, all wins, spanning one week, scoring 25, 23, and 28 points, respectively. On February 10, the New York Knicks hosted the Los Angeles Lakers. So, the following year, when the temperature soared into the 60s on February 1, it felt illicit. Defeated vehicles-taxis, buses-sat sullen and stranded on the streets. Between December 26, 2010, and February 2, 2011, 57.6 inches of snow staggered Gotham.
Jason Concepcion : Let’s start before the beginning.
0 kommentar(er)
