Aug 29, NYM (78-54) lost to HOU, 1-11, 139. Are you a Stathead, too?

“All I could think when I got down there was that things were about to get interesting. Not with a walk-off home run in the Series.

But he finally got to third base and then Chuck Knoblauch brought him home with a sacrifice fly to tie Game 1. There are some pitchers, even closers, you’re still comfortable against when they’ve got two strikes on you. “I thought all the pressure was on us going into that Series,” O’Neill said Sunday.

Aug 22, NYM (74-52) lost to SDP, 1-16, 129. But now he felt like he was the rally. May 10, NYM (18-17) lost to PIT, 9-13, 61. (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.) Join our linker program. In those years, with those Yankees, sometimes the bottom of the ninth was just the beginning of another great ending.

“They had their closer in there with the lead.

He wasn’t one of them. All you ever had to do was listen to the cheers he’s gotten at Yankee Stadium on Old Timers’ Day. Even he admits that his bat had slowed by then, the way he’d slowed down. All rights reserved. George Steinbrenner nicknamed O’Neill “The Warrior.” That’s what he was that night. Copyright © 2000-2020 Sports Reference LLC. When Joe Torre’s Yankees won their first World Series in 1996, it was O’Neill, playing on a bad leg, who made a running catch in front of the right-field wall on a ball Luis Polonia hit at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium to preserve a 1-0 victory over the Braves in Game 5.

Sometimes you can start winning a World Series for your team in Game 1, the way Kirk Gibson did in 1988 with that home run off Dennis Eckersley, and the way Eric Davis did a couple of years later, when he took Dave Stewart out of Riverfront Stadium to dead center in the bottom of the first in Game 1. Finished * - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers. I got hot by the end. Multi-year: * - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? I never felt I had a chance of hitting the ball hard from the time he got ahead of me,” O’Neill said. You know that old saying, ‘The more pitches you see, the better chance you have?’” He laughed.

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“Sometimes you really can have a total reversal of momentum even though it’s only the first game. Aug 16, NYM (71-49) lost to COL, 5-7, 123. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.

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Only it didn’t. Aug 26, NYM (76-53) lost to ARI, 1-5, 132. Sep 19, NYM (85-66) lost to ATL, 4-12, 153. But even then, I felt like he still had the advantage. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Many thanks to him. And it all started with a 10-pitch at-bat from Paul O’Neill in the bottom of the ninth. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. “I’m being completely honest. Sometimes you can start winning a World Series for your team in Game 1, the way Kirk Gibson did in 1988 with that home run off Dennis Eckersley, and the way Eric Davis did a couple of years later, when he took Dave Stewart out of Riverfront Stadium to dead. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC.

“We were the ones with everything to lose.”. (8th of 16), Park Factors: Jose Vizcaino finally won it with a bases-loaded single with two outs in the bottom of the 12th. The Yankees won the Subway Series in five games. Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. Find out more. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. in (Schedule and Results), Postseason:     Lost World Series (4-1)

Aug 21, NYM (74-51) lost to SDP, 4-5, 126. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. And just like that, he’s got me 1-2.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. “If it was a battle at that point, I felt as if it was pretty one-sided, because he had all the weapons. The longer the at-bat went on, the louder the crowd got.

Sep 18, NYM (85-65) lost to ATL, 3-6, 151. “But then he threw ball four. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. - unknown, for minors. They’re supposed to win that game.

Just a walk. Sep 11, NYM (81-62) lost to MIL, 2-8, 147. Those Mets, and their fans, will always wonder how things might have been different if Game 1 had gone the other way. Jun 21, NYM (37-31) lost to PHI, 5-10, 104.

All I’d done was get to first base. Nobody on.
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And that’s what happened that night. Bobby Valentine (94-68), Attendance: 2,820,530 Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. over San Francisco Giants, Manager: Any time you put a team’s closer into the position where he’s got to face even one extra hitter, you start believing and your teammates start believing and the fans really start believing.”. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Do you have a blog? So it was now with Paul O’Neill. Sep 26, NYM (89-68) lost to ATL, 1-7. Sep 15, NYM (84-63) lost to MON, 3-4, 149.



Sep 6, NYM (80-59) lost to CIN, 8-11, 143. Manager: Bobby Valentine (94-68) General Manager: Steve Phillips Scouting Director: Carmen Fusco Ballparks: Shea Stadium and Tokyo Dome Attendance: 2,820,530 (8th of 16) Jun 10, NYM (34-27) lost to NYY, 5-13, 68. Do you have a sports website? But even with a defensive play like that, even with all the big hits O’Neill got, Yankees fans also remember that Game 1 at-bat in 2000 against closer Armando Benitez, when the Yankees were down a run in the bottom of the ninth and were about to go down a game against the Mets. They didn’t,” O’Neill said. We present them here for purely educational purposes. NL_East

O’Neill had talked about wanting to start a rally. 88-74, 807 Runs, 738 Runs Allowed, Steven, 63; Ben, 57; Dave, 49; Lee, 38 (through November 1), A history of the Sports Reference Sponsorship System, Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Thursday, October 22, 12:56AM.

Somehow O’Neill finally worked the count to 3-2.

Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2020. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Going into that Series, I was a little banged up and hadn’t felt that good at the plate. “I was trying so hard to stay alive up there,” he said. Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month, 24.

Sep 17, NYM (85-64) lost to MON, 0-5, 150.

“[Benitez] had overpowering stuff. Batting - 96, Pitching - 96, Pythagorean W-L: O’Neill against Benitez. Aug 14, NYM (69-48) lost to SFG, 1-11, 120.

“This was not one of those times.”.

Batting - 96, Pitching - 96 There are a lot of reasons why O’Neill, who was on that 1990 Reds team with Davis, is as popular as any retired Yankee.

When Joe Torre’s Yankees won their first World Series in 1996, it was O’Neill, playing on a bad leg, who made a running catch in front of the right-field wall on a ball Luis Polonia hit at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium to preserve a 1-0 victory over the Braves in Game 5.

We hadn’t won the game yet. Aug 19, NYM (73-50) lost to LAD, 1-4, 125. And sometimes you can do it without hitting a home run or putting the ball in play, the way Paul O’Neill did one October night in 2000, in a Subway Series against the Mets, when O’Neill was as tough an out as he’d ever been in his life. When the count finally did go full, I thought, ‘Well, now I’ve got a chance.’ But not to drive the ball to right-center or someplace.

Apr 28, NYM (14-10) lost to COL, 5-12, 35.     One-year:

O’Neill was 37 that night.


Jul 31, NYM (59-45) lost to CIN, 0-6, 117. Mets 3, Yankees 2. to New York Yankees    Won NL Championship Series (4-1) By then, the Yankees had won 12 straight World Series games going back to 1996. They were never able to turn it around after that.”.

But I didn’t feel hot that night.

But in that moment, I felt I’d won the battle just by getting to first base.

Then I managed to foul some pitches off.

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“At that point all I’m thinking is to get some sort of rally going,” O’Neill said.