Yes its been 20 years ...My gosh it was in the Baltimore Sun yesterday....
This game was between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto two heated rivals back in 1983, Toronto with Lloyd Moseby, and Jessie Barfield, Dave Collins, George Bell, Cliff Johnson , it was that era of Blue Jays...Baltimore had guys like Singleton, Murray, Ripken , Bumbry, Lowenstein and the likes....Well as alot of games did that year this one ended very dramatically!
The Orioles trailed most of the night, (I believe it was a wednesday night game if I`m not mistaken) me and my brother were in the upperdeck behind homeplate, in the late innings Cal Ripken tied the game , I believe it was the 8th inning...Well in the top of the 9th Cliff Johnson homered to give Toronto back the lead
, then in the bottom of the 9th Len Sakata ( Orioles folklore legend ) homered to tie the game back up....
The game goes into extra innings but at this point the ORioles had used all their position players and were caught in a very peculiar situation....Len Sakata a 2nd baseman ended up catching, John Lowenstien an outfielder was moved to 2nd base , and Gary Roenicke was playing 3rd base...HERE`S WHERE THE GAME GETS BIZARRE, IN THE TOP OF THE 11th ALL 3
BLUEJAYS REACH BASE, AND ALL 3
WERE PICKED OFF BY LEFT HANDED RELIEVER TIPPY
MARTINEZ
, thats right he picked off all 3 runners, trying to steal on Sakata, they were all so anxious to run, they forgot to wait til the ball was pitched!!! Bottom of that inning Len Sakata homers again to win the game for Baltimore....
Does anyone recall hearing of this game
This game was between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto two heated rivals back in 1983, Toronto with Lloyd Moseby, and Jessie Barfield, Dave Collins, George Bell, Cliff Johnson , it was that era of Blue Jays...Baltimore had guys like Singleton, Murray, Ripken , Bumbry, Lowenstein and the likes....Well as alot of games did that year this one ended very dramatically!
The Orioles trailed most of the night, (I believe it was a wednesday night game if I`m not mistaken) me and my brother were in the upperdeck behind homeplate, in the late innings Cal Ripken tied the game , I believe it was the 8th inning...Well in the top of the 9th Cliff Johnson homered to give Toronto back the lead
The game goes into extra innings but at this point the ORioles had used all their position players and were caught in a very peculiar situation....Len Sakata a 2nd baseman ended up catching, John Lowenstien an outfielder was moved to 2nd base , and Gary Roenicke was playing 3rd base...HERE`S WHERE THE GAME GETS BIZARRE, IN THE TOP OF THE 11th ALL 3
MARTINEZ
Does anyone recall hearing of this game
