Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run

Six to four.

Kurt, Kurt Gibson time.

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Edmund hit a beautiful shot that should've been a single, but no.

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So now it's a hundred-

Kurt Gibson time

... now it's 187,000.

On October 15, 1988, was game one of the World Series featuring two California teams in the Oakland Athletics and the L.A. Dodgers.

And as the Oakland Athletics' Dennis Eckersley was trying to finish out the game, Kurt Gibson, who had been injured, checks in and hits arguably everything.

One of the most famous home runs in baseball history.

Today we're going to go through the steps that led to this amazing moment and the effects it

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Kurt Gibson.

[bell dinging]

That's right, Kurt Gibson.

Matter of fact, it was his only at-bat of the entire series that year.

Question number two: What Toronto Blue Jay hit a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series? [upbeat music] [clock ticking]

But you've got to look at what a man does for his ball club.

What would that club have done without him? In my opinion, I think Kurt Gibson should be the most valuable player in the National League.

About five hours ago, Tommy Lasorda sat in his office and he in all sincerity said, boy, these trainers are really kidding around.

Are they loose? And we said, what do you mean? And he said, oh, they're telling me that Gibson won't play.