Lenny Barker's Perfect Game

• september63

  

  vs Toronto from May 15 1981. Just watched the replay some last night on STO. A few things I forgot about that game:
  
  Toronto came in batting .217 as a team and finished the season hitting .226 as a team. They were bad.
  Danny Ainge was their starting 3B.
  Herb Score took you to the 7th inning stretch by saying, Upppppppppppppppppp on your feet for the 7th inning stretch.
  
  Any old timers remember Rocco Scotti singing national anthems at Cleveland events back then?
• BR1986FB

  Remember Rocco Scotti well. Watched this game on TV as a 13 year old kid.
  
  When Manning jumped after he caught that last out I thought the ball was going to pop out of his glove. In that same series I'm pretty sure Bert Blyleven came close to throwing a no hitter.
• riders1

  

  Remember listening to this on and Rocco singing. Wow, it's been 30 years since that game. That is the last no hitter thrown by an Indians pitcher, and 2 have been thrown against them since then, Dave Stieb, Toronto in 1990 and Jim Abbott ( the one handed pitcher), Yankees in 1993.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I am not going to be one of the 673,492 people who claimed to have been at the game that night. I was, however, at my friends house and we had just come into the house when his mom told us how the game was going. We turned on the radio to listen to the last inning and a half.
• BR1986FB

  I was fortunate enough to have experienced Barker's PG and Eckersley's no hitter as a kid (neither in person). Not many highlights in that era of Tribe baseball.
• Con_Alma

  I was at a party watching that game. I remember exactly where.
  
  Didn't the Indians "politely not invite" Rocco Scotty to sing at the opening of Jacobs' Field?
• Sonofanump

  Watched the game on channel 43 with my dad. He stated after the game was over he had a chance to get free tickets for the game, but turned them down.
  
  I almost saw a no-hitter in person, Tom Candiotti would have had one if Brett Butler would have dove for that ball in the 8th inning.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Sonofanump;767363 wrote:Watched the game on channel 43 with my dad. He stated after the game was over he had a chance to get free tickets for the game, but turned them down.
  
  I almost saw a no-hitter in person, Tom Candiotti would have had one if Brett Butler would have dove for that ball in the 8th inning.

  
  I was very young, but I remember listening to that Candiotti game. As bad as they were....I loved listening when they had Candiotti, Swindell, Cory Snyder, Joe Carter etc.
• BR1986FB

  Cory Snyder...smh...him and Brook Jacoby would swing at pitches Ray Charles would lay off of.
• vball10set

  the play at second by Kuiper (7th inning maybe?) was unreal..and was that Bruce Drennan doing the play-by-play with Score? it sounded an awful lot like him
• BR1986FB

  vball10set;767500 wrote:the play at second by Kuiper (7th inning maybe?) was unreal..and was that Bruce Drennan doing the play-by-play with Score? it sounded an awful lot like him

  
  Drennan & Joe Tait worked for channel 43
• Con_Alma

  Yep...tait was play-by -play and Drennan was color. "Ducks on the pond!!!!"
  
  Tait was doing Indians games on TV because he was fired by Cavaliers owner Ted Stepian
• Sonofanump

  Con_Alma;767511 wrote: Ted Stepian

  
  S.M.H.
• BR1986FB

  Sonofanump;767520 wrote:S.M.H.

  
  + infinity....dude was a clown. Pretty bad when they invent a rule in the NBA with your name and it's in a negative light.
• thavoice

  Kinda off topic. I totally called someone's bluff couple weeks ago that said they were at Tom Browning's perfect game. Guy said what grade he as in and such, and I did a backtrack and it was impossible. Then the person he told I coaxed her about how perfect the weather was and he said he remembers how hot and sunny it was that day.
  
  I had to laugh......
  
  WHen I told the woman about that day...that it was in the fall, and a couple hour rain delay........and finally he fessed up.
  
  Kinda like how many people who said they were at Wilt's 100 point game....
• september63

  

  Remember the Indians right fielder that day? Jorge Orta.
• BR1986FB

  september63;767696 wrote:Remember the Indians right fielder that day? Jorge Orta.

  
  I remember a game, back in the day, when Orta went 6 for 6. I liked Orta.
• Con_Alma

  I remember Cliff Johnson and his smoke breaks in the dugout between innings.
• BR1986FB

  Con_Alma;767828 wrote:I remember Cliff Johnson and his smoke breaks in the dugout between innings.

  
  Wasn't it Cliff who hand some issue with his knuckles or hands and kept letting the bat fly out of his hands at infielders, into the stands and dugout? Dumbass Ron Hassey also went on the DL for burning his eye with a cigarette ash while smoking in the dugout.
• Con_Alma

  BR1986FB;767835 wrote:Wasn't it Cliff who hand some issue with his knuckles or hands and kept letting the bat fly out of his hands at infielders, into the stands and dugout?...

  that does sound familier.
  
  Anyone remember the antics of John Lowenstien? I still laugh when I think of that guy.
• BR1986FB

  Lowenstein was my first Tribe baseball card.