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- Donnie Moore accepted the blame and took a lot of heat
- Dave Henderson, who hit famous playoff homer against Angels, dies at 57
- Dave Henderson, ’86 Red Sox Hero With a Fateful Home Run, Dies at 57
- Dave Henderson World Series Stats
- Dave Henderson, 1986 ALCS hero for Red Sox, dies at 57
- October 12, 1986: Dave Henderson’s homer keeps Red Sox hopes alive in Game Five
- Dave Henderson: Home run
It could’ve been more but Boyd got out of the inning by the skin of his teeth. Just like in Game Two, the Red Sox got to Angels starter Kirk McCaskill early, scoring two runs off of him in the bottom of the inning without a single hit. Rice and Baylor swapped places in the order once or twice but otherwise, this was the lineup used throughout the series. Overall, Henderson played with Seattle for parts of six seasons, appearing in a total of 654 games, while batting .257 with 79 home runs and 271 RBIs. When Henderson stepped to the plate, there were two outs and Rich Gedman was on first after being hit by a pitch.
His greatest success came from 1988 to 1991 with the Oakland Athletics, who went to the World Series three times during that period. The Red Sox went on to win Games 6 and 7 to advance to the World Series against the Mets, who defeated them in a memorable seven games, propelled by a famous error by Boston’s first baseman Bill Buckner. On the day Donnie Moore took his own life in July of 1989, he shot Tonya in the neck and chest. She managed to escape and make her way to the hospital as her 17-year-old daughter drove.
Donnie Moore accepted the blame and took a lot of heat
Baylor was picked off of first base with two men on base right before Gedman’s hit which hampered a potential rally. There was some controversy in the fourth inning when, with two outs and two on, California’s Doug DeCinces hit a slow grounder to first base that hit the bag and bounced away from Buckner. Boyd, who had run over to cover the bag, swiped at it and knocked it back toward Buckner who picked it up and fired home. With their backs already up against the wall after losing Game One at home, the Red Sox turned to Bruce Hurst (who had gone 13-8 in the regular season) and he pitched a gem. On the other side, the Angels countered with Kirk McCaskill (who went 17-10) and it looked like the Red Sox would have their work cut out for them.
Dave Henderson came to spring training in 1988 as a non-roster invitee. He won the center field job and quickly made himself valuable in ways that went beyond box scores. In Henderson’s first five years, the A entered the playoffs four times and made it to the World Series for three consecutive seasons in 1988–90, winning the 1989 title. He got a second straight fastball with a 1-0 count, took it to the center and extended his left arm in the direction of the Dodgers dugout in anticipation of a celebration. Steven Duggar raced toward the warning track, momentarily losing his footing as he suddenly began to overtake, then securing the catch on the edge of the dirt. It was his twenty-sixth season as a manager and he came one agonizing strike away from the World Series.
Dave Henderson, who hit famous playoff homer against Angels, dies at 57
With the football team, which won championships in 1975 and 1976, he played tight end, running back, and strong safety. One of his baseball teammates was future College World Series MVP Stan Holmes. Henderson's uniform numbers—42 in football, 22 in baseball—were both retired by the Dos Palos Broncos, which inducted him into the school's Hall of Fame in 2012 and named their baseball field in his honor.
MLB Scores Yesterday's MLB Games, Scores from any date in Major League history, MLB Probable Pitchers, Baseball-Reference Stream Finder, ... We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism. Henderson had entered the game earlier to replace the injured centerfielder Tony Armas. Meanwhile, this has to still be one of the worst defeats in Angels history. The shell-shocked looks of disbelief in the dugout as the Red Sox were celebrating after Calvin Schiraldi struck out the side in the ninth said it all, even thirty-four years later.
Dave Henderson, ’86 Red Sox Hero With a Fateful Home Run, Dies at 57
In the next inning, Spike Owen made a throwing error with two on which allowed another run to score. With his first pitch, Lucas hit Gedman on the shoulder which put him on base. At this point you could hear the crowd get a little antsy; not necessarily nervous, but in a “come on, can’t we just finish this now?
The Red Sox were down 5-2 going into the ninth inning and Angels Stadium was ready to explode. Henderson joined the A in 1988 as just one other player in a major roster restructuring headlined by Bob Welch, Mike Moore and Dave Parker. But as A’s former general manager and current Mets GM Sandy Alderson put it, Henderson “was incredibly important to our success in those years. BOSTON — As the Red Sox secured their place in the American League Championship Series, they rode on the backs of two players who entered the season to prove their worth. The Giants got 14 outs from Dodgers favorite clubhouse favorite Alex Wood, who helped them win last year’s World Series, then five more outs from Tyler Rogers. After Jake McGee avoided trouble in the seventh, Kapler turned to 24-year-old right-hander Doval, who hasn’t allowed a run since coming back from the minor leagues in mid-August.
The Red Sox had every excuse to pack it in after the crushing loss the night before, but to their credit they came out swinging. Gedman hit a two-run homer in the second inning after almost striking out . Henderson played on three straight American League pennant winners in Oakland from 1988 to 1990, winning the World Series with the A’s in 1989. Overall, Henderson spent six seasons with Oakland, batting .263 with 104 home runs and 377 RBIs.
It was enough to cause him to miss the final series of the regular season, but he was in the starting lineup for every game of the postseason. Moore made Henderson look foolish, getting two quick strikes on him while just missing on a couple of the following pitches. With a 2-2 count, Henderson fouled off the next two pitches and the crowd was on their feet and were loud. You could hear how loud and crazy they were even watching it all these years later. Henderson was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the first round of the 1977 Major League Baseball draft.
He caught it, but the act of crashing into the wall jarred it out of his glove and over the fence for a two-run homer and a 3-2 Angels lead. Hurst looked deflated on the mound while Grich took a curtain call in front of the frenzied crowd. Henderson’s homer gave Boston the lead in a game it eventually won in extra innings. The team also won the next two games and advanced to the World Series against the New York Mets. Henderson’s 14-year career began with the Mariners and he later played for Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, Oakland A’s and Kansas City Royals, hitting 197 home runs and driving in 708 runs during his MLB tenure.
He would manage one more season before retiring, never winning a pennant. It’s still surprising to me how timid and flat and jittery the Angels were in both of the final two games. That was in perfect contrast to how the Red Sox picked themselves back up after Game Four and kept fighting. To me, even watching in 2020, that said everything to me about the mental toughness of both teams.
After knocking Sutton out of the game in the seventh, the Sox picked up two more in the eighth to make it 3-0. The epic Game Five is the one everyone remembers most about this series, but Game Four was almost as good and gets my vote as the second best game of the series. Red Sox manager John McNamara, going with a three-man rotation for the series, brought Clemens back on three days rest and he went up against 300 game winner and future Hall of Famer Don Sutton.
He struggled at the plate throughout the season; at the end of April, he was batting .135, which improved only slightly to .172 at the end of May. After then going 1-for-10 at the start of June, he was sent back down to Spokane in Class AAA. Henderson hit 4-for-13 (.308) with two home runs and four RBIs during the series. For the 1989 postseason his batting average was .281 (9-for-32) with three home runs and nine RBIs, and he played center field throughout. Henderson joined the 1986 Red Sox on August 19, and appeared in 36 games over the remainder of the regular season, with just 7 complete games . Most of his appearances were as a late-game defensive replacement in center field, or as a pinch hitter – he had only 51 at bats, collecting 10 hits (.196 average) with one home run and three RBIs.
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