The Kansas City Star remembers game five of the 1977 ALCS, in which a fight between George Brett and Graig Nettles resulted in no ejections. Billy Martin:
At some point, Martin found third-base umpire Marty Springstead, who delivered the news: There would be no ejections.
“Nettles thought he was pushed,” Martin said after the game. “And Brett came up swinging.
“Springstead told me he wasn’t going to throw Brett out. This is a championship game and not the time to be throwing players out. If this game would have been played in July, Brett would have been gone.”
It was the right call.
I don’t remember the fight. I do remember the end of the game. The Yankees scored three runs in the top of the ninth to take a 5-3 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Freddie Patek grounded into a double play to end the game. The Royals fans stood there in stunned silence as the Yankees celebrated on the field. The clips I find on You Tube don’t show it, but at some point the camera zooms out and you can see the fans just standing there.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2gjQ7fa
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