Billy Martin was standing at the batting cage on a sunny afternoon in Kansas City.
This was Oct. 8, 1976. The next day, the Yankees and the Royals would tangle in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, the Yankees’ first postseason appearance in 12 years, first-time ever in an ALCS.
The Yankees were smart about it: They won Game 1 and then Game 3, so even when the Royals won Games 2 and 4, they were never chasing. But that did set up the first winner-take all Game 5 in Yankees history, so it would be the first such game in the history of Old Yankee Stadium . Yeah. It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the way “Game 7” does, does it? Game 7 is baseball’s most regal stage, the pressure ratcheted up to, as Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel said, 11.
So Tuesday afternoon, The Bronx will host the fifth such Game 5 rubber match. The Yankees have played two such games in their new ballpark, 2011 and 2012 . Yankees turning to Nestor Cortes as Game 5 starter after postponement Then George Brett went upper tank off Grant Jackson, it was 6-6, and as Thurman Munson would say, “When he hit that ball out, it felt like this whole ballpark had a heart attack.”
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