Week of October 2nd

Relive some of the greatest moments in Sports History

Episode Transcript

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Looking back at the world of sports. It's the iHeart Radio Weekend Sports Time
Capsule. Well, it's happening,fellow sports fans at Sandy West, and
I'm here to take you on ajourney back to this week in sports history.
We'll start off way back. Innineteen oh eight, Chicago White Sox
pitcher Ed Walsh won his fortieth gameof the season. This week in nineteen
fifty one, Bobby Thompson hits athree run homer with one out in the

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bottom of the ninth to give theNew York Giants a dramatic five to four
playoff victory and the National League pennant. The home run was nickname the Shot
Heard round the World. This week, in nineteen sixty six, Jim Palmer,
at twenty years old, becomes theyoungest player to pitch a World Series
shutout as the Baltimore Orioles beat theLA Dodgers six to nothing. Sandy Kofax
was the losing pitcher and his lastappearance in the major leagues. This week

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in nineteen eighty five, San Francisco'sJoe Montana passes for four hundred and twenty
nine yards and five touchdowns and setsan NFL record with fifty seven passes attempted
and no interceptions in a thirty eightseventeen win over the Falcons. This week
in nineteen eighty seven, that DetroitTigers took advantage of one of the great
collapses in baseball history to win theAmerican League East title, beating the Blue

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Jays one and nothing. The BlueJays lost their last seven games of the
season, including three straight in theseason ending series in Detroit. And this
week in twenty ten, Roy Hallidaypitched the second no hitter in postseason history,
leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the CincinnatiReds four to nothing in Game one
of the National League Division Series.Halliday allowed one runner, a walk to

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Jay Bruce with two outs in thefifth, struck out eight. And that's
just some of what happened this weekin sports history. The Weekend Sports Time
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